@Serpenterror I have first gen Switch and never had any problems with it being stuck in the dock. As far as i seen in the past, it terminates charging at 100%.
I remember third party docks ruined the Switch battery and could even brick the Switch, because they didn't terminate charging at 100%. Nintendo then said that only the official PSU stopped at 100%. This were said for the 2017 model, not the newer ones. It makes sense, because why would anyone bundle a dock if the console still have to run on battery?
If Switch only could run on battery, Nintendo would have bundled a cheap 1$ USB-C to HDMI cable instead of a whole dock.
My Legion Go handheld have the option for 80% and 100% and then terminates charging.
I don't think Asus and Steam Deck have any PSU mode like Legion and Switch.
Legion is also designed for desktop usage and is why PSU can be connected 24/7. In fact the right gyro controller is even a real PC mouse you use as a mouse on the table.
Funny thing is that Legion looks like a giant Switch as it also
have gyro controls.
The Legion screen is black as Switch, and both gyros is grey like the grey Joy Cons on Switch.
Anyway. As for your other post above.
Sony used cheap batteries since PS3 with short battery life.
For unknown reasons, PS VITA had a proper battery.
My 12 year old PS VITA battery is still "good as new?" as of late 2024.
Unlike on Sony controllers, PS VITA battery doesn't die if you don't use it for a year.
Fun fact: The Wii U Pro Controller lasts 80 hours on one charge if rumble is disabled.
Wii U Pro Pad also doesn't drain battery at all if you don't use it for months. My Wii U Pro pad still works fine after 12 years too.
Switch Pro pad have nowhere the same battery time as that one.
Nintendo use cheaper batteries now, but still superior to the Sony ones.
Microsoft always gave people the option of using AA or rechargeable batteries. A smart move as you will never need to open a Xbox controller to change a dead battery. Some Xbox pads last 30 hours on a charge.
@Edu23XWiiU
Because it's more handy to drag around than a Gaming laptop to hotels and whatever.
How do you play Cyberpunk 2077, Stalker 2, Flight Simulator 2024, Horizon Forbidden West, Avatar, Indiana Jones, Astro bot, Red Dead Redemption 2 etc. on Switch with or without a battery?
I guess you didn't think through your comment. lol
@Gs69
Yeah. VITA were ahead of it's time like Atari Lynx from 1989 were.
Atari Lynx could run current Amiga and PC games in 1989 which were insane and also had Mode 7 chip for "3D", but still lost vs Gameboy.
Third parties ditched VITA already the first year, and Sony ditched it a few months later.
VITA were almost a portable PS3, and i guess development cost were too high vs how many games were sold so most gave it up besides Indies who supported it for years.
I haven't used PS4 in years, and VITA store is closed.
I recently bought a few Indies on sale on PS4 for fun on sale that also included VITA versions.
VITA games are still for sale, but only if they are included with PS4 version.
The PSN Store still works on VITA so you can download them, but purchases have to be done on PS4.
Anyway. VITA and Wii U console sales were compared weekly back then as they sold about same amount...
Wii U is wonderful console for many reasons most Nintendo fans missed out on.
@Edu23XWiiU Battery time is mostly irrelevant as there is power almost everywhere including ships, trains, ferries, planes, cars etc.
Legion Go have "Charge and Terminate" like Switch, so the PSU can stay in power 24/7 all year without breaking the battery.
Legion Go have a optional charging feature missing on Switch.
When it reaches 80% charging, the charger changes to PSU mode.
These handheld batteries last a lot longer when they end charging at 80%.
Nintendo never thought of that.
@Gs69 If PS VITA were as big as Switch, and used SD cards it would still be a great handheld today.
It should never have been shipped with a small screen and small buttons, on top of two missing shoulder buttons.
As for the PS Vita OS, still a joy to use in 2024 as it's so optimized and polished.
I'm surprised Switch isn't as fast and polished as a VITA to use.
Perhaps Switch 2 can be on par with VITA there.
The Tegra X1 inside Switch were designed for Android TV to stream video at 4K/60 and run 4K movies locally back in year 2014.
This is the reason why Switch have a slower OS as the chip wasn't designed for gaming handheld's.
In fact Switch doesn't even have more RAM than the 10 year old NVIDIA Shield TV media boxes.
@westman98 You are 100% correct about everything you say.
The new PC Handheld hardware coming next year is for handhelds that will probably cost closer to 1000$
In 2-3 years Rog Ally and Legion Go hardware will maybe drop enough in price to run downscaled PS5 games natively.
PS5 Pro cost 980$ in several countries in Europe, so it's not unlikely Sony would sell a 600$ PS5 Handheld too.
@Itachi2099 I agree with what you say more or less.
Yes, these PC Handhelds are real PC's without a locked down system like Switch for example. I know PC Handhelds cost more, but they have no limitations as they are running Windows 11 and they can run over 100.000's of games. Both of these PC Handhelds currently have great discounts this week.
