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At the current pace if it were maintained, discounting the unlicensed, lost in license limbo (Turtles, Goonies, etc) and the stuff that's utter trash they could fill out nearly 5 years of releases with NES US releases alone.

If anything it's a disclaimer unless in time they do move to cover something else. I just wish entitled types would stop pissing and whining about something thrown in free as part of the service as it just comes off as baby-ish.

Better off importing the English east Asia Kamen Rider fighter instead. $50 and you actually get a full game. Shocking I know.

So the real question here isn't quality, is how will Nintendo deal with it? Will the C&D come before or after release like AM2R? Nintendo only attempted a shutdown on Metroid2 for the PC after the release and seriously only after the bug fix of it no less too. It's almost like they were fine with the release and quality of it, but because of IP protection eventually wrist slapped it just to cover their end. As you know once it's online it doesn't go away. Will they give them the courtesy too or just stomp it out.

The Metroid 2 remake was given a release clock and updates over the years too, so there was warning yet it got killed well enough after.

Must be a slow news day to reach for this low to get some attention.

Already on iOS and Android, no reason to wait to at least test it out if there's a freebie mode demo or something.

You know if Capcom bailed there would be some superficial whining, but in the end I don't think most people would notice given what they have put out and in the manner they did it. Buyers would be better off without their crap stunts, same with what EA and 2K have done putting out bloated beta level broken games for sale.

Not happening, the little interest I had is done. The fact they're pulling the buy a game, get a waiver on one and with that pricing is disgusting enough, but for the others to just be rental downloads for that price being no different than the Sony/MS releases — they can pound sand.

I don't buy Capcom games on Switch anymore unless they're correctly (fairly) priced and COMPLETE, no ripoffs, no halfsies.

Ehhhh DQ Heroes 1+2? No thanks. Did any of you watch the digital foundry video break down on the Switch game? It was a very very quick and even more very dirty conversion. It plays as bad or worse than the lower powered Vita release does, graphics, audio, everything has problems. S-E at that point had no faith in Nintendo and shoveled a hot turd just to make a quick buck.

So far they appear to be the only one actually trying to do this right outside of Nintendo. I would only hope (yeah right) they'd allow side loading of more. Some of my favorite Genesis games aren't theirs, they're licensed, and a couple are even awesome PC conversions that would never happen over licensing issues (Dune, Star Control.)

8GB cards a year back cost what a blu Ray does to press. If the game is small enough then the cost should be less. Also if the game uses more asset copies for 1080 or 4K which are pointless they can be excluded. Audio could also if on the edge get compressed without being obvious. Lots of reasons are possible.

@DreamerAbe86 a poor decision. I didn’t like LBP much as I wanted more of a full game and design combo. MM is as lacking and more. I’d never pay up for it or either again. I get where you’re going but one vs two decades of history is another.

The old atari or apple monitors were just green or black, there was no real shade between. You could do an on/off hatch like dithering at best. That there is a total knockoff of the shades of Gameboy 1989. Looking at the stills I have to wonder if that would actually work on a GB if someone converted it.

@SmaggTheSmug Love it, each cucumber is not only pickled but also shipped in the salty tears of every Sonic fan from the 90s who has been repeatedly disappointed by the atrocities of Sonic Team and Sega on the whole for over 20 years. There will be more than enough salty tears to keep them in free juice for good.

Suspiciously looks like the 10km egg in Pokemon Go too.

I'm surprised and amused this happened, yet personally at myself annoyed. I've had this on my GoG account wishlisted over a year but never have made time for it. Now it's a situation of pay up on Switch or play on PC for sharply less money with the ability to carry it to future systems.

Adding classic Marathon mode, and Com battle for practice for the real deal should have been there immediately, vital to learning the game and enjoying it for even more people. Add this soon please.

My favorite of the 3D FF games, but at $21 not a chance. I'll be waiting for FF12 to arrive in the mail, a real version to justify a higher price (plus it's the one I missed.) Had this been a physical release, somewhere in the world, and in english I'd have imported it to be clear.

