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This certainly applies to me at the very least. I've been saying this for ages.

While I would have preferred to have the chat on the Switch itself rather than through their app, I think one great advantage Nintendo's system has over third party apps like Discord is that the chat can be tied to the game. Ive only used it with Splatoon, but I thought it was great how it would automatically split the group into two different chats based on the two teams we ended up in and how they were automatically combined again once it was over. It's very convenient and seamless.

@Baircade NintendoLife messed up these screenshots, maybe saving them with the wrong color profile or something. The colors are much more muted than they are in the trailer or elsewhere.

@DTFaux There was something similar in development for the 3DS right when Konami bought Hudson and cancelled all their ongoing projects.

@aditiya_ss Yes! Unfortunately the sequel doesn't have it... It was such a disappointment.

@rjejr PS2 for example wouldn't have sold nearly as well if other consoles hadn't paved the way for the market beforehand. The market doesn't reset every time a company releases a new product.

@rjejr It's hard to compare different generations like that. NES was arguably as successful as Wii considering the market at the time.

@Specter_of-the_OLED I think you missed the purpose of this one.

@Curator I also don't get it. When I see how beaten up some games and consoles are I really struggle to imagine how people made them that way.

As for screens I haven't scratched a single device, including the ones I've owned as a child. I don't even use any permanent protection (just carrying bags and such).

I have one phone I used back in high school with a scratch on the screen. The cause was lending it to a classmate for five minutes during a break. He wanted to try a game on it.

It worries me that nobody can tell that they completely missed the mark with the art direction of this game. It looks terrible compared to the orignal.

How can people be so blinded by numbers that they can't see this?

@LavaTwilight But they don't. They could have set up online video interviews with people in Japan.

Five part documentary about the history of the Japanese company Nintendo and they only interview Americans?

@AJDarkstar The two of us.
I believe they called it the next system at least twice before they played the trailer and they presented the controller as the new controller for Wii U after having revealed that being the name of the new system.

Nintendo's mistake was overestimating the amount of people capable of listening. They should have showed the console itself on stage and not just in the background of the trailer.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I feel exactly the same about PlayStation. I especially liked the Japanese mid section between AAA and indie where there were tons of unique experiences to be found. Also all of the JRPGs. Today it's just competing with Xbox in the grayest game and most teraflops categories with just a few interesting AAA titles.

As for Nintendo's competition in Japan back in the days, NEC and Hudson Soft's PC Engine was slightly bigger of a threat compared to SEGA.

That sought after sewer scent.

A recommendation from someone who has played them all, try the third game in the series and the first on SFC (SNES). That is if you're interested in the series beginning but want a more refined experience. It's partially a remake of this game and more.

Most people weren't too happy with the DS remake. Not necessarily because it's bad or worse than the original, it probably had a lot to do with it coming out right after several of the series best and including dull pre-rendered sprites instead of the pixel marvel which gave birth to entire Fire Emblem dedicated pixel art communities etc. That said I still prefer the SFC take on the game.

At the same time I wish a lot of people would buy this to show them that we want to see more.

Are these actually licensed? I kept seeing that claim about Hero of Time in their marketing, but from all the pictures I've seen of the packaging I couldn't find any evidence of it. They've mostly been renders though, maybe it's on the actual product or I'm missing something.

My biggest takeaway was the extent of gamers' obsession with dark themes.

@Hewitt Yet some people claim Nintendo would be better off just making games for other consoles.
I wouldn't want them ending up in the same position as Sega.

They obviously have very talented modelers, but they just don't have the touch to do well with Japanese characters. The faces always look a bit off and generally unappealing.

@Crono1973 Yes, but whether it's putting out arcade games, pong clone systems and lcd games for a piece of the domestic market in the 70s/80s or a proper home console building upon that foundation when the market was emerging and hardly saturated, it's still vastly different.

@Crono1973 When Nintendo and Sega did that no company had really had any major success in Japan. Once they got to cartridge based consoles they were the natural next step from earlier gaming products of theirs. Sony on the other hand had already invested in the project together with Nintendo, not to mention they had already made MSX computers and even published games for them in the 80s.

I'm not saying other companies can't have a go at it, but in all the cases you mentioned they all had previous experience and the market was very different.

It pains me to read how they refer to Wizards of the Coast as the creators over and over. They were just the western publisher.

Kind of like all the praise Dark Horse gets all the time for creating the various Zelda books, which they only translated and published in the west.

@Heavyarms55 There are people who go swimming on a daily basis and even swimming competitions. It isn't dangerous if you know what you're doing.

