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It looks like Liu Kang and Cole Young are reduce to just background characters here while Johnny Cage and Kitana gets all the screen time now. Also what is that lady from Intergalatic doing in our MK movie? She looks nothing like Jade, in fact she literally looks the same as how she was in Intergalatic with the same bald head and everything.

At the very least wear a wig, masked up, change hairdo, or something so we could see her as Jade. Karl Urban is in this movie but you don't see him looking like Eomer from the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, you see him looking like Johnny Cage. Same for Hiroyuki Sanada, he's in this movie but you don't see him looking like Genbu from Ninja in the Dragon's Den, you see him looking like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.

Looks interesting, may check it out. Hopefully an actual Game Boy version of this exist at some point.

Another great buy for me along with Cyberpunk 2077 and Rune Factory. I'll definitely skipped the Switch 1 version for this one now.

One reason why I don't embrace digital release as much. Still the game looks and plays terrible anyways so nothing of value was lost.

@Wisps If you play Switch 1 games on Switch 2, for those games that don't have Switch 2 upgrade or can't be upgraded, they would at least still get a few minor enhancements from the Switch 2 emulator if supported. Enhancement includes better framerates at stable or target 60fps, faster loading, and upscale images to 4K instead of native 4K. This is similar but not the same as an upgraded Switch 1 port for Switch 2 which got native 4K support, optimized stable 60fps, fast to no load times, new qol features that weren't in the Switch 1 version, and more extra contents. If the game is not supported by the Switch 2 emulator then the game will just glitch or bug out or won't even load similar to how a typical game rom wouldn't run on a normal emulator. Remember Switch 1 backwards compatiblity on Switch 2 is done through emulation, not natively like what Sega Master System was to Sega Genesis or Game Boy/GBC was to GBA or PS1 was to PS2 or GameCube was to the Wii or Wii was to Wii U so not every game will work accurately on the thing.

For a company that had a troubling money problem, you think they would at least try to get easy money with this but nope this is one of those opportunity for them to get easy money and they stupidly refuse to do so.

Customers: Oh Square Enix you want money, how bout we pay you $10 to get our Switch 1 games upgraded to the Switch 2 versions?
Square Enix: Hell no.
Also Square Enix: Oh wait we're low on money, well time for another layoff.

At this point I don't even know who are the d-bag that run this dummy company anymore. You cannot tell me that a company with hundreds of popular IPs with many opportunity to get easy money had struggle this much to make a profit unless they purposely refuse to do so and by what this article is pointing out it looks like that is the case. People aren't going to feel sorry for you Square Enix if you continue to purposely make bad decisions one after another.

At the very least put these games back on the eShop so people could actually buy em.

My few Japanese friends (who live in the USA and Canada btw) say they don't like game key cards either. When the Switch 2 launch, there's only two games they bought: Mario Kart World and either Cyberpunk 2077 or Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma.

RIP Cathcart. All your work are a part of my childhood that will stay with me forever.

@B_Lindz I don't think it's just Nintendo, it looks like Sony is doing the round too. A few of those websites host PS4 iso as well such as ps4pkg.com and ps4pkg.net.

I hope they had a downloadable upgrade for those of us on Switch 2 who already bought the original on Switch 1.

How many Atelier games are there? These games just kept coming one after another (each carrying a female name) even more so than the Trails, SaGa, Shantae, Puyo Puyo, Wonder Boy, and Cotton games. This is like the Call of Duty of anime RPGs for Switch.

Buying a used game is like buying a used car now if you are a Switch or Switch 2 owners. Since there are flash cartridge for the system now, it seems that most people aren't follow the rules and now both are punish, the ones who break the rule and the ones who got caught in the situation. Like buying a used car, if you bought a used car that was previously reported as stolen or used in a robbery, it's likely you will be punish for having that car but if you had proof that you had no knowledge of the car being stolen or used in illegal activities then you will be forgiven. Of course that also means you will lose your money as well and had to fight to get that back.

Here are my few tips for buying used Switch games that won't get your primary console banned or brick:

1. Buy your games from a reliable source such as a yard sale, a close friend, or a second hand videogame store that usually test used games before they sell them such as Kelsey Luwin's Pink Gorilla Game stores in either Seattle or Las Vegas.

2. Avoid AliExpress, Amazon Sellers, eBay Sellers, Facebook Marketplace, and Craigslists, those are red flags territory and their games are likely bootleg copies or legit copies that got bootleg already.

3. Have a secondary Switch console at hands, whenever you bought a used games, test it on that first. If it got banned or brick then report that customer and game to Nintendo. I mostly use my $150 Switch Lite as a secondary system to test used games before I play them on my primary Switch OLED console.

@The_Nintend_Pedant Nah it's just that Xbox doesn't had a good track record of success there. There was that one time where the Japanese audience were about to take the Xbox 360 seriously thanks to the many Japanese oriented titles being released for it such as Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, Final Fantasy XIII, and Dead or Alive 4 but then Microsoft introduced Xbox Kinect, hardly work with Mistwalker anymore, and lose exclusivity to the DOA franchise. When taken all that into account, the Japanese audience just don't see any reason to stick with Xbox any longer.

