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@abbyhitter yeh it reads like if you like the genre it’s a 10/10 and if you happen to like the genre and Zelda you can turn that score up to 11!

Oh Jesus, Mary and the Wee Donkey I’ve now definitely got to get this asap! And surely this game is ganonical not canonical. It’s 100% Ganon!

Samus and Kirby definitely for me and most probably Zelda Musou and Yooka-Replaylee at some point. A strong end to the year!

Oh my! Look at these things of beauty! Look at that price!! 2 LP pack for me.

I was merely making a crude log / turd joke. But I do like a quick read on the bog as it happens! Tends to be NL in fact!!!

I tend to read log books on the toilet this looks perfect.

I’m a research scientist. This morning I’ve been working on a dataset. I wanted to write a script to process and graph the results. Quite basic really. I could have spent a few hours working on this either writing from scratch or finding and adapting someone’s script to use but instead I prompted co-pilot AI to write the script and within a few mins I had it done plus the code is much better annotated than I would have done. It’s this type of AI assistance that is transformative for me and I could imagine this really helping game developers albeit on a more complicated level than data processing and visualisation. Having said that these tools already exist so I wonder what this AI partnership is really designed for. Hopefully not generative art and character design. Leave that to the devs please.

NOT WATCHING!!!!

Hopefully this means they are not only working on a S2 edition but also Pikmin 5!!

@mlt I think you need to factor in that Nintendo is half a generation ahead (or the others are half a gen behind) in the traditional generations because the WiiU was such a commercial flop. Yes the WiiU compared favourably to the PS3 but the PS3 had been out for years competing against the Wii. And the WiiU was miles behind the PS4 in terms of power. But then the Switch arrived thank the lord!

As much as I enjoyed the first direct I think I’m going to avoid this one. I’m getting the game whatever and I want some surprises left to discover.

@Dr_Corndog other way round for me. I think it would be comical if the scores weren’t low - particularly as these user reviews are being applied decades after release - as that would indicate after decades of learning, games haven’t gotten objectively better - which of course they have. And when I think about it like this and how well Mario 3 has stood the test of time, it really makes me appreciate how good for its time it truly was. A ground breaking and standard setting game.

@The-Chosen-one I was thinking more like N64 --> N64 with expansion pak installed

@Wewewi I'm pretty sure these are retail numbers so includes download codes, GKCs and full physical games, i.e any SKU bought at retail. So then presumably MKW is counted as part of the bundle.

@Mythra I think one got hit by a boomerang and the other got blue shelled, then mauled in the melee and spat out the back in 24th.

No podium but still 4 of the top 10 are Ninty first party titles. Great week for Ninty. Good to see Battlefield back to give CoD some competition.

@dr-gorgo you seem to be confusing ‘average’ with ‘middle’. Plus you’re disrespecting others’ honest ratings by intentionally trying to skew the results downwards to manipulate the average closer to where you think it should lie.

Wow! Straight to the top of my most wanted list. Absolutely love the aesthetics and music.

No clue as to what was going on in that trailer but I don't care, looks awesome.

@brakeman90 yeh I agree they are educational and I did find this video interesting. I am just concerned that some people will frame some of the featured games as 'unplayable' because - as a result of these videos - they focus on the lack of anti-aliasing or implementation of low cost DLSS etc and can't bring themselves to actually play and allow themselves to enjoy the games. So my original comment was to try and bring people back to some sort of reality (or reality as I see it anyway). Is the game fun? We are still allowed to enjoy games either if they are a little pixelated at times.

10 out of 10 out of 10 out of 10 out of 10 all day long!!

Call me old fashioned but when playing my games I don't make a habit of slowing time down to 1/3 and zooming right in to see every pixel because I'm too busy enjoying the game. The Switch2 doesn't cost £1000 so let's not expect £1000 worth of performance and be grateful we are getting some awesome games. That's my old fashioned view anyway.

10/40 first party titles. Nearly every 1 in 4 retail games sold in the UK is a Nintendo first party game. BOSSING IT!

Replayed SMG2 with my daughter a couple years back hooked up with my mClassic (works wonders with 480p) so don’t feel the need to buy these just yet

Wait… these are 10/10/10/10 all day long but only score 9/10?

Pumped for this! RE4 changed my life back in the day (GC - what a machine!). I've dabbled with some of the more recent REs but now I feel it's time to properly get back into RE. Will definitely be buying all the RE games they release for Switch2!

This is good Ninty but don't stop. Let's have a proper 2p free roam mode and a classic GP mode next....

I've made peace with myself by thinking that time in fandom isn't linear - it's a chaotic, gelatinous blob of retroactive logic and narrative duct tape. And no one can convince me otherwise

@B3RTAY love the family guy reference!

