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F-Zero is the one I want most, and then Wave Race. I loved 1080° Avalanche on Gamecube so if they made another one, I'd want it to play and feel like that one, more so than the N64 game which i had a much harder time getting into. Excitebike I just don't feel the same nostalgia for, sorry. I did enjoy Excite Truck and Excitebots on Wii though! I loved that Excite Truck let you play your own mp3 music from the SD card in the system.

Look at all the controversies GTA has spurned over the years and it's still one of the best selling franchises of all time. The latest game is several years old and still tops the charts regularly. No worries to be had for Animal Crossing, it will keep selling even after those articles.

Like others, I got used to it eventually. You don't think about it anymore after a while, but then it's when you go back to play any other game on Switch that you have to revert to how you're used to play. I'd rather get the other Dark Souls games on Switch really XD.

For those wondering about price, the page in the article literally lists the price in Polish Zloty, 199. That roughly 44€ at today's current exchange rate so yeah, the price of a full new release, which is to say the price the remastered costed n other platforms the day it came out on those. Yes, it is now much cheaper on other platforms, but it wasn't so out of the gate. Wait long enough and the price will go down on Switch as well. D'huh!

@Low Nintendo's own page lists both a physical and digital release in Europe. It says "Nintendo Switch card" in the details section: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/Burnout-Paradise-Remastered-1748605.html#gameDetails

Had this game for ages. I considered playing it a couple months ago then as usual I played something else instead. I really have to make an effort and give it a chance.

I never knew Charles Martinet's voice was in it though.

Would have preferred Strike the Earth but that one's good too.

I keep hearing people say how ground-breaking it was that a N64 game had a real-time clock built in (because it was originally designed for the 64DD which itself had a built-in clock). Meanwhile I'm unimpressed but rather impressed instead that Pokémon Gold and Silver did it first on the Game Boy, a friggin' 8-bit system! Or for that matter, Far East of Eden Zero did that waaaayyyy before even Pokémon, in 1995, on Super Famicom. So a N64 game doing that is not all that groundbreaking, really.

As much as I want to believe this, a look at the date on my calendar makes me think this has to be a joke, just a day early. Fooled me at first though.

Judging from the video, don't get excited Switch players, there's no way this trailer is taken from the Switch version. This level of graphics at that resolution running at 60FPS is certainly NOT running on Switch. This could be a great game to play on PC though.

Sounds counterproductive to me. If you reduce opening hours, that means those that do want to visit will all have to do it in a reduced time frame, which means more people in the same place within that now limited time frame.

Just a measure to make it look like they're doing something, rather than a real concern on their part. Meh.

I replaced my sticks last year and since i was gonna take my JoyCon apart anyway, I got clear JoyCon replacement shells with coloured buttons and a D-Pad on the left JoyCon. Best mod I ever applied to anything, having that D-Pad makes so much more sense!

The original was cool because it didn't have too many mechanics and yet every level felt fresh. You'd play a simple introductory level, then move on to something that introduces a new element of the physics engine, then a level that's full of bits of wall and dirt and rocks in which it is easy to get yourself stuck, or to render a diamond inaccessible, making completing the level impossible because you need all of them for the exit to open.

I feel like any newer BD game that adds powerup in the mix completely misses the point of what made BD great. You had one joystick and one button to dig or grab on something that's on an adjacent square, and that's it. And the variety came from clever level design that played around with some of the quirks of the physics engine, which by the way for its time was very complex. Rocks would roll off the edge of bricks walls and other rocks they're sitting on top off, but not off titanium wall tiles. Then sometimes a white brick wall could be a "magic" wall which turns into diamonds any rock that falls through it, so long as there's open space under it for those diamonds to spawn. You had firefly enemies that explode when coming in contact with you or the ever growing amoeba (which I would call the "blob" because of the 1986 film, because that's what it reminded of XD).

It's a classic that has sadly faded off the face of the earth in its original incarnation. Worth mentioning too that Boulder Dash had a famous "level editor" called Construction Kit. Long before Super Mario Maker, in 1986, you could create your own Boulder Dash games on computers like the C64 and it was awesome!

He said the word "worry" three times, I think it means something!

Pop'n Twinbee wasn't the last proper shoot ‘em up entry. That title goes to Twinbee Yahoo in the arcades.

I wish for Rayman 4 but Michel Ancel said he'd like to work on that AFTER the relase of Beyond Good & Evil 2 so I guess that rules it out.

A port of Starfox Zero to Switch, finally rid of all the gameplay nonsense.

@Pod The CPU and GPU are one single chip though, so both can't be manufactured in different places. Tegra chips contain both the ARM CPU and the CUDA cores and are not manufactured by NVidia themselves. As far as I'm aware, NVidia are Taiwanese and rely on another Taiwanese company to get their chips made.

