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Lol yea this stuck out to me too. Are they serious? Don't be surprised if they reverse this odd decision, because who is going to pay for this??

Losing Square was devastating at the time. And don't forget that Nintendo planned and later abandoned a disc-based add-on. It didn't take them long to realize their mistake, from an economic standpoint. A disc-based n64 with FF 7 and Dragonquest probably wipes the floor with Sony.

I would think $399 would be the sweet spot, assuming that the machine is approximately as powerful as a Playstation 4 pro.

Backwards compatability is pretty much a requirement. The days when your new machine left the last generation of games behind are over. Fans will riot if the new Switch isn't Backwards compatible.

@AgentLA this is exactly how I feel. I love my split pad pros BECAUSE they're so big and fit my hands. These look cool but they seem to be smaller, which probably isn't for me

i am unreasonably excited about this. i put tens of hours into WaveRace back in 1997, i LOVE this game..

WaveRace 64. make it happen lol

really? they're going to sell them to us individually? and knowing Nintendo, they'll expect $60 each lol....

....i'm kidding. maybe.

how about a reasonably powerful home console? keep the Switch going for the people who prefer a handheld. you don't even need a new controller necessarily, the Pro Controller is pretty much perfect but something as powerful as say, the Xbox Series S at least, so the platform gets pretty much all the major releases, and doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg...

Bought it on Xbox, this is a great game!

you gotta love gamers. look at all the whining about a service that has been active for 2 days lol

Here's the thing: paid DLC is a good thing. You heard me lol

Game development is incredibly expensive, and game designers, if they're honest, believe that games should cost $100 (Sony didn't raise prices out of sheer greed). Now, they know they can't charge $100 for their products, so the perfectly fair compromise is they offer people who are REALLY into their games the option to get a few outfits or a character or an extra level or whatever, for a few extra dollars. Add up the cost of the total DLC in most games and you'll find its usually in the 40-60 dollar range. Yes, when it first started, companies often went too far, selling you the ending or armor for your horse lol, but now most DLC is harmless, so if you're offended by it, you aren't the intended audience anyway. Without paid DLC, games would probably regularly cost 70-80 dollars US, and we'd be in here complain about that 😆...

@twztid13 want me to create an easy mode for every Souls game right now? A mode where there are 50% more bonfires or (just some kind of save point MacGuffin), your weapons inherently do more damage, and enemies inherently do less. Wouldn't have to change the fundamental design of the game at all.

@Harmonie Slowly but surely, these companies will realize that offering an easier mode for people who want or need it will actually increase sales. i love to see it.

@UltimateOtaku91 because people love complaining almost as much as they enjoy playing the games

Game Pass is 10-15 bucks a month, i believe PsPlus is around the same.$50 a YEAR for a completely optional service is perfectly fair. if it doesn't interest you, don't buy in, right?

@Pokester99 it's so weird. Nintendo is somehow the only company that would get this free pass. and i LOVE my Switch. it's like, "We can't stay mad at you, Nintendo"...lol remember, initially Nintendo wasn't planning to do ANYTHING to fix this, THEN they were charging people!

@XenoShaun dualshock failure rates are NOWHERE NEAR the Switch lol

in all honestly (and i got my joy con back in less than a week), i have no idea how Nintendo has gotten away with this at all. can you imagine if Microsoft controllers had this high of a fail rate, or even PlayStation? we'd be screaming bloody murder, regardless of their willingness to fix the issue. we'd be demanding a total redesign of the controllers at the very least lol

Will they even be available, or do the bots have them all already? Lol

@UmbreonsPapa that is exactly what happened to me. i was at an age where i felt like i was "too old" for Nintendo and their colorful silly games. i was an adult and i wanted boobs and swearing! lmao. now, as an ACTUAL adult, i realize that Nintendo is the most grownup company of them all BECAUSE they don't rely on that stuff to make their games....

@Patendo ive kept my loose SNES games in toolboxes since the 90s! lol i'm not alone!!

i was devastated that it isnt on NSO at launch. it was the main game i wanted lol, i LOVE this game...

a post-apocalyptic Kirby game?

i don't know why, but sold!

i also own an xbox, and i can say that THIS is the superior approach to announcing things. a new direct...tomorrow! announce Metroid a few months before launching it! FAR better than Microsoft's "announce new games YEARS AND YEARS before they're done" approach.

@Deadeyerobbie they would sell......SO MANY....Zelda double packs....

N64 games on the service, IF it includes Wave Race (i liked it, ok? lol). GameBoy too maybe. obviously there will be a lot on Metroid, and i'm guessing theyll announce something too.

Day 1, I'm a huge Castlevania fan, now who do I give money to?

@rylo151 everything he says lately is vague nonsense. I think he's just blowing smoke to save his job for a little while longer...

Utter nonsense. E3 is going to be... interesting.

Lol funny, because a lot of people are ready to talk about NINTENDO in the past tense... ijs...

As much as I love Mario games, this is Nintendo's problem in a nutshell. What ELSE are they working on? What are they bringing to E3? All we ever hear about is Mario or Zelda or Pokémon. The fans are practically begging for a new Starfox or f-zero or metroid or any of a dozen other franchises, but all Nintendo wants to do is Mario. I'm concerned that they were so noncommittal about which platform, as well. Its felt lately as if Nintendo plans to let the Wii U die quietly after Zelda comes out...

I think Nintendo finds itself in a position that could strengthen them in the long run. They're in third place, yes. But this gives them the chance to just make games. To just turn as many of the 100 million+ Wii owners into Wii u owners as they can. They can't really abandon the Wii u yet anyway, so search the world for new game ideas. Find talented but unappreciated developers. Make games Sony and Microsoft won't. Come up with a realistic lifetime sales figure you can live with, and innovate your way there. I think the Wii u is a fantastic system, it just hasn't been well handled...

There are a couple of reasons for these issues. One, many gamers love to spout about how powerful their chosen system is, even though the most powerful console rarely sells the most units. Secondly, game developers are not good at communicating the innovations of their games. What they are good at is telling you polygon counts and other developer-speak that too many gamers think automatically translates into fun games. And fun IS the point...isn't it?