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I'm mainly nintendo but I've an xbox . Use it for gamepass and some bigger non switch titles.

That said I'm kinda sick of this MS jargon . Clearly they want to be this huge service provider rather than a console maker.
I'd prefer you'd actually go concrete on your consoles and making games.

Yeah that opportunity passed years ago. Sonics had tons of poor games and worse decisions since the megadrive days.
Like even straight forward potential wins like the origins collection were tainted by segas awful decisions, with that chart of what was missing from each version and adding the screen crunched game gear games instead of master system versions.

@arekdougy the other two gameboy games are being sold as part of the castlevania collection. This one was left out as apparently its not considered canon anymore.

People "the roll out of n64 games is too slow", me yup just like in the actual n64 days when releases were few and far between.

No interest in it but this and Metal Gear collection really shows that for all the physical vs digital articles etc there really isn't actually much physical these days

And 99% of nintendo gamers shrugged their shoulders and continued to have zero interest in these competitive scenes until their inevitable next round of scandals are reported.

How on earth did PEGI screw up do badly here, its in the title.

Probably experiencing trouble. At least not releasing it with attitude of who cares if ir worked or not.

@Vexx234 wasn't mad about the action hero ones myself. Horror worked. Honestly I'd prefer all just MK characters or some reps from other fighting games like Street fighter, tekken, soul calbur etc. Maybe not likes of Ryu and Chun li if too violent but say Vega and Akuma etc

Not really excited about these dlc picks myself as very superhero( well villians/anti heroes) focused I'd prefer to see them in an injustice game rather than mortal kombat tbh

Problem is that surely the rest of the Unity board was also in favour of it but only he walks.

Tbh it thought this had already happened with eshop closure which I cared alot more about.
Im not happy about it but im more indifferent at this stage. Only used either systems for one player since switch launched.

I'm not sure why people except Gaming companies to support consoles 7 years + after their replacement unless there's actually money in it for them. Every other product I own seemingly has support abandoned 2-4 years after launching a successor.

I think it's possible we might get this or twilight princess in the last year of the switch.

Capcom wouldn't gain anything from the buy out (other than the money) and would probably clash alot with Microsofts culture. The whole east v west game development cultural clash.
If Microsoft can buy anyone outside the west I'd think It would be Sega.
But in long run it's bad for us the gamers, short term it's more value for gamepass. I really dont want to see any plaform holder have a monopoly or extinction of non indie 3rd parties. When that happens it will be the death of physical games and an increase price for likes of Gamepass

Regardless of the debate of what prices games should be people here really seem to struggle with the difference between a port , a remaster and a remake/reimagining .

@Maxz 100% agree with you. I hate all the nonsense that pops up on while playing my xbox. Achievements are distracting and at times destroy the games atmosphere by popping up.

Sony pays big stacks of cash for exclusive games, Microsoft buys whole studios for exclusives, Nintendo makes them.

Any acquisition or merger of 2 out of the big 3 would be awful

Why on Earth should we be saying Wow. Like we all know acquisitions and merfers however they are aren't for our benefit.

Sure at that point why not just buy Sony and call it a day.

It's a bit silly but yeah cuphead and ori are on it. As is Banjo and goldeneye so yeah fine marketing can call it whatever. Don't really care. Microsoft has been supportive of the switch overall. Sony on other hand refuses cross play.

It was solid not amazing. Very mario focused which while I love mario but would prefer a bit of variety. That said we just got zelda, it's too early for another pokemon . Another code and thousand year where nice.
I've also got to pick up pikmin and I've a backlog with fire emblem

I think saying most people think of Veronica Taylor as the voice really is doing Sarah Natochenny a bit of a disservice she's done the voice for 17 years now. Taylor is the voice I personally associate with Ash because I stopped watching it before the big voice actor change but loads of people that aren't as old as me, including tones of young pokemon fans she would be the only voice they knew for Ash.
They both did great jobs and which you most associate with the role is based on your age really.

Yeah I wouldn't have recognised that as JCVD at all other than it insists it is.
Also while I get the historical story behind this inclusion stop with the celebs. I just want to see palette swapped ninjas beat bloody chunks out of each other with actual voice actors voicing them.

