Specters

Can't wait to play it.

I'm have been waiting on the Xenoblade Chronicles X Switch 2 60fps update.

Nintendo has a pretty good track record about acquisitions and usually acquiring long term second party studios. We'll see what they do, but let's hope they buck the industry trend of acquisition then bankrupting that studio and scattering the teams.

This has easily become my favorite Pokemon game purely for the battle system change. Now they just need it in a compelling setting and we're going to be onto something really great.

Would definitely get it on Switch 2 just to have it on the go. Would love if there was cross save with PC. 100%ed it and even recently restarted the game with mods and just enjoy the story again.

@FantasiaWHT and when Humans do steal intellectual property directly they call the plagiarism and theft. Glad you can understand that now.

No matter how good it is Paid DLC already is bad. 100% the base game and I'm good with leaving it there.

@Thomystic my opinion is that a roadmap so soon after release tells me they haven't actually finished the game. They didn't just wipe up these plans and it happened to fall on the date of release. Also changing the dynamics is planned Paid DLC 2 months after release. They clearly cut this content to sell for later.

I was going to buy it on PC so I don't care about the physical media side of things, but I can see if you did care about that how it is even worse unlike you're suggesting. There is little to no chance they'll have a 'complete' edition physical release. If someone already bought it with the expectation they were getting the full game they won't be.

Roadmaps so close to release just tells me that you're signing up for early access by another name and purposefully withheld that from the customer. And I can assure you they aren't doing that to benefit the customer like you're weirdly suggesting. If they did want to benefit the customer they should have held off till December and just put out the full game. If sales were good and warranted it then maybe announce DLC next year.

I'm glad it is finally out and seems to be a decent quality, but people really need to have a reality check on the pricing. Remember this was going to be a free DLC and now is a $20 game (a 33% increase over the original game). It was originally a stretch goal on the Kickstarter and backers get it as well. They didn't do that out of the goodness of their hearts, that's what people originally pledged/bought the game with. Doesn't seem like a great deal when you actually know that. You're actually paying $35 for 'Hollow Knight' now. I think people are blinded by hype and giving a pass because it is an 'indie'.

Team Cherry are more akin to what major publishers do, cutting out content then charging for it. Compare it to something like Stardew Valley that is comparable to size, scope, and sales, which has had almost a decade of updates (and he is still updating it), but ConcernedApe didn't break off the island expansion or multiplayer updates and make it Stardew Island and charge $20 for it. Team Cherry still could have made good on their promise of Silksong as free DLC and all 3 members still been multimillionaires since the original estimated to have made over $100 million.

No one would be praising a Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft etc if they promised something free but then charged for it later.

Roadmaps turn me off games. Just put out the game and then if there is DLC it should come after. This just means the game wont be complete till December so now I'm going to put off buying it till then.

Played the demo on PC and had a good time with it. Definitely will be buying it on PC since sounds like the Switch 2 version has the typical console issues.

Needs more of a personality, characters to identify with and connect to. Faceless robots aren't doing it for me to even care about the game.

@luke88 You mean you don't mind it, not that it runs great. It runs at sub 4k and rarely hits 60fps, pop in is like GTA 3, animations still decimate all over the place if you have like more than two characters on the screen. Inconsistent frame pacing and very low frame rates on the quality mode. And the worse RT mode of any major game.

I wish From used some of those billions they made on Elden Ring and hired some developers to upgrade their ancient engine but why do that when they can just put out a basic cut and paste job and sell millions more.

@BaldB3lper78 Bruv Elden Ring runs poorly on all consoles. The PC port lacks many basic PC features even to this day some notable ones are; locked to 60fps, hitching from poor shader compilation, doesn't support upscalers like DLSS, and a bugged HDR mode that is present in all their PC ports. What you're mad at is some developers not optimizing their games, not the console.

For me it is just that there is no personality or character to the game, which is very rare for Nintendo. They needed some designers and artists to work a couple weeks to come up with characters and a unique art style to really make the game realized.

I used game chat for the first time the other night and was actually surprisingly impressed even did Game Share through it and everything just worked. I use Discord for PC gaming and it is not that great and a paywall despite being the standard.
My guess with how good it worked with the audio, screen sharing, and game sharing, I'm assuming the video is just as good. Actually made me consider hooking a webcam.

"Key acquisitions" followed by the announcement of massive layoffs. Corporate capitalism at it's finest.

