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Cannot wait for this. I hope it looks like a home console game with all that extra power. Excitement levels are so high.

Yakuza Kiwami and Pokemon Omega Ruby.

Really in a Pokemon mood so playing the alternate versions of past gens. Even bought Ultra Moon after only playing Sun from gen 7.

Always disliked Reggie. Everything he says comes across like he's never out of PR/Spin mode. Let's be honest, ever since the mid 90s, all the decision making at Nintendo has been done in Japan.

I don't know why, but I'm on such a Pokemon buzz right now. Re-downloaded Pokemon Go, over 2 years since I stopped playing it, and started Omega Ruby as part of my quest to fill in the gaps and cover all the 'other' versions from what I played when they first launch. Pokemon Switch is the reason I'll be picking up the console towards the end of this year!

It was average for me. Will definitely buy Mario Maker 2, but it also wasn’t exactly the biggest surprise. I know people have been disappointed by Fire Emblem but it looked great to me. That was about it though. Not really interested in multi platform stuff or the remake of Link’s Awakening.

Edit: More Box Boy is always welcome! Would have preferred a new Pullblox/Fallblox buy Box Boy is good too.

Kind of expected, especially after all the recent leaks but it’s a port that makes a lot of sense. Now that Nintendo aren’t being so dumb about their games featuring on YouTube, this could really blow up into something huge.

Was so excited when I saw Link, then I saw that egg and it just killed the mood. Fed up of the constant ports and remakes. It looks lovely, but at the end of the day it’s going to feel like the game we’ve played before.

Unfortunately, big business doesn't exist to keep people in employment. Heck, no kind of business exists for that purpose. Yes, it's sad people are losing their jobs, but hundreds of thousands lose and gain jobs every day. A company can decide they have too many people for what they need. From most articles, it's not actual game developers that are being let go, but roles like PR and marketing.

I used to love Level 5, but apart from Ni No Kuni, they've spent a decade making games that felt like they existed purely to sell merchandise. Inazuma Eleven and Yo-Kai Watch both had so much promise, but they didn't make the most of it.

Can't wait to get a good look at Fire Emblem, but I really hope there are some non-port announcements. Kind of thinking we might see a reveal of that Retro Star Fox GP. They can throw in some Wii U ports if they want, but those aren't going to be for me.

Nintendo of America in the 80s and early 90s were the masters of the dark arts of marketing. The Seal of Quality was one of their best tricks, but Nintendo Power was top of the pile. Create an advert for their games... and get people to pay them for it.

Those 3 games sticking it out is great news as you imagine most people buying MK at this point are the ones buying a switch now.

Also hugely impressed with KH3 doing well. It might be a big game among gaming enthusiast press, but as a JRPG it’s niche as heck in the real world. Kingdom Hearts 2 was only 5th when it released. The DS game came in 17th in its opening week. Birth by Sleep opened in 7th. Dream Drop Distance opened in 6th.

Minish Cap through the Wii U, Statik on PSVR and Yakuza Kiwami on PS4.

Let’s Go is a spin-off and shouldn’t be compared to mainline games, either critically or commercially.

@lemonjellydude Nobody should pay any attention to official comments from Nintendo at this point. They will say what they have to to protect sales. They have form for flat out lying about 'not planning to revise hardware'. They said they were not working on a revised 3DS a week before announcing the XL.

If Fire Emblem, Luigi’s Mansion and Pokemon are out this year, I’ll almost certainly be getting a switch this November.

Looks like MS are giving the next console a good go. Good studio acquisitions and they're doing some really great stuff with Gamepass.

Still baffles me how certain people can look down on other gamers for apparently basing their gaming choices on graphics, yet they base their game choices on how a box on a shelf looks.

Pretty soon, physical games are going to be a thing of the past. It's better to start adapting to that now. Stop worrying about archiving games you'll almost certainly never go back and play again anyway. Enjoy the present.

Who ever included Resident Evil Zero in a list of 'stunning games' ? Haha.

Like so many people have said, nobody is ever going to announce a game, port or otherwise, via answering a "journalist's" question.

Considering AC3 Remaster is confirmed for other consoles, it makes sense. It's not as bad as people remember it, but it was always kind of a weird one as it left behind the vertical cities on the previous games, which was kind of the whole point of AC games up to that point.

Are the people complaining about a port of a game from 2012 the same people that recently bought NSMBU Deluxe... ?

It's disappointing that they're essentially only starting now, but sounds like it would be for the best. Retro know how to make a Metroid Prime game, and I was always a little iffy about this being made in Japan.

I also don't think they made a mistake announcing it so soon. You need to give people a road map of the next couple of years to keep them excited about your console. I think Sony has absolutely nailed that with the PS4. There are only about 3-4 games out on Switch I want right now, but I'm excited about it because I know stuff like Fire Emblem and Pokemon is coming, Luigi's Mansion 3, Bayonetta 3, and of course Metroid Prime 4.