@Heavyarms55 Suicide? Bathing during winter a common thing where I live. And elsewhere.

@DK-Fan Maybe the type who enjoys watching sports... but not playing them.

@Heavyarms55 It isn't purely single player though. I play with my family almost daily and a couple of real life friends weekly. In the very beginning I also enjoyed visiting people I found online and trading things. Very soon these duplication glitches and time travel exploits made it so it was entirely impossible to compete with people being able to almost effortlessly offer just about any amount of gold and Nook miles tickets the other part could dream of.
Since then I was able to make one trade, offering a bout a month's worth of play. It doesn't feel great.

So yes it does affect people who like to play the game as intended. Luckily I can still partially enjoy this aspect with my friends, but if I didn't have them I would probably have quit playing a long time ago.

@Zeldafan79 I did this too when I had a really bad case and it went away completely. I didn't even open them up, just gently lifted the rubber to partially expose it from the outside.

If this is how easy it is for everyone (or having to open them in order to do the same at most) I could see why Nintendo would fight this, if not it's a shame.

@RupeeClock People actually get different recipes from the tutorial, so there's that to it as well. Funny enough, a friend of mine who has been playing from day one asked if I could make log benches and so I made two for her today. Similarly I got stuff from the iron garden series from the tutorial, while she got the other garden series (forgot the name). So we exchanged some of those just the other week as well.

@Franz Or Switch game card flavored cereal.

@stevenw45 No problem! I hope they will continue to make these as more titles are released. It would be nice with third party games too.

There are official ones in Japan: http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=GAME-0019649&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_keywords%3Dsplatoon%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

@kupocake Yes, Dragon Quest X.

I'd like to see this.

@Bunkerneath They write as if Dark Horse produced these, but the fact is that they are just licensed versions of already published Japanese books. The first one was a 25th anniversary volume part of Nintendo's official guide book series and the others were published by the Nintendo Dream magazine.

My point here is that the first book was originally released before Skyward Sword and the other two before Breath of the Wild.

So as long as it takes Dark Horse more than a year to localize them, they will never be up to date even at the point of release.

@illy The Wii Shop Channel music has actually been officially released, but it was a Japanese Club Nintendo exclusive. http://vgmdb.net/album/10379

@DDStuff Oh alright. Actually there's still a small error in there. The eyebrows seem to float just a tiny bit in front of the head, so in this angle they appear to partially grow on the eyelids.

I'd wish they would have used similar character designs to the first game, but other than that everything seems really promising.

@DDStuff Those are not eyebrows but eyelid creases, commonly featured with line art in Japanese drawing styles.

@YouSeemFRAZZLED It was for chatting in the Phantasy Star Online games.

@Zizzy Right? You know a game is lacking when they show off volume controls as a feature!

@JasmineDragon I'd rather expect some confused developers with trowels, brushes and rubber boots.

@Bomberman64 Napoleon http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zQx6aUBxBOw/T9sSyO2WOaI/AAAAAAAABAA/31hKgP_DfSs/s1600/P1010046.JPG

@nhSnork Nope! I also thought "Langrisser then".

@ThomasBW84 Hover over the warning symbols in this view: https://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?__mk_ja_JP=カタカナ&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=switch+マイクロSDカード&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aswitch+マイクロSDカード

@ThomasBW84 It might be worth noting that the suggested retail price for these are much lower at 2138 and 3758 JPY respectively. Everyone in this comment section is going nuts based on temporary placeholder prices.

@JaxonH Actually the Wii U works in a similar way. When you connect an external HDD, the games on the internal memory will stay there and can be moved to the HHD.

I don't remember whether it's possible to move games from the HDD to the internal memory, but you can only install new games to the HDD unless you plug it out. This was even the case when my HDD was full but the internal memory was not. I had to plug it out in order to install to the internal memory.

I believe I read somewhere that the internal memory (32GB) would only be used for saves if there was an SD card in it. Could someone then explain to me why anyone would buy a 16GB card as that would pretty much downgrade the storage (assuming save data won't surpass 16GB). Even 32GB would seem mostly pointless.

@Kimite Thank you. I guess I'll try that.
I received a reply regarding the voice acting by the way. They said that as of now they can't confirm whether there will be a patch or not. But they would definitely take on what I informed them of as feedback.

@Kimite I hope you do! : ) But I meant that thing you warned me about on Miiverse. It was already too late (it happened with a bit of delay).

@Kimite Just want to say sorry about that. Hope it didn't affect you.

@DeathUriel Games aiming for realism may not have looked great until the 16 bit era, but other games could look amazing.