Peach64

As always I find it kind of amusing how many people on here consider a box on their shelf the most important aspect of a game. Usually the same ones that accuse users of other systems of favouring graphics over gameplay!

Do yourselves a favour and let go of the obsession of having a box on your shelf. More and more games get re-released anyway so in all likelihood you’re not ever going to touch those discs and cartridges again anyway as you’ll be wanting to play the newer release.

Would like to see the Pokemon games included in this!

That was the first thought I had watching the trailer. It's not just the 'realistic' look of the backgrounds, but it's everything from the smooth animations to just how alive that city looks compared to people just stuck in place in Pokemon games.

People get so mad when you criticize the look of Pokemon games, and yeah, we need to cut GF some slack as up until 5 years ago they'd never really tried doing Pokemon on a home console, but it's staggering just how far behind the games are. I saw a meme of people posting an Oblivion screenshot against Legends Arceus and joking about the advances in the last 15 years, as Oblivion kind of looks better.

I feel like it's pretty disappointing. How often do we see the back of a switch lite? With the DS it made sense as you saw the lid all the time.

Great that it's an egg, so we can have a mythical with us as the OT. I've always been a bit OCD about that, as most mythicals come through events and have OTs that are often the date or something and it looks sort of dumb. Not really sure why they do them as Mystery Event gifts instead of making them in game events.

I think the only others we've been able to get with us as OT is Mew from the Pokeball Plus, Celebi from Crystal on the VC, Victini in White, and Deoxys in ORAS.

This might have been my favourite bit of the whole trailer. I love new evolutions for older Pokemon and Regional Variants.

Game looked better for sure, but I was disappointed in how little they told us. Are there HMs? EXP share? How big is the Pokedex, and what limits are we going to have for transferring Pokemon in. All this time waiting for news and there was very little? Probably still going to buy it, but I don't want to feel like I'm playing a 15 year old Pokemon game.

Given the amount of clearly hacked Pokemon in Gen 8, I’d hardly consider this a problem. Almost every max raid I go into has a Pokemon with a genning site as it’s name.

This device has also been out a long, long time and they added the Pokemon updates just after Sword and Shield came out and Nintendo have done nothing to try and stop it.

I get people wanting to use this. I love some shiny hunting methods, but in gen 8, the only real way to hunt a specific Pokémon is Masuda Method breeding. I’ve done MM twice, with the shiny charm and my shinies took me 2050 and 2516 eggs respectively. Over a hundred hours of mindlessly riding a bike in circles.

Stuff like this just makes those Pokemon remakes seem even worse. One guy doing this as a hobby can make a better looking thing in their spare time than a group of professional developers are doing as their day job.

The OLED will help them go passed the Wii by March 2022 for sure. I don't see why people are so confident in many more years for the Switch though. As gaming hardware, it's already really starting to struggle with performance, and Nintendo has already see how a console like the Wii can go from record breaking sales to very suddenly drying up. There's not too much else they can release that's going to draw in new customers like Animal Crossing did. Yeah, there's two Pokemon games on the way but the first Pokemon gen released on new hardware is always the one that sells the most (and boosts hardware the most). S&M sold less than X&Y, Black and White sold less than Diamond and Pearl etc. Gen 8 sold over 20 million copies, so it's not like there's a ton of Pokemon fans out there that didn't get a Switch yet and are waiting for Gen 4 remakes.

Knowing Nintendo’s track record, I bet they refused permission for any of their stuff to appear. There’s no way the organisers wouldn’t have included at least the Mario theme otherwise.

I can’t believe there was no mythical giveaway event like we had for the 20th anniversary.

The price is not a surprise. As all know Nintendo, like Apple, price their products way more than they're actually cost to manufacture, simply because they can.

As for this being a success? I have strong doubts. Valve don't have that know how when it comes to selling hardware. Steam Machines and Steam Link were all great ideas but came and went without much fanfare. Why would this be different?

It's up on Amazon UK now, but my order is showing a delivery date of October 13th. Ehh, probably going to end up sticking with Game despite being disgusted at their £10 delivery fee.

Modern OLEDs, anything made in the last few years really have near to no concern for burn in. Even on older panels, the risk of it is way overplayed. I watch sports channels or twitch streamers that have static HUDs for hours and never seen it on my TV, my iPhone or even my Vita and it's 2012 OLED panel. OLED is amazing, and once you're used to it, it's very hard to go back.

