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For ongoing game I am gonna be leaning towards no mans sky considering how Hello Games has persisted upon improving the game and fixing it's flaws even in the face of all the negative reviews and press

Might I add the listing for RT Switch popped up on Russia's website just recently. They can't really hide it there will be a switch version

I am not sure if people realize with Fire Attack that the Indians in fact were altered in later releases from what I hear so it still is historically accurate

@nocdaes Remember this is the internet we are talking about here

It would be cool if they brought in some of the features from the iOS port such as the playable Hidden Palace

Feels like a slow news day here considering this book is a few years old. I fail to see how it is Nintendo's fault here really since they just licensed the Mario name out to Dark Horse who then wrote the book themselves.

I mainly went with team trick cause orange is my favorite color. I am surprised by people saying team treat was horrendous considering my team got crushed a lot. When I first stated I kept getting disconnects and connection errors like crazy but later it turned out to be much better which tells me it wasn't the online itself but rather the servers getting swamped

I also don't see where people are getting this idea that Switch's release schedule has been sparse. Lately its been a pretty good roll.

Odd how they say its struggling even though Switch has still been doing relatively well these past few months

People do realize this is probably just all PR talk right? The actual reason much of the online functionality is tied to a mobile app probably is out of Nintendo's intentions to keep OS bloat to a minimum

am I the only one here who really enjoyed Odyssey. I think it did a good job of expanding upon the sandbox formula of 64 and Sunshine imo

@jhewitt3476 What Hobbitgamer said, Yamauchi has been long gone. The majority of his policies are no longer in effect either probably

@jhewitt3476 How exactly does Yamauchi have anything to do with Metroid Prime 4 considering he was long gone by the time the game was actually conceived

@jhewitt3476 Your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.

@NewAdvent Cause most people probably dont have much of a clue about what really goes into making an online service work. You need servers in some shape or form. Nintendo Wifi Connection as well as the majority of Nintendo's online during the Wii and DS era was actually run through Gamespy's servers hence why Nintendo Wi Fi connection pretty much died when Gamespy shut down.

@NEStalgia Now that I think of it, it wouldn't be too surprising if the majority of Nintendo's online infrastructure is being handled by googles servers or something like that

@NewAdvent Eshop and the cloud saves probably have their own servers. Splatoon 2, ARMS, Mario Tennis Aces, and MK8DX while P2P still use servers for matchmaking and authentication

This article is relatively poorly worded. Considering how PS+ works the exact same way it seems this article was just made to draw up clicks. Also according to Nintendo's support page there will be in fact a period for which you cloud saves will be kept even if your subscription expires even though they don't specify how long https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22521/p/897

Bring on the angry complainers but really I fail to see why this is such a big problem. It's already been stated devs are free to decide whether or not they want to include cloud support which is perfectly fine. With Pokemon and Splatoon it probably is meant to prevent cheating and save scumming which was pretty rampant with splatoon 1.

Of course they could update splatoon 2 so that data is stored server side but that would probably require a complete overhaul of the source code

@EightBitMan Just laughing off switch development isn't exactly what I would call a professional response. Also I can't help but ask is COD really that relevant anymore considering games such as Overwatch, PUBG, and Fortnite have kinda eclipsed it at this point.

Also the Switch managing to top the NPD sales charts and outsell the PS4 and Xbox One at several points is hardly what I would call irrelevant

Why can't people seem to get it through their heads that ROM sharing is basically piracy no matter how you slice it?

Okay I get he is frustrated with lack of exposure but this just comes off as highly whiny and self entitled

Sony and MS have been doing this thing for years. The truth is you need to pay for those multiplayer servers somehow

But but but... Switch has no third party support!!!!!

inb4 everyone uses this as an excuse to say Nintendo is evil

Also I find it odd how investors seem oblivious to the fact Switch has basically reinvigorated the Japanese market

@Syrek24 Oh believe me people will probably use the excuse of "Those games don't appeal to me."

