TheLobster

Glob is my spirit animal.

Glob is my spirit animal.

Great! I love me some musical theatre. Now, where do I sign up, Miyamoto?

Just another way to advertise, "Hey ladies - I'm single and I'm ready to mingle! Wanna milk some cows in 1-2 Switch together? Wink wink nudge nudge."

Definitely picking these up - I haven't been able to import them yet!

@faint @Trikeboy That doesn't surprise me knowing Activision. Still, Star Fox Zero was a mess too (though that was probably down to Miyamoto more than anything).

@Anti-Matter The "genuine" copies don't get this patch. I don't think this game is worth learning an entire language just to play. But maybe you do, I dunno.

Nintendo really should add in messaging to the Switch, though! I know they never will, but imagine if you could DM the friends he'd had starred. Super fast way to reconnect without going through Nintendo. Or am I the only person who reserves the stars for people I know irl?

Edit: Maybe only allow DMs to people if both of you have starred each other? Nintendo could find ways to make it safe-ish.

@cyrus_zuo You're forgetting that the Switch is also a portable console, and forget Mario and Zelda, when it comes to Nintendo, let alone portables, there is no bigger IP than Pokemon. Which we know is coming.

Throw in Smash and Animal Crossing with the promise of Metroid in the first half of 2019 and there you go. That's 20 million consoles, easy.

Platinum is a very hit and miss studio. There's reasons for that but I'm not as hyped for this as other people are. When they make a good game, it's AMAZING, but when they make a clunker, it STINKS.

For comparison, this same article from last year:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/01/feature_hopes_and_dreams_for_nintendos_2017

Everyone sounded so depressed!

@JayJ Katakana will help you because that is the syllabary for loan words, which are frequently English words (for example, save and load up above).

I did actually have a bit of a hiccup and had to reconnect this afternoon when I went to spend my eShop card. I thought it was a problem on my end though as it worked just fine the second time. I guess Nintendo are beating their poor sysadmins almost hard enough this year.

Great, Nintendo. You just revealed to all of DeviantArt that they're both "legal." Now you only have yourselves to blame for the resulting, er, artwork.

Oh God, this is the first thing in eleven years that has me tempted to forget about my Celiac Disease and just eat it... but I get very, very sick when I eat gluten so I will have to just collect the box and not eat the cereal.

Did they finally get some Switches in Ireland? I'm getting concerned. Somebody should go check on Sliggy.

This is fantastic. If they changed it to isometric or made the ink drip down over the side of the floor, either way - I would be totally down to play it. I hope Nintendo DOES get in touch!

@ShadJV It's not funny if you have to explain the joke.

@Nintendoforlife Not at all. I would love an online mode. You just play with your friends and chat over Discord. It would be fun to stream even. If it were only random matchups, then it would be terrible, but as long as the ability to play with people on your friends list was there, why not?

The thing about the Xbox One X sales are, that 1300 last week and the 100 this week were probably Japan's full allotment for the entire country. It looks really good for Microsoft to say, "Xbox One X Sold Out in Japan!" Even if they've sold less than 1500 of the things since launch.

I must have been very tech savvy this year. I bought a Switch, an S8, and a SNES Classic and I've been satisfied with all of them. However, I really have to give it to the Switch. There just hasn't been a better year-one lineup in gaming history, and its year one isn't even close to over. On top of that it's truly the most innovative thing to hit gaming since maybe the D-pad, or at least analogue sticks. I'm serious, it's changed how I see games at least that much. The fact that I can take any game anywhere has been pounded into my head thoroughly at this point. Whether I'm going on a long car trip across the country or in an airplane or laying up in bed at night or simply going to the bathroom, I never have to stop playing that game I can play on my big screen TV. And I've had some of the best multiplayer experiences, in person and online, that I've had since college (aka the Wii days) on the Switch. I'm not going to call it my favorite console yet, I think that's too soon, but if it can get Jim Sterling to post a retraction then it must be doing something right.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I think you're the biggest Negative Nancy on the site (you remind me of the SNL Debbie Downer sketches with your constant Wii U/Switch whining) but there is thinking you are annoying and there is wearing a lower part of your anatomy as a hat. That person crossed the line into the latter. You shouldn't have to deal with crap like that no matter how annoying you are.

I'm going to be so pissed if PUBG wins GOTY.

Edit: Double post.

@Anti-Matter You obviously didn't live through the 80s and 90s when every console was a "Nintendo" no matter who made it... Sega, Atari, TurboGrafx, PlayStation, whatever. All "Nintendos." It's not really a big deal except to kids who get upset over console wars. Everyone else just understood the person saying that was out of touch. Which, I don't know everything about everything either.

