@AG_Awesome I don’t think the article means stuff like performance enhancements like higher frame rates, that’s a given that a pro model will give those improvements. The article really means that we won’t see any games developed from the jump that truly take advantage of any beefy hardware that the original switch just wouldn’t be able to handle at all, take xenoblade chronicles 3d for a small example. Makes sense, as this is exactly what happened with the Xbox oneX
@Rhaoulos they had a decent amount of good Japanese games on the 360, idol master was huge for them and there were a couple of shmups and such that gave them a bit of footing in Japan. When the one came out they basically snuffed out all that work and stopped trying. But this is around the time when they had multiple bosses running everything bottlenecking the entire division so it’s not surprising they let Japan get away from them.
They really need to get some good manga style artists to do these drawings. They suck honestly and it’s been that way for years now. The harvest moon 64 artwork was superb.
@Kienda I don’t know many people in the sonic fandom begging for a 3d sonic. I totally disagree on that. Are there people who loved sonic boom sure and I get it the writing was great and def not aimed at children in that aspect, but nobody asked for a 3d sonic show. Nobody ever did, just more satAM type of stuff.
@Kienda baby shark shows that kids will enjoy damn near anything and only realize later it sucked. It still doesn’t change the fact that 3d shows are often lazily produced and a product no one actually asked for. Like I said before only the writing really saved sonic boom.
However, people have been asking for more 2d animated sonic since satAM.
@Parmandur No I think most of their games are specifically aimed at older nostalgia filled gamers, and it makes sense because these are the people buying most of the product (and I don’t mean parents buying for their kids). It’s just a plus that everything is kid friendly by design.
@MimoDX2 ok if you want to go that route, the 2d games are rated higher than the 3D ones soooo.....
Anyway a game and a show are two different things. It takes a huge budget to make a good 3D anything and movies barely pull it off. A 3D tv show usually uses some lazy 3D animation and won’t do sonic any justice, Just look at sonic boom(only the writing saved it)
Like I said an expanded sonic mania anime would do sonic 100x’s more justice than a 3D show.
@NGNYS I think your forgetting the fact that GTAV online is poorly optimized on current gen systems and that’s the primary reason for the new gen re-releasec (otherwise they could have just patched it).But not having to wait 5 minutes to load after every match is really going to make that game better to play. It’s not just graphics.
I feel like Nintendo aims thier consoles and most products at 20-50 year olds who loved Nintendo when they were kids but also makes everything “kid friendly” at the same time.
The high prices are in anticipation of shortages. It’s textbook. If they get a few dummies who bite early, then great, if not they lower the price later or they sit on them for a few years. Nothing new
Niantic is favoring the whales than the more common users that keep the community a float and its most definitely going to ***** them in the coming months/years. In Their defense it is hard to see this when your making a billion dollars a year.
Zelda II was the first Zelda game I played while I was old enough to under it(had 1 but was too young to understand it). Afterwards I thought the traditional top down zeldas were kind of boring. I still played them all though.
@JohnBlackstar getting covid is not the problem. The problem is when you get it and become a carrier that may kill others. When one person gets covid the entire family gets it. This is the reason people should not be going out if they don’t need to. This mostly is for the United States who is doing everything wrong. If you’re in some other better faring countries who are seeing a decline I can under but this is still a worldwide pandemic that is not ending any time soon. Niantic asking people to put themselves in a situation where they can not only spread the virus but also catch it is just tone deaf.
