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So Ubisoft put just part of the game on a card to save money? Am I reading this right, and that now some people are drawing the conclusion that helped the sales suck on the game? I know I'm happy I didn't buy it as I didn't know about that. I refuse to buy partial games, which is why I have no copy of Wolfenstein despite loving the work done on Bethesda's other games (Doom, Skyrim.)

A very solid list of 3 games for the month people should be quite happy to play with if they'd just relax and have some fun.

Whining about having 3 a month, get over it, it makes sense if you'd chill on the entitlement behavior and realize what they're up to. There's only so many games that aren't hot garbage now, unlicensed, in licensing hell, or otherwise locked down they can access. If they intend to keep this going steadily at 3/mo for the years to come, they'll run out in around 5 years pretty much.

I get the whining me me now now now mentality, but you can't have it all and right away. It's just a piece of their paid service, enjoy it or not, bug about it every month is getting old and very unfunny.

Surprised as the first post getting those thumbs down on that comment. Others also noted you really probably don't expect to get an honest breakdown on a VS of those 2 at a Nintendo site.

The sad thing is, they didn't play hard, no softball, that really is just how is it, and they even passed the buck off to that Digital Foundry video to make the case on a third party unbiased level.

Sony screwed up with PAL, inaccurate enough emulation to show/hear, and like 70% of the games on there most wont' care about nor think deserve to be called classic over others. Yes some are license blocked, but a lot are not and you ask why? Look at the developers, Capcom no SF franchise? Konami no SOTN? Square-Enix(owns Eidos) no Tomb Raider or Soul Reaver? Namco no Air/Ace Combat? The list of what the hell is this goes on that wouldn't be blocked.

I wanted it, wasn't going to preorder, but now, unless someone breaks it open I can't make myself pay $50 let alone $100 for that.

I keep a PSOne+LCD combo on my home/work desk and have just over a dozen games. Good stuff even some it has like R4, but also SOTN, Tomba, Diablo and Warcraft 2, Quake II, both Doom releases, Air Combat, Omega Burst and a few others. Some of those could have easily been used.

This sounds to me just like the English released version of Capcom Belt Action Collection for Switch being physically released shortly in the same region alone too.

https://www.yesasia.com/us/capcom-belt-action-collection-asian-japanese-english-version/1069445508-0-0-0-en/info.html

If you were holding out on that bundle with Final Fight and the rest, there it is.

Wow is that ever likely the worst name for a game up there in that list. Is the game like that bad, did the maker have no clue, or did slide one by Nintendo? Google 'kuso japanese' and you'll see why. If you're lazy: crap, sh*t, or bullsh*t is what it translates to.

Looks like it could be a really fun game. There are so many things due to my budget I have to skip and it's unfortunate as sometimes you lose the variety, especially in the digital trending of some things.

Makes you question if they actually played the game, or if this is just site filler by someone without a clue just to drag in page views.

The problem is the bittboy is a slightly less quality device than some of the other similar Xin1 devices you can get on amazon between $20-25. The one that does not say retro fc on it, the ANBERNIC Handheld Game Console with 168 games for 22.99 has a better screen and audio going for it, and a little bit nicer game selection.

Bittboy cuts corners then wants a little more of a premium price for a bit less nice quality parts. I don't see them stuffing this stuff in a GBA shell is going to make them suck much less.

And to think the last time a main line (not revolution) Civilization game hit Nintendo was in 1995 on the SNES, and it even used the mouse too (I have it.) The original is still my favorite, but a rating (by words, not the 9 alone) that nice makes it very tempting.

How F2P is this game though really? Is there a point where it's basically an anemic crawl if you don't pay, or is it a true honest F2P setup like Animal Crossing was which is entirely optional?

$40 and no physical media? Screw you Square-Enix, or at least the US branch (off to check if it can be imported from less stupid regions.)

Wow so a bunch of self important selfish grown children leaving the lowest grade on a game just to show who's boss on the internet. Wow, real mature, real brave, and really full of crap.

