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Another remake of the original game? Who could have seen that coming.

It’s annoying that DQXI doesn’t really have a definitive edition due to Square making some really dumb decisions. You either have to settle for inferior visuals and performance or inferior audio.

What a mess they’ve made. Honestly I thought the Series X was a fantastic machine. The handled backwards comparability in an amazing way. I can redownload most of my purchases from all the way back on the original Xbox. The hardware does wonderful improvements that don’t need devs to go back and patch old games in a way that I assume most people don’t realise given the hype over the the improvements we see on Switch 2 which are so meager in comparison. And of course, Series X updates for free instead of being charged.

But the last 5 years have shaken all my faith in the future of the Xbox Brand with all their going back and forth on big decisions.

I wonder if we’ll get this discount in the UK. The Mario games hardly ever go on sale, not even the once a year discounts the NA eshop does.

The Independent Review could very well be copied and pasted as a comment on the current state of the game industry. Everything is sequels and remakes across games, movies and even books. It’s depressing.

@jsty3105 No, I'm referring to the article suggesting that a Zelda remake and a Star Fox game would make this a big year for Nintendo.

It's going to cost so much to re-buy it and all the expansions, but since it has cross progression, it's a tempting proposition.

This is why I got a Switch 2 at launch. I knew there would be nothing in the first year or two I wanted to play, but all consumer electronics are just going to get more expensive now.

A remake and a Star Fox game (which is almost always a remake without being referred to as one) being your big releases hardly sounds like a bumper year to me.

The whole industry is so depressing right now.

It's definitely a spoiler. Stuff can be in marketing material, and still be a spoiler. It's why a lot of people don't watch trailers anymore. It can still be a spoiler if it's on some poster too, although I can't say I'm familiar with that as my local movie theatre doesn't put posters up.

This is an incredible game! Enjoy everyone that will be playing it for the first time.

Glad it’s confirmed. It was the difference between buying or not for me. Now I wonder what icon the Pokemon will get. That awesome little Gameboy icon for the 3DS VC games made me recatch a big bunch of my living dex.

I know there's going to be a load of things I don't care about, but Gen 10 is going to be up there with GTA VI as one of my most anticipated games of the year.

I guess Gale of Darkness on NSO will be nice too, but I could take it or leave it.

New 2DS XL for me.

I've seen videos of people comparing it to the Wii U version upscaled through an emulator, and it does somehow look worse. So I can understand people being annoyed at having to pay for an upgrade when people coding an emulator in their spare time can achieve better results.

Both for me! I always get both versions. Funnily enough, I’ve still not bought Legends ZA because for me Pokemon become about my collection of them. ZA has nothing new so I’m not really interested.

Meanwhile, every Pokemon game prior to Switch has time ticking down on you being able to bring your Pokemon into the modern day games. If they put up every past Pokemon title up digitally on Switch to buy for this price, I’d buy them all.

It’s not like Nintendo of America have any say in what games come out or in what way, so them doing an FAQ seems a bit pointless.

This is great, but why just FRLG? I hope we get at the least the OG Gameboy games too. New users can’t download Pokemon bank anymore so all the old physical editions from prior to the Switch are cut off from bringing Pokemon to modern day games.

Also, it’s way better than these are not included in NSO. No way would they have allowed Home integration if you had save states available as they don’t want people using that to clone Pokemon.

I’m torn on the price. Personally I’ll happily pay it, and you could always tell people to go look at the price of the cartridges on the aftermarket and see if they still think it’s a bad deal. On the other hand, they are just dumping a rom, so in terms of the resources they spent on this it’s close to zero.

Now do the good Xenoblade games please.

Doesn't matter why people are doing it. Emulators are legal and Nintendo are bullying people here because they know these people don't have the money to take it to court, where it would be ruled they are doing nothing wrong.

It's kind of ironic, as Nintendo has used the work of hobbyist programmers in the past to provide emulation.

That exchange rate is trash.

I’m sure it’s considered a bonus because it’s not really a MGS game. It’s the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection, not the Metal Gear Master Collection. I think people hoping for Rising or Acid will be disappointed.

@anoyonmus Always play in release order. That goes for any media. MGS, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4.