I get the perspective they're trying to rely here. It is that the user and user experience is first and foremost, which really aligns with a lot of Nintendo games being gameplay and user experience first designs. But saying it is a product has a different connotation at least in the west of poor quality, soulless, profit first and foremost.

The controversy was extremely stupid and I'm glad I was one of the few on here that was saying her story wasn't adding up. Before Platinum responded showed the receipts that they offered her well above her pay grade, before the hate campaign against Jennifer Hale, before Hellena Taylor admitted she lied and exposed she was a hard right winger playing the victim, before the boycott and hate campaign against the game which still colors a lot of people's view of the game. I based it on her saying the game franchise was worth $450,000,000. You would just have to have a slight bit of knowledge of the series to know how incredibly untrue that statement is. The infamously poorly selling, but critically acclaimed series was somehow actually a secret money maker when Platinum was on the brink of bankruptcy for a decade. But people just overlooked that really glaringly obvious lie. I know a lot of Gamerz just got on the hate train because it was a Nintendo exclusive and they were looking for any reason to publicly hate it since they were still mad about Bayo 2.

Not bad. Will have to see how the reviews are but I'm more curious than I was before.

I generally game on my OLED on my 4090 PC at 120fps and can notice low and unstable frame rates much more than normal people. But I'm not understanding the complaints about blurriness on the screen or interface, you realllllllly have to be looking for it to notice. That they have to slow it down to 11% recording speed to even notice the blurring seems a little excessive to even warrant a comment. I do however understand the HDR complaints on the screen and the obtuse way they calibrate HDR. Yes an OLED will be better (obviously) but as an LCD it looks good, runs good, and is a substantial upgrade over the base Switch 1.

Please stop reporting everything Kit and Krysta say. They weren't executives and they've been wrong about many of their predictions even on blatantly obvious things. They are not a trusted source anymore.

I was already hyped up about the game but the direct delivered on the hype. Definitely ready to play it.

"PlayStation Studios, our franchises, have a special role in showcasing the PlayStation experience" as in nothing for years except cancelled projects and failures. Can count the exclusives on one hand. Their biggest successes were games they didn't even really believe in, Astrobot and Helldivers.

If they did RDR2 Port to Switch 2 I would buy that in a second. I've been doing a new play through once I 100%ed it finally a couple months ago. I really just hope there is cross save with the PC since even in my new play through I'm quite far on the challenges, trying to do as many as possible in Chapter 2.

I'm so hyped for this!

Her story isn't lining up. How she could just find out after the game was released when she didn't work on it at all. Even if she just found out about the game when it was revealed she still didn't bother to see if she was going to do any work on the project? Maybe she should have been in contact with her agent.

Having a good time with mine. From trying out older games they've all had some type of improvement even when they haven't been 'updated' yet. Was pretty impressed with how good the mouse controls actually felt and responded.
The battery does feel a bit like it gets drained fast but I'm also never too far away from a USB-C charger so not that big of a deal for my use.
Now we just need Xenoblade Chronicles X to get the 60fps upgrade (maybe some higher res texture) and we'll be all set.

It's their AI feature on their horrible Edge browser. This is clearly an AI mistake. Should tell you everything about their quality.

That would be cool. I can see it.

It clearly cannot be exactly what is in the game because that would be boring to watch. To have a nameless, emotionless, aimless, mute 'hero' with zero motivation to do anything in a world that is already dead just going from scene to scene killing bosses, however that would finally show the fanboys how devoid of story the main story is of Elden Ring.

My guess is it is going to be about the Shattering. That actually has a story, political intrigue, characters are alive and active and the world state isn't already over. Could be focused on the royal children specifically Ranni, Radahn, Melenia and Miquella. All of it leading up to everyone defeated, corrupted, or dead and it can end with the setting up the Haligtree as a possible haven which we know is also doomed and teasing a sequel of Miquella and his journey to the Realm of Shadow.

Or something totally original within the world.

I don't think we'll ever have retailers have good pre-order console launches or any high demand product.

But overall this went pretty smoothly for me personally in the US.

@burndive There are tons of 120hz vrr capable OLED panels, I had one for about 3 years now. Digital Foundry definitely didn't say that. They said it was a great looking LCD screen with probably miniLED, HDR10 and VRR were a surprise, and it is definitely much cheaper the OLED screens.