There is only 3 + soon 2 more, PC Handheld brands that is sold anywhere on the planet. Legion Go, Rog Ally and MSI Claw. The upcoming Acer and Zotac Handhelds will be sold globally too. MSI Claw is the only Handheld using Intel hardware.
PS5 games still looks good on a 8.8" screen on Legion Go at 1200p because of the tiny screen. I get 55 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 with medium settings on Legion. Over 250 FPS in Resident Evil 7 on low settings which is insane on a handheld...
Next-Gen PC Handheld hardware is coming in 2025. Microsoft and Sony will have a problem when it comes to power vs price. If they use PC Handheld hardware, you know the price already as consoles isn't sold at a loss anymore.
I also don't think Sony will bother this much to get old games compatible, at least not for free.
You can bet Microsoft will do upgrades on games 100% for free on their handheld including third party games. Remember Microsoft already upgraded lots of third party Xbox 360 games like Red Dead Redemption to 4K for free, and they manually made over 600 games run on newer consoles without emulation. It took them 3 years or so to do it. In fact MS even bothered to replace the Xbox 360 assets with PC assets on a lot of games. As you know PC had higher quality textures.
@fenlix That's why so many accept a fat paycheck for releasing games on Game Pass instead.
Rebellion and several others release all their games on day one on Game Pass every year.
Less than 50% of Xbox owners have Game Pass, so they sell copies outside GP anyway to Console owners, Steam and Windows Store for PC.
If you buy on Windows Store you get PC and console version at no extra cost.
There is nearly 700 PC+Xbox cross purchases so far.
@kkslider5552000 Assassins Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, Watch Dogs 3 and Riders Republic were probably their last successes.
Maybe Avatar and Motorfest too, especially on PS5 since it never had anything like Forza Horizon on Xbox.
UBI is known for their "repeat" open world formula and are mostly playing it safe on consoles, but not on PC. (More on it below)
If they made Splinter Cell open world too, it would be flamed only because it's a UBI open world.
The Division 3, AC Shadows and Far Cry 7 is perhaps the only known upcoming AAA Games from UBI at this point.
AC Shadows previews backfired so hard , because the game were revealed as a blasphemy to Japanese history.
UBI delayed the game until 2025 to do major changes...
At this point people are so negative vs UBI that it might flop either way.
One thing almost no one knows is that UBI released many games exclusive to PC for years.
The praised Anno Series, Ode, 2 x Rayman remasters, Sports Champions, That new ball game from 2024 and a bunch of other games that were never released on any console.
The innovative and experimental UBI games are usually PC exclusive.
Riders Republic were the only innovative game for consoles for years perhaps.
Nintendo is kind of UBI by being on the safe side most of the time. Mostly Mario related games.
I don't think Switch 2 will sell as much as Switch, because it won't be the most powerful handheld when it releases.
There is at least 15 brands that makes powerful PC Handhelds now that also runs Xbox Series X and PS5 games natively on same handheld.
@kkslider5552000 Someone here didn't do any research or read any UBI statements for years...
1.) UBI would have cancelled Skull & Bones many years ago if they funded it.
The government in Singapore funded Skull & Bones, and wanted to get it completed at any cost.
Blame the government there for it to exist and not UBI.
Never blame the wrong people.
2.) UBI have over and over again said for many years that none of their developers wants to make a new Splinter Cell, because it's impossible to please gamers no matter how it's made.
Splinter Cell Blacklist were a big budget flop that killed off the series. It didn't become popular until a year later.
Blame the Splinter Cell fans for discovering Blacklist too late when sales didn't matter anymore.
The problem with Splinter Cell is that when you make one kind of game, you will only please 50% of the Splinter Cell fans. If you are pleasing the other 50%, you will not please the first 50% of fans instead.
It's just impossible to make a new game in the series as it will flop either way.
UBI don't have money anymore to make big budget games for a long time anyway if they ever recover, and Splinter Cell is a sore thumb to UBI.
@Vyacheslav333 Postal sure is on top list of the best movie based on games.
Uwe Boll announced "Postal 2" in 2024 and cancelled it 2 months ago due to lack of funding.
Anyway. When you make a movie about a game just to make it, it will just end up like Borderlands, Doom, Street Fighter etc.
At least Bethesda were smart enough to refuse Fallout movie/tv series every time someone wanted to make it for the wrong reasons.
Anyway. That Zelda movie will be terrible, because it has writers, producers etc. with a very bad history behind them.
It's what happens when Nintendo are desperate to get it done. Bethesda would never have done anything with those who make the Zelda movie. It's sad Nintendo became so desperate.
@contractcooker Yes. Sony already increased prices on games and console, because Sony said they don't have competition anymore.
It doesn't make sense that majority of people think increased prices is a good thing.
