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$89.99.

Dear god.

As someone else said, I’ll wait for the Amazon knockoffs to spring up. That price is ludicrous.

Oh yeah, this app exists. Forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me to delete it from my phone!

Movie bombs. Borderlands 3 is meh. The solution? Why, DOUBLE THE BUDGET FOR 4! Surely a lack of money thrown into the furnace was the source of all their ills!

I’m going to enjoy watching this game fail. I won’t even feel bad about it, even when I’m told to like when Suicide Squad and Veilguard tanked.

I think Dorkly had a rather…disturbing video on the effects of constant mushroom consumption on poor Mario…

Wow, a company doing physical releases right, what a novelty!

Thank Goodness You’re Here is fantastic and this is coming from a filthy American!

I’m sure a Switch 2 version would be a game key card release anyway, easily skippable.

The entire universe is cookies and I am here for it.

But can we remap the useless (to me, anyway) C button to something useful? (to me, anyway)

I would enjoy seeing this. The devs seem excellent, I’ve been playing it on PS5 and having a good time. I could be tempted to triple dip with a Switch 2 version (bought digitally on PS5 and was able to snag a physical XBox copy randomly at a local Gamestop!) to support these folks.

@N00BiSH Shhh, don’t throw facts in to mitigate the outrage! It’ll just confuse em!

@Serpenterror You can’t thibk of a reason to lock access to a portable device, game system or not, to yourself only? Seriously? Why would you NOT be able to lock it, is my question. The PS5 and XBox S/X have pin locks, and they’re not exactly what one would call easily portable.

It’s rather ridiculous that the OG Switch, a portable device, had no way to lock the device beyond parental controls.

Glad Nintendo finally did this, though a generation too late. Even the PS Vita had a passcode lock ability.

It seems like this review has a lot of story spoilers. Is that the case, or is this all surface stuff that really doesn’t reveal too much? Genuinely curious as I’m rather interested in this game.

@Splash_Woman Ah, good ol Rule 34!

When I saw that headline, I remembered that Marliece Andrada was in Gex 3 and I had a VERY different idea of what “blow-up doll” was going to mean.

Whew.

@Jedrus_Lilac Same. That and Twilight Princess are the main reasons I still have my Wii U in the first place!

“Here’s unchanged footage of the original version instead of the better Wii U version we’ll sell you again in a couple of years!”

@N00BiSH Challenge accepted: WWHD better!

@sanderev And since not everyone uses third party controllers, it’s still useful information.

Part of me was hoping they’d recast Kiryu’s English VA. I couldn’t take his voice in Infinite Wealth, just doesn’t fit the character at all.

That said, all you folks who get to play 0 for the first time will have a blast!

CDPR will get a third Cyberpunk purchase from me due to this.

No game key card for S2 will get a purchase from me new. Ever.

What a total and complete shock.

To no one.

The Switch 2 is looking worse and worse with all these game key card releases. At least Nintendo themselves aren’t pulling this crap. Definitely looking like it’s going to be first party releases only for the foreseeable, with my PS5 handlng all the third party stuff. Though I’ll probably triple-dip on Cyberpunk, at least they have the guts to put the game on the cart!

@Tott It was two blu-rays on the series X, and required an internet connection to install the first time.

I think it’ll probably be a key card release. Because Ubisoft.

@Zeldinion My point is that you said you saw nothing inflammatory. If anyone can look at that statement and say, “Yeah, that’s totally not inflammatory” then they’re already terminally online and there’s no hope.

The fact you said “maybe” also worries me…

So many people here are either deliberately misunderstanding what is meant by “political” or don’t care because their own particular stance is supported.

I don’t come to NL for scintillating political commentary. If that was here, I wouldn’t BE here. I come for gaming news. If something happens in real life that affects said gaming, cool. But I don’t need political slants on things coming from my gaming news site. Facts, sure. Those are awesome. Tarrifs impact game/hardware prices, good to know. Game delayed by war, understood.

Polygon couldn’t stop themselves from inserting political opinions into a lot of things, so I VERY rarely visited them. Kotaku…is Kotaku and enough said there. More power to you if you can take that site. Never interacted with Giant Bomb so I have no knowledge of anything happening there.

My gaming news is down to three sites now these days: Push Square, NL and Pure XBox. Mostly because of that very lack of extraneous stuff.

The only way I’ll get one of these is if I see one for dirt cheap used somewhere.

These faux game cards plus MS announcing those price increases today is really making me want to just make the PS5/Series X/Switch 2 my last console generation and focus on my backlog from now on. If I even keep my S2 preorder.

“We decided to make this an Australian Museum exclusive release. Enjoy!”

@Serpenterror This is clearly for people who are trading in their 1 and won’t have it when they get the 2. If you don’t personally trust it, cool, but people who won’t have their OG Switch at launch will find it useful.

As if I needed even more reasons not to buy from LRG.

Further solidifies my decision to get the PS retail version. This is utterly pathetic from both Sega and LRG.

