@The_Pixel_King I'll check soon! I wrote to them on Twitter, too. It's getting more and more frustrating with this icon issues. Nintendo gave pubs and devs guidelines for icons and apparently they only apply to the Nintendo website ones (and the preview image of all games on the Switch eShop). But then it seems they can do whatever they want with the actual icons you see on the Switch menu screen.
I really don't get why everyone complains about the lack of touch screen support. It's not 3D Picross we're talking here, in 2D games you need precision and I don't see why I'd play it touch.
@RupeeClock They never go on sale because they know we NEED them. Only one that went one sale once was that weird crossover with an anime involving skulls or something?
I enjoyed Murder by Numbers quite a bit for what it is, but TRUE Picross is my cup of tea. Just bought S2 though, so no need to hurry really. Also, I've become a purist who plays with absolutely zero hints and 100%ing S1 took around 50 hours lol
Good article and yes, Water is fine. My island is called Hope.
AC has always been great, it's so good looking at all this people enjoying it. My 2 daughters have each their character and house, we're fighting for that Switch lol. It's always incredibly interesting to watch them having fun in different ways. The 12 years old boy wants HIS Switch with HIS copy. Oh Nintendo what have you done?
Murder by Numbers: just started case 3. Game is nuts for any Ace Attorney fan, but you must like Picross. For me this game is a match made in Heaven, I'm enjoying it a awful lot.
Okami: about to begin "part 3". It's still the most gorgeous game of all time and it'll have a place in my heart forever, but boy does it overstay its welcome a bit.
@Moroboshi876 No, because the reviewer clearly said these are the very same games that were released digitally and singularly. I think this reviewer is particularly sensible to input lag. I didn't play any of these games but I had no issues with Ikaruga, Danmaku Unlimited 3 and Rolling Gunner, despite him saying the Switch is not ideal for shmups with an average 4 frames input lag. But again, I'm not the most hardcore shmup player out there, so who knows.
@gaga64 it's releasing, but missing here due to shitty NoE's incomplete PR.
In fact, one of my favorite articles has become completely useless now. You guys should seriously start to ignore NoE's PR and give readers the complete list of new releases and sales. @antdickens
This is not NL's fault, nor Ollie Reynolds'. Normally games don't get patched to dramatically improve performance in A WEEK. This is a very weird occurrence we have here.
@dartmonkey "With less than three years since the console launched, 21 Switch games – first- and third-party combined – have sold over a million copies"
This is incorrect. 21 games sold at least 1 million copies during the current Fiscal Year, not Life To Date.
Ring Fit actually scares me, with severe stock issues it's still a beast. Hope they manage to restock it for the next 5 weeks and we'll see the 100k mark hit.
"However, it's worth noting that around 100,000 more were sold in the week that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launched."
Mhhh but that was another week, it was 46th iirc. Let's wait and see the HW sales in the holiday season. For now, the Switch is a whopping 1.000.000 up YoY
Yeah, waiting for the Nintendo six months earnings release. Switch should sit on more than 40 millions units shipped as of september 30th. Maybe tomorrow morning?
And so they still believe we would gain gold coins from buying on the Switch eShop and then spend them for 3DS/WiiU games, I can't truly express how baffling it is to me
@JHDK Yeah, it is. It does a great job to give games exposure in any possible way:
everybody can get their news channel. If gamers are interested they can submit, if they're not, well, luckily they can ignore games;
The "Discover" tab is great, in which it has the game of the day and the offer of the day to give game exposure, again. The game of the day can surprise you more often than not with choices that go in that very direction. But the writer here wants games like Brain Training or Ni No Kuni to be more visible, oh boy...
New releases and coming soon sections are fine, you simply can go so far with around 3000 games available;
you can sort games by publisher, genres, price (maybe, I'm not sure), it's not that you have to scroll the new releases and that's it;
the wishlist is fine too. Just wishlist a game and look at the list periodically and you'll see what games are on offer;
the music... Oh the music, the legendary music which is capable of giving indie games visibility! And Mario going around and enter the paintings with thousands of games icons to find more, what a fancy and lenghty way to scroll into games lists!
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Re: Loot Boxes Are The Same As Gambling, Says The UK's House Of Lords
It's not gambling, it's *****.
Re: Nintendo Switch Production Is Returning To Normal After Months Of Supply Issues
Not that they didn't manage to sell an awful lot of units anyway
Re: Japanese Charts: Ring Fit Adventure Surpasses One Million Sales, Nintendo Takes Entire Top Ten
Ring Fit reached 1 million a while ago, actually. Famitsu doesn't track My Nintendo Store sales and they were around 140k at the end of march, iirc.
Re: Community: Found A Real Gem On Switch eShop? We Want To Hear From You
Underhero is largely appreciated and didn't get reviewed. Unfortunately I haven't played it yet.
