SalvorHardin

Yay more time for them to center the game around milking players for every last buck using analytics from GTAO and other live service ****holes.

@Znake
That’s a massive hurdle just look at Yooka-Laylee it was true to the game design and feel of Banjo to it’s deterrent, at it’s core it’s Mario 64 without fun movement options which kills it, in both Banjo and YL you feel like you’re moving around a 3D cursor rather than something dynamic and this got exposed hard by launching the same year as Odyssey, so what’s Banjo beyond that other than it’s very 90’s big eyed CG aesthetic and nursery rhyme music?

One has to wonder if the real reason for it’s prolonged development is that they kept thinking Switch 2 was right around the corner and felt they had to launch near it to recreate the success the original had by coming out fairly early into Switch 1’s life, it was pretty much the king of indies on the 2018 eshop.

@Keyblade-Dan
What you’re telling me you aren’t excited to play a game by a studio that’s had most of its key talent gutted working on a series that’s very far removed from their style of character action that’s focusing on some generic create a character looking protagonist instead of Ryu 🙃

@IronMan30
Wouldn’t surprise me if Nintendo has failed at properly implementing a way for them to do what they’re doing when it comes to upgrade paths or there’s something in the terms of doing so that they don’t like.

@Bigmanfan
Don’t know anything about that game but does it have a lot of video files? If so that’s why especially if they’re 4K, 60fps or both.
@Anti-Matter
Switch 2 has hardware decompression like PS5 so most devs will want to use it but it can’t do much to further compress video and audio files.

@RupeeClock
“ Defendant linked directly to prod. keys, which is also trafficking in circumvention technology.”
I’d have to over more of that paperwork but this is a major reason why.

“ but if it's anything like the games there'll be a lot of driving, Ferrari, and catchy music.”
Well it’s Micheal Bay so it will mock people who expected it to be like that.

Heaping on a bunch of GRAPHICS while keeping the same godawful weightless game feel and combat would truly be something, having a big pretty world to explore that looked like the LOTR films was novel back in 2006 but other than nostalgia sales it’s not enough to carry it now.

@Mabelissimo
You mean DLSS frame gen? It’s similar to motion smoothing in that it’s frame interpolation but with significantly less input latency. If you mean the normal DLSS it’s going to be superior at reducing blur during motion than TAA or FSR especially when the internal resolution is sub 1080 or 720

@swoose
Yeah 8 had a submenu for the few characters that had costumes this is them trying to use a massive character select screen with lots of pages as marketing to the crowd that think bloat like that is a positive sign of where your 80 bucks is going, the crowd that thinks a game being 50 or even 20GB is a negative because it must mean less or inferior content.

It being NVIDIA G-SYNC and only that would be a problem not sure how many TVs support it, the norm for them is AMD’s Freesync and HDMI Forum VRR so if those aren’t available at launch I can see why they might just not have VRR on TVs at all until a update adds them.
@TrueBlueYoshi
A TV will set its frame rate automatically to match the current frame rate of a a game as opposed to VSync where when the frame rate dips the current frame is held for uneven amounts of time which is otherwise known as stutter or judder.

@MangoMahn
It’s just streaming video much like remote play, think of how split screen renders two or more instances of the game at the same time but with gameshare Switch 2 streams over the second instance to another Switch.

@Zyph
Yes a electropermanent magnet, an electromagnet would constantly drain power even while docked in standby so it’s very unlikely using that, electropermanent on the other hands lets them have a very strong magnetic connection while being able to easily break it with the release button, if they had just used a powerful regular magnet people would end up throwing their hand into things or even throwing the joycon due to the force required to break a strong connection like that.

@Erigen
It’s shocking how flavorless this looks, just incredibly bland and 2007 era Unreal Engine 3 looking.
@LikelySatan
Demonstrates how whatever the mouse concept is If this is how they wanted to sell us on it, Wii Sports this most certainly isn’t. I stand by my thinking that the mouse was thrown in to placate the old guard who might have pushed back on Switch 2 being iterative.

@speed_loafer
They could have improved performance on Switch 1’s eshop they’ve just chosen not to and instead use it as a bullet point for Switch 1. Very reminiscent of what happened on PS3, it had a smooth but simple store then in 2012 when PS4 was right around the corner they replaced it with one with even worse performance then the Switch 1’s eshop.

Obviously they don’t want Master Cycle Zero as a default out of the box experience, TOTK not having an true equivalent to it it was a huge letdown especially considering how annoying wheeled creations are to drive around.

How often has a dev said something like and it actually lead to anything?

@Yoshi3
This probably just means the size and scope of it compared to Odyssey where a lot of the worlds are deceptively small.

@Kanbei
A big chunk of the cast of the game look like they were designed with the character creator and instead of the work of a modeler working from the ground up, seems very obvious with her unfortunately.

You can tell the designers strongly disagree with having to go this route given their love of the GameCube controller.
@Shepdawg1
Other than making GameCube NSO that feature them a mess requiring janky workarounds and making it a pain in the ass for 3rd party devs especially racing game devs.

@Jhena
Yeah I say they think too highly of the lore and story of these games instead of embracing that BOTW was successful because it ditched being slapped in the face with the story constantly, TOTK goes back on this with how often you are told and shown the same events and details of the imprisoning war which makes me not keen to have it as the sole setting for a HW.

@The-Chosen-one
People will gladly pony up that much money and expect not to be nickel-and-dimed, only to be met with the harsh reality that Take-Two has over a decade of analytics showing them exactly how to manipulate players for every last cent. GTA Online literally sends you spam calls and texts in-game telling you to buy things and it repeats this every time you launch the game until you cave.