The Japanese audience are attracted to cute and playful contents as well as lively action and adventure titles and RPGs with an anime style story that twist and turns and the Xbox brand just doesn't had many of that. Also even if they do, if the same contents are available on Nintendo and PlayStation, it's likely they rather stick to those two platforms instead due to the ease of access and familiar cultural offerings within those. It's kinda like this, if I'm Japanese and I go to eat out at a restaurant and there's a sushi plate, a tempura plate, a ramen soup, a cheeseburger, a burrito, a pizza, and a sirloin steak on the menu, chances are I'm likely gonna order the sushi plate, the tempura plate or the ramen soup over all the rest.

I'm glad that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still hanging up there in the top 5 despite its younger sister Mario Kart World holding the crown for the time being.

Everything good about the Switch 1 will be gone soon, this and the gold coins are just the latest features Nintendo are getting rid of so to get more people to jump ship to the Titanic that was the Switch 2 which at this point had not made a good impression on me just yet.

Game should always be a product, never a service. When you buy a game, you should get everything that came with it (box, manual, cartridge, contents, etc.) and shouldn't be charge for anything else. Anything outside of the game that are extra that could be added may be charge but those extra must not hamper the game in any way that makes the game feel incomplete so for example if they add Crash Bandicoot to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2, then that means Crash is just an extra addition to the game and not part of the base Nintendo roster.

The fact that this had both the Switch 1 & 2 version on the cartridge is just fantastic. Even though I had not gotten the Switch 2 yet, I love that I could still enjoy the Switch 1 version through this and then continue from there with the Switch 2 next time.

Fantastic, way better than the first one. I'm glad the Switch never got that one.

They need to make a game like Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Nintendo DS where it had both an online and offline play mode so when the online play is no longer supported, the offline play is still there. I don't think there was any game like that at the time and I hate how more and more games are not like that today, most are either online only, offline only or cloud only which I hate the most. I think the only game that is like that today is the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 for Switch as I can still play all my games on there in an offline capacity even during a black out.

@OrtadragoonX I play DaiKatana for the Game Boy Color and it was a really good fun game.

A remake in the style of Trials of Mana or Star Ocean: Second Story R (and not FFVII remake) would be nice but considering I already beat this game tons of times already on multiple platforms I think that already satisfied me more than enough.

Goes to show these people had so much free times on their hands to be doing all of this.

Looks like Xbox is following in the footsteps of their long dead competitor, Google Stadia. They love to give credit to their workers creating a false sense of accomplishment and then firing them the day after tomorrow from that. This betrayal of creating a false sense of accomplishment only to get rid of your own team will come back to bite Xbox in the rear soon just like how it did Stadia.

So Capcom says Mega Man is important but they aren't making any new game? So where's Mega Man Legends: Legacy Collection Capcom? That collection should be easy to make as it only had 3 games on there: Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Legends 2, and The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.

I still had the VHS tape of these movies in my basement, can't watch those anymore due to my VCR being broken a long time ago but will be staying tune for these remaster versions on YouTube.

@Peach64 The thing is Nintendo had a reason why they wouldn't bring those back and it is more than just them not selling. It's the lack of interest and innovation for the series as well. The thing is Nintendo gave F-Zero three chances on the GBA and each entry sell worst than the last. Star Fox is no different. While Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox Assault were okay for their time, Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard almost killed the franchise. Even putting the Star Fox crew as guest fighters in Starlink didn't meet expectation for Nintendo which is why Ninty is hesitant to revive either IP.

Can't the team that got let go just come together and form a new team and then finish making the game maybe through Kickstarter? They could still finish the game, just don't call it Perfect Dark. Call it something similar like Flawless Agent or something. They could still hire that same voice actor too.

Since these issue kept on happening, I guess none of these product makers learn anything from the Switch 1 situation (which had the same issue). Of course the USB-C that Nintendo design for Switch 2 is proprietary which is why you don't make your product using the general USB-C connection. If you're going to make a dock that works with the Switch 2 without issue, get your product approved by Nintendo first like what Hori and PowerA does. Yes the product they make aren't that great either but at least we know those were approved by Nintendo to work okay with their system.

Make sense that these NES games are included especially Mighty Final Fight and Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight.

For those who don't know Sony only published Helldivers 2, they don't own the IP. Helldivers 2 (like Stellar Blade) is 100% own by Arrowhead Game Studios and that studio could port it to any console of their choice once the exclusivity period (which is the end June 2025) ends. Anyways the game is online only so it isn't impossible for Switch 2 to receive a port but it depends if Arrowhead Game Studios are able to create a server for the Switch 2 version.

Their best path right now is to start over and go independent. Don't try to get into another big publisher as those are usually dream crusher. Big publishers don't care about smaller studios or devs, only themselves and their profits. I wish them the best in their next future endeavor.

I'm glad nobody is buying into those game key card nonsense and it looks like the Japanese chart just prove that game key cards had no place in the top 10. Everything in the top 10 here are full game on the cartridge/disc releases.

