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Great, paying to play a game for which the servers will be shut down in a couple of years, so it will never be possible to play it anymore!

@electrolite77 The back touchpad works well enough emulating L2/R2/L3/R3. It feels somewhat unnatural to tap rather than press or click, especially on the backside, but it works.

@KryptoniteKrunch I haven't been paying Sony or Microsoft one cent for their online, even though they arguably offer at least something of value in return. Nothing you get to keep, though, so it's all worthless in the end. Nintendo now doing the same thing except having objectively worse online functionality compared to Sony or Microsoft, and even compared to Nintendo themselves twelve years ago doesn't really inspire much good will towards the men in suits devising these devious schemes.

@Heavyarms55 There's probably a minor influence on battery life (as in a couple of minutes). Also, there are a couple of games where the extra power breaks the game. I can't remember which ones, but I think there were only 5 at most. In any case, Nintendo could have easily worked around those issues by adding a blacklist of game IDs that aren't allowed to use the extra power. My guess is they just didn't bother.

@VexingInsanity The kickstand is just rubbish and the wifi chip is atrocious (writing this, my Switch is sitting two meters from my router and it only has three out of four bars reception), the internal storage is way too small if you buy anything digitally, the charging port doesn't follow the USB-C standards so you can't just use any third party charging cable, and the screen could be a bit more scratch-resistant, but otherwise I agree, it's a solid and well-built device.

@Heavyarms55 If you hack it, you can unlock the extra processing power for all games. It's great and makes everything snappy to use. Comparing them side by side, the older model chokes on everything from loading games, settings, exiting to the home screen, framerate in games, etc, whereas the New 3DS reacts instantly. Of course, Nintendo never enabled this extra power by default, so many of the improvements across the board were only visible in a limited amount of games, so we're lucky it's possible to hack the system to unlock its true potential.

@Angelic_Lapras_King All you have to do is format your SD card to the FAT32 filesystem on your computer (which is easier than it sounds, it's just one click) and any size will work. There's a 128GB microSD in my 3DS and it's working just fine, and it's pretty useful considering most of the games I play are several GB each, so I'm not even close to hitting the 300 icon limit (which, I agree, is tremendously stupid).

@VexingInsanity The DS Lite was released little over a year after the release of the original DS, fixing nearly all of the issues people had with the original.

@HobbitGamer Nice of you not to mention the Xbox One fiasco, where Microsoft announced a whole bunch of nonsense, just like Nintendo did now, they were criticised for it by everyone, and they got rid of it, even though the bad taste has remained in Xbox users' mouths ever since and Microsoft never fully recovered from their initial epic fail this generation. I truly fail to understand why anyone would 'defend' Nintendo for any nonsense they come up with (or, in the case of their new online stuff, don't come up with).

Nintendo does not want you to enjoy playing games, Nintendo wants to make money. They are no different from any other company, because that is the essence of a company: making money. Asking money for something that costs them literally to virtually nothing at all on top of their already ludicrous prices for everything (consoles, games and accessories always cost more than with any other competitor, for no reason other than 'Nintendo') is only part of what gets people so frustrated.

@Realnoize Thanks for not replying to any comments calling you out on your lack of knowledge!

@Realnoize You obviously have no idea how peer-to-peer works. You don't have to know anyone's IP address to connect to them through p2p, the p2p system itself scans for and connects to other systems indicating they want to connect.

@Realnoize What matchmaking servers? I paid Capcom for Resident Evil Revelations (and Nintendo got a part of the money I spent), to use Capcom's servers (it's probably not even plural) tracking statistics etc, the same ones they're running for Resident Evil Revelations on PS3. Now, Nintendo wants me to pay them money so I can continue to play the game I bought, with the internet connection I pay for, connecting to someone else's servers. What do Nintendo's servers do but show me which of my friends are online (wow!), and why should Nintendo deserve any more money than I already paid for the game and pay monthly for my broadband connection?

@Travan No, that analogy would be that you're already paying a ticket for each film, and the cinema then decides it wants you to cough up a bit extra for the privilege of entering the building.

@austin_voigt: considering you went out of your way to not answer the main question as to how long you actually played the game, I think it's safe for readers to assume it wasn't much more than an hour, give or take.

@KittenWarrior You don't need programming skills to be a good director.

@3bodyproblem A friendly reminder that 'DMCA' exists only in the United States. It's completely irrelevant to the rest of the world.

@Cheez No governments were involved in this decision, learn to read.

All of the MERICA YEEHAW pundits come crawling out of the woodwork again, not reading a single word of the article but the title (which is already entirely misleading in itself), equating one European country with Europe (or the EU), equating a court decision (a regional court at that) with a law set by the government, equating consumer rights with government overreach, not knowing the slightest thing about German law, ... Please go away.

Hello Americans, you are not the center of the world. Please understand. Big headlines stating 'Federal government doing X' mean absolutely nothing outside of the US. Is it really so incomprehensibly hard to just write 'US government' instead?

