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I used to love the Paper Mario series, but it’s really been warped into a totally different type of game lately that I don’t enjoy anywhere near as much.

I’m all on board for the Mario re-rereleases though. Sunshine and Galaxy with comfortable controllers would be amazing, and 3D World would mean there’s really no reason to keep a Wii U about.

I remember a Luigi on a cloud toy in some burger place kids meal here in the UK for SMB3, but don’t think it was this one.

Pretty sure Mario was considered a lot more mainstream 30 years ago though, so not really a surprise they were used for fast food toys.

Definitely backing this. People are naive for thinking Platinum can self fund any projects, let alone one as risky as this. Game development is a long stretch where employees (of which they have over 200) need to still be paid, but you get no income until the product is shipped to retail. You can’t be independent when you’re that big. You either need a publisher or crowdfunding, and I doubt any publisher would go near W101 after its previous commercial failure.

It’s clearly too much for PS4/Xbox One. 2020 games are like those 2013 games, Bioshock Infinite, Last of Us and GTA V, where they really needed the next gen to do them justice.

Witcher 3 was 5 years ago. Cyberpunk is a different animal.

@Rodan2000 How would that work? Publishers funded all their previous games, so publishers get the profits from previous games. People working for Platinum get paid a salary like the rest of us. You can’t be with independent when you’re as big as Platinum. You’re saying over 200 people should go a few years without being paid so they can put out a game?

Finished up Super Mario Galaxy yesterday and now playing through Twilight Princess. If there’s time before returning to work, going to play Spider-Man on PS4.

And this was at the end of that gen. Scary thing is the Sega Saturn is also 25 years old and the Playstation will be hitting in in a couple of weeks time.

As usual, gamers go over the top with their vitriol, but at the same time, I do think it's a very valid point how slow the progress of the Pokemon series has been, and that has been highlighted even more by how after over 20 years of waiting, the first home console mainline game doesn't feel like that big of a jump at all.

I’m pretty sure this was always considered a ‘download’ game, rather the disc based. It’s quite short.

Love Okami, but absolutely no need for a sequel. Just make something brand new.

I think I might have re-played 80 Days more than any other game. It's great for a flight or train journey especially with some headphones.

I'd love to see Virtua Fighter 6 next gen!

VR is undoubtedly the superior experience but the original Superhot is still a great game.

The Lite will sell crazy numbers. Nintendo revisions always do because they hit NEW customers but huge percentages of existing owners rebuy hardware too.

Hopefully they bring a Nintendo Selects range to the Switch at the same time!

So happy to see Fire Emblem doing so well. Seems crazy to think Nintendo were ready to pull the plug if Awakening didn’t improve the sales figures in previous entries.

It might not be a surprise to see it hold number one without completion but a drop of only 47% is very impressive. Standard week 2 drop is usually between 80% and 90%

I’ve played a lot of LBP over the years and can’t even comprehend the work that’s gone into that. Mind blowing!

Was kind of standard Nintendo E3 for me. Not enough new announcements, especially if you take away ports, but thought Luigi's Mansion 3, Fire Emblem and Pokemon looked great, even if we've seen plenty from those games already. The announcement of NM3 was hardly a surprise, but still enjoyed it. At first, was not really digging the 'sequel' treatment for Breath of the Wild instead of a brand new game, but I'll definitely give it a chance, after all, Majora's Mask was kind of the same situation.

Might be my favourite game of the direct. Right from the opening shot of the trailer, knew it was NMH3. Hope it's better than Travis Strikes Again.

Unfortunately I don't think Panzer Dragoon Saga is possible without a LOT of work due to the lost code, so hopefully this sells well.

Not sure I can handle the pretty extreme downgrade, but Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've ever played and Switch only owners are in for a TREAT.

My initial reaction was disappointment that it just looked like more Breath of the Wild (sounds daft, but you know what I mean), but Majora's Mask is still one of my favourites, so if it's that sort of deal I'm fully on board.

Kind of nuts that a VR game reached number 1. I love VR but have always acknowledged it's never going to be a mainstream hit in it's current guise.

I don't think the game is very good, but more platforms hopefully means more sales and an increased likelihood of seeing No More Heroes 3.

That looks horrendous!

This is an awful lot of words written about a trailer for a film nobody cares about. The sonic movie looks bad? So like every other video game movie then. No big deal. Just forget it exists.

@Marios-love-child Disney Life was a lengthy ly trial for a Disney Streaming service that only launched in a few countries. Not sure if they’ve confirmed what happens to it now but it wouldn’t surprise me if it goes, replaced by this.

Big fan of these! Wish more gamer apparel was like this.

I don’t think this will be the one, but the type of thing is the future, and I don’t know why people are so resistant to the idea. I’ve always found gamer’s attachment to hardware a little weird. You don’t see movie buffs fighting over models of blu-Ray players or streaming services. Consoles are just there to play our games.

People are also obsessed with ownership. Live in the moment. I bet 99% of people never go back and ever replay the games they make such a fuss over ‘owning’.

Looked great to me. Perhaps not a huge leap graphically, but they usually purposefully make such small strides so they can easily churn out the next one without having to worry too much about how they will innovate, so expectations were kept relatively in check on my end. Will be buying a Switch the day this comes out!

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... ?