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They haven't made Mouse Mode work properly yet, then? That's disappointing.

Controls feel better suited to a mouse and keyboard? It's just like miiverse as I remember it then, haha!

That "don't mess with girl game players" is awesome!

I can't believe Team Zombie won because I lost like three-quarters of all the games I played. Just goes to show that my gameplay is a drop in the ocean.

Did they fix the mouse mode problem Felix talked about yet?? That seems pretty core to me.

This guy is so based. Other Nintendo managers should learn by his example! We'd all be much better off.

I don't think Nintendo should be allowed to sue anyone who copies their ideas (so long as they aren't trying to mislead people into buying knockoffs instead of the proper Nintendo games; that's a different ball game), but I do think they should be allowed to gently slap them with a wet cloth for being so unoriginal.

These results are based on people's self-reported buying habits, which I suspect aren't very accurate. I just said that I buy on average two games a year, but I've already bought three this year, plus been gifted one, and bought one as a gift for someone else.

Also, it's called "Sora". Isn't that the name of the protagonist of Kingdom Hearts? What a mistake! /j

@JohnnyC I agree, the “dream sequence” Ganondorf scene is the most memorable

As usual I think the real problem here is anti-customer copyright law. When you buy a digital copy of a game, you should be entitled to access it forever, not just granted a licence to whatever the copyright holder has decided "the game" constitutes at the present moment. Then it would really be a digital copy.

Is anyone else getting an old video with 10-years-younger Alex on this? Wii U era baby! I was a teenager!

I think it's worth remembering that Silksong, while a massive deal in the hardcore gaming community, is not a big release for non-hardcore gamers. It has had little marketing and most ordinary people won't have heard of it and frankly wouldn't be interested even if they knew exactly what it is, since what it is is an excellent game in a niche genre which requires both a high skill level and a great interest in video games as a medium to appreciate. I don't think it's fair to compare Silksong on a level with blockbuster games which will have a much broader appeal.

@Rentaro that's very helpful, thank you

I'm impressed that you can make a Switch game card not fit and then break it so easily! I would've though they'd make it out of something sturdier...

Does this imply that, in Brazil, they have separate ratings for "10 and up" and "12 and up"? That seems pretty strange to me as someone who lives in the UK (where it goes straight from PG to 12 for films and from 7 to 12 for games).

@AlonditeFE huh, yeah, i suppose that it might be mostly men and boys who observe that stigma. id never thought of that before

Just based on the posts I see in the lobby in Splatoon 3, I find it hard to believe that only 35% of Splatoon players are female.

I really hope this playtest turns out to be something super cool like a Nintendo MMORPG or live multiplayer in the non-combat sections of Splatoon (can you imagine Splatsville with actual players wandering around and using the shops like it was Club Penguin? I'd lose my mind)

@wanderwonder I discovered that while looking this up too! Some other fun ones are "Koopa City" for Neo Bowser City and "Wario's Galleon" for Wario's Shipyard.

Got really confused at first and thought this was about Piranha Plant Pipeway from MK7... they could have done with giving it a more different name!

Man, why do "mature" games aimed at adult audiences always have such a focus on dark colours? I'd probably play more of them if they had a more distinct look from one another.

Calling two characters "Elnina" and "Lanino" is genius, especially if they're the weather-themed ones pictured. I've never played a Toby Fox game but I can see why they're so beloved.

His comments about the account make me think Nintendo want you to think of Nintendo as a service rather than a series of separated products, which is certainly interesting. That would also align with the general direction of Nintendo Switch Online as a sort of “Nintendo Prime” gating access to many different services.

Don't have the game yet but I'm a big fan of this. The Mario universe does have enough characters already, and keeping it to just Mario characters help keep a sense of consistency to the worldbuilding.

This is going to sound extremely paranoid, but I can’t help but suspect that stories like these are just marketing to help sell more units… “even thieves want one!”

