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At first I thought "brick" was a dig at the size of the original GB before remembering that Lego pieces are called bricks.

@BTB20
Ah, now I see where the 20k+ figure came from. The previous week number was fixed but not the increase. So now it just looks like bad math.

The physical is gonna be $60 while the digital is $30. 😳 Maybe that's market value though, or maybe that gives them the same margins. It seems crazy though.

Can y'all cool it with the ice puns? You're unfortunately reminding me of Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Please, just chill.

I love that Activision branched off of Atari, picking an earlier name in the alphabet presumably to show up earlier in the phone book. Then Activision co-founders also founded Accolade, doing the same thing. Then other Activision employees created Acclaim and Absolute with the same idea.

I don't know of a single Digital Eclipse release where it would make sense to chronicle this crazy lineage, but I echo the sentiments of those who want an Activision extension which would at least cover part of this.

@Liam_Doolan To be clear, does this include singing? Movies (and I suppose games too) sometimes have voice actors and singers for a character be different people.

@88NickC Ability to pay isn't the same as desire to pay. If Rare wasn't worth a billion dollars to Microsoft, it doesn't matter if they had it. By your reasoning, Elon Musk has automatically won every auction. Also, private companies sell to who they want to. They don't sell to the highest bidder unless that's what they want to do. They already had a working relationship with Nintendo and had no idea how Microsoft would be to work for. The heads of Rare started out as game designers, not corporate suits. So Nintendo likely wouldn't have needed to outbid MS, just offer enough to make Rare happy.

I thought about this article this weekend because DK Bananza has the opposite of fall damage: now the ground takes damage when you land.

I've noticed there are more parts of the Switch 2 OS that are screenshot-friendly than for Switch 1. Maybe they're lightening up on that in general.

@Medic_alert Jumping with A is unusual, but coincidentally it's good preparation for the Kirby DLC in a month. Since that's DLC, it will likely have a difficulty spike relative to the main game.

I spent 20 minutes or so in the first room. Did I leave because I had done everything? Because I got bored? No. It's because I knew later I'd level up and be able to finish the job more efficiently. 😎

I give it 4 years before there are indie Bananzalike games. Perhaps the Saudi Arabian prince buys part of Thunderful and gets them to make SteamWorld Dig 3 where you find oil reserves.

@ROOCIS It makes sense that you've barely scratched the surface. I suppose you don't even see the surface until the end of the game. 😏

Language warning

But yeah I'd like to watch Citizen Cage.

@topsekret My mistake. I see what you mean now.

@topsekret I forget if it was MKW or Cyberpunk, but I put it in my S1, and it gave a message about it not being playable.

@dskatter True, the two biggest heroes of the first golden age of the arcade getting reinventions in the same week is quite the angle that I haven't seen stated yet.

Imagine in 2025 still being an outlet that only has 5 possible review scores. Such outlets' arbitrary whims have a disproportional impact on Metacritic scores.

@FatDaddyD I'm curious: what's your source for the $16 figure? It sounds credible and would explain a lot. But splitting increased costs with consumers is not how business works. Consumers would pay the entire difference. And even then you'd be trimming your profit margins since they're measured in percentages.

@topsekret "...due to Nintendo requiring that all Nintendo Switch 2 Editions work on both Switch 1 and Switch 2..."

Where are you getting this from? Or does your username check out?

@Fake-news "Can’t even use the SW1 DLC codes on SW2! That’s really anti consumer."

Again, where are you getting this from? Or does your username check out, too? haha

Why wouldn't they give a little bit (or big bit) more warning?

The only explanation here that makes sense is this is yet another experiment, trial balloon, A-B test, or whatever your preferred expression is.

If the stability doesn't have a CRT filter and a Sound Test mode, I'll wait for a sale.

I could see Monster Hunter Wilds on a game key card. I bet the game key card issue is mitigated for mainly online-focused games that would have lower resale and collector's interest anyway. Perhaps Tekken 8 using the same rationale.

The ending music and Rainbow Road here are the best (musical) tracks in the series.

Also, I think the reason new releases won't be on here that quickly is OSTs are much bigger in Japan. And yet they are so slow in getting them produced.

How long before they kneecap their viewership numbers by making these exclusive to their Nintendo Today app?

Perhaps they're gonna wait a bit and see how the game key card / only having 64gb cards to choose from situation shakes out. I just saw Little Nightmares III at Best Buy.com for $40 for Switch 2 (as a game key card) and $60 for Switch 1. I can't imagine their thinking it's worth $60 (first party MSRP) but not $70 (first party MSRP) with improved graphics. Perhaps this means it would have had to be $80 to maintain margins, or perhaps they're conducting an experiment to see how much people value the completeness of a card.