There are physical Sony games already that cost 90$ and it won't be long before they cost 100$.
In fact even some Switch physicals increased to 80 bucks too because of Xbox.
Gotta love monopoly....
@Anti-Matter Someone who knows nothing about Microsoft and Xbox the last 5 years...
If you bothered to read business news on business sites on business sites, the last years, you would have deleted your comment already as you know nothing about Microsoft's 10 year plan at all and it's future upcoming competitors.
Also don't forget Sony went multiplatform over 4 years ago, because the market changed.
You can't really fail much with a release like this.
The only thing that could go wrong, is including Tetris games with poor brick movement.
If they could include top Tetris games without license like Twintris, it would probably get more 10/10 reviews.
This collection is only hurt by licensing, so they had to skip a bunch of good Tetris games.
"While you're able to upload images and video footage of the title to social media and streaming platforms for "non-commercial" purposes".
If people wasn't greedy, YouTube would still be a non profit place like it used to in the past.
People who don't charge money on YouTube never have problems with licensed video and music.
In fact 99% of record companies worldwide allows their music to be used on YouTube, if ads and everything money related is disabled on the channel.
My YT channels have always been non profit to avoid copyright problems.
If i enabled money stream on my channels, 99% of my content would be blocked. lol
I prefer freedom over money anyway.
@Daniel36 Yeah. These Stalker games cost around 2 bucks each on key shops for PC right now.
Stalker 2 finally releases on day 1 on Game Pass in 13 days. I'm ready.
@Banjo- Yes, probably. Stores here have mainly marketed PC hardware and PC's the last for years. After physical console games died a few years ago, all focus went to gaming PC which sell like hot cakes.
PC Gamers are fixing old retro games all the time to support modern controllers, resolutions etc.
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc from year 2005 or something runs at 4K/60 on modern PC and the graphics aged good.
Rayman Fiesta Run and Rayman Jungle Run were originally released for phones. UBI ported them to PC back in 2022 to run at locked 1080p/60 and added support for modern controllers.
It's close to 2025 now and at this point i doubt they will port them to anything else.
UBI in general made many PC only games in recent which is typical console games, but still never were ported to any consoles. Several of these PC Games were sold for only 5$ each.
Fun fact: Steam alone, excluding GOG and Epic Store got 23000 new games in 2023...Consoles got around 2000 games.
The majority of new games are PC exclusive every year. Sure there is a lot of shovelware on PC, but consoles get lots of them too.
The most successful PC exclusives can take up to 5-6 years before they are ported to any console, and a huge amount of great exclusives are never coming to consoles at all.
@Banjo- UBI make by far more games than people think, but they are all exclusive to "UBI Connect" on PC. I read somewhere that there is 300-350 million PC Gamers.
Sega actually make games that isn't released on Xbox or any other console, but mostly strategy games like Total War and some others.
I don't know if you missed the part where UBI released 2 Rayman remasters for PC at least 2 years ago. I own both. It's weird that none of them are on Switch or any console at all.
@Banjo- DLC is never included on Game Pass, but you get 10% discount if it isn't on sale.
I think the AC Black Flag rumor is true.
UBI make more varied games than you think, but many of are released exclusively for PC.
Anno series were always PC only.
UBI made some new IP's for PC only too in recent years.
Ode (From the Driver developer) , Battlecore Arena (2024), Rabbids Coding, The 7 first Settlers games, Heroes of Might and Magic series, Roller Champions, Championship Tactics (2024).
Growtopia closed on consoles years ago, but lives on on PC.
UBI Soft released Rayman Fiesta and Rayman Jungle Run on PC like 2 years ago and i don't think any of them will be on consoles.
Yes, UBI remastered 2 Rayman games for PC only...1080p/60.
UBI charged only 5$ for each remaster as far as i remember. I bought both.
The point is. UBI release by far more games on PC than on consoles.
Fun fact: Sega also release more games on PC than consoles.
Capcom now earns more money on PC than all consoles combined....My guess is that Capcom could be thinking of PC exclusive games too, too boost PC sales even more.
@Banjo- Yes, Crystal are probably the lead developer of Perfect Dark as the original team didn't really know how to make it. It's a game that attracts good talent because it's a it's a interesting concept to revive. Looks like they mixed Mirrors Edge, Splinter Cell and some other games, but it's a cool mix. Crystal also have great graphics artists and gameplay programmers. I think it's in good hands. .
@Banjo- I paid 1$ for 1 month of UBI Soft+ on PC, so i tried all DLC. One the DLC are time limited challenges from main game. Another one is a top down isometric game based on Fenyx. I forgot the third, but none of them were good.
I think the next AC AAA Game will be the last one for a long time, but there will probably be some remasters.
@Banjo- Square sold Crystal and Eidos to Embracer as they were desperate for money. Crystal Dynamics is a great studio and i wonder if the whole studio are working on Perfect Dark.