Genuinely love the look of this game. Definitely one to pick up when I get a Switch.

I had a Wii U, so it's not for me, but very pleased to see it find a bigger audience. Fantastic 2D platformer. Kind of weird how we saw 4 NSMB titles in 6 years from 2006 to 2012, and now in the 6 years since, not had any, other than this port. Would be nice to see an actual new one in the Switch's lifetime.

Personally 2018 was a huge disappointment for me on Nintendo hardware. After the AMAZING 2017, I find it hard to believe but I think 2018 was worse than any year of the Wii U era, and goodness knows they were pretty bad. There was alway the 3DS in those years. Across the Switch and 3DS, the only thing I've wanted to play was Octopath Traveller. I know people love Smash and Pokemon Let's Go, but they're not for me.

Bring on the real Pokemon, the Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, and maybe even Bayonetta 3 and Metroid Prime. 2019 has the chance of being fantastic.

@jswhitfield8 Snake Eater was released first on what console...?

Never been a fan of ports, remasters or remakes, but there are some Nintendo games out there that are close to impossible to play legally these days. Fire Emblem and Paper Mario on the Cube. So while it would be nice to play those, I think the Switch already has more than enough ports and remasters. New games please! Especially when Nintendo don't have people like bluepoint who exist solely for this kind of thing. When Nintendo do it, 99% chance it means we're missing out on something new.

I’m all digital on other platforms and love it, but the price stops me doing the same for Nintendo. For the vast majority of games I’ve very bought, I wait for the price to drop. I’d do it with discs, waiting for stuff to go under £20, even under £15. On steam, PSN and Xbox the digital games reach those prices, like the disc versions but not on Nintendo’s store. Before people say Nintendo games hold their value, you can definitely get their physical games cheap if you’re savvy about it. Use sites like HUKD and you’ll be alerted when the stuff is going for cheap. I never paid more than £20 for any Wii U or 3DS game, and the most I’ve paid on Switch is £25. You’re talking double those prices or more on Nintendo’s digital store.

N64 by a mile for me. Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Goldeneye, the two Banjo games, Conker’s, Bad Fur Day, Paper Mario, the list goes on. Nothing else comes close to those games for me.

I’m not a fan of the way Nintendo has gone at all recently. It started with the Wii, but that had plenty of good games too. The Wii U era was just depressing for me. I loved 3D World, Splatoon and Bayonetta 2, could appreciate DK Tropical Freeze despite not being a 2D platform fan, but there was little else. I’ve never enjoyed Smash and haven’t enjoyed Mario Kart since the DS. It was made worse by them putting out terrible, low budget games for the second half of the systems life to give the illusion of continued support. I’m still not over the fact they probably killed off Star Fox as a series.

Now the Switch has two of my favourite games of all time in Odyssey and BOTW, and I like Rabbids Kingdom Battle a lot, but that’s literally it for now. There’s been nothing this year that’s captured my interest in the slightest. At least there’s plenty to look forward to. Prime 4, Fire Embelm, Bayonetta 3 and a proper Pokemon.

Not going to get my hopes up based on a character being in Smash as we should all know by now, that doesn't mean it's linked to new game announcements or partnerships. However, it's now kind of standard for Persona games to get a handheld version a few years later.

This is why I never pay attention to user scores on websites.

@PiplupJ Nintendo didn’t really see the games industry as global, they focused on the US and Japan, and licensed out the distribution of the NES to other companies in the UK, which led to ridiculously expensive games, long delays and some of the best games never coming over at all. In the Gamesmaster video It’s Christmas 1996. The N64 and Mario 64 have been out in the US for 3 months but the UK still has another 3 months to wait for them to come out.

Sega put more effort in for sure, but it was Sony and the PlayStation that showed that there was a larger market there if you went after it. At this point, Nintendo started to put more effort in, so its only really been since the GameCube they’ve been giving the UK games on time and at decent prices, but by this point Sony were dominant.

It’s not that the UK market hates Nintendo, but there just not the nostalgia here for them that the US market has. I’m not saying nobody had early Nintendo consoles, but they weren’t the mainstream success stories like they were in the US.

And for people saying Dave sucked at the game, you need to appreciate the situation. The game or the console was not out yet. Unless he’d bought the expensive analog stick controller for the Saturn that worked with ONE game, them this was probably the first time in his life he’d used an anolog stick after years of playing 2D games on d-pads.

Red Dead 2.

I hardly ever buy games day 1 anymore, last one was Xenoblade Chronicles X which I ended up being very disappointed by. I can already tell that's not the case with RDR2. I've avoided trailers and previews as there's a few companies out there you just know are going to deliver quality, and I'm astounded at how pretty it look, how huge and detailed the world is, and how it seems to function like a real, living environment.

