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Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far this game has not sold very well, yes? I'm wondering how many people have been waiting on this port. I saw somewhere that when games are available on both PS4 and Switch, the Switch version is currently outselling the PS4 version 2:1 - that goes for physical OR digital. Astounding if true.

I'm not particularly interested in this sort of game, so I won't be picking this up, but I'm happy it's coming and glad the Switch has some games with some teeth coming. (Or already here in the case of DOOM.) I foresee a long partnership between Nintendo and Bethesda in the future.

@GrailUK Ah, I did not even realize he was talking about the Gamecube. He said "it" when the last console he mentioned was the Wii. The real problem here is the pronoun game! I would not have gotten so upset about calling the Gamecube a failure - it did do worst after the Wii U after all, even though I love it (excluding that red and black literal eyesore that shall not be named).

I'll get it on sale.

No Virtual Console on Switch? Fine! We'll make our own Virtual Console! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the blackjack!

This is the longest anniversary ever. Like those obnoxious people who celebrate their birth month instead of their birthday.

@gatorboi352 "This is the age old problem Nintendo has had since the Wii days... the system failed for other reasons)."

The Wii failed?! It sold 101 million units! What constitutes success? I really don't get you. What on Earth does Nintendo have to do to please you? Sell 500 million Switches with only exclusive, AAA third party titles, putting Sony and Microsoft out of business? That's never going to happen.

@AlexSora89 Yeah, pretty much. :/

@edgedino I guess it's OK for NintendoLife to post about this now. Haha as I said I THOUGHT it was the official UK website.

@ThanosReXXX I think you misunderstood me. I meant if Toki actually comes out, I hope they let us swap visuals a la the Wonder Boy remake.

@readyletsgo I agree it was a very beautiful game but I must be too impatient because I got fed up with the slow walking speed and never booted it up again after playing it for about two hours the first time.

@edgedino Haven't been up to the main site yet but it looks like Alex put up a video on Youtube with the PushSquare folks that he thinks it's confirmed for the Switch, though who knows if that's just clickbait as I haven't watched it yet... I sleep late lol. Edit: And I'm not awake yet as I initially tagged MYSELF and not you in this comment, d'oh!

@edgedino Anyway I'm going to bed as it is almost 3 am here so I will continue our conversation in the morning (or probably afternoon lol) if you choose to.

@edgedino I guess we will have to disagree on what is necessary news then. As for NL going dead, ugh, I know. They should have some staff who take weekends Mon/Tues (or two other days of the workweek) so that the site doesn't go on life support over the weekend. I don't think that would be too hard to implement. @Dom could delegate a weekend/assistant editor to make sure that weekend articles went out with the same quality (though quality has gotten a bit questionable as of late...). Surely the views they would get over the weekend would lead to increased revenue.

As for the website being third party, I had not heard that. I heard it was Nintendo's own UK site.

@edgedino Honestly the level of articles during the Wii U era of games not coming was depressing. It was silly to report on it then too and it just brought everybody down. But I guess then you could excuse it by saying, "What else was there to write about?" Nowadays there's plenty to write about. Now if the tone of this article was, "Switch version SAID to be not coming, but pre-order went up on Nintendo UK website - Discuss," which actually happened, then I would not be complaining, because that's actual news of Spyro possibly coming, not just coverage that so far, he isn't.

@ThanosReXXX Holy carp, I remember this game! I never played it myself but I remember it! If this actually comes out this is a day one get for me but I hope they do a Wonder Boy and let us swap visuals (those visuals, to be precise).

I backed this day one! I'm excited to see it got funded and hit the stretch goal to boot. This is the sort of indie game the Switch needs!

@rjejr Hahahaha. They should have saved us a fortune last gen considering they were giving us the worst versions of the games but boy were we desperate. Not that I don't love my Wii U, but come on, you are right, every re-release is adding something to the mix to make it better. I should have just skipped it altogether and now I see the logic of the people who did. But what can I say, I'm a simple woman, it says "Nintendo," I buy. But I'll tell you what - I have unhooked the Wii U but recently hooked the Wii back up. What does that say to you? Edit: I'll add that I'm finding crazy discounts on what are great games in the Wii's library to justify that hookup, Wii games cost almost nothing these days.

@rjejr I've noticed that as well... I can only assume that it's using local time but then again you know what happens when you assume...

@edgedino Well we can have an article when it's confirmed (at E3 or whenever) but until then it's just silly, isn't it? The list of games that AREN'T on the Switch is miles long. Let's start with Pong and work our way forward shall we? Do they all need an article? Considering SOME of them will come, EVENTUALLY?

@readyletsgo Everybody's Gone to the Toilet you mean. The game where you walk at half a mile per hour even after you find the run button.

@Jaxad0127 Thanks for the link! Er... Link?