One of the creative leader at Insomniac who worked on Wolverine recently joined Microsoft to make Perfect Dark instead It's more exciting to work on PD than a Marvel game at this point as it's over 18 years since the last one, and only 2 were made since 1990's.
@Banjo- I completed Fenyx Rising and it's a great game, but it's DLC were weak as they weren't tied to the main game. Since it didn't sell enough, it won't get a sequel.
Looks like UBI are mainly focusing on smaller scale games now like these remakes and remasters. When PUBI recovers, i wonder if they will gamble with expensive AAA Games anymore or keep releasing smaller games.
@KayFiOS Don't forget Sony who bought 99% of their developers including the long list of shut down devs since 1990's.
It's like Sony are competing with Electronic Arts. Who can close most studios? lol
Funny thing is that the new studio MS created in recent years are making the new Perfect Dark in coop with Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider).
@N00BiSH It have the praised Wayne (DirtyHarry) series and some other popular series.
Either way, it gives a lot more for the money than Spotify ever did. And ads are disabled on your account and you will never see any ad on YT ever anywhere even on a toaster or a lawnmower. Disabling ads on account, makes YouTube more responsive than using a hack.
@N00BiSH YouTube Premium still made Spotify irrelevant many years ago as it includes whole Spotify music catalogue in the price on top of 100% ad free YouTube, exclusive app features and YouTube Originals.
You can also upload 100.000 of your own songs and stream them anywhere you are in the world.
Bonus: You don't need to support the billionaire who owns Spotify which is known to not pay most artists money. He takes all the money instead. When you pay for Spotify, the right people isn't getting the money.
Meanwhile YouTuber's gets so much money they buy sports cars, new houses and whatever.
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Re: Random: Kirby Teams Up With Heinz For A Saucy New Collaboration In Japan
I will provide info no on care about or asked for.
I only use Heinz.
Idun is a larger brand, but not as good.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Serpenterror I have first gen Switch and never had any problems with it being stuck in the dock. As far as i seen in the past, it terminates charging at 100%.
I remember third party docks ruined the Switch battery and could even brick the Switch, because they didn't terminate charging at 100%. Nintendo then said that only the official PSU stopped at 100%. This were said for the 2017 model, not the newer ones. It makes sense, because why would anyone bundle a dock if the console still have to run on battery?
If Switch only could run on battery, Nintendo would have bundled a cheap 1$ USB-C to HDMI cable instead of a whole dock.
My Legion Go handheld have the option for 80% and 100% and then terminates charging.
I don't think Asus and Steam Deck have any PSU mode like Legion and Switch.
Legion is also designed for desktop usage and is why PSU can be connected 24/7. In fact the right gyro controller is even a real PC mouse you use as a mouse on the table.
Funny thing is that Legion looks like a giant Switch as it also
have gyro controls.
The Legion screen is black as Switch, and both gyros is grey like the grey Joy Cons on Switch.
Anyway. As for your other post above.
Sony used cheap batteries since PS3 with short battery life.
For unknown reasons, PS VITA had a proper battery.
My 12 year old PS VITA battery is still "good as new?" as of late 2024.
Unlike on Sony controllers, PS VITA battery doesn't die if you don't use it for a year.
Fun fact: The Wii U Pro Controller lasts 80 hours on one charge if rumble is disabled.
Wii U Pro Pad also doesn't drain battery at all if you don't use it for months. My Wii U Pro pad still works fine after 12 years too.
Switch Pro pad have nowhere the same battery time as that one.
Nintendo use cheaper batteries now, but still superior to the Sony ones.
Microsoft always gave people the option of using AA or rechargeable batteries. A smart move as you will never need to open a Xbox controller to change a dead battery. Some Xbox pads last 30 hours on a charge.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Reztobi That didn't include the numbers for King, Activision and Blizzard which is the biggest part of Xbox.
Compare Xbox/MS market cap with other again after Q1 2025. You will be shocked.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Edu23XWiiU
Because it's more handy to drag around than a Gaming laptop to hotels and whatever.
How do you play Cyberpunk 2077, Stalker 2, Flight Simulator 2024, Horizon Forbidden West, Avatar, Indiana Jones, Astro bot, Red Dead Redemption 2 etc. on Switch with or without a battery?
I guess you didn't think through your comment. lol
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Gs69
Yeah. VITA were ahead of it's time like Atari Lynx from 1989 were.
Atari Lynx could run current Amiga and PC games in 1989 which were insane and also had Mode 7 chip for "3D", but still lost vs Gameboy.
Third parties ditched VITA already the first year, and Sony ditched it a few months later.
VITA were almost a portable PS3, and i guess development cost were too high vs how many games were sold so most gave it up besides Indies who supported it for years.
I haven't used PS4 in years, and VITA store is closed.