Why on earth didn’t they stick a settings menu in there which is accessible from the main menu, or even ask the player the first time the game is booted up? Seems like an obvious thing to me. I guess they think young children are their main audience, which makes sense.

@Ulysses on the up side, I think Hugh Grant as Ganondorf would be extremely amusing

I’m glad he’s having a good time—woah! Where’d all this negative sentiment come from? Apparently I haven’t been keeping my fingers on the pulse of public opinion about Mario voice acting. I actually like Afghani’s voices better…

That’s pretty awful. My programmer’s mind is already wondering what the bug is which allowed that to happen. Must be pretty persnickety.

I think in Mario Kart DS, which was my first, the minimum requirement to access the next GP is to gold trophy the previous one, regardless of the number of stars you get, and I've basically continued to pretend I'm playing Mario Kart DS ever since.

One of the replies on BlueSky indicates that there is a Gamecube startup easter egg. Apparently you have to hold the left analogue stick in any direction during the app's bootup

@TownDarling Thank you for this comment because I couldn't understand why this was an accessibility feature until you said that.

Wild to me that this is the biggest issue with OG Switch and they haven't thrown everything at the problem to fix it. Well, I can only hope they've tested it and the issue isn't persisting.

The prospect of seeing what the new Switch looks like in real life did not get me to watch the unboxing, but the prospect of seeing Alex lick an unbearably bitter substance on purpose and then look disgusted did.

@Princess_Lilly Haha, RIPE with great stories! Because it's a farming sim! cough

@Dan420 Thanks for correcting my maths. Well, that's still not too bad.

256 divided by 22 is about 11.6-ish, which is pretty reasonable I think, considering that one is not likely to have more than 11 first-party games installed even over the whole lifetime of the system, unless one is a big collector. And I imagine third-party games (except for third-party AAAs) will be much smaller. So most people might not even need to buy an external storage device at all, which is great and much better than the situation with the old Switch!

I sincerely hope this turns out to be a good game, because conceptually it’s great!

I see this as a response to the contemporary feeling that too many games are being rushed to the "make money" stage without regard for the "make a game" stage, which is interesting

@TrogdorTheBurninator hey offtopic but are you the one who makes those drop-the-price posts on Splatoon? I'm always seeing them haha

I'm not planning to buy it until it's been out for a few months at least. I'm not sure I'll be able to control myself for a whole year but I'm crossing my fingers that the price'll drop a little after a while. There haven't been any Switch 2 games that feel like an absolute must-buy for me yet, although that might change if the June Direct rumour is true!

I'm impressed that they're getting away with using a font so similar to the BARBIE branding

Love that render, it looks so polished!
Anyway, on the subject of the article, I wonder why there are so many games with incompatibilities. I would have thought that Switch 2 was pretty similar to Switch 1 software-wise, but maybe they changed the software stack or the operating system interface a lot.

I actually really like that short hair look for Samus. Wish they'd bring that to a modern game.

I was going to make a comment about unnecessary focus on Samus's skin-tight bodysuit but it looks like this is actually a pretty reasonable amount of effort just to the model to look nice for when you die in-game. So, uh, carry on.

I read "Windows" and before I could stop it, my mind was imagining The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on PC.

> A game incorporating all 9 main movies in the LEGO style is hard to resist, even if it includes sections from The Rise of Skywalker.

apparently the author has something against The Rise of Skywalker...

@Dirty0814 How so? Digital distribution removes the need to develop physical storage media and packaging, as well as the need to ship the physical media to shops and then the need for the purchaser to visit the shop or to order media from the shop. It also makes it easier to copy and generally manipulate data, because it is stored on a device's main storage device and not on a removable medium. And since the production should be cheaper without the need to produce physical media, the game should be cheaper too. Of course, the game is usually not cheaper, and copying it is illegal; but these are because of laws and regulations around who has control of the intellectual property of the game, not the necessary processes of production.

Precisely my thoughts on the matter. Whilst digital distribution is technically better, it's dangerously exploitable under the current power imbalance between consumers and publishers.