@misterMike you do know what sarcasm and a joke is right. I said it was a big stretch. That was not serious. The rest was on the nose. Sorry that hurts your fragile sensibilities.

@misterMike Defensive much? The history is there of one using the other repeatedly for their own gain and that has nothing to do with feelings. They took what Nintendo did, refined it, got lucky capturing solidly 2 of the 4 console generations by an insane margin, and built and empire off it. Obviously it didn't hurt them, and there's no way to even speculate fairly had Nintendo not fouled up the N64 (carts over CD) design that it could have been dramatically different then and the generations since. It's in stone, all of it. It had nothing to do with the student beating the master, that's just a feelings loaded arrogant comment.

Perhaps Nintendo did it out of spite considering people stuck their noses where it didn't belong. But I can only resolve a couple answers from that. It was a test and never going to happen, or it will happen (in the app, a SNES app of its own using that as a test bed.)

I can't think of any other rational conclusion.

My daughter got me it for Christmas, and I hate to say it I don't know exactly how I feel. I've only touched it twice getting distracted.

The first game seems overly cheap and nasty when it comes to pits, jumps and perspective. The second game I didn't go very much into either but it seemed to correct that and was more enjoyable but was bitter over the first. I haven't touched the last one. I know I should as she asks if I like it ever so often.

@Spoony_Tech In all fairness, he is right. They don't even need to copy for years now, but they do. Yet ultimately Sony didn't have a stake until the CDROM debacle on the SNES when Sony tried to pull a shady contract leaving Nintendo with the expense of the system and pressing discs, while all profit from licensing was 100% there's.

Nintendo gave em the boot, and then we got the PS1. And what did PS1 do? Copied the SNES controller design as much as possible. There's other things then too, but moving forward. They mocked the Wii with waggle and waggle plus - then PS Move and that was ok on PS3. Kind of a large stretch from one color to many, Virtual Boy - PS VR. Sony has been aping Nintendo since the earlier mid 1990s. It has been hardware, accessories, software so it's nothing new.

The fact they're being nice now, given their attitude with cross play, lame fortnite, and other garbage including their more recent censorship oddity antics comes off as a bit surprising.

@Lone_Beagle and others — That's why I got out back in 2002. I was at Midway and when they allowed middle management, leaders (supervisors and their boss) to let the programming monkeys goof off for months and fail to meet deadlines guess who got punished? Test lab, console tech standards people, test leads, other lower tier operational folks. Unless you committed working 7 days a week at least 8-12 hours, which meant on your day off or rarer 8 hour day not helping another team, you were on a quiet list. Did not matter how accurate, fast, good of a person you were, they kept those who basically sucked up to supervisors around and fired (laid off) the rest. Much of the industry has been this way since things went 3D 20 years ago, so what Activision did here is nothing new. They jump from one level of ineptness (slacking, blowing your boss) to another (microtransaction abuse, lofty impossible goals) and screw the hardest working types.

it drove me out and into the game media for 4 years, and when that started to get all parasitic and similar with the back biting, sucking up, and slacking off work on others — I quit.

You all know the big reveal will be with that xbox stuff going on with MS and Nintendo chumming up, that Rare is back in it and they have been chomping at the bit to HD remaster Starfox Adventures. I know I'm on board (seriously though, I keep forgetting to get it back on my Gamecube, and I have the HDMI external device for it too.)

Yet another reason I don’t buy mario party kart anymore. Skill of driving is punished severely vs random item use. Go back to the 90s/early 00s and you had to be skilled in both.

Seems like crybaby investor drama more than rational thought. They at NCL over shot their guess again and you get this. You’d think both sides would learn especially when the real world sales figures are excellent. Had they said 15M it would be all smiles.

Back with both red and especially Yellow I would name the character Ash as that little 8bit jumble of pixels reminded me of him. And in the case of yellow since they tied it straight to season 1 of the anime right down to Jessie and James I totally named him Ash and put Gary there for the rival. Did the same once more with FireRed GBA as well.