What a weird release. It costs about £3 for the game.

Gone with Game for now, just to get something locked in, but I'm not a fan of their mandatory £10 delivery. They implemented that during the Series X pre-orders. I didn't have to pay it, but then people who were ordering a few hours later did. Hopefully will be able to get it through Amazon or Nintendo themselves so I can cancel this order.

This is what I was waiting for. Now time to fight over pre-orders.

Star Fox is such a weird series for me. In my head, it's a big franchise, but if you're really honest, it's only had two really great games, and the last one of those was almost 25 years ago.

The characters really captured my imagination way back when it came out, and I always thought it could do with more story elements to it, but I understand it's a hard franchise to deal with these days. On rails shooters just don't cut it anymore, but you try and do something new, and people will complain it's not Star Fox anymore.

I'm glad people are starting to see Famitsu for what they are. It feels like 10 years people acted they were some kind of Japanese Edge, but instead they feel super mainstream with a strong suspicion they will review a game well in exchange for a company spending on ads inside the pages.

Regardless of what they say, I'm always interested in a new Mario Golf. Very relaxing games.

@Clyde_Radcliffe It's not a best game award, it's more anticipated. So yeah, sales figures play a part in how anticipated a game is. I also mentioned review scores. Forza Horizon games are always 90+ rating on Metacritic. They are popular and always deliver a great game, so makes sense they would be highly anticipated, but people here are acting like it's a joke?

Forza Horizon is a big deal. FH4 had 12 million 'sales' before the Steam version launched. As much as Metroid is a big deal to hardcore fans, no Metroid title has ever reached 3 million in sales, and it's been 20 years since a game in the series reached 2 million sales. Not to mention the Forza Horizon series is rated higher on Metacritic than every Metroid game since Prime 2. So yeah, it's not surprising more people are anticipating FH5 compared to Metroid Dread. Once again people making themselves look stupid by saying the only way this is possible is MS paying people off.

My expectations were low due to Covid messing with the whole industry but I was still a bit disappointed. I understand Metroid Dread is going to be amazing for a lot of people, but I'm not really into 2D stuff. Seeing Advance Wars pop up, and then having it revealed to be a remaster was one of the biggest spikes of excitement to disappointment I've felt in ages. At the end of the day, they announced nothing new I'm interested in. My wish list of future Switch games is exactly the same now as it was a month ago and that is disappointing.

Pretty disappointing for me, although I knew this E3 was going to be lame due to Covid disrupting the industry. Metroid Dread was cool, although personally I have no interested in the 2D games. Seeing Advance Wars was so exciting, but then seeing it was just a remaster/remake was hugely deflating. At the end of it, there are no new games on my wishlist than there were before it.

I was so excited when Advance Wars popped up, and then it was crushed as it was revealed it was just a Remaster. How much effort would 25-30 new maps really have been?

I have no interested in 2D stuff, but was great they used the Dread name.

@marnelljm Why did they make a Switch Lite when the original was flying off the shelves? They know a huge percent of current owners will rebuy. It's easy money.

@marnelljm A lack of a Switch Pro at the Direct is not going to kill that story at all. Nintendo already said this is about software.

Don't get too excited people. Covid has really disrupted the whole gaming industry. Stuff has not progressed over the last 18 months like it should have, and it's showing from every developer out there. This is not a normal E3.

E3 events are commercials to sell you games. I don't really get people whining about being 'spoiled'.

My expectations are lower than ever thanks to Covid distrupting the whole industry. I judge these things on new announcements and I just don't see many today. Personally, I don't care about new Zelda footage. The moment they announced that game I knew I was buying it. Anything more I see of it now only serves to spoil the game.

I don't think it's happening today. I know Nintendo will lie about this stuff, but it makes sense to lie when asked about the existence of upcoming hardware revisions as that could hurt sales of the current models. They didn't need to say this Direct would be all about software. Because they said that, I don't believe we see the Switch revision today.

If they don't announce it today, I'm not sure it gets announced this week. They've said the Direct will be focused on software and I don't think they'd have bothered to say that if they intended to show off the new model. I can't see them announcing it on the same day as the direct either and splitting the attention.

It would have made sense to reveal it before E3 so devs could show us any improvements in game performance, but when does Nintendo ever do what makes sense?