None for me. Got everything I need at the moment. Not getting rid of my OLED Switch so that’ll be where I play the non-patched-enchanted games for the time being, plus I have a few sets of joy-cons and my S1 pro controller that will work just fine with the S2.

Only thing I’ll need down the road is a nice big microsd card, but prices for those should drop in the next year or so. Maybe. Perhaps.

@pikachupikachup I own an external charging dock, but the NES controllers don’t fit. This is the first I’m hearing about another one that does, happen to have a link?

Edit: ah, never mind, found it! $29.99, that’s actually less bad than I expected. Thanks!

I sold my OG Switch to a friend last year and moved to an OLED model. I’ve barely touched it since then, it’s played in docked mode 95% of the time and I use the pro controller rather than the joycons anyway.

I’d get a perfect trade in value. But I’m keeping it for two reasons. 1) A spare Switch is not to be sneezed at, and 2) How else am I going to charge my NES joycon controllers? PowerA doesn’t make the external joycon charger that has enough room to accommodate the extra NES size anymore.

Plus, having a spare dedicated Mario Kart 8 machine in my bedroom isn’t to be sneezed at!

@DanElectrode If all your purchases are digital, you can just redownload them all. If you have Switch Online, then (almost) all of your saves are backed up via the cloud anyway! Check the list of non-cloud-compatible games Nintendo maintains, it’s not a huge list, but there are a number of titles there.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/41267/~/which-nintendo-switch-titles-are-compatible-with-save-data-cloud-backup%3F

The only titles there that I care about are Tokyo Mirage Sessions (an excuse to replay it for me, yay!) and…that’s about it.

It amazes me that this is proceeding so fast, but I’m also (mostly) pleased to see it. Especially with an actress that brings such impressive…ah…qualifications to the role!

Hm. So the PS5 version comes with the game actually on the disc?

Sold. One less game key card to clog up my future Switch 2’s onboard storage due to penny pinching publishers!

I appreciate this list of games I’ll buy on PS5 or not at all!

@sanderev If I had a penny for every time I’ve seen someone complain about people complaining about key cards or lack of physical releases, I’d have preordered at least two of the $39.99 amiibo with the funds.

Fought with GameStop, Best Buy and Target last night, and Target was the only one that allowed me a preorder. Mario Kart Bundle secured!

A friend of mine lost out on the online preorder gamble, so after work I went to my local GameStop in person...and put money down on another Mario Kart bundle for her so she won't lose out! She's been having a rough couple months, so making sure she'll get one was the least I could do for her.

Amusingly, as a result she'll likely have hers on release day, while Target ships mine to me. But I also saved money using my red card on Target.com, so I think I can live with that trade-off!

Can't wait for certain people to say once again that this is impossible and Switch 2 cards that contain the Switch 1 version of the game as well CAN'T be used in the Switch 1...when Marvelous straight up said they'd work just fine.

Oh good, another game key release.

This certainly bodes well.

sees update regarding no upgrade path

Well, my decision to get the PS5 version was a good one, it seems. This is a really, really shady move from Sega.

@TwinFami You went the extra mile for sure!

@TwinFami I worked 21 hours of overtime last week just to allow myself this preorder! Granted, that more than made up for the purchase price, but I had to do some mental gymnastics to allow myself this. With a PS5, series X and OLED Switch already I had to force myself into it.

@TwinFami Best of luck to you! As much as I wanted that midnight release, Best Buy has burned me a few times in recent memory. Never with a console release, but they’ve screwed me over with a few titles like FF7 Rebirth (had to cancel my release day preorder for store pickup and grab one at Target next door which had PLENTY there) and a couple other titles.

Hardware tho, they’ve been pretty reliable! I wish you the best of luck!

@Scarmucci Best Buy was my primary hope so I could get that sweet sweet midnight opening! But they crapped the bed completely.

Happy I got it with my redcard discount at Target tho! Made up for a good chunk of sales tax!

@GamingFan4Lyf I think they had that to cover themselves just in case.

Everything is up in the air at this point. If it arrives sooner, yay! Otherwise my existing consoles will just have to…er…console me in the meantime! I’m too old to get upset if a preorder doesn’t arrive the day it’s released.

(Yes, the fact I was furiously preordering a game console at 11 pm instead of getting sleep for work puts a small lie on my proclamation of maturity, but still. )

I BARELY got a preorder in last night. Target was the only one that even showed they HAD any, and it took about ten minutes to get the console from cart to check out to successful order.

I wish all my Switch 2-seeking folks the best of luck, and may the scalpers out there get food poisoning!

@Bolt_Strike Through pure brute force and cussedness, I was somehow able to squeeze a single order for the MKW bundle in on Target!

It says delivery between June 6-11th, but that’s better than the utter failure Best Buy and GameStop were for me tonight!

@MrCarlos46 Preferably with a radioactivity or biohazard symbol.

…this deal is looking worse and worse.

I’m still preordering a Switch 2 tonight, but this is really making it hard for me to support some of these devs. I mean, a game key version of a Yakuza game? Ridiculous.