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Berzerk was one of my favorite games back on the 5200. I'm looking forward to knowing more about this.

@Moffo SAME!!!! I'd started watching with my ex. SHE LOVES IT. And then one day she randomly tells me that after I'm already like 100 episodes in. I was like, WHY WHOULD YOU TELL ME THAT?

@LXP8 I have! The first splatoon was the reason I bought the Wii U. I played it so much my wife said, "You love Splatoon more than me". We are now divorced... but I still have Splatoon... and Splatfests... so maybe she was right! haha (all jokes aside, me and her get along well and she will even joke on me sometimes to see if I'm happy having more time for Spatooon).

I COMPLETELY forgot about this! It's the first Splatfest I have ever missed. I don't know why I thought it was this UPCOMING weekend. I missed all the fun.

@Chaotic_Neutral for me it is that I have limited memory on my switch. I have a massive memory card in it, but I also have a lot of games that I have downloaded onto that card that are beefy, because I bought them digitally. I travel a lot. For example, I bought the new Zelda in Bali for my 16 hour flight back home. Imagine how sucky it would be if I popped the cartridge in, and then found out I couldn't play the game because I needed to download. For me, the whole point of buying cartridges is to A> not have to download onto the card, and B> I can share with friends. My neighbor bought Mario Odyssey after borrowing mine for a week. But some games we don't want to buy, we just want to play once or twice, Like maybe Mario Party. So if I buy a cart, let me friend borrow it, and nothing can be played, it's limiting the use. Hope this helps explain why I'm not interested.

I really dislike games that are boxes with a code inside. Also not a fan of games that I buy that I still have to download anything to play. I have a TON of digital downloads on my switch. But games I really enjoy playing I buy physical, Like: Mario Party, Splatoon, Super Mario, LA Noir, etc. The reason being, that at some point the digital storefronts will be gone. If I have the cartridge, I can still play the game for as long as the system works. Which looking at my SNES, is over 30 years.

@MegaMari0 That deserved way more likes. haha JK simmons is what I thought too.

This is one of the hardest ones for me so far. I think they are all great. In the end I went with North America, but there is no wrong vote. That European box is gorgeous as well. I actually like the colors of the Japanese box better than the US, but the US Title graphic is amazing. It sealed the deal

@JayJ I don't agree that it has fully passed. There are a lot of great games on it, and I enjoyed the dual screen concept. Tokyo Mirage is great, and the NES remix games, and Splatoon (until the servers die)

@Vortexeo Same, I'll probably end up with Skeletons since Orange is my favorite color. But Ghosts looks cool.

For me, I already have the Regular Switch, the Splatoon 2 one, the OLED, and the Splatoon 3 (Haven't opened that one yet). The red one doesn't do much for me, just like the Zelda and Pokemon ones didn't. I know they all do the same thing, but I just buy what I like. I may end up selling the Splatoon ones later, or I may keep them for my collection. I definitely think that Nintendo could sell more units in this last year of life if they did something like they did with the N64 where they came out in 5 colors (or ever how many). I'd really like an orange switch since it's my favorite color.

I'm still looking for my first win. I came in 2nd during my very first race. Since then I've been top 25 twice, maybe thrice, but usually I'm one of the last ones not to crash out. I think timing the SuperBoost is something I need to work on, but not sure where the best place is to use them. What seems like the best place to me isn't doing much.

@dew12333 That still sounds like a REALLY awesome trip! I think you'll still have a blast!

So I have a TON of digital games, but I still like physical. I have a few friends with Switch and we share games. That can't be done with digital. Also, digital storefronts disappear. I LOVE Eternal Darkness, had that been a digital only release, I would no longer be able to play the game I loved if I needed to re-download it.

I actually liked the switch graphics better for the first minute of the video. I know the PS5 is "Better", but the switch just had a cool style.

