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So weird. If it's a joke, then I don't get it, if it's real then why announce it on 1st April and make everyone think it's a joke.

@Giancarlothomaz Switch / Switch Lite / Switch Pro?

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 2017!

@TryToBeHopeful Oh yeah, that's annoying - Nintendo are the only company making their games more expensive after 2 years

This is probably the least limited limited-edition game ever

I hope the new Switch isn't 4k. If it is it'll just be marketing speak and no games will realistically run at 4k, but instead it'll be an excuse to hike the price.

What we need is for everyone to agree on a standard - how about X on the right?

It looks odd. The high res just takes away from the hand-drawn aesthetic which is much of what makes BOTW so beautiful.

Still works out more expensive than buying from CDKeys.com

I haven't played Mario 35 since last year. It was fun, but it's hardly a great loss. Hopefully we'll get a new NSO game soon.

Let's hope Nintendo doesn't get complacent with these kind of silly stats.

In the end, every game ever has had limited availability, and there are far more copies of All-Stars out there than many other games.

Joy cons: 3/10 Too many options.

@Paperboy I think it will be prerecorded. They mean it will be streamed at the preset time, rather than just dropped onto youtube.

Nintendo never announces release dates in the financial report, so there's never any news on that front.

@SalvorHardin They are selling so fast there's no need to produce more games. And the eshop is already overflowing with smaller games.

@Tantani Not quite - the DS did better

I generally love Platinum's games, but their announcements have all been disappointing lately.

This was always going to happen eventually. People were creating a bubble. The last ones in were always going to lose out if they bought an over-valued stock at its peak.

EDIT: Which is to say, the markets need to prevent this type of behaviour from all sides.

Assuming £280 for the console thats £60 for the digital version of the game! The physical version is only £50 and that's a steelbook edition!

Main thing I'd like is a larger screen, even if still 720p. Thinner bezel with the same console size would improve handheld play enormously.

I now won't buy anything unless I'm sure I'll immediately play it for a reasonable amount of time. I used to get tempted by games on sale, but I figure if I wasn't willing to buy it at full price then I won't actually get more enjoyment out of it when it's cheaper.

At the same time, if I'm not enjoying a game I won't berate myself for not completing it before moving on.

Just got my email - but it's mostly winding me up that they have a ton of play time data that we're not allowed to view!

@TryToBeHopeful But it's supposed to be a "reward". The reward is that you can buy something for a normal price?

As a freebie it's quite nice, but £6.25 shipping for a few sheets of paper is just ridiculous.

This button symbolises everything that's wrong with Nintendo.

I find it hard to feel sorry for someone who's been able to invest half a million dollars in collectibles and not even care to keep tabs on them.

I've lost count of the number of free qubic games I have sitting unplayed on my switch, but I'll take 3 more anyway.

Maybe I'm just more used to the European one but I much prefer it's beautiful blue/green colour scheme.

@Inc Nintendo say "Nintendo Entertainment System Controllers are compatible with Nintendo Switch software titles that require only the directional buttons and A/B/L/R Buttons"

Seems really weird to make a Super Mario Game & Watch and then put Ball on it, instead of, maybe, the Super Mario G&W game. The lack of a stand is a massive oversight, especially as they even included a clock - as far as I know every Game & Watch had a stand.

I guess I'll just crack out Snoopy Tennis again

Are those real or just CGI mockups? (because to me they definitely look like CGI mockups)

The answer is yes, I do prefer 2D or 3D Zelda games

Playing Atari games with an Atari joystick was impractical too.

So a publicly available screenshot was included in some badly photoshopped marketing from a third-party? No, that's not a leak.

Ugh, the stock market is so absurdly reactionary.

My second console is a Wii U...

6 year old Mario Kart 8 outselling Home Circuit

Weird that people are complaining about performance. I played for an hour and noticed nothing problematic. Maybe handheld is the issue?

@cheesedude There are still occasional frame drops, and very occasionally that causes you to crash, but overall it's a very minor point in a fantastic game.

@Scrubicius There are online leaderboards but there's no multiplayer of any sort.

"I would say that maybe 20% of Switch owners play both modes"

Nintendo literally released their own stats saying about 50% use it in both modes and another 20% use it primarily docked.

I'll be downloading the Lonely Mountains DLC, but I guess that's not worthy of the poll

@RazumikhinPG because they don't pay commission

@Oppyz666 @rjejr You can't stream video over a basic RC car radio, I don't think you can over bluetooth either, so it needs wifi.

Looks like a decent tech demo. I just can't see the value in a Mario Kart game with no tracks. (And I don't count infinite variations in driving around the same flat rooms)

@The-Chosen-one It has no battery/wireless so you can't use it in docked or tabletop modes.

"The price reduction will apply to single Joy-Con products only" - so no practical price drop then.

While the PC and Switch audiences are a little different I suspect much of the difference is simply due to press coverage. Just comparing Short Hike on Metacritic:

PC version:
10 reviews (several are months after release)
80 average
77th best game of the year (2019)

Switch version:
13 reviews (within a month of release)
88 average
5th best game of the year

That's a huge difference in coverage.

If it's already working why are they delaying the Switch version by a week? (In fact why delay by a week at all? Surely that's basically no time at all in game development.)