Games TM is genuinely good.

Print magazines need to evolve. There’s a quarterly football magazine called The Blizzard and it’s fantastic because it doesn’t focus on news at all. You could go pick up a copy from 5 years ago and it would still be an enthralling read today.

Magazines need to move away from news, previews and reviews and focus on editorials and features, as then they don’t lose out by being ‘late’.

Curious if the reviewer has played No Mans Sky? First review I’ve seen that suggests this is what the game should have been. Most others say this is a far more shallow version of NMS.

@maruse @spizzamarozzi It sells everywhere. Usually in the top 10 best sellers of the year in the US, and always top 5 worldwide.

Not really sure how you can judge it's the same game every year if you admit you don't play it? If they were just doing that, then credible reviewers like Eurogamer would be calling them out on it, but anyone that plays the game can see the changes each year.

@MisterPi Thank you! I don't get why people are so bad at this.

The term pre-order seems meaningless, and has done for for over 15 years for me. Amazon don't take money until they send it, can cancel anytime, and I pay the lowest price they were ever advertising it for, even if the price goes up by the time it comes out. Often get stuff the day before release/it's in stores too. Not sure why anyone would give a physical store money to pre-order in the old sense anymore.

I don't visit as much as I used to, but I put that down to less Nintendo content these days rather than any changes to the website. I always find you guys are a bit more positive about most games than the places I tend to go to first for reviews, such as Eurogamer and Edge magazine, while the stuff I like most are the features. Damo's stuff on retro gaming, or the things featuring Unseen64.

That screenshot looks like an SD 360 game, nowhere near N64...

I know nobody really cares as this is about video games, but it's crazy how the media are reacting to this England run. If they win it, nobody in the future will care who they beat on the way, but until they win it, they've not actually beaten anyone of note. Alan Shearer did a big piece about how England have earned so much respect that had been lost in the last 10 years, but have they really? For beating Tunisia, Panama and Sweden? Hardly a heroic run.

Can't believe Yukes are still involved with the series after all this time. They're awful.

The screenshots make it look closer to the mobile version than console. Is this the case?

Quite possibly one of the worst E3 presentations I have ever seen. You can't blame people's expectations either. Why don't a huge publisher like Nintendo have more games coming? Sure, they had a couple of big ones last year, but most of their studios have had no significant output for quite a few years now. Makes me feel like we're back in the Wii U days.

We got told Pikmin 4 was almost done 3 years ago. Retro wrapped up their last game almost 5 years ago.

Don't think they announced it too soon at all. It gives people something to look forward to.

I don't have an issue with only showing stuff that's coming this year, I'm just wondering why this year is so barren. Nintendo as a publisher has a LOT of studios, and many of those studios have multiple teams which means more than one game at a time. For the last 8 years the output has been very, VERY low. It gives the impression than quite a few studios are starting work on games and then seeing them cancelled, and get stuck in that cycle. It's almost certainly what happened to Retro.

New game announcements. I hated the Sony conference, because while the big 4 looked amazed, we've seen them before. I always hated the Nintendo conferences that worked like this.

If we completely ignore what is realistic, I'd really love to see:

A Mario RPG. Something along the lines of the early Mario and Luigi, or Thousand Year Door. They dumbed those games down so much in the last generation and stripped out almost all of what most people loved about them.

F-Zero. It's time. Even though MK8 is pretty old now, I feel like they're probably not going to do a new one anytime soon because of the Switch port. So F-Zero would be the perfect alternative. Yes, I know about the Star Fox rumours, but I did say this was ignoring what was realistic. Also brings me to...

Star Fox. I don't think there's been a great Star Fox game since SF64, and in my head, there's always been so much potential in the series to be more than a 45 minute arcade game.

I want to see big, ambitious, single player focused games.

New game announcements!

I've always judged E3 based on how many extra games are on my wish list compared to before it. My issue with Nintendo in the last few years has been basing their E3 on showing new footage of a game we've seen before. Metroid Prime IV last year was great. I didn't care there was nothing to see, that was a HUGE game coming to the Switch. I went out and bought a Wii U the week after they announced Splatoon.

If the highlight of their E3 is showcasing Smash for Switch... yeah, not exciting at all for me.

Kind of torn over this. Some GREAT games in there but most of them have been re-released in the last generation and I've bought a lot of them. Got Third Strike on 360 for example. Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the big one that's hard to play these days.

Can't wait for the mainline game, but not interested in these at all.

The only surprise is that it's taken so long. Transformed is up there with Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing as one of the best non-MK Kart games I've ever played.

Shadow of the Colossus at number one is insane. That and Monster Hunter at number one for 3 weeks in a row and people will still comment the UK only likes COD and FIFA.