I recently bought a few Indies on sale on PS4 for fun on sale that also included VITA versions.
VITA games are still for sale, but only if they are included with PS4 version.
The PSN Store still works on VITA so you can download them, but purchases have to be done on PS4.
Anyway. VITA and Wii U console sales were compared weekly back then as they sold about same amount...
Wii U is wonderful console for many reasons most Nintendo fans missed out on.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@GoldenBot
PS Portal doesn't have more power than a 100$ tablet, so you would be stuck with games like Candy Crush and other simple 2D games.
You can't improve portal. You have to design a new hardware from scratch as nothing from Portal can be used besides controller.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Edu23XWiiU Battery time is mostly irrelevant as there is power almost everywhere including ships, trains, ferries, planes, cars etc.
Legion Go have "Charge and Terminate" like Switch, so the PSU can stay in power 24/7 all year without breaking the battery.
Legion Go have a optional charging feature missing on Switch.
When it reaches 80% charging, the charger changes to PSU mode.
These handheld batteries last a lot longer when they end charging at 80%.
Nintendo never thought of that.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Gs69 If PS VITA were as big as Switch, and used SD cards it would still be a great handheld today.
It should never have been shipped with a small screen and small buttons, on top of two missing shoulder buttons.
As for the PS Vita OS, still a joy to use in 2024 as it's so optimized and polished.
I'm surprised Switch isn't as fast and polished as a VITA to use.
Perhaps Switch 2 can be on par with VITA there.
The Tegra X1 inside Switch were designed for Android TV to stream video at 4K/60 and run 4K movies locally back in year 2014.
This is the reason why Switch have a slower OS as the chip wasn't designed for gaming handheld's.
In fact Switch doesn't even have more RAM than the 10 year old NVIDIA Shield TV media boxes.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@westman98 You are 100% correct about everything you say.
The new PC Handheld hardware coming next year is for handhelds that will probably cost closer to 1000$
In 2-3 years Rog Ally and Legion Go hardware will maybe drop enough in price to run downscaled PS5 games natively.
PS5 Pro cost 980$ in several countries in Europe, so it's not unlikely Sony would sell a 600$ PS5 Handheld too.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Itachi2099 I agree with what you say more or less.
Yes, these PC Handhelds are real PC's without a locked down system like Switch for example.
I know PC Handhelds cost more, but they have no limitations as they are running Windows 11 and they can run over 100.000's of games.
Both of these PC Handhelds currently have great discounts this week.
There is only 3 + soon 2 more, PC Handheld brands that is sold anywhere on the planet. Legion Go, Rog Ally and MSI Claw.
The upcoming Acer and Zotac Handhelds will be sold globally too. MSI Claw is the only Handheld using Intel hardware.
PS5 games still looks good on a 8.8" screen on Legion Go at 1200p because of the tiny screen.
I get 55 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 with medium settings on Legion.
Over 250 FPS in Resident Evil 7 on low settings which is insane on a handheld...
Next-Gen PC Handheld hardware is coming in 2025.
Microsoft and Sony will have a problem when it comes to power vs price. If they use PC Handheld hardware, you know the price already as consoles isn't sold at a loss anymore.
I also don't think Sony will bother this much to get old games compatible, at least not for free.
You can bet Microsoft will do upgrades on games 100% for free on their handheld including third party games.
Remember Microsoft already upgraded lots of third party Xbox 360 games like Red Dead Redemption to 4K for free, and they manually made over 600 games run on newer consoles without emulation. It took them 3 years or so to do it.
In fact MS even bothered to replace the Xbox 360 assets with PC assets on a lot of games. As you know PC had higher quality textures.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
The Handheld market are already more oversaturated now than it were in 1990's.
There are already around 20 PC Handheld brands where Steam Deck, Legion Go and Rog Ally dominates in PC market.
Android Handhelds etc.
Microsoft already confirmed to work on a Xbox handheld too that will most likely launch at the same time as Next-Gen console.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Itachi2099 Last years PC Handhelds like Legion Go and Rog Ally already runs PS5 and Xbox Series X games natively.
Duct tape is not needed with tech from recent years.
Fun fact: My "Legion Go" PC Handheld which runs PS5 and Xbox games have a longer battery time than my Nintendo Switch.
Re: Atelier & Dynasty Warriors Publisher Looks To Expand And Focus On PC, Consoles
@fenlix That's why so many accept a fat paycheck for releasing games on Game Pass instead.
Rebellion and several others release all their games on day one on Game Pass every year.
Less than 50% of Xbox owners have Game Pass, so they sell copies outside GP anyway to Console owners, Steam and Windows Store for PC.
If you buy on Windows Store you get PC and console version at no extra cost.
There is nearly 700 PC+Xbox cross purchases so far.
Re: It Turns Out Pokémon GO Players Have Been Training An AI This Whole Time
AI is getting annoying because it isn't a day without it mentioned almost anywhere in the world.
