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Including Wii U sales (1.7m), Breath of the Wild now surpassed 30 million sales. Wow and well deserved.

Gameplay with the hammer looks like real fun and something different for a change. I'll be keeping my eye on this one.

13/16 pretty ok. The nudity dance caught me of-guard for sure. The shrine name and 'not song' I needed to guess and failed.

Adding the PS5 digital to the numbers the gap is pretty big with the Switch Family. I ques strong holiday sales means we are going to be seeing some slow weeks for Switch in Japan.

A new Mario sports game that will be disappointing;
A fab new Zelda adventure with Tears of the King;
Mario Galaxy2 port;
Metroid prime port;
F Zero GX port;
Donkey Country Returns port;
Something Pokomon, likely DLC;
Advance wars finally released and people don't care;
A rehashed Square Enix tactics game;
Konami will announce a side scroller Castlevania or a DS compilatation;
Call of Duty blackops wii port;
NBA the show 2023;
Next FIFA, but old tech;
Some obscure turned based JRPG;

and off course at least 2 new farming sims.

E3 is just going to be like Tokyo Game Show. The platform holders do not attend, but there will still be publishers and indies around.

I never played this game. After Forgotten Land I became a bit of a Kirby fan. Might try this one out, but I am a bit bumped that it's full price for an updated re-release.

Capcom deserves to be successful. They make great games. Now for a new Megaman

"Now you die"??

Thought this was a family friendly movie.

@Mauzuri The charm of BotW is you don't need to. You can still go and storm the casttle

Weapon breaking is part of the gaming loop of BotW. Therefore it works. We don't know though what game rules will change with TotK.

Example of one game rule that is already obviously changing is that it's not cold anymore high up. You don't see Link having red cheeks and puffing water vapour when being up in the sky in TotK. So temperature works in a different way in TotK, at least high up.

So could be that the gaming loop for exploration and finding stuff is different and therefore how to acquire weapons is different too. We will see, but important is that the mechanic does not work in a vacuum.

GDC is happening in San Fransisco. I think it's fair to assume mostly western developers, specifically North American based developers are attending the show. In this light it's not surprising for what platform they are mostly developing.

If GDC was happening in Tokyo and mostly Japanese developers would be attending, I think we probably would be at a higher than 18% cut for Switch.

Increase production in what will be its 7th year? Ok, I'm calling it. A new model will be added to the Switch family. My bet is a Switch Light OLED. Would add another couple of million, especially in Japan.

Hand luggage or check-in luggage? I have so many questions.

Edit: Assuming this was at an airport. I found my check-in luggage opened and rummaged once when picking it up after landing. It had a note inside that said it was opened as a routine check and US customs was not liable for any damages that may had occurred.

And as always Nintendo games are Physical only. I am looking forward to the second week of February when Nintendo publishes it sales for last quarter including digital.

Imagine how many people get pocket money as a Holiday gift. And like to spend it as fast as they can.

@shining_nexus, yup and let's not forget exchange rate difference if calculating Yen to $ then and now.

As far as I know Ubisoft has like 20.000 employees. With that kind of size they should have a game out every month, but they are not for some time now. How hard this is for the people involved, yes I think Ubi needs to shrink in order to survive and concentrate on a few heavy hitters.

Hoe did he know the grass was green in Super Mario Land 2?

Ha! Bending his own rules

@chipia Imagine those are the Only voiced words of Link in Tears of the Kingdom. The Internet would explode.

And these are retail sales only. Physical only. You can add 30-40% digital to those numbers.

We will get a Switch Lite Oled this year to have something new on the shelf. The succesor to Switch in 2025, just in time to see the economy uptick after a recession we are gonna face this/next year.

@Wexter, I'm not arguing if XB is profitable or not, but that the size of the staff is related to them being a support studio also. If this would not be the case the staff count would be smaller I'm sure, which is evident in them being a lot smaller when XB1 came out on Wii.

No wonder Monolith needs to support hits like Zelda or Splatoon. You can't have a 250+ workforce and only have a Xeno game at 2-3 million copies coming out every 3-4 years or so.

