SalvorHardin

@Getagrip101
A publicly traded company, wouldn’t intentionally throw away money and years of development on hardware like that . The Wii U was a mistake, just like the early struggles of the 3DS. But unlike the 3DS, they couldn’t course correct to save it and they were already struggling with HD game development so they moved on.
What worked for them in the end was timing. Mobile tech was getting better and better after 2012, and they were able to go to a hybrid design with the Switch. That wasn’t some big plan from the beginning of the Wii U. It was smart thinking. You can still respect Iwata for helping Nintendo through that transition without changing history to pretend that every step was planned.

@Tyranexx
It desperately needs full color for what’s otherwise a cool piece of art, without that color though characters like Dr Doom are just lost in there like one of those magic eye posters.

@JohnnyMind
I don’t even think there’s a major instance of glass scattering on a mobile device causing such an issue or harm that would justify such mandatory out of the box protection and spooking people not to remove the plastic film two times in a row now, despite what this article says these films are almost entirely used on foldable screen type phones.

@Lizuka
It’s a strategy Microsoft has employed since the days of DOS and confirmed in numerous memos and court cases, its an effective and simple to implement tactic especially in the age of things going viral on social media.

@Arawn93
Wind's howling

Lots of FUD lately, reminds me of in 2020 when almost every week there was a new piece of FUD about the PS5 ramping up to its launch, none of it was true but there did appear to be coordinated efforts to spread it.

@Teksette
It’s not that much like Shenmue unfortunately, you’ll get excited over the cutscenes and exploring the city at first but you can get worn down fast by all the non voiced text boxes which make up a massive chunk of the game especially if you choose to do the side quests.

@ear_wig
With these simple looking games I always just assume it’s poor performance as counter intuitive as that sounds, reminds me of Sable and Watertale on PS5 very simple stylish visuals but the framerate absolutely tanks at time.

Surprised I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere but
https://www.nintendo.com/eu/media/downloads/legal_1/information_for_online_retailers_and_distributors/nintendo_switch_20/MXAS_BEE_S_E5G_WWWBooklet1_1.pdf
“ The screen is covered with a film layer designed to prevent fragments scattering in the event of damage.
Do not peel it off.”
So it has a glass screen with a plastic film just like the OLED

He’s not heating up

@Koxen
Well that’s a sign of why of this happening considering how much more a sequel would cost hence why they’ve chosen this route and hoping it will generate enough sales for their next original game.

@Michael0916
Yes one requires you to clog your phone with another app and one doesn’t, reminds me of all the crappy launchers publishers have infested PC games with or games requiring signing up for the publisher’s website for no good reason.

I’d love that instead of Injustice 3 they did a general DC comics fighter designed around capturing the iconic appeal of its characters the way Capcom did with Marvel, comic/animated aesthetic with a new approach to move animations to address their glaring problems in almost all their other games, no edgy story in fact there’s no budget eating cutscene driven story and instead there’s more SP modes that don’t feel like a miserable grind. It’s hard to imagine NRS actually being able to pull it off though.

@pikachupikachup
Lots of devices like phones have magnets these days for wireless charging and compensate in software the effect they have on the magnetometer that the compass uses, there’s no way the sticks would affect the connection they simply aren’t that strong.

@Zorox88
Just imagine the experience for new users if they want to build a certain deck that needs cards from most of the packs, it’s bad now and going by the current rate will be borderline impossible by the end of the year . Either they’ll do something that addresses this or it collapses under its own weight.

Guess they’re gonna do a Prime 4 Samus instead of a reissue of Prime 3 Samus, hopefully it will have option parts for green or purple to make it a good alternative to it, Prime 3 Samus goes for insane amounts on the secondary market like 2 or 3 times more than this Other M ever does.
@Yoshi3
Can’t say I care to look into your positing history but the whole legacy sequel thing it has going on and making the beloved main character weak and useless at times probably has a lot in common with whatever you’re referring to.

@SeaCarp
Don’t worry the price hike isn’t going to the studios it’s going towards the Pitchford’s of the world and execs higher up than him who will continue massive layoffs no matter what, also keep in mind that Randy’s magic trick addiction isn’t going to pay for it’s self so it’s time for true fans to cough up the cash.