Re: Guide: Guerrilla Collective 2020 - Every Nintendo Switch Game Revealed
GoNNER 2 yes!!! First one was so good
Re: Japanese Charts: Animal Crossing Keeps Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics From Top Spot
@TheFullAndy
TLoU 2 will do it
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Verdict On Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
I'm a little disappointed about the static trees' foliage, just a minor complaint.
Otherwise I'm fine as long as the resolution doesn't reach those terrible lows like XC2. But it doesn't seem the case here, do it?
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Has Already Exceeded Nintendo's Lifetime Sales Predictions
I didn't expect it to be SUCH a monster. We're talking about a 30 millions LTD kind of beast here.
Re: Review: Lonely Mountains: Downhill - A Freewheeling Downhill Delight
@The_Pixel_King I'll check soon! I wrote to them on Twitter, too. It's getting more and more frustrating with this icon issues. Nintendo gave pubs and devs guidelines for icons and apparently they only apply to the Nintendo website ones (and the preview image of all games on the Switch eShop). But then it seems they can do whatever they want with the actual icons you see on the Switch menu screen.
Re: Review: Lonely Mountains: Downhill - A Freewheeling Downhill Delight
@sketchturner and the Switch menu icon. They MUST address it and add the game's title in it
Re: Review: Picross S4 - More Of The Same, But That's Fine
I really don't get why everyone complains about the lack of touch screen support. It's not 3D Picross we're talking here, in 2D games you need precision and I don't see why I'd play it touch.
Re: Nintendo Switch Gets Its Fourth Picross S Series Game Next Week
@RupeeClock They never go on sale because they know we NEED them. Only one that went one sale once was that weird crossover with an anime involving skulls or something?
I enjoyed Murder by Numbers quite a bit for what it is, but TRUE Picross is my cup of tea. Just bought S2 though, so no need to hurry really. Also, I've become a purist who plays with absolutely zero hints and 100%ing S1 took around 50 hours lol
Re: Random: This Tiny Update Would Make A World Of Difference In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
@AhabSpampurse Man, why didn't I think of something that logic? Thanks!
Re: Mini Review: Wandersong - This One Can Really Hold A Tune
A 9 seems too generous for this one, but hey, fine.
Protagonist must be the best person in the world, really, I love him.
Re: Feature: 6 Things My Three-Year-Old Taught Me About Video Games, Via Animal Crossing
Good article and yes, Water is fine. My island is called Hope.
AC has always been great, it's so good looking at all this people enjoying it. My 2 daughters have each their character and house, we're fighting for that Switch lol. It's always incredibly interesting to watch them having fun in different ways. The 12 years old boy wants HIS Switch with HIS copy. Oh Nintendo what have you done?
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Just Had The Biggest Launch Of Any Switch Game Ever In Japan
This game's sales will be bonkers. Easy 20+ million seller
Re: Feature: Which Nintendo Switch Game Did We Miss?
Wandersong
Vectronom
These are both great
Re: Talking Point: Jargon-Heavy Xbox Series X And PS5 Reveals Vindicate Nintendo's Approach
Just don't be dumb, Nintendo. Release the Switch successor in 3 years and keep the gap ratio and I'll be fine.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 14th)
Murder by Numbers: just started case 3. Game is nuts for any Ace Attorney fan, but you must like Picross. For me this game is a match made in Heaven, I'm enjoying it a awful lot.
Okami: about to begin "part 3". It's still the most gorgeous game of all time and it'll have a place in my heart forever, but boy does it overstay its welcome a bit.
Re: Review: Murder By Numbers - Ace Attorney Meets Picross In This Engaging Detective Adventure
Don't sleep on this one, it's a true gem and a Heaven for AA and Picross fans.
Re: Gallery: Another Huge Batch Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons Screenshots Appears
We're not going to play table tennis, are we?
Re: Site News: We're Changing The Way We Handle Switch Screenshots
This is great news.
Re: Guide: Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Everything We Know So Far
@dartmonkey
You won't be able to transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons save data to another Switch".
I think it was said in the Direct that they will put a system in place just to do that.
Re: Review: Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha - Great Games Shamed By Horrendous Input Lag
@Moroboshi876 No, because the reviewer clearly said these are the very same games that were released digitally and singularly.
I think this reviewer is particularly sensible to input lag. I didn't play any of these games but I had no issues with Ikaruga, Danmaku Unlimited 3 and Rolling Gunner, despite him saying the Switch is not ideal for shmups with an average 4 frames input lag. But again, I'm not the most hardcore shmup player out there, so who knows.
Re: Nintendo Download: 13th February (Europe)
@gaga64 it's releasing, but missing here due to shitty NoE's incomplete PR.
In fact, one of my favorite articles has become completely useless now. You guys should seriously start to ignore NoE's PR and give readers the complete list of new releases and sales. @antdickens
Re: It's Been 162 Days Since The Last Full Nintendo Direct, The Longest Wait Since 2016
The thirst is real.
