Yeah, Japan hates the Xbox. It's pretty well documented without obscure figures like this. Sure it's interesting but I think this speaks more to the 3DS living on than the Xbox failing.
@TheFullAndy I think with it's current library it could live on for a long time without anyone being bored. I guess if Nintendo survived the Wii U it can handle a little momentum shift in the switch in the coming years. There comes a time when the new consoles are just the shiz and that's what everyone wants. switch came out after ps4 so it hasn't had the light taken away like this before
@TheFullAndy I'm not saying the console doesn't have a good library or great games haven't come out but I see almost nothing from those devs on the horizon while the recent current gen has a laundry list. I guess time will tell if they are just waiting to announce it. Imagine how much of their resources are probably tied up in making ps5 and series games though.
@TheFullAndy NIS are giving them a lot of great support along with Capcom making a monster hunter game for them. But overall development for new games from the big publishers, EA, Activision and Ubisoft is dramatically lower than it was just a few years ago.
@AndyC_MK84 Luckily Nintendo aren't really in a war as much as trying to find a path to their own survival. The big 2 can duke it out when there are actually enough systems to go around, one of these days.
@Slowdive who pays the people who work there? They don't pay themselves and they aren't there for fun.
You are comparing a development style with Hades to a government structure. If you don't get that companies and money are what breeds creation but love companies and live off money youre just short sighted.
@Slowdive In a world of communal sense of property there is no incentive for companies to develop and innovate as they will just be snatched up. You are arguing against capitalism while saying you like the stuff companies create.
Crazy that they were putting faster processors on a cart than the system itself had. SNES games flew into the 70 dollar range at one point and I'm guessing companies having to add stuff like this really contributed.
In hindsight I can still play doom and duke nukem 3D but the ridiculous auto aim of this game combined with not being able to play it without autoaim make it nearly unplayable now. It has aged like a loaf of bread.
@AndyC_MK84 well in any case Nintendo is twice as focused anyways having cut the ds line out. Talk about a lot of resources... Now to just get some metroid samus returns ported over.
@AndyC_MK84 well no it's not about being deprived it's about priorities. I guess if Nintendo needs cash on hand to greenlight new projects this will be more profitable and thus create MORE games. I hope they learned from the dismal animal crossing mobile and well received switch game it doesn't always work. I realize it's not one or the other but they would most likely only have so many balls up in the air at once for new projects in house and this is one of them.
@AndyC_MK84 why is programming new stuff for a 3D Mario game not considered real dev time? It looks better than the 3DS game and it's developed my Nintendo's main R&D.
@DrDaisy it appeared to use the Super Mario engine in the 2D sections and much of the graphics were similar. Tell me this doesn't look like a bowser castle?
Yakuza needs a series x to even hit 60fps. I'm afraid the draw distance would have to be almost nothing. It is one of the best RPGs of 2020 though and I'm honestly blown away at how it matches persona in style and gameplay.
@Azuris I mean create a pack of 8 of these whipping around the streets and see if the cops have an issue. Organized racing is illegal even if the cars themselves aren't specifically.
I mean they basically clogged up the street with illegal vehicles and used Nintendo to sell a ridiculous "service". It would be one thing if they made their own track and just needed to change up the characters but they didn't make a legitimate business for the court to uphold.
@DrDaisy 2d Mario style fighting and platforming was not fun or original for me and never done again. I think the fact that they never went for it again says it all.
It has a lot going for it and shows sega still has some superb quality control with some of their brands. I'm glad they didn't let someone throw bland polygons and muddy textures around back in the early downloadable game days.
I mean yeah it's fun and the Xbox version is the definitive experience of it. But the sophomore slump of zero killed the whole series. So basically perfect dark is just one game and one flop and done. Not much of a legacy
Two Point Hospital had almost no compromises. It works just the same at the lower resolution and everything is there. If you think it's too hectic to control with a controller on smaller res just hit pause on the action and take your time.
Coolermaster? So it's a chicken warmer made by a pc case maker? I mean usually you would use this to keep chicken as you fry in batches, not buy a bucket and dump it in but it will be funny if they actually make some.
