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This is pretty cool! We now need dead or alive and soul caliber for the ultimate portable console. Oh and quite a few others ... Like all Dreamcast games etc but one at a time!

Let's put it this way - this is the first decent racer for the switch so all the hate here in the posts should stop moaning - we have little racing choice and this looks good enough to me!

Maybe its because publishers are awaiting the community to emulate then simply "borrow" the code and use it themselves. Its an interesting correlation that all the mini devices have already very good emulators, and the ones that have not been emulated don't. The exception to this however is that god damn PlayStation mini which was better to root and install our own emulator rather than use what was supplied...

@thesilverbrick for hype I guess, it helps sales. Also they might of actually been finishing the charter over that time and it appears as if he might be done now!

That's a lot of cash! Are we going to keep seeing this report over and over when they keep raising more and more money however?

@AlternateButtons it seems they are not, so if everyone can stop posting the same comment about no new spirits every week until they add them in, that would be great!
V3 might add some more right?

I thought the mobile game was shallow and boring. Let's hope this is the PC version!

The internet is never full of coincidental hype. That's a fact. Or is it?

@humbucker thanks for your help, looks a much better game!

@NicolausCamp so if no arcade mode, what is there now?

Is the game any good by the way? Been tempted with this one. I'm an old school street fighter type who enjoys all capcom fighters (marvel vs capcom included), dead or alive and king of fighters. Is this one going to hit the spot?

Why does the lake on the left in the maze picture look like a giant sperm?

£35 makes this stick worthwhile for tight arses like me! Let's go!

I guess if you have only delays to announce and nothing new for the next couple of months, then there is nothing coming direct as such! Also, maybe they are sacking the Russian guy after all after his bad presentation...

I'm really hoping SNES games comes in the next direct, which if they were in beta in the last version one can hope it will come in Feb. But seeing as everything has slipped a bit, it could be a march/April thing now

So based on this, why not release switch sports? Then everyone will buy it and it will make a pool of money!

"...realistic racers..." "...been a few in recent times...." Wait, what? What realistic racers has there been other than vrally? I want a decent racer but I feel like ive missed something - so let me know!
I'm not talking arcade style either, I'm talking racing that feels like it has good handling.

SNES games! That is all drops mic

Mega mall is great fun, I have this for mobile and its well worth it if you have not played it. Its really best with touchscreen, so one for on the go switch gaming. Super addictive and a fair amount of replay - should keep you busy for about 10hours or so, only worth getting at about £8 or less.

I find it odd that both Sega and Nintendo go with this drip feed approach to retro games. I mean, I'm sure there must be a way to make more money and please the fans rather than give us one game at a time at £6.99 or whatever. I mean for outrun - I spent money in the arcades, mega drive etc, why should I have to buy again? Surely the target market is the people who originally played also, so I can't be the only one thinking this way.

Just give us a pack of games for each console and be done with it - you (sega/nintendo) will make a mass buck that way. E.g. give us 20arcade as one pack, 20dreamcast as another, 20 GameCube etc. Charge £20 for that, make sure in that 20 games there are a couple of gems but spread the gems over many packs. Or even better, give me an option to buy a £20 a month subscription giving me retro game access - then you will get £240 a year rather than perhaps £60 from these packs.
If everyone subscribed, your on to a winner

Has anyone else noticed why the red and blue controllers are the other way around vs the ones you get with the console? Red is on the right with console, but red is on the left when bought separate. This is handy as I'll always know which set is which but I have not seen anyone mention it?

@jcgonzmo I reckon the files are smaller because of better / higher compression because of more CPU power on the switch to handle it on the fly (decompression). Maybe this post makes no sense, but basically because the switch has more processing power it can handle better compression...

SNES games by march then next year? I mean if they are plugging these controllers and they are not stocking the SNES mini after Xmas, all signs point to SNES games coming soonish! March seems about reasonable....

@MrKai I think I get your point - the switch being portable is important so its a marvel what they did with the price point. Not sure what else you were saying sadly as I'm struggling to make sense of your point - would you mind being a bit clearer?

My point was simply this - Nintendo were previously leaders of the market hardware wise and now they seem to go for less power but with extra USPs. I was simply stating I want the old days again and to have the ability to play the latest games + Nintendo magic, such as I did on the SNES. Seemingly this won't be the case for a long while it seems and it makes me a little sad...

I still have no idea why Nintendo keep using substandard hardware compared with the competition. I'm sure a lot more developed games would jump at the chance of going to the switch - if it was an easy port. But it's not, because you have to take your highly polished, amazing graphics game and reduce it, shrink it and you get low resolution and bad framerate.
The nes, SNES and the n64 were both current hardware and everything since has been substandard. Correlate that with great 3rd party support and its pretty obvious....

Time for a decent normal priced (not £199) arcade stick to arrive on the switch, then I can play all these games properly!

SNES games are easier to emulate compared with PlayStation and I'm surprised Sony used a public emulator over their own emulator route. So I can run both on one raspberry pi (provided you have the carts + disks) and seemingly neither offer anything over the hardware price of a pi plus the controllers. So for me the option is easy - got for a pi. However if I had to choose between both of these, I would choose the SNES with the better emulation and game choice. That said, the PS has a chance to update and fix itself and add some better games - with that, the PS would be more tempting!

I think you can get this deal in the UK from very @£250 now, which is a pretty good deal and finally beats my cyber Monday deal from 2 years ago of 289 for Mario kart and Mario ware rabbits game thingy.

This is also a sign that we might be getting the new upgraded console sooner rather than later!

What about the UK then? We have pretty decent fibre in cities here so maybe you can release it here? Most of Europe has better connections too so what about those?
Sounds more like an excuse from Nintendo here to be honest stating "it's everyone else's hardware that's at fault, not us!"

Too bad, this would surely make me take out a Nintendo online subscription where as nes games from almost 30 years ago are not quite enough

Nintendo - give us [removed] SNES / N64 games! That's all everyone wants!

_{Mind your language - Octane}

Man everyone takes life and gaming too seriously on this thread! It looks like a bit of fun, something you can't do in real life and I can imagine it's satisfying. Except £15 is too much, are Nintendo enforcing that price on Indies these days? Wowsers!

@JasmineDragon there are no better crunchy sounding fighting games than KoF! Any before 2003 are worth a play - if your coming from SF I recommend using Terry as he has some of the more SF style moves. However, there is such a large amount of characters to master and so many different styles it's a bit of a learning curve but once you get over that it's a very rewarding fighter series.

When is vrally 4 out? I want proper racing not arcade style!

Surely the title should say "Super Mario Party's First Week Japan Sales Outperform Previous Weekly Sales Entry On Wii U" or something like that, as I read it that the first week sales outperformed the entire sales of the Wii u version!

That is good news otherwise!

Enough about smash brothers! We have all pre ordered it already so no need to hype the game any more!

I'm still awaiting a re-release of marvel Vs capcom 2, which I believe has similar licensing issues. It's a shame games can't just be creative and let anything be created, with perhaps the criteria that unless officially licensed you have to put "unofficial" on it. This being a prime example - lots of people (including the original devs) want this, but creativity and reason is blocked by licensing. Boo to that!

Holy expensive price batman! Surely you can get a composite to hdmi converter for £30 rather than this? Granted it won't look as nice - but it's £100 less!