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I don't think they will drop the tradiional MH games. They have a huge fanbase in Japan and I don't think MH World will fully reach it. They're probably waiting the Switch market to be bigger.

@Razer What a weird way to admit you were wrong. Thank you for admitting that Sony, despite being a gigantic faceless megacorp, can't kill a dwarf like Nintendo.

@Razer You're talking about shares. I'm talking about size, workforce, budget, money reserve. Nintendo is a dwarf. You didn't provide any evidence proving the opposite.

@Gaeus I never saw recent raw data proving this claim. Only click bait financial articles. Reality is Nintendo is a tiny company who has been kicked out from the AAA market but is still surviving because the big fishes are stupid.

@Razer Lol no. Nintendo is a dwarf compared to Sony. Sony is so powerful we have no idea how big is the Playstation division (but we know they have the biggest studios of the entire industry.). It could be 10 times bigger than Nintendo it wouldn't even take a half of their workforce. Just funny seeing how utterly incompetent a megacorp with a big wallet like Sony is at killing a dwarf like Nintendo.

@Razer Just funny watching a tiny company like Nintendo spanking a megacorp like Sony in Japan. A little victory of creativity over big money.

@JLPick Lol you're too sensitive. I'm not even a fanboy but it's true. Sony was a megacorp coming in a market of dwarves. Sega, SNK or NEC died quickly and it's a miracle nintendo survived this long but it won't last forever. You can't resist eternally to a megacorp who want to take control of an industry. Just look what happened with the Vita, it's hilarious. This thing flopped hard but got like twice more retail release than the 3ds. It was just Sony destroying the japanese industry just to kill the 3ds momentum. Just look what happened to the career of Jason Rubin, Shinji Mikami or Tomonobu Itagaki. When you stop getting friend with Sony your career gets shorter.

@JLPick Yeah sure nintendo was the big bad bully who left the Playstation project of the tiny innocent Sony. Open your eyes. Sony is a huge megacorp compared to Nintendo and they just wanted to eat them and make them third parties.

Support Inti Creates games if you like Megaman games instead of buying Capcom's empty shells.

Hacked mine, installed dozens of games, and realize I mostly play Mario Super Picross on it.

@BravelyDavid No hate. I just think an industry where the name of a youtuber is more famous than the name of the game designer who made the game the youtuber plays isn't a healthy industry that reward creative work and won't last long.

We live in a world where youtubers who do nothing but filming themselves playing videogames are called creators.

@Expa0 Yeah I remember SMT4 having over 400 demons.

Capcom won't drop Monster Hunter on portable systems. It's what kept them alive during their Resident Evil/Fighting Games/Dragon Dogma failures on the AAA market. Monster Hunter World is just a big budget Monster Hunter for the AAA market because all other Capcom franchises failed on this market.

Sad. EA is the best school of game design of the industry. EA games have always been part of the best games on all Nintendo's systems libraries. Unlike Nintendo games who suffer of the "big budget empty shell" syndrom.

@Starbuster It's a game with game design work and ideas. Like throwing the hat to turn into enemies which add a lot of gameplay possibilities. It feels fresh in a industry of AAA dominated by scriptwriters while game designers have zero creative freedom so they copy paste samey gameplay to limit the risk of losses because of big budget development.

Smash Tennis is much better than Super Tennis and has the same infinite replayability as Super Mario Kart with 2 players of the same level.
Also you put 4 shoot'em up but forgot the best one of the system: Super Aleste.
Some games you missed: Demon's Crest, Biker Mice from Mars (great arcade racer once you know how to play it, tap B in straight lines to dash regularly. It has a cooldown system so don't do it constantly), Cybernator, Shin Kidou Senki Gundam W-Endless Duel (very spectacular fighting game), Magical Pop'n (great action platformer.

People should watch the Shin-Chan anime. It's very good.

Does the demo of Etrian Odyssey 5 let you keep your save for the full game?

The second one is much better. Copen feels like playing a mix of Megaman X and Sparkster.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Indies could be renamed low budget thirs parties. There was a time when these games were released on retail but the Wii bashing campaign killed the retail market for this part of the industry

They forgot Double Dragon 2 on the Nes wasn't just a beat them'up but also a very good action platformer with plenty of good level design ideas. I didn't find this in this Double Dragon 4.