@sixrings no but you would need to own 2 nintendo systems if you wanted to play portable and third parties would barely support the handheld option still
At least switch lets nintendo focus their dev on one system, there is a reason no one else has a portable system because it's expensive to make 2 systems of first party games
I don't play favorites but I do have more nintendo consoles than any other company sony (psp, vita, ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4) nintendo (gba, ds, 3ds, nes, snes, n64, gamecube, Wii, Wii U, switch) sega (Saturn, Dreamcast) Microsoft (Xbox, 360, One, Series X)
I have a feeling immortals got kind of lost in the fray on other consoles. But for switch which doesn't have new assassin's creed games it really stands out.
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Re: Nintendo 3DS Outsold The Entire Xbox Family - Including Series X - In Japan Last Year
Yeah, Japan hates the Xbox. It's pretty well documented without obscure figures like this. Sure it's interesting but I think this speaks more to the 3DS living on than the Xbox failing.
Re: Poll: Do You Want Gyroids To Return In Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
I always assumed they were some kind of inside joke with the devs or something.
Re: Random: Watch Someone Speedrun Celeste Using A Dance Pad
Controller converters are great, was using a guitar from guitar hero to play tetris the other day when I got my Wingman XB.
Re: Random: Cheap Clones Of NES LEGO Set Feature Duck Hunt, Contra, And Super Mario Bros
@StevenG I assume you aren't implying that makes it legit in any way.
Re: Random: Cheap Clones Of NES LEGO Set Feature Duck Hunt, Contra, And Super Mario Bros
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001337832100.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.26cb3287WbQ1Gg&algo_pvid=a09ddfe8-c75a-421c-a7d2-698138496434&algo_expid=a09ddfe8-c75a-421c-a7d2-698138496434-0&btsid=0b0a555316103926688503286e55ad&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_
Of course it's on aliexpress....also 133 bucks is no chunk change for a knock off.
Re: Nintendo Is Now The Market Leader In Video Gaming's Biggest Region
Have fun China just keep your censorship and requests for people's player info to yourself.
Re: X Rocker Launches Animal Crossing Gaming Chair
The name reminds me of those old force feedback chairs from the 90s
Re: Nintendo Switch Sold More Than Every Other Console Combined Last Year In The UK
@TheFullAndy I think with it's current library it could live on for a long time without anyone being bored. I guess if Nintendo survived the Wii U it can handle a little momentum shift in the switch in the coming years. There comes a time when the new consoles are just the shiz and that's what everyone wants. switch came out after ps4 so it hasn't had the light taken away like this before
Re: Nintendo Switch Sold More Than Every Other Console Combined Last Year In The UK
@TheFullAndy I'm not saying the console doesn't have a good library or great games haven't come out but I see almost nothing from those devs on the horizon while the recent current gen has a laundry list. I guess time will tell if they are just waiting to announce it. Imagine how much of their resources are probably tied up in making ps5 and series games though.
Re: Nintendo Switch Sold More Than Every Other Console Combined Last Year In The UK
@TheFullAndy NIS are giving them a lot of great support along with Capcom making a monster hunter game for them. But overall development for new games from the big publishers, EA, Activision and Ubisoft is dramatically lower than it was just a few years ago.
Re: Nintendo Switch Sold More Than Every Other Console Combined Last Year In The UK
@AndyC_MK84 Luckily Nintendo aren't really in a war as much as trying to find a path to their own survival. The big 2 can duke it out when there are actually enough systems to go around, one of these days.
Re: Nintendo Switch Sold More Than Every Other Console Combined Last Year In The UK
@AndyC_MK84 Kind of ironic considering to modern developers it's Switch who? Oh the place for our ps3 games.
I love the Switch but when Third parties have a hard time with your system your days are numbered. Dreamcast, Vita
Re: Nintendo Switch Sold More Than Every Other Console Combined Last Year In The UK
Not a lot of people are going to buy a ps4 with the ps5 coming out that year
Re: Nintendo "Laughed Their Asses Off" At Microsoft's Buyout Offer
EA had spit millions into the failed 3DO, they were ones to laugh...
Then when xbox came out of course madden was a launch title
Re: Nintendo Issues Mass DMCA Takedown, 379 Fan-Made Games Forcibly Removed
@Slowdive who pays the people who work there? They don't pay themselves and they aren't there for fun.