But at the driving stuff around 4 and a half minutes, the ps5 is so much better (as it should be)

I had NO clue this actually released. I remember seeing it on a direct a long time ago but I forgot about it soon after. The box cover brawl this week had a link to this review. I guess I'm adding this to my queue. haha

@larryisaman That's BRILLIANT! DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS? (from StepBrothers)

@larryisaman I 100% agree. I REALLY hope they call the next machine the SUPER Nintendo Switch. That would take my gaming life full circle. Therefore everyone would KNOW it is a new switch. They could even bring back the slogan, Now you're playing with power, Super Power. Everything is just RIGHT about it. I may be in the minority here, but I still played a lot of my Wii games on my Wii U. It was nice not having to have two systems side by side. That's actually where I played Mario Galaxy 2 for the first time, and even a few bargain find Wii games. Having the Switch 2 be backwards compatible would make it a day one purchase for me.

My very first race I finished 2nd. Since then, I'm usually the first person after all the people that explodes. So finishing between 70th and 90th. It seems if I can get to the first 20 spots early in a race, I can stay there, but if I don't make it at the very beginning, I never make up ground.

I bought this game the day it came out, had every intention of playing it on a 16 hour flight, didn't play it then, and still haven't played it. I really like being outside in the summer months, so once it gets to be cold out, I'll start playing. I have no expectations, and since I never played Breath of the Wild, I think I'm going to really enjoy this.

@JackieCMarlow SO MUCH THIS! I do not know know a single Latino that uses Latinx. I find it offensive and degrading for Caucasians to determine what to call people of Latin decent against their will. And I'm Caucasian, but I have many, many, many Latin Americans friends here in Miami, and not a single one them is Latinx.

@juliobrand You said what I was thinking. This is a lazy cash grab. I already have the other collection, see no need for this. This should have been DLC for someone that already has the other collection.

I just really really really wish they will call it the Super Nintendto Switch. It would harken back to one of my favorite consoles ever.

So when I saw the US one, I had fond memories, and I was thinking no way it could be topped. Then the Japanese one was so different. It was jarring. It was phenomenal. I had to go Japan. But still love the US box.

@Dr_Lugae I completely see your point. I just look at how marvel movies are doing now, and they are going down and down. And how the Little Mermaid remade did poorly (Still made a ton of money) but people automatically called others racist for not being cool with race swapping. Like in China they didn't see it, and people said they were racist for not wanting a black mermaid, but it wasn't that, they just thought it was stupid. It only made $3.7 million but then Spiderman Across the Spiderverse made $42.5 million even though Miles was the main attraction.

All in all, I'm not saying either side is right, but there are people that refuse to see anything they picture as "woke" which is why Mario SMASHED it at the box office.

I agree with the Barbie thing, but there is 40 years of pent up demand for this movie, so women were going to go see it no matter what. I've seen so many people dress up in pink to go see it. Thanks for your comment though. I guess this is enough politics for a game site, haha. I just thought that cashews has a good point that maybe it won't sell as many copies because disney no longer seems to push the same values as a lot of their buyers.

@Cashews My apologies. I was not trying to infer you were. I was just pointing out that people, do, in fact get culture from the media they consume, and was not trying to state your opinion one way or the other. I've just seen more and more boycotts of disney things since they went "woke". I'm not saying that either side is right or wrong, and again, my apologies for not writing my thoughts better. I had just woken up and thought I was stating it a different way. Whoops!

@Rainbowfire I believe movies, tv shows, and music had driven culture for the last 40 years. However, the last 5 to 10 years is becoming more driven by social media so I think the commenter had a point. Disney has been pushing an agenda for the last few years and it is hurting them in films, in their theme park business, and now it may be hurting them in games. People just want to use entertainment to relax, not be preached to.

I really want to like the show. But the acting just seems bad. The action looks pretty good, but luffy delivers his lines like he is reading them from the script. There is not emotion. Nami also sounded like she's reading the script. Sanji was good though. I'll give the show a shot because maybe it is just bad editing for the trailer that makes things seem bad. I WANT this to be good.

@Expa0 I agree, I hope the recommended race lines can be turned off. If so, this could be pretty cool. I kind of wish it was more than 10 racers as well. 16 would be nice. If this was on sale for $10 it was be an automatic purchase from me. I'm not saying it isn't worth more, but I'm just not into racing games that much, but this reminds me of the old school games.

Eternal Darkness was my vote. A port of Kid Icarus from the 3DS would be great too. It would probably have to be built from the ground up for this that was my favorite 3DS game. I actually thought Geist would be an option here. Geist is one most interesting games on the Gamecube for me.

