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@Charlirnie fanbombing. Aka. Gamer’s opinions.

Kirby Air Riders is the stuff gamers should dream of. An absolutely lovingly made game with tons and tons of content for both single player and multiplayer. Split screen local multiplayer, local wireless, and online multiplayer. Insane options and customization. It’ll take literally hundreds of hours before everything the game has to offer is seen. All for one upfront price with no micro transactions or paid gambling mechanics. If gamers don’t want to support a game like this then they should not dare complain when the industry continues its slide into live service junk.

I’ve already put over twenty hours into this game and haven’t touched the customization at all. I’ve barely even played Road Trip. This game is like crack. I keep telling myself I’m just gonna play one more match. It’s never just one more.

I gotta say as someone who’s getting the deluxe edition. That box art is so lame.

Game companies should be careful. There is a solid and devoted fanbase who love the art form that companies risk losing forever if they don’t make the right moves. I’m one of them. I’ve got a backlog that will take the rest of my life to get through. I could be a loyal customer for decades to come. Or I could never drop another penny on the industry. It’s really up to the companies.

Unfortunately he’s right. Consumers, gamers especially, are very bad at standing up for themselves and demanding better from the companies they buy from. It’s sad, really.

I don’t know why 31% even frequents a Nintendo website if they’re not gonna play Nintendo games.

I ain’t ever had a problem with it. Played a ton of Smash using it.

The all digital future will not be good. Is it inevitable? Almost certainly. But that does not mean it will be good. I bought the original Sonic 3 with the original music for my Genesis not long ago. 30 years after its initial release. That’s the beauty of physical media. I have first edition books by Edna Ferber that are literally over 100 years old. When physical media is gone for games, the industry will be much worse off. You will own nothing. You will pay whatever the game company says you will pay. And when servers and services are shut down you will not be able to go back and experience the games you love. I can play a 30 year old Sonic game exactly as it was at launch. I can read my 100+ year old books and read the same print and paper as World War One soldiers did in the trenches. Those are experiences that we are losing as things become more digital. Is it the reality of the situation that digital is the future? Yes. But you are delusional if you think it will be a good thing. It’s already not a good thing. And it will get worse as physical media continues to decline.

@TerribleTerabytes some losing battles are worth fighting for. I don’t want to hear anyone dare complain about game prices when physical media no longer exists. Right now games still have a second hand market to compete with. When it’s all digital, companies will have complete control over pricing. If you think $70 games are too expensive. Just wait.

@breach187 This. If I could hook up a 9tb hdd that cost me $80 it wouldn’t be a problem. But express cards are really pricey. I want to have as little data to download as possible.

Want Chrono Cross

I've come to the conclusion that commenters on this site are like MAGA supporters. They're completely insulated from reality. People on this site think Nintendo is the worst, greediest company on the planet and that they haven't released any games on the Switch 2. And MAGA folk think that a small electoral victory a year ago meant they could unleash all of their right wing policies without any care in the world.

But then you have reality. The Switch 2 is breaking records in sales. Poeple are playing and loving Donkey Kong and Mario Kart and are excited for Kirby and Metroid. And similarly people absolutely hate the MAGA policies. They don't like the tariff inflation. They don't like the deportations. And the reality is that MAGA just got demolished at the ballot box.

People on this site are becoming as insulated in their hate for Nintendo as MAGA folk are insulated in thinking prices are actually going down.

Anyone gonna still claim we’re not in a recession? This has been the worst year for jobs since 2009.

Very healthy industry.

Thanks Mr. President.

Patents and video games don’t mesh well. Copyright infringement is one thing and I have no problem with companies protecting their copyrights. But patents are way too broad and end up stifling creativity and competition in the industry. Don’t like them at all. It’d be like if a book publisher tried to patent the use of certain words.

The jump from 3ds to Switch was way too big way too fast for Gamefreak. And they haven’t scaled up at all to compensate. Going from a system that’s between the N64 and GameCube in terms of power to a full HD console is just too big of a jump. From Red and Green all the way to Sun and Moon, mainline pokemon games pushed their handheld consoles to the limits of what they’re capable of. But on the Switch they don’t. Instead they feel like 3ds games on a system capable of much more.

If EA actually cared about helping their workers. They’d make all AI use completely optional. They’d give workers the choice on how they want to implement it or not. But they don’t care. So mandatory it is.

This one was hard for me. I really like both. I think the more illustrated look to the NA/EU cover just tips it in favor of that one.

If you went back to 2008 and said that Xbox would be a 3rd party in less than 20 years. Nobody would have believed you. It’s utterly baffling how badly the Xbox brand was mismanaged after the 360. More competition is always good for the industry. And Xbox effectively bowing out of the console race will probably not be good for the long term health of it.

