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Here in Ireland it's up for preorder now for 90 euro which is a few cent short of 100 usd

Ps5 and Xbox series X already reached these heights about 2 or 3 years ago where I live.

I can see why they did it to prevent scaplers buying up the Japanese stock for resale elsewhere. The Yen has been weak since at least 2020, salaries just dont go up often in Japan and its their home market.

Anyone know if the japanese physical games are region locked?

Not that I like price hikes on games but I'm a bit confused by the attitude some folk have that games should be bigger, better, longer and look amazing but still cost what they did in 2017. With everything else more expensive it was also going happen.

Also digital games should have always been cheaper to their physical versions as they don't have as much cost yet all 3 of the big console makers priced them the same outside of sakes.

Maybe it streams to the new Dock while in handheld mode.

Did people think the switch 1 would just disappear entirely the second they announced the switch 2. Like backwards compatibility and huge install base means it will be arround for the bulk of a year surely.

These Vouchers could actually save a good amount if picked the more expense options like Tears of the Kingdom

Oh s proper wireless gamecube controller I'll take 4. Bring on the double dash and melee.

It's just a horrendous mess of currencies at this point. Gold bars, stop watches, gold hourglasses, purple hourglassess, blue hour glasses , hearts, blue tokens, green tokens, shinedust, tickets, premium tickets, event tickets, individualpack points for each set....

@Axecon that and Nintendo straight up owns a third of the Pokemon Company and an unknown share in Creatues one of the other 2 owners.

Possibly the least excited I've ever been watching one just a whole lot of underwhelming nothing announcements for the mobile games followed by a mildly interest trailer with a vague far off release date.
Very unimpressed with 90% of it , got most excited when I thought Ruby and Saphire were about to be released on NSO only for it to be a champions May and Brendan release for Masters...

In Japan companies are reluctant to increase prices as the public is very price focused. However the increased cost of manufacturing etc has lead to companies having no other choice in recent years,so you will often see on news public explanations and apologies by companies when they have to increase the price even when the increase is minor.

Like firered and leafgreen was 2004 and heartgold and soul silver 2009 so remakes of these remakes are justified in my opinion.

Black & White was 2010 and b&w 2 was 2012. A combined remake of these games would be good too.

"(you'll find all EUR savings on the respective eShops)." Would it be so hard to show both

Better not just be 30 minutes of mobile games like cafe and sleep..

I believe it was 5% for digital and 1% for physical. So was handy thar once in a while you'd have 10-15 there.(mostly go physical for switch).

Hoping switch 2 gets its own reward system.

The games about 8 years too late like Pops aren't big snymore and the whole toys to life look the game had is very dated

I wish you showerf the European one too was looking forward to seeing lyat wars on it

The gamestop jab floored me , well done.

If you don't want something don't buy it simple as that, no problem.

But don't confuse your opinions for fact.

I had a megadrive when I was much younger, I personally prefer the all stars racing approach over team sonic where its just sonic characters as I get to see characters all throughout Segas history, some of which rarely appear these days but the n ew shinobi means there's hope for some.

Why does Sony think that every Ps2 ever produced was a sale. Surely console must have had some kinda failure rate even if very low percentage of units. There surely would be units produced that weren't sold but rather replaced a faulty unit etc

No surprise, I don't know why people can't understand that nintendo is protective of its IP as its basically the thing their business is entirely based on sure its the thing that kept the Switch selling.

If you can get Mario, Zelda, Pokemon and few others elsewhere nintendo goes under. So they are never going let anything potentially slide just in case it has a dominio effect of weakening their protection.

Wasnt much surprising about ps4 or ps5. Think ps3 biggest surprise was the price too.
Like why does nintendo get flak for no surprises, no creative new idea when microsoft and Sony aren't coming up with anything new or exciting.

Two currncies to trade is daft. Like seriously what a load of trubbish

Convenience trumps all. We can all post here how we all try to buy physical games but if you're commenting on a gaming website you are more a gaming enthusiast than our typical Joe public gamer.

I think realistically ps6 will ditch physical games and that will start the true endgame of physical gaming just like on the PC

Please not another sign in style account to play games.

A Sega subscription service hmmm is this why that megadrive collection was delisted as well as a load of backwards compatibility sega games on Xbox and some Dreamcast games were also even delisted off steam there in December.

Frankly I can't see myself paying for segas version of the nso. I've got the two mini megadrives and a few sega collections already on various consoles.
They have milked everything out of those megadrive games at this stage.

He seems a better fit for Soul Caliber tbh

@Jappio I suspect you are right. Even for Ps5 upgrades aren't common

Nintendo is pretty good for backwards compatibility particularly with its portable hardware.