I don't care much for AI in general as it's shoe horned into anything just because they can, but mostly isn't useful.
Re: Nintendo Adds Metroid Prime 4: Beyond To Official Metroid Website, Says It's "Coming Soon"
Two long awaited sequels in 2025.
Metroid Prime 4 and Perfect Dark.
Metroid Prime 3... Year 2007.
Perfect Dark Zero... Year 2006.
Re: Mario & Luigi's Future In Doubt As A Potential Sony Acquisition Emerges
The industry is changing and Sony will probably release more games than the Lego game on a Nintendo console.
This is why so many "long time" Sony exclusives came to Xbox too last year.
Re: Mini Review: Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi (Switch) - Nails That Classic Castlevania Feel
I already have a long list of Castlevania clones in backlog, so i'm in no hurry to get this.
I will put it on wishlist as a reminder that it exist.
Re: Splinter Cell Movie Is Reportedly Dead, Producer Admits Team "Just Couldn't Get It Right"
@kkslider5552000 Assassins Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, Watch Dogs 3 and Riders Republic were probably their last successes.
Maybe Avatar and Motorfest too, especially on PS5 since it never had anything like Forza Horizon on Xbox.
UBI is known for their "repeat" open world formula and are mostly playing it safe on consoles, but not on PC. (More on it below)
If they made Splinter Cell open world too, it would be flamed only because it's a UBI open world.
The Division 3, AC Shadows and Far Cry 7 is perhaps the only known upcoming AAA Games from UBI at this point.
AC Shadows previews backfired so hard , because the game were revealed as a blasphemy to Japanese history.
UBI delayed the game until 2025 to do major changes...
At this point people are so negative vs UBI that it might flop either way.
One thing almost no one knows is that UBI released many games exclusive to PC for years.
The praised Anno Series, Ode, 2 x Rayman remasters, Sports Champions, That new ball game from 2024 and a bunch of other games that were never released on any console.
The innovative and experimental UBI games are usually PC exclusive.
Riders Republic were the only innovative game for consoles for years perhaps.
Nintendo is kind of UBI by being on the safe side most of the time. Mostly Mario related games.
I don't think Switch 2 will sell as much as Switch, because it won't be the most powerful handheld when it releases.
There is at least 15 brands that makes powerful PC Handhelds now that also runs Xbox Series X and PS5 games natively on same handheld.
Re: Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered Details Returning 'Photo Mode' Feature
Probably another lazy remaster where they AI upscaled the textures so the game requires 10 times more space for the wrong reason.
Aspyr should take lessons from Nightdive.
Re: Splinter Cell Movie Is Reportedly Dead, Producer Admits Team "Just Couldn't Get It Right"
@kkslider5552000 Someone here didn't do any research or read any UBI statements for years...
1.) UBI would have cancelled Skull & Bones many years ago if they funded it.
The government in Singapore funded Skull & Bones, and wanted to get it completed at any cost.
Blame the government there for it to exist and not UBI.
Never blame the wrong people.
2.) UBI have over and over again said for many years that none of their developers wants to make a new Splinter Cell, because it's impossible to please gamers no matter how it's made.
Splinter Cell Blacklist were a big budget flop that killed off the series. It didn't become popular until a year later.
Blame the Splinter Cell fans for discovering Blacklist too late when sales didn't matter anymore.
The problem with Splinter Cell is that when you make one kind of game, you will only please 50% of the Splinter Cell fans. If you are pleasing the other 50%, you will not please the first 50% of fans instead.
It's just impossible to make a new game in the series as it will flop either way.
UBI don't have money anymore to make big budget games for a long time anyway if they ever recover, and Splinter Cell is a sore thumb to UBI.
Re: Splinter Cell Movie Is Reportedly Dead, Producer Admits Team "Just Couldn't Get It Right"
@Vyacheslav333 Postal sure is on top list of the best movie based on games.
Uwe Boll announced "Postal 2" in 2024 and cancelled it 2 months ago due to lack of funding.
Anyway. When you make a movie about a game just to make it, it will just end up like Borderlands, Doom, Street Fighter etc.
At least Bethesda were smart enough to refuse Fallout movie/tv series every time someone wanted to make it for the wrong reasons.
Anyway. That Zelda movie will be terrible, because it has writers, producers etc. with a very bad history behind them.
It's what happens when Nintendo are desperate to get it done.
Bethesda would never have done anything with those who make the Zelda movie. It's sad Nintendo became so desperate.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For LEGO Horizon Adventures
@Overzeal
Lego Horizon cost 75$ on Steam...90$ if you want a few skins.
There is no way PC gamers will pay that price for a Lego game.
Sony overprice everything on Steam, so majority of people are waiting for sale.
At least Horizon Zero Dawn - Remaster, released 2 weeks ago cost 10$ on Steam like on PS5, if you owned the previous version.
