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FIFA are the ones that will lose out, and for most people that’s a good thing. Nobody other than EA will be able to afford the 250 million a year fee to use the name and also make money off the game.

Remember, it’s literally just the FIFA name. All clubs, players and leagues will still be licensed as that’s nothing to do with FIFA.

People definitely would. I remember everyone on here being annoyed at Breath of the Wild launching on NX, saying they didn't care and they'd buy it on the Wii U. We all know how that worked out.

May as well start at the beginning. Games take so long to get made now. There seems a pretty standard 6 year gap between Zelda titles, and there were 8 years between DQ 9 and 11.

The Playstation sub seems really poor value compared to Game Pass Ultimate, even if you pay RRP for GPU. However, it's so easy to buy a year of Xbox Gold for £35 and convert that to a year of GPU. Less than £3 a month for all that content, including day 1 first party games.

People acting like these trends wouldn't be exactly the same for a US list. If anything, that would be 'worse' as Madden, FIFA and NBA 2K are near the top of the yearly charts every single year, along with CoD.

8/10 from Edge is an amazing score. They use the full scale, so an average game gets a 5 for them rather than the 7 or even 8 most websites would give an average game.

This probably won't even be out until we're in the next gen (similar to Elder Scrolls VI). The same fuss will happen over them trying to squeeze it onto PS5/Series X as Cyberpunk on PS4/XB1.

@Martijn87 How does the quantity help? It's an average. MS didn't publish a ton of games, but all the stuff they did put out was reviewed really, really well.

They're never going to have all of them in one game again, but they should at least make sure everything still missing from the Switch era games is there.

It coming in 2022 is a bit concerning, but it was a WAY better reveal than Legends Arceus got.

Not sure why everyone is so convinced we're getting PLA DLC. What would be the focus of it?

I don't think we're getting gen 9 this year either. Actually, I hope we're not. Take your time with it, and get ILCA to knock out Let's Go Johto if you absolutely need a holiday release.

Nintendo's 'mistake' was made when creating the eShop, not in shutting it down. The same will happen to the Switch eShop, because eventually nobody will be using a Switch, so a store front you can only access through the Switch will not be worth keeping open. Look at how MS handle the Xbox store. Nobody is worried about original Xbox games being taken off sale, because they are not stuck on a store that can only be accessed by a 20 year old console.

Nintendo are just bad at this. Look at the whole Pokemon Bank/Home thing. It looks pretty certain when we move to the next hardware, there will be yet another new cloud-based Pokemon storage because Nintendo either doesn't know how to get things to talk to each other, or more likely, doesn't want to. This is the company that invented so many anti-consumer business practices in the 80s. Of course they want everything to be left behind so you re-buy a bunch of stuff every time you get new consoles.

I think it's people just grabbing the games while they can. I think you need a Pokemon Bank sub to be able to download Poketransporter, so if they wait for Pokemon bank to go free, Poketransporter will no longer be available and they won't be able to transfer anything out of the old games.

This will keep happening as long as they tie the stores to the console. In this regard, MS have done a great job because the Xbox Store isn't tied to a console in the same way. There's no Xbox 360 Store, Xbox One Store etc. It's just the Xbox Store, and they let you access it through any of the consoles or PC.

To everyone mocking digital gaming... how is this any different to physical? Everyone that bought the digital version can still play it, just like everyone that bought the physical one. You just won't be able to buy it anymore, which is exactly the same for the physical edition.

In an ironic twist, it's probably those physical games that are in more danger of becoming unplayable. I'm quite confident future Xbox consoles are going to continue playing all my previous gen games, but are consoles even going to have a disc drive next generation? Seems highly unlikely. So actually all those physical 360 games I have become obsolete, but the digital stuff I can still download on an Xbox console 15 years from now and play.

In reality, not that much? I have pretty much everything I want from those stores.

The Virtual Console stuff and DLC for Fire Emblem is about all I'd be bummed about if I ever had to replace my 3DS. Most of the actual games are now available elsewhere anyway.

It's still a bummer though. I can go still buy digital games for the original Xbox, 20 years later and I have no concern those games are going to become impossible to buy anytime soon.

I think Nintendo shut down stuff WAY too soon, but some of those reactions are ridiculous. It's not going to stop you playing your games.