Unless they’ve somehow figured out how to make character movement fun and combat something more than mindless lock-on spam, I’ll probably skip it, no matter how crazy the zeitgeist gets. GTA V dragging on this long without a sequel and being milked through endless ports has just made the whole thing age like milk to me. And that’s not even getting into the story, which has aged even worse with its knockoff Tony Soprano family dynamic.

@Specters
They realized the hunger for a real uncle that works at Nintendo and are milking it for all it’s worth.

Sure wanna bet?

Pretty tone deaf of them not to immediately announce that the team behind the best selling 3D Mario game is behind this if that is the case, are they maybe worried about upsetting people over them working on this instead of a new Mario similar to what happened when Tropical Freeze was announced?

Hardware decompression helps with this just look at PS5 vs PS4 game sizes, Cyberpunk at least when it first released on PS5 was 55GB vs 99GB on PS4, because this decompression is hardware accelerated it actually increases data throughput resulting in faster load times.

Yeah your wallet is going to be saying wow too.

HD rumble at least for Switch 1 and the iPhone’s Taptic Engine use linear resonant actuators and Dualsense uses voice coil actuators, this quotes make me think they’ve using a VCA or something similar as it would give the stronger vibrations and response times he mentions.
“ However, the HD Rumble 2 that’s installed this time not only provides stronger vibration, but also feels more realistic and has quicker response times. ”

@JohnnyMind
Nintendo and its developers aren’t really facing those difficulties in any significant sense, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. Their success has led them to push these pricing strategies simply because they believe they can get away with it due to the massive successes they have enjoyed with ease during the Switch 1 era, a level of success most companies could only dream of. If you genuinely cared about supporting developers in need, your money would be better spent on games from studios that are actually struggling, of which there are countless right now.

@JohnnyMind
Nintendo and its developers aren’t really facing those difficulties in any significant sense, in fact it’s quite the opposite. Their success has led them to push these pricing strategies simply because they believe they can get away with it due to the massive successes they have enjoyed with ease during the Switch 1 era, success that most companies could only dream of. If you genuinely cared about supporting developers in need, your money would be better spent on games from studios that are actually struggling, of which there are countless right now.

“ Furthermore, VRR support has been added, enabling more accurate reproduction of the original arcade game’s experience."”
Curious what they mean about this, some arcade games would run at oddball frame rates in the 50-60hz range due to the monitors they used, not sure what Ridge Racer was locked to but having VRR means it can natively run at that instead of having a periodic stutter due to frame pacing.

@Ryu_Niiyama
I guess a certain pack in game released in 2020 that was very well received doesn’t exist now? Also here’s a tip for anyone who tries to downplay Wii Sports in some misguided attempt to defend this decision, don’t even try.

What’s the point of limiting themselves ever more than the last game especially when they don’t have the benefit of people assuming this will be “canon” and not some alternative universe thing like last time? TOTK beats you over the head with the imprisoning war as you have certain characters telling you the same thing about it over and over and little of it is actually interesting.

@Kiyata
They also aren’t driven by any fear of the price point of the console to make them think need to incentivize by offering a freebie like this or free upgrades of popular Switch 1 games, not good at all.

Doesn’t really have the cosmic horror visual tone of Bloodborne this seems friendlier and almost goofy at times
@Paulbuck28
This is their new obsession now I guess, solid pass from me if that’s the case.

Hard not to imagine that the pricing for game upgrades will be brutal, lines up exactly with the end of gold coins and vouchers not applying to Switch 2 games, they’re ready to milk every last cent out of people.

@batmanbud2
His music for Tropical Freeze was incredible so that would be a huge miss, the music in this trailer is pretty eh.

@Fizza
It’s not surprising especially if we consider that they might have let him pick whatever he wanted for his next game, he’s talked about and referenced the original considerably over the years.

The funniest part about this is John pointing out a tradition that Nintendo has done only twice in its entire history for contextual reasons that just aren’t there for Prime 4, they showed off the game last week instead of waiting for a very obvious reason, it might see some Switch 2 improvements but this isn’t a TP/BOTW situation they have clearly decided it’s not going to push hardware sales at launch the way those two did hence why they showed it last week on Switch 1.

@kkslider5552000
Yeah that term used to mean something it had to be earned but now it’s just a piece of marketing, notice how two of these people bring up Napoleon Dynamite like it was a line feed to them by PR?

Once you notice how these types and even peoples that work on films use the word “fun” you’ll never not notice it, like with Borderlands or Section 31 “fun” is spammed by anyone who wasn’t negative about them.

@kfflscnt
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.

The number of studios they feel are in fear of closing is probably staggering.

The original has some Xenosaga 1 style giant doll eyes going on the change for Switch looks closer to Xenosaga 3’s style.

@dkxcalibur
I think the overwhelming opinion is going to be that this needed to be either X-Men or X-Men and Spider-Man instead of being a sprinkling of them while everything else is at the mercy of what characters Disney wants to push for meta/MCU reasons like they’ve done in the past.

The new power gimmick looks incredibly uninteresting but that trailer voice sounds so proud of using it to open doors when everything shown looks basic.

Wouldn’t surprise me if launches as incredibly barebones compared to even MK8’s original Wii U release because they know people will buy it anyway as they aggressively milk it with DLC for years.

@Mirastrix
They’re entering constrict mode it’s happened with them before, they think they have no reason to incentivize purchases with deals and assume people will gobble up Switch 2 and its games no matter how much they cost.

Watch this get walked back almost immediately, I imagine the Sega people outside of Japan are pretty annoyed about this but I’m not even sure why Sega Japan would even make this considering that they’ve been at the forefront of not caring about Sonic’s timeline.
@Hydra_Spectre
This is a good reason why you really don’t want to do stuff like this as it shows that the idea of canon in those cases like with Prime or the comics is basically a form of marketing to make them feel more important than they are to a segment of the fanbase who buy into the idea of canon.