Hopefully every last one of them ends up banned from whatever service they're on doing childish stuff like that. It shows they can not be trusted and therefore not allowed to leave comments or reviews on a product because it will scare off legitimate comments both good and bad, plus those looking to read them to learn for themselves.

@Rubbercookie @JayJ No problem. Just trying to help people not get sucked into being ripped off for a lot more money for the same internal product. I mean if someone knows that and wants to pay higher out of some weird need to support a company over another, that's cool.

I think NintendoLife goes out of the way to try and sell overpriced EON goods as it keeps coming up and it's tiresome. It's not right to ignore 2 equally viable quality products that work the same and are basically the same internally. Perhaps they have some advertising kickback tied up into it.

@Rubbercookie All the same. The internal hardware the same parts. It was designed by a group of people a couple of years ago or so and it's all open source and file material, so anyone can actually make one if they choose to. The device doesn't add input lag/latency issues to the games where they're worse for wear as they are using SD style cables into an HDTV can do.

The GC digital out of the rear port is a pure digital output, and the special device here takes that direct feed and spits it out on your screen without having to add layers of processing and resampling to a resolution the TV can handle like SD cables do. Nintendo's own cable which took years to crack which got us to this thing has a block on it too which does this processing, but still at SD levels which is great for CRT, but still equally awful as an RCA cable on HD.

You honestly are just paying for fluff. EON gives you an expensive custom made box, a fluffy 3D printed shell that costs even more, and then you're paying for all their advertising and other peddling budgets on top of just making the actual device. ZeldaXPro who was out first for $100 (vs $150) just sells a basic device that's 3D printed with the board inside, and with an IR port so you can use a universal remote. And then Carby comes along with a basic but nicer case, standard cardboard box with minimalist ink on it, but they do include a cheap basic remote in the box and it's $75.

So really it's up to you how much you want to blow for the same internal hardware as you're basically paying for fluff you'll never look at anyway hiding in back of your Gamecube.

Here's the original source of this device: https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo Search around a little more with google, you can find pictures and schematics to make your own if you like.

Wow the level of selfish entitlement in here raging on how it's not more than the NES. If you don't like it, don't buy into it. Taking something like this like it's personal is pathetic.

I think the slow drip of the NES games is a smart choice. There are only so many games, and when you figure games with licensing problems, games now owned by competitors, stuff that ages so bad you can't sell it, and unlicensed third party games they've only got a few hundred at best they can use. If this really is just going to be a growing pile of NES stuff online in the app, it's a smart choice so it lasts for years.

@retro_player_22 I'm backing this guy up too here.

I got in when it first popped up from ZeldaXPro for $100 and in a less pretty looking nearly black zippo ligher shaped plug on its 3rd revision and it I don't regret one bit. But had Carby been out then with it having the remote and lower price — most definitely the best buy. The EON People are just snakeoil salesmen having a notably higher cost with a fluffy pretty box and 3D shell to the device along with some gamer suckups being their sponsor to lure in people to pay a lot more.

Don't be fooled, there are equally nice cheaper options that came before and after it.

@Jokerwolf This and 2 cheaper options yet all use the same internal firmware and design. Save some money and pay $100 or less for the same experience, I did.

The look of the HD GC output is stunning. You'll be blown away at the detail lost to the crappy SD limitations. Rogue Squadron is a must to fire up first to see the detail on the all ships as it's insane.

He was right. Mario sells, but Tetris sells wider and better in that era and even now as that puzzle has just more appeal to a bigger pool.

I got the thing for Christmas in 1989, and Tetris every day stayed in my handhelds up until the GBC release of Mario Golf. It got for the first time in a decade kicked out of storage/first game status for that one and only for the time it took me to clear it entirely.

I agree with Danito, just a bunch of whining about the audio. Is it perfectly sampled and not compressed like on optical? No. Is it like listening to some old telephone line, a scratched piece of vinyl or something else so poppy, static, and obvious? NO.

