cheesedude

Sports games ideally need to hit 60fps as a key selling point. I can't imagine that anyone who has access to another platform will choose the Switch version. Not a bad option for those who play offline only though.

I'm still waiting to upgrade as apart from MKW and DK there doesn't seem to be games that present an extremely compelling case for making the switch over. While MK and DK have reviewed well they are not my favourite genres. I'm happy enough to stick with MK8 and DK just isn't for me.

Additionally, the backwards compatibility is, at present, not as fully featured as I had hoped. I would pick up a Switch 2 right away if the resolution scaling issues for Switch 1 games are universally updated.

I will definitely buy a Switch 2 but I'm happy to wait until there are far more new Switch 2 exclusives.

I really don't care about the price of video games. I'm an adult, I have a job and disposable income. A $20 difference is nothing these days. Well done to Nintendo for realising that quality, in demand games will sell no problem at high profit prices.

I've been playing happily since day 1 but have only checked in a couple of times in the last 2 or 3 weeks. I got about a year of solid play out of New Leaf too so I'm happy with my purchase. We need a paid dlc expansion with a substantial amount of new content and improved villager conversation.

A very mediocre Direct for me in terms of surprises or big announcements. It's understandable given the circumstances but I'm hoping for far better next time.

More Arcade Archives game are a good thing. While many of them are clunky by today's standards the series represents a rich treasure trove of an important period of the development of games. While I would prefer the games to be slightly cheaper it's hard to know what the true costs involved are, so perhaps Hamster have averaged it out, knowing that some games might sell hardly anything (maybe only a few hundred sales?) & others will sell decently.

There's much more to it than copy/pasting a rom and uploading it to the e-shop so I'm happy to support the Arcade Archives series.

Olive Town looks like it will be a disappointment. Story of Seasons Trio of Towns on the 3ds is my go to farming game. I didn't get on with Stardew due to preferring the general presentation and crop mechanics of Story of Seasons. I guess I've been playing the series too long to switch over to another one.

This series has always been on the expensive side. It's absolutely a niche game with a steep learning curve and thus won't appeal to many players (which is why it's so pricey).

@molkom

The NES version got 3/10 as the controls are awful. The arcade version plays and performs much better.

I'll get it when it's 25-33% off at some point over the next year.

Perhaps the poor demo performance is a sign that a Switch Pro is on the way?

Wow, the demo is a shocker. I didn't expect it would run amazingly but it's super rough.

How's the performance? Did they fix the initial issues?

@jipiboily

Better to play any of the first two games really. Everything I've read about T3 makes it seem a disappointing mess in comparison.

More like a hard avoid given its atrocious reviews.

Planet Robot is easily the best of the latest Kirby outings.

So no actual good deals on any of the more popular games.

While not every game is a classic, I very much appreciate that Hamster are bringing back all these old games. I have lots of them on my wishlist and only a few of them ever seem to be on sale. I'd love to splurge out but ideally I want 50% off if I'm going to buy 30 or 40 titles.

30fps is very disappointing for a racing game. I'd take a substantial graphical downgrade to have a solid 60fps.

@PapaMurphy

I already know about it. It got a great review in NL and mediocre reviews in most other sites.

Are there any good micro racing games available for any modern system?

Looks cool but I have heard it has an excruciating difficulty curve.

A surprisingly high score given its repetitive nature and simple combat. I thought it would get a 6 based on fan feedback on Reddit.

I enjoyed the pc version back in the day so I might pick this up. The pc version is free on Epic Games right now in case you want to try it out before considering the Switch version.

@gcunit

For better or worse, the days of physical games are drawing to a close. I think we might get 1 more generation before all games are digital. Either that or day 1 patches render physical games incomplete out of the box.

Seems like a fair price for a decent looking game to me. I know which option I'd always choose in F2P versus paying for all the content right off the bat.

The deluxe pack for pc is £18.95 over at fanatical right now. Only for the next 20 minutes though.

I'm in as long as it's not a free to play game. Just give us the game and all content for a decent price.

So that means 30fps at best? Yikes!