@JohnBlackstar you don’t understand how it really works and affects players. The only way to efficiently play is by finding nests and large groups of Pokémon and by being around gyms and/or cities. Being around All those things increases the likelihood of a covid infection. Just walking and “getting air”not going to do it for most players. These changes they are making are just alienating people who’s lives aren’t setup to be as active as they were. A lot of people are going to be screws come the next community day and that’s where I think the real complaints may start
@JohnBlackstar if you don’t know how Pokémon go really works don’t comment. Walking around your house or the block is not really a great way to play and the only way to really prosper in go is going places and being in crowded areas, which increases covid risk. A lot of people are working and schooling from home and rarely going out so getting rid of features that allow you to play from home are ludicrous. It’s like asking people to put themselves in a possibly bad situation. What makes it worse is that the features they are nerfing weren’t that great in the first place but the game is an absolute coaster if they’re gone
@RushDawg I feel like the article was not taking those technicalities into account. I think they’re reviewing each game as a general product with the only stipulation that it actually have been on a Nintendo console to be considered.
@rdrunner1178 although the SA2 demo that came with phantasy star online really got me hyped for it with the San fransico level, I never got the same awe I did from the original SA. I did appreciate a lot of the technical and graphical issues from SA being ironed out though.
I disagree with colors being better than SA1.
I’m probably the minority but I think SA is probably the best 3D sonic especially with the atmosphere of the somewhat open worlds. SA2 was better on a technical level but the story stunk.
At 5.99 I don’t see too many people getting a lot of packs and people will still probably not get who they want. I’m sure Nintendo is nit going to make that many cards as last time because they ended up in bargain bins last time. I got dozens of Japanese and us packs for literally pennies
@StuTwo steam sales of fall guys were STRONG before it hit psn for free. It’s just one of those games that went viral. The psn deal had little to do with it
Sammy is not going to let go of sega and Microsoft wouldn’t buy Sammy just to do it so I’m not sure how anyone would think this would actually happen. Sega has its hands in a bunch of other things besides game publishing so acquiring them would be on a Nokia deal type level.
Looks like that cbs all access account i forgot to stop paying for will be of use after all.
@YANDMAN theres a lot of information from a badly archived period. Plus all the original artwork that's there and interviews to setup + things that needed to be cleared. i could def see that taking some years to make.
@Tempestryke it’s not that deep and you don’t have to come across so personally offended Just because I said I “MIGHT” be. And don’t say most of us because the majority of this site commentators are not in thier 30’s and 40’s.
@Savino same! My uncle rented it for me and I had no idea what it was at the time but I was hooked at the end: couldn’t beat it though I was too young to understand every mechanic. I regret not saving the money to buy it though
@carlos82 yea there are still big retailers with stock but I can see those drying up soon. The way resellers work is they throw up sales for two reasons 1) get a leg up and have the auctions And sales up there the moment people start looking to the aftermarket, they get to be the first up. 2) pricing high or at weird pricing 1-8% of the time will actually get you a dumb sale from someone who doesn’t know any better, and they can always change the pricing once the aftermarket starts popping. It’s just taking advantage of opportunities
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Re: Video: 7 Legacy Sonic Games That Were Never Rereleased
I would kill for a chaotix re release my genesis 32x/cd combo is fragile these days
Re: A 'Pro' Switch With More Power Might Not Even Be Fully Utilised, Says Industry Veteran
@AG_Awesome I don’t think the article means stuff like performance enhancements like higher frame rates, that’s a given that a pro model will give those improvements. The article really means that we won’t see any games developed from the jump that truly take advantage of any beefy hardware that the original switch just wouldn’t be able to handle at all, take xenoblade chronicles 3d for a small example. Makes sense, as this is exactly what happened with the Xbox oneX
Re: Fancy A Second Switch Dock For Your Bedroom Or Office? Now's Your Chance
@dBackLash more like 20 with no adapter
Re: Fancy A Second Switch Dock For Your Bedroom Or Office? Now's Your Chance
60 dollars with no ac adapter? A good adapter costs like 20 bucks. There’s cheaper solutions that work better.
Re: Nintendo 3DS Outsold The Entire Xbox Family - Including Series X - In Japan Last Year
@Rhaoulos they had a decent amount of good Japanese games on the 360, idol master was huge for them and there were a couple of shmups and such that gave them a bit of footing in Japan. When the one came out they basically snuffed out all that work and stopped trying. But this is around the time when they had multiple bosses running everything bottlenecking the entire division so it’s not surprising they let Japan get away from them.