Then again, this seems to happen a lot. I've seen loads of people think that Pokemon Bank shut down as they saw the story about them no longer accepting credit cards as payment.

Sony is better, but they're not great either. Xbox and Steam seem the only stores I feel truly confident are always going to be there, as Sony, like Nintendo, creating a new store for each console, so inevitably they will close at some stage.

It should have been free anyway, but it's good they're keeping it up a while longer yet. I've been dreading the day they close it down, as it then cuts off any pre-switch Pokemon game forever.

I'm pretty confident this is just something cut from a previous version of the opening. Every Pokemon game starts with you in your room, and I imagine they were going to do the same with this.

@MysticX Usually a big new release drops between 80 and 90% in week the first few weeks as the vast majority of people that wanted it near launch will get it day 1.

I only really get excited for new announcements. If there's a game coming and I already know I want it, I want to see as little footage as possible. We're all going to buy Breath of the Wild 2 or whatever it will end up being called, so all new footage will do is spoil stuff.

I'd love more Fire Emblem, but it might be too soon. All but six months since Three Houses came out have been in the pandemic.

I don't think they'll say anything about Legends Arceus DLC. There is almost always a Pokemon Day stream from the Pokemon Company, but even that might be too soon for a DLC reveal. The game won't have even been out a month!

I love the game, but the graphical and performance complaints are absolutely fair in my opinion. I've not seen pop in this poor since the PS1, and that's no exaggeration. The frame rate is poor, and you also have things in the distance to drop to ridiculous levels like 2-3fps, but this also happens in the cut scenes which is just in excusable. The amount of times I've gone to speak to Cylene and then all through the cut scene that Abra behind her is 2-3 frames a second is just incredibly jarring.

@Arcamenel Yeah, if it changed form at all it became impossible to catch. Only way to catch it before the patch was to fight it at night so it didn't transform.

I'm really excited about the Steam Deck, but it is one ugly piece of tech. You can tell Valve are software people. Still not quite as ugly as the Wii U controller mind you.

It's success is as well deserved as the Wii U's failure. I just hope Nintendo are done with gimmicks now. A console should just be a platform for great games.

I've got two. The Lite and the OLED.

So happy about this. I know BDSP sold crazy well too, but hopefully they look at the two figures and get an idea of what the fanbase really wants.

@MegaVel91 If people don't want to spend the money to upgrade, they don't have to. Again, I don't get this 'I don't want it, so nobody can have it' attitude.

It's not so much a discussion on graphics, but performance. I love the game, but the performance is distracting. Not so much on a purely visual basis, but things like the poor frame rate (not helped by low quality animation) and the atrocious pop in. Some of the blame has to go to GF, but this is also why a lot of us have been hoping for the Switch Pro, and I don't get the people that are happy it continues to not exist. If you're okay with sub par frame rates and pop in, then carry on, but why do you want everyone else to suffer?

Don't see why it matters, but it's clearly a spin-off. I'm sure they'll go back to the tried and tested formula with gen 9.

They did this type of thing with regularity in the early to mid 2000s, definitely going for that nu-metal sort of crowd with a lot of it.

People love to say MS ruined Rare, but Rare was already a shell of itself before the purchase. The same thing has happened to Retro Studios. People leave studios, it's inevitable.

@Thoughts For me, it's the remakes felt like improvements on the 'new' game that came before them. HGSS improved on D&P, ORAS massively improved on X&Y. I'd loved to have seen Diamond and Pearl remade like a modern game, an improvement on Sword and Shield. Instead it's just the same (very good) game as before, with some small quality of life improvements.

As expected. Kind of depressing for me honestly. I don't think the games are trash or anything like that, but I think this is the end of the previous style of Pokemon remake, which is a huge shame.

It's going to sell well, and will set the precedent for future remakes.

I think the worst part for me is feeling like we got robbed of a 'proper' remake. We've got used to Pokemon remakes feeling like modern games. Usually, they improve on the 'new generation' game that came before them.

As dumb as the whole Hot Coffee incident was, it set a precedent and it's kind of crazy they thought this would be fine. I mean, if just some inaccessible adult content was enough to get the game pulled, then inaccessible audio you don't have the rights to definitely is going to.

