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@GameOtaku
There has been no Nintendo produced bundles with the Switch and BOTW, MK8 DX for the past 2 years has been in a Switch bundle for Black Friday though.

Also MK8DX is the closest the Mario Kart series has been to launch of the console that it's released for (just over one month). Mario Kart has been Nintendo' biggest franchise for a long time now, so it would make sense that it's also the best selling on Switch.

@GameOtaku
Mario Kart has been Nintendo's best selling series since the DS/Wii era.

@ACNHislit
The Donkey Kong miniland might become an expansion instead of opening along with it. But otherwise the Mario part should be the same size.

@nessisonett
To be fair, I don't think the mainline games on Gamecube and DS sold that great either.

@ACNHislit
Rumor right now is that USH's construction will be temporarily stalled so that the money can be moved into getting SNW into one of the parks in Florida (likely as a replacement to Kidz Zone in the main park).

If they're successful the Super Nintendo World in Florida would open at the same time that Epic Universe was going to originally.

@AstroTheGamosian
Good thing SNW will be opening just a few months late at Universal Japan. Have a good time in Japan!
@EchoNemesis
Walt Disney World's parks are around 500+ acres and SNW is going to be around 10 acres. Universal Japan and Hollywood are significantly landlocked and SNW is already pretty tiny compared to the Wizarding World or Cars Land.

Best chance for other Nintendo IPs Florida and that seemed to be the plan with Pokemon and Zelda being future expansions. But I'm sure the focus is now getting the Mario portion into one of the existing two parks before Nintendo's contact expires with universal.

@RiasGremory
Each movie in the Original Trilogy also has the pattern of each one grossing less than the previous one.

All 3 movies made well over a billion and if there's a market for Space Jam nostalgia, I don't see why there can't be one for these movies that got millions of people into theaters.

@RiasGremory
Why get rid of it from the canon when there'll be plenty of nostalgia for it in 10 years and Disney will attempt to capitalize on it in whatever way it can?

If it made a ton of money, nostalgia will bloom in a decade or two.

@Imbroken
"Change "lead designer" to "a contractor" and "work" to "laying in bed after breaking his back in a skydiving accident that was purely his own choice and also his own bad decision for making"."

If Rob Wyatt's/Tin Giant's case is that open and shut why hasn't Atari shut down all the misconceptions and ill will generated from this down with a simple PR statement?
Why is Wyatt so insistent of having this go through the court system if all his claims can easily be disproven by simple internal Atari documentation?

Also source that he hadn't gone back to work 6 or 7 months prior to quitting in October after the November 2018 skydiving incident?

" Also, The Register is a ***** filled bag parading as "tech news" and clearly has an agenda. Anything they "report" on should clearly be taken with a grain of salt."

"Agendas" don't make audio interviews come out of thin air.

"Don't but it if you aren't interested in it! I have no intent or interest in buying an Amico, but am I on Intellivision forums shouting how its going to fail and how much it sucks?"
You're on a Nintendo news site that's filled with a variety of opinions seemingly just to say everyone else's opinions suck.

"Nope! I have a life and don't live in a basement. "

How does white knighting a multi million dollar company give you a life. Most people here probably haven't thought about the Atari VCS in months, probably since the last article in March.

"Everyone screaming and crying hasnt even touched one."
Don't ask questions! Consume product.

There's plenty of people here questioning Nintendo's release strategy for the rest of the year. If you look in the forums, there are plenty of people complaining about Sony only having a Spiderman side game as of now for the PS5's first winter or Halo Infinite not looking "next-gen" enough.

Again who cares about people posting fair critical comments about games or consoles prior to release other than fanboys? Most of this site would be empty if people couldn't give their honest thoughts on upcoming releases.

Go to an Atari VCS Facebook fan page with only positive comments if you want only an echo chamber, so that you can feel more secure about your upcoming purchase.

@Imbroken
I'm pretty sure that people would be angry at Microsoft and Sony if they didn't pay the lead designer of the console for 6 months work or have a chief executive being caught clueless about their product.

Instead of making a replica of the old stiff Atari controller, why not have a controller with a trackball or rotary dial so that you could have a better experience with the same Atari games that are on other consoles.

@TheCatCountry
It's possible that Take Two bought the PGA tour rights from EA, but it's not likely that they're involved before that.

Take Two is pretty much as bad as EA, especially when it comes to basketball and Wrestling.

@TheCatCountry
EA's not involved with this one, but Take Two isn't much better...

@MindfulGamer
Ubisoft published Mario+Rabbids, which unlike Nintendo discounts their games regularly.

Don't expect the same here for anything more than 25% on a holiday sale.

I think its too soon to really call 2020, "Nintendo's worst year" when we're only barely past the halfway point. I feel like it'd be fair if September's gone past without the typical Nintendo Direct and there still hasn't been any games since Paper Mario.

Other than the lack of an E3, the release timing hasn't been any different than past years for the first half of the year. Most of Nintendo's best games come out in the second half of the year.

@nessisonett
I haven't seen many companies reveal unknown beta content from the 8/16 bit era, only thing that I can think on the top of my head is the Konami Anniversary Compilation bonus books.

Would be neat to see it more often.

Nice to see all this beta content still survives, I'd love to see behind the scene books of Nintendo games for every era some day!

In the future year of 20XX, EA's entire graphic design team will be replaced by the CEO's kid.