And the buttons? Get over it, the game is uniform with the other two releases. To protest buying it, put it down and walking away stuck with it, and other stuff is just a crying unwillingness to adapt. It bugged me at first and now i don't think nothing else of it. Seriously, grow up. Both aren't even bugs, they're tolerance issues, and some people are just incapable of dealing it appears. Hounding the company, especially on buttons, will get you nowhere.

You all do realize the ugly christmas art are stickers right? They don't apply them in the box, YOU DO.

Print some MVS looking art, CPO around the sticks, a faux marquee up top, something nice for the bezel, and you have kind of a big red US cabinet with the Japanese shape to it. Compromise sure, but they weren't ever going to do it right anyway.

Excellent, now you can watch NES/Gameboy/SNES Works clips on a Nintendo handheld console, and learn about all that fun back history little and well known while you relax.

Well if they're doing poorly in the mobile space, maybe it has to do with them being probably being in a battle with Namco for having the most expensive download games on mobile devices. They treat it much like the PSN shop how they value enough of the things, and up against F2P or just smartly priced stuff in the $1-10 range they look ridiculous. That can't help if they sell let's say 10 copies at $20 instead of 30 copies at $10. Sometimes less gets more.

Well said @BanjoPickles There is a point where you need to have real expectations and real understanding of what the Switch truly is. It's basically the best parts of the Nvidia Shield Tablet and Microconsole whittled into a Nintendo framed hybrid system. Yes the Nvidia specs base are higher, but not so much when you account for the android and especially the forced Nvidia tools and apps bloat forced to load as it really hits the system. Yet despite how good the hardware is, it's not quite a PS4 and definitely not a PS3 in power either, and most extremely so not a PS4 pro either. It is its own beast, and all those are consoles, this isn't.

The fact that we already have two known factors out there with Virtuos and Panic Button who can seemingly make things happen beyond what people figured the hardware was capable of is nothing short of amazing. Even more so is the fact these people can still find more to squeeze out of their work to up the ante if you take LA Noire to Dark Souls and Doom to Wolf2 or Doom Eternal as they up the bar again within the same constraints.

It really comes down to how competent the developer is, how solid their crew are and their willingness to truly do some amazing low level coding and optimizing to really bring out the excellence of the hardware. It had been that way for a long time in cartridge gaming going way back if you compare early to late Nintendo and Sega stuff, even compare some Sony things too from the same developer like FF7 to FF9. Yet here you have the same company Square and their really shoddy not localized DQ Heroes 1+2 at launch that is equally bad as the Vita version if not worse in some ways as they didn't try to learn it or bother to do it right. They're a textbook way to foul it up while Virtuos and Panic Button are everything right in doing the job correctly

I look forward to seeing which other developers decide to grow a pair and do amazing things, and what these two companies can do in the future too. It has been since the first half of the Gamecube era since Nintendo got well managed third party games, SNES before for a life of consistency and it's nice to see a return to that.

Consoles in a way are on the way out, Japan is just ahead of the curve and Nintendo being Japanese and having their ass handed to them with WiiU decided to go with the flow instead of sticking to their guns so we have Switch not WiiU the sequel doomed to more failure. Nintendo will always refuse to release a console that sells at a loss so they can't keep up with the other two who stupidly do that hoping to get it back years later as they have lots of businesses to cover that, and Nintendo doesn't. They knew it years ago and did the Wii, being pressured the did the abysmal WiiU and well that died fast and annoying stuck around. The best console games now are also PC games and better off on their too if you look into it outside of console specific made games from first and second parties (which even for MS isn't much since they stuff it on Windows too basically leaving mostly Sony.) Nintendo saw the good tech Nvidia made and used it, and without the bloated android/nvidia package overhead got good results, better than the stock shield tablet can do (I have it.) People can dump on Switch all they like such as one fool in this thread, but the results speak for themselves. The sales, the appreciation, the returning developers to Nintendo, the minimal amount of complaining and cancellations, they're ahead of the game instead of being run over by the others for once.

