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@rvcolem1 Mine was 72! I'm "only" 46 😂

Obligatory shout-out to the mobile game Pixel Puzzle Collection which is essentially Konami Picross in all but name.

Also, bit of a steep price rise for these latest two games...although I'll still buy them eventually.

@Maxz Yeah, maybe I wasn't clear enough. From what I've read the Japanese-only console will only play carts from Japan. Those carts do work in other region consoles, but no guarantee they'll have a language you can understand.

@darkswabber Just going by what I've read. The language on the console is locked to Japanese so menus etc can't be changed and you can only register an account from Japan. If there's an in-game option to select another language, you might be able to do so, but if it just matches the system language then it'll select the Japanese version. From memory, a lot of eShop games in Japan don't have other language options - even though they would in other parts of the world. I'd assume Japanese physicals would be mostly similar in that regard.

@LazyDaisy It'll only play Japanese carts and they only work on the Japanese eShop - they don't work with overseas accounts. Also only have Japanese language options AFAIK.

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@Pipulitoch It's amusing to me that you are concerned that users are turning on each other, then imply digital-only mentality has a low IQ 🤷‍♂️ You're maybe part of the problem

Galaxy, obviously 🤷‍♂️
Pokémon B2/W2 surprisingly came second on my head to head.

The way they've worded it suggest they're still trying to figure out if the personal data leaked. Not a good sign IMO

Can't remember the last time I bought a game at release, or even close to release 🤷‍♂️
Haven't bought a single Switch game this year - new or old, but I have bought a handful of older games in sales on PS5 and Series X

Yeah, I don't have a Switch 2 so won't be getting the game, but those plushies are mega cute - pity you can't buy them separately.

@The_Nintend_Pedant

they did this:
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/buildable-2x4-red-brick-5006085

I was sure I'd seen something bigger, but maybe I'm misremembering. They've done brick-built minifigures - I bought the Pirate Captain one on a trip to the Lego House last year.

The timing of this seems very strange given Sony had a digital Astro Bot bundle for £339 just a few weeks ago. I seems for once I timed it right - got the bundle with a discount code for £312 with the intention to pick up the drive add-on later - they've just dropped the price on that from £100 to £70 too, so I'll definitely be getting it sooner rather than later.

If they'd included it as a pack-in everybody would probably be saying they should've made it a separate purchase and taken $10 off the price of the console.

@StewdaMegaManNerd I'm not that bothered about scalpers in all honesty - I just don't understand the mentality of the people buying Switch 2 from them at inflated prices when it hasn't even released and pre-orders are still open. Makes it even funnier that people were complaining about the prices, yet others are paying £100+ over the MSRP when there's no need to.

It's weird to me that people are buying from scalpers already as the pre-orders are still open - and from regular high-street retailers. Some people really are dumb.

@dazzleshell eBay will turn a blind eye until someone complains - they are making money from the sales.

@abe_hikura With the larger publishers they would release an initial batch of physical products and would decide if sales justified another print run. They'd keep doing this until sales no longer justify making more physical copies and then just convert to code-in-a-box. It makes no sense for them to have inventory sitting on store shelves if it's not selling, but Code-in-a-box allows them to still have than retail presence without making loads of carts.

It's a 'Curse' button. Sends an expletive to whoever just blue-shelled you on the final lap of the new MK game.

This looks to be a good idea for those that have multiple Switch consoles in a household - like if a parent purchases all the games on the family account and the kids want to play on their own Switch.

However, is looks like they just nerfed the workaround for those playing he same game on two consoles at the same time...

@LastFootnote Not very likely IMO. There's all sorts of rumours and speculation about Xbox at the moment with regards to becoming a 3rd party publisher and getting out of the hardware business, but Game Pass would seem to be the one thing that there's a fairly common consensus the GP is their main focus. Their whole "This is an Xbox" campaign is pushing Game Pass and cloud pretty heavily at the moment.

@MarioLinkSamus Wasn't it already announced as coming to Game Pass day one?

In terms of 100%ing games. I usually just play until I feel like I've got enough out of it. I'll occasionally 100% a game if I'm really enjoying it, but equally, I'll dump it after an hour if it's not for me. Usually falls somewhere between the two though.

@gdk1ng424 @Mando44646 Did you read the article?

"...from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund which owns a 7.5% stake in Nintendo."

You're likely already supporting the "Saudi Regime" if you've bought anything from Nintendo (or Capcom, Koei Tecmo or EA as it's got a stake in them too) in the last few years.

Kinda got a bit burnt out with LEGO a few years ago and while this looks good, it's not probably not going to end my LEGO dry spell.

The first 2 Terminator Movies are still some of my all-time favourites - I even named my son Connor 😂

Across ACA Neo Geo and Arcade Archives series I've got just over 50. Another 30-40 of the available games on various arcade compilations too.

@PKDuckman maybe, but that's not how I read it - they were responding to someone else that said about 80% were digital only.

I'm not sure how many physical Switch games there are in total - Deku Deals lists just over 2000, but I'm not sure if those are just currently available. If 85% are playable offline straight from the cart, that's still a few hundred that aren't.

