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@JohnnyMind I can tell you haven't used Dolphin before to play GameCube games! I'd say give it a go instead of relying on a random blog post telling you it's not workable without 😃 (spoiler: it works perfectly fine)

@JohnnyMind No, not all emulators work like that. Keep in mind Dolphin has been around for a long, long time, having been around during Gamecube and Wii eras.

@JohnnyMind I looked at comment 14, and I don't get how that bolsters your despise for the stock market? You are conflating the very useful function of an exchange with social behaviour you personally don't agree with.

@Baker1000 I hope not, this is definitely not the website for this kind of information, and it mostly attracts the virtue signallers

@JohnnyMind That is to say, saying that is the economical equivalent of being an anti-vaxer (just because you can't see the benefits doesn't mean there are none)

@JohnnyMind If you think the stock market is glorified betting, then you do not understand the stock market.

@JohnnyMind You despise the stock market? 🤔
Bit of a strong word lol

@Fangleman32 Thanks for posting this! It's been super tiring to scroll past all the Switch 2 rumour articles which just seemed to increase in numbers when there was little else to report on

@LadyCharlie You could've at least answered the guy ( @TheBigK )fully/honestly! While this is just Nintendo doing legal hand washing, unofficial services can absolutely and have formerly been used as attack vectors to one's network. It is made somewhat easier by the fact Pretendo is open source software, which are often a target for slipping in spurious code.

If you are -not- tech savvy, and have misgivings about something tech-related, trust your gut feelings.

@8bit-Man That argument is moot as it holds true for consoles as well - there is no guarantee games (either digital or physical) will be supported by newer devices. Not to mention older consoles eventually break down and supplies dry up - nothing lasts forever.

As an example: if the price changes you can't reasonably move a customer over onto the newly listed item without asking, which would be a case-by-case endeavour. Much easier to cancel everything and assume at least a fraction will come back to (pre)order the game with the new listing

(Much easier to assume incompetence than malice)

Not going to be as exciting as lots of people seem to think: you can only reasonably list an item with the same description etc, if too many changes occur and it's a new listing you cannot (easily and without explicit consumer consent) move existing orders over onto a new item.

They don't have a non-manual process/system in place for this, so the safest and efficient way to deal with this where consumer consent is not required is to cancel the orders.

This is simply an admin and legal case of the original item no longer being available, and though it would make sense to transfer it over to the new 'real' version of the item, Amazon can't do this without explicit customer consent - easier to cancel and refund than going through a more bespoke scenario

Strange to see the skew of people favouring physical over digital to be honest, swapping cartridges seems so 90s

Awesome soundtrack, Eveline Fischer is an amazing composer! Have had this in my MP3 collection for many, many years!

@StAmbrosius Thank you, beat me to it! Read the bit about the name generator which really irked me lol

@T317 I think it's the sheer replayability for starters, there's different farm layouts now, multiplayer was added a long time ago, lots of stuff there that wasn't there on the first go around I'd say

@GravyThief It was conceived as a love letter to Harvest Moon, so yes it's essentially a farming RPG-esque game where you meet the townsfolk and learn more about them while exploring the (pretty vast) map surrounding the town as well! That explanation doesn't really do it justice (there's so much nuance to the game), but yeah if you enjoyed the original Harvest Moons, this has surpassed them and then some

@Deviant-Dork It doesn't matter whether you agree or not lol, that's like disagreeing Ocarina of Time and Chrono Trigger are classics - they just are, and neither your opinion (nor mine) isn't going to change that xD

@Deviant-Dork This game isn't just good, it's one of the greats! As evidenced by how so many years on people still talk about it - it will stand the test of time (like Ocarina of Time and Chrono Trigger for example)

This is a project of passion, and it shows in spades - Eric Barone deserves all good stuff that comes his way, not just for sticking with it when he developed the game but also for the many fantastic updates he's done to support the it after release. 4 of those millions of copies are from me

@Olliemar28 Does it omit Switch sales though? There's no breakdown whatsoever on it 🤔

This list/article seems disingenuous at best when it makes claims of "breakdowns" between each platform and then proceeds to put The Witcher 3 complete edition on here without said breakdown (just one such example). I realise fully this is a Nintendo-biased website, but come on..

I'll be honest, this one is a bit of an odd take!

With the Nintendo premium on lots of games, I'd expect some of this stuff (e.g. cloud saves and online gaming) to be free

Okay this looks legit

Nintendo: take away free music
Also Nintendo: give back a fraction of said music for a price
People, inevitably: "But what this or that OST-.."
Nintendo: "You will own nothing, and you will be happy with what -we- give you. Majora's Mask? Here have some Wave Race"

Right, rant over, time to put on Deku Palace 🤣

Maybe I'm being deliberately obtuse, but this entire thing boggles my mind: if people actually want to play this game it's available right now, no need to wait for a subpar experience on NSO.
I think what's really the case is that people don't actually want this - it was considered a bad game then for a variety of reasons (compared to DKC games at the time, or N64 contemporaries), it hasn't gotten any better with age.
Nintendo isn't stupid, DK64 isn't a headline title so it won't pull people to NSO on its own. Plus they probably know people don't -really- want it.