Randy needs to set aside the money he’s spending on grease, usb flash drives and subscriptions for magic trick video sites and use it towards hiring a PR handler.

@Krambo42
From what I observed anyone who wanted one could have easily got one within that 24 hours maybe even longer it wasn’t a situation where it sold out everywhere within the first hour, some store’s had absolutely awful setups and couldn’t handle the traffic

@Purgatorium
Yeah it’s this
“ However, we must protect our right to bargain terms and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our members, including those who previously did the work of matching Darth Vader's iconic rhythm and tone in video games.”
But people are starting to get in that backlash against the backlash mindset when it comes to AI so it gets ignored.

Sweeney seems like the type of guy who’d launch a lawsuit against a union while saying he’s a fighting for the rights of all workers by making sure they have less of them,

Reminds me of how the combat in the game just feels like you’re wading through sludge,

@Emacster
They’ve shown patterns of being afraid of titles eating into sales of other ones, even VC/NSO hence why they dole additions to it so slowly and they seem really concerned about making sure MKW doesn’t have any competition outside of Kong, this is why Prime 4 doesn’t have a release date instead of being treated like TP/BOTW, it might not be a system seller but it would still balance out the launch. I’d understand if Prime 4 won’t go gold until the fall but we know they don’t mind hanging onto completed game to slot into their schedule at their leisure.

Maybe it’s just something wonky with the scans but I like the contrast the Western box has way better, on the Japanese box only the blue falcon stands out while the other machines get lost in all the red and orange going on.

That ZL is better eye rolling I doubt anyone who isn’t diehard about this being authentic would complain about it being a mirror of the regular Z button, in fact I think most people would be happy if it had a completely redesigned Z button as it’s awful and unergonomic on a controller that has otherwise great ergonomics, it feels so bad to press with no real feedback that they put that little bump on it so you’ll even know you’re pressing on it instead of the space between it and the trigger.

@Zeebor15
Sweeney would probably fight and appeal them for years and call himself a hero fighting for AI slop and how he’ll settle if they allow Fortnite to be playable on Jone’s tombstone.

This deal is getting worse all the time.

@PikaPhantom
The main issue is that it uses double buffering that means that any time the framerate dips below 60fps it falls back to 30fps or even to 20 or 15, this avoids stuttering and delivers proper frame pacing at the cost of how jarring this back and forth change in fluidity is. Like I’ve mentioned before VRR solves this and hopefully they can implemented on updated Switch 1 games or simply just have it work with all games by default.

@LegendOfStewart
I kinda think the specific mentions of improved framerate are for 30 to 60, the two Zelda’s should have improved performance to keep it out of the double buffered hell where it constantly goes from 60 to 30fps, they could also fix this on at least handheld if it can use VRR to avoid double buffering all together.

People think this about is replacing the Rare designs with more “hip” ones but I think it’s more than that, they’re using those two because they’re too scared of the reaction if they went though with their dream of pushing the movie design elements all over the core Mario cast, they’ve let the success of the movie to go their head and are probably salivating over reshaping the games in it’s image in minor and major way.

Fatality! Not sure what they’ll now with MK as they’re boxed into a corner pretty well, cant see them not trying to pivot away from the mess they were attempting with this one, maybe they’ll finally do another Injustice to give them the time to figure this out.

Link’s face looks like it’s from a bad knockoff compared to the original.

@N00BiSH
I haven’t cared to watch but it doesn’t have a narrative structure?

Sometimes you just need to follow overused current design trends and toss an oversized jacket draping loosely down the arms yet never falls off on a a character that already has a jacket.

@TAndvig
Best thing about them is DF Retro and that’s slowed down to a crawl unfortunately, IGN has probably sunk their claws pretty deep into them now so it’s no surprise same with John’s output even outside of DF Retro being few and far between now, he’s the one you’d want taking about Nintendo compared to Alex (the one with a cheek scar) who smugly acts like he’s above playing anything Nintendo related.

