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Good for them!

This is what voting with your wallet should look like. Don't support Game Key cards if you want true physical games to stick around. If you keep this up, companies will look at this and may change.

That said, the same principle also applies to $80 games. Currently, Nintendo fans are supporting that price point by buying Mario Kart World. I would encourage those who want to hold out on the game due to the price to continue to do so.

Great article. Glad to see this insight into the process.I do hope LRG sticks with their physical games mantra, as it's pretty clear that the rest of the industry is moving away from it.

In my opinion, it was the best "Year Of" event I've encountered. We got Shadow Generations, Sonic Movie 3, and mulitple cool animations (Dark Beginnings, TerminalMontage, and Tyson Hesse's Shadow Batman). SEGA did a great job. I hope it was financially successful for them.

Great news! Although I would prefer the songs be on Spotify, this is much better than having to listen on original hardware. Nintendo, please consider official soundtrack releases elsewhere!

Not a fan of all the changes myself. They essentially removed jokes from the original game, which I feel was unnecessary.

SEGA's been really coy about letting reviewers get their hands on the Switch version lately. First Frontiers, and now this.

Looks a lot better than I was expecting.

Would this be the first canonically mute Link?

Wonderful news. Very glad Tango can still exist. There's clearly a lot of talent there. It would be a shame to let it all go away.

Based on some footage I saw, Rovio has done a good job on Sonic Rumble. Should also say that its soundtrack is awesome.

I hope so. I know the Switch is still selling well, but a lot of their evergreen titles are pretty "old" at this point. Also, save for Mario Kart and Animal Crossing, is every Nintendo title still selling well presently? Does Yoshi's Crafted World really have to be $60 in 2024? Pokken Tournament DX?

I agree with him. I'd rather just play as an established character than a silent protagonist. My noncanonical projections of the character will come along as I play the game.

@RadioHedgeFund It goes to show that EA left money on the table not bringing the proper Fifas to Switch.

Project M, you say?

The IDW comics are already canon, so crossover with the comics is certainly possible. Though I'm not the biggest fan of the new character designs (except for Belle the Tinkerer: she fits the universe well), the comic is well-written. Ian Flynn, Evan Stanley, and the other writers have a good handle on the continuity.

Been wanting to play Generations for years. I'm down for this!

Looking forward to this, but cautiously. I enjoyed the original game, but it does have deep design issues. Certain bosses lasted too long, the minecraft and swimming controls were unintuitive, and the tongue zipline sections didn't work properly.

However, I'm glad that they're addressing the lack of map and orchestral soundtrack. Oh yeah, and I bet the current Switch can't run this. I wouldn't be surprised.

@Hydra_Spectre Yep. And if he's cast as Wario, this would be his third Illumination role. He also played Uncle Dan in Migration.

@Synecdoche My counterargument against length is that a book can take several hours to read, but still doesn't sell past $30 in many cases. That said, books likely cost significantly less to make than both movies and games. Still, I don't believe length justifies the high cost of games.

Though I will say in the gaming industry's defense, they don't have a viable theatrical market like the film industry does. The home market is their one shot.

While I don't expect $70 to break consumers, I do think video games are getting too costly. I think it's going to get to the point where people simply will buy less games because they cost too much.

As for my own stance, I always thought video games were too expensive. Barring the rare exception, no piece of entertainment should cost above $30. We have $200 million-budgeted movies being sold for $20-30, or less. And yet, many high-profile games today are being sold for $60-$70.

Are we all forgetting the Year of Sonic back in 2014?

@Chocobo_Shepherd I agree with you regarding Mickey. I'd like to see more of his "everyman" take on the character. Disney has relugated that version of him to their preschool shows..

Got some last rounds in Smash 4 yesterday. Great game. Grateful for the times I got to play it, both online and off.

I love Super Mario Galaxy 2. It has excellent level design and music. It's also my favorite game of all-time!

