SpaceboyScreams

Total Switch sales before it finally loses all momentum in 2026: 164 million

I'm going to be sad whenever the new game comes out because I'll have to say goodbye to the 400+ mods I have in Ultimate.

@Anti-Matter Best in what way? Controls? No. Convenience, no. Framerate, no. Graphics, HECK no lol umm best at not being able mod anything? It sure wins that category.

@Luigi05 Only human with countless billions of dollars at their disposal***

Really? Even all the dialog at the beginning? I take 10 steps and my teammates start barking at me about something else again that could just as easily have been a dialog box in the corner instead of a small cutscene. If I had to do that 20 times I might die a little inside.

@Seraphmoon Please do yourself a favor and skip these games. Pokemon Legends Arceus is so much better, these are insulting on just about every level. And yes, they try to use FOMO here, but you're not missing out on anything, I promise.

This is like something someone would have joked about except it's real life.

This and the McDonald's game are making me feel like a kid again. I'll stick every modern-retro game onto my 3DS that I can get my hands on.

If the WiiU game originally launched with just these DLC courses it would have been a major disappointment and that's the real shame of all this. Yes it's nice to have more but going back and playing the old courses after picking the game up briefly for each new DLC release just reminds me of how big of a gap in quality there is between the levels designed specifically for this game and 90% of these new tracks. I loved the price point during the announcement but now I feel a little ripped off.

@Zeroo So no worse than Pokemon in that one single regard, likely better in every other regard. Still a big win.

Finally a good Pokemon game.

I wish they would play Elden Ring and take as much inspiration as possible before working on the next game. They need way more enemy variety and intense combat. Otherwise they're equals in terms of fun, but I play for exploration AND a rewarding experience and ER has the latter in absolute spades.

@Dom_31 Most of my favorite parts are in the latter half, I have no idea what you're on about. What was the chore you speak of?

@Chaotic_Neutral Exactly this

@Serpenterror respectfully I don't think I've ever heard a weirder opinion in my entire life. I'm sure it was an intentional decision because they knew it would sell like hotcakes no matter how garbage the game was but why would you defend them like that lol

@Coalescence what even is a significant item in this game? The Hylian shield is all that comes to mind. Who's going to cry about not getting something that is worth a couple hundred rupees or breaks super fast anyways? The point is we'd at least be "oh okay, kinda cool" instead of "wtf why lol" like everyone is now. It's just bad marketing and makes them seem super cheap. But oh I guess we're all smug for being ungrateful lol

When I see people online saying TotK got boring for them after 40 hours I ask them if they duped and they almost always admit to maxing out their battery, rupees, weapons etc. near the beginning of the game.
Like yeah grinding can feel tedious when you know how easy it could be to dupe but really if you just play this game as intended you find yourself with plenty of everything you need naturally over time and it's a very rewarding system that can keep you engaged for at least a couple hundred hours. I have issues with the game but it has nothing to do with the economy or grinding.
However, yeah it both sucks that these get taken away for those that enjoy using them and simultaneously is totally fine for Nintendo to clean up the code in their game.

"excited", the bathroom stage I guess, but I know I'll have exhausted these 8 tracks in a couple days. They really shoulda released all the DLC at once, but then some people wouldn't have been duped into the premium subscription.

@calbeau How do you devalue something that breaks after you swing it 20 times??

I want to know who comes up with these "gifts" and who gives it the okay. Like "oh great idea Linda this will really get the kids jazzed!"
What's the harm in giving people a Biggoron sword or something kinda cool since it's just gonna break after spanking a couple bokoblins anyways?

@mazzel I got 16 batteries with normal exploration pretty quickly, it's quite easy

@Anti-Matter I'm an adult and my favorite Pokemon is Chingling.

They need to just do the whole series in stop animation from now on. Stylize the games to look that way too. Huge improvement over Saturday morning anime IMO.

@MagicMan Yeah it's really too bad this game is ruined now.

I actually thought it had a bit more polish than Scarlet and Violet. Maybe the devs could join Game Freak and show them how it's done.

@Dazman lol

@budwug I think people have to grasp to think about anything positive to say about the game besides a lot of the new Pokemon designs which are the only saving grace for the series anymore.