Re: Xbox Chief On Bringing Games To Other Platforms, Says There Are No "Red Lines"
@contractcooker Yes. Sony already increased prices on games and console, because Sony said they don't have competition anymore.
It doesn't make sense that majority of people think increased prices is a good thing.
There are physical Sony games already that cost 90$ and it won't be long before they cost 100$.
In fact even some Switch physicals increased to 80 bucks too because of Xbox.
Gotta love monopoly....
Re: Xbox Chief On Bringing Games To Other Platforms, Says There Are No "Red Lines"
@Anti-Matter Someone who knows nothing about Microsoft and Xbox the last 5 years...
If you bothered to read business news on business sites on business sites, the last years, you would have deleted your comment already as you know nothing about Microsoft's 10 year plan at all and it's future upcoming competitors.
Also don't forget Sony went multiplatform over 4 years ago, because the market changed.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Tetris Forever
You can't really fail much with a release like this.
The only thing that could go wrong, is including Tetris games with poor brick movement.
If they could include top Tetris games without license like Twintris, it would probably get more 10/10 reviews.
This collection is only hurt by licensing, so they had to skip a bunch of good Tetris games.
Re: Feature: Nintendo's Long-Lost Advent Calendar Game Comes Home For Christmas On Switch
@PikaPhantom Yeah. It released 4 years ago on PC and is probably that version that will be on Switch.
Re: Feature: Nintendo's Long-Lost Advent Calendar Game Comes Home For Christmas On Switch
@PikaPhantom Yeah, and Nintendo isn't listed as the publisher there.
Re: Feature: Nintendo's Long-Lost Advent Calendar Game Comes Home For Christmas On Switch
@nocdaes It's probably free.
Re: Square Enix Outlines Streaming Guidelines For Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
"While you're able to upload images and video footage of the title to social media and streaming platforms for "non-commercial" purposes".
If people wasn't greedy, YouTube would still be a non profit place like it used to in the past.
People who don't charge money on YouTube never have problems with licensed video and music.
In fact 99% of record companies worldwide allows their music to be used on YouTube, if ads and everything money related is disabled on the channel.
My YT channels have always been non profit to avoid copyright problems.
If i enabled money stream on my channels, 99% of my content would be blocked. lol
I prefer freedom over money anyway.
Re: Nintendo Suing Streamer For Allegedly Broadcasting "Pirated" Switch Games Ahead Of Official Release
You are not smart when you stream leaked Nintendo games before release.
Easy win for Nintendo here.
Re: Mini Review: STALKER: Clear Sky (Switch) - Tighter Shooting But Less Atmosphere
@Daniel36 Yeah. These Stalker games cost around 2 bucks each on key shops for PC right now.
Stalker 2 finally releases on day 1 on Game Pass in 13 days. I'm ready.
Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@Banjo- Yes, probably. Stores here have mainly marketed PC hardware and PC's the last for years. After physical console games died a few years ago, all focus went to gaming PC which sell like hot cakes.
PC Gamers are fixing old retro games all the time to support modern controllers, resolutions etc.
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc from year 2005 or something runs at 4K/60 on modern PC and the graphics aged good.
Rayman Fiesta Run and Rayman Jungle Run were originally released for phones. UBI ported them to PC back in 2022 to run at locked 1080p/60 and added support for modern controllers.
It's close to 2025 now and at this point i doubt they will port them to anything else.
UBI in general made many PC only games in recent which is typical console games, but still never were ported to any consoles. Several of these PC Games were sold for only 5$ each.
Fun fact: Steam alone, excluding GOG and Epic Store got 23000 new games in 2023...Consoles got around 2000 games.
The majority of new games are PC exclusive every year. Sure there is a lot of shovelware on PC, but consoles get lots of them too.
The most successful PC exclusives can take up to 5-6 years before they are ported to any console, and a huge amount of great exclusives are never coming to consoles at all.
Re: Sega Delisting 'Mega Drive Classics' On Switch eShop This December
I bought this on PC instead as you can use KEGA to remove the input lag. I have DRM free backup of it too.
Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@Banjo- UBI make by far more games than people think, but they are all exclusive to "UBI Connect" on PC.
I read somewhere that there is 300-350 million PC Gamers.
Sega actually make games that isn't released on Xbox or any other console, but mostly strategy games like Total War and some others.
I don't know if you missed the part where UBI released 2 Rayman remasters for PC at least 2 years ago.
I own both.
It's weird that none of them are on Switch or any console at all.
Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@Banjo- DLC is never included on Game Pass, but you get 10% discount if it isn't on sale.
I think the AC Black Flag rumor is true.
UBI make more varied games than you think, but many of are released exclusively for PC.
Anno series were always PC only.
UBI made some new IP's for PC only too in recent years.