Re: Nintendo 3DS Outsold The Entire Xbox Family - Including Series X - In Japan Last Year
@Damo to me, the fact that the 3ds is more of a lifestyle cultural item in Japan, wouldn’t surprise me that it’s still selling well there
Re: Nintendo 3DS Outsold The Entire Xbox Family - Including Series X - In Japan Last Year
Why is this even an article, we know Japanese love the 3ds still and we know Xbox hasn’t had a footprint in Japan since the 360.
Re: Poll: Do You Want Gyroids To Return In Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
I do not miss those things taking up space in the ground while I’m trying to collect fossils to sell
Re: Video: Here's How Animal Crossing: New Horizons Looks Running At 4K, 60FPS
This is really a game that doesn’t need 4K 60 frames. Your average person woul barely tell the difference, even in game lol
Re: Get A Peek At A New Harvest Moon: One World Bachelor And His... Camel?
They really need to get some good manga style artists to do these drawings. They suck honestly and it’s been that way for years now. The harvest moon 64 artwork was superb.
Re: Random: Everyone Loves Super Nintendo World's 'Chonky' Toad
If y’all want a chonky toad that bad you can just hug my dad for free.
Re: Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet
@Kienda I don’t know many people in the sonic fandom begging for a 3d sonic. I totally disagree on that. Are there people who loved sonic boom sure and I get it the writing was great and def not aimed at children in that aspect, but nobody asked for a 3d sonic show. Nobody ever did, just more satAM type of stuff.
Re: Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet
@Kienda baby shark shows that kids will enjoy damn near anything and only realize later it sucked. It still doesn’t change the fact that 3d shows are often lazily produced and a product no one actually asked for. Like I said before only the writing really saved sonic boom.
However, people have been asking for more 2d animated sonic since satAM.
Re: Nintendo Consoles Are Aimed At "Kids And Teens" Says Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi In Disputed Translation
@Parmandur
No I think most of their games are specifically aimed at older nostalgia filled gamers, and it makes sense because these are the people buying most of the product (and I don’t mean parents buying for their kids). It’s just a plus that everything is kid friendly by design.
Re: Nintendo Consoles Are Aimed At "Kids And Teens" Says Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi In Disputed Translation
@JazzyBeat that’s just bad development, not really intentionally dumbing down the game for a younger audience.
Re: Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet
@MimoDX2 ok if you want to go that route, the 2d games are rated higher than the 3D ones soooo.....
Anyway a game and a show are two different things. It takes a huge budget to make a good 3D anything and movies barely pull it off. A 3D tv show usually uses some lazy 3D animation and won’t do sonic any justice, Just look at sonic boom(only the writing saved it)
Like I said an expanded sonic mania anime would do sonic 100x’s more justice than a 3D show.
Re: Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet
When will these studios realize no one wants a 3D sonic show. No one. Just expand sonic mania... please.
Re: Japanese Charts: Animal Crossing Thwarted By Momotaro Dentetsu And Derby Stallion
@NGNYS I think your forgetting the fact that GTAV online is poorly optimized on current gen systems and that’s the primary reason for the new gen re-releasec (otherwise they could have just patched it).But not having to wait 5 minutes to load after every match is really going to make that game better to play. It’s not just graphics.
Re: Nintendo Consoles Are Aimed At "Kids And Teens" Says Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi
I feel like Nintendo aims thier consoles and most products at 20-50 year olds who loved Nintendo when they were kids but also makes everything “kid friendly” at the same time.
