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Perhaps they should see to draw some benefit from putting the sites under the gun, like agreeing to not press charges if the site runners donate their libraries to preservation programs. ROMs still live on and wait for the licensing hoopla to get sorted. Or perhaps we need new laws that recognize a unique form of public domain for media preservation since some titles would never get a chance to be resold. It's a sticky mess.

@Agent721
No; in my house we said Ness, because it was pronounceable enough to sound like a term (or character's name). Some people tend to, other's don't. NES landed on being easy enough to pronounce but short enough to spell that neither felt wrong.

On that note, the spelling of such things doesn't feel any less like a name. Which brings your 'surprise' into question. EA, HP, IBM, UPS. The real names still exist, but the abbreviations are so common they carry as recognizable names. AND there is (and has been) discussion because there's always been weight to an official way. My family has always said 'ups' but since that's not what UPS uses, I'm pretty sure we're the only ones.

Not bad. With online you could have a 2 or more players take a different path up the same tower in real time and maybe even open shortcuts if they're willing to co op their skills.

Surprises? Only Tomodachi Life.

This would probably feel most right on the computer.

The pokemon one was alright, once you unlocked everything. I enjoyed the zelda version, one of the best things (prior to coins being straight discounts) to come from the club.

Ooo, if that lead to retailers unable to honor preorders... (does Japan even have preorders?)

These will be huge with the NES/SNES mini.
I wonder if you still have to go through all the usual 8bitdo jumping jacks to get the thing to sync to a system.

I hope I can get a hold of the inkling. It's the only "series" I'm collecting.

Everytime this happens I think of that first season Pokemon episode with Medapod v Medapod.

80 million active PSN users. I note, they didn't specify if they were all in Fortnite. Either way didn't Switch snap up a quarter of that (just for Fortnite) in two days?

How many times do we have to go through this? Nintendo's been devoting less energy into E3, but it's still a major venue to the industry at large. There are consequences for not getting them revved up. Even if the main goal was talking about what's going to close out the year, anything else added now is going to be attacked with 'that's nice, why didn't you say something about it at E3?'

An easy dunk was set up, but kept it classy and threw a 3-pointer.

I wonder if they'll finally gave it a dedicated power button and better mode/sync solution than holding a button combo like a you had to hack it to work.

The others are mostly makeovers, but the new SN30 Pro looks like a SNES controller and a dualshock had a baby. Nothing wrong with that to me, two of my favorite controllers.

Odd they haven't taken aim at the Gamecube controller. Particularly with another Smash on the way.

Does that mean Fox and the gang's Arwings are getting toys?

Okay, why didn't they package both deBlob games?

I need to learn to embrace the dualies. I don't like they nixed the ability to jump for it's dodge though.

Oh I love the SHF Mario, only issue is they didn't build in a way to change his expression. And since he's the same scale as WoN you can add that lines stuff to expand.

Still sad they went with SMB1 scale for their Bowser.

First off, I don't use the portability, and second, their "online" model hasn't garnered good feels about bothering to own a second system, so an extra without the dock has little influence on me.

As an option on the market, I'd like it if it had a charging cable thrown in. It costs way too much for lacking a piece they want $90 for. The color options are cute, but not worth that much. Also, I don't know if they rigged the thing to brick up for being connected to unofficial cables or specifically docks, but we already know they could do it if the mood strikes.

When Nintendo arranges these things like this, half the time I feel like they're just lazy and pay zero attention to their customers, and the other half I feel they want you to think they (a market leader) are a mom and pop doing the best they can. I don't know which is more insulting.

It's bad for homebrewers who just wanted to tweak or invent, but no reason to lose sleep from outright hackers.

Egglia? I don't know what that is. Except clearly slathered with Brownie Brown's flavor of adorable fantasy.

My interest is piqued, but I want to know what it looks like while pushing buttons.

Oh yeah, that. Design looks like 1 part Megaman, 1/2 part X. Are there actually moving pictures around yet? Otherwise I can't really care yet.

@PigmaskFan IIRC Cranky is the original and DK is his grandson.

I could totally see an anime (there's already a manga) but my heart of hearts would be down for something new built off of Splatoon.

Given Splatoon style you wouldn't even need huge numbers: maybe 6 or so teams in a big round area. Instead of being fixed (read: containable) team bases would be hovering pads rotating over the field, but you have to jump down to ink anything. After x-minutes, either the least successful teams or players who were splatted too often are knocked out; survivors are given 30 seconds to change up their gear before being shipped to a smaller location; fewer teams reassigned; rinse-repeat until it's one turf war between two teams.