@electrolite77 lol you tell me to grow up while I'm waiting your usual argument that nintendo is a magical candies factory with an infinite wallet and they can't fail.
Everything they made from the last 3 years scream money problems but keep living in your bubble.

@EDF The most bizarre thing is you keep calling me a nintendo fanboy when I'm the first to claim the switch is the last nintendo system and they are getting crushed by the competition because they are to weak to compete at this point. You're the only blind fanboy here claiming a company is perfect and cannot do wrong. And that you only defend vita games so it can fit in your console warrior narrative (which say a lot about the value of the reviews scores vita games get if you're representative of vita fanboys). It's just sad at this point you may have mental problems.
Oh and by the way last year according to mediacrate less than 5 millions consoles have been sold in Japan. This is their lowest score ever recorded. But keep living in your bubble of consoles warrior I'll enjoy your tears in the end.

@EDF Nintendo paid Bayonetta 2 to be made, Sony paid to not let SOM get released on other consoles with better momentum than the vita. Big difference. If Sony paid for SOM to be made then it wouldn't be released on PC and there would be zero problem.
And yes japanese market is collapsing. Learn to read trends through years instead of claiming random numbers with zero comparison with the past.

@EDF I don't ask for your sympathy, just you to have a brain. But it looks like it was still too much asking. You can put your hands on your ears and call me a switch fanboy but I don't even own one. I was just explaining how the sony's policy behind this is despicable and harmful for everyone. I just say your tears will be delicious when japanese studios will start closing left and right just as it happened at the end of PS2's life.

@EDF The problem isn't the game to be released on the PS4. The problem is the game not being released on other systems for no other reason than Sony bribing and limiting its sales potential.

@electrolite77 The vita having thousands of games with a market this small makes no sense. It was just sony bribing left and right as always.
Yes everyone buy exclusives. Problem is when Sony do it they do it a lot because they are much bigger than competitors. And it can lead to bad effect. Like at the end of life of the PS2, it had a monopoly de facto and lot of development teams of great games were dismissed because when you failed on the PS2 you had no other option of a viable market. Sony don't just want to sell well, they also want the competition to sell bad and not be able to offer another market for developers, which is my main problem with them. When Nintendo tried to get a monopoly during the nes days they were called out which was totally normal. You'll never see Sony getting called out because they are too powerful and hold the industry.
But it's pointless to explain that because people will always eat the narrative of the highest marketing budget.

@EDF I mostly agree with you but I keep thinking bribing a large part of the japanese industry just to hurt the competition and then trash out this part of the industry because you're successful with the PS4 and won't release another handheld is shameful and will destroy a large part of the japanese industry who couldn't profit from the 3DS momentum and have zero fanbase now the vita is dead.

@EDF Lol nice joke about the dedicated vita userbase. This thing is dead. When was the last time a vita game sold well? Even the wiiu sold more games. Sony's policy with the vita was disgusting. They bought so much japanese exclusivities just to get them away from the 3ds like all those games that targeted the Monster Hunter audience. The results were bad sales for this games and development team closing. Such a shame sony is ready to destroy the japanese industry just to hurt nintendo.

@Anti-Matter No need to boycott anything. The japanese industry is already collapsing on its own. Good riddance.

@Vix The PSVita is doing in Japan the same sales numbers as the WiiU did last year. It doesn't have any active fanbase anymore. It's just Sony being Sony and prefering buying exclusivity to see a game dying on their system rather than letting it doing well elsewhere. With the Vita they completely destroyed the niche japanese industry just to make a point against Nintendo. Terrible behavior.

@electrolite77 Only 5 billion? lol To be honest I thought it was more and I really see them disappearing from the hardware market after the switch.
Seriously compare this Nintendo cash reserve to any of their competitors and even third parties and you will see how Nintendo is a dying dwarf.
But blind people like you will always claim nintendo can use these $5 billion to flood the market with unprofitable retro system, release a console more powerful than the PS5 and buy hundreds of third parties exclusives. Keep living in your bubble while the rest of the world is moving on.