Peace Walker is not essentially from a story or gameplay perspective. It’s a nice bonus extra.

There’s no way it will reference game key cards when the know the majority of sales will just be digital sales.

@Spoony_Tech Kiwami 2 came out 9 years ago. I know it seems like they’re all coming at once on Switch but the alternative is holding back a finished game while it comes out on other systems.

So apparently the going rate for a Super Bowl ad means Nintendo probably spent significantly more just to air this than they did on the development of Legends ZA. That’s just to air it. Not even counting how much they’ve paid to the celebrities featured. Crazy.

I had low expectations for this port, but wow it looked rough. I don’t think I’ll be tempted after all.

I’d really like Fallout 4 on Switch 2, but the Skyrim port doesn’t fill me with much confidence. On top of that, you can get it for next to nothing on other platforms and it’s hard to justify spending full price on it. Still, I will be tempted if it’s not an awful port.

Hopefully more than just ports of stuff that’s on other systems.

It is looking a bit sparse, but honestly mainline Fire Emblem and Pokemon are always highlights of any year for me. About the only first-party titles I'd be more excited for are new mainline 3D Mario and Zelda.

I've spent the last 2 months buying up loads of them so I can replace my physical Pokemon games with digital. I'm doing that with my whole library, but other stuff goes on sale at least and I can wait a couple of years for that if I have to. Get 8% off eShop credit through a thing at work, so combining that and the vouchers means those Pokemon games are down to £38 each instead of £50.

I thought it was pretty crazy they survived last time, but it’s a very different world today. Not sure the physical market can support any dedicated retail brand, and especially not one as badly run as Game.

So grateful I can play these on my Series X still, along with so many others. I buy most games on PlayStation these days but it sucks there is nothing prior to PS4 there, and for Switch 2 it only goes back to the Switch.

Oh this is HUGE! They just got a Switch 2 copy sale out of me.

Excellent news! Had my Switch 2 since launch but not even started up a GC game until now. I've wanted to play this one for years.

For all Microsoft’s mistakes, the one thing I appreciate is their approach to backwards compatibility. I can play Fallout 3 and New Vegas on Series X now, but on PS5 all those games are cut off.

@TrueBlueYoshi Delayed games can be bad too.

That’s horrific. The guy was responsible for some genre-defining games. Thoughts to his family.

Still not convinced it will come out at all, but we’ll probably be playing Switch 3 by the time it does.

There's barely an actor on that entire cast list. It's going to be horrible.

Nobody in charge of regional arms of Nintendo has any say in what games they make, so no point slating Doug Bowser because you’ve not liked the games over the last 6 years so much.

@SirLink What do you expect? Those sites make money off views, and the hype for a new Bethesda game is going to generate views. It's either that or go the Nlife route of constantly putting out lists just so they have an excuse to post affiliate links to 50+ games.

Very interested in seeing how close this is to the current gen versions. If it’s not a clear downgrade then I’d probably pick it up soon after launch.

I wonder if starting life as a Switch 1 game was a hinderance in this case?

I wonder how long we're going to be getting these games that started life as Switch 1 games. Considering how few big releases there were the last few years, you'd imagine they still have quite a few other games in the same situation that they've not announced yet.

@johnedwin It does exist on the server. It can't be purchased, but people who have purchased it digitally, or with game key cards, can still download it.

I appreciate the swappable buttons. Once you're familiar with a game, you don't need to look, but if you swap between systems a lot, and are frequently trying new games, it really helps.

I don't really find the Pro controllers (8BitDo Pro that is) that comfy though, and I'm going to stick with the Ultimates.

I'm not sure I'll be able to get over the THPS4 changes. It's not THPS4, it's just a map pack for THPS3. It's such a weird decision to make.

Like everyone else, I’d love to be able to do it that way, but I can’t see Nintendo doing it. Almost every free emulator out there gives more options than
Nintendo who have highly paid coders and access to the actual hardware designs. If they can’t give us easy wins like that, they’re probably not going to give us individual rom files outside the app.

Sometimes, time just leaves a series behind. People can blame MS all they want, but F-Zero and Star Fox show a series can flounder in the same way under Nintendo.