@Tasuki 4 thumbs down so far, shame as you're right. People who do that petty childish 'first' crap should get their posting privileges blocked, temporarily, permanent if it continues.

@Schwarcz And if you're correct about Larson being that way she needs to be kept far away from that character or any other that has a set personality to them. People need to get over their garbage and stop mixing political and social personal agendas with characters, especially well defined ones as it will just ruin a movie and would cause some to intentionally never bother paying to watch it.

Pi boxes contrary to belief are not easy to set up for most people, they take work, practice, and depending, assembly of the product before you even try and put the OS, then loader/frontend, then the games. Even after that it still would need some refined configuration. Pi is a pain in the ass and not even astoundingly accurate either. It's just a somewhat cheapo option some can take to run a crap load of ROMs in whatever shell or existing system they can hack up to run stuff. I've seen the tiny ones inside of those Tiny Arcade devices, a bit up into zero to the 6" tall mini arcades, and up from there, even inside of NES/SNES CE shells too. But the actual thing from NIntendo is already setup and even if you hakchi it, it's basically bulletproof and easy enough for a toddler to load up while still retaining that nice menu system. If you get a little more bold, usb bypass + stick drive and you can get insane with it falling back on retroarch to bypass limits of storage. And yet all that is still far easier and more manageable than some dumb Pi. So fed up early people use the Pi excuse.

Stunning, if you put it in perspective of their biggest failure of a console with the WiiU. An actual console, their last dedicated one too, and it barely eeked out 14M units and it had hundreds of games, more into the digital realm. Here you have the NES and SNES CE systems with 51 games between the two locked into place at the non-hacked consumer level, and unlike WiiU, it's still on the market, has a large presence, and it will sell at the least into 2019 to some point that holds value to them to continue the run.

It makes you wonder how many ATGames has peddled with Sega systems by the year they get so much flack for. How will the mediocre list of good/decent games the upcoming Sony PS1 mini will do? How about the SNK Neo Geo Mini too which also has some issues.

Nintendo really did set the bar for not just price, but a quality line up with that price that so far hasn't been quite as matched which is a bit of a shame.

It's known the hardware Nintendo has can handle the N64 on the high end without upgrading the parts, and lower down that ladder Gameboy anything would be manageable too. So what's next, and when (if?) They have no motivation to stop with these things with that level of appeal as it goes well beyond just adults, but the kids are lapping it up too because year of release doesn't degrade quality of game when they're just made that well.

@Pikachupwnage Prove it. I just double checked best buy, target, and gamestop, all have the New 2DS XL at $149.99 and the New 3DSXL is $199.99. Not sure where you live you can find them for $50 less than that new at retail.

It has a place, but tactically I think that place should knock the price down considerably so differentiate markets from it and Switch. NEW 3DS is a solid device or the 2D version of it, but with the systems still pushing $150-200, a nice $50 price drop would help. It needs to live on as more of a budget handheld against the $300 Switch.

I would think slashing it further and removing the packed in download (or better yet leaving it) would help push the system to a lot more people. If you could get that 2DS line down to $100 to start from $150 it would have a lot more adults for themselves or kids as a cheap entertainment device the excuse they need.

Maybe we should stop hiring, listening to, or taking any advice from external analysts? Reading the piece up there, it says that outside analysts over guessed things, and now for some dumb reason Nintendo has to make excuses for others mistakes despite having an amazing year in sales. Time to stop listening to those clowns and taking financial advice from them to the level it can damage a company victims of their stupidity.

This may actually cause me to buy something of theirs. Golf Story is kind of tempting as it's like old GBC era Mario Golf. YL though, $40 is high for what it is and age, I get they have their margins, but BB is known for some of their weird sales and cuts so future angle to get a good price vs ebay battle grounds combat.