Wii played Gamecube and wii u played Wii too so definitely was expecting unless switch 2 turned out to be something completely different, I dunno like an Oculus

Probably dipped because the Switch 2 doesn't travel through time or whatever unrealistic nonsense they thought it could possibly do before it was revealed

Switch 2 is a bit of a boring name but it's very clear name, nintendo obviously learned from the Wii U.

Yeah people here thinking Nintendo is doing this to stop the small active wii u username 8 years on, like really?

It's Nintendo covering themselves legally by warning people off. It's a if its bricks we warned you so dont come crying to us, message.

@stephanxliko could be because Ireland is in the EU but not part of the Schemgen area. UK is of course not in EU anymore so could be the logistics of supplying a non schengan country and a non EU country.

Plus there's no actual specialist games stores left in Ireland to supply. Game left ages ago and Gamespot left more recently. Smyths toys is basically the biggest game store" now. Some other electronics places do games but very limited selections

Metroid Dread, Mario Odyssey, Smash bros ulimate and Fire emblem three houses are definite switch games for me

@Steel76 definitely those giant boxes were things of beauty. After that pc games in cd and dvd cases only looked awful in comparison

Games will be all digital sooner or later. My bet is one more console generation and physical games won't be a thing. There's only like 3 stores [2 of which have very limited selections) and amazon I can go to for physical games.

It's a shame but there's some perks to digital games too.
-Generally available for longer
-Sale reductions tend to be far better throughout the year
-they require huge physical storage space
-disc or cart can't be broken or lost
-ease of access to play.

Bad side is the online stores would be a monopoly, prices don't reflect as much as a saving as they should need for more memory , no second hand marker and big one is if the ecosystem goes down .

Hes an awful person so whatever he does he ain't getting a cent from me.

In fairness every time I go to the cinema these days even on a recently released film the screening is only about 40% full. Doesn't make sense to keep in cinemas only now for too long

I think people saying you will never stop all pirates so why try are missing the point.
Nintendo has to come down hard on the big ones that actually cost it sales.
These are the ones that break the unwritten rules, of course Nintendo don't come after everyone that emulates a Snes game but providing access or tools for free switch games costs Nintendo. Another rule seems to be if you charge money then Nintendo comes after you.

As a company they have to protect their products and also their ip otherwise they potentially could lose some of it.

There's no real harm in owning a copy of a game and using a rom to play it in better performance but that's not what's going be the majority. If new Nintendo games are available for free people will stop buying them.

The some of these would never buy arguments are silly too. Nintendo not a charity or a right. It devalues their games and leads to others purchasers going so why am I paying so if its so easy to pirate it.

Palworld is a big ripoff so I've no sympathy for them and they are backed by Sony.

I honestly think it's a lawsuit to stop Sony having a pokemon rip off .

I assume holding off firstly for when theres no big pokemon release coming up and secondly because the second they release a proper pokemon game on NSO people will want it to be compatible with both stadiums but also Scarlet and Violet (or whatevers newest switch game before it) etc so they can move pokemon to newest games.

They would be alot better off trying to bring Gamepass to Switch 2 then making their own

I believe the Switch is slightly cheaper here now than on launch but theres also now alot of decent bundle offers.

The other two consoles have gone up by cost of a brand new switch game since their launch and decent bundles are rare and often time limited.

So I don't see a cut beyond the November sales offer until switch 2 is on shelves.

Why would this Legal analyst have access to the submissions of both sides to the court. I suspect there's alot of guess work and assumptions doing the heavy lifting in his article.

Cool I'm always in favour of backwards compatibility myself although people here always overhyped it's importance saying it's essential etc for the success of the new console however it actually never is as only a small fraction ever use it when you look into stats on it, plus ps4 sales weren't damaged by it's lack of it.

Its always a nice bonus for us with big backlogs.

Yeah a game that makes its money on random packs being bought is going to have sure fire way to ensure you get better cards.......sure that makes sense....its all just random they have the stats or the rates right there if you want to see them.

Most remsining Wii U exclusives aren't likely to leave the console. I love Nintendo and Game & Wario but they seem too Wii U based to be ported easily. (Putting aside Zelda games that will be back at some time)

Starfox zero could still be ported minus the unusual controls . I'd love Nes remix to make it's way to switch from Wii U/3ds same as pullblox/pushimo.

Likes of Smash for Wii U, Paper Mario, Mario party, tennis, Sonic and Mario and Splatoon aren't likely getting Switch ports as have sequels out.

Seems Switch has just about entirely consumed the best parts of wii us library.

You give up hope and then 10 months later out of the blue nintendo surprise you.

@Serpenterror Older Mortal kombat games havnt been re released since 2011 bsck on 360 and ps3 at this stage .

I'd love him to another Kid Icarus or have a crack at StarTropics