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@Polvasti Hi. I meant I would like another different game - not the 2D one (Belmont's Curse). I just reread the article and I can't see another game being mentioned. I may be being slow.

@Bizzyb I bought the MGS Legacy Collection boxset for PS3 in 2012/13. I think they managed to put all of MGS4 on one disc then, but I could be wrong. I know MGS2 + 3 were on one disc. I do remember that MGS1 and the VR Missions were downloaded via a code in box.

A great collection. Box design was very cool. And the book that came with it was neat. I bought the collection before I even had a PS3, and it was the reason I bought one! Good gaming times

I would like another game, something intriguing and interesting. But that's not going to happen.

I reckon the new products will be merchandise and a hard backed coffee table book and some 300 dollar statues

@Member_the_game Darts has exploded recently and is becoming very popular globally. Id like to see Mario World Darts Championship. Local group matches would be fun but you could have a deep narrative led single player campaign where you start playing at home with a velcro board on your bedroom door, then move up to social club/bar/pub (have a couple of pints) and beat the local hero. Then you get sponsorship and trained up and work your way around the globe, upgrading equipment and skills (whilst also getting a beer belly) and then you work your way up to a razamatazz world tournament with TV sports commentary.

If you take the beer and drunk fans out I think this could actually work 🎯

@ShadLink

"Budgets on these games goes into millions."

That is true. And so do the profits, to be fair (due to the game prices set and the NSO subscription fees needed to use the online multiplayer features built into the game)

@Gs69 Sadly that is the way of the world these days. That’s why I still have my DSi, 3DS and GBA - so many pocket adventures that are high quality, lengthy and unique. If it’s an old game that you haven’t played before - it’s a new game

@vanYth How about a Mario MMA/UFC cage fighter?

@Gs69 It's sad and all pretty transparent - single player campaigns don't create revenue. Online play is behind a paywall, and does. Makes the days of Wii online Mario Kart seem like the proverbial good old days

When did Leon start using Just For Men?

@bLiNdSiDe82 Could be a “doesn’t time fly” or (more like)“are we really getting 11 year old games in Nintendo Directs”? 🤷🏻

I wonder what the price will be? You could buy a 2nd hand PS4 for £69.99 from Cash Converters and the game for £4 from CEX. Wouldn’t be handheld, but still….

https://ibb.co/jvyJxKVN

Like many have said, money is tight all over.

I'm currently playing Golden Sun for the first time on GBA and have several hundred backlogged games for GB/GBC/GBA/GC/DS/3DS/Wii/Wii U/PS3 & Switch OLED.

But I do look forward to buying a 2nd hand Switch 2 Pro OLED and PS5 Pro in 2035, along with some cheap games from CEX. If Earth still exists at that time.

@larryisaman 🤞🏻Hopefully some multiplayer* SNES Mario Kart style balloon battle DLC content, in the open world area for the low, low price of 20 dollars

(*paid online subscription required)

@foursider This spirit is baked in to the very hardware itself - the C button. Remember after the Switch 2 was shown in full for the first time, when everyone was guessing what the C stood for? When it was revealed that the button activates the ‘GameChat’ service (that requires a paid Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) subscription to use) someone said - “the C stands for CASH”

Funny, sad and true.

@foursider I’m with you. Including single player campaign content doesn’t generate more money - but gameplay features that encourage paying for a Switch online membership does.

As the Nintendo news article on the S2 edition states in its notes at the foot of the page -

“Online play requires paid online membership”

https://www.nintendo.com/my/news/article/1JdC8pTPY6pBKneGVEqTJS

@SBandy1 MP4 has been reduced from £49.99 to £31.50 here in the UK, since 4 weeks after its release. So that’ll help push up the numbers. I was really surprised to see such a deep discount on a first party IP so soon

The accumulated library of games I have amassed from the Wii, DS, 3DS, Wii U and Switch era (with over half of them still on the backlog list) made me realise that buying Switch 2, at launch, was never an option. For the same reason at other device launches I ended up buying the Wii U, DS, 3DS and Switch 1 several years after their launch. I will be buying one but it'll be probably 5 or 6 years from now. I still enjoy following the news about the games and Nintendo - and am keeping a note of the games I intend to buy.

