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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.

Like so many others, Niantic seems to believe that if we all ignore CoViD, it will just go away, like Queen Mab in the Merlin series.

Evidently, Demise doesn't speak Dutch.

@contractcooker Including the comments complaining about the predictability of the comments!

trying to think of something witty to say but I'm really out of phrases over here, sorry

I really don't want what has happened to TV shows and movies to happen to video games because they move onto streaming services. It's not great already that sometimes games are released on only one console so you have to buy a specific console to get a certain game, but at least it's understandable; Nintendo are no doubt terrified that if they were to release their first-party games on their competitors' more performant consoles, consumers would just buy them, and destroy Nintendo's console offering. But if streaming services should take over for games, then everyone would be forced to pay for a subscription for a whole bunch of games they didn't care about just to access the ones they do. Consumers already don't have a lot of power in the video games industry; I don't want to lose what little I have.

I was about to complain about the wanton destruction of otherwise potentially upcycle-able or recyclable technology, but it seems that I am such a typical Nintendo Life reader that everyone has got there already. Good job folks.

@westman98 Indeed. My original comment came out much more sarcastic than I intended. I just wanted to express my frustration that the article and many commenters were (as I saw it) excusing the enormous executive pay on the basis that it wasn't as much as others'

That's still far more money than anyone reasonably has any use for. But the fact that this sum is lower than the compensation for the executives of competing companies means that I can still pretend that, as a Nintendo fan, I am morally superior, so I'm sold.

I have a feeling the Steam Deck won't last long. The games which Steam is good for aren't designed with a system that small in mind, and I suspect its performance won't be up to scratch either. If you want to play games which do work well on small screens, I'm willing to bet you'll get a better experience on Switch, which will offer the same games but a more polished console (and for a cheaper price).

Addendum: Wow, this comment section very quickly became a minor brawl. Don't worry, everyone: whichever console does better in the long term, they aren't really competing on a level, so I don't think the success of either will disadvantage the other.

@CrazyOtto Linking to TV Tropes? You heartless fiend, someone will waste their whole weekend on that site now, thanks to you...

@JugOfVoodoo This is really interesting to hear about for me because my first introduction to any sort of unified chronology for the Zelda games was Hyrule Historia. No doubt in a few more games, they will have messed up their own chronology sufficiently that it needs to be rewritten all over again. I think that this will always be the case because Nintendo always seem to design the game first and give it a plot (which may or may not follow from previous plots) afterwards. This creates excellent games, but as a side-effect, it also writes inconsistent chronologies.

Are they duplicating the item duplication glitches? Heh heh heh! hehe... he.

"They're titled, 'Untitled Goose Game', ..."

How ironic!

I had no idea that "blast processing" ever meant anything other than the audio thing — or at least, something to do with audio. That "knowledge" is based on covers of songs with Sega Genesis soundfont that people post on YouTube. Which doesn't make sense in the context of this article. So it looks like I had the right idea, by accident?

@Hissscratch139 you mean lego harry potter right? i played them on the wii, a lot of fun : )

was going to buy this for 3ds but okay never mind

Am I the only one who's freaking because he said "The Link to the Past" instead of "A Link to the Past"

@Dogorilla sorry, that was meant to be a joke. my bad

it's a blatant rip-off of Splatoon

8/10! And to think that this was once a browser game!

it may sound like a contradiction, but
the "suddenly all women like you" trope is seriously overused despite being niche

Obligatory stable/horses based joke

Wow, looks not half bad
(i.e. it's amazing for those of you who aren't accustomed to British subtleties of language)

@Mega_Yarn_Poochy Ye, they could just make one big article...

@enti-social Uhh why?

What happened to the formatting? It went all small.

Incidentally has there been gameplay footage with Link cutting grass yet at all?

@Simbabbad doesn't the word "wholesome" itself imply... unwholesomeness? I mean, I suppose it is your decision how crude you want to go...

@Simbabbad I'm not saying it's illogical, just that it's not very... wholesome? I guess is the word

@Barnacle Nah, it's just that they're blatantly using sex appeal to sell games.

I mean, did anyone actually doubt that Beedle would be in this game? This game is mashing all the elements of previous games together.

@Mellor2000 Congrats, you win "Calllack's post of the day".

For the record, I'm pretty sure that they offered to give the winning characters exclusive costumes, rather than an appearence. Which makes sense since Lyn's already playable.

@Janus1986 Staking huge amounts of money on (pretty much) whether or not the general public thinks a game is "cool", wouldn't you be nervous too?

Damn

Those titles are the real deal though. Nothing beats being a "Polite Knight" xD

@PAppleyard Just want to say, your avatar is pretty funny