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Yeah this is competition for a gaming laptop or the highest end steam deck rather than the Switch 2. It's going sit at the most expensive option to play games on the go, though I wonder how long battery will last.

The Game carts are good for consumers as you can lend, trade or sell them on.

They are good for developers as they keep costs down which in theory means they don't have to either charge alot more for a physical on the shelf release or go digital only or go with likes of limited run etc..

In the end its probably only a stop gap on the way to an all digital future. (And before people start shouting that will never happen etc just look at sales figures and PC gaming (Steam etc) consoles are just few steps behind really).

Apart from the obvious heat issue I don't see the point of this.

Cool me and a mate played this game alot when we rented it and an N64s in its launch year. Though neither of us actually bought it when we subsequently got our own n64s. Be nice to go back for an hour or so.

Oh so realism determines a games worth and the game he likes is worth whatever the price it will be in a years time when it comes out (I suspect it will be at least 90 usd then) what nonsense.

The Xbox Series X is now 100 euro more then when I bought it 5 years ago. Mad stuff.

Quite a neat way to lend a mate a digital copy of a game.

I think 14 days is a big short in most cases though would have preferred at least 21 days . Its definitely enough though for a person to decide if they like it.

LRG seem to be the worst. Like this is the entire selling point of them existing and they are messing it up yo cut costs. Like ordering a limited print vinyl record and getting a plastic decorative disk that doesn't do anything and an iTunes voucher.

"Set you back £16.99 / €19.99 — more than double the £7.99 / €9.99"

For Euro and dollar seemingly price it's double plus one cent. Having the headline say "More than double BOTW & TOTK" seems a bit overblown.

Depends very on the game but as a general rule it makes sense to take fall damage and games in general should be challenging which includes taking damage from falls, drowning and lava.

I think after the two ps5 price increases the amount I paid for my original ps5 about 6-9months after launch is now the same as the digital version.

No real issue with the price of console its where i expected it to be but really just knock 10 usd/eur / 8 gbp off those game prices and it would be fine. Should be 60-70 really.

I'm not too fond of when people use accurate descriptions of my faults om me either.

But if the boot fits.

When this eventually comes to NSO I'm hoping the 8 -16 players lan set ups are present but over NSO instead.

@Anti-Matter Double Dash is from the Gamecube era are you saying you have played oi or not?

Bowsers response is basically PR speech saying we plan to support the Switch 1 for some time. It's nowhere near the tone of the infamous Xbox one interview.

Good news for Smash ulimate and upcoming NSO gamecube.

DLC done right is never a bad thing as it gives me more content for games i enjoyed rather than waiting for a sequel and I've no problem paying for same when its decent. I did for last two Snash bros and Mario Kart 8 on Wii U.

Dlc done badly would be dlc that's pointless or was developed as part of the original game development and split off to sake it separately or is on the game and is just a paid unlock code or basically paying to unlock things quicker.

Either is optional though.

So its not tied to your account then rhis seems way better than a code in a box which has been an increasing trend for alot of 3rd parties lately.

I collect most amiibo but I can't name these characters off the top of my head at all. Like theres so many classic street fighter characters that are gaming icons such as entire cast of sf 2 so why these 3 first.

You don't have to pay the store, the transport, the cost of manufacturing the game cart and box for digital. They should have always been cheaper.

I knew game prices had to go up, ps5 and xbox already went up few years ago but thst said it seems 10 euro too much of an increase here in Ireland.

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