You are comparing a development style with Hades to a government structure. If you don't get that companies and money are what breeds creation but love companies and live off money youre just short sighted.
Re: Nintendo Issues Mass DMCA Takedown, 379 Fan-Made Games Forcibly Removed
@Slowdive In a world of communal sense of property there is no incentive for companies to develop and innovate as they will just be snatched up. You are arguing against capitalism while saying you like the stuff companies create.
Re: Super Nintendo World Website Now Live, Ticket Pricing And Ride Details Confirmed
1 day $76, 2 day $150, $1 off... is that really worth having 2 options for?
Re: Nintendo Issues Mass DMCA Takedown, 379 Fan-Made Games Forcibly Removed
If you're ripping off assets and then putting ads in your games yeah... you kinda deserve it. I support Nintendo in discouraging this activity.
Re: Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For January And February 2021
Those new switch pad pros look cool
Re: How One Man Is Fixing The SNES' Biggest Weakness
Crazy that they were putting faster processors on a cart than the system itself had. SNES games flew into the 70 dollar range at one point and I'm guessing companies having to add stuff like this really contributed.
Re: Random: The Switch Subreddit Is Having A Bit Of A Meltdown
@dont_simp_for_them I guess not a lot, I mostly just use it for game sales and help. Got some cheap game keys on there
Re: Random: The Switch Subreddit Is Having A Bit Of A Meltdown
Pretty sure this is one moderator that will probably not be one anymore.
Re: Fortnite Creator Epic Games Is Turning A Dying Shopping Mall Into Its New HQ
So 70% of it will be completely empty and dusty as hell. Or the cleaning costs will be through the roof. Sounds like a plan guys!
Re: Feature: Switch Puts The Arcade Of Your Dreams In The Palm Of Your Hand
@Lordplops Uh.... not sure what to say about that one. If you own a switch and not a mobile you are a very small percentage or very young.
Re: Feature: Switch Puts The Arcade Of Your Dreams In The Palm Of Your Hand
@Lordplops you bothered to hack your switch just to play roms you can play on any phone?
Or to steal AAA switch titles?
Re: Review: Double Dragon Neon - An Energetic Reboot Which Has Aged Surprisingly Well
Haha this game always just reminds me of how salty ign got about it.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/11/double-dragon-neon-review
Re: Best Of 2020: Mario And Zelda Were Great, But GoldenEye Really Switched Me On To Nintendo
@Jhomesjones I guess I always assumed aiming with the cross hairs was the only.other way to go but that makes sense.
It still doesn't make it an enjoyable way to play a shooter after you experienced the dualshock. Which was released just over a year of GoldenEye
Re: Best Of 2020: Mario And Zelda Were Great, But GoldenEye Really Switched Me On To Nintendo
In hindsight I can still play doom and duke nukem 3D but the ridiculous auto aim of this game combined with not being able to play it without autoaim make it nearly unplayable now. It has aged like a loaf of bread.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Gets A New Year Update With RMX Rainbow Road 2
@AndyC_MK84 well in any case Nintendo is twice as focused anyways having cut the ds line out. Talk about a lot of resources... Now to just get some metroid samus returns ported over.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Gets A New Year Update With RMX Rainbow Road 2
@AndyC_MK84 well no it's not about being deprived it's about priorities. I guess if Nintendo needs cash on hand to greenlight new projects this will be more profitable and thus create MORE games. I hope they learned from the dismal animal crossing mobile and well received switch game it doesn't always work. I realize it's not one or the other but they would most likely only have so many balls up in the air at once for new projects in house and this is one of them.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Gets A New Year Update With RMX Rainbow Road 2
@AndyC_MK84 why is programming new stuff for a 3D Mario game not considered real dev time? It looks better than the 3DS game and it's developed my Nintendo's main R&D.
Re: Best Of 2020: 8 Games That Could Really Benefit From A Modern Remake On Switch
@DrDaisy it appeared to use the Super Mario engine in the 2D sections and much of the graphics were similar. Tell me this doesn't look like a bowser castle?
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rfiOg9g_GC8/WTqSTOoFXRI/AAAAAAAAh9E/5j4DskXvbWg7nMYgMbd8wrP0YUdZOUNmwCLcB/s1600/Zelda%2BII%2B-%2BNew%2BAdventure%2Bof%2BLink0.jpg
Re: Feature: Nintendo Switch Ports We'd Love To See In 2021
Yakuza needs a series x to even hit 60fps. I'm afraid the draw distance would have to be almost nothing. It is one of the best RPGs of 2020 though and I'm honestly blown away at how it matches persona in style and gameplay.
