It's a budget model. Lack of 3D, and various other cost saving measures. It could go pretty low. It also lacks the extra power and larger size of the current "new" models"

I could see it dropping to 50-60$ in 2018.

@MariOnline

Uh pretty sure 2DS only dropped to 79$ in 2016.

It was 129.99$ when it launched.

Resident Evil 7
Double cross outside Japan
Monster Hunter World Port(Switch is a lot easier to do long hunting sessions on.)

That's what I want. I wouldn't start no to a good RE4 port.

Yeah I have absolutely no idea why it took so long.

Seems fair. I was actually impressed by the graphics especially given the dual screen approach. The backgrounds and some of the effects are quite detailed, while the core stage textures/design and models vary IMO but generally range from decent to good.

Framerate definitely is a bit jittery at times on my N3DS.

And yeah a lot of the games that would fall below the average of 5 don't even get reviews from the vats majority of sites or even at all.

Hey Pikmin probably won't do much for sales but Miitopia could do quite well. It's similar to tomodachi Life and that game was a huge success. Europe in particular loved it and bought well in excess of 2 million copies.

However Dragon Quest XI is going to be the real 2DS XL pusher before Pokémon methinks. Japan is gonna buy a lot of 2DSXL he DQXI come July 29th.

Did 3DS even have voice chat?

....oh yeah heroes of ruin(super disappointing. Like no content...) had it.

That's some quick turnover.

Least it means you won't wait till like 2019 for Yokai Watch 3

I mean it's like they said. It's a fun game it justn't hasn't really wowed them. Sounds like a 7/10 give or take a point depending on the second half of the game and if there is any other content they can't talk about yet.

@Bengals76

Because a 4K handheld would have a barely existent battery life and likely issues with overheating.

Also the price would be absolutely nuts.

This looks incredible and I didn't even like the first game...

@Kayfios

Just a typo

The whole movie in general seems like a pointless, nonsensical boring mess to me really.

Just like almost most Pokémon movies.

"I don't have faith. I have no faith. It's due to experience. I see a similar level of success than they had with previous generations. Wii U, Wii.

When it was pointed out that the Wii was pretty successful, Lanning countered by stating that very few third party publishers actually made any money off the console:

"How successful was it for third parties? By the end of the life of the Wii, who else was making money aside from Nintendo? How many titles sold for the Wii that weren't Nintendo first-party? They started basically evaporating third party support. We get to Wii U - same, no third party support."

Put that goalpost down!

RPG Maker FES DLC when? Blowout blast is cool.

@Giygas_95

2018

Yup

A disapointing Sonic game? Ya don't say?

Man I was hoping for a more general direct.

We need ANYTHING on that multiplayer Kirby 3DS game. Footage of the N3DS version of Fire Emblem Warriors and release dates for Monster Hunter Stories and other games.

Where is the RPG Maker FES DLC? Europe got it right away why do we gotta wait with absolutely no communication about it :/

An oldie but a goodie.

Every time I stumble upon this I crack up laughing at how brutal this review is.

They could do something kinda like adventure mode from Hyrule Warriors.

If someone does you can't use that character anymore. If every character dies you have to restart the whole map.

Althougn they would be wise to make the maps a lot shorter than the adventure ones if they did that...

@memoryman3

Dude....didn't even know you were on this site too.

The real crime is them not asking if there are plans to localize Puzzles and Dragons X.

For shame. Shaaaaaammmmeee.

Leave it to Sega to screw up lol.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE

The list is not exhaustive and is missing.

Runbow Pocket
Lady Layton
Etrian Odyssey V
Culdcept Revolt
Yokai Watch 2 Psychic Specters
Kirby
River City Rival Showdown
RPG Maker FES

As far as retail releases go. That's most of it with my listing. This doesn't include eshop stuff like mighty Gunvolt burst, timespinners or shakedown Hawaii.

Looks fun.

@thesilverbrick

No. We already have radiant Historia and Strange Journey Redux for 2018.

Mighty no 9. Actually good this time edition.

Backer only levels?

Screw that. This whole thing rubs me the wrong way.

I was surprised too but really it had been increasingly clear for awhile 3DS was going to be supported for awhile longer.

Already seeing lots of people online getting offended.

Oh no new customers have a new cheaper option for the benefits of a N3DS(sans 3D but with a charger)

How horrible!

I like the design.

Their approach is flawed but overall reasonable. They likely do not have the resources to get Dev kits and giver proper technical support to the sheer flood of Indie developers wanting to develop and to be frank certain developers I certainly would just pretend I never got their emails(RCMADIAX for example)

Shovelware damaged their reputation

And yeah I do get the point about anonymous. It does drive me nuts when you get "anonymous insiders" and suddenly everyone is losing thier minds online because insert person, group or company is so evil to treat that person that way,

I don't doubt there are some problems here but you gotta be careful with anonymous stories that are only one side of the story.

No doubt this article is already being used to troll on gamefaqs by Linetrix or one of the usual suspects who made the Wii U board one of the most toxic places on that site.

@gatorboi352

Or you could try using your brain.

Mario Kart 8 is a vastly more intensive game that runs at a 60FPS 1080P docked.

Obviously this is a result of laziness, low budget, incompetence or lack of optimization.

150CC.

50CC is too slow to be much fun. 100CC is okay. 150CC is where the real fun is. 200CC once you git gud.

Let's be real though. Olympic Games is not impressive because it's a bunch of glorified sports mini games and you can't really blame them for being given that sort of project. and New Island only gets a bad because everyone loves the SNES game and immediately jumping on the art style despite it fitting with the Yoshi's series(Also the tendency of the internet to label the anything that isn't a 10/10 as the worst thing to ever happen)

Not arguing that either game is amazing but both are average at worst. Hey Pikmin is something a bit more different from other games in its series so it can stand out a little more.

