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Smart move, focus on making fewer quality titles for IP coming out later in the year. After the impact Pokemon Go had on 3DS and Pokemon sales theyre going to want to try and replicate it with other IPs.
I'll be interested to see if Mario Run had a similar effect on 3DS mario sales too.

As for franchises Id like to see next on my phone. A Kirby game could be fun, and maybe a PunchOut spin off (but thats just dreaming).

It looks nice. I still dont really know who its aimed at, but at least its not ugly.
I won't be getting one as I have a Switch and a freshly repaired New 3DS XL but this might convince people who haven't upgraded from the og 3DS/xl to take the plunge to a newer model.

I LOVE THIS!
This character has singlehandedly made me more interested in ARMS. Its wacky designs like this that make fighting games so much more fun. I hope we get more out there designs like this for the other unannounced fighters!

No surprises here then. They'll probably go with a big direct as usual and have treehouse streaming over the 3 days. If we get lucky we may even get a Nintendo World Championships with Arms and Splatoon.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I dont necessarily think that Nintendo need a live press conference to build hype in fact i usually find the mix of Direct and treehouse to be better than anything they did in the past.
Think back to previous live shows like the dreadful 2008 or even 2010 with the brokwn wiimote. Nothing about these shows where any better than the concise Directs they have. And as for good recent E3 shows, last year people where all agreed that Zelda stole the show hands down, and 2014s direct was fantastic.

I'll echo what I said in the Switch article comments; its nice to see Nintendo doing well again.
Now that the WiiU is officially dead lets put those years behind us and hope that this is the first of many successful financial reports from Ninty.

Personally Im still holding out for XCX to be ported to Switch, I loved that world on WiiU but i could sink so many more hours into it if it were portable.
As for XC2 I'm mildly excited but a few things are holding back my hype; firstly im not exactly in love with the artstyle and secondly i never got that far in XC1 so aren't as attatched to that world and lore.
Either way Im sure Monolithsoft know what they are doing and it will be a great game!

More good news for Switch owners. Hopefully they'll announce some big titles at E3 to keep the sales coming into next year too.
And can I just say how nice it is to hear good sales numbers from Nintendo again, the WiiU years were depressing.

No chance. For better or worse the Switch is a technological generation behind all other formats and I doubt the developers will go out their way to downgrade the game for the limited Switch audience.
If we get anything at all I think it will be a CoD game made exclusively for the Switch in a couple of years time.

The Wifi works fine on my Switch (Splatoon testfire had a silky smooth connection) and I never play official competitiin anyway so this will never affect me, but its cool that Nintendo gave people this option.

My problem with takeovers like this is that most of the time the Bigwigs in charge have no idea what the consumer wants. All they'll focus on is the profit margin, which will mean more rushed games and more DLC and increased badwill towards the companies involved.
And to be honest Ubisoft needs all the goodwill it can get at the moment.

This is such an ugly Lego set! There have been so many other (and way better) Zelda idea sets in the past if this was the one that got released I would actually be dissapointed.
The guardian looks so lifeless and Link isnt even blonde! Thumbs down from me.

Is the VR market actually taking off? From what I've seen there isnt really a 'must play' app for VR yet, so I can't see Nintendo doing this until there is. Although that said, the Switch would be by far the cheapest VR device if the did and could capture a more casual audience.

I guess this is because Nintendo doesn't want to open the floodgates to loads of old and or low quality titles on the eShop. At the moment it feels like the selection has been tailor made to get a few games each week, all of which are Switch exclusive or have Switch exclusive features.
They are just being careful so the public perception is that this is a platform with new quality titles and not just a store full of cheap titles like the WiiU eShop had (no names mentioned).
Hopefully after E3 the eShop will be updated and we'll see Nintendo allowing more games to release onto the system.

