SinnohGeek

I'm really happy about this. They seem to have learned from all the shovelware on the garbage Wii U Eshop. They hardly even regulated it at all!

I'll definitely be picking up that extra Joycon pack to go with my neon Switch after MK8 Deluxe comes out. That way when I play multiplayer, I'll have a blue controller and my friend could have a red, or vice versa.

@Tempestryke I can't believe I never noticed the cleavage on the Ooccas. That just makes them weirder. I'm surprised Breath of the Wild didn't get a T rating too!

The game feels a lot more polished now! Still sucks that the speed-lock is so darn strict for Pokestops, but overall the game feels much better since the update.

This is great! I like how they've started distributing new content year-round for games besides Splatoon and Super Mario Maker. Excited to see the new storyline.

Nice to see they're focusing on updating Imaginators instead. Yearly game releases have been getting stale, and Imaginators is severely lacking in post-game content right now.

In other news, Mario's hat is red.

Got to try this at PAX South and it helped me warm up to it a little. It's actually a great game to show off the Switch's capabilities and of course it's a no-brainer for a pack-in title. It's just not worth $50 by itself.

Minecraft can sometimes get a bad rap because of that little corner of annoying squeakers in the fanbase, but the overall community has turned Minecraft into a platform for true art over the past 7 years. It's amazing to see just what people can do with it.

@DanteSolablood I like how Story Mode is executed. When I heard of it I thought it would be some dumbed-down story about "Steve" with Herobrine as the main villain or something, but I'm glad they just made it about some random new characters that just happen to live in the Minecraft universe. It just makes it feel more real as a world.

@2CUTE4YOU Looks like I'll be taking my Switch up to Wal-Mart a lot...

This is pretty old news, by the way. I guess this means I'll keep my Wii U version after I get the Switch version. I want a portable Skylanders, but I also like the racing mode. I still can't understand why they just removed the racing from the Switch with no proper explanation.

As long as there's an internet browser and the Eshop isn't overrun by terrible shovelware titles that Nintendo never even bothers to check for quality, I'm fine. The Wii U Eshop was absolute trash because of this.

@Nik-Davies Does Gamestop still take used Skylanders? I have the same problem but I'm not sure where to sell the extras.

I wish they would actually tell us what the new amiibo do whenever they announce them in press releases like this. You can't just say they unlock "bonuses," then put them up for preorder without anyone knowing what they do. Sure, some people preorder no matter what (new Zelda amiibo come to mind), but they would get even more preorders in if they told us what they do. They have five amiibo figures, one of which is a whopping $20, and a whole new line of amiibo cards announced to release in just a month and a half, and we know absolutely nothing about their compatibility despite knowing about most of these amiibo since E3 2016.

I'm so excited for this! It's not every day that Nintendo decides to demo a brand new console in my home town!

They'll probably replace Miiverse with something. Maybe a new website where you can post whatever screenshots you have in your gallery. Even if the Switch doesn't get a new Miiverse-type thing, they've already made it clear that the Wii U and 3DS versions of Miiverse will be supported for many more years.

Looks like Miiverse could be the mii in the top left. But where's the internet browser?

@Paddle1 There are multiple new tracks including some retro courses and a full actual battle mode.

@ButchCassidy79 Quality control on the Wii U Eshop? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

This game is somewhat over-rated, but definitely a nice treat to finally see it on the eshop nonetheless.

Record button?! Does this mean no more capture cards...? Man I really want this to be real...

I read "Shigeru Miyamoto" and "Late" and almost had a heart attack.

The Switch... at PAX South?! In San Antonio?! Less than 10 minutes away from my house?! HOLY CRAP. This is one of the first big Nintendo events (and only the third PAX convention) that actually stops in my home town of all places! FOR ONCE they pick San Antonio over Austin! TO THE PAX WEBSITE!

I wish they were doing Alola episodes

Breath of the Wild with Virtual Reality?

BREATH OF THE WILD... WITH VIRTUAL REALITY?!

@SafariSuz I think part of the cancellation is not only the sales' fault, but also Activision's fault. They tend to bleed their series dry for a few years before throwing the devs in the trash like a baby's old toy. I've always loathed Activision, but I stuck with Skylanders because despite all that Activision did to botch the series, you could see that both Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions put their hearts and souls into everything they could fit into the game. I thought it would be some cruddy paywall mania with Spyro as their puppet until I actually tried Giants. I know V.V will be ok from here on out since they work on Crash Bandicoot titles and Destiny now, but I definitely feel sorry for Toys for Bob. Skylanders is what made them a big developer, so if Activision lays them off, there is pretty much a 0% chance of Skylanders ever having a reboot like Guitar Hero tried.

TLDR: Activision sucks.