@Stwert 1. Yes I know but that Nintendo said it was HDMI 2.0 something that doesn't support VRR in all instances and all displays and that they almost immediately removed that from their sites should have stopped everyone, especially in the media from saying it does. Nintendo Life even just published a video breaking down the specs and said Switch 2 did support VRR on TVs just the other day. You trying to make it more complicated than it actually is rather than just accepting the fact that it isn't compatible out of the gate.
This isn't to say they couldn't later add it through a system update at lower resolutions on TV. Personally I would rather developers program their games for a locked 60fps than relying on VRR and often failing to even be in VRR range.

As soon as it was confirmed that the dock was HDMI 2.0 not 2.1 it clearly wasn't going to support VRR. I don't know why people (including Nintendo Life) still were giving out that incorrect information even after Nintendo removed that about a month ago.

I was playing Xenoblade Chronicles X but stopped in the hopes of a 60fps patch (higher textures would be even better).

@Razzy Series X can to reserve up to 6GB of the RAM for OS as few as 3.5 GB. Again you're splitting hairs between 22% and 25% like it's the greatest difference in the world.
Further things like DLSS helps with CPU bottlenecks that the other consoles constantly come up against.

I'm more interested in the dedicated decompression chip.

Also people are taking the RAM reservation out of context PS5 and Series X reserves almost 4 GB for their OS which is pretty much the same ratio. When you have things like Party Chat/ Voice Chat etc you need higher RAM usage so it runs smoothly under all conditions.

The original Switch had almost the same ratio of RAM usage with having barely any features of the OS. You couldn't 'turn off' the OS to improve game performance. There are much easier things that could improve game performance more immediately with the headroom they have in both the CPU and GPU clock speeds.

Think the series just needed a different writer. The battle mechanics were great in 3, it was just a bit incoherent on the writing front (as are most character action games). The only character action game with a good story I can think of is Nier Automata.

The billboards look like billboards. They look in the Mario Kart style, about the Mario world, and are in zero way the main focus of the game. People are really trying to hate the game to convince themselves they don't want to spend money to get the Switch 2 or to not feel bad they couldn't pre-order.

Oh no Pocketpair had to hire some developers and design something not completely ripping off something else.

This guy doesn't even know what he's talking about. People are heavily criticizing Game-Key Cards, not giving it a pass because it's Nintendo, in fact I would say that it is actually getting more negativity because it is Nintendo doing it. You can share the game Game-Key Cards, that actually makes it better than the code in the box of the era he's referencing. You can resell it, unlike code in the box or digital games. And that he is using DS as 'modern' should tell you how out of touch this guy is.

I just want the shop music back.

"Hit by" isn't true, EA chose to lay off these people.

@ProNerdy HDMI 2.0 supports exactly the same features that the Switch 2 say the docked play with feature. 4K 60fps, 1080p -1440p 120fps. Also the no VRR on dock play matches up with HDMI 2.0 not 2.1

I gave my launch Switch to my friend when I got the Animal Crossing special edition. Just going to keep mine.

Got the Mario Kart Bundle and a Pro Controller on Best Buy. Hoping it pulls through and isn't unexpectedly cancelled. Also on the Nintendo pre-order list so hopefully can get that and I'll give this one to my brother who wasn't able to get a pre-order.

Never found it to be a challenging mechanic in BotW and it was basically obsolete in TotK with combinations and octorok repairs.
Think people need to realize that weapons are a resource and not to get so attached to them.

@Pigeon you'v'e made a lot of assumptions to justify your premise that it isn't greed, too bad the facts don't go along with that. The WARN system is only for full time employees, these are not temporary employees. They just got $3,500,000,000 from the Saudis. They could have used $51,470,588.23 for each of the 68 employees to retain them in some fashion, retrain them, or reassign them in any way. They're choosing to fire them instead.
The video game industry is not a volatile market, it has weathered multiple worldwide recessions, a worldwide pandemic, worldwide supply chain break down, and disastrous hardware launches, and only grew. There is plenty of money out there, just not for the workers that make the money. You are so misinformed it's no wonder you believe the bosses.

As a PC player mainly I haven't been concerned about physical media for almost 2 decades and PC games are the most preserved games out there. People will find a way to preserve them.

This gives people the flexibility to then sell the cart which is the only legitimate complaint previously about digital games.

Otherwise all I see is a whole lot of misinformation and misunderstanding in these comments.