Twilight Princess was visually stunning, it was a very solid WiiU port. I also played Mass Effect and a bit of Deus Ex too, and had no issues with either, so I'd be more than glad to see Tantalus work with Nintendo again.
And if they need any inspiration I'd love to see what Ocarina of Time would look like on Switch

Really dissapointing to see it plagued by such framerate issues, and on top of the comments made by the dev, I'm gonna hold off until an update/sale. A shame because the whole 'Amazing Nightcrawler' mechanic it has going on seemed like a solid basis for a good game.

I tried to do this, using magnesis on my biggest sword to push a raft. It started to work but the sword kept slipping and ended up at the bottom of the ocean.

Eww I was seriously considering getting this game, but now i think I'll wait until a sale.
If the dev is gonna be that snide about it then he doesn't deserve my money.
I mean talk about cheeky, instead of owning up for the fault of his product he trys to shift the blame, and then troll the customer by basically telling them to buy a more powerful machine!

Personally they look identical, that said I preordered my copy from Tesco last night. I can't wait to have a go at a proper battle mode again for the first time in years!

Ahh Im glad these wonderful stability articles won't be going anywhere in the Switch generation. Keep up the good work NL

@djtwenty9 Pachter said it about Iwata a couple of months back in a video he posted on YouTube (it was reported on NL too)
Maybe I'm just bitter but I still hold it against him for saying it.

Really looking forward to Splatoon 2. Testfire totally sold me on the new ideas they have. Can't wait for even more cool stages to be shown off as we get closer to release!

"The late and not-so-great Satoru Iwata"
The less i hear about Pachter, the better I'll feel.
Also do we know enough about the Scorpio (or the Switch's future in matter of fact) to predict this?!

My friend has been playing Zelda this way on PC, I find it funny as he's currently playing at 1080p whereas Im capped at 900 on the Switch! Its really amazing how much of the game they've got working, only 18 Shrines are unplayable!

Its annoying to have had to wait this long just to get the game on android and a lot of the excitement i had for it has gone. It may seem petty but i really hope that few people buy it just to teach Nintendo not to do this split release again.

@ GAME. Stop. Please stop.

Tbh i don't see this as a massive spoiler like some people (though I can understand how you would). To me Zelda is a fantasy game so a dragon isn't exactly out of place. I'm hoping that this is a shrine boss, and that there are many other bosses we haven't seen yet!

@FuzzyYellowBalls yeah its more common than people think

@FuzzyYellowBalls ahh now that is where it becomes drastically more subjective and vastly more hypothetical.
In the extreme example of utilitarianism I could lay down the following situation:
A madman has taken 10 hostages and tells you that he will kill them all unless you sacrifice a baby into a blender.
Do you do it?
Would the amount of people make a difference?
What if one of the hostages was the Pope?
Whilst I readily accept that this situation will never occur it does a good job of explaining how I view situational ethics.

@Kalmaro Touché 😂

@FuzzyYellowBalls Maybe I feel entitled to this knowledge because I've put £300 towards it?
As for digging a deeper hole, honey I could dig to Australia and back again and it wouldn't change what Im saying 😂

@Kalmaro Mill and Bentham were the greatest ethical writers of their time, and I wouldn't say the nature of humanity has changed much in 400 years. But yes I am very much a situational ethicist. So yes if it would somehow help enough people I could even justify putting a newborn baby in a blender.
It seems that we disagree on ethics at a fundamental level so I can't see this going much further.
have a nice day tho

@Kalmaro "If the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Mill, Bentham and Spock.
I feel in this case stealing from a giant corporation is justified by the knowledge gained to the consumer.

@TbobB ahh now that is where we fundamentally disagree, and I would say the same about your moral compass.

@ThatNyteDaez But alas somebody has to make that £300 plunge to find out, especially if Nintendo aren't showing it off. If everybody was going to hold back and wait then nobody would be buying a Switch at all.