@smashboy2000 I think its apparent here that investors mainly think short term as opposed to a company like Nintendo who mainly focuses on the long term strategy. Nintendo has their reasons of course for keeping their cards close to their chest until they feel they are ready

@electrolite77 I don't think people seem to notice that third party support with Switch has been much greater than before

@NewAdvent If you think red dead can easily outsell Pokemon and Smash combined you clearly underestimate the selling power of smash and pokemon. Not every game released has to be a major system seller either. What matters really is that Switch is receiving a consistent influx of quality titles. Yes 2018 isn't like 2017 but hoping it would be like last year is highly unrealistic. Still its a far cry from the Wii U days where we had to go for months with nothing noteworthy in between

@Razer I don't see how you can call their online service a mess when many of the details of switch online are still somewhat of a mystery. Also is the lack of netflix and youtube really a major factor considering you can easily access those services everywhere else also Switch does have Hulu you know. The reason they didn't include a web browser with Switch should be fairly obvious when you consider how rampant hacking via the browser was on Wii U

@dimi you clearly have not seen the sales charts in Japan

I think the complaining about the lack of games this year is somewhat overexxaggerated. Switch has still seen a decent influx of quality titles and I am finding plenty of games to keep me busy still. As the article pointed out at this point there is more than content right now to justify buying a switch. I think people often forget about the highly evergreen nature of Nintendo's own games

This is why it's important to remember the majority of the doomsayers you see on the internet are often a highly vocal minority

@Knuckles-Fajita The Xbox One version only outsold it by a few hundred units from what I hear though

I don't understand the complaining here. Online for just minigames makes sense from a design perspective considering the length a typical game of Mario Party not to mention the issues that can crop up with disconnects and randoms.

If they ever do make another one I think its only fair to let Sakurai rest and find someone new to take the helm

@andyg1412 Because it probably wasn't ready yet?

Okay the thing is analysts and investors don't seem to have a good grasp of Nintendo's strategy or the bigger picture here. Smash and Lets Go Pikachu and Evee will likely sell gangbusters this christmas. Also is it that hard to see that Nintendo has been putting less emphasis on E3 in recent years and for good reason considering they have multiple directs throughout the year.

As for Metroid expecting that game to release in 2018 was kind of pushing it to begin with. They showed that logo at E3 2017 because that was probably all they had to show of it at that point

@WiltonRoots Heck even Nomura has not ruled out the possibility of Kingdom Hearts III coming to Switch. They are simply focusing on the PS4 and Xbox One versions right now which makes sense considering how KHIII started development long before Switch was even a thing.

@-DG I think they will have a good christmas for sure

I think the direct was good for what it showed. You can really tell they are going all in with Smash. I know Smash Bros isn't everyones thing but the people that don't care are probably far outnumbered by the people who do care. Its not hard to see why they wouldn't show something like Metroid or Animal Crossing considering those games are likely still in early development stages or perhaps Nintendo felt it would be better to talk about them in a future direct so they wouldn't get eclipsed by Smash

I don't understand why so many seem to think this E3 was terrible for Nintendo. They still showed off a sizable chunk of content as well as some unexpected surprises. Heck it looks like we are still getting some new game announcements right now. Personally I think people have been kinda spoiled from last years output. Let's Go Pikachu and Evee will probably sell like crazy and Smash has the capability to sell a lot of systems as well. Now some have claimed Smash didn't save Wii U but the difference here is people actually know Switch exists for one thing.

There is probably a reason they didn't show Metroid, Animal Crossing, or Yoshi probably cause those games are either not ready to show yet or they want to focus on them for a future direct.

At the end of the day they did say this E3 would be primarily smash focused and thats what they did

@EvrgrnCmln Get that logic outta here

@Highlar Get that positivity out of here

@MoonKnight7 I correct myself they probably are working on it right now but havent gotten it to a showable state yet

To answer this articles question it was mainly a case of bloated expectations. Expecting them to release Prime 4 within 2018 when they may have just started development was just pushing it

@youkoaoshi Just because the logo looks the same doesn't make it a port

@MoonKnight7 Again we do not know when or if they have actually started development on animal crossing switch

@MoonKnight7 New Leaf was a 3DS game, This is an HD Switch game we are talking about here. Pretty big difference in terms of workload and resource demands