Why not let's have articles on other games that aren't coming to Switch, like Spider-man, God of War, Sea of Thieves, and Cuphead? It would make just as much sense as having this article...

@rjejr I can't BELIEVE you don't think good ol' Funky Kong isn't worth $10. Honestly I think he's worth $100! DKC:TF should be $150 on Switch so really we're getting a bargain!

@ThanosReXXX This'll teach you to be "first" on any article for a while. I think you've written more on this comment section than NL staffers have in the past two weeks!

@Crono1973 Ah, I see, you are a troll. The Switch release schedule looks great, btw, as I said in my initial comment. But then again, making up comments and pretending to misread posts to try to get people to engage is what trolls do. I'm not going to engage with you, troll.

@Crono1973 I never said the Switch was competing against the Wii U...? Whatever.

All the people complaining about this lineup must have been born after 2016, since they don't seem to remember a time when there really WAS nothing coming out on Nintendo platforms and a lineup like this would have been beyond their wildest dreams. The fact that they are less than two years old would explain all the whining, too. But kudos to them for mastering a keyboard at such a young age - I'm impressed more and more each year at how the little ones conquer technology!

@Anti-Matter They announced it at E3 2010 and it didn't come out in the States until June 2013.... Ugh! I'm so glad Nintendo doesn't tease us like that anymore! (It came out in Japan in November 2012.)

@WiltonRoots Yes I seem to remember that as well... Remind me not to take lottery numbers from them!

Put the Wii Shop music in... the perfect Nintendo shopping music.

My understanding is that this also adds in levels? That the partner characters are tied to? If that is true then I can see this being definitely a good thing and Kirby becoming a more worthwhile proposition as time goes by.

@Senpai3D Hahahahahaha! XD

Says it has six card slots but I only see five? Am I missing something or can @RyanCraddock not count?

Is there a version that's just the game and not art book/soundtrack? I don't need a lot of tat floating around my house...

@JimmySpades Same...

I would like them to bring back the user star ranking system, where you had to have played the game for an hour to rate it and then you could rate it out of five stars. But I'd like to be able to give half stars as well. That way we could have a better idea of what is shovelware on the eshop right away, since there is so much of that these days.

Glad to see Kirby debut so well, that's Monster Hunter levels of sales. I didn't realize Kirby was a system seller but I guess he is! Or at least he's a tipping point. He'll hit 1m WW by June 30th financial meeting to be sure. How did he sell in US? Pretty solid numbers as well I imagine. He has to be close to 500K WW already if he did 222K in Japan only. Go Kirby!

@TJF588 I thought I was the only person who remembered that game! I played it over and over - I loved how it was such a faithful representation of going through the Rugrats' house!

@Rontanamo_Bay They could have dug up Iwata's corpse and he would have been a better presenter than those two buffoons. I'm sorry for the graphic nature of that statement and the possible disrespect to Iwata that may be inferred, but it's true. And I really do respect Iwata. He had more charisma in his pinky finger than those two numbskulls combined.

I don't usually say this but I was disappointed. I will probably get Lumines and Pode. Where was Flipping Death? Where was Pocket Rumble? Where was Wargroove? Where was Undertale? Where were the half a dozen titles that ALSO got mentioned as coming yesterday OUTSIDE the Showcase? This was probably Nintendo's poorest effort at a "Direct" style video in years. I'm not some crazy person that was expecting Smash at this event - but I was expecting some friggin' indies to show up that needed release dates and I was expecting a little more oomph. This level of quality should have just been a two minute sizzle reel in last week's Direct - make it 35 minutes long instead of 33, it's a more round number anyways.

I might pick this up on sale if it reviews well. I might pick it up at full price if it's $5 or less.

@damo I can't believe you thought this garbage was worth an article. It's not like it was a slow news day what with the Nindies Spotlight. Bleh.

My boyfriend would be all over these if they came in adult sizes.

Kind of annoyed I can't seem to find a preorder available anywhere.

@SpacemanSpiff Heck, you can see the A and the C clearly too!

@ThanosReXXX Haha indeed!

@ThanosReXXX I try to read all the posts, but sometimes it just makes me sad. Anyway, thanks, you're a brick.

@Captain_Toad @ThanosReXXX Aww. Thanks guys. I swear I didn't make that post for attention. I said nobody would notice because it's the 242nd post in an article and who is going to scroll down that far? Obviously a few good people.

When you cheap out, you always end up paying for it in the end.

@Anti-Matter Aww. Well I guess there's still some nice people left around. I'm just down because of all the ugly comments and fighting on almost every article I see but you cheered me up a bit so thanks.

@rallydefault Thank you. One thing that drives me nuts is seeing ten thousand comments on an article all about one typo. Just email them! It's more polite and you don't come across as a massive tool correcting them all the time. Posting a correction in the comments once in a while is one thing, but when it's on every article it reflects badly on you, not NL. Especially when it's something that's subjective.