I will never complain about games being announced too early. I loved the PS4 era because there was always a big game I was interested in on the way.

My expectations for E3 are lower than ever. Coved has clearly messed with the industry. Seems weird to me an industry based around computers has struggled so much with moving to WFH when my industry which involves being able to access hospitals has barely skipped a beat when it comes to switching to WFH without any sign of productivity slowing down. For whatever reason the gaming industry has been affected though, and it feels like every game is at least 12 months behind where it should be.

Thanks to COVID, even E3 is going to be slim pickings this year so when you consider Geoff just gets the scraps leftover, it wasn’t that bad.

Two Point Hospital, Jurassic World Evolution, Metal Slug and Elden Ring are probably all games I would buy, and there were some interesting indies I’ll keep an eye on.

Pre-ordered and I hate myself for it. Would genuinely have felt better spending £20 on an in-app purchase and not have to deal with plastic tat.

I am bad at games. I love them, but I'm usually bad at them, and I'm okay with that. For genres or series I enjoy, I'll crank the difficulty as it's fun for me, but usually I'll play on a lower difficulty. They are an entertainment product to me, not a competitive sport. I'd rather spend my time learning/improving at something useful.

Snowrunner is incredible. Makes Mudrunner look like a tech demo.

I was very resistant to the idea of Game Pass, but I gave it a go when I bought a Series X, £70 for two years is very easy to come by and it’s insane value with EA Play thrown in too. Played so many games I’d never have bought, and saved so much by not having to to buy many games I wanted to play. Don’t care at all about ‘ownership’ when most games, TV shows and movies are one time things for me. I can buy those rare exceptions.

I think a lot of people misunderstand what this revision is meant to be. It's not the successor to the switch, it's just a revision. Like the DS Lite or XL was to the DS, the SP or Micro were to the GBA etc. 4 years is definitely not too soon for that based on previous handhelds.

People keep focusing on the 4K rumours. I'm sure it's just outputting a 4K signal to TVs. The 360 and PS3 output 1080p signal, but it didn't mean the games were anywhere near 1080p. I don't think any revision is going to have any exclusives that can't be played on all current hardware.

I think it's pretty indefensible. There's no valid reason I've seen anyone come up with for pulling a digital game. They can choose to give other series a marketing push without removing things from sale. It's just to make more money. I bet a lot of people see games come out, think to themselves I'll get them some day, and then never do. By putting an end date on it like this, it makes all those people rush out to buy it.

I can't stand motion controls so this is a welcome and unexpected move from my point of view. I thought they'd keep the motion controls only.

I don't like the chibi art style, but that's not the reason I'm disappointed by the remake. The art style is not the issue. It's that the gameplay looks like it's two generations out of date. We've got used to Pokemon remakes being premium products, improving on the game directly before them, filled with QoL improvements, and a huge celebration of the franchise. These looks cheap, and it's not because it's chibi.

I know it's cool to hate on Pokemon recently, but this genuinely does look awful I've loved all the remakes up to now. They really felt like celebrations of the series, but wow, not sure about this at all.

Non-motions controls! Did not expect that but SO happy! Might just be buying a Switch this year!

This is not news. MS came out and said this at the time. The guy that put the footage up the other week had nothing to do with the game's development so not sure why anyone was posting his statement as news. He just assumed the James Bond rights holder blocked it, but all parties had agreed to the VC of the N64 game and the XBLA HD remaster. Classic example of Nintendo agreeing to something, letting someone do a load of work, and then pull out.

This game is a very different prospect to things like Banjo. No, Nintendo don't own the bond license, but they did have a contract with the rights holder to be able to publish the game. To re-release it, that contract probably had to be referred back to and would need the permission of anyone involved at the time.

I don't think any of this was previously unseen? It was everywhere at the time.

I don't think it deserves some of the criticism it gets, but at the same time, it's definitely a little disappointing. As always, reviews have no impact on sales. 99% of people just don't look at sites like this.

I generally don't care for TV shows based on games, but I would have definitely checked that one out. It always had the vibe of a cartoon like Bucky O'Hare.

I think Nintendo have shown enough they will outright lie to protect the sales of existing models until the new one is out. June 2012. Nintendo put out a statement denying a 3DS revision is in the works. 3 weeks later, they announce the 3DS XL.