I hope they're at least taking a year break or something and not a full cancellation. A break would make the next game bigger and better. If Skylanders is actually canceled, I'll be really sad, because it's been one of my favorite console games over the past four years that I've played it. It gets a lot of undeserved hate despite pioneering the TTL genre. Sure, using Spyro as their guest star in the first game just for nostalgia's sake (hence why I waited until 2013 to get into Skylanders) was a bad move, but they've definitely learned from their mistakes and have not only toned Spyro down and made a name for themselves, but they've also cut back on the paywalls and put more emphasis on the starter pack. Overall I feel that Skylanders should get some more credit someday. It's an extremely fun yet overlooked platformer/beat-em-up, and if more people would've just tried it out instead of judging a book by its cover, maybe it would finally get that love. This cancellation rumor may not be true since, as NL said, Destiny could be their next side project, and Christmas hasn't hit yet to boost all those sales, but whether it's gonna be canceled or not I thought I should get this out. People really shouldn't be cheering for the series' end and mocking its fans, because the end of this series will be pretty darn sad for them. Instead of ranting on and on about "poor Spyro," just don't buy it if you don't like it. It's ok to hate it, just don't shove it in everyone's faces if you do. I never really got into Crash Bandicoot and I don't yell about it everywhere. Plus, Crash got a trilogy announced when he was in Skylanders, so Skylanders has in no way prevented a new Spyro game.

I started screaming like Jimmy Fallon when it switched to a handheld. It's so amazing that such a BIG game can be played on such a tiny screen now! I thought it would be at like 20 FPS! It looks awesome!

Looks like Pokemon Go is starting to get better once again! Guess I oughta start playing some more.

Probably the gen 1 legendaries. Seems interesting!

@TheAceofMystery Local play is great, don't get me wrong, but it's best fit for consoles over handhelds. Nintendo usually likes to outright replace a potential online play possibility with local play in many of their games lately, especially Mario Party.

@JHDK I remember when Yokai Watch devs were all saying "Oh yeah we're definitely gonna be the next Pokemon, it's gonna be a big craze"

How ya doin' over there, Level-5? You ok there? Uh... should I call an ambulance?

@Acein210 Ah yes, those bunches of eggs, piles of sludge, weird mime things, and floating magnets are absolutely superior to all these newfangled dragons, foxes, turtles, and lions.

@Optimumjay The legendaries are in the game, movesets and all, they just aren't obtainable yet.

Good for people with a 3DS and no Wii U but it doesn't actually add anything now that I look at it a bit more; it just strips the Wii U version down. Why is Nintendo still obsessed with local play anyway?

Holy karp.

@NintenNinja16 Just because Spyro is in Skylanders doesn't mean we won't have a Spyro game. Crash is in Skylanders and he's getting three remasters next year.

I really hope this isn't true. This game was their return to form from last year's disaster, I was hoping they'd continue forward. I really love the Skylanders games and I'd hate to see them go. Plus, if Skylanders, the pioneer of Toys to Life gaming, in cancelled, then what does that say for amiibo in the next few years...? If they both go I don't know what I'm gonna spend all my money on! If this cancellation ends up being true after the final wave of figures is out, I'm gonna start a full playthrough of every single Skylanders game I own, including the 3DS ones, to remember all the series has been through.

So first one rumor says it won't be out on launch, and a bunch of other people follow it and say the same thing in their rumors. Now there's a rumor it'll be out on the switch's launch and there's gonna be even more people creating the same rumor. It's a pattern; one person starts a rumor and all the other rumors follow it in order to sound real.

Still though, with GAME themselves showing an official ad saying it'll be out in March, I think a launch release is very likely.

Some of you guys will hate me for this but I say we should give Skylanders credit for booting up all this TTL stuff, from amiibo to Lego Dimensions. Skylanders has some great games too and it recently found its footing once again with Imaginators, it just started off on the wrong foot for some fans by using the new Spyro as its first game's mascot. Plus, it also showed us that TTL companies can work together when they made Turbo Charge Donkey Kong and Hammer Slam Bowser. They've always had an excellent relationship with Nintendo, just like the Lego games.

LEGO City Undercover on Switch? Portability and no more need for a TV?! YES!!!

This is why the New 3DS was made. Despite the obviously-whipped-up-in-ten-seconds name, it's definitely a necessary upgrade nowadays, especially with the built-in amiibo support and beefed up... well, everything.

Looks fake, sounds fake. Again, they're using recent info we found from other leakers this week. It's a common pattern among them; one person makes a fake leak, the others follow to further "authenticate" the leak.

Finally, the third version has returned!

Isn't it funny how when one single person says Breath of the Wild won't be a launch title, every other person "coincidentally" decides to release these rumors saying the same thing straight afterwards? That's a common pattern in rumors, and it's a good strategy to make it sound more real. Still, if Zelda isn't a launch title, the Switch won't do too good at launch. Have they not learned from the 3DS launch?

Just when I thought I could survive the wait for Friday...

Best quote from the direct: "LIFE WITHOUT AMIIBO: IT'S STILL WORTH IT."

It keeps giving me an error when I update via the Update Data button on New Leaf. Other than that... WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS MY HYPE RIGHT NOW, I CAN LITERALLY TASTE SOUND AND READ MINDS, I HAVE EVOLVED TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONCIOUSNESS, THE HYPE HAS CONSUMED ME, I MUST BATHE IN THE GLORY OF MY AMIIBO.

@Danrenfroe2016 Perhaps New Leaf will have some small connectivity with it. They could even tease the feature in the Direct.