@PJOReilly I remember the singers PJ Harvey and PJ Proby and an American writer called PJ O'Rourke.

Ah, man. Wish Felix all the best but will miss him and his videos. Really valued his honest point of view and the way he shared his thoughts. Through his videos I was tipped off on what to buy or investigate, including a few hidden gems - Mario Hoops 3-on-3 on the DS being one. Will always associate him with happy coffee breaks, watching his videos. Best of luck, Felix! Thanks for all your videos, brother

@GiantEnemyCrab I'll just keep my mind open and enjoy my dinner. Peace ✌🏻

@GiantEnemyCrab I hear what you're saying - if they have created an account to specifically troll people then that's not cool.

I won't be using anything on here to tell me everything I need to know about them, or anyone else. Not that I need to know anything.

@Bootlicker333 Your PFP is fine, man. And different opinions are good. Some of this crowd have really drank the kool-aid. Nintendo are my favourite video game company - but they are not beyond reproach.

Always appreciated your warm and friendly personality in the videos you were part of. You will be missed and I wish you the very best in whatever lies ahead

@Zuljaras Amen!

@The_Top_Loader Hear, hear! The selection of films on Netflix/Amazon isn't all that. It's like being at a bad wedding buffet.

Can you imagine the curation of a video game streaming service?

Gamer: "I'd like to play Duke Nukem"
AI Bot: "Sure! We have Duke Nukem Forever"
Gamer: ".......what?!"
AI Bot: "This title is leaving our service in 48 hours"

Is the suggestion that this would be difficult to bring to the Switch 2?

@HugoGED Well said. And as for Fallout New Vegas?! Play that on PS3!

@Suketoudara It's not a full game but there is an episodic mini game in Professor Layton and The Curious Village on DS which I think has kind of slightly the same principle. Layton & Luke have taken rooms in an Inn and you are given furniture and items and you have to place them in their rooms, and this affects their happiness. Based on their preferences and tolerances to lamps, stuffed animals and chairs

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@DominionGamma I have a feeling that maybe they had the statistics needed to tell the story they want to tell. Whatever that is, who knows.

Considering all the articles on the internet about the survey - where it is largely categorised as being an opportunity to give negative feedback about GKC - perhaps Nintendo were wary of things gaining traction and being lobbied by people piling on (like the ‘DROP THE PRICE’ direct comments)

And time doesn’t seem to have lessened the debate. Look at the comment count for this article - it’s relatively old in website terms and there are 200+ comments, and the debate continues.

@kmtrain83 Hi. I agree - to a certain extent. But this is where personal preference - maybe guided by my age and the associations I formed when I was young - makes a difference. For whatever reason I see video games as being similar to books.

I associate them being stacked on a shelf, indexed by the text on the spine. I look at the box art and I open the case and put the cart/disc in the console and start it up. When I am finished I put in back in the box and put it back on the shelf.

The key card option offers all of these things. But it is the nagging knowledge that I am shouldering the storage cost that I do not agree with.

Like I said, I used to own a lot of physical media (DVDs, CDs, cassettes, etc) and for whatever reason I was happy to say goodbye to physical for those - but games just feel different to me. This probably speaks to the nature of collecting (anything) and why it is appealing. It’s something I don’t want to analyse too much - as it is something I enjoy. I don’t want to kill the golden goose.

I own 291 Switch 1 games (90 physical, 149 digital). Even though the physical games are the minority of the library I consider the physical games more special. Perhaps more ‘real’ (whatever that means in digital entertainment). The digital games don’t hang in my consciousness because of this, and I often forget I have them until I see the tiny square on the Switch. This makes them feel less to me.

Like you say, objectively the game is the game - whether it is digital or physical (digital via physical) and I understand that is the way things will eventually go.

This may be a bit of a stretch - and perhaps it is a generational thing - but I often still connect the movies I like the most with their theatrical release posters. On Netflix these do not exist and to me it feels so strange when I see a great film available to stream (such as Jaws) and they don’t use the iconic poster, just a frame from the film. Obviously this association of the film and the poster from a physical cinema or a video rental store 30 years ago just isn’t relevant in a digital world.