@Davesy22 They said in an interview that they shouldn't be that much more than current ones, but that defies credulity. I'm thinking they mean cards in the 32gb or lower range, like Doom Eternal, which was $60. But so far amongst Switch 2 game key cards, only Bravely Default (9.3gb), Hogwarts Legacy (23.1gb), Civ 7 (14.6gb), Kunitsu-Gami (10.1gb), Nobunaga's Ambition (12.4gb). This wouldn't work for Street Fighter 6, Hitman, Tony Hawk, or Split Fiction.

https://www.nintendolife.com/features/limited-run-talks-switch-2-game-key-cards-huge-carts-and-difficult-pitches

I hope this gets sorted out before Elden Ring and FF7 decide on their release format. It will be telling if Limited Run sells boatloads of, say, SF6 copies. (Not announced, just a hypothetical.)

And I could see it bringing extra demand to the used Switch 1 games market. Physical buyers might need to fill in parts of the release calendar that are just game key cards by taking a second pass through the Switch 1 catalog, even if those games are no longer that available in new condition. Maybe good but less popular games like Triangle Strategy, SMTV, and Unicorn Overlord will see spikes in sales down the road.

It Tony Hawk a physical disc on PS5?

Seth Rogan referred to as talent. 🤨

MCU: Mushroom Cinematic Universe

Are they actually giving them to the media early this time? If not, this guy should auction it off to reviewers.

That is some chaotic box art.

@AlanaHagues 3:39 should read 3:59. Can you please fix this for clarity's sake?

I've never heard of a game including a digital version of the strategy guide, save for TMNT Cowabunga Collection having a fake one in it with codes and tricks, but I'm extremely here for it.

I just read about Switch 2's 3D audio in Welcome Tour where you can hear game sounds coming from places other than the speakers, like a ventriloquist I guess. I don't want to think there's a fly buzzing around me while playing, so I wonder if that option can be turned off.

So many commented on reusing assets as a complaint when the game released. It's good to see that framed in a positive light especially as a solution to some of the problems with the industry right now.

I was a Switch Player supporter for the latter half of its initial run and didn't realize it has been back for a while now. I resubscribed digitally last week.

I hope this SanDisk microSD Extreme line of cards existed before microSD Express were announced and that it's not some skeezy way of capitalizing on the confusion therein.

I could see them solving this by giving the server info to some preservation society for one game for a year. Then when that org whose motives we trust also has to close it down, we'll have a better sense of the math involved.

I don't get the argument about it chilling game design though. I get the argument about the rights holder being liable, but that sounds like something that you fix in a different way.

They won't do it because it would be a competent thing to do.

To be fair, he does get good representation at the Osaka and Tokyo Capcom stores. I think they just don't know how to modernize him. But they know from Ace Attorney that the market is healthy for AA releases. With increased backwards compatibility making console generations effectively 15 years, they won't be able to cheese headlines by re-releasing the same collections every 7 years. They'll need to finally give us a Star Force collection and/or Legends collection.

@StewdaMegaManNerd 😂 Comment #2

Gaming is not a branch of the "tech" industry. Literally all of the "FAANG" stocks and Microsoft have tried to crack the market. Obviously, MS has gotten the farthest, but even that's not going all that well. You have to have real visionaries, not empty suits.

It's bizarre to me how little Ubisoft monetizes their back catalog. They need some easy W's.

@88NickC The point is they had money. They could have even sold part of the Mariners to get Rare. Or perhaps revenue from the Mariners (assuming they were profitable) could have helped them buy Rare. Microsoft or Boeing could have bought the Mariners.

It's interesting that Ninja Gaiden is so much more expensive than Shinobi. That Ori collection is a steal. Why is Terminator so expensive?

I love Free Roam. I'd give the game a 10 if it:

• had a music player and maybe discs to collect for tracks instead of Peach Medallions
• didn't weirdly connect costumes to dash food
• had a better character roster (more Kongs and fewer babies and drivers without hands)
• had more canonical tracks

Just let the Xbox 360 remaster go multiplatform so I can finally sell my N64 and those 4 controllers that take up a huge box.

@88NickC They bought the Mariners, so...

@Maxz You get the game ball for best comment.

Marvel Invasion had better be more like Shredder's Revenge than Rita's Rewind. The latter is such a disappointment.

Also, so many of these will have full physical releases on Switch 1. I think until key cards are resolved, the cross gen overlap will be like 4 years.

There's no justice in an industry where studios are folding left and right and Forever Entertainment and Game Mill aren't among them.

@SpecialStreamCannon
So how does this compare to the original? Were the frustrating combat mechanics already there? It seems an omission that this wasn't stated.

Heaven forbid the Sega Ages line actually have representation from different Sega ages!

Studying philosophy taught me when a rationale does not justify its conclusion. Studying PR taught me that when this happens, there's often another reason. I think they've already planned to put it on NSO.