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We can enjoy this man's work for free. Think about that before criticizing it. I think it was a beautiful homage and well done.

Making/raising money with Nintendo IP. Sure charity, but will the event take some for 'cover' costs?

I can remember Jared, The Completionist raising money for charity for years with such events. Well that did not turn out as the money givers were expecting. Google it to know more.

After such a thing I would not be surprised being more cautious with such events.

Without paying customers these games would not exist to pirate.
Pirates just leach of other gamers.

Art is created just for the purpose of being. It has no other function. With most games this is not the case.

Wonder if you can see these at the Nintendo Museum?

Is it worldwide? I thought it's North America, Europe and Japan first, other regions later?

@Akeratsu In 2025 it's not the same Dollar as it used to be in 2014. You might have noticed doing groceries.

Let's use this as a comparison, would you expect to be happy with no wage increases for the job you're doing? Like ever? Companies are the same. Off course they like to grow.

We should compare them in the number of BigMacs you'd buy for the price at the time of launch.

Perhaps the Pokomon licence will expire in some time and Niantic is selling of before that. I can remember Nintendo going into a partnership with another mobile company last year or so.

Super Mario Bross All Stars is the correct answer

A YouTuber will pay oft it and makes the money back with the million+ clicks they get.

@jco83
No worries. The 5% you found is only the GST part. It is only part of the taxation.

But as I said, usually advertised pricing does not include it. So if you ever visit Canada and go shopping, keep in mind they'll add it on top at the cash register

@jco83
Canada has Salestax not VAT. There are 3 variations:
GST: Government tax
PST: Provincial tax
HST: Compounded tax, meaning includes Government and Provincial tax.
Depending on the province these will differ. So there will be provinces that have GST & PST, others will have HST or a variant of that.

Important is that the sales tax is generally not included in the MSRP/advertised price. This is the usual with salestax countries. So CAD500, would probably not include it.

the Rolling Stone article says "From 'Super Mario' to 'Grand Theft Auto,' these are the titles that have defined the culture"

You need to see it then in that perspective. It's not about if MK8 is better than MK64, but what it meant. I do agree a lot with the list like that. But that Ocarina or Mario64 is not on it is crazy, but I think they just wanted to have one entry for each IP.

@rvcolem1 Currency exchange rates. 10 years ago that would have been 3000 usd.

@Serpenterror I agree it's unlikely Wind Waker and Twillight Princess will be bundled. They have a different age rating after all.

You put Federation Force more likely than Samus Returns? Oh come on

It would fit to launch Samus Returns after the Switch2 is already out to have history repeat itself!

Looks Good, Sounds Good. But that name? Could the game not just gotten a cooler sounding more memorable name?

About refilling swordform. In a previous trailer we saw a potion shop. Red and Blue. I would bet the blue potion refills the swordform bar. Also I think some smoothies will help with that. So I don't think you can only refill in the Still World.

The 12 months NSO+, makes this a great deal.

Crossdressing is not the same as being transsexual. But then anyone can read into what they like.

Just search for 'Otokonoko', to understand the inspiration for these characters.

@120frames-please Pirates know that if nobody buys the games, no games would be made for them to pirate. So Pirates just leach of their fellow gamers. There is no morality in that.

@solarwolf07
Blame the Switch Pirates that made Nintendo take action. Citra was just in the crossfires, because made by the same people as Yuzu.

@HeroEightBit
I don't think there is a competition with piracy. Who can compete with FREE?
On the contrary, if less piracy leads to better sales, then this will help developer studios, especially the smaller ones.

We got promo's for Mario vs DK, Splatoon and Princess Peach Showtime, which they could have saved for a Direct.

They did not, which lets me believe, there will be none in February. At least not a regular one.

The mouse with a gun.

Thanks for the console split info Nintendo Live. Very interesting.

Can we have a Jim Henderson style take like Labyrinth or The Dark Chrystal please!

Make the Pokomon look plushie and sell more plushies. Genius!

@cookiki It's only Eur 2,99. Give it a try. It's a fun puzzler.

They could have taken the time and effort to make this to create their own game.

@Reztobi Here you go:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/05/the-new-zelda-title-apparently-has-a-game-engine-link-with-splatoon-3

https://gonintendo.com/contents/20211-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-uses-the-same-game-engine-as-splatoon-3

Google is your friend. The only other game using BotW game engine is Ring Fit Adventure by the way. But you can google that too.

As an expert game developer you are obviously aware that game engine has nothing to do with the game's art direction. Wind Waker and Twillight Princess use the same game engine as example.

It's all about memory allocation and TotK needed this new engine to make Ultrahand and it's nuts and bolts mechanics to work.

You might have also noticed new textures all over the place even for things like dirt roads. Let alone all the caves and such. And new animations like how Link now looks down when standing on an edge. Let alone that even familiar looking monsters all have new animations.

The idea of TotK was to invoke a Deja Vu for BotW players, but actually change things up a lot. It's all in the details. The only place where the map is looking 90% the same is opening the Purah Pad and look at the map that way.

@Reztobi I congratulate you on your game development expertise. I was surprised you did not mention that Tears is build on an entirely new game engine compared to Breath of the Wild. Some "DLC" to pull that off! That new game engine was needed obviously because of the new game mechanics to work in the first place. And if you think 80% of assets was the same, you were clearly not paying attention. Perhaps you should look at some comparison video's. There are plenty out there in the wild.

Sam Lake showing up on every Jeff event the past year really worked for Alan Wake2

Comparing it to something like PS4 or whatever is useless. I understand why, because people need reference points.

You could have a less powerful CPU for power usage reasons, but more and faster RAM and the comparison is already out of the window.

I just want it to be waterproof. Give me a new gaming experience and let me play while scuba diving.

Playing on the original 3DS hurt my hands after an hour playing or so. The 2DS actually felt more comfortably.

I am waiting for the Animal Crossing themed Lego Game.

@Pandaman It's not semantics if it enrages your readership as is obvious from the comments here. It's perceived as deeply offensive mainly because it's a word invented not by the Latino community, but forced upon them.

I hope NL has the sensitivity to not brush the feelings from your readership aside with 'just semantics' and does the right thing in correcting the article.

There are 1000's of etnicities, non of them are called 'white' or 'latino' or any other convenient bucket people are thrown into.

This only leads to stereotypes and does not help in enjoying peoples real cultural differences at all. Neither in games nor in the real world.

Great, download a demo. Download a free to play game and the dev's are hit. Download a pirated version.... This is insane.

@123akis Agree. And possibly more voice lines will mean translations. Even though Charles can speak multiple languages I don't think he can speak all of them like Japanese. If Nintendo needs more voice actors for the multiple languages it would be a good point to go new anyway.

@Qwiff They were tinkering with the specs and DLLS for such a long time, perhaps TotK wasn't available to them when they started.

Mario wonder Switch Light? OLED?

Good luck with the gold bar!

It's made by a different developer. I'm curious if the story will tie into the previous games or not.

Looking forward to Mario Kart 8 Ultimate Deluxe on the Switch2.

Putting a Puppy in Pikmin4 was genius.

@JimNorman
"It was a long time coming before the game got a Famicom cartridge release in Japan (1994, to be precise)"

Sure this was 1994? I mean after A Link to the Past? I did not know this.

Not sure this would work better with Lego or Duplo pieces.
And how about a Lego Technic set that you can control with Joy cons?

Ok now do Zelda with Short hair.