I think we can be confident Hey Pikmin will be a solid game

I am assuming there was some kind of silly legal issue locking this one up.

I just want to point out that Yokai Watch 2 was an outlier in the series. The series was a "fad" to a extent in that it couldn't maintain its mega popularity for long

It did a lot more than the first in Japan and a lot more than the third as well. The first did 1.29 million in Japan. The second did over 3.1 million(in the first game. The third version did another 3 million or so)

But the third dropped to about the same as the first at 1.37 million.

The first Yokai Watch actually has sold faster in Europe than Japan. As of December 31st it's at 700K which is more than first did In Japan in the same length of time after release.

As for America it's somewhere around 400K as of June 10th 2016. Notably slower than Europe but hardly bad. No updates on American sales since.

I ended up not getting YW2 because my backlog at the time and annoyance over preorder exclusive content but I will probably get this enhanced Version.

For the record Capcom is expecting about 2 million copies shipped by march 31st and sellthrough week 1 was around 80%

That figure includes digital sales BTW which are not tracked by media create.

So basically the game is doing more or less as Capcom expected. It's doing less because of it being a G version(4G did about 40% less in Japan compared to 4) and this is also the FIFTH main series Monster Hunter on 3DS and the fourth 4th gen game, That is more than any other system

Considering this is pretty much a early proof of concept looks pretty Ballin

How about you don't bring attention to these losers?

I don't care if people emulate GameCube. Aside from a couple remakes Nintendo isn't currently selling any GC games.

But this is a game that is less than a month old. These guys need to BTFO. Especially f they are making money on it with patreon.

Never played the original but been meaning to so...hyped.

But first things first. Where the **** is my Etrian Odyssey V localization? It's been 8 and a half months with no news...

I would buy all the knights not just the playable ones but all of them.

@Alshain01

Also probably a lot less background/UI junk to run

Switch UI is extremely simple and there are basically no multimedia feartues.

I love little Inferno and world of goo.

O would love a platform that isn't my IPad to play world of Goo on and I don't even have my Wii U plugged in(and won't for some time methinks) so little Inferno is great too.

Yeah that was one of the saddest trailers I have ever seen.

Please stop letting the new(and probably unpaid) interns handle this stuff.

And still no 3DS VC. Been more than 2 months now.

@-Green-

Metacritic user scores are useless because it has absolutely no standards for you to post. You can type one sentence and give a game a zero and get posted almost instantly.

There are literally reviews that reads as follow

"Like the other people giving this game low ratings, I have not played it, nor will I ever. However, I do not like Nintendo so I am giving this a zero. Haha"

"I'm from a Sony fanboy site named a9vg, they say this game is trash, so I give it a 0, since I can't give minus score.
There are so many gamers in a9 has no consoles but still see themselves as Sony fanboy and keep saying that Nintendo is trash."

"Of course it's not a bad game, but all the 10/10 reviews are totally overrated. The game becomes rather repetive after a couple of hours, the console made for this game can't even provide 30fps in the age of 60fps. The graphics look like it's a 2008 game at best, so how the hell can this be 10/10? Especially since we know games like Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2, The Witcher 3, etc. The usual nintendo hype train arrived and probably paid most of the magazine... "

"Horrible game!

Soundtrack: boring ambience and weird classic music, very annoying to listen to and hurts your ears! 0/10
Gameplay: Boring! There are old Atari games more fun than this garbage, absolutely no innovation! 0/10
Graphics/artstyle: This game is so ugly! Looks like a Nintendo 64 game! Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Madden look so much better! 0/10
Story: Link is a boring bland character, and one of the worst characters in video game history. The story is boring and not at all cinematic, unlike Call of Duty and Halo. I fell asleep watching the cutscenes! 0/10
Optimization: Horrible. The game came on this weird card thing instead of a disk which wouldn't work on my Xbox One S or PS4 Pro, so I was forced to play it on this weird thing called the Nintendo Switch. The Switch is an awful children's console that's all clunky and weird, not recommended! The graphics are already terrible, and it has a bad framerate! 0/10 Horrible game!"

Overall score: 0/10! I couldn't recommend this game to anybody! Do yourself a favor and skip this game at all costs! It wouldn't even be worth it if it was free. If you want a fun and better cinematic experience I recommend Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare or Madden NFL 17 for the Xbox One."

Basically there are a ton of troll reviews and people deliberately lowering the score. Look for user reviews in a place with some basic submission standards like gamefaqs.

You don't have the agree that it's the best game ever but giving a game a zero almost always means your opinion is not worth listening to. A game needs to be fundamentally broken and unenjoyable on every level to to garner such a score and being notable below the the general consensus you really need to give a good detailed explanation as to why if you want to be taken seriously instead of going "5/10 it sucks cuz it's overrated"

Thank goodness.

Hopefully I won't have to wade through five pages of RCMADIAX games and horrifically bad pet sims and generic point n clicks to see if any good games are actually on sale in a given week.

Nintendo is going to make it big in the drunk party market.

"Yo man wanna get wasted and play 1-2 Switch?"

"**** I'm down."

Meanwhile at Kemco HQ...

https://i.makeagif.com/media/1-06-2014/oZuNwt.gif

@holygeez03

First game probably sold best on 3DS. At least relative to the pricing and development cost.

Not a single VC release this year for 3DS....where is my Gen 2 VC?

Gen 2 is about to come out in GO...perfect chance.