@Lizuka I think these charts are for physical-only, and Xbox is supposedly around 90% digital at this point so that would explain the discrepancy - and allowing for the fact the PS5 has sold more than double the amount of consoles compared with the Xbox Series Models. Also, for Mortal Kombat 11 specifically, it's on Game Pass so obviously less people are going to be buying it on Xbox when they can access as part of their subscription.

@zockermiller Where are you getting that 85% physical figure from? Even a quick glance at the new releases shows that digital-only games outnumber physical releases massively, and it only appears to be heading more towards digital. If anything 85% digital-only is more likely than the other way round.

I don't often get consoles day 1 so I'll likely keep the beat-up day-1 model I inherited from my son a few months ago for a year or so before I get Switch 2. If he buys Switch 2 at launch, I'll likely buy his OLED from him and use that for a bit.

I've also got a couple of faulty Switches lying around that are in decent condition (apart from the faults) that I can fix up, so I'm good for now.

He was never going to come out and say "Yeah, the retailers all know the price and release date" was he?

@Kestrel You can redeem gold points on physical purchases too.

@-wc- Yeah, I didn't like Phantom Hourglass at all (although I know it's not that well regarded), and never really had the urge to try any of the others after that. My son has all the Switch games so might give one a go eventually, but what I've seen him play didn't really appeal to me. Maybe the older ones on Switch Online might be more my thing 🤷‍♂️

@Anti-Matter Yeah, same here. I've no clue about Zelda games in general - I've only briefly played Phantom Hourglass on DS.

@Anti-Matter I got 7/24 without ever having played the game too.

I've been tempted by Balatro for a while, but I feel like it's one of those games that would just take over my life and I'd end up playing nothing else for months.

@TheBoilerman That would make sense if they were actually sending loads of stock to stores as well, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Off the top of my head, the Mario and Rabbids games & Xcom2...and I suppose most first person games

@datamonkey On PS5 you still need to insert he PS4 disc to play the upgraded version (or have purchased the digital version). Without an account system, which Nintendo didn't really have with Wii/3DS, the upgrade option couldn't work like it does on PS4/PS5. Also the differing media formats obviously wouldn't work either.

It might be possible if they do Switch 2 upgrades of Switch games though, as they now have the account system and the various leaks suggest the carts are similar. It's not really a new thing though - Nintendo has a history of re-releasing/ports old games to new systems, so I wouldn't be surprised if they just keep churning out remasters/remakes for new systems and charging full price for them as it's seems to have worked for them in the past.

Played this loads back in the day on Dreamcast, but I don't think light gun games are anywhere near as good with a controller unfortunately.

Only 15 games and 179h this year, although it's realistically nowhere near that as apparently my second most played game was Pokemon Violet (46h), which I've never played. Guessing my son has been using my profile to play through the game again and trade to his account. 79h on .stitch was my most played, second (that I actually played) was Lumines Remastered at 17h.

@Arcane-Fer All 3 sitting at around 60 on Metacritic

Weird to see Wreckfest lingering in the charts for so long. I don't really hear anyone speaking about it, and I personally thought it was pretty average.

@Dee123 It's Ubisoft, give it a few weeks and it will be Temu price.

@Bunkerneath This is how businesses work though - you invest money from previous projects into the next project. I'm not saying this is definitely what's going on, but in FPGs case - at least from the outside looking in - is appears that they don't have enough cash to fulfil a specific order until they take the cash for the next game (or 2). The problem with this business model is that you are relying on the next game being at least as popular as the last otherwise you have to cover the cost using funds from 2, 3 or even more games. It creates a vicious cycle where everyone holds off pre-ordering anything because you have a reputation for long delays so you can never fund the previous game.

@PessitheMystic I ended up cancelling my order for Crimzon Clover nearly 2 years ago after it was pushed back in the schedule again. They said at the time the new date was a 'worst case' and the game would likely be out before then - its since been pushed back at least twice more (and obviously still not been released) 🤦‍♂️

@S83 Chained Echoes seems to be one of the few games FPG have been posting updates for. The blog on their website seems to suggest it was in stock back in September (although they haven't updated the blog since so no idea if they actually started shipping)

I'm not exactly surprised by this to be honest. I backed Goodboy Galaxy, but as soon as it was announced that FPG were publishing the physical GBA carts I knew it was likely I wasn't going to see it for some time.

I was holding off playing it until I got the physical, but that might be a while off now. Oddly, not knowing who's going to now publish the physicals gives me more confidence I might actually receive it at some point give FPGs track record.

Personally, I can't really see her in the role, but I'll likely watch it anyway when it comes out.

@Madao They only sell at a loss on initial launch. Sony announced they were no longer making a loss on the PS5 just under a year after release. Not sure if that changed though as they announced a price rise in certain regions after a further year or so.

Such a dumb record. I think the collection of unique consoles is more impressive than the fact he's connected them to a single TV.

Assuming they're not all powered up at the same time? That would get a bit toastie

@Cut3Panda-SNES64DD Nintendo don't release digital sales numbers for charts etc, but for their own results I'm sure they do include them. MK8s numbers would be (even more) insane otherwise.