@shaneoh Im not saying that the entire blame of the theft falls on Nintendo, amd I feel that comparing it to a murder really is a false equivalence. What Im saying is that Nintendo, given the fact they are not being forward with Switch information, should have expected someone to steal a Switch to release the information to people.
I also believe that Nintendo deserved this to happen to them. They are currently selling a product which we know very little about and the public deserve to know about some very key aspects of what they are buying. If this means a console had to be stolen for the information to come to light, well Im certainly not crying tears for Nintendo. The end justified the means.

@Finntendo No I think stealing and leaking this information out is justified because myself and around 2 million other people are spending £300 for a system that we still dont know everything about.
I put down the money in January having faith that Nintendo would release more information. Nintendo has failed to do such a thing and so I have no qualms about somebody taking it into their own hands to provide us with such information.

@shaneoh umm yeah. They have a sought after product that they are telling is very little about. Of course somebody was going to steal it and leak the info at some point.
If Nintendo weren't expecting this then they'd be very incompetent.

Tbh I really don't care how it was obtained. If Nintendo was unwilling to show us key aspects of the console before launch they should have expected (and possibly, deserved) this to happen to them.

Watching this emerge live on GAF reminds me why I love the gaming community! The collective hype over a fairly mundane (although important) feature brings me so much excitement and it warms my heart that we're all experiencing this whirlwind of feelings at the same time. Jeez I love videogames!

@impurekind if you're talking about the Audi ad, i liked it and personally think we need more messages like them to be publicly broadcast, especially in the current climate.

Anyhoo as for Nintendo I think they hit the nail on the head with this advert. Clear messaging and a wide audience is miles ahead of anything they did with the WiiU. And even if it doesn't translate to loads more sales day 1 at least people will have heard of the system!

Never have I been so embarrassed to be a Nintendo fan than reading this comment section. I can't believe the whining that one of the most creative minds in the industry isn't developing for your preferred plastic box.
Jeez people calm it down.

@dkxcalibur lol calm down.

@dkxcalibur I think it's clear at this point that if you want the latest and greatest third-party content that appears on PS4 and Xbox One the Switch will not be for you. I think it's also clear by this point that the Switch will not be 'another Wii U' in terms of games release schedule.
The complainers are moaning that the games are not games that they want to play, and I can understand that. Sure you're not too fussed that Rayman Legends is rereleasing or maybe RIVE isn't your cup of tea. But does that detract from any of the other great games coming out on the platform?
My point is that more games are never a bad thing, it means more choice, and (perhaps more importantly) more to play between big AAA releases.

Perfect price for whats on offer imo, I'll still be interested to see what the "discounts" for member look like though

Keep it coming!! The complainers above will probably never be happy but I for one think that more games added to a gaming system is a good thing!

Oh boy am I excited for this new game! Dig and Heist are two of my favourite games so the had my attention when they said the next title was coming to Switch, whatever it is I can't wait!

Im sure I'll enjoy this mode... when it comes to Android!!!

Got my Special Edition Zelda from Argos so it looks like I'm getting art cards! Tbh is any of this stuff really going to sway anyone into shopping else where? I went with Argos because it was the cheapest, I'm not going to pay £15 more just for a tshirt.

Nothing that releases on Steam surprises me at this point. The store is a cespit for untalented devs to try and make a quick bit of cash. As for 1 2 Swift? I hope the people who already own a £800 Vive will enjoy it 😂😂😂

Tbh this really isn't surprising considering the few AAA titles Nintendo has released over the last year. The WiiU recieved no AAA titles whatsoever (StarFox and Paper Mario are B tier titles at best) so its no shock that it sold so few consoles.
The 3DS is where Nintendo put their effort and it seems to have paid off sales wise (although i wonder how this will impact the Switch)
As for amiibo is it any wonder that the sales aren't through the roof when both the figures and their uses in game have been so mediocre.
Im more than sure that the Switch will turn the financial year around for them though, and next years sales should be much more impressive.