They could had lazily just port Tales of Arise to Switch 2 and I wouldn't mind. I got that game on Steam so I would be okay to see it on Switch 2 as a digital only game.

This game franchise is really popular with the anime Nintendo fans so I don't see why Bandai Namco won't be bringing this to Switch 2.

@Dhaladog What do people not understand, you're never EVER going to completely stop piracy it's been going on since the days of yore and will continue long after the Switch 2 is all done and dusted, there's always gonna be people wanting to play free games, all that's going to happen is the hackers finding even cleverer ways around all the security, Switch 2 emulation anyone.. can't wait until all the furore about that one kicks off! But anyways back to my main point all that Nintendo can possibly do is take steps in order to mitigate/discourage misuse of the machine without being so bombastic about it all and hurting the innocent consumers.

Nintendo's goal was never about preventing piracy. Their goal is to separate the hackers and their legit customers. It is their way of putting their customers in safety while the hackers get what's coming to them. Think of it this way, online is Heaven and Nintendo is God and the hackers are the sinners. Once you become a sinner then you are separating yourself from God therefore like Nintendo if your system is pirated then are separating yourself from everyone who system were not hack which therefore you are banned from entering online and anything that had to do with online a.k.a. Heaven. The only way you could redeem yourself is to repent to get to Heaven, in the case of Switch 2 repenting is you buying a brand new Switch 2 that was not hack yet (a.k.a. not sin yet) that way you are no longer associated with the banned console (the sinner). If you die as a sinner then you go to Hell, if your Switch 2 die as a banned console then it goes to the equivalent of Hell, the trash.

This may explain why they don't make their own hardware anymore, it seems that Microsoft is planning to get rid of their Xbox hardware division soon and just had ASUS make all their hardware for them. This may explains why they cancelled their own dedicated Xbox handheld and used ASUS ROG handheld to brand that instead. I don't see any bright future for Microsoft going forward in the console market if all they offered to their customers are just another PC in the market. PC gamers won't bother with it as they don't want to deal with Windows and console gamers won't bother with it as they don't like to deal with Windows either. They may as well called their next console the Microsoft ROG Windows. It would be a sad day when Xbox brand got replaced by the ROG brand.

@enigmaxtreme Nintendo has every right to stamp down on piracy and unlicensed software, but nuking a system entirely is just overkill. Surely blocking the account linked to the system should be enough? At least give consumers the ability to unblock a system, perhaps for a fee?

It's the same issue with pirated system in general, if someone bought a second hand Switch 2 then that means Nintendo is not responsible for all the pirated contents on that system. Another reason why pirated or hack Switch 2 is block was because it could contain explicit or illegal activities on there. Remember news of a few customers who bought their kids a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS system only to realize that the system contain hundreds of porn photos and videos on the system.

Nintendo had a reason to block hack system off their online service if they found the system is being caught use in illegal activities. This isn't just something that applies to Nintendo Switch 2, it also applies to every console that are sold in the second hand market that at one point had access to an online network. If you are buying a pre-own console in the future just expect that the system you bought will likely come with contents you may not even expected. Heck I even bought a used Wii Mini three years ago that came contain with hundreds of pirated GameCube games on there and while those doesn't brick my system (the Wii Mini is an offline system after all), a majority of the games are pirated titles that doesn't even work properly with bugs and glitches galore.

Sad that this entire trilogy had been slaughtered by Forever Entertainment.

As a kid in the 90s I was always fascinated by the Animaniacs and love all their games for Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy. I didn't even know the GBA was gonna have an Animaniacs game, the only one that I know of after the GBA was Lights, Camera, Action! which even though it got a simultaneous release for DS and GBA, the game never made it to North America. Definitely would check this game out.

I feel that in one part it's Nintendo own fault for even making it good in the first place and then purposely making it sucks in the next. This is why I never play games online as what you play the first time won't be like what you will play the second time. If Mario Kart World is a live service game then this would be it for the game, luckily the game is not live service so if the online sucks, the offline is still good.

Knowing how crappy Sega support the Switch 2 at the moment, I rather not want a Sonic Adventure remake/remaster/re-release of any kind. It'll probably be a game key card anyways.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will never not be in the top 10. That is a title of what a good Mario Kart game should be. Not saying Mario Kart World is not good but it had a long way to go to catch up to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in terms of sales and contents.

Looks good, I may pick up the Switch 1 version if it had physical edition.

I stopped playing WWE games when the Ruthless Aggression era was over as I felt these newer games just weren't interesting to me. I did try a few of the newer ones and they don't give me the same enjoyment as the older ones.

A box full of trinkets and not include the actual game is criminal.

After playing the GBA release I had to say I may take a second and third dips with the Steam and Switch version.

I pre-ordered the physical edition from those scammers at First Press Games and to this day I still had not received my physical copy yet. I'm starting to think these guys are trying to find excuses to weasel their way out of honoring my order.

RAIDOU selling better on Switch definitely proves that not many customers wanted to deal with those scams that are game key cards. The Japanese customers if they bought a physical copy of a game just wants to pop that game into their console and play. They don't want to have to deal with all those online digital download nonsense.