The Switch, since day 1, has suffered stock issues mainly, at a time anyway, for lack of supply of the NAND memory it houses, because the same NAND chips were also used by Apple in their iPhone line and both companies would fight over the limited quantity that Foxconn had to work with. Idk if that issue has been resolved since, but it could still be around or maybe now it's a different component that suffers shortages, maybe the LPDDR4 RAM, who knows really. The latter saw a refresh, it's a new model compared to the one used in 1st gen Switch units, maybe they're struggling to make enough of the new revision.

Didn't get it on Wii U despite being tempted loads of times. It should at least meet its relatively low kickstarter goal for a Switch release, then anything above that is more bonus for those that want it at all cost on a different platform. For me, it'll be Switch or nothing though.

I know I shouldn't feel happy that the Switch is getting so many ports of Wii U games, but I did miss out on quite a few of those so I'm more than happy to buy those now. Just got Tokyo Mirage Sessions, and will defo get Wonderful 101 when the time comes.

Too bad, it's P5 I want on Switch, not this "thing". Until such a time, I'll pass. Hyped for SMT5 though btw. I hope it tops both SMT4 titles on 3DS, I loved those.

Child of Light got a physical release in France, bundled with Valiant Hearts: The Great War on one cartridge.

I think a more interesting comparison would be software sales on both platforms. I may be wrong but I think Switch is shifting more software than Wii did, cause lest we forget a lot of casuals only bought the Wii for Wii Sports and then maybe Wii Fit. And those families that had kids probably had Mario Kart Wii on it to appease them. But overall I think Switch games are reaching much higher numbers in general, cause there are more "actual gamers" who have one and appreciate what it can do in terms of core experiences. That's just the way I see it from where I'm standing though. Doesn't make it right.

Would have been great for Pokémon stadium 1 & 2

@Agriculture SE Collective is just a publisher that gives smaller individuals a chance to get their games published, that's all. They're not just smaller games, they're games made by individuals or groups of individuals that have little resources to get their games out there by themselves.

Octahedron on Switch was published by SE Collective and that was a one-man creation that also happened to be absolutely brilliant!

I wonder who the dev is though. For those ports I mean. Can't be Telltale Games, they're defunct. I know some of those guys joined Skybound Entertainment, but not all of them. I hope that means the ports are better than those of the first season. That one had quite a few glitches on Switch that never got fixed.

Why now when they could have released the full physical package of all 4 seasons as they did with the other consoles, months ago. If we did get all seasons physical like PS4 and X1 did, then sure why not, but now, it's too little too late I feel.

Mmmh well the North American version uses art from the PC-Engine version's cover, and that rendition of Richter is more faithful to both what he looks like in the game AND what he looks like now. Artistically speaking the Japanese cover is better, but in terms of representing the game and the character's styles, my vote goes to the North American cover.

Will wait to hear about how well they run and how good they look on switch, but I'm definitely interested. Never played any of the series before.

As long as it looks THIS good on Switch and runs well, that's something I'd put my money behind.

It does everything the Switch does... except switch. lol.

Watched someone play this on Steam a while back, that looked like a lot of fun!

The whole Enix/Quintet trilogy of ARPGs was worth it. I will always have a weakness for Soulblazer.

Themes could make the OG 3DS menu really sluggish. My 3DS has a full 64GB sd card with lots of titles on it, so loading the many title icons + the theme, my 3DS takes about 30 seconds to boot up, and even going back to the home menu from inside a game take a few extra seconds.

I like themes just as much as the next guy, but if you incorporate them as an afterthought instead of giving the system the grunt, right from the start, to handle them without slowing down your OS to a crawl, just... don't bother. The Switch is snappy to wake up from sleep mode and pop into the eShop and stuff, don't bog it down with purely aesthetic stuff. If the Switch needs anything added to its OS, it's functionalities like built-in system-level voice chat, not fundamentally useless bells and whistles.

Well the first thing I thought when seeing the trailer was how it looked or at least made me feel the same way as Hollow Knight, watching it. That may not have been intentional on their part, but the fact remains. And that's a great game to be compared to, so no worries as far as I'm concerned.

@KitsuneNight I just looked up one on ebay, selling for $42, shipping included (from Japan). So not THAT much more expensive, really (except I trust more the build quality of anything Hori builds over anything from Hyperkin).