"on Nintendo Switch" "on Nintendo Switch" "on Nintendo Switch" "to bring Switch's handheld gyroscopes" "on Switch"

Was the stock of definite articles depleted?

Considering:

– the game is a platformer;
– you write that the platforming actually isn't very good and "it makes the first few hours something of a mechanical slog";
– the game is only three hours long;

Have you played the game for longer than a few minutes, even played it at all? Is this yet another praising review for a mediocre game, because criticism doesn't sit well with the sponsors? If 'the first few hours' of platforming in a three hour long platforming game suck, how can you still give it an 8/10, 'Great'? Nintendo Life's quality and reliability are going down the drain, competing for who will get to the very bottom first.

@YummyHappyPills Yes, the whole reason you wrote it in a snarky way is because you assumed he was being serious.

@YummyHappyPills You seem to have missed the part where that comment was obviously a joke.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

@BulkSlash I didn't think of that, but then, flashcarts are probably even a step up in terms of tabooness.

Please stop making these listicles. It's already the third one in barely over a week, and who really is the target audience? This stuff consist of 1) links to videos on your personal channel so you can squeeze a few microcents out of advertisements and 2) the name of the game stretched across multiple sentences with lots of filler words. Besides a quick namedrop of 'Zeldix' and the usernames of the people who work on these, there isn't any link to the actual Zeldix community or to the patches at all, which is rude beyond belief. The only place you can find any links is when you open the videos on YouTube and look at the descriptions. But how many readers of Nintendo Life are even interested in ROM hacks that change the music for 25-year old games that already had great music to begin with? In fact, why mention anything about ROM hacks at all (without actually referring to them as ROM hacks, again showing serious hypocrisy) when emulation is by definition the only way to play these hacks, and is apparently a taboo topic? I understand that video game magazines are at their core little more than extensive advertisements, but if, instead of advertising someone else's work, you're just looking for more views on your YouTube channel, it's time to call it quits.

Just a tip, interviews are far more interesting if they don't simply consist of a list of premade questions. With premade questions, you basically already know what the answers are going to be, and the end result is an incoherent monologue. Interactive questions guided by premade discussion topics, where you do a back and forth with the interviewee, are a lot more pleasant to read. It takes longer to do, but it's worth it for the interviewer, the interviewee, and the readers, too.

@Ralek85 You're already assuming there will be lots of worthwhile functionality added as soon as you cough up more money. It takes only a cursory look at Nintendo's entire history to suspect this will not be the case, and you'll just be paying to do what has always been and should be 100% gratis: using your own internet connection for p2p multiplayer.

@KeeperBvK I'm not sure which retail shelves you're talking about, but I don't think they're in this universe.

@Indielink Wow, the developers behind Mario Odyssey's new 100% gratis DLC must really hate money, then!

@SanderEvers Yes, it's nice they're adding new characters. They're also charging money for them.

@SanderEvers You aren't getting paid for this, so don't make excuses for lame business practices.

The waterfall section in the demo is terrible. Finally the logs are done, jump to the next platform, more logs, jump to the next platform, more logs, jump to the next platform, MORE LOGS, it never seemed to end. Why did they put something so extremely repetitive and not fun in a demo meant to sell the game?

@onex Who said anything about warranty, and what is all this about loan services? What are you talking about? Also, can you give me one example of a neutral study (i.e. not paid for by the copyright industry, the big guys who take away the creators' money) which undisputably provides proof of a negative impact of file sharing on sales, or of any of the other far-reaching claims you make? Stop the propaganda.

@Jayenkai That's a name I haven't seen since the glory days of DS homebrew! If you still have an old AK2i or DSTT lying around, the process to making your 3DS homebrewable is fairly straightforward, and can be done on every 3DS firmware.

@Dr_Lugae Your comparison fails because 'piracy' is a propaganda misnomer by the copyright industry (aka the industry that, doing nothing, makes a lot of money off the people who actually create) to indicate what is actually the creation of a copy. Moreover, time and again studies have shown no real impact on sales: someone who downloads a copy of a game (or music, movies, books, ...) without paying for it, wouldn't have paid for it anyway if gratis copies were not available.

@SomeWriter13 It does, very obviously, have character customisation of the main character. All clothes and weapons look different (and at the beginning you also get a minor decision whether to be male or female, the colour of your skin and that of your eyes).

@retro_player_22 Please go and read the history of the Dreamcast and the history of the Ouya, and stop trying to pigeonhole complex stories into a very narrow and, in fact, wholly incorrect worldview. Neither of those consoles (if you can even call the Ouya a console, when it's essentially a cheap Android phone with a controller) failed because they were easy to hack. 'Open source' also does not mean 'easily hackable'.

@onex You bought a Switch, why should anyone but you be able to decide what you could and couldn't do with it? If you go buy a car and want to change the radio to a better one, or if you want to add a TV screen in the backseat to keep your passengers occupied, should the car company be the one to tell you whether you are or are not allowed to make any of those modifications?

@Dr_Lugae Homebrew and piracy have nearly nothing to do with each other. They are done by different people, leverage different exploits, and so forth. Please stop spreading nonsense if you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.