I still think I'd like to get this game on Switch (pika version) and I bet I'd use the name there as well even if it doesn't look like Ash exactly anyway.

I'm still holding out buying this on Switch instead of taking the recent 40% cuts for PC-Steam. Damn fools, tell us already. This isn't hard, english or not.

@Paraka You're right. It lives as well as it does because the format itself is thin and it breeds fans because of the IPs it picks up, primarily Nintendo but when you throw in some Konami, Capcom and Namco gems people go nuts.

Ultimately the game is an arena brawler, not even an actual fighting game. It's in the same family as Capcom's Power Stone titles, and the 2D Jump Superstars games with all the manga/anime characters. The core format is sound, thin, but sound, works fine for a time alone, but with friends in a party environment it can last ages longer. You strip Smash of the Nintendo crew, and you get a pretty common arena brawler that has been around for a very long time. Faces of favorite games did it, something even Sony bombed at on PS3/PSP with their same-y fighter. Sorry but this game is no ultimate fighter, it's an ultimate Nintendo fan service arena brawler but that doesn't make as pretty a headline.

Amazon the other day was running a discount preorder for it and another 5% off click coupon too making it ‘prime like’ effectively 20% off now. I’m glad that I get a date so quickly for it. I’ve always wanted to try out but never could FF12. Now its just a matter until the end of April barring any delays. Check it out on that site if you are looking to buy to save $10.

WiiPU trolling Nintendo really? This needs to be on the Switch in their online service. Play using the touch pad, or detach the joycon and fire at the screen. This is so stupid and ridiculous.

It's overdue really. Lower the thing in price as far as possible and pop the games down to the $20 point and do it as a kids budget box with the New 2DSXL line or something. I've barely touched mine since the Switch arrived. I got Metroid and fun but never played it very deep, same can be said with Mario & Luigi SSS. The last one I did was a 1/2 off ($20) Ultra Sun which is lots of fun, but I just peck away at it. Switch uses the time I have, NIntendo needs to budget box it or box it up for the big sleep.

Namco has been peddling another round of the MyArcade devices as a handheld or mini arcade cabinet. Maybe these are up next.

@NEStalgia Exactly and I should stress something you missed there and is a known, at least more on the inside and rational types. People kiss Panic Buttons butt way too much like they're gods of Switch. Realize very carefully, they know what they're doing, they farm out the best work on contract around the world. The talent pool is strong, but they can only do so much.

Ever notice the games they do work on? They're contained environment games, on a path, not a huge detail draw distance either or at least they can cover up well. Do you see a big sandbox, nope. Do you see Doom working nicely yes? How about that Warframe? That one isn't as pretty, it's an open game even with limits but well more open, it really pushes things. They've done good work updating their engine using Doom to show off first FPS/frame time betterment, then the return of lost detail without clawing that back. Virtuos does the same with Dark Souls Remastered. You get these current gen games or ground up remasters, at a price, but also ones controlled in environments that can hack it.

The Switch is what it is, an overly for what you'd expect capable handheld. Nintendo took their ideas, Sony's vita/psp playbook for style and substance with lesser compromise of console like stuff and made it work. You can't expect the world, but you can expect many nice surprises towards that upward cap on things that slowly creeps higher as people learn to juice every bit out of that chipset.

And you know what? PS5/XB whatever are due at the end of 2020 seeing how hiring is going now on sites, things coming or not coming out quietly more or less. Switch will get an update, probably end of next year too so they can't stop getting those ports. What do you use, same basic stuff, but the TegraX2 and more ram, a nicer battery, the guts of Switch are all LEGO like plug n play parts like a desktop PC kind of. That thing outclasses the X1 pretty well. Imagine the years of Switch learning applied to the X2 for a Pro system. It'll be insane when that hits.

@ThanosReXXX You nailed it. The repeated complaining on here or their cross posted comment section on facebook is self centered, selfish, egotistic and largely biased. The reality of it was the Switch was an off year system, a handheld no less, that surprised people. They (some) trusted it, many others didn't. Those who did moved games to it, but they were late or after development and that's still hashing out now. Yet you see cross released stuff same time or within months like the upcoming Doom Eternal. Lessons were learned for some, others not, but in the end they're just games, home games now made into handheld releases.

