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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

I stopped buying Sonic games near launch after Sonic team Racing. Give it a month or so and its at least 40% off.

Maybe they will be adding Virtual Boy, DS and 64DD titles.

Though my monies on Gamecube with that test yoke and the leak about them doing something
with Gamecube controllers.

Be interested to see if can work out how to do DS games with one screen. Maybe a way to link to switchs together with a huge joycon.

@Samalik didn't even know it had 3d games.
Havnt really seen anything past Shinobi 3 and the comic strip it had in Sonic the Comic.

Sega really should do better re releasing collections that aren't just the sane 30 megadrive games.

I've played a fair number of Shinobi games.
Can't say I remember a plot sonmething about evil devil techno ninjas I dunno.
I couldn't tell you if was Ninja Gaiden or Shinobi's plot I'm half remembering.
Great games though but not sure much film potential, for 90% of people it will just be a generic ninja.

The next big announcement (outside of films or museums or theme parks) must be Switch 2.

Question is if they reveal it too soon will the last Xmas for the Switch be sabotaged.

God knows the Wii U was so deep in the hole at that point it didn't matter.

I don't get people complaining that Nintendo has too many lawsuits lately, like theres clearly a connection between the popularity of the Switch and the rise in alleged privacy etc for the Switch ..... ike remember all the Wii U law suits...nope, me neither.

Represent himself .... that never goes well.

Its always been a great bombastic action game particularly with Co-op.

As a main line resident evil game however its just extactly what you don't want it to be.

Nintendo lawyers have put together an argument over the last few years that centres on encryption codes and DMCA's provisions against bypassing DRM.

The argument as far as I'm aware hasn't come before a court yet and so nintendo potentially could be successful if a case ever goes before a judge. All the emulators nintendo have gone after have chosen to settle outside of court rather than having to argue in court.

Makes no difference really a different term like access and that's it. How about actually giving some actual rights, like a minimum licence term, if a paid game goes free to play wshould be refunds for recent purchasess at least etc

@Ogbert yup like you could look at screenshots and simply not know its not advance wars until you see a CO.

Bit too similiar for my liking, they really should have come up with a more unique design.

Have it on Wii U where it stood out but didn't play it too long. Tired it on switch and no interest in it anymore

@Pillowpants totally agree there, I intially checked them out hoping for a bit of a behind the curtain reveal myself and just found it to be generic heard it all before a million times milk toast stuff.

I'm amazed how many people have opinions on patent infringement without knowing anything over the claim. Like Nintendo aren't saying because its the subject of an ongoing legal dispute.
It could be that Palworld is completely innocent or they could be extremely guilty of infringement.
It's interesting Nintendo spent months obviously looking into it and they must think they found something there.
You'd think if just trying to Bury Palworld would have taken a case when it was popular and new.

Without a disk drive or vertical stand.
I paid 500 euro for my ps5 back in early 2021 .
Has disk drive and stand.

Now in 2024 a pro with all that costs me like 930 euro. Just looked up slims disk drive and its 99.99 and stand 29.99.

Could even be a different disk drive that's more pricey for pro but I don't think so.

Controllers had a sneaky price increase too thos week.

Also ps5 game that's been out close to a year is often less pricey physically. The psn store unless its on sale its massively overpriced

@martynstuff
There's alot of people that spend their time complaining Nintendo does nothing except Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.

"Why wont they show love for other series."
Then when nintendo releases likes of Another Code, endless ocean, famicom detective club and advance wars etc they dont buy them and complain they instead wanted Star Fox etc.

Fire Emblem went from almost being cancelled entirely to a big deal for Nintendo. Now its successful people complain it gets too much focus.

I love advance wars but I'd prefer they remake Golden Sun or Warioland. If given another chance

I'm sure if hes inclined to sell them he'd sign them and put them up for a charity auction.

Like there's nothing special about the games themselves they are standard retail ones, he wasn't employed by nintendo until December 2003. Leave the man to enjoy them himself

@Arehexes it's not as important though as a film or audiobook or anime where the performance is the main event.

Gameplay and game design matter so much more..

Sure there some games where voice acting is more important than in others eg the last of us vs Mario, but its not like anyone was buying MGS for her as Naomi.

Basically she wants to be paid like actors are for big films but unlike say RDJ as iron man it's not a selling point to say Jennifer Halle voices a character In this game.⁹

Also soundtracks are not voice acting no matter how awesome they are.

Hale is over inflating her importance here

I agree with her on AI shouldn't sample voices actors to replace them.

I think however she completely overestimates the value of voice acting in the media that is video games.

Like metal gear solid didn't sell that amount due to her voicing naomi for the equivalent
of usd 2,500 today for one of her first jobs.

Like if progammers and development staff aren't getting royalties and they spend way more time and effort making the game a success. Then no way the voice actor in one language is getting them unless they are a massive star that the inclusion of their voice alone will shift way more units.

I wish Nintendo of Europe would get themselves into gear. Always feel they are practically invisible compared to Japan and US.

@Astropez exclusivity deals have always happened in the video game industry and Nintendo were once the kings of it when they had almosttotal market dominance.

Sega consoles died because of poor management decisions. 3rd parties went where the biggest install bases were.