I saw the European one and thought it was one of the most beautiful covers I've ever seen. I think the NA/Japan one is cool, but the European is gorgeous. Good job to that designer.

I know it is highly unlikely, but I do wonder if somewhere sometime the person that designed that will find this poll and see how appreciated it is.

@Bobb This is what I was going to say! Trust no one... but make the friends you can trust. HA

@FullMetalWesker Dude! This one is the best! Thanks for the link.

My original comment was just going to be if I was the only one that saw the 3 people on the NA box art, and wondered whatever happened to them? Did they go on to model for other things, or is this the highlight of their career, and they still keep a copy of the game on their book cases for their friends to see when they visit.

This one was one of the toughest for me. I really like both. I ended up going US. I was surprised how lopsided it is with 80/20. Haha

@tstorm That's what I was going to say, I LOVE NASCAR Rumble. One of my favorite racers. Hopefully this plays even better than that.

If it drops down to $5 I would probably give it a go. But nothing about it made me want to pay full price. I used to love the old PoP games.

@Jalex__64 Thanks for this. I actually thought Splatoon 3 would hit 15 million but I guess it isn't as big as I thought it was. I still love it the most of any of the 1st party games.

I haven't seen it yet, but want to. I've heard that it is just a good fun film with a lot of fan service and there is no agenda or "woke" politics in it. I think there was a huge pent up demand for something that you can take your family to and not not have to worry about having anything preached to you about. Hopefully studios realize that we just want to be entertained when we go out.

@Greatluigi I had held out hope for so long that someone would make a hack so it could play offline. It's one of my favorite match games ever. Maybe if one day I'm rich I'll figure out how to have someone make one. haha I saved the game on my old phone and still click it from time to time to see if any way to connect.

I hope they do better with them than they did with Demiurge Studios. I loved Sega Heroes, and that game was killed too soon because of greed. I hope Sega doesn't become even greedier with this acquisition. Which I am not privy to what actually happened between them deciding to part ways but Sega Heroes was the only mobile game I've ever spent money on and it will be the last.

Splatoon is my first choice. Then my next would be Star Fox, and then Luigi's Mansion. But honestly, from the list I would probably be interested in almost all of them other than Donkey Kong. I loved the DK Country games on Snes, and loved DK as a kid, but he no longer holds my interest. I'd also love a Wario movie. That could set him up as a future villain.

I didn't see anyone mention this, but was curious how it compared to Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 since I enjoyed both of those movies (2 more than 1 actually) and the totals are:
Sonic 1: $319,715,683
Sonic 2: $405,421,518

I do not find what @dekuforce to respond to my post to being trolling or worth a ban. On my post he stated what for the US or European market is most likely fact based on demographics. Maybe he said something in post 28 that was terrible and inflammatory, but if was his response to me, I see no malice or trolling.

@echoplex Full Disclosure.... I kind of WISH my friends would watch me play Zelda and cheer for me. But I still think I'd rather them cheer me on in a Splatfest.

YO!!!!! They have the shirts for sale on the Nintendo US store. I bought one of each. I love when they actually put the shirts up to match the festival!

I love how inclusive this ad is. I think back to when I was a kid, it was only the boys playing Zelda. Now in the ad there are 7 women and 5 men. Also very diverse with the casting. Zelda really is for everyone.

@LikelySatan Yeah, it's tough to say. I got my switch when Splatoon 2 came out. I mostly played that and rocket league until Animal Crossing came out. BOTW looked amazing but I just didn't think I would have the time to put into it. Then I got Odyssey when it came out but still haven't beaten it so confirmed I wouldn't have the time. However, this game makes me think I will take time for it. I wish it came out a couple of weeks earlier. I'm going to China for a month and do not do online gaming there so this would be a great game to play in the hotel.

@Fizza Agreed, I had no interest in the breath of the wild even though I'm sure it is one of the greatest games ever. However, this video has me doing a pre-order. Wow! Simply WOW!

@LiNeR Exactly!!! Can't believe this wasn't an option to vote for. Although the Mega Man is pretty sweet.

Does anyone else remember how in the original Splatoon there was a glitch so you could get out of the hub and explore where you weren't supposed to see? That would be really cool if they had incorporated that into this as well.