There's no crime and no foul in that. It's called variety, and as long as it still gets a good amount of unique new releases or same time released too, it's nothing but a whiners vanity game to keep whining about ports. It's like people are dumb enough to believe the Switch would be better off without, just a smattering of growing indie releases and whatever Nintendo and some others put out for it. It's like the stain of the WiiU is a preferred course with little released, and quality mainly just from Nintendo. Sure a first party fanboys wet dream but that is a failed model that failed.

I have a PS3, also have a very good gaming laptop with the 980M 8GB geforce on board (equals a desktop 970) and can run that stuff, PS4 stuff samey too. Yet despite having variety I prefer the mobility of it. I don't care sometimes Switch games cost another $10. That is the cost of the 16 and 32GB memory cards being used because 8GB are in parity with their optical. I'm fine paying for the bigger chip for that kind of trade off. I'm fine getting a mix of new and old I mostly did skip out on. I had Doom already on PC, but prefer it on Switch (plays better control wise, no idea why) and I'll get Eternal on there too.

People just need to get over their repetitive baseless whining before it has a small chance of doing some damage. Selfish garbage is what it is.

I'm surprised I guess, didn't think Capcom cared that much. I've heard of the game as I am(kind of was) PS3 and 4 owner but never got it. I never dug that deep.

That video while pretty and seemingly nice with the tiny pieces of combat shown, I have to say I don't understand it. Is this like Capcom trying to pretend to be Bethesda with Skyrim? I have that, liked it enough, but it was so vast I just stopped playing one day as I didn't get what to really keep doing as it was so so big. I don't mind large when it's a bit more focused like say Starlink has been so far.

I probably should look into this, but if it's another Skyrim it could be a soft pass, but still great for more games and more variety. The whining gets old, even if the game was out 18mo ago on the other guys stuff, so what? This is a handheld, not a console, and it looks to play that nice at least in the prepped clips. Be happy it exists or really, do shut up. Even if it is $60 the data has to be large enough likely for a 32GB card and they're not that cheap so that's part of it. Part of it you all signed up for buying a non-optical device.

I know people here are going to go all boo hoo about it, but let's face is the Switch is a handheld, their handhelds from the post SNES days have what kept them well in the black and alive almost the entire ride since other than the point the Wii annoyingly did well with its gimmick. Consoles are going down anyway being that the other guys are just pushing closed PC media centers with better versions of ported games on PC(Steam) anyway. Nintendo can't compete with it and won't, they're handheld pushers, and they realize it. Good, stay that way as mobility makes you relevant to more people than not.

Gee obvious winner is obviously the win, super smash re-run who would have ever guessed that? :

Physical only a fool would think otherwise. Digital you have no control over and can be locked out of it or even in the TOS have it removed at any time. Physical you control as long as it’s in your hands. Digital is only good for cheaply priced dismissible stuff that’s no loss.

I bought a WiiU at launch. In the end not long after Mario Kart appeared, which by then I didn't even buy it, I was over it and sold it months later. It is the first time since I got into Nintendo in 1985 (or for that matter any system) I ever sold one off in its life span out of total disgust. Nintendo lied, and we wasted money on it. They were given a chance to get games that generation, but when third parties gave them specs they needed, they effectively told them to F-off and made their bloated tablet boat anchor that ate up so much resources the system barely could tick along effectively at HD. While it looked nice, the stupid system, ended up having a programming language nastier to work than the Saturn. The system was thrown under the bus before it even arrived, with buggy ports, some 1-3 years old, a lot of false promises, and even companies intentionally sand bagging it (EA ME3 on WiiU, same time for $20 less, Trilogy for the others.) It was born in the coffin, and the nails were already being pounded in as it arrived. To anyone willing to delude themselves into thinking that piece of garbage was great are fools. IT has a few great games, and now most of them are on the Switch or 3DS. People who cling to it like some amazing system, including that trashy article, are trolls or fools looking to get attention. End of story.

