StevenG

A nice cheap apology, way easier than actually cleaning house.

The fish rots from the head, this guy should be looking for a new job. He might have never met these people, but he is responsible for their actions.

Once again proving ideas are worthless and only implementations can be worth something.

@doctorhino If the rule book allowed it, no one would be. The same as all the other engineering tricks that get used.

@DaWizerd Looking at it, I suspect it shares the exact same textures and assets.

So this is just BOTW with map changes and new objectives?
The art looks identical.
BOTW was a great game, but I already finished it. Something new would be nice.

@doctorhino How is that different than F1? You can be the best driver in the world, but if the other team finds an exploitable rule in the rulebook you are going to lose. Every competition has people looking for better solutions even if those require creative thinking.

@DavidMac Even a middle of the road IPS would be a massive improvement over what the switch has today. I still don't understand why they cheaped out so much on the panel.

How about any decent panel? The LCD in the switch is crap. The colors are bad, the view angles poor, it's dim and the bezels are huge.
OLED panel under glass, just like a cheap phone would be fine.

Oh no, we missed out on another rehash of an old game. Yawn.

@link3710 No, just no. You don't drop frames, you make new ones. Good lord, what year is it where you live?

How exciting more old games.

@WoomyNNYes You keep using it. Don't use it and it won't stick around.

@lacaras4 Why would the person speeding it up apply the same speed up to all of the video? Speed up cutscenes would look odd.

@link3710 You honestly believe the frame rate can't change after? You have never done any video editing have you? You can speed up video and still present 60 frames a second without dropping frames. You make new ones from the source material. Have you never changed the framerate of anything?

@link3710
1. Video hasn't work that way since the days of film.
2. No speeding up film is not done by dropping frames, nor for digital video.

They sped up the footage to fit the time they wanted for the direct.

I can't see why people are excited for yet another old port. How about a new game?

#9 it is a licensing issue with their Chinese release. To prevent competing with their customer.

So in less than a decade these will all just be useless models. Great, more garbage.

Let me know when they announce they are going to sell the whole game.

Gaming is becoming a total crapfest.

Since it is going to be freemium crap, no thanks.
Charge me $20 and get rid of all the in app purchases and I would do it right away.

Even the same resolution panel but less bezel and higher quality would be enough to get me to buy another switch.

I wish I could understand why they selected such a crappy display

@Ghostchip I loved old school sonic.

Splatoon2 would be a lot more fun if I didn't have to remember to use airplane mode when I launch it. I don't have 5 minutes to waste on the opening.

Sonic hasn't been a "biggie" in a long time.
I am pretty sure anyone with $50 can license him at this point.

The most charming extra would be a Pikmin 4 instead of another rerelease

If you are already announcing DLC, then include it in the price of the game!
This nonsense needs to end.

@Moon Not as upset as we are about them taking our money, killing off the game on our platform then giving it away.

Needs a dark souls type invasion mechanic. Another goose comes in and puts stuff back, basically.

I like this game, but I almost never play because of the 5 minute presentation that happens before you can play. They need to make that skipable.

This was announced at launch!
How can it not be farther along?

I guess ports are cheap and there is market demand.

What percent of video game owning household is it though vs the NES?
Raw numbers are useless with stuff like this. When I got an NES as a kid adults didn't play video games and they sure didn't buy consoles for themselves.

TOK is a great game and anyone who can't see that I feel bad for.

It is also a really fun way to get young kids to work on their reading skills.

Way back? Are you 12?

Of course I played it when it came out on floppies.

Nintendo please stop trying to cash in on old games.

@Peach64 USB 3 drives are plenty common. Mine will even rip 4k disks. Very handy.

If you play games 5+ years after release there is no other option. Digital is always just a long term rental.

@Yanina You are clearly lying. You posted on this webpage with some kind of computer. It might be one that fits in your pocket, but it is a computer.

@Yanina Why don't you?
Right click, view page source, do a find.

How about they reveal the whole game and just sell that. I will even pay $120 if it is two games long.

Modern gaming is a dumpster fire.

@Pete41608 I disagree. I got what I wanted, a new and fun paper mario game. That you can't have fun with new things or different things is your problem, not theirs.

I can't see how. It looks pretty simple.

@Euler A higher quality panel could have lower battery consumption. The same resolution OLED panel would have better colors and use less batter.

@MaxiPareja Also the age of players. Right now people of many age groups play video games, in the NES era only children did.

@X-blades I have to disagree, nothing says the games need to be that big.

@Euler Uh, humans can resolve a lot more than the poor quality 720p lcd on the switch. Just putting a decent display of the same resolution in the switch would be a massive upgrade.

@MaxiPareja You do realize that market size is a defined thing right? It has gone up dramatically.

@X-blades Now remove all the games that didn't get a physical release from the Switch count. PS2 didn't have digital delivery and any game that doesn't get a physical release is probably shovelware.

Now normalize the numbers by number of video game players at that time and get back to me.

95% of the games on the eshop should be removed. Do we really need asset flips and shoveware?

Now go look at the list of games and compare them.

The PS2 has an unbelievable amount of games.