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Once the RE engine is working well, there is little reason not to bring the whole series of remakes to Switch 2, as it will be a relatively low cost project.

I get sick in some games with first-person perspective. If there is a choice, I would certainly opt to play in third-person.

I can only hope that we are all wrong and Nintendo will show a bunch of new stuff!

I'm almost sure Xbox is leaving the hardware market and, thus, the console market. The next Xbox should be a PC with a Xbox compatible layer, thus capable of running third party stores, such as GOG or Steam. They increased the price of their consoles in Brazil to a point there aren't viable, a Series S is close to the price of a diskless PS5 whereas the Series X is midpoint between PS5 and PS5 Pro. I am waiting the Xbox presentation next month to place my series to sale.

What they are thinking? How many people will pay for a tutorial?

My wife will be very pleased with the inclusion of a headphone jack.

I was planning to replay the Wii U version anyway, I'll just wait a few more months and play the remaster.

Three Houses have a much better story, but I missed the weapon triangle. I would rather have the Three Houses narrative with the combat of Engage.

I don’t think Aonuma cares to keep consistent maps across all games. That said, this map looks like a variation of BtoW before the Calamity, which would make sense as Zelda players are already familiarized with this layout of the land.

I found the good stuff to be really good, but most of the show was fillers. I don't care enough to watch it live, a good recap article the next day is all I need.

Although I found Three Houses' storyline more interesting, I liked Engage more exactly because I found the combat to be more... engaging. They could add a layer of complexity in the combat as an option, although this would require a lot of game design work.

Three Houses' campaign was heavily advertised, and the Academy setting brought familiarity to the public. I had no idea of Engage storyline before playing, perhaps because it was rather weak anyway. Instead, they used nostalgia as the selling point. Not a great idea, considering most Fire Emblem's players have little familiarity with the legacy titles.

As I already knew it was a Partner Direct, it was excellent. I cannot compare it to a Direct in which Nintendo games will be unveiled.

Large environments with incredibly detailed graphics are a formula for big losses. They should rethink their approach to art direction and try something less costly. They can keep Final Fantasy as a technical showdown but go for a more stylized look in other titles.

Dark Horse published quite a few Nintendo related books in English but haven't done lately. Did they lose interest in getting the rights?

Although tis is an official document from the Brazilian regulator, it was posted in 2018. It is very likely the Switch inclusion is nothing more than a clerical error from the regulator or Take Two when submitted the data.

Although I believe he should do whatever he wants, I would rather play a whole original title than an adaptation from another media.

Many of those places are very dangerous. I would rather go to Wuhu Island from Wii Sports Resorts and Wii Fit. If I dared to go in an adventure, I would rather go visit some of the Titans from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Considering Pro would be a weird atribute to a device used for entertainment, I can only think it will be called: Nintendo Switch Amateur, showing it is a console to be loved.

The art style helps Switch to the point the difference, although present, will not be significant while playing the game, as I rarely pay attention to details. I wouldn't mind play in the Switch instead of my PC.

Not great, but not terrible. Except for the original name was actually good.

Although unlikely to happen, I would like to see the Metro trilogy ported to the Switch.

@electrolite77 True, but trust is hard to get and I am one of these guys that keep old consoles and wonder if I will be able to download a game brought 20 years ago.

Unfortunately, I find hard to thrust Nintendo with any digital purchase. I don't even know if they changed with the Switch but the insistence in previous consoles to attach it to consoles left me cold. I would prefer to buy both in cartridges, perhaps if there is enough buzz, Capcom might release a special edition.

I would like to have it. I never minded the motion controls and really loved to play with my hands apart. I found the position much more comfortable than grabbing a gamepad for several hours.

Perhaps we should start writing to Dark Horse, who already published Hyrule History.

I can go with Pachter in the first quote. In the second one, I think he is wrong. Most people that is fond of playing Call of Duty already have a console. If the game is available in generic systems, it will undoubtly attract new players. However, it will definitely not double the audience. Also, he doesn't address the emerging market as a potential grow to dedicated consoles. A box such as the new Apple TV is not as attractive as it doesn't have the full range of services of the American counterpart (I can rent and purchase movies but not TV shows in Brazil). In the other hand, last generation consoles are priced competively with it and can provide gam experiences nearly as fulfilling as the current generation machines.