Nintendo is in the wrong. They can talk about a contract but in paying in advance is to have a game delivered. If you bail ahead no game is delivered. I mean they may weasel out of it but it should be tough.

What is wrong with you people. Is this site now resorting to delusional trolling to drum up page views hits and revenue. That list reeks of sadly cobbled fake controversy just to hopefully drag new people in for shock value and perhaps commentary. Seeing where their 8bit lineup hit and the piss poor Wii U failure second only to the virtual boy bomb going up half the list is a joke. Wow just what is wrong with your staff writer on this???

The way I see it 2020-21. Not now. It isn’t struggling in sales or getting key games working nice. The hardware is profitable and being gobbled up at amazing levels as are the games even third party finally. They’ll hang on. They have already the TegraX2 to revise it with which is notably more powerful and less battery hungry too. It would be like the ps4 to pro boost for developers to do more yet stay comfy and compatible. They have no motive to rush that along while things are hot.

@MoonKnight7 A rare commodity and glad they're deep in the Switch back pocket. They (and Virtuos) do stunning work that should be scooped up and commended. Knowing the Tegra format so well they set realistic guide posts and nail them with their smooth 30fps model and tweaking dynamic resolutions where needed. They find this happy medium where the games don't really suffer at all and work great on the go (or TV.) The fact they come back to a game a year plus later because of new tricks they learned in their engine work to perk up an older title says all you need to know to respect a company like this.

@Jonasty198460 Incredible amount actually. I bought this early on in its life through GoG and put a good many hours on it. It at first is amazing but you wonder if it will feel thin. As you slowly get a little stronger by each death as you accumulate more to up the quality of the default ship things get better. You grow out more, get more ships to do that too with, and each space you jump into you can get deeper into a pretty dark story.

The game is good for mining and drops but also some random easy as well as just evil spots, you never know. It's very much like TIE Fighter or Wing Commander in many ways if it was directly turned into a ROGUE style game except it's not turn based. It's addicting, yet easy to pick up and play for 10min or 2 hours depending how long you want to commit.

If I didn't have this already on my computer I'd buy it, but as a download only, not a chance especially full price again. If it went physical I'd strongly change my mind, or if some super deep 50% plus cut hit just for the portability factor.

Look any delay that actually not only corrects bugs not making consumers lame guinea pigs, but go above and beyond are all but welcome. Delay away. The fact they're taking found issues as well as constructive criticism to make the game all the more better for whatever audience is a worthy cause.

This kind of reminds me of Dragon Quest Swords a bit, except it's more free roam in the combat areas and not just the hub town.

@quinnyboy58 Well that would be funny and not a first elsewhere. Remember when FutureOne took over Nintendo Power? After reading the first two issues of it I canceled it immediately. I found out reading online they didn't use any of the old NP stuff much, instead pulling people off other projects to work it, and many were on Sony stuff. I guess some were bitter as it was like reading an old EGM mag where there was trolling, blatant lying about a release, and just smear commentary in general. I thought it was just a one off, but when it re-occurred two months in a row I called in, verbally canceled it and demanded a refund for the other issues.

I don't put up with stuff like that, but this is just funny, not mean.

Same here kind of. They list the best gifts, yet the reviews of the thing say grossly otherwise. Big mistake putting that on top.

Perhaps save it as a prank gift for April Fools, or by then it will be good as it'll get broken wide open and work as it should with an actual classics people want library on it.

@Jeremazing Because it negates the point of a physical release. Without reading the fine print, if it even in exists(and doesn't in some cases) you're buying part of a game, forced to do a download to get it all. It's just dishonest, and secondarily you're getting into having to pay more for added system space to store this data that should have been on the card in the first place. It's a shady back alley way about doing a DRM setup forcing your game to be managed by locking away part behind an internet check and download.

For those who keep their stuff, go 10+ years down the line, and you'll have a game you can't play if the install data isn't still on your system making it worthless.