@thesilverbrick Is Koi blood the same color as people blood? I can honestly say I have never killed one to find out.

This is fantastic. Switch is selling better than PC and comparable to XBONE. You know Ubisoft will never stop putting out games on either of those two platforms so Switch is safe!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Or as my mother used to tell me when I was four years old and having a tantrum, "The world does not revolve around you."

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Maybe you spent 475 hours playing but not everyone did. I "only" played for 120. Asking for $20 to cover 150 hours when I paid $60 for 120 seems a bit stupid, no? I think your trouble is you got a bit too obsessed. Even if you want to get 100% completion, that's fine, you have to understand others can get there faster and the devs don't have to cater to YOU.

No worries guys. MH:WU will come to Switch. And it's a casualized version of the game anyway. But when sales in Japan are disappointing compared to MH:XX, they'll want to do something about it.

My favorite 2D is Super Mario Bros. 3.
My favorite 3D is Super Mario Odyssey.

However for most influential in my life, Super Mario Bros. is the first game I played when I was 3, in 1990. Super Mario 64, in 1996 when I was 8, is what made me a gamer. (My birthday is in December for anyone thinking that doesn't add up.)

This looks very promising. I'm burnt out on gaming Kickstarters though so I will probably pass on backing it. But I will be watching its career with great interest. /Palpatine

@SLIGEACH_EIRE You don't need a Salt-Grilled Crab. You've got too much salt already.

I think this is one I'll have to see the retail cart come down a bit before I bite. I bought the original on Wii U and enjoyed it but never finished it. Had more to do with the platform than the game.

I have not heard fantastic things about the sequel.

I still prefer physical. Out of the 33 games I have for Switch, 14 are physical. But still, more than half of my games are digital because the eShop is bursting at the seams with amazing content.

I don't think my launch day Switch has seen the inside of its dock to this day. Though the pita motion controls for Mario Odyssey are at least tempting me to play that one tabletop from time to time, a mode I have used a couple of times before.

43% and 11% here. Millennial Sisters represent!

I mean, my 76 year old neighbor still uses her Wii for Netflix and her grandkids play games on it on the regular so I guess they have to be playing something. Why not Just Dance 2018?

@JaxonH It's funny because I definitely won't buy Fifa or NBA 2K but put out a cartoony sports game and I will play that all day.

Actually I have considered buying Fifa just to support EA putting more games on Switch soooooo... I might be nuts.

@JaxonH "And if they continue with a Switch line of casual games I can assure you I will not be buying them."

Interesting because if they came out with "Nintendo Sports Unlimited" (lose the Wii branding obviously) or something along those lines I would buy it in a heartbeat. Wii Sports + HD Rumble? Yes please. Keep the Miis, they were great. It may not have been the greatest game ever but it set the world on fire for a reason.

This has the potential to be a really cool niche title for some people. Glad to see the cross platform support, though boo on Sony for not playing well with others as usual in this regard. There are going to be a slew of cross platform titles at this rate!

Snake Pass may be worth it. The others not so much.

Twenty-six?

"Soooonic... when you gonna get maaaarried? When you gonna give me some grandbabies? When you gonna move out of this basement and get a joooob? When you gonna go to cooooolleeege? Soooooonic!"

Now taste it.

As a teenager unused to having a cell phone for the first time, as they were still uncommon back then, mine went through the wash a few times and always came out fine. Of course phones back then were practically analog. I broke my Galaxy S6 (more accurately my cats broke it) a few weeks ago, and my dad goes, "Why are you always so careless with your cell phones?" I was like, "What?" He goes, "First the wash, then you let one get stolen*, then you do this!" All of those incidents took place over the course of almost 15 years. He has quite the long memory, my father. I guess it's proof that you're still always going to be the irresponsible kid in your parents' eyes sometimes no matter what.

(*The time I got it stolen I was actually sexually assaulted and then mugged? So thanks for bringing that up, Daddy, that was a fun thing to be reminded of.)

I never let anything happen to my games however.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I'm sorry you don't have any fun in your life. I have a ton of the Vans and get compliments on them all the time, and I just bought one of the Uniqulo shirts. I'm going to be 30 this year.

Totally nabbing that Game Boy pouch too!

I am very excited after seeing that trailer. This game looks like it could be a lot of fun drunk.

@Anti-Matter Well it was implied that you were swearing, just because it is asterisked out doesn't mean it was not there. It is like a bleep on TV, it means it was said, you just can't hear/read it.

@Anti-Matter The irony of your complaining about something being "NSFW" while swearing is lost on you, isn't it?

This is ugly af. Anyway, I've never had a problem with the controllers, and I once played Zelda in portable mode for over six hours. I have average sized hands for a woman.

Does anyone know if this is getting a physical release or is it digital only?