Ode (From the Driver developer) , Battlecore Arena (2024), Rabbids Coding, The 7 first Settlers games, Heroes of Might and Magic series, Roller Champions, Championship Tactics (2024).
Growtopia closed on consoles years ago, but lives on on PC.
UBI Soft released Rayman Fiesta and Rayman Jungle Run on PC like 2 years ago and i don't think any of them will be on consoles.
Yes, UBI remastered 2 Rayman games for PC only...1080p/60.
UBI charged only 5$ for each remaster as far as i remember. I bought both.
The point is. UBI release by far more games on PC than on consoles.
Fun fact: Sega also release more games on PC than consoles.
Capcom now earns more money on PC than all consoles combined....My guess is that Capcom could be thinking of PC exclusive games too, too boost PC sales even more.
Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@Banjo- Yes, Crystal are probably the lead developer of Perfect Dark as the original team didn't really know how to make it.
It's a game that attracts good talent because it's a it's a interesting concept to revive.
Looks like they mixed Mirrors Edge, Splinter Cell and some other games, but it's a cool mix.
Crystal also have great graphics artists and gameplay programmers.
I think it's in good hands.
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Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@Banjo- I paid 1$ for 1 month of UBI Soft+ on PC, so i tried all DLC. One the DLC are time limited challenges from main game.
Another one is a top down isometric game based on Fenyx.
I forgot the third, but none of them were good.
I think the next AC AAA Game will be the last one for a long time, but there will probably be some remasters.
Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@Banjo- Square sold Crystal and Eidos to Embracer as they were desperate for money.
Crystal Dynamics is a great studio and i wonder if the whole studio are working on Perfect Dark.
One of the creative leader at Insomniac who worked on Wolverine recently joined Microsoft to make Perfect Dark instead
It's more exciting to work on PD than a Marvel game at this point as it's over 18 years since the last one, and only 2 were made since 1990's.
Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@Banjo- I completed Fenyx Rising and it's a great game, but it's DLC were weak as they weren't tied to the main game.
Since it didn't sell enough, it won't get a sequel.
Looks like UBI are mainly focusing on smaller scale games now like these remakes and remasters.
When PUBI recovers, i wonder if they will gamble with expensive AAA Games anymore or keep releasing smaller games.
Re: Nintendo Would Rather "Organically Expand The Organisation" Than Rely Solely On Acquisitions
@KayFiOS Don't forget Sony who bought 99% of their developers including the long list of shut down devs since 1990's.
It's like Sony are competing with Electronic Arts. Who can close most studios? lol
Funny thing is that the new studio MS created in recent years are making the new Perfect Dark in coop with Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider).
Re: Rayman Creator Michel Ancel Confirms Involvement With New Ubisoft Project
UBI can only do mostly low budget games now.
Re: So, Will You Be Getting Xenoblade Chronicles X For Switch?
I own it on Wii U, so no.
Re: Nintendo Music App: Every Game Soundtrack Included - How To Download, All Systems
@N00BiSH Spare me for your childish comments that makes no sense at all. Grow up.
Re: Nintendo Music App: Every Game Soundtrack Included - How To Download, All Systems
@N00BiSH It have the praised Wayne (DirtyHarry) series and some other popular series.
Either way, it gives a lot more for the money than Spotify ever did.
And ads are disabled on your account and you will never see any ad on YT ever anywhere even on a toaster or a lawnmower.
Disabling ads on account, makes YouTube more responsive than using a hack.
Re: Nintendo Music - Every Nintendo System, Series And Song Included
@N00BiSH YouTube Premium still made Spotify irrelevant many years ago as it includes whole Spotify music catalogue in the price on top of 100% ad free YouTube, exclusive app features and YouTube Originals.
You can also upload 100.000 of your own songs and stream them anywhere you are in the world.
Bonus: You don't need to support the billionaire who owns Spotify which is known to not pay most artists money. He takes all the money instead. When you pay for Spotify, the right people isn't getting the money.
Meanwhile YouTuber's gets so much money they buy sports cars, new houses and whatever.
Re: Digital Eclipse's 'Tetris Forever' To Include 2 MS-DOS Games
Too bad this awesome Tetris from 1990 wasn't included which also had 9 legendary tunes in it's soundtrack.
https://youtu.be/VaRyWcd6me4
Re: Nintendo Switch System Update 19.0.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Removed
Re: Switch Online's "Mature" N64 App Expands With Two More Games
There is no way i would play these in Nintendo's buggy N64 emulator when you can play the Nightdive remasters natively with modern controls.
Re: Nintendo Switch System Update 19.0.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
I don't know why they are still blocking exploits at this point as they never seem to work.
Sony kept blocking exploits on PS3 and VITA years after consoles were gone, but that didn't work either.
Re: Switch System Update 19.0.0 Is Apparently Causing Some Issues
When Nintendo blocks exploits in firmware frequently, it will sooner or later break something.