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@Wexter What kind of caps only last two years?
I have 20 year old boards in use with good caps.

@impurekind I too am more excited for Quest 2 than anything else.

So if you wait long enough you can buy the whole game?
How novel.

@Shinobi1Kenobi No one pays list price for xbox stuff. You have every controller ever made? Really? Cool, can I see your controller for your colecovision?

@Shinobi1Kenobi I own them both, they are the same general shape, same feel, same 4 way pad. Is the pro controller nicer? Sure it costs more too.

@Shinobi1Kenobi For one the stick layout. Go get them and compare. They are basically the same controller. I have them at my house right now.

I am guessing it costs R$2999.00 Which is 464 Euro or $540.

A new rayman would be amazing.

@Thesharkfromjaws Can I have yours?
Fixing them is so easy, I just out of habit fix any I come across.

@Shinobi1Kenobi You are nuts. They are almost identical. The stick layout just for starters.

So they both look like xbox controllers, who cares?

Cyberverse?
BOO!

Anyone who buy this crap is actively making gaming worse.

@shgamer Which is why I said in this context. The same or similar words can have different meanings based on context. "This ice cream float is cool" and "Nintendo Life is cool" use the same word for two different meanings.

@shgamer It doesn't mean street or road in this context, it's a sport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

Does Final mean something else in Japanese?
Final 2 is pretty silly sounding.

@LaVelle You are right.
These aren't even ports, they are running in an emulator.

@JDB1992 Sorry, I forgot it that kind of thing is just not for me.
To me a big game would be metroid or something new mario.

Since 2020 has no big games for Nintendo, this isn't surprising.

That's unfortunate. Anyone cheering on consolidation in the video game industry is a fool.

@Wexter I think digital games are terrible for the consumer. That is why they should be cheaper. They are an inferior good. They can't be resold and will have no value in a decade or two.

Comics simply can't compete with video games. There is a limited amount of entertainment time people have. If comics want to survive they should publish only a few times a year and work on the story more than anything else. They can't simply rely on being cheap and widely available as they did in the past. The market has more choices now and they must respect that.

The contents should bother them more. Emulation should not have been used instead of a native port. If I wanted that I would not have to pay a dime.

$60 for an emulated game?

What a ripoff. They could have at least properly ported them.

@Wexter The industry is now better than ever. As much as the neckbeards cry the 2020s are far better for comics than the 90s.

I still don't think anti-trust applies. If anything apple has proven that with their one market for their devices. No company is obligated to sell physical media, nor is it obligated to price it the same as digital downloads.

@HotGoomba No worries.
I think we just disagree on what nintendo should be doing. I want to see consoles for adults, and clearly there is some demand for kids consoles with plastic screens and low cost above all else. I think a pro and normal/lite would solve this.

@Wexter The same people who do it now.
Kids, those without credit cards, those with gift cards to spend. People grab them when physical runs out.

This is nothing new.

The point is if physical is the same price you would have to be stupid to buy the digital copy. Just for resale and usage in 20 years.

The movies you speak of are 100 times better than the marvel dreck of the 90s.
The 90s cartoons were better than those comics. Comics had been on a downward spiral for far longer. They couldn't attract the writing talent needed and instead tried to replace it with art.

@Wexter I don't see how that applies. Any retailer would be selling digital only games for the same price. Target sells digital games too.

@Wexter Physical sure, but digital should be much cheaper.

@Wexter Porting three games from similar systems should't cost $60 a copy. We might soon find it is just running an emulator anyway.

Alternate title:
Nintendo finds porting old games more profitable than developing new titles.

@PretendWorking Because it looks like a JRPG and their marketing failed totally?

@PretendWorking From the artwork it sure looks like one. Clearly their marketing failed if I don't even know the genre. Maybe they should have at least gotten that message out.

@HotGoomba
4. Masks work you Covidiot. A lip will protect the glass. Works fine.
I shouldn't have to add on stuff that should have been there already. Stop dropping your things. Of course being a Covidiot you can't do that.

The 3ds screen is total crap.

I am done with you plague rat.

@HotGoomba 1. It sucks
2. Yeah, even cheap phones have OLED now. $10 isn't skyrocketing.
4. This is a solved problem, you put a lip around the device. Come on. Even a foam cover like a kids tablet could have been included.
5. that's how bad this display is.
6. Maybe they could have had a pro and a normal unit? Everyone else seems to have made that work.

@WaxxyOne Back in college with much wimpier CPUs, handcranked you see, we made game engines. So I am familiar. In 2020 this is not ok.

@PretendWorking Astral Chain simply wasn't marketed well, and to many not that good a game. It was a very niche jrpg.

@PretendWorking It was $60 on switch and $20 every where else. It wasn't a good fit for some markets, it never sold well in Japan on any platform.

Yeah the switch is too weak, it should have at least been an X2. It wouldn't solve the x86 vs ARM issues, but it should would have helped.

Nintendo

@HotGoomba I call you the guy with no Xbone games to play in a decade or two. Digital games are all rentals.

@HotGoomba Because the color sucks, the view angles are poor, the bezel is massive, the plastic cover is just childish.
I don't even need it to be 1080p, just not stolen out of a vtech pretend laptop.

It's just another way like the X1 instead of the X2, that Nintendo cheaped out.

@Pod Which exact chips does ARM fab?

They don't. They license out designs, and standards. They will continue to do that.

@PretendWorking Perhaps because it is a very old game? It was released in 2015 and cheaper on every other console. Much cheaper on PC.

Releasing old games on new platforms at full new price is not a winning recipe.

@OorWullie They don't make games that way anymore. These days executives just want to milk nostalgia. Why pay to make new games when you can port your old crap?

@HotGoomba So does everyone with a couple nickels to rub together. Nintendo needs to stop cheaping out. At least a decent display next time

@westman98 My local stores seem to have plenty. I realize this varies by region, besides Nintendo could produce more of them. They just won't take that risk and I understand it, even if I disagree.

@HotGoomba A lot more would buy it if it could also get AAA third party games.

@Clyde_Radcliffe Making the switch the target of the game and then adding the others with higher resolution and higher framerates could work. That costs more, as it requires better dev practices and more costly competent employees. They aren't going to make a game for just one console without some exclusive cash.

@KryptoniteKrunch Which is why you get a nintendo console and a sony one. This will get you all their first party and all the third party. Unless you want Halo you don't need an xbox

@Clyde_Radcliffe They can't adjust to the low specs. Sure many games have, but that costs money and requires good development practices. When you are just shoveling the game out the door and just barely hitting your framerate and resolution specs on the PS4/Xbone you have no hope of getting a decent switch port.

What you mean is the Switch isn't getting any good third party games.

This writer should be embarrassed.

That's some great bounds checking dev team!
Collisions, how do they MFing work?