People look at New Super Mario Bros. 2 and see an unambitious game. And that's what I was thinking too...before I played it. Suffice to say, I think people have overlooked a surprisingly well-designed Mario game because of its art style. It's very underrated.

Nah. Not that I'm against Mario Wonder. But I would like to see a 2D Mario that improves and/or shakes up the formula more. And do a style that's more visually detailed.

Whether it be physical or digital, I want to own the games I purchase. That's one reason why I prefer Virtual Console to Nintendo Switch Online. At no point can Nintendo pull a game from my library that I've purchased, played, and beaten over "licensing issues" or any other reason (Well, not normally, I assume). As long as I hold on to the system, I still have the game. With physical releases, they're better because your games aren't beholden to the platform that they're on.

Switch 2, please have voice chat.

@brandonbwii Touché. I personally don't dislike Yooka-Laylee, but I won't deny that it has multiple problems.

Hopefully it can avoid a Yooka Laylee-esque situation and still make it to the Switch. Otherwise, the game looks pretty neat.

@WaffleRaptor01 Still, other humans have been a part of Sonic's continuity since (at least?) Sonic Adventure. However, the movies have been their own thing, generally devoid of Adventure, 06, and X.

@Vivianeat I defintely feel you. The thing is, while humans are a part of Sonic's lore, the movies mostly don't pull from the source material.

Bring 100-man Mario to 2 before the first game shuts down!

I absolutely blame the price point. It was super cheap this past Black Friday, and I imagine people picked it up around this time.

@rvcolem1 It's a great Sonic show. Lots of action and good storytelling. Though I'm not too big on it being a part of the Sonic canon (Sonic himself acts fairly clueless).

As someone who looked forward to E3 yearly, this is pretty sad news for me. The speculation and hype leading was a fun time. E3 2014 (in Nintendo's case) and E3 2017 (in Microsoft's case) were pretty special. I never did (nor could) attend in-person. But I enjoyed the community excitement over gaming it brought online.

Hopefully the tradition continues from companies individually, like with the Nintendo Direct. But they're under no obligation to go about it in the summer, which is disappointing.

Agreed with @rushiosan. Studio Ghibli makes art. And I don't just mean their beautiful animation. The Zelda movie needs to deliver great storytelling, with atmospheric cinematography, if it wants to be like Studio Ghibli.

But in all honesty? The Zelda movie doesn't need to be Ghibli-esque to be successful. It should give the Zelda fans what they want, and a story good enough for general audiences to engage with (perhaps).

Did this get rid of the speedrunning tech?

I'm curious how Wonder's sales compare to the New series. Those games sell so well, and I feel like the style change for this game is a risk.

Definitely shouldn't being blaming the hardware for this one. Every platform should be able to do 60fps.

Alright, that is downright EVIL to have a Sonic game look that good, only to have it exclusive to Apple Arcade.

Personally, I don't want another game like Ultimate. Do another game with a smaller roster and focus on overall improvements. Like updating veterans' movesets and fleshing out the single player experience.

That's fine by me! Hoping they keep the films and games separate.

For the 3DS hardware, Detective Pikachu was pretty impressive to me. The second game, based on the trailers I've seen, looks far less amicable.

On the games side of Mario, I don't mind much. Watching and playing a game are two different experiences.

I haven't played 2 or 3, but I think offline COM battles are a no-brainer.

Rayman Legends is legitimately phenomenal. Was really suprised at how great it was when I got to play it.

In retrospect, I understand Ubisoft's decision to remove its Wii U exclusivity. A game this well made shouldn't have been stuck on an underperforming platform.

If anyone else here hasn't played it, check it out! It's cheap on Switch now, and well worth the value.

I think Smash largely is the way it is due to Sakurai's remarkable work ethic. I could tell that Smash 4 was a product of blood, sweat, and tears.

However, I also believe Smash can continue under someone else. He has essentially trained multiple studios to helm the franchise after him (Sora, Namco, and maybe even HAL). We'll see!

How did they make Moonview Highway boring? It was chaos with the traffic in the Wii version!