Re: Japanese Charts: Ring Fit Adventure And Pokémon Are Still Doing The Business For Switch
The HW bump is due to fear of shortages. Next week will be very tough to read, unfortunately (._. )
Re: Mini Review: Skellboy - An Amusing Take On Zelda That's Undone By Sluggish Performance
This is not NL's fault, nor Ollie Reynolds'. Normally games don't get patched to dramatically improve performance in A WEEK. This is a very weird occurrence we have here.
Re: Atlus Wants To Know If You'd Like Persona, Etrian Odyssey And Other Past Games On Your Switch
@fR0z3nS0u1 Same here. Bring them all and take my money.
Re: Talking Point: Switch's Success Vindicates Nintendo's New Hardware Approach, But Does It Have Legs?
@dartmonkey
no prob. I love to help lol
Re: Talking Point: Switch's Success Vindicates Nintendo's New Hardware Approach, But Does It Have Legs?
@dartmonkey
"With less than three years since the console launched, 21 Switch games – first- and third-party combined – have sold over a million copies"
This is incorrect. 21 games sold at least 1 million copies during the current Fiscal Year, not Life To Date.
Re: Japanese Charts: Ring Fit Adventure Climbs Above Pokémon, But Yakuza Takes Number One
@Andrew5678 Ring Fit should be at around 2-2,5 millions worldwide. We'll find it tomorrow morning anyway.
Re: Nintendo To Be Awarded Over $450,000 In Court Win Against Unofficial Mario Kart Service
Nintendo is on fire, isn't it?
Re: Review: Stories Untold - A Chilling Horror That Toys With '80s Nostalgia
They need to change the game icon or else I'll pass on this one. Yes, for this reason alone. I care a awful lot about my Switch games icons.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 25th)
Okami HD. This beast is as beautiful as ever.
Tetris 99, because I can't resist it.
Vectronom that I just picked lately. First impressions were good for this rhythm based puzzle platformer.
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Sword And Shield Scores Eighth Consecutive Week At Number One
"we'll leave you with the fact that a mighty 26 of the top 30 games this week were on Nintendo Switch"
Top 21 was all Switch games. Insanity
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Stays In First Place For The Sixth Week, As Switch Sales Increase
The top 30 is completely bonkers with a 27 out of 30 games being on Switch
Re: Editorial: Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays From Everyone At Nintendo Life
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Sword And Shield Still Dominate As Switch Takes Nine Of Top Ten
Ring Fit being restocked!
Here we go for 100.000 next week
Re: Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Games Take All Top Ten Spots, Pokémon Leads The Charge
@Krull It's a given. Next 3 weeks will be well over 200k each
Re: Nintendo Download: 28th November (Europe)
Super Chariot 95% off???
Re: Horizon Chase Turbo Pulls Out The L Plates With Free 'Rookie Series' DLC
This is good for my 8YO daughter, who loves the game but can't go past California
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Sword And Shield Is Still Flying Off Shelves As Switch Dominates
Switch HW sales hold is insane.
Ring Fit actually scares me, with severe stock issues it's still a beast. Hope they manage to restock it for the next 5 weeks and we'll see the 100k mark hit.
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield Is Japan's Fastest-Selling Switch Game
"However, it's worth noting that around 100,000 more were sold in the week that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launched."
Mhhh but that was another week, it was 46th iirc. Let's wait and see the HW sales in the holiday season. For now, the Switch is a whopping 1.000.000 up YoY
Re: Japanese Charts: Luigi's Mansion 3 Still Can't Grab Number One As Death Stranding Takes Over
@westman98 Yeah this is insane
Re: Nintendo Download: 7th November (Europe)
I said Monkey Barrels but I'll wait for some reviews before I bite, actually
Re: PlayStation 4 Just Overtook Wii's Lifetime Sales
Yeah, waiting for the Nintendo six months earnings release. Switch should sit on more than 40 millions units shipped as of september 30th.
Maybe tomorrow morning?
Re: Get Discounts On Zelda, Mario Party And More In The Latest My Nintendo Rewards (Europe)
And so they still believe we would gain gold coins from buying on the Switch eShop and then spend them for 3DS/WiiU games, I can't truly express how baffling it is to me
Re: Capcom Looking To "Awaken" Past Franchises After The "Indisputable Successes" Of Resident Evil And Monster Hunter
Okami is pretty much a given due to next article lol
and it will skip the Switch of course
Re: Talking Point: Could Nintendo's Game Design Prowess Solve Discoverability Problems On Switch eShop?
@JHDK
Yeah, it is.
It does a great job to give games exposure in any possible way:
the music... Oh the music, the legendary music which is capable of giving indie games visibility! And Mario going around and enter the paintings with thousands of games icons to find more, what a fancy and lenghty way to scroll into games lists!