Again objectively the film is the film, like the game is the game, but for me the artwork, the packaging, instruction booklets (once upon a time) and the stuff around it is a part of the game.

I gather, from what I read here about this subject, these associations are not nearly as strong for everyone, which is understandable. So much of the world is digital. And I suppose it has been for a human generation or more. Why would people who understand, value and accept digital as the norm on so many levels value physical?

@Kilamanjaro I agree with you. I'm 48 and though initially there was some convenience to digital entertainment I think it has now developed into something else. If Switch 2 storage was dirt cheap or vast that wouldn't be quite so bad but the key cards just feel like an additional cost being pushed onto the consumer. The discussion on this thread shows that there are mixed views. I want the full game on a cart but some people feel about games the way I do about music or films. I once owned hundreds of videocassettes and CDs. Now that is all digital. Games have a different feeling to them for me - I suppose the closest thing is a book. I like having a personal copy, that sits on the shelf that I can revisit in the future.

@Raifteiri Yeah. I got that message too

@SillyG Well said👌🏻

@Jedrus_Lilac Absolutely. When he started talking about heroes facing adversity. Comedy gold!

@Johnny44 When I first saw the reveal trailer I thought the visuals looked a bit like a Skylanders game. The colours and shapes, etc

What is a rally towel?

@Jack_Goetz Cheers, man

Anyone know if there's going to be a physical Switch 1 version?

@HugoGED I once read that the original intention for the Wii U version was to include a map and hud to the Wii U gamepad - but it was nixed because this would make the Wii U version superior, in terms of features, to the Switch. Which could push people towards the Wii U instead of the Switch. Very dissapointing.

@kmtrain83 I like films and used to own hundreds of VHS cassettes in the 90s (horror, kung fu and westerns) - but they were forgotten about by me when I moved out and then were chucked out by my Mum. Same thing with CDs. Ripped them to iTunes and then sold them in one big bundle. Used to keep all my books but I got rid of most of them too. Maybe I will feel the same about games in the future - but they feel a bit different to me. Somewhere between a comic book, a board-game, a cartoon, a book, a film and a sport. They really are very unique. I like looking at the cases, and manuals if they even have them. I feel like I would miss these more. But who knows.

Sealed batteries, the demise of Virtual Condile and digital games. I fear we are heading to a Netflix model for gaming.

@HugoGED Amen.

@Blofse Your icon brings back memories of old VHS copies of ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’, ‘Executioners from Shaolin’ and my genuine favourite, ‘Dirty H*’ (putting an * in there in case I got flagged!)

@Rebusmind I have those games in my collection, but the appeal just isn’t there with this new art style. Looks like Wii shovelware or a bad mobile game from 2017.

The boys over at SwitchUp on You Tube have a different opinion https://youtu.be/wlf-vb-9J8A?si=l1kfgX0x3-zlo-Y0

@Olliemar28 Hey, Ollie. Do you know if there is any chance of a physical release? I did some research and get mixed messages.

@ear_wig I agree with you. UK gamer in Scotland here. Money is tight all over, and these are challenging times for all outgoing costs.

The day after the Direct I went online to pay my gas & electricity bill for the month and discovered the company has folded and gone into administration. I then switched on the radio and they were discussing global trade wars. I then watched the Treehouse and saw the live chat kicking off.

I genuinely love Nintendo games and they have given me lots of enjoyment. I will get a Switch 2 but it’ll be quite a few years down the line - when the OLED equivalent is released and the library has grown fat with first party titles.

In the meantime I’ll put the coffee on, bunker down and focus on actually playing some of the games in my backlog.

Peace✌️

@-wc- I may be shot down for this point but I think things are generally becoming very homogenous indeed. Feels very much like a lot of things are products of focus groups.

It’s a tiny point but as a kid (before internet) I used to love seeing the new posters for films on bus shelters and wondering what the films would be like. The thumbnails they provide for films on Netflix now reduce it all down to a single person, wearing sunglasses.

@theberrage The Gamepad implementation of map and equipment was pretty sweet too on the Wii U