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@Shaw_Brothers I guess anything to model after Pokemon which had just come out there.

@Tyranexx The Japanese cover also struck me as more Western, being noisy and in your face like a Randy Savage Slim Jim ad.

I think Sony can afford to do this more than XBox. As the default high-powered console, they still have a clear value proposition. Also, they understand the economics of exclusives enough to only port older games.

I played the Crash 1 remake for about an hour before deciding the series is trash. This must have been a big factor, along with the linear gameplay and poorly chosen z-axis viewing angle.

I'm glad I didn't waste time watching the video since the conclusion itself was a waste of time. I don't need digital foundry to tell me about the game differences. Each thing does what it does better. Wow. Isn't the whole point of such a question specs and performance? Some context for why S2's battery life is not bad all things considered?

This roster is all over the place.

Silver Surfer--if I remember correctly, he's the villain in that one story. What was it? Oh, right. The one where he squared off against the Angry Video Game Nerd.

I'd be torn if these are game key cards. I want to encourage MS to port things, but I don't want to encourage game key cards.

His swear word was captioned "Hooray". 😂

It's a misreading for the analyst to say 1 in 3 bought one. I'm sure some price insensitive people bought 2 or more.

Cyberpunk also didn't report digital sales despite not being published by Nintendo?

Google is my favorite of the evil big tech megacorporations.

Why would Disney Tsum Tsum have had an entry on its own alongside vaunted series that are the tentpoles of an industry?

They spent all that time making a Lego Robocop suit for this ad just to recreate this older one. That's some effort right there.
https://youtu.be/E-ej_8XBwmI?si=mXyDDHml6aOjzO1w

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. 😏

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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.