163,556 Switches again in one week. It's a beast, that keeps selling.

My guess is that a lot of stationed US military personal buy XBox in Japan, but might be going home for the holidays.

The game industry is volatile. New studio's and IP get introduced all the time. The thinking that an acquisition of a publisher leads to less choice for other platforms is a short sighted one, because even if so on a short term, it opens up possibilities for others in the longer term.

There is no guarantee that franchises like Call of Duty remain to be as relevant as they are today. Even now Activision had made it clear it wants to abandon the yearly release model.

Another example is World of Warcraft. Who would have imagined that Final Fantasy14 would steal its thunder 10 years ago? This industry is fluent.

I do not blame them for the timing. The date of the anniversary was what it was and it's a Japanese company with Japanese games. But I can be a bit grizzly about how few physical additions were available.

Also FF6 opera house, can we have it without the lyrics sung? I mean I prefer it that way.

It needs to be Kirby. That game is just pure good vibes.

Off course is a free to play game designed to be addictive. Every single one is. Don't these parent teach their children this?

Way better than last year's show, with some real surprises. I give it a solid B.

The Movie is coming in April, but it almost seems Nintendo is going through all it's marketing material to soon.

2 Directs with trailers, local TV commercials, toys at McDonalds in Japan and now this.

It all feels the marketing campaign was really scheduled for the Movie to hit this December, but somehow are not able to reschedule it.

Hope we aren't burned out by all of it before the Movie actually starts.

Switch version get's Mario and Link skins.

@Maxz I'm just guessing lawyers of the American arm full are looking around to justify their paycheck.

I think they are waiting for the announcement of the Switch Pro

Could it not just be that this is related to 'Mario & Rabbits Galaxy Battle' just released last week in Japan?

These are always way to long its tiresome. I always forget 90% of what I've seen in these shows almost immediately afterwards.

If a Japanese developer would give a take on an orignal Alice in Wonderland like story. I like the vibe it gives, but it's uncertain if there is any meaningful combat in the game. On the other hand, this might not be the point of it all. Looks gorgeous.

Interesting, but not for a $35 price. Looks like more of a $15-$20 game to me.

Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom have the same game director, so it's not a strange idea that there is a relationship between the 3. But then again so are Minish cap and the Oracle games.

Sakurai has a video on his channel that gives tips on TV settings that could make it marginally better. I don't play Pokomon, but perhaps worth a look or not.

@KevinP Apparently it was easier/cheaper for Sony to make a marketing deal with Activision. But if a tent pole FPS is that important to Sony, they should have been smarter about it and invest in their own IP.

What Sony is mostly afraid are the 32 million people buying online access on Playstation+ for at least $9.99 a month. You don't need that for God of War or Horizon, but plenty of CoD players pay that.

There was a time when Playstation wanted to be a gaming solution for the whole familie with a broad range of games including younger players. From Playstation 1-3

But since Playstation4 they are walking away from the younger audience. The June and September State of Play's had zero games for anyone under the age of 10. It's subscription service is severely lacking any games for younger children, making it hard to recommend as a family service.

This was Sony's own decision to focus on (young) adults, they cannot complain now that they are in that situation now and depended on mature content.

Sony could well..make their own shooter. It's not that they are lacking in studios or money to do that. And that is even if and I say IF Call of Duty would become an exclusive.

Ever since Switch Sports was announced I thought a bundle was inevitable. Only surprised it seems to be a Japan only thing.

I can't see the difference between 30 or 60fps, let alone 120. There is so much more to it then just framerate to make a game respond or look good.

@nocdaes Because the 3 year cycle of new Anime, Cards, Toys, etc. That always put's Gamefreak in the position they only have 3 years between the generations to make a new game.

Metacritic is at 78 at the moment with 36 reviews. Probably change when more reviews are coming in.

Gamefreak is under pressure to create a new gen Pokémon every 3 years. No wonder their games lack polish.

Still looking in good shape for his age, I thought he's not older than 60 to be honest. Happy birthday!