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@Dr_Lugae Thanks! That makes sense.

What is DICE and why should we care about their list?

As much as I love the idea, this app sounds like a privacy nightmare in terms of data collection (user movement, photo gallery access, etc.). The article says you can choose not to use some of the features, but even so…

Just choose an offline character if you are playing solo. Haven't encountered any issues.
The game is still as fun as it was 21 years ago and absolutely worth it.

Fading Afternoon and Dawn of the Monsters look cool!

Nintendo should create a retro games division to bring back old games that can be emulated on Switch and future Nintendo consoles, via Virtual Console but linked not to one platform but to your account so that you can move your library with you to the Switch 2. I would be more than happy to double dip just for the convenience of not having to plug my SNES/N64/Gamecube in. Having my library of Nintendo games fragmented on so many different systems is a shame.

How about a kickstarter to fund the artist's legal costs for challenging Nintendo's cease and desist in court?
(doesn't look like the artist would be interested, though)

Why do anniversaries become news articles when there is literally nothing to report?

Oaken and tandem look interesting. Can’t have too many tactics games on Switch.

@TequilaUK
Thank you! Yes, that was what I meant to say. I’m always a bit cautious about purchasing games on mobile because of previous disappointments, so getting it as a subscription that I have anyway means I will actually try it. Having it on Apple Arcarde also means good save functionality and being able to play it across different Apple devices.

Exciting! I’m a big video game music fan.

Maybe I’m less sensitive, but 15 hours in, I have not noticed any performance issues. I only play docked mode. This game looks and plays great on Switch and feels polished. Easily deserving a 9.

Please give us actual game news, not news about people playing games with money.

I’ve just started playing this game two days ago, so I’m excited for the upcoming updates.
In other news: Monster Hunter Stories (the first one) is coming to Apple Arcade soon, so I’m excited to check that out on my iPad after finishing no. 2.

I really wanted to like this game, but got bored really quickly. Looks like a nice edition for those who haven’t tried it yet and enjoy slow games.

Hoa and Baldo seem promising.

Not sure this qualifies as pixel “art”

This game has received really good reviews, but I’ve tried it on Apple Arcade and lost interest very quickly. The world seemed empty and there was little incentive to keep going.

I can't wait to listen to the music once it is released. Can't have too much good Nintendo-inspired music.
By the way, I believe one piece of information in the article is incorrect: you can sell music based on Nintendo games as long as you negotiate a licensing contract with Nintendo. Take a look The Legend of Zelda inspired albums at Bandcamp for example. Royalties are paid to Nintendo but the artists can still earn some money.

@Splodge Another possible reason is that Nintendo didn’t want to be associated with the Olympics anymore because of a lack of public support for hosting the games during the pandemic - a number of the major sponsors in Japan pulled out last minute, with Toyota cancelling their ads in Japan and companies like Panasonic not sending their CEOs to the opening ceremony despite being assigned VIP seats.

edit: Just saw that the prevous poster beat me to it.

I appreciate the perspective and the point about preservation, but my time for playing games is limited and I’d rather have a strongly curated selection of titles that are undoubtedly worth my time than a collection that is watered down over time by adding lesser known and sometimes derivative games.

“The internet reacts” is like saying “humanity reacts”. Who were you expecting to react? Cats? Dogs? Trees?
/just teasing

@Scoopz
If you look at mobile chips in the smartphone and tablet industry, the gpu performance increases year over year are actually quite impressive (even more so than the cpu improvements).
Take the Geekbench Metal (i.e. graphics) benchmarks for Apple chips as an example, and this doesn’t even include the M1 chip in the iPad Pro.
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
I would be surprised if desktop gpus have had the same speed kind of speed increases in the past year.

@tamantayoshi
The Nikkei Newspaper in Japan quotes the CEO as saying that the Switch, now in the 5th year, is halfway through its lifecycle and takes that to mean that the lifecycle of the Switch will likely be 10 years, so we are looking at a 2027 release for a completely new system (there may of course be a small upgrade along the way).
任天堂、スイッチ小幅改良で挑む「ライフサイクル10年」：日本経済新聞
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUF071KD0X00C21A7000000/
(sorry, paywalled and Japanese only, but I did want to give the reference)

The Japanese website says that the stream is only for people in Japan, so unless you live here in Japan, there is a risk that you may not be able to buy a ticket and/or stream the event.