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Our dog is going to LOVE this!

@abdias Erm... it plays at a solid 30FPS in four-player? Your slide shows are faster than your movies?

Looks like Prince of Persia will be announced...

Looks gorgeous, I'm guessing they're using the BoTW engine here?

I'm still basking in the memories of the last Nintendo Direct (mini)...

I've had my work iPhone for three years, I've never played Pokémon Go on it but this piqued my interest in case I would want to do so...

Turns out it's actually an iPhone 7 so I'm unaffected.

This will only affect people who are too busy playing Pokémon Go to earn the money to buy a new phone...

@LilMuku I think this guy even admitted that it's speculation rather than being based on any 'inside information'

I wasn't too keen on this one whereas I loved Game Dev Story. I bought for PC and was having a reasonable time but the sales for my games were getting worse and worse.

It turns out it was because I'd fluked a great game early on, and whatever algorithm they use to generate game sales expects each game to be better than the previous one. That completely destroyed me and I soon ran out of money. I stopped playing after that...

@RickD Was lockdown the best way of dealing with Coronavirus?

If the UK government had acted sooner and put measures in place back in February then the outcome could well have been better, even without a full lockdown being necessary, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

@RickD It's not really been hiding anywhere though has it? It's still out there, but lockdowns have no doubt prevented deaths by protecting the vulnerable and lessening the burden on healthcare services by reducing spikes in infection.

The reason Nintendo is not announcing games early is because they're already struggling to supply enough hardware to meet demand. Announcing big titles normally leads to a big bump in hardware sales, but that's not going to happen at the moment. I suspect they'll announce further in advance when the hardware is less supply constrained.

@RickD Erm, look at Sweden in comparison to its neighbours. They have had more than twice as many cases as Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland put together...

@Slowdive Even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day....

Maybe its my thorny rose-tinted glasses, but it doesn't look THAT impressive to me. Perhaps like an emulator with a high-res texture pack? (only the textures don't look particularly high-res?)

I honestly read the devs name as something else entirely...

@mesome713 You're joking, right?!

@ancientlii Maybe it's definitive because they've taken these silly things out?

@Chaoticwhizz I was half-way to agreeing with you, until I realised that the game only came out on Friday so any users posting review scores already haven't exactly taken their time to play the game thoroughly before posting their scores. I'd be amazed if anyone has enjoyed anywhere near the full number of (time-locked) experiences the game has to offer...

@FullmetalB I take into consideration the critique of critics whose opinions I trust. And the general aggregated Metacritic score is a reasonable indicator as to a games quality, very unlikely to be an absolute stinker if the game is rated 80+. But still, personal preferences and irritants need to be factored in...

EDIT: Also, unlike the faceless Metacritic user reviews, at least MOST of the professional critics have actually played the game

The general public isn't even capable of following advice to stay indoors, as if I'd trust their opinion on what games to buy... Have any professional critics given this game 0/10?

@Anti-Matter I'm fully prepared to let the game control me. If I miss Christmas, then I can always wait until next year

@KitsuneNight Do you own a Dolphin or a Project Reality?

I also won't be watching this, I don't want to spoil any surprises....

Can't resist Civ VI for any longer, finally going to cave in. Last Civ experience was II back in the 90s...

It's a registered trademark of Nintendo of America, so I'm sure there were some hurdles to jump through to get Nintendo to agree to this...

https://trademarks.justia.com/857/27/the-wonderful-85727861.html

They're assisting Retro Studios with Metroid Prime 4.

Here's an idea for journalism. If he knows the names of the two games that are being ported then say what they are. Absolutely ridiculous...

Well of course there's value in piracy. That's why Captain Blackbeard first set sail on the high seas...

@Ralek85 Should have limited the number of Pokémon to 48, like in Colosseum.

@Nathendo So you want some AA batteries that'll die in a matter of hours?

Played it, liked it - couldn't get up to 130kg though

@Kalmaro Apparently they don't!

No Midlands venue?

Want a Switch with this chip?

It's in the Switch Lite and new improved battery life Switch models....

T210B01 = Tegra X1+

@Razzy It did read a bit like that, with bits such as 'Christmas 1992 saw Nintendo finally fighting with Sega on even terms after years of struggling to dent its rival's dominance in the UK, and the last thing it needed was bad press' and 'it's impossible to underestimate the shock of seeing that lurid front-page proclamation back in 1993, at a time when Nintendo was only just emerging from Sega's shadow in the UK after years of playing second fiddle to the Master System and Mega Drive.'

@Woosh193 I'm sure you do have a drifting Joycon. What I'm saying is, it's impossible to know how common the issue is from people's comments on the internet.

If a hundred people post videos of drifting Lites tomorrow they could be the only hundred drifting devices out of half a million (a 0.02% failure rate) or they could all be made up....

Well, the failure rate is actually 0% on the original Joycon.

I have four and two mates also have four each. After two years, zero drift issues.

Everything you read on the internet is unverifiable, so can't be trusted...

@LegendOfStewart Analog triggers?! Pretty sure I played this one with a keyboard and mouse...

Had a quick go, the controls seemed to be off - why am I permanently drifting?

Hmm.... Suspiciously small, PS3 version took up 22GB. I hope they've not reduced the cutscene quality.

I would assume Tate is produced Tate, as in the name... Like Tate & Lyle.

Also Snezz.

@RainbowGazelle My wife's from Finland, they don't have Amazon there which I found amazing!

SanDisk Ultra 400GB currently £47.99
Integral 256GB is £22.19

Switch - 4310 mAh battery (2.5 - 6.5 hours)
Switch Lite - 3570 mAh battery (3 - 7 hours).

Whilst some of the energy saving will come from the smaller screen, a big chunk of it must come from the processor revision.

The big question is, if they're using this new chip in the regular Switch, will they be shrinking the battery and giving us similar battery life, or leave the battery the same and give us longer battery life? fingers crossed

@DavidMac I suspect the Switch Lite actually has a smaller battery, hopefully they won't do the same with Switch Sr.

151 Pokémon is enough for anyone.

@PorllM You might struggle with the one you linked, Switch only has a MicroSD slot, not full-fat!

@johncalmc

Based on the sales figures it was a smart choice keeping it full price. I actually can't imagine the sales would be much higher at a budget price and Ninty would have lost out on hundreds of millions in revenue...

https://www.hermanmiller.com/our-values/community-service/

They do impressive community/charitable work...

Looks like a lovely place actually, will have to visit Baltimore someday....