@KcebEnyaw Agreed until you lost me on controls and camera as they were better than most. The only really truly obnoxious thing they kept making worse by the game culminating in the atrocious game extending crap they did with DK64 was they having the term 'collect-a-thon' coined in reference to their games. You couldn't just enjoy the stage and do it, you had to run, re-run, and run again the same areas picking up an exponentially growing pile of crap (puzzle pieces in BK) just to unlock a door. And what did this get you? Yet another door on the other side needing the next step higher in collecting the same crap. DK being the worst because it gave you 5 Kongs, each you had to play, and each played the same stages over with the same collectables other than a few Kong specific tokens. You had a game at 100 hours of which 80% of it was a re-run as game lengthening filler.

That's why in my other post I said the only great one from Rare was Conker. NO re-runs, no collectathon abuse. You got a really funny, crazy, at places crude amusing story that just kept going and did it very well. That's the only Rare platformer I've kept all these years.

@Moroboshi876 If you're worried about price, I was, and still haven't got it on Switch over it, look to the GoG or Steam Fall Sale out next month. The last time Yooka Laylee hit the sale it was either 66 or 75% off. That would drop the price down to as much as $10 to buy.

I wasn't a fan at full price, annoyed they canned, then un-canned it on Nintendo to then ask more than other formats so I just brushed it off.

The thing is the game got middling reviews not because it's bad, but because it stuck to a formula born on the N64 from those former Rare staffers who created those types of games. The yapping talk sounds, the goofy plot, the soft colors, the lots of stuff to walk and re-walk to collect usually too much crap. It's the same thing all over again here.

It's why I only ever finished Conker's Bad Fur Day because they killed off the collect-a-thon abuse and went into just a great game and story to roll through. This one kind of goes between that and Banjo in spamming stuff. SO if you liked the old N64 games it's a good A-/B+ effort, but if you hated that, this game is a C at best, perhaps a fat failure for being stuck on such ideas.

@goggles789 I know that, which is why I couldn't understand why I could circle the fireball in the equipping menu, but then when I'd B or A (whatever it was) to back out, it wouldn't work unless I deselected it which seemed asinine to me.

Also I was using this resource: https://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Dark+Souls+Wiki

@Dalarrun I'm in my early 40s, started out playing games with the NES late in 85. I am fed up with time wasting whether it is dumb tutorials or long winded rambling scripts in games I can read my way through much faster. The thing is I have not huge consistent amounts of time to play as I have a kid, so games that are intentionally obtuse to the point of confusion I find almost impossible to enjoy anymore (not that I ever had a huge tolerance for it) because of the time issue. I want to enjoy myself whether it's a stupid easy or a very hard game, as long as it makes sense and gets to the point without confusing hang ups and time wasting.

To both of you. i tried to attune it and I think it did, but for whatever reason it will not let me use the fireball despite having it set to the top spot of those 4 squares you place stuff on the left hand of the GUI. When I dumped my save last night I had the morning star/flame on one, the shield/talisman on the other (which had an X.) Flasks below, fireball on top, and the fireball wouldn't work nor would heal which seemed like a huge waste.

Look I loathe stupid tutorials in games, they drag out, but I think in some games if you're too cheap to print a manual, something should be done other than making confusing looping menus and roadblocks that keep moving the goal post.

I had gone below a bit up to the start of that little bridge over the water and got some souls, up top I went up into the graveyard until getting trapped/killed by some pop up skeletons in my way (3rd set) in there. I also got into that city scape and went around a bit collecting items/souls and kills in there. I know I probably saw like 5% of the game, seems fairly large, but it's also pretty confusing too with zero direction and things not working that seem like they should. At this rate I'm pretty strongly turned off by it, as nooga put it, hating it, for a list of reasons I've given. I don't even find the game all that hard in that space, but just infuriatingly confusing and well camera/control I said you seem all used to.

Some stuff I can never get my head around, like I can't play Resident Evil games because of crappy tank control and stuck cameras along with obtuse clues and the limited resources - yet when they fixed it in RE Revelations, that was more interesting to me. Maybe this game just falls into the wooden RE valley for me.

Truth is I'm having multiple problems with the game.