Wow, that is very interesting. Too bad north america will never see it. If only there was some place where Nintendo could offer such an item to fans who like interesting Nintendo stuff. A 'Club' if you will.

looks good, I thought I recognized the art style.

I wouldn't mind full version of DKC: the banana wars, but I'd also love these being skins for Smash. And lore wise, you're technically playing as Cranky and DK's father.

Actually I played Celeste until I beat the B-sides.

So glad April Fools was on the weekend this year, so I could avoid the internet.

@DarkKirby Because Nintendo realized people weren't buying their official products. It wasn't problem before because Nintendo didn't expect there to be a soft spot in their market share.

If it's not against the law to diss the specs, it is tremendously scummy. BUT I am not surprised Nintendo found a way to sell that they were using a standard port and STILL enforce proprietary equipment.
Say it with me: Because NINTENDO!

Assuming this is a unintended issue of spec changes not playing well with unofficial stuff this is unfortunate. (Then again, this COULD be a carefully designed attack to stifle competition. "Look how generous we are, aren't we sweet? Oh noes! That unofficial garbage that costs a fraction of our version is messing up your fun times? Tsk. If only you had paid up like a good little gamer.)

Setting aside Nintendo's hard on for proprietary control over everything, the heart of the problem is Nintendo is unwilling to not make a profit on anything. Even extras that only a fraction of their user base will partake in. When they're sure people will want it, they charge through the nose. When they aren't, they stifle supply so as little lingers on shelves as possible. That's the only reason I assume the NES/SNES mini/Amiibo issues could have at least started as legit underestimates. If Ninty was completely confident in them, they would have charged four times the price. "What about AFTER they knew those things were hits?" By then the price was already locked in and they couldn't price accordingly. However, keeping the stocks down creates a desperate environment that guarantees sales.

Good, the world needs a reintroduction to Nintendo's sassy pirate before we bring her to Smash. Or vice versa

That would be nice, especially if they can clean up the docked vs undocked issues.

Very LttP with a dash of original Zelda's stabbing for your basic attack. Looks good, sounds good. I'm in.

Good ol' Nintendo's online services. They'll iron this out by the time I'm 70. And when the gamers of that age argue why are they still implementing a service on the old web, they'll reply the hypernet is just a fad and it won't go anywhere.

Very nice.

I really wish I knew what was their formula was for which nendos get elbows and knees and which only get swappable limbs. Overwatch has them, but not Zelda. Marvel/DC does, but not most anime.

You are describing the what you thought the "kissing" was when less than a minute ago a between screen info described it as exactly like that. The internet has tainted your mind.

Very nice. I have a SN30 and while it felt good, it was too lacking for general use on Switch. My only actual dislike was 8bitdo 'hid' the on/off and mode selection with button combos instead of a dedicated controls. Looking over the manual the pro model still does it, but seems to lock into the mode of choice, so it's at least less of a hassle.

Picked this up when it was featured as one of the few games MyNintendo offered that I didn't already own. This would've been the time to clean things up, but I guess that is all for naught.

Nintendo did a great job with the roll out this time. It's funny how sparce we all whined it'd be, but it actually felt great and kept the energy up.

On the other hand, Switch still has a lot of older ports, even some of the big first party flagship titles.

I always thought of this under the hood stuff as a different intent from playthrough speed running. I mean, there's sequence breaking and playing off glitches, but this is more of a 'checkout this cool thing we can do'. The fact he speedran a glitch take is impressive.

Lord, I hope they won't ape EA or Ubisoft. I've long thought Nintendo is at times behind in the times from other companies (like embracing the internet and such) so that would be my personal 'be careful what you wish for' nightmare scenario because when they are being creative they hold on to it way past it's prime (like motion controls)

Sonic Mania was such a departure of how they do things that it's hard to presume the actual Sonic Team is able to measure up.

This is awesome for people who never encountered it, but as a Wii U owner, I always feel a little weird getting a game I could easily queue up on my other system.

I agree for the most part. 4K is still very limited. Way too soon to explore in products. Most they'd do right now is eye-ball what they'd need under the hood to do it.
VR's a different matter. The tech isn't quite there (though a more powerful Switch would be the cleanest way to implement it) and it's place in the market isn't exactly the next sure thing in game media.

I'd love for ANYTHING physical to return to the store. The only things they have are backgrounds, and codes for games I don't want because I either already own them, didn't want them, or was kinda on the fence but was willing to go without. Even with points expiring, I only got two titles from the third group, and that was back in the Club Nintendo days.

I'm like it far more than the art on the Sun & Moon cartoon.

I'm actually more nostalgic for the grey one (my main) but I learned to have good times with the autobomb and tentamissles from the single player.