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Could be a lot worse! Honestly, these two about looks the part as closely as you could reasonably demand.

I'd still argue it could also be a lot better, by not making a live action movie at all, but that's a moot point by now.

Now I'm kind of curious as to what Bandai Namco was making that was so much worse than this.

I find these games rather tacky... but out of compliance with the guidelines? Come on.

The YouTube app on Switch 1 is awful.
They shouldn't bother if it won't be significantly better.
And they shouldn't bother if NSO subscribers don't get to watch it ad-free.

@Coalescence
I'm crossing my fingers as a long time KC Green fan.
He's a funny guy, and hopefully he's suffeciently involved with this to ensure that it isn't just a one-trick pony.

Hopefully development isn't a burning house right now.

Smart move.
They didn't bump up the Wii to 25 million until its third year.
Meaning it only sold 12 million in both 2007 and 2008, where it could have EASILY sold three times that.

This looks really well made!

Looking forward to trying out Mario & Wario. :v

Haha, an AI image even, where we can probably guess part of what was in the prompt.

I'm not too disappointed. I was surprised to see it had a firm date to begin with. Though, it would be nice to still have it this year. :3

Nah, I own both already, and the improvements do not seem that essential to me. The presentation and packaging could also stand to be a bit more bold and whimsical, if they really wanted oldtimers to double dip.

As it stands, I think this is mostly a release for people that might have missed these two gems the first time around, and the ardent fans replaying them so often that it just makes sense to have them on the Switch.

Impressive!
And still no auto-turn for the gyro controls.

Lol. How about don't make your game files enormous, lumbering pieces of trash.

Another nice looking FPS re-release without auto-turn for the gyro controls.
Making me not really care to play it.

Nice games though, these two!

I see the stock split is mentioned already.

Three years ago, NL reported on the stocks split having been approved in Japan, so I purchased stock just a week before it went down.

The liquidity allowed by the split means I have not been disappointed with my investment. :v

@HeadPirate
Evidently they do.
I know myself well enough to know that I'd be holding on the the subscription becuase I'll be playing bits and pieces here and there, and I'd be building up a long list of I-ought-to-play-this as-well.
And before I knew it, it's be just another monthly expense, for having access to tons of content I'd never find time for. And I have plenty of games to play for when I find the time. And most of them are not on GamePass.
But then, I'm likely not the target audience to begin with. I don't play contemporary AAA releases. For those that do, I could see the appeal.

@HeadPirate
Wild! I am genuinely surprised that this many people pay for the service. I looked up that the five billion figure is revenue, not profits, but, that still corresponds to payments from about 25 million subscribers.

@HeadPirate
Well! Color me surprised. I'll admit to having lived with a fairly biased view of it, because I don't use GamePass myself and don't see it as holding real value.

All that money spent on purchasing Activision Blizzard and giving games away almost for free on Game Pass.

Had to come come down to lay-offs and studio closures eventually. Bummer, but also, now these people have been set free once more.

@HammerGalladeBro
I love how specific these complaints get!
We must allow ourselves this.

Amateur hour.

I don't play online, so it doesn't affect me personally, but that's still bogus.

Hehehe, I cought this one doing the rounds on Bluesky, yes.

@Cry_Zero
It looks A LOT better.

@Cry_Zero
8 years ago. I like it, but I never bought it because of the draconian DLC schemes. And I don't agree that Ultimate is better, but of course I will let the people that actually still play Smash decide for themselves what they like.

I wouldn't purchase this manhandled, overpriced retread of Smash 4 even if the update had it running 4K at 120fps.

Reading this feels surreal to me because I haven't heard of any of these names or companies before.

@TrogdorTheBurninator
I kinda would. This is the latest game from the team that made Odyssey, and the NSMB guys just released Wonder a year and a half ago.

We'll probably have to make do with MK World and Prime 4 for a bit, though I do suspect something big, new, and weird to be coming up before the end of the years.

@Ulysses
Yamauchi had been dead for four years by the time Switch 1 launched. Are you sure it's him you're talking about?
Iwata had been dead for two years as well, and wasn't ever head of the hardware design department.

@Spider-Kev
This.
If the same truck suddenly weighs four tons less than twenty minutes earlier, you know when and where this happened.

@KBuckley27
Hardware wasn't finalized until late last year.
What we are buying now is the initial half year of production.
Nintendo are likely opening more production lines as we type this, and they will probably have sold 10 - 15 million units come Christmas.
Will they be sold out this whole time? Maybe, we'll see.
Could they have made MORE? Probably, but we can assume Nintendo to be better at weighing the costs/benefits of doing so than we are.

@branchus
Is it a lot? Kinda.
If it kept up that pace, it would outsell the first Switch before Christmas. But I know, I know, that can't, couldn't, and won't happen. ^^

@KBuckley27
You can only make things so fast, and warehouses are only so big. As long as the boxes keep flowing through the rest of the year, everything is "bon".

Good on them! Establishing a strong base early will be great for both developers and players. :v

I think Nintendo is allowing the wobble on the attached joycons very purposefully.
The first Switch took damage from the torque during extended handheld play, where some players would end up damagin the rails.

If the joycon are allowed to flex bit, without this damaging the internal connector, this could potentional provide both a smoother experience for players with a firm grip, and avoid much of the wear and tear on the system.

@AussieMcBucket
Perhaps they're giving completionists a chance to catch up with listening to this whole thing.
I think they've done it once or twice before when adding a massive OST.

I'd have loved a proper port of this game, along with ports of the sequels that never saw release on Nintendo platforms.

7 was just to sound ~FRESH~ instead of calling another 3DS game "something something 3D".
8 was just because they could do the infinity sign.
64 was because the machine was called the Nintnedo 64.
No other Mario Kart has been numbered.
So this makes sense.

Wait, what?
I just completed the first one and its expansions a month ago, and now there's a sequel? Hallelujah!

I appreciate the work these guys do, but a market driven by aggregated user scores is a silly, hollow market.

What an unnecessary rivalry to even imply.

I play Nintendo systems and PC.
Used to be a SEGA boy, and also be fond of old Atari games, but I've never owned a PlayStation or Xbox.
To be honest, I frequently forget GamePass even exists.

I'd need a wild discount to justify buying something like this.

Love the "Amiga era" aesthetics of the first two games. And I was personally excited about David Brin coming in as a writer on the Dreamcast game.

Hopefully any remakes and new entries maintain what's great about the series. :v

No biggie.
It's only been 12½ years since V, we can wait a bit longer. ^^

Focusing on big hitters instead of discounted shovelware only "fixes" the eShop in that it fixes it in Nintendo's favor.
The Wii U eShop was notorious for always shoving Nintendo's own stawarts in your face, highlighting them before anything else.

Now, that said, Nintendo needed to do SOMETHING about the eShop being cluttered with dodgy little oddities, leading up to the Switch 2. Preparing big eShop releases for launch with the shop looking the way it did must have been disheartening.

I'm sure a custom tweaked version will run great!

I was, however, slightly amused that they showed of a scene in the Switch 2 trailer where a particular effect clearly WASN'T working. But let's see if they get it in order before release. :v

There are a handful of other objective downgrades to both the Switch 1 gamecards in general and now the game key cards for Switch 2, but sure, nice of them to stay on top of this one. ^_^;

Nintendo's peripheral prices are getting out of hand. :-/