Perhaps the game needed extra work to be released. However, Nintendo is preserving the franchise at the expense of the Wii U. If the prospects for this holiday season were bad, they became worse. Without Zelda or StarFox to push the sales, the Wii U will be completely dead.

I would love to see Mercury Steam or any new developer take on Metroid. I believe the franchise needs some fresh creative minds working on it to be renewed. At the same time, it would be nice to see a brand new project from Retro outside the Metroid and Donkey Kong series. A new IP would be particularly good.

That's a clever concept but it doesn't seems something Nintendo would do.

My guess is that NOA decided Nintendo is a family brand and thus mature titles will hurt them. It is not much different from the reason why they passed on the opportunity of releasing the Wii's RPG, although they wouldn't hurt the brand they wouldn't either add value as they did not have enough appeal to the general public.

I would love if Nintendo created an imprint to release games, mature or otherwise, that don't fall on NOA narrow idea of what the Nintendo brand should be.

Cool, I wasn't impressed by the E3 trailer. As such, I am glad to know the game might incorporate some novel mechanics and thus be more than it appears.

An animated Mario movie is a non brainer. That said, I am little suspicious on the part that Nintendo would give Sony the license to sell merchandise. This would be probably be almost as valuable as the movie so it makes little sense to me.

Just give me the GCN Virtual Console and I'll be a happy man.

Months after the initial release and with all the hype behind, this went from a must buy to a may rent title. I appreciate that Ubisoft is, at least, giving some bones to the Wii U owners but they are not helping the sales releasing delayed or incomplete games.

I am almost buying a Retron 5. The only thing holding me is that they suggested a few months ago they might include N64 emulation in an upcoming model.

I loved this game. Sadly, because of the Volkswagen's license, it is unlikely it will ever show up on the Virtual Console.

I never finished Doom 64. I was so used to play Doom with the keyboard and mouse that I wasn't able to adapt to the N64's controller.

The only kind of people who have a Wii as a single console and would be interested to play Playstation games are those who are also PC gamers. I am very pleased with my PC and Wii U and, as much as I enjoy some Sony games, I have no interest in purchasing a PS4 as it will not add much to my game experience.

As much as I like Nintendo's new attitude financing exclusive games from 2nd party producers, this particular game seems rather weak. In particular, the graphics are much worse than anything else I've seen on the Wii U.

At least he's very candid about the situation, which is the least I ask from a company such as Ubisoft. I have played Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and I greatly enjoyed them. I just brought Zombie U and I plan to purchase Child of Light and ACIII. If they stop supporting the Wii U, I will certainly miss their games.

I am not sure this will help to sell more consoles but it will definetely be a hit among Nintendo's fans.

@SCAR392 The ps4 and the Xbone have so much memory that it is possible that they will use textures too large to be handled by the Wii U. That said, I have no doubt Treyarch, with enough time and money to work on it, could do a Wii U port that would look closer to the ps4 than to the ps3.

@SCAR392 You misunderstood me. I don't have any other console but a Wii U and I would love to see Activision add more features in the port in the same way Criterion did with Need for Speed.

My argument is that, as the CoD's sales in the Wii U will likely pale compared to the 360 and ps3 versions, Activision has little incentive in spending money to make a better Wii U port. They will use the same code of last year, which is more less in par with the 360 and they will not place any further investment in optimize the engine to the full capacity of the Wii U. As I think Black Ops II's graphics were already good enough, I would rather have the DLC to play over a somewhat better graphic engine.

@SCAR392 I don´t think they will bother to add any new functionality over the 360 version. It will be a cheap port and thus with very little optimization. If it was a choice, I would rather have the dlc.

Perhaps a rent?

Region looking is particularly bad on handhelds. Whenever I am travelling on Europe, I find very annoying to be unable to buy a game to the system I am carrying. The problem is somewhat mitigated by the online shop but Nintendo could be a little more friendly to their travelling customers.

He would have an easier job of convincing me to buy a XBox One if he didn't kind of insulted me first.

I don't think they would ever do it. However, the concept T3 created is actually pretty good.

I am more of a PES fan but I am baffled by EA Sports not supporting the Wii U. It makes so little sense as development wouldn't be too costly and I cannot believe that any previous bitter interactions between EA and Nintendo's executives would be a problem when it is time to make some cash. Particularly because EA has not been doing great for the past few years.

Interesting that there were so many digital sales of games released last year originally only on retail. Perhaps Fire Emblem's higher percentage of downloads is not only the result of retail distribution problems but also a shift towards online shopping.