Resident evil and Tomb Raider were on Saturn so wasnt like sony had everything locked up in deals.
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Theres no reson for third parties to keep putting out games on failing systems. Sega was a sinking ship and everybody knew it.
Retailers often didn't bother to stock Saturn's I'm Europe.
Playstations only real competition was the N64 and that was always far behind it in sales.

You give Sony way to much credit for Segas largely self inflicted demise as a console maker.

@Astropez Sega needed no outside help destroying it's console manufacturing.
The various add ons to the megadrive/gensis. Getting too costly too confusing and cannibalising it's own retail shelf space.
Burning fans that bought a 32x.
A disaster of a surprise early Saturn launch that burnt bridges with retailers and developers
The satarns price point.
The notoriously difficult to develop for console.
Sega Japan and Americas infighting.
No sonic game. Abandoning the Saturn and having about a year with no games at all.
That left lots of die hard sega fans been left feeling they had been cheated.
People remember the Dreamcast with nostalgia now. At the time of launch it was looks cool but not buying it for them to abandon it in 2 years when Ps2 arrives.

I never knew Dojo existed before Brawl

Never heard of it wonder if it exists in Europe.

Obviously going to be adverts if no subscription fee otherwise they would shut up shop too, no one makes any entertainment product for free, always something they are getting out of it.

Pokemon tv must have been designed to get more fans into the series so would buy more products. Someone made a call that it wasn't worth the cost of upkeeping it (although it was very strange what seasons were on it, I suspect ones without exclusive streaming rights deals at the time).

Ps4 was 400 euro here and ps5 500 at launch (it actually increased since to 550).switch is 300 oled 365. Its going be between 400-500 unless vry high specs

@johnedwin and do you not remember the disaster Sony had with the Ps3 for its first few years with its insanely high price or that Ps2 waa discontinued by Sony in January 4, 2013

@G_and_Thomas if you are going quote me quote what I actually said which was best selling console.

Also what do you mean even Sony cares about profits of course they do its all they care about same with Microsoft. I never mentioned Sony so no idea why you came to the conclusion I was saying only nintendo cares about profits. If its not a charity its what every company cares about.

If it outsells the PS2 for fans it's a bragging point. For nintendo it's probably a small press release to impress shareholders. They clearly care more about profit then bing the best selling console ever.

@Gavintendo hopefully it works because if it does that's probably best deal you will get for nso.

@Late cheers good to know

Do memberships stack?Could I add it onto my existing 12 months which is probably about half way done

We are collectively over it. It had its 15 minutes of fame but its now irrelevant today. Indie scenes moved on and honestly it will be ulimately forgotten.

Never had much interest outside the initial game. Though I definitely own a few, still a bit sad to see its done.

Hopefully Sonic and Mario can continue on in some form without the Olympics stuff.
My votes for an RPG

If I play a game and really enjoyed it but wanted more in the past it was like this oh maybe it will sell enough for a sequel to come out in 3-5 years.

DLC allows us now go great I enjoyed that game and theres now an option to get another slice of that enjoyment without necceseraily waiting years for a sequel if i really want it. It also keeps developers in work and teams intact between the main releases and helps ensure companies greenlight the sequel if demand was there for dlc.

You of course i judge each individual DLC offering on its own merit including value vs cost of course before deciding to buy it or not.

The market simply isn't the same as was in 90s or 2000s. If a company can't use dlc to cover the additional development time and cost they are just going release base game and that's it or they will go to microtransactions.

If you dont like DLC and will never pay for same thats entirely your call but games arent incomplete without the dlc (barring some shady pratices from bad actors eg characters being on the disk from day one needing a code to unlock).

The base game is the main course and dlc is an optional dessert or as splatoon puts it a side order.

@Edu23XWiiU completely agree 1 had alot of promise but was just a bit bland with where the story went .

@SillyG what are you asking for here a smash bros ulimate version 2 physical release a year later with piranha plant to byleth included and a final version Ulimate Ulimate released a year after that with fighter pack 2s characters ending in Sora?

So you could pay full game price three times total?

If anything smash brothers did dlc correctly.
1-it was developed after the initial game, there wasn't Sora sitting on the cart waiting for a code to unlock him etc
2-its entirely optional, no true endings or massive online advantages were locked behind DLC
3-it offered season passes or individual purchases. If you weren't interested in sone characters no need to actually buy them, though obviously pass saved some money.
4-it kept the game relevant and popular.
5- the price isn't as bad as you think it is.
Dlc is always more expensive as has to cover additional ongoing development.
Here it's 6 euro for a challenger pack there's plenty of games looking for that price or more for a handful of cutfits/skins or ingame currency or early unlock of a particular weapon or mode etc.

@littlegreenbob nah those street fighter 2 different editions came out every year and one less than a year. You got burnt if you bought one only for a much better version to release shortly after. The option was stick with what you had or fork over full price for updates, balances even the ability to both play ss the same characters and sometimes a few extra characters.

It was a much worse situation

@CammyUnofficial I think they have gone down that route of being a niche market for collecters , particularly 4k and blu ray.

There's certain films I basically rebuy once formats changes eg Vhs-DVD - Blu ray-4k
However I've noticed I don't own any separate players anymore. Once consoles ditch a disk drive physical films will suffer.