@ukaskew

It has a 'Mostly Positive' rating on Steam which suggests it's a fairly average game but not without its flaws.

@Burning_Spear

The development of the game will be have been planned and costed so that it has to release within a specific timeframe in order for the developer/publisher to make any money. Wages and other costs needs to be paid and delaying a game launch could be fatal for small devs/publishers. You can't keep pumping money into a project forever.

That's not to excuse a lack of content or a lazy approach to development. It's just that at some point you absolutely need to call a project done and get it out the door.

Will buy for the second time at full price with no regrets 😁

It doesn't sit anywhere. The Switch isn't in the next gen tech race and Nintendo will continue to innovate in their own way.

I feel they are one, if not two generations behind in online infrastructure and aren't really interested in catching up due to old fashioned thinking.

@Varkster

I agree that smaller franchises are definitely required to round their game selection and offer consumers a variety of genres. But at the end of the day the big sellers are the big sellers. We will generally see per console releases of Mario Kart, Smash etc. but it can be decades between smaller franchise releases because they generally are not as profitable. It's like how EA only releases blockbuster games - they are only interested in earning mega bucks from massive games as a service rather than investing in a wide range of smaller titles.

I definitely disagree that Nintendo has lots ofdevelopment resources as otherwise 2020 would have far more games being released rather than a comparative drought. But that's just my take and you see it differently. It's a big company but game development involves hundreds or thousands of staff over a long period of time.

@Varkster

Nintendo has a fairly limited amount of development resources / studios and you can't just pluck talent out of the air. There is a limit to the number of employees / skills available in the professional game development community. Some of the franchises you mention won't be big sellers in comparison to other franchises.

They way they probably look at it is what is the potential return on investment for a product with a buget of say $10 million USA. If franchise A is more much popular than B or C then that's the project that's going to get the green light as it will deliver higher profits.

Smaller franchises could be profitable if the development is relatively quick and can be kept within a smaller budget. But working on a smaller title might not be the best use of that particular staff group's time if a more profitable project is on the table.

@Moroboshi876

Exactly. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Nintendo games sell like the expensive hot cakes that they are and so the premium pricing model continues until sales are not as expected.

@zool

Lol. Nintendo has never been a caring company. They are a huge corporate money making machine whose goal is to maximise returns for shareholders.

@Moroboshi876

First party games are always full price because they sell millions of copies at that price and it's important to protect the premium pricing of the brand. Prices only reduce when sales are lower than expected. A lower price for the sake of it makes no business sense.

Hardly suprising that a business opts for the more profitable option. On the other hand if you haven't bought Pikmin 3 after 7 years then you probably don't want it. You can always but a cheap physical copy at half the price and forgo the risk of the Wii U eshop shutting down.

Totally pointless, the 3ds is now a legacy platform. Nintendo should be offering rewards and discounts for Switch games instead as that is what 99% of people are interested in.

@NESlover85

Why don't you think Mr Driller is worth full price? It's not a very expensive game and it has a lot of modes and stuff to do. Definitely seems like a good purchase to me at a not unreasonable price.

@johnvboy

No Brewster means no gyroids though. That is unacceptable.

The next update better be Brewster and the cafe!

Mr Driller for me this week. I love the series so I'm really looking forward to it!

I bought both volumes and have found them to be worth the full purchase price. Obviously it helps a lot if you're a fan of retro games.

EA is all about games as a service, micro transactions, season passes and generally continually monitising releases. The Switch needs a massively improved, far slicker online infrastructure in order to make it worthwhile for EA to bother releasing games on it.

It's a good game but even with the update it sounds like it's still light on content and extremely expensive for the amount of play time it offers. There's probably only 50 new stages as they count standard and hard modes on the same level design as being different stages.

Mobile games aren't bad but the free to play aspect ruins most of them. Unfortunately very few customers are willing to pay reasonable prices to own apps outright so it's all about the hell of micro transactions and pay to win.

Mostly Namco Archives Volume 1&2.

It's not surprising. The Switch just doesn't have the online infrastructure required to fully support the game in all modes. More importantly it makes it much more difficult for EA to sell all the FIFA microtransactions.