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@Yosher I was wondering that, too. Did the Satellaview and 64DD have their own start-up jingles? I know the FDS one pretty well but I know far less about the other two.

Animal Crossing has PS5 in the platform column just fyi

Joke's on them, I have no friends so I will never run into this problem 😃

Booooooooooo 👎

Still not traveling halfway across the country to attend. Sorry guys, I'm not a real fan 😔

Oh nice, this game has great music. I'll give it a listen during my commute tomorrow.

See it's just that I want my games now and so I've largely abandoned physical media. Seriously though, it does boil down to convenience for me. Constantly swapping out cards is a pain and I love having all my games right there ready to launch. I save a little bit of money with the game vouchers and using a province with lower taxes for location, too. Now, does this number include phone and PC games? Because they only continue to grow.

Tales of Graces, baby. One of my favourite Tales games and I am loving this revisit. Also, Sutte Hakkun. The premise is super cool but I got stuck in a stage pretty early on, so I'm going to actually watch the tutorials to see if maybe I'm missing a gameplay element.

A Satellaview game? I was gonna just write this update off but that one seems like an interesting and rare piece of history so I'll check it out.

Ugh he's right, I will preorder and purchase day one regardless. The price will simply determine how many launch games I buy with it.

I value the chaos of Mario Kart above all else, so cram as many people on the track as you can. Online is going to be pandemonium!

I prefer to focus on just one or two games at a time, but there's just so much going on that I need to juggle quite a few.

Donkey Kong Country Returns of course. The 3DS port was the last time I played this, and my impression of the revisit is that man this ain't no Tropical Freeze.

Tales of Graces is among my favourite Tales games, fighting with Abyss for number one, so I'm pretty pumped to play through it again for the first time in many many years. It's still great!

Pokémon Violet to shiny hunt the Flamigo outbreak event.

And I'm just wrapping up a game on the PS5, which I won't get into here on the Nintendo site.

I initially read that as "extremely pissed," and I would have believed it, too lmao

Too safe, too similar, harder upsell for the massive casual audience, so it won't sell as well. Is what I figure they're thinking.

I hate it. Sorry not sorry. The movie design was awful and this is awful.

Yeah I'm not flying to Toronto for this, sorry

I wanna say that comes from his Japanese collectivist perspective. Don't be an arsehole and ruin things for the rest of us, you have a obligation to respect others whether you like it or not. Over here, though, yeah look out for number one and chase your own ego for pretend internet points, look how cool I am wooo!

It'll be interesting to see how it sells. Sales numbers of their iterative, more-of-the-same hardware have always been lower than their predecessors, right, so while I predict initial sales to be incredible, it'll remain to be seen whether the general user base will feel the need to upgrade. But hey, I've been wrong before. I thought no one would buy the Switch given the poor faith the Wii U generated, and look how that turned out 🤣

It was pretty good. It's just nice knowing this is all real and concrete. Was hoping they'd show another game or two, and Mario Kart, at least from that footage, doesn't look terribly different than 8, but I'm not too worried about it. The close-ups were really nice, I liked the splashes of colour, the Joy-con snaps were cool. A little big for my tastes but I'm sure I'll get used it once it's in my hands.

As long as I can migrate Animal Crossing over then it's all good.

I understand how they're liable to feel. I was very upset when it got out that I put ketchup on Kraft dinner. Oh the ridicule I suffered 😭😭😭

I mean I played the 3DS port and the Wii original only when they first released. I guarantee I will not notice a thing

So I am absolutely not tech savvy, is there a legitimate security risk using this thing or is Nintendo just blowing hot air to discourage unofficial shenanigans? They're gonna hack my internet through my Wii U, right?

Who the who? Yeah okay whatever

I'm very glad that they decided to go with the current apps. I got to play a lot of weird and interesting games that I absolutely would not have paid for individually. And it's nice to have them included with my NSO subscription instead of having to spend more money to buy them.

