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Deserves more - my most-played game this year

This is great. Now they just need to make it an option outside of splatfests too.

Seems like everything that's actually new is gated off. X battles unavailable for most players, Tri-color battles are super rare, and Big Run is another time limited splatfest style mode...

The reduced power consumption is nice, but really 12w was already incredibly low. My TV uses something like 100w, so that 6w reduction is largely irrelevant.

This either means they won't be making any Zelda sets, or it means they have their own in the pipeline.

@JimNorman "from November, 2021 to September, 2022 - yep, it's confusing"

It's more confusing when the chart says October - September.

Is that a good number? It's less than 1 person per console, and with lots of families sharing a console that means a lot of abandoned units.

The PS5 price increase is unprecedented. It's definitely not something Nintendo should be copying.

Arguably they should be looking at introducing Switch 2 without a price increase.

Why are people bothered if it's v15? It's just a number, they could name it version 3090 if they wanted to.

@rjejr I'm pretty sure "gone gold" means "we've started working on the day 1 patch"

Slighty disappointed they are reducing tricolour battles. It might be unbalanced but it's a new mode that's only available for half of splatfest, so reducing it even more seems a shame.

It has to be crying tears, to match up with "breath" of the wild, both bodily functions.

That is rather nice

@wuntyme8 I'm not sure what you're after specifically but the Switch OS already allows you to re-map every button and save multiple configurations.

@rjejr You don't need to stick with splattershot. You can buy any 3 weapons with the tickets you get for transferring splatoon 2 save data - no need to reach the right level.

"Although the first entry sold modest numbers"

In context, it sold 4.95m to a user base of just 13.5m. 6th best-selling game on Wii U. That's extremely impressive.

@Rykdrew I recently sold Splatoon 2 for about £25. Five year old Splatoon games definitely have value.

£170?! It's missing pieces and the rails are upside down.

@RushDawg I disagree. They've only announced that there will be paid DLC, not what it is. It's good that they are honest up front that there will be more to (optionally) pay for. Simply waiting a few months to announce it doesn't make it any better or worse value.

If this is well made I could imagine spending more time playing this than real turf war. I just hope there are no microtransactions.

Looks like a dev back door so they could easily try out all the characters for testing. Pretty amazing if this stayed undiscovered for so long.

@mariomaster96 Nintendo will have funded them to make an exclusive, so you might find there's actually less risk in this than in something cheaper to make that might still not sell well.

@EarthboundBenjy It ignores games you haven't played in the last 12 months. If you play BotW for a few minutes it will suddenly remember all your hundreds of hours.

"640 games ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates

I didn't think there were that many demos

I'm hoping for ranked seasons or some kind of weekly/monthly challenges.

That's a lot of money for a Raspberry Pi in a big box. I thought the point of this kind of thing was to have a real original arcade machine in your living room, not an oversized NES mini.

@outsider83 It's always been this way - Ms Pac Man, Donkey Kong Jr. onwards

Truly great original games are very rare.

I've already sold Splatoon 2 in preparation for Splatoon 3, so I'm not even that bothered if it is more of the same.

IIRC the DS only support WEP security and is therefore now always insecure, which makes the advice to switch to another device a bit dubious.

Sunshine being 20 years old makes me feel very old, but then I realised it wasn't released in Europe until October so I can continue feeling young for a few more months!

@BabyYoda71 It really doesn't. There are a few bits of Galaxy where you move around on small brown planets, but even those look nothing like this.

This looks nothing at all like Mario Galaxy or Rocket League

@Hero-of-WiiU It is. Lots of lego sets are aimed at adults now.

@abdias That's news to me. How can I tell which sticks are drift-proof?

I was about to say that's pretty scummy, but actually £12 per year for 6 repairs and includes accidental damage sounds like a nice deal.

Buying shares isn't "spending". Those shares will still be worth ~$43k. They funded it from other shares, so they weren't even taking any additional risk.

Is the Switch version a good port? Does it have gyro controls?

So we know we can customise eyebrows, but still no confirmations of any ranked modes.

It's almost like people want Directs more than they want games.

That's a very long maintenance window

@Rambler Haha, glad I'm not the only pedant!

@KateGray That's fair, I shall put my inner pedant away for now

@Diogmites Yes, kind of, but Kate specifically mentions "The Cave of Time" which is the first book in the actual CYOA series. The Fighting Fantasy series was somewhat different.

My inner pedant would like to point out that Sorcery! is part of the Fighting Fantasy series, "Choose Your Own Adventure" was an entirely different book series.

I doubt it's because it's too scary. He's probably not following Nintendo's guidelines for the balance board - like the game asking people to jump off it or something.

I didn't know there was a mine cart mini game, because it's still not available on NSO.

Frog chairs existed IRL way before Animal Crossing did

I'm just bemused that they thought having a tool to determine diversity was avoiding tokenism - it literally is tokenism!

Apple manage to release a new iphone every year with barely any improvements and they seem to be doing OK

The micro was a novelty console. The SP already massively improved the GBA, but the micro was a step backwards (not least because it released after the DS!)