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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.

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.