Don't worry she just got a new set of crayons!

Great list! I know its not Nintendo, but this kinda makes me want to see a 32X list.

@Muddy_4_Ever
And risk being associated with a Twitter account posting "non-family friendly" content (like this one has).

No

So about that Mario 35th anniversary account...

@BirdBoy16
Saturday Supercade

Man I'm excited for tomorrow when I wake up in the morning and see everyone disappointed that they didn't get what they wanted.

I remember this from the video game cartoon that also had Q*Bert was set in the 50's and Mario voiced by Peter Cullen.

@TG16_IS_BAE
He ran Nintendo's biggest foreign division during its two biggest successes ever (DS and Wii) where it sold the best after over a decade of losing relevancy to Sony.

It's entirely possible without him the Wii could've had the same fate in the United States like the Saturn and the DS could've become a joke of a system next to the PSP.

But then again, you could probably blame the Wii U's failure on Reggie with the Wii U with Nintendo of America's bad marketing and bad third party relations trickling down to the European divisions. With the Wii U selling decently in Japan (for a console), where they have the least influence.

@nessisonett
Nah, Reggie is going to be Kanye West's Secretary of State.

It's kinda funny how many Nintendo fans were begging for a Lego partnership a year ago without seemingly realizing that Lego sets are expensive.

@Dman10
Inti Creates typically releases 2D platformers, often using a retro style, they were not involved with Ritual of the Night's development or downloadable content.

This is a completely separate project from Ritual of the Night 2, that won't stop that from being made.

Call this a side project if you will.

@Paraka
? I never said it was Metroid, but ok.

@Paraka
It'll be a franchise that Wayforward's never worked with, they've already worked on a Kunio-Kun/River City Ransom so it isn't this.

@Zuljaras
I mean DDR is like one of two franchises (along with PES) that Konami still makes new games for semi-regularly so it must be at least decently successful.

According to wikipedia, they just released a new one just last week for Japanese arcades.

@rjejr
They did cover the PS Mini multiple times:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/09/sony_responds_to_nintendos_success_with_its_very_own_playstation_classic_mini_console
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/12/feature_snes_classic_edition_vs_playstation_classic_-_which_one_should_you_choose

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/12/video_snes_classic_runs_psone_games_better_than_the_playstation_classic

Plus Sega's always has been one if the Big N's biggest third party supporters for multiple console generations. I know of quite a few people who think Sonic is a Nintendo character!

@Skeletor1979
Might be to support a few Model 1 and Model 2 games that had native wide screen support for the higher end variants.

@TG16_IS_BAE
EA isn't involved with this remaster, Crytek is self publishing this.

@TG16_IS_BAE
Is it possible that the original version was very unoptimized when it came to file size and the Remastered devs found a better solution to storing the data and making it smaller?

I know Spyro from last year on PS4 and XBO had a ridiculous file size initially at 70+ GB and they eventually shrunk that down in future updates to a much more manageable 30 GB on both consoles without loosing the smallest details.

This doesn't seem to be a version ripped from any official Zelda game, so either they recreated it from scratch or stole it from a fan made remix.

Would option 2 surprise anyone?

@rockodoodle
Switch makes multiple billions of dollars per year, while it took mobile over 3 years to gross 1 billion.
@Medic_Alert
Nintendo didn't go into the mobile business to create a game that took one year to gross what one of their consoles titles could make in its launch weekend.

@BetterThanVegas
What's special about this that Nintendo couldn't do in house? HD Textures, 60 FPS, a higher polygon Mario what's unique about any of that?

And there's hundreds of Sonic fan game creators and even though Christian Whitehead was already shown to be skilled, when SEGA hired him they gave him relatively low risk jobs like creating mobile ports of old Sonic games before he worked his way up to the real thing.

This ain't no Metroid AM2R. This is much closer to any of those 16 bit remakes Sonic Master System games. Nice, yes. But have any of those people have created any official Sonic games, no.

If they want to work for Nintendo, move to Japan, learn Japanese, and apply for a job.

@Dancampulung
Orange Baby Yoshi.

@BetterThanVegas
https://youtu.be/C1Y_d_Lhp60

To add to my earlier post:
I'd love to see a collection of Sega's Star Wars Arcade games with M2 at the helm.

I thought I heard this was going to re-do the graphics when they announced this, the Sega arcade game has better looking graphics and that came out 20 years ago!

@Not_Soos
I think Namco and Outright previously codeveloped that Paw Patrol game together.

Universal Studios Japan opened up more than two weeks ago though only for locals, they're waiting until they fully reopen and have all their operations all sorted out to open this up.

I expect the same thing for Tokyo DL's New Fantasyland and WDW's Ratatouille ride.

Now we just need another Artoon character in this game:

Blinx the Cat!

@sixrings
Oh hai, Andrew Wilson!

Not a surprise their mobile division makes less than MK8 DX alone and have had much more money put into them.

I'm saying this as someone who doesn't care for sports games but considering NA is the Switch's best region it seems a bit peculiar that EA isn't going to bring Madden to Switch.

Not sure why a reddit post that looks like a 4th grader typed it up is being taken seriously as a source, especially over such a miniscule issue.

I expect to see it on Switch a year after its released on other platforms.

And when its announced in a Nintendo direct we'll all be saying "It's about time!"