“co-develop transformative generative AI models, tools, and workflows that empower EA’s artists, designers, and developers to reimagine how games are made.”

Translation:
“We’re firing artists, designers, and developers to reimagine how investors can make quick money by slashing workforce costs by replacing people with AI.”

@SBandy1 Don’t even get me started. Almost all of his films on UHD blu ray aren’t even native 4k scans. They’re just AI upscales of 2k scans. Also some of them like T2 have basically all of the film grain digitally removed and it looks awful. Almost none of his films are worth getting in 4k. It’s sad.

I don’t know how it’s possible for anyone to not have liked the direct. Top ride. All courses from the first one. A ton of content and customization options. If you didn’t like the direct you either don’t like racing games or just don’t like video games.

Recently Played Prime Remastered on my new 4k Oled. Actually one of the best looking games I’ve ever played.

I wish they’d done a proper hd remaster instead. Or let me buy the GameCube version individually.

I play them via Wii U virtual console. My Wii U is basically my retro machine full of NES, SNES, and N64 games.

The management of Rare under Microsoft will always baffle. They were literally one of the premier developers during the nineties. But Microsoft seemingly bought them to do nothing with them.

@Clammy "Impressive considering the poor selection of launch titles"

Mario Kart, New 3d Donkey Kong, Sakurai directed game, Metroid Prime 4. All within the first 6 months. I don't know how you would have survived the N64 or Wii U eras.

@canaryfarmer Sweet. I’ll definitely keep that in mind if/when I need a new controller. First party ones are getting too expensive.

@canaryfarmer Nice to know. How do the buttons and control sticks feel? The old third party controllers I would get would always have awful control sticks especially.

Has anyone had success with third party controllers these days? The last time I got a third party controller was during the GameCube and Xbox days. And they were god awful. They sucked when they worked and would break really easily. Are they any better now?

AI is such a copyright nightmare. If you use AI to generate art. Do you own that art as your intellectual property? Or will some AI companies have a clause buried in their end-user license agreement that states they own all generated content? If I were a company, I wouldn’t touch generative AI with a 50 foot pole until all of these issues work themselves out in legislation and courts.

People generally don’t like Nintendo’s Nazi behavior when it comes to protecting their IP. But imagine spending decades and millions upon millions of dollars meticulously cultivating fan bases for your franchises only to have some other person or company come in and make money off of your work with little to no effort. That’d be pretty frustrating to say the least.

The director made it pretty clear that it’s primarily built around first person. So that’s absolutely how I’m playing it.

Literally one of the best 3d platformer packages ever.

This is them starting to pivot away from being completely reliant on the US market. This is the logical end result of the complete unpredictability and instability in the US's current economic and trade policies. Foreign investors and companies are going to start looking to other places to invest their resources.

“My headphones were out of charge.”

Sad fool doesn’t know you can get wired ones that never need to charge.

I’m happy that she’s been with the company longer than Doug has been. It means she knows what makes it tick. She knows why people are such loyal fans. At least she should know. We’ll see how it plays out.

Does the Switch 2 even have an SSD? If it doesn’t then his point is moot.

@Serpenterror Absolutely. They still charge the same price for a game-key card that they would for a real physical edition. It makes companies more money because they're charging consumers the same price for a worse product. You gotta admit it's a smart business move. And then if game-key cards fail, companies can just claim that physical media is dead and move on to all digital. Where they have no second hand market to compete with and have complete control over pricing and ownership. Game-key cards really are a win-win for game companies. And consumers are screwed no matter what.

It’s because they’re cheaper. That’s it. Companies make more profit off of them. They can word salad all they want about whatever else, but that’s the actual reason.

Yeah. If your case gets dismissed in favor of your opponent, you didn't win. It means your case was so bad that it didn't even get to the actual issue you wanted to argue about. It's like showing up to the wrong classroom to take a math test you didn't study for. It's hopeless.

Would get if I could buy the games individually. Since it’s just NSO. Not interested.

Devs should just develop games with Switch 2 in mind and then port to other platforms. It’s gonna be the biggest gaming platform going forward. And Xbox and Playstation decided to become glorified pcs anyway.

Welcome to the post “liberation day” world.

Could be great. Could be awful. We don’t know. They barely showed it at all and we have literally no concrete information about it at all.

Gamers are the most vocal lemmings ever. They’ll lodge all sorts of complaints while still following each other right over the cliff.

@DragonbornRito if Nintendo was raising their prices in a vacuum I’d agree. But the price of literally everything is going up also. Thanks to “liberation day.”

None of his arguments hold up to scrutiny.