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"Nintendo confirms next-gen console to release sometime in next 80 years"

Oh wow, visual content expansion. I can't wait. All that lovely expanded content of a visual nature.

@jimtendog It's currently £1.12, so I'm guessing more like 25x

The touchscreen seems kind of clunky in this case. The authentic way to play is with two joycons simulating a wii remote and nunchuk. Galaxy didn't really have motion controls - it had pointer control and a single flick-to-spin control.

It's odd that there's so much talk about "drift" but very little news about the side rail failures. 3 out of 4 of my joy-cons the side rail has failed (lights and SL/SR buttons not working). It appears to be a design defect with the ribbon connector.

Never seen the Japanese cover before but it just screams 90s

@sanderev Yep, so we can celebrate Mario's 40th next year

@6thHorizon Have shopto actually cancelled orders? Mine seems to be still live.

Yeah, Sunshine first - its the one I've played least recently

Rechargeable in 1972! Wow

@Liam_Doolan Will you be reviewing Inertial Drift?

That's a really nice design, shame it's Fortnite rather than a decent game

The potential for tracks just looks extremely limited. The karts look like they need a very flat surface. And how tight is the turning circle? That will be key to using it in smaller rooms. I assume it uses the 4 gates to calibrate the software to the real world, so although they imply you can make any layout I'm guessing you can't go too far between gates.

If we get a Switch Pro it will be 1080. 4k is years away on Nintendo consoles. And rightly, I see no reason to chase specs that many people simply don't care about.

@Claytonbob I think it's only as a 4 pack, not individually.

@ianl579 They are available from the UK store

@JMR_Alden Yeah, it isn't even a shadow drop anyway - it's a trailer for a game that isn't out for 2 months

@andyg1412 The price is in the "Game Profile" section. (Or on mobile, just go to the "Overview" tab)

Don't all arcade racers have rubber-banding? It seems to me that without it you'd just spend entire races either significantly ahead or significantly behind, and the whole thing just becomes a time trial.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is rejected because Lego are already working on their own Animal Crossing sets...

Didn't we already know this from the trailer?

@zegov Try base.com I think they have international shipping.

@TheFrenchiestFry lots of GameCube games supported widescreen. It seems quite likely they developed it with widescreen in mind but ended up not including it in the final release (maybe for performance reasons).

@antdickens £200 to play 2 player seems very cheeky

@Anti-Matter I genuinely don't expect a Mario Kart 9 until Switch 2

Looks really fun, but only if you own a massive house with a hard floor.

@Miyamotosan @WrongChops $49.99 according to the press release in the Direct article.

Maybe next year they'll replace it with Super Mario Bros 36?

This looks like completely the wrong choice of graphical style for a fast-paced RTS...

@LilMuku The Wii Virtual Console wasn't free. Those 209 games would have cost something like $1000+ to buy them all. On the Switch there are 80 games included with NSO, plus tons of other retro games available to buy - they just aren't under the same "Virtual Console" banner.

Does this have much/any single player content?

I was originally really enthusiastic about this game, but I tried the demo and just couldn't get into it. Maybe I should give it another try.

@6ch6ris6 Looks to me like the lens didn't actually work and he just got a standard photo printed...

I love splatfests but I remember this one being a little unpleasant to play due to the beige vs yellow colour contrast.

These kind of glitches are commonplace in other games, the Lego series springs to mind.

At this point in the NES's lifecycle it hadn't even released in the UK yet.

Yeah, this was clearly deliberately done for publicity. And here we are. I guess their marketing manager will get a bonus.

"surpass 12 million"

but actually 14.4 million including the Lite (which is still a Switch)

@westman98 So then there isn't really a problem? Just use unique characters instead of endless identical Toads?

Not only is this a stupid restriction, it's not even consistent. Luigi's Mansion has plenty of characters unique to that series. Why can't Paper Mario?

I remember the N64 release at £250 with £70 Turok. Suffice to say I bought a Playstation instead.

Perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to poke Tom Nook's eyes out.

@scully1888 Thanks for a great review. Don't linger too long in the comments.

It's a twitter account, even if it's genuine it's hardly evidence of anything much.

Double gold points is the kind of offer that should be on the whole eshop, not a measly 3 games.

@SwitchVogel I imagine the issue with that is that it takes significantly more dev time to make a Switch game than a 3DS one. Plus all the Wii U ports take time too, less than a new game but definitely a significant amount of time.

Make your own

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtqbhZLrzFY

So is this just to put the game at the top of the downloads chart so others will be tricked thinking it's good and paying for it?

It seems weird that they keep making maintenance updates, which require effort, but don't continue to have splatfests, which require no effort.

I saw that they would be shipping from the US and assumed there might be import duty. It was one of the things that put me off backing it.