Re: SNK Has Apparently Been Purchased By The Crown Prince Of Saudi Arabia
Rip SNK....again. It’s been real
Re: New Animal Crossing-Themed Nintendo Switch Lite Bundles Appear For Black Friday
Wish this was here for the US. Have a bunch of people in the market for some decent switch lite deals
Re: Huge Capcom Leak Suggests New Final Fight, Power Stone, Mega Man And Dragon's Dogma Games Are Coming
I’m all here for powerstone. That’s the only title on this list I want to play BADLY.
Re: Scalpers Are Trying To Flog The New Game & Watch For £200, But Don't Fall For It
The high prices are in anticipation of shortages. It’s textbook. If they get a few dummies who bite early, then great, if not they lower the price later or they sit on them for a few years. Nothing new
Re: It Takes "Just Under" Seven Days To Fully Charge Pokémon's GO Transporter
Niantic is favoring the whales than the more common users that keep the community a float and its most definitely going to ***** them in the coming months/years. In Their defense it is hard to see this when your making a billion dollars a year.
Re: Sega Sammy Set To Sell Majority Of Sega Entertainment
@JuiceMan_V the game gear micros were pretty cool, stop it
Re: Mother Is Getting Its Own Pop-Up Shops In Japan
@Octane they are absolutely perfect the way they are
Re: Spiritual Successor To "Underrated And Misunderstood" Zelda II Could Be Switch-Bound
Zelda II was the first Zelda game I played while I was old enough to under it(had 1 but was too young to understand it). Afterwards I thought the traditional top down zeldas were kind of boring. I still played them all though.
Re: Random: See Super Mario 64's Jolly Roger Bay Like Never Before In This 360º Interactive Video
@JRokujuushi I mean a dabble is a dabble, regardless of the outcome
Re: Soapbox: 10 Years On, Kirby's Epic Yarn Is Still The Pink Puffball's Finest Outing
I think Kirby superstar was his finest outing tbh
Re: Pokémon GO's 'Strange Eggs' Will Have You Walking Further Than Ever Before
This event and strange eggs is pure trash.it’s also trash we can’t delete eggs.
Re: Pokémon GO Strips Away Stay-At-Home Safety Features In The Middle Of A Pandemic
@JohnBlackstar getting covid is not the problem. The problem is when you get it and become a carrier that may kill others. When one person gets covid the entire family gets it. This is the reason people should not be going out if they don’t need to. This mostly is for the United States who is doing everything wrong. If you’re in some other better faring countries who are seeing a decline I can under but this is still a worldwide pandemic that is not ending any time soon. Niantic asking people to put themselves in a situation where they can not only spread the virus but also catch it is just tone deaf.
Re: Pokémon GO Strips Away Stay-At-Home Safety Features In The Middle Of A Pandemic
@JohnBlackstar you don’t understand how it really works and affects players. The only way to efficiently play is by finding nests and large groups of Pokémon and by being around gyms and/or cities. Being around All those things increases the likelihood of a covid infection. Just walking and “getting air”not going to do it for most players. These changes they are making are just alienating people who’s lives aren’t setup to be as active as they were. A lot of people are going to be screws come the next community day and that’s where I think the real complaints may start
Re: Pokémon GO Strips Away Stay-At-Home Safety Features In The Middle Of A Pandemic
@JohnBlackstar if you don’t know how Pokémon go really works don’t comment. Walking around your house or the block is not really a great way to play and the only way to really prosper in go is going places and being in crowded areas, which increases covid risk. A lot of people are working and schooling from home and rarely going out so getting rid of features that allow you to play from home are ludicrous. It’s like asking people to put themselves in a possibly bad situation. What makes it worse is that the features they are nerfing weren’t that great in the first place but the game is an absolute coaster if they’re gone
Re: Feature: Every 3D Sonic The Hedgehog Game Ranked
@RushDawg I feel like the article was not taking those technicalities into account. I think they’re reviewing each game as a general product with the only stipulation that it actually have been on a Nintendo console to be considered.