@electrolite77 Yeah yeah I get it Nintendo has more money in the bank than Sony, Microsoft and Apple united. And your source is probably a blog article from 2010.
Reality is Nintendo is a dwarf. Their size and cash reserve is vastly overestimated by fanboys like you.
It's funny watching the japanese industry collapsing and reading people like you still being in denial.

Always the same mistake people with leftist mind do by thinking Nintendo is a big evil company not wanting to sell their products and missing profit on purpose just because they're a big evil company.
Reality is Nintendo is a dying niche company and the era when they could flood the worldwide market with their products is over since a long time. But there's still a big denial about that and the decline of the japanese industry which is proved by sales numbers.

I suggest people to wait the Real Bout games which are more modern and easier to play Fatal Fury games.

And I don't see where do people see a renaissance of the japanese industry. Their console market hit an all time low last year with less than 5 millions consoles sold. This year's numbers will be better due to the switch and dragon quest but it won't stop the trend. Their future is very gritty.

Handhelds market is collapsing, japanese industry is collapsing, middle budget industry is collapsing, AAA games are turning into AAA+ (games as service, videogames are becoming tv channels). Also entire genres like platformers, arcade racers or shoot'em up are almost non existent due to a trend being too powerful to be ignored by publishers. It really isn't a good era. Best era was Snes-Megadrive-NeoGeo-PC Engine. The market was much more balanced and different trends could co exist without one crushing the other. So there was more variety of style in the most ambitious part of the industry.

Just play Mighty Gunvolt Burst. It's basically an unofficial Megaman 11.

I recommend people to wait Spinmaster instead. Much better game in the same genre.

@Alucard83 Lol adding 2GB of ram won't make this thing able to run big budget AAA. You don't know what you're talking about. It's all about money and target audience. There's a trend going in big budget AAA and Nintendo is outside this trend. And this is a good thing for variety. No one complain the PS4 library lack of variety because it doesn't have kart racers or smash bros like games. To each their own.

@koekiemonster It's a good thing to have a portable version of these games. It's because people like you obsessed with high budget AAA that the Vita was an undeserved failure.

@OorWullie "I'm curious, what exactly defines a AAA title? Is it just budget and graphics alone, even if the game is crap or is it more than that?"
Budget, the size of the development team, part of the team developing the script and the cinematics.
That's why it's hard to define the last Zelda as a AAA. It's been developed by a team of 300 people and it sure qualifies for a AAA but it has very few narration, I doubt they had a team developing it. It's a game of pure game design and level design. I think that's why it got so much high score. It feels like an outlier compared to other AAA.

No chance the Switch version will happen with these numbers. The targeted audience has been reached. And Sony won't let their biggest console seller in Japan go away on another system.

@nab1 Do you know what Sega needed to have a good protection against piracy? Money. Do you know what Sega needed to get a dvd reader? Money. Do you know what Sega needed to get third parties? Money.
Where you see mistakes and bad decisions I just see a company too small to compete. The consoles market became a market of megacorps since Sony and Microsoft are in it. Nintendo is an anomaly. They have only 5000 employees. Even some third parties are bigger than them.

@nab1 I really don't see any big bad decisions with the Dreamcast. It was just Sega's wallet was too small to compete on the marketing field against a megacorp like Sony.
And yes Nintendo is a dwarf. Take a look at the number of studio the Playstation division own and their size. It's an information kept secret but the Playstation division alone being three times bigger than Nintendo is probably a low estimation.

@Damo Nintendo wasn't in position to buy anything. The Gamecube was a disaster and the consoles market was becoming a battlefield of electronic giants like Sony and Microsoft kicking out smaller toys company such as Sega, Atari, Bandai, SNK, NEC. A dwarf like Nintendo surviving this far is an anomaly.

@Reginald The 3ds version is a different game. Sony won't let the exclusivity on the HD version go away.

@Grudgebearer You can keep dreaming but Sony perfectly know how dangerous Nintendo can be with Capcom on their side. They learned with the 3DS. I doubt they will let this situation happen again.

@Grudgebearer Well the guy who predicted Monster Hunter World before E3 also said Sony funded the project to not be released on a Nintendo system. Nintendo fans have to accept Sony is taking the control of the industry with the success of the PS4. I doubt a dwarf company like Nintendo can do anything to counter that.