EDIT: And if you don't believe me (cause I, too, was under the impression that they were more expensive than that): https://www.ebay.com/itm/X1618-Nintendo-64-Hori-Pad-mini-Controller-Yellow-Japan-N64/123934953150?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D61112%26meid%3D5781c02e345444489afd2041176c67ca%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dco%26sd%3D254424292502%26itm%3D123934953150%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

I'm all for physical releases, in fact there are many games I wouldn't want to pay for UNLESS they got a physical release. But I wonder why anyone would want a physical version of Minecraft? The second. you buy it, it's obsolete already cause it's a constantly evolving game with refular updates to content. I'd expect such a game to be the perfect fit for digital only. The world really doesn't make sense sometimes XD.

The fact that Nintendo is denying access to review copies to multiple reviewers who traditionally got the game early with previous releases is certainly not a great show of good faith on their part. They KNOW something is wrong with their game and they don't want too many people telling others the kind of problems their game has even before it goes live.

Maybe this relates to another story from a while back where Amazon France wouldn't carry Nintendo products anymore because Nintendo wouldn't supply them anymore?

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/10/random_nintendo_is_now_refusing_to_offer_stock_to_amazon_france_after_disagreements

Revelations 1 for its RAID mode, classic RE2 for everything else.

Am I the only one ticked off by the COMPLETELY WRONG octagon shape around the sticks? They made it so you can't lock the sticks in a forward, down or sideways position, only at useless angles.

i chose the right time to mod my left JoyCon with a DPad shell then .

Like others I never look down at the controller while I'm holding it. The Wii U Gamepad had that, and I guess there, I would look at the controller more since the friggin thing had a screen on it displaying important info more often than not.

But even there, most of the time I would look at the TV, and not catch the led blinking. And even if I did... so what? I don't want that LED to flash whenever there's something unimportant going on, and if it's something important and it only blinks once or twice I'll miss it of course. So unless it keeps blinking until you do something about it, then it doesn't do much for me. On-screen pop-up messages are more important to me, while I'm playing, and I guess if the console is in sleep mode in the dock then a blinking led on the attached JoyCon-R, then yeah that blue light could be useful to warn of important things happening while the console was alseep.

Just got done playing and streaming the whole trilogy on Switch. Didn't see any mention of Wii in the English localisation at least, in any of the three games or I'd have picked up on it, especially since I was reading all of the text out loud along the way.

Nintendo are kind of obligated to take those steps. If they don't, that'll create a legal precedent. Plus, they waited till it's already out in the open, so their IP is protected but the game is still available to everyone as it will still get shared (just like AM2R, it's not hard at all to find even after it's been taken down).

@Welshland He's probably a WiMAX subscriber (that would make sense anyway, given his lifestyle). So, no, his bill might not be that big since you carry your WiMAX router with you and you can connect as many phones to it as you want with no extra cost. Plus with WiMAX there's no data volume limit since it's basically "home internet that you carry with you everywhere you go".

It always has to be in the US, ALWAYS. No thanks, not paying in customs taxes what I pay for just the card alone.

@mazzel Following up on this, FFX listing showed up on the Japanese eShop in the upcoming games section, and English is listed as a language, so I'll import from Japan .

Worst news ever for me. If it gets an ESRB rating it means the physical release will more than likely be handled by Limited Run which means not only it'll be €10 more than on the eShop, but shipping will be prohibitive and then that's hfty customs taxes to add on top, all because they can't release it in Europe. Guess that means I'll never play it.

@setezerocinco I imported my North American version of Cave Story+ from Play Asia (because it was easier to order from them). Game + Shipping amounted to €32.33 and I still had to pay 27€ in taxes when it arrived, nearly doubling the cost of the game in the process.

I try to avoid Play Asia as much as possible cause here in Belgium they have an habit of always opening packages that come from China, Hong Kong or the US for that matter. I never had to pay any customs taxes for any of the many packages I had delivered from Japan though.

Then if you order with FedEx, UPS or DHL, you not only get those customs taxes to pay, but those private companies have you pay additional administrative costs because they had to pay a guy to open your package and that caused paperwork. I had one package from Play-Asia once for a total value of about €100 that costed me again about €25 in customs taxes and no less than €55 to pay to UPS in administrative fees! I never use those carriers and stick to regular post, they just as fast in my experience and never charged me any extra besides the customs taxes on those occasions when I had to pay something.

@mazzel That's a fair point about checking the eShop listing. Didn't think of that. That actually prompted me to check Amazon jp and see if that brought up any info but no, couldn't find anything. That makes me nervous too because the Japanese PS4 version was Japanese only, both for audio and text. I don't wanna have to pay 100€ total just to import from Asia :/.

EDIT: At least FFXII is confirmed on Amazon JP to have dual audio on it, so it's safe to assume that one would have English text as well as the audio, but I don't have to import that one to have it complete on cart though, so that's useless to me XD.