Who gets hyped over hearing anything greasy Randy has to say? Is it just a ego thing where he won’t step aside and let someone else speak for Gearbox?

If it’s true then I’m guessing this is them making a choice due to wanting to wanting the speed of these to match the internal storage, having a larger amount of NAND memory increases speeds and 64GB was the number they kept hitting to achieve it, there could even be bizarre stuff where a 16/32GB option that hits that speed threshold is actually as much if not even more expensive than going with 64GB.

Surprised they didn’t offer a compromise where a game could ship on a slower 16/32GB card and just install to internal/external storage but still require the game card inserted to play, this would be better than key cards but unfortunately publishers are going to like how those are cheaper.

This is a common setting now on phones and laptops and a good one considering how fast they charge these days especially when you don’t worry about charging it past 80% when it starts to dynamically slow down the closer it gets to 100%.
@gwyntendo
This setting will let you abuse it even further without fear.

Let’s imagine that they were never happy with gyro cursors needing to be reset all the time compared to the IR cursor which never had to worry about this because of the sensor bar, let’s imagine that they spent a significant amount of time trying to replicate it without needing a sensor bar but was ultimately judged unfeasible at this time, they already had so much built for this though that they transitioned it using to using a mouse instead. The gyro cursor needing to be reset constantly is exactly the kind of thing that would drive them nuts especially with how it makes Wii ports play worse.

@tiakai92
Metroid Prime Remastered for $40 was and still is the huh moment, Prime 4 not having a release date yet when it could have had a comfy spot at the Switch 2’s launch sheds a lot of light on that though, they simply don’t see much value in the Prime series unfortunately.

Randy’s got grease to buy and it’s probably gone up in price too along with usb flashdrives. Bulletsponge RPG with monkeycheese writing is definitely worth paying 80 bucks for.

Their competition always wants them to innovate just not in the direction of a Wii or DS but in the Wii U and 3DS direction where they hyper fixate on a particular idea that doesn’t resonate with people leading to a bad launch they have to work hard to course correct from like 3DS or an entire failure that can’t be saved like Wii U.

Both games are a load of fun until you hit the QTE esque rocket and minecart levels where it becomes doing exactly what the designer wants or die.

@Regulus6891
Overcompensating and thinking that spamming that somehow equals emotional depth and maturity, remember how the last game had a godawful knockoff of Tony Soprano’s psychiatry and family dynamic? That’s the problem with the whole wacky satire land these games exist in, actual sincerity doesn’t exist and a significant part of the story beats and characters are just bad copies of famous films and tv shows.

Realism is the crippling problem with GTA, I don’t care about individually rendered arm hairs and expensive animation systems that make the controls sluggish thats not the sort of thing that made people like me go nuts for 3 when it released, realism is the also the reason a GTA 7 probably won’t exist.
@Ashunera84
I was a sucker for them for the previous games but I haven’t felt like doing more than quickly skimming through these last two with the sound off. There’s something about returning to Vice City in the present day that does nothing for me and all the graphics in the world can’t change that.

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT
Considering that Dark Souls has done phenomenally well as an multiplatform series there’s no chance of that happening but another DS game is incredibly unlikely anyway with the numbers Elden Ring is doing, I’d rather see them bring back King’s Field the granddaddy of all them all back

Think of how less brown, drab, cover shootery with the slowest texture loading ever seen the 360 era could have have been if not for this “masterpiece”.

How many times does a game get matter of factly revealed like that with nothing else and actually release let alone turn out well?

I gave this a chance downloaded the demo on PS5 and uninstalled it fairly quickly, maybe it’s a terrible demo but I wasn’t impressed, the demo just dumps you into some point into the game above Tatooine with no setup and wows you with incredibly boring cutscenes about some sheriff that are just barely evolved over KOTOR just with shiny graphics and uncanny valley faces with giant eyes.
Why does this feel so much like Respawn’s Jedi games right down to have a cute always present little sidekick that you can order to do things?

The Ryan Davis era of GB was a lot of fun, I’m surprised how long it managed to keep going after losing all the originals.