Celebs in general doing work of VAs is a bit like asking a plumber to fix your car.

Could do without distracting celebs ivoices/likenesses in it. Rousey was awful.
Also these kind of celeb promo videos are often a bit cringe . Eg Chris Pratt for the mario movies werid delivery of "stomping.....koopas."

Makes perfect sense remove all the outdated information, future proof it for when switch is finished and cur costs by having one design for every amiibo rather than having the character and the game on the back.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I grew up watching the cartoons as a kid as well but I'll still find it strange he's been Mario in the games (apart from those awful CDi ones) since Mario started making noises so those cartoons are the exception really.

I'm sure at some point the shock factor will wear off ( like solid snake or sonics voices being recast etc) but I doubt there will be anyone as iconic as him in the red cap.

The next Mario Kart is going sound so strange (unless they use old recordings )

Overclocking a modified switch isn't really a feasible solution . The developers really need to make it work running on factory specs which im sure they could have done alot better if they weren't like nah we can leave it at that will do fps and save money they would have spent improving it.

@Not_Soos well its definitely been a period of transition since the switch its not like this is the first time it has happened and of course important Nintendo figures have retired,left the company or sadly passed away. Likes of Howard Lincoln, Howard Phillips, Minoru Arakawa, Gunpei Yokoi ,Hiroshi Yamauchi, then even second parties/affiliates have departed likes of Rare.

If you grew up with them being the faces of the brand etc the likes of Reggie etc coming in at first had same feeling.

Nintendo and its main figures have changed a number of times in my lifetime ( Shigeru Miyamoto been the only constant big presence) and he will leave massive shoes to fill( its not the company is dead or dying its more like going from one era to another.

@Tempestryke he actually voiced mario twice before mario 64. Mario Teaches Typing and Mario's Game Gallery

But main mario games started with 64.

"made his debut as the plumber back when Super Mario 64 launched" eh wasn't he in Mario Teaches Typing back before that.

Going miss him either way, end of an era.

I already have the older HD collection which covers 2 ,3 and I have peace walker which doesn't appear to be in volume 1 on the xbox through 360 backwards compatibility and I've mgs 1 on playstation vita and ps mini.
Not sure I've any reason to buy this at full price.
The pre Solid games are just curiosities to me so I'll be waiting for a big sale

The games older than resident evil 6 so if it just a port it's a ridiculous price even with the switch tax .
Remastered , remakes and ports aren't the same.

I really don't see much of what was updated here while it's interesting to see what was the reception back when it was released, it could do with a proper NSO release review outlining what's aged well, what hasnt, what's changed from the original release and the games legacy or importance to its series etc.

Just too little of interest in today's presentation for me. Like It needed a big brand new announcement to justify itself. We knew about most things before at best It gave them dates.

Like it's mad twilight princess and wind Waker are two of the few Wii U first parties not ported. Just release them with the gamepad stuff removed seems like a no brainer . Surely one of them will be the next zelda release (not counting dlc)

@Serpenterror Mortal Kombat X apart from the opening chapters and some flashbacks os set 25 years after MK9 . Liu Kang is an undead revenant in it since MK9. So nothing wrong with Kenshi having a kid that's now an adult.
The second Sub zero becomes a cyborg in 9 then dies, becomes an undead revenant than is brought back to life in MKX as human same as Jax.
Liu kang being a revenant makes sense too as they actually say all Earth realms warriors souls that die in Shao Kahn invasion go to Netherrealm due to his deal with Quan Chi.
Kung Lao dies before that in outworld so it's unclear when deal was in place but it's a fighting game story's never going be air tight or the focus.
Always going be some retcons (like 9 changed the timeline entirely and 11 is full of time based shenigans and mk1 is another big reboot of the mk unniverse)and always going be endless that character is back from the dead etc been doing that since like MK3 ulimate at least

Also just an observation but the PS vita dropped Oled screens during its lifespan to cut costs and Oled tvs are still more expensive as they are more expensive to produce.

Though I'd hope they don't drop them.

It's all rumours but yeah 2024 makes sense for a launch.