Take for instance pyromancer. I have fireball, and I got the pickup that allows you to arm it the pyromancie flame. But, the game will not allow it to throw any fire when playing. I can arm the flame on the hand and switch to it, and all it will allow me to do is close range beat on someone with fire damage that multiplies by the hit. But the game in the equip area will not allow me to highlight fireball (puts circle marker on it) and allow me to leave the menu so I can't toss fire. The game seemingly just has some strange issues, and in other cases I think it's the crap society in gaming these days where manuals aren't made anymore to clarify things either.

I also picked up the free chest talisman, then paid for the 4000 Heal spell too, and it won't even let me equip that thing after buying it which sucked so I can't heal myself outside of the flasks. I couldn't figure out why that even is a thing if you can buy it, and it says use a talisman so I got that, it still won't work. It's just very strange that you make a requirement, then move the goalpost after meeting it.

@NOOGA I think we'll have to agree to disagree on that. I'm finding where the control and camera just don't behave. It's able to be dealt with in a more open paced space against random grunts about in the earlier areas of the game like the graveyard or below. But when you're up on a boss or something much larger in size than you you seem to put more time in trying to reposition the camera mixing with (or not) the lock on feature to keep an eye out to not get destroyed in a hit or two than actually battling the enemy. I don't consider that good design, and as you said, the controls are strange to wrap yourself around as they're backwards (even if you've never played one before it feels backwards.)

@NOOGA I would imagine not. I have it, and I've got a return setup on mine. I can't keep a game like this that has a poor camera and control setup where it gets you killed more than the strikes of the enemy. I found the game utterly infuriating when the setup and not the enemies are why you get killed. Bad design. I get why people love the look of it and talk about how hard it is, but should something be valued for being hard because the camera and controls are less than excellent? I was hoping for hard with solid gameplay like old Ghosts n Goblins type stuff, not hard because bad or questionable design screwups with the mechanics of it.

I kind of agree with the guy, Labo pretty much is just that. Good cardboard for the right kids into building, and little else. The implementation sucks on the whole concept.

That would be a Pokemon game I'd actually be exited for and would go out and buy when it came out. I was happy when Ultra Sun and Moon threw out the old style and gave the world of Pokemon a fluid persistent interesting and fun story to follow and got rid of a lot of the 20 year old boring patterns of how the game worked. This seems like the next logical step into really doing it right.

They should have not of ragged on Pinball Arcade considering they had the HONOR to do the tables as original as possible.

What they're doing here is just wrong, wrong to rip on them, and wrong to rip the original content of the games apart or excluding them entirely. There would have been two good ways to address this over their rating concerns. 1: Make a T(Purists) original version basically like TPA had. 2: Make it default to E, but have a lock and key parental lockout key code you get so unbind the original media for those who aren't kids or mentally children adults who can't or shouldn't handle such things so they're safe.

That wouldn't be such a bad thing now would it? Everyone wins. Now they're going to lose some sales from those wanting the original table experience.

Agreed Fortnite doesn't belong on the list as it's a free game, even if you could buy in it, it's totally choice. I wonder what was #31 or really #30 on then that slipped the list.

It is nice to see a FF game doing pretty well up on there on the list. I grabbed it, but I will admit life has been bad the last couple weeks with little time to game so I have not touched it which sucks. I wasn't sure if I could at the time, but knowing how tight arsed cheap S-E can be with discounts, I took advantage of the big cut.

The soapbox is being based on being a crybaby about a dead service that has been neglected horribly for years from its only properly fed heyday on the Wii when it first started.

Get over it.

There's nothing wrong with the NES library growing from the starting pile to 3 more a month. You do realize if this is ONLY intended for the NES they have a limited pool of games to pull from. While there were over 700 NES games, there were at least a 100-150 unlicensed titles that'll never happen. Furthermore, you can remove hundreds more due to licensing hangups, and even more off that from the utter garbage that was so poorly made they won't even bother with it.

