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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...

Useful for when the world runs out of regular Wii's I guess?

@Kiz3000 Switch Sports is nice, but very barebones.... It's only seen occasional play since we picked it up in launch week. Probably about 4-5 hours total!

Switch Sports seems to being racking up some decent sales!

I honestly didn't realise Bayonetta 3 had been given a date until I just saw this.... With individual announcements there's a lot more chance of me missing something than with a nice concise summary of all the cool stuff coming up.

@commentlife Another reason for me to visit Canada! Whereabouts is it?

Ah, so they're actually turning them into Gameboy Color games? It wasn't clear from the article, I though this was some sort of emulator hack...

@abbyhitter Viscosity seems wrong for ink... Inkling or not, I'm pretty sure what they're shooting is paint.

Need to try the demo of this, looks really good and only £33 on Amazon...

I think we'll see Blast Corps on Switch this year...

PC don't need this.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Wheels

I'll stick with my 8Bitdo Pro 2

Some definite time machine action going on there... If they're able to go back a few years and take RDR and GTAIV off the table, perhaps they should have blown up the table with the trilogy on it.

Remember when the Wii got Commodore 64 games? Or did I dream that?!

@papermarioamiibo Ask Russia!

@Stnkygrngo We can play F-Zero and F-Zero X though can't we?

As for GX, perhaps we'll see that if we ever see Gamecube games on Switch. I do wonder though, whether perhaps the effort of getting Gamecube games working well on the Switch is not worth it? (for Nintendo)

Just wait for that stock to rise and he'll have got to ask his question AND pocket some thousands of profit!

@Anti-Matter No Harvestella? I kinda thought that looked cool...

@ChakraStomps Here in the UK, Boris Johnson gets £79,936 for being Prime Minister (and another salary for being an MP, but still not ridiculous numbers).

"These new shots appear to be taken from the next-generation version of the game."

Ah, Switch 2 then!

I much prefer the look of Curse of Monkey Island. But that's not going to stop me grabbing this as soon as it's released!

Looks stunning apart from the characters who look awful? I'm not familiar with the source material but I assume that's in keeping with it?!

Damn, he's even great on Super Monaco GP II!

@Anti-Matter I'm always a little confused by your anti-violence, pro-boxing stance...

Thumbs up for Geofffest

@NeonStarship Yeah, but it's not quite the same. It won't feel like an N64 game, it'll feel like a bad PC or mobile game

This looks kinda awesome, wish I still had an N64 to try this out on...

@Smug43 I got some serious Wii U vibes from this as well!

I assume it's a lot thinner than a Wii U gamepad or a Steam Deck but you can't really tell from the photo....

One of my big regrets was not snapping up one of these when they were released. I wonder if we'll see more stock over here in the UK/Europe?

@steventonysmith Don't make fun, Pastagate is REAL!