Re: Tokyo's Unofficial Mario Kart Service Loses Supreme Court Appeal
@Azuris I mean create a pack of 8 of these whipping around the streets and see if the cops have an issue. Organized racing is illegal even if the cars themselves aren't specifically.
Re: Tokyo's Unofficial Mario Kart Service Loses Supreme Court Appeal
I mean they basically clogged up the street with illegal vehicles and used Nintendo to sell a ridiculous "service". It would be one thing if they made their own track and just needed to change up the characters but they didn't make a legitimate business for the court to uphold.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Members Get Free Trial Of Crash Team Racing
@Egit-kun I didn't even realize it had micros and I have about 10 hours into it.
Given it takes a ton of time to buy some characters who cares, it doesn't skimp with the roster at all.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Members Get Free Trial Of Crash Team Racing
480 in handheld mode from what sources say. I bought it for xbox and it's a great game though.
Re: Best Of 2020: 8 Games That Could Really Benefit From A Modern Remake On Switch
@DrDaisy 2d Mario style fighting and platforming was not fun or original for me and never done again. I think the fact that they never went for it again says it all.
Re: Best Of 2020: The Making Of Streets Of Rage 4, By The People Who Made It Happen
It has a lot going for it and shows sega still has some superb quality control with some of their brands. I'm glad they didn't let someone throw bland polygons and muddy textures around back in the early downloadable game days.
Re: Best Of 2020: 8 Games That Could Really Benefit From A Modern Remake On Switch
Zelda 2 was trash. Glad they redeemed themselves cause it could have killed the whole series.
Re: Development Of Disaster Report 5 Is Already Underway
They never even fixed 4. So sloppy to announce the next game when after releasing a product so inferior.
Re: Best Of 2020: Perfect Dark Turns 20 - The Definitive Story Behind The N64 Hit That Outclassed James Bond
I mean yeah it's fun and the Xbox version is the definitive experience of it. But the sophomore slump of zero killed the whole series. So basically perfect dark is just one game and one flop and done. Not much of a legacy
Re: Nintendo Winter Wonderlands - Can You Name All These Festive Levels?
6/12 I guess I don't pay that much attention to names.
Re: Feature: Best Nintendo Switch Ports Of 2020
@matdub it is great. If you grew up during the 90s even better. My first internet connection was AOL on 28.8
Re: Feature: Best Nintendo Switch Ports Of 2020
Two Point Hospital had almost no compromises. It works just the same at the lower resolution and everything is there. If you think it's too hectic to control with a controller on smaller res just hit pause on the action and take your time.
Re: Random: KFC Made A Console, For Some Reason
Coolermaster? So it's a chicken warmer made by a pc case maker? I mean usually you would use this to keep chicken as you fry in batches, not buy a bucket and dump it in but it will be funny if they actually make some.
Re: Switch Owners "Most Likely" To Own A Rival Console, 2020 Study Shows
@sixrings no but you would need to own 2 nintendo systems if you wanted to play portable and third parties would barely support the handheld option still
At least switch lets nintendo focus their dev on one system, there is a reason no one else has a portable system because it's expensive to make 2 systems of first party games
Re: Switch Owners "Most Likely" To Own A Rival Console, 2020 Study Shows
I don't play favorites but I do have more nintendo consoles than any other company
sony (psp, vita, ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4)
nintendo (gba, ds, 3ds, nes, snes, n64, gamecube, Wii, Wii U, switch)
sega (Saturn, Dreamcast)
Microsoft (Xbox, 360, One, Series X)
Re: River City's Kunio And Riki Join 3D Arena Brawler Mighty Fight Federation
Game is surpringly well liked on steam so it might be cool. I'll keep a look out, open area 3D fighters are not so common.
Re: Ubisoft Switch Sale Discounts Immortals Fenyx Rising, Mario + Rabbids And Plenty More
I have a feeling immortals got kind of lost in the fray on other consoles. But for switch which doesn't have new assassin's creed games it really stands out.