Let's say that leaves you with maybe 300 games at best to pick from. You have 20 to start and another 9 added this year. With 3 more a month a year out that's another 36. Within a little over a year of service that'll be 65 games. Add another 36 per year after. Now you have to speculate how many years this will be offered as a thing as part of the network package. What if it lasted 10 years? They'd run out. They have to be more conservative with their offerings because they need to have plenty to go around that's interesting to people to want to tinker with.

This whole entitlement spoiled frenzy over the VC being dead needs to cool it. The VC was never done well in the first place and people would moan how much each game would cost being too much due to ROMS being free. Now you get them free as part of a cheap network service, and there's still whining and moaning about it. Nintendo can't win can they? Nope, they never do. Fans and even more so the haters will piss on them whether they go one direction or the next as no one ever wants to be pleased.

Truth is hard, but Hamster with their ACA offerings are doing a far better service justifiable with their prices and options each game offers over what Nintendo farted out at $5-10 a pop with a bare bones ROM release with a hot save at best on the back end. Let companies release what they want through Hamster or on their own, and leave the freebix netflixing NES stuff to the Nintendo Switch services and just relax already.

I've been considering importing the physical release of this and also Capcom Belt Action (the brawler selection with Final Fight) in a bundle when they're both available at this site i use. I see no reason to reward digital only when there's an import option in english no less.

So this is them just restating what they've done since the 90s basically. Where's the story here?

They've been opening theme parks in Japan for a very long time around Pokemon and other stuff. They've had toys and merchandise around their NES/FC IP and after as well. And they wow, do make and peddle game and game playing hardware. They already are and have been an entertainment company for like 30 years.

@Pod The DSLite option is best (or as I said the SP to SP 101) where you put a nicer screen in there, maybe a beefier battery, but leave the core un-upgraded for another year or two out. They'd split the base and infuriate people if they pulled a GBC/DSi/New3DS style update so fast just a couple years into it.

I think still a cheaper option would be wise for people who don't want one style or the other but want the games to experience. Make a handheld only release that's just one device, but sell the option of buying the dock (as they already do) and detachable joycons with the motion controls to get the full experience.

If one is happening, I'd like to see two sub-SKUs for a lower price for fence sitters. You have one that only works as a handheld (so a few games are out) as the joycons are anchored to it killing off motion games. The other would be one that again, no motion out of the box, but is a TV version only. In either case you'd be reducing the price not having the added motion parts of the controller, and for the handheld the dock is removed to drop the price too. In either case, the buy could opt into the other parts to make it whole later if they so choose.

What I do NOT want to see is them pull some GB->GBC, DS-DSi, 3DS-New3DS garbage with unique games only working because they bump up the Tegra to the X2 and double the memory and so forth. That would piss me the hell off and I think a lot of other current owners as it's too soon. A nice moderate internal change, like the GBA SP to SP 101 that's brighter, or a body change like I said (like how GB went Pocket or GBA went to SP or micro.) That would be the right thing to do.

@Pod If they got the New3DS route they’ll anger people. It kind of is a new system as it has games only it can run. If they did the GBA SP to SO brighter or micro much like the 2DS option that would be wise. Some people do not want a handheld or a console. They could do limited cheaper ŚKUd that only work on tv or as a handheld saving the money that way not buying useless parts.

If this is a situation of like the GBA to the SP or SP to Brighter that's fine in respect to like the screen and a beefier battery.

If this is them jumping on the Tegra X2 setup for more life, power, battery sipping compared to what is there now there will be a LOT of pissed off owners as it's too soon. Optionally if they did this and allowed people to mail their existing systems in for upgrades, that would be awesome as a choice. We know from teardowns everything is pop out swappable, CPU/GPU(Tegra), memory, screen, etc. I'm not sure they'd be cool enough to do that though.

@NEStalgia Actually I am speaking of the US release I have. The sex scene is there between stage 1 and 2 in silhouette. The sniper part is also present, you have to take your aim, wait and shoot, and red hits the glass. Somehow it got through NOA approval which always blew me away.