If they haven't tripled the length of the face/emotion-matching gym challenge then I'm out. Can't take the best part of the base game and just ignore it.

It deserves sales and accolades up the bh but it's by no means perfect. It's awesome and I love it but it has just enough shortcomings behind the new mechanics and dozens of cool puzzles that I still have a hard time giving it a 10 even if I have 200 hours into it.

@Chaotic_Neutral Some could argue that grinding is an effortless tedium that makes casuals feel like real gamers.

@zool They're not the same but they scratch many of the same itches in their functionality. People who picked up old Zeldas liked using their brains, and the shrines make you use your brain. A puzzle is a puzzle.

Yeah I think you vastly overestimate the amount of people who are nerdy enough to look up cheats on YouTube. I'll bet less than 5% of male players and .05% of female players will ever bother. I'm sorry that you broke your own experience by making the game too easy for yourself but anyone with any sense could have told you that that's what cheating does.

The reviews would indicate they did just fine.

@zool Zelda has basically always been celebrated in large part for its puzzles (temples) so it makes sense that they'd capitalize on it the way they have been and I can't imagine many people consider it any sort of step back. In fact they've been about puzzles way longer than they've been about exploration considering every game before BotW was essentially on rails. Fun to discover things of course but not done via any sort of "exploration", rather led from a to b.
The vast majority of the 30+ million who play this game won't ever know about any of the cheats. I personally knew of the duping but never cared to cheapen the experience for myself.

Attach a zonai wing to your shield and get good at triggering slow-mo arrows after jumping. Trivializes most fights especially when you get good enough to sweep the lynel coliseum and upgrade the savage bows to 5 shots.

@Nikki_boagreis Why are you glad about that?

And all of those are completely unlike anything to ever come before them? Especially Hollow Knight (PS our lists are pretty similar, except this game is in mine now too)

@Chaotic_Neutral name some of your favorite games

Suck it Disney.

I haven't gotten heavy into construction yet so this hover bike is basically all I have in my auto-build list but it's been so fun and useful that I've spent most of my play time scavenging for materials to upgrade my battery, and it's been time well spent.

@Telin That doesn't mean it hit projections. Baseless speculation on my part anyways, besides the timing, but likely a coincidence.

Mine

If you're already running CFW before the update you have nothing to worry about but I'm turning off communications in my 3DS for now anyways because I'm paranoid.

I have to wonder if they did this in response to lower than expected Zelda sales (even though it still sold really well) because everyone and their dog went back to playing on their 3DS recently due to the shop closing? Seems implausible but the timing is odd.

lol

How many of y'all's phones auto-correct Hyrule to Hyland? I'm on an Android so maybe it's different than iPhone but Hyrule, a word I've never typed before, pops up right away but the first time I typed Hyland it auto-corrects to Hetland.
I suspect Bowser is like my dad, mispronouncing every single game and device since I was a child because he doesn't know or care about any of them and only references them when it's time for me to put them away to eat dinner, do my homework or go outside and meet girls.

@Lord it disrespects your time even more than your money. The bugs are only indicative of the entire package, every aspect suffers from the same lack of polish and care. They treat you like a 4 year old at every turn, with the difficulty of challenges and the lack of scenery variety or overall things to actually do in the world being equally insulting. It's as vapid and toddler-friendly as it is ugly and if you're over the age of 8 it's painfully obvious within minutes that its sole purpose was to drain every last possible penny from the fanbase that has never learned how to ask for better, starting with hiring bottom of the barrel developers, apparently never hiring a single tester, and spitting it out of the oven years before most other companies would consider it close to ready. It would have been disgusting 10+ years ago, I can't even think of what word to describe it with today.

@Mauzuri There are a ton of valid complaints outside of just the glitches and graphics. It's nice that you can overlook them all and enjoy yourself, part of me envies you and part of me is frustrated that Game Freak could see comments like yours and think nothing needs fixed, but at the end of the day I hope you can admit to yourself that you're not playing something that feels like it was created by the highest earning media franchise in the world, on any level.

I've been running OC'd since release and have been very happy with the performance! It's a shame there's no option in unmodded Switches.

You forgot the inhaler, crocs, suspenders, knee high socks, pocket protector and propeller hat that all come with it. Nintendo is really rewarding their target demographic here.