@B3RTAY you know, when I first read your comment I thought you were slating the game but now that I've re-read it I've realised perhaps you used the term 'purgatory' as in cleansing the soul (not a state of eternal suffering as was my initial thought). In that case I would agree, it definitely is a soul cleanser and I think it's a nice little game. I still disagree with you though and think that nice little games can fill the 'nice little game' brief perfectly and deserve the same chance to score highly as the big budget games.

Or did you mean eternal suffering?

@B3RTAY I'd argue expectations are set accordingly (not lowered, why does everything have to be oversimplified down to just one dimension?) otherwise by your logic only massive budget AAA games with 'high expectations' can score high. This is bonkers and you know it.

Do we think that perhaps they are working on SMG3? They are making us think that releasing this SMG1+2 is the prelude to the Galaxy film when in actual fact they are priming us for SMG3 that will release alongside the film.

Am I dreaming?

I need to hear more about these new locations, items and quest. If there's another couple of hours of joy to be had then I'm happy to part with £4.99. Great little game

My Switch 1 backlog is just silly. I am now looking at this and thinking soon my Switch 2 backlog is going start expanding too. Switch 2 has no games?! - huh ridiculous!

A quarter of the top 40 are Nintendo first party or exclusive third party games. Insane. Who says Nintendo doesn't sell so well in UK?!

@ignus not unless you've already downloaded the patches, then you're good to go.

@Cipher36 yes I can see that storing so many digital games poses a challenge at today's storage medium prices. I'm not too bothered about that at the moment as storage gets continually cheaper so in 15-20 years or whenever we get told Switch2 redownload servers will get switched off I'll make sure they are all downloaded. Also it's worth bearing in mind storing 600 physical games comes with its own storage challenge as well! As much as I love my huge collection of physical games from BBC Micro onwards (yes I'm that old) it takes up half the bloody loft. Having said this I will always buy Nintendo first party games in physical form provided the game is on cart.

What I don’t get is this idea that when the servers go down so does your digital game. What? Only if you need to redownload it or it requires some server authentication. If you have it downloaded then you have the game, so look after your gaming kit and enjoy your game for as long as possible. Same as physical.

I still have my WiiU hooked up and when in Wii mode I set to 480p and use my mClassic to upscale. Still looks pretty good even on my massive 4k TV. The mClassic does wonders with 480p intelligent upscaling coupled with cartoonish visuals. So no need for me to get these.

For me it was stacked with games that I will probably buy at some point but not too excited about apart from MP4 and the RE games. But the very fact we had Samus on a motor bike brings it up a couple of points!

I'm struggling to concentrate at work with all the hype!

And I'm meant to be a grown man but feel like a kid before Christmas. Please smash it out of the park Ninty

Also my wife waved at me as she left for work this morning. She never waves at me... Must be a sign!!!

@AussieMcBucket indeed it is. Wanna join? To formally join the religion you simply need to be a) very desperate and b) utterly deluded.

I am off to a dark corner to pray to the god of Wave Race. Do not disturb for 48h

@Lizuka I understand patenting mechanics when they are very specific and revolutionary to protect the invention and the credit there due but this is way too general to be patentable in my opinion and could do more damage than good for the industry as a whole.

@PikminMarioKirby fingers crossed they are working on a Switch 2 edition with new content like Kirby. While I've got the original I would love to play through again for sure with a performance boost and new content.

As much as I'm old skool and want to beat the developer's original vision without difficulty tweaking or guides etc I now firmly get behind difficulty options. Simply because not everyone has the same ability or skill (or time to some extent) to play and beat games but everyone deserves the chance to enjoy the game through to the latter stages if not completion.

Someone in the dev team must have tipped someone off to do this otherwise who the hell is spending 8h flying in a random direction to hopefully find something new like this. Unbelievable

I sorta wanna do it now though… hold my beer. I’ll be a while.

@dtate888 brilliant jokes keep them coming…

For those of you underwhelmed by this launch period, I couldn't be more the opposite. So far I've been enjoying 2 great first party games and CyberPunk, looking forward to tucking into Cronos tonight and will get Star Wars down the line. I couldn't be happier. Plus ya know, Samus is coming.

@Solid_Python this was certainly true in the not so distant past but Ninty have been doing really well in the UK since the OG Switch launched so this narrative needs to be updated to Ninty and Playstation dominated/contested region with M$ left behind (in physical sales for sure).

To back this up just look at this week
26/40 titles on Nintendo Platforms - possibly more as I'm not sure if one of those Witcher3 versions or Need for Speed is the Switch version.
11/40 first party titles!!!

Re Cronos sales on Switch 2. Clearly everyone in the UK is waiting for Nintendo Life’s review before buying!!! Where’s the review NL?