This release seems so bad. I don't mean the Switch version specifically, but for all consoles. I always have a dig at Nintendo when hobbyists can somehow do a better job modernising their games in their spare time than Nintendo can with all their resources, and now Rockstar come in with something that's just as bad, maybe even worse?

It looks they've let some kind of AI do a fair chunk of the work. Signs that were hard to read in the original games are clearly using new textures, but the spelling mistakes on them are so obviously not something a real person would make. It's what happens when you put a bad scan through text recognition software.

Nintendo is not about cutting edge tech (these days), but some of their own games run very poorly on the current hardware. I don't know why anyone would not want there to be an upgrade available. If you're happy with what you've got then no problem, stick with it.

I'll probably pick it up on a sale as they're important moments in gaming history, but I think they'll still feel incredibly dated, even with updated controls. GTA IV and V are lightyears ahead of them and now even the newer of those is 8 years old.

These forms look AMAZING! I was a little disappointed by Hisuian Growlithe, thought it was kind of ugly but of course it's all personal preference. Huge thumbs up for these two though.

People get so hung up on 'but it's meant to be in the past'. Pokemon doesn't take place in our world. In the Pokemon world, camera and phones could have existed for a couple of hundred years already.

I hate these in store events. In the UK, the staff never seem to know about it.

I know it's not a fair comparison as this is RRP, but I paid £35 for a year of Game Pass Ultimate, and the same price for a year of Switch Online with N64 games does not compare very well with that. Hopefully it will be quite easy to get it significantly cheaper. I think I'd probably just about be okay with £20 a year. I think I paid £12 for my current year of Switch online, so I don't know how that compared to RRP.

I'm a bit torn on this. On the one hand, I don't think the lack of EXP share makes the game harder... just longer. It's removing a grind, not difficulty. On the other hand, it would be SO easy for them to give an option to turn it off.

Also the 'Pokemon' is for children thing is not an excuse. The original games were for children too.

I will buy the game, and I'm not going to get mad and talk about lazy developers, but this will always feel like a disappointment to me. Pokemon remakes were wonderful things. The worlds, stories and characters you knew, but done as if it was being made in the present. They were real celebrations of the Pokemon series and perhaps most importantly, were a step-stepping for the developers to learn for the next generation. It feels like once this undoubtedly does well, this is what we'll now always get for the Pokemon remake.

I'm not personally much into Metroid Dread as 2D games are not really my thing, but I hope it sells well as the series needs it. I'm not sure how much you can read into Week 1 sales though, when the previous Week 1 record holder was Metroid Prime 3, which I don't think is anywhere near the top of the overall sales in the Metroid series? But you just have to hope the Switch userbase alone is enough to give it a chance of being the best selling Metroid ever. 2.8m is not a very high bar!

I'd love some more AA games on the Switch. I'm currently debating wether to jump on the current discount for the Trilogy, even though the only game I want to play is T&T. I've played the other two and don't think I'd ever replay them. What is putting me off is knowing I'd have to go back to a 3DS for Apollo Justice, Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice anyway.

For the most part, emulators shouldn't really need any tweaking on a game by game basis. You emulate the console well, and then any game for that console should run on it. It's why it's annoying Nintendo can be so slow with Virtual Console type releases as we know once the emulator is set up, you don't have to do anything to the games themselves. Also why I find it so weird when sites (like this one) review VC games and refer to them as ports.

No matter what, I'm more excited about this game than any Pokemon game for a long time. Am I confident it will be good? Not at all, but at least it's something different.

I do think Pokemon games should look a lot more advanced by now, but GF are still relatively new at making Pokemon games on a console. By the time Gen 9 rolls around, I'd expect to see them looking much closer to a game like Monster Hunter. I don't think that's too unrealistic as MH is not exactly known for looking amazing either, but it looks a gen (or even two) ahead of Pokemon.

I have loved every single console GTA game, and the PS2 games especially hold good memories as it was a time where I finally had the money to buy games at launch, and still had the time to play a lot of them. However, I find these are never as fun to go back to as I imagine. I've tried several of the ports that have come out in the years since and never stick with any of them for long. Of course I'll still buy this! Part of the problem I know.