Re: Feature: Every 3D Sonic The Hedgehog Game Ranked
@rdrunner1178 although the SA2 demo that came with phantasy star online really got me hyped for it with the San fransico level, I never got the same awe I did from the original SA. I did appreciate a lot of the technical and graphical issues from SA being ironed out though.
Re: Feature: Every 3D Sonic The Hedgehog Game Ranked
I disagree with colors being better than SA1.
I’m probably the minority but I think SA is probably the best 3D sonic especially with the atmosphere of the somewhat open worlds. SA2 was better on a technical level but the story stunk.
Re: Animal Crossing Switch Consoles And amiibo Cards Are Getting Restocks
At 5.99 I don’t see too many people getting a lot of packs and people will still probably not get who they want. I’m sure Nintendo is nit going to make that many cards as last time because they ended up in bargain bins last time. I got dozens of Japanese and us packs for literally pennies
Re: Random: Microsoft Shuts Down Rumours That It's Buying Sega Next
@StuTwo steam sales of fall guys were STRONG before it hit psn for free. It’s just one of those games that went viral. The psn deal had little to do with it
Re: Random: Microsoft Shuts Down Rumours That It's Buying Sega Next
Sammy is not going to let go of sega and Microsoft wouldn’t buy Sammy just to do it so I’m not sure how anyone would think this would actually happen. Sega has its hands in a bunch of other things besides game publishing so acquiring them would be on a Nokia deal type level.
Re: Nintendo Expands Its Switch Online SNES And NES Service With Four More Titles
@Joeynator3000 if you have the snes controller and the switch hooked up to the tv what’s the difference
Re: Poll: What's The Best 3D Sonic Game?
It’s sonic adventure without any doubt in my mind
Re: Did You Miss Out On The Super Mario Anniversary Pin Set? You're Not Alone
@ChuJelly club Nintendo wasn’t much better. All the scalpers were there grabbing everything worth getting in site.
Remember the colored 3dsxl stands? Mostly went to scalpers
Re: Sega Reveals Sonic's 30th Anniversary Logo, Will Share Additional Plans "In The Coming Months"
All I want to know is what’s the Japanese merchandise gonna be. Anything else is almost always sub par In Comparison
Re: Here's Your First Look At The Console Wars TV Series From Seth Rogan And Evan Goldberg
Looks like that cbs all access account i forgot to stop paying for will be of use after all.
@YANDMAN theres a lot of information from a badly archived period. Plus all the original artwork that's there and interviews to setup + things that needed to be cleared. i could def see that taking some years to make.
Re: We're Getting A New Pocky & Rocky Game On Nintendo Switch
@Tempestryke it’s not that deep and you don’t have to come across so personally offended Just because I said I “MIGHT” be. And don’t say most of us because the majority of this site commentators are not in thier 30’s and 40’s.
Re: Mini Review: Minoria - A Short But Sweet Metroidvania With Great Combat
I disagree with combat being a step up from bloodstained. I was doing some crazy stuff towards the middle-end.
Re: We're Getting A New Pocky & Rocky Game On Nintendo Switch
@Savino same! My uncle rented it for me and I had no idea what it was at the time but I was hooked at the end: couldn’t beat it though I was too young to understand every mechanic. I regret not saving the money to buy it though
Re: We're Getting A New Pocky & Rocky Game On Nintendo Switch
I might be one of the few people here old enough to remember this series but I absolutely can’t wait!
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gets A New Limited-Time Seasonal Item
Will go real nice with my earth rug
Re: Scalpers Are Already Listing The "Limited" Switch Release Super Mario 3D All-Stars
@carlos82 yea there are still big retailers with stock but I can see those drying up soon. The way resellers work is they throw up sales for two reasons 1) get a leg up and have the auctions And sales up there the moment people start looking to the aftermarket, they get to be the first up. 2) pricing high or at weird pricing 1-8% of the time will actually get you a dumb sale from someone who doesn’t know any better, and they can always change the pricing once the aftermarket starts popping. It’s just taking advantage of opportunities