I've been primarily playing my PS5 the past couple weeks, but on the Nintendo front it's been my daily check-ins for F-Zero 99 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I feel like I should start chipping away Dragon Quest 3 and Yakuza Kiwami, but I'd rather play the other remakes coming out next week 🤣

With all these crazy leaks and rumours going around, it's hard to keep track of everything so I really appreciate you guys compiling it all here. Even if it all turns out to be fake, I'm still having a lot of fun engaging with it. Also the black one looks super sleek. I usually like white consoles but the black one here does look better.

Thank you! Yes, it is too big. I like my portables to be as portable as possible. I mean, I'm still buying it day one but I'd have preferred it smaller. If the Switch Lite was dockable, it would be my version of choice. That form factor is beautiful. While handheld is my primary way to play, I like docking it on weekends when I play for extended periods. I assume a Lite version of the successor won't be dockable either, which would be a bummer. Assuming this is all legit idk

"Screw you guys, we're not playing your game. Go ahead, reveal everything, see what we care."

I always dismiss rumours in the like, but this thing is being showcased at an official industry event, so I'm actually inclined to believe it's the real deal. I really wonder what Nintendo is thinking and doing about it.

Yes on the very rare occasion where I'm playing a game with motion controls on the TV. So basically just Pokémon Let's Go and Mario Party Jamboree. And that's more about comfort than safety

I really don't like that person so I'm choosing to dismiss her nonsense. Sorry not sorry

It would be super funny if this was all just an elaborate red herring "leaked" by Nintendo themselves. They'll announce the real thing as the Bait N' Switch and it'll be some bizarre monstrosity from the darkest depths of R&D hell

I'm most concerned with the price point, and I'm not expecting it to be low. As loath as I am to say, I firmly believe it'll be $500 USD. Here in Canada, the PS5 price converts to $650 but the current exchange rate of 500 USD is 720 CAD. $720, before taxes. That's the potential I'm looking at and that's simply too much money.

It'll be tomorrow for sure

Way to put a target on your back 💀💀💀

I mean, Mario & Luigi looks pretty decent, but among the best? No way, man. A tad bit bland. Now the Paper Mario remake, those visuals are hot diggity dope

I got 6 lol I don't pay attention or commit anything to memory, apparently

I normally don't care about performance dips but man this was pretty bad. Happy for this patch

Stealing is fun. But I will say that I'm so used to linear, brisk gameplay that I now find it a pain in the arse to explore towns when I enter them. Like, I normally just make a beeline for the item and equipment shops and then continue the story, so I'm finding it a chore to aimlessly wander a town in Dragon Quest looking for loot. It's sad, I grew up in the 90s where this was the norm but modern games have sapped away my patience and attention span 😭

I'm enjoying it for the most part. Levels are a little too long, though, and I'm dying a lot in the boss fights. That's more a commentary on my casual tastes, though, rather than faults of the game.

My gut says January but who knows. In any case, it would be really funny if the official name is "The Successor to Nintendo Switch." Leave no room for interpretation lol

Animal Crossing, then F-Zero 99, then the GBA app. I worked on my Animal Crossing island a ton during the back half of the year and decided to actually complete the DLC, so it being number one comes as no surprise.

I did a lot of the F-Zero events this year, so that tracks. I did let it idle quite a bit, though, so the hour count isn't entirely accurate.

I don't remember what released on GBA this year but I love GBA so it still makes sense lol

I'm surprised Pokémon Violet didn't make the top three because I did quite a bit of shiny hunting this year but F-Zero idling probably skewed the numbers.

Rumour has it that the rumours are true!

779 hours over 56 games. Animal Crossing up top at 95. F-Zero 99 at 82, then GBA at 55. Pretty decent.

See I'm certain none of these games are actually the worst. The actual worst would be found amongst the weekly eshop shovelware

@RubyCarbuncle oh I thought it was hilarious, and I was just a little starstruck too! Like, Kamiya blocked me!

Lmao I'll be expecting an apology for calling me and insect and blocking me on twitter dot com in my inbox now

It's pretty amusing if nothing else. I'm perfectly happy with the current Switch and have tons to play, but I'll still be purchasing the follow up day one whenever it does come because I have no self control whatsoever lol

9pm my time, which is past my bedtime. Sorry Geoff but early shift beckons me