@Thief For what it's worth I think you're right! I've reported the posts but I think there's a clear moderation bias (I think they'll sooner remove -our- posts which are also against the rules of discussing moderation xD)

@Kriandis Article points out it won't stream

@LadyCharlie Huh, I might have to break out my DS Lite and give these a go then! Chrono Trigger is one of my all-time favourites and I had a lot of fun with The Great Cave Offensive!

@LadyCharlie How would you rate the latter two compared to their SNES counterparts?

@abbyhitter https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ Here you go!

@Arkay It's 49% to 51% - granted 18% of it is 'bad', but you cannot count 'neutral' as 'good' with respect to the question

That is to say, they either (strongly) agree it provides good value, but anything below that reflects neutral or worse

Edit:
Also keep in mind that from the numbers we can glean that sample size differs per question, so not everyone filled in the survey entirely, and let's be honest a sample size of ~7k is very low, especially if compared to some of the others questions

@Arkay Not everyone got this, not everyone cares to fill out 70 questions, and by what metric is 49% 'most' and makes 51% a vocal minority?

@BTB20 Pick any of the systems and find it's a curated list with a select few games! You can't reasonably argue NSO emulation competes with the emulation that's out there? (e.g. you have to pay for not one but two tiers of a subscription to play GameCube- oh wait.)

I don't know about the game trials, are they just demos or full versions? They're not free regardless of course because you pay for the service 🤔

As for subscribing to an online service in order to get a discount on Nintendo premium-priced games... that may or may not be a cost-saving depending how you look at it!

Don't get me wrong by the way, happy owner of a Switch here otherwise, but NSO rubbed me the wrong way from day one - under a lens I just see poor value, and otherwise extortionate practices (my first two points on online multiplayer and cloud saves stand)

NSO is a prime example of a no-value-add solution:

• You get online play << with the amount of money they're turning over I expect this to be free
• You can back up your saves << same as above
• You get access to a select few games via emulation << been emulating since the 90s, your mileage may vary so this one doesn't excite me as a customer but can see how it's a draw for others
• You get access to .. music? << was there to see the advent of MP3s so this one seems odd to be excited about as well

And that's it to my knowledge?

@Overzeal You are mixing different target audiences - the people that would buy a Switch this Christmas after 7 years are not the same people looking forward to the successor. There might be some overlap, but by and large they're different markets.

@nocdaes Not to forget Nintendo charges -extra- for N64 emulation!

@coolioam Imagine calling uBlock Origin, the most ubiquitous adblocker for the last decade+ a wonky workaround. Whether you like it or not, you have a choice in paying for these services, nobody is forcing you.

@coolioam This is false btw, there's addons for this

@OFFICIALMichi Didn't see this because you didn't @ me, but okay I'll bite! I 'hate' this because essentially what people like yourself do is happily give Nintendo validation for what is ostensibly a 'good' deal in NSO:

• Backing up savegames (we should be able to back up our own saves)
• Access to old games (their emulation is sub-par, and they've been drip-feeding for years)
• Music collections (access to their music was almost universal but they're reigning it in because of copyright - is this really an improvement?)

Nintendo is not a charity, we need not 'support' them and we should encourage them to do better if they want our money - reselling old stuff under a guise like this and people happily gobbling it up is just a real shame.

People worried about ads and keeping their screens turned on have clearly been living under a rock for over a decade and not spent 5 minutes setting up Firefox with uBlock and a plugin that allows video playback in the background... this is such a no-value-add service.

No thanks, I'll listen to this stuff for free via my MP3s or on YouTube

Wait, why is everyone super positive about this? They've been hounding music channels on YouTube for this so you have to pay Nintendo to listen to their music, so they can extract more money from you? Bloody hell..

Emulation always seem to stir up a storm.

You have to go through some real mental gymnastics to be opposed to it.

Good, leave games in their own right - wanting more and more from the same entry -is- how you get franchises like Assassin's Creed. (That is to say, you can't be mad about this and hate on long-running franchises at the same time, cake and eat it etc.)

@Theghostofkeithmoon Can't blame you, as it means very little! The Unreal Engine was released with the original Unreal game back in 1998 and has had numerous iterations since then, but it's 'just' that, an engine. Octopath Traveller was made using it, just as for example Tekken 7 was made with it..