1-Switch will be 7 years old then which is the historical point of replacement for consoles

2- The Switch is struggling from a tech point now as it has become very outdated and multi plats are now moving far beyond it as they now look to focus on series X and ps5 as the development standard. Also even exclusives games like Zelda and Pokemon are fighting against the limitations of the system. (Some doing a much better job than others to work arround them but seems Switch is just at its limit now)

3- Switch sales have been declining. Eventually everyone that really wants a Switch has one so it's good business to create a new product with fresh new demand

4- there has certainly been a user demand for a higher spec machine. Switch Pro, switch 2 etc

@Lightsiyd he's there in the picture tweeted by Ed Boon with his big hat and in the trailers see "Official Gameplay Debut Trailer".
In Liu Kangs new era he's mortal though seemingly still has electric powers

@stinkyx Kronika waa an unplayable boss character only that had no personality and a an uninteresting design, all she was just a plot device. Story has moved on past her and I don't think she's many fans.

They do these discounts alot. Fyi on other systems they are cheaper and have often triple packs discounted for less than the price of two on switch

@Daggot older Millennials (such as myself) were in teens when it launched in 1999. It was popular off the bat (the simpsons connection had everyone interested in it) with people in my school, my friends, team mates and likes of cousins etc. Younger millennials would have grown up with it being on TV. Even if original run ended in 2003 it was repeated alot on likes of Sky etc often paired with the Simpons

Got them from Amazon preorder which is only way I know how to get them now. Since in Ireland and Gamestop closed down here, as did argos although they havnt done amiibo in ages. Smiths don't do amiibo anymore too.

Joy Cons drift folks regardless of how well you take care of them. Got 3 sets and the launch one never have but the marip party ones I used up until oled ones did quite quickly. Nintendo repaired them though been fine since. Oled ones are main ones since and no drift. It's more luck then anything I've mates with launch ones that are their only controllers that are working fine after triple digit hours spent in games. Others who bought new pair experience it within 6-9months.

Isn't that nintendos answer to everything until they have an official announcement in general

Didnt agree with Banjo being better than Mario 64 back in the day and since then Banjo has not held up as much as Mario 64 has

Lay down some sweetPikaTunes

People really are reading far too much into that statement and not taking it as its whole. Would love to doesn't mean it's realistic to do so and then theres the second part which alot of people are ignoring which makes the point Sony has made console competition all about exclusives. Which in fair it has but its in no way going give up that competitive advantage.

Of course Xbox would love a world without exclusives as its very much lacking them and if everything that came out on ps5 was on xbox who would buy a ps5 when you could have them all on xbox plus gamepass.

It's really just saying Xbox is forced play the exclusives game by Sony which is true. Xbox wants to become a games service really with likes of Gamepass

If Nintendo dropped exclusivity that would be absolutely market changing , it would become more like Sega post consoles with the possibility of it only focused on making handheld consoles. Either way not going happen unless something bad happens like 2 wii us in a row

It's all just silly rubbish. Yeah CoD isn't as big on nintendo platforms as likes of PS and Xbox that's true but doesn't mean there's no audience.

Sony is just humiliating themselves at this point begging to stop the deal Pretending that the entirety of the gaming market is CoD focused but ignore the PC market that's magically a separate market and Nintendo doesn't count either cause they like Mario.

Trying to create a niche market of high spec consoles that consists only of Ps and Xbox where everyone is obsessed with CoD to the point that nothing could compete with it ever and ps is the underdog dispite outselling xbox and hoarding exclusive games, dlc and content on ps.

Like they could make CoD exclusive to Xbox and that's evil them using money that way, oh we paid so FF is Playstation exclusive on consoles please applaud us.

So they added Game Gear games groan always clunky and unloved and no master system versions of them to help with screen crunch or additional megadrive ones like spinball,mean bean machine and Sonic 3d. No sonic R or the fighters. No sonic advance.

So basically extra 10 to play as Amy (and knuckles in sonic CD) that's pretty lame and should been in base game all along.

Was more value in sonics gamecube megadrive collection and sonic gems. If they aren't going to upgrade the games throw them all in.