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It seems that Embracer Group are ultimately the money men supporting this venture, so not a complete unknown....

@NinjaNicky Destroyed in reviews for occasional frame rate dips?! Sounds like you need to change where you're reading your reviews!

There's a Mac version! I'm happy!

@Erigen Ah, I remember that! Bigfoot and the Henderson's, right?

Wow, seems like Switch will be the best selling console of all time in Japan either late this year or early next!

@Trickbaby14 Erm... When was Nintendo stock at $80? Or did you mean a $7 drop?

@Realness I split my gaming between Mac, Switch, PS4, Amiga 1200 and Amstrad CPC.

The Switch really doesn't look too bad

Just had to stop by and comment that I honestly read that headline as 'Tara Reid' battle...

@RandomAndy Cuphead sold a huge amount, the original was on 5 million sales two years ago, and now the DLC has sold 2M copies. I think they broke even about 2 weeks after it released on Xbox back in 2017. Reading an article back in 2018 they Studio MDHR said they originally hoped it would sell a million.

@IronMan30 +1 for a reasonable attempt at the use of pants as an adjective. Oh, and it's not referring to trousers.

Let's all petition Putin for the release of Advance Wars.

@Astral-Grain Which games? Could it be that their shortcomings hampered them to a greater degree, or perhaps the games were pants to begin with?

Does it run better than Bayonetta on my PS3?

I've been streaming on PS Now/PS Plus for a couple of years now and it works really well. I'm not sure what's gone wrong here!

I've got back into Broken Sword 5 this week. Very enjoyable and the hint system is good for those of us whose pointing and clicking ability has gotten rusty with age...

Quick vote here.... who earns more than $250/hr? (or your country's equivalent)

Forgot I had this game....

I'm sorry to hear that your Link's Awakening cart was broken

Not particularly impressed by their Mario Kart Splatoon game, but I am highly impressed with their live Sonic Marble Zone jazz cover! Fantastic stuff!

@andyg1412 If only! I think there was a rumour about a DK game in development though? I want a sequel to Gameboy Donkey Kong

@andyg1412 Next year will blow this year away because of Mario

Well done this person! Too much free time...

@BloodNinja "Not on your life, ya big bouncing butt"

I thought that was a Shakespeare quote they'd slipped in to the game there....

Or how to make an ugly console even uglier....

Do I or don't I? Can't quite justify 40 quid!

Mario Galaxy 3 please...

@Mattock1987 Gamespot's review doesn't seem to be complete, the reviewer seems to have played the single-player but only dipped in to the multiplayer so far! I guess that 7 could change?

Blu-ray is up year-on-year? That's the figure that surprised me the most (with vinyl album sales higher than CD being a close second)

I think most of our electricity bill goes on the Sky Q box and router... Those things consume far too much.

@ecco6t9 No, completely natural. The history of the company is rather incredible when you read their wiki page. They must have done an absolutely incredible job of raising funding for all of these takeovers, but I do have a slight concern that it will all come crashing down at some point from sheer over-expansion without the profits to match.

I'm on team camping in the middle of Wales, without electricity....

I think Nintendo's thinking on the matter is that if everything is available day 1 in an on-line game, then it will peak early and the user base will drop off.

By drip feeding new content, they hope to keep the game active for longer and sustain sales over a longer period...

@MeatSauce But they need to make money from it somehow?

And surely, it's better to have an up front price than milking people for money via the usual F2P practices.

I hate that the largest part of game design at the moment is how to hook people in and extract as much cash as possible out of them...

I refuse to even start to play F2P games now, as I know at some point they're going to make it increasingly awkward to carry on playing without forking out a continuous stream of cash....

@dadrester We've only tried the air hockey one in multiplayer so far, he's better than me sadly... I'm not sure what it says about me, but I'm quite into just doing the laundry and cleaning up the litter! Looking forward to unlocking more of the arcade games (I have 6/7 at the moment I think).

I will pass on the message to him, although I think I'm far more excited about the game director being on here than he is (he sort of gave a reluctant shoulder shrug when I mentioned it!)

For those that don't like the sound of the 'chores', in some ways the job part feels similar to Papers, Please or Not Tonight.... I've been priding myself on getting freshly laundered clothes out with an S-Rank every time

My seven year old son and myself are both totally hooked on this game! I came downstairs at 7am this morning and he was already up doing laundry!

@abdias Except football for a large chunk of the potential market is a different game entirely, and I think the term soccer is pretty well known?

It didn't do any harm for Sensible Soccer did it?

@MeatSauce You only like free-to-play (a misnomer, surely?) games?

Yes, didn't remind me of Tetris at all in the Direct but I see Nintendolife have chosen a screenshot that ALMOST shows a tetromino!

@Lizuka Ninja Hideaway was my favourite out of the new tracks so far!

I wouldn't use Metacritic user scores as any sort of persuasive element when choosing whether or not to buy a game... They're far too polluted. Does anybody?

It's strange, the Guillemots seem to have fought for decades now to keep Ubisoft independent and fend off outside takeovers. It seems that perhaps they've given up the fight somewhat...

Of course streaming is the future. If it gives the same or better experience as having the console running the game then why wouldn't you?

It's still a way off I'm sure, but streaming stuff off of PS Plus lately, I genuinely don't think people would be able to tell it wasn't running native...

Props to Eric for his dedication to his game development. If I was him I'd just be swimming around in my mountains of cash like Scrooge McDuck.

What's Cruchyroll?

Direct incoming!

It looks, odd... Probably loads of fun though!

Not sure if I can go back to Picross without the detective work after playing Murder by Numbers.

@boxyguy It's simple. If a game is light on content at launch don't buy it. If the content appears later on, then buy it.

As far as I can see, these are relatively minor things that Nintendo are patching to improve the game. I bought the game with no expectation of anything extra to be added other than Golf.

@SteamEngenius Just get Mario Kart 8, no chance of buyer's remorse since it's fantastic.

My time is more valuable than my money so I won't be wasting any on this game unless it's fantastic (or the kids spot it!)

I remember GBC ROMs used to appear on the net before their appearance in the shops as well, it's hardly a new phenomenon.

MK8 must be close to 50m already on Switch? It was at 45.33m at the end of March...