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Awesome, I can't wait to pay full price for a 10+ year old game because Nintendo is greedy and doesn't understand market value.....

Yes it would be neat but it would never happen. I love Nintendo but they dont even understand "That new-fangled internet thing". They havent even added simple functions to the Switch and the UI hasn't changed at all. People have been asking for folders and wallpapers since it launched in March 2017. If they cant even update a UI or have a proper party or voice system of any kind there is no way in hell they would get something as complex as VR right.

@Joe-b Seems like a super weird rule.

That's truly great but not surprising. No one is buying a PS4 or Xbox One when we know, for sure, that the new gen is coming next year.

@JHDK I think the biggest issue is though we constantly see the bad mobile indie style games, the reskin of a reskin, somehow hit the front pages. For example, last year the Santa tracker was still appearing on the front of the sales page..in Feburary. Its stuff like that I have issue with. There are some truly good indie gems buried under mounds of mobile ports that are massivly overpriced and just terrible.

It's still pretty terrible. I keep seeing the same terrible indie/mobile port games hitting the sales and front pages. I love indie games but these are the terrible 5 minutes job that are reskins of the same games over and over.

Its new impossible to find the absolute gems. Hell, even AAA games sometimes just get buried to the point i didnt even know they were out.

$40?! Oh hellll no. At best it looks like a mobile port.
Look how shiny and amazing that one on PS4 looked at that was near its release (Trying to remember the name) and that was cheaper.

FFS Nintendo. We know you have a major pricing structure issue on first party titles but did you have to screw up mobile as well?
You'd have to be out of your damn mind to pay that.

@ilikeike Canada too. For some reason Playstation and Xbox are even on deals globally but Nintendo constantly neglects sales in North America

@Yavga I'm fully away, the Wii was tonnes of plastic addons etc, i dunno it just a personal feeling to me.

@CoastersPaul I'm a massive gamer, every system, hundreds of games and been gaming for 25+ years easily. Stuff like this though just, i dunno, it cheapens them. the Balance Board made sense and worked great, labo was very questionable. But a plastic resistance ring just seems so odd.

I took the switch seriously because it wasn't really competing with anything and cornered the market. But this just looks cheap to me.

Just when people started taking Nintendo seriously. What the hell is this? I get its for fitness but that's the best they could do?

For such a massive and successful franchise you would think they would spend more money to make the games. It just looks like the other games at the higher resolution and a different camera angle

@Tasuki Normally i agree that Nintendo is greedy. However, its likely they didn't set the price as they are are not the Publisher. Also, the amount of work needed to make this work on a Switch is immense. On this ocasion, the price seems more than fair.

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@Mr_Persona Yeah thats a whole different issue. Nintendo constantly overcharges for software, always been that way but that's what will hurt them in the long term.

@Pod It is pretty much dead though. Content has slowed to near nothing an the market is moving to the Switch. People still play it because even the older games are really good on it. I'm playing Fire Emblem Fates right now.

There is still no real competition other than the Switch.

Just look at the 2019 release schedule. Its either ports or old games or unheard of Indie titles.

https://www.releases.com/l/3DS_Games/2019/2/

I really wish Nintendo would learn and lean on some of their biggest franchises more often. Who wouldn't buy a Layton collection on Switch? Or a Bravely Default collection HD remaster. Some of that would do so well on the Switch.

@KBuckley27 Really? A pass because of that?? Guess you won't buy a new Mario game because it isn't Fallout either.

@patbacknitro18 No

@Rayquaza2510 What truth? Its in the damn article:

"Original Story: Last year, publisher PQube was forced to cancel plans to release Omega Labyrinth Z on the PS4 and Vita after the Video Standards Council Rating Board refused to classify the title in the UK and other PAL regions due to its sexual depiction of underage girls."

That's seems like a pretty good reason for Sony not to want the game on their system to me. If they dont sell the game people complain, if they do sell the game, the other side complain. No company wants bad press after a game like that has been banned due to that reason.

Same way that when Manhunt was blamed for murder most retailers stopped carrying it for fear of backlash. Sony made the absolute right call in this case.

@RiasGremory But there's a limit. You can have M rated games sure but the eshop is already full of mobile phone style games boarded to Switch for several times the price to boost the number of games they claim to have. I love my Switch but just look at most of the weekly sales they have. I love Indie game but the store is full of garbage ports. That isnt a good thing, it make the good games so much harder to find because that's all they promote.

@Rafie Ok..just want to point out its a ratings board issue and not a Sony issue like the click bait titles reads. If ratings boards like PEGI and ESRB dont approve it then it's damn near impossible to sell a game. If the game doesn't receive a rating no retails will even touch the game. Sony really didnt have much choice but to stop localization as it would have become damn near impossible to sell it. This isnt a Sony problem its the rating board.

"The game Sony tried to silence" What the hell is that bait title about? The rating board had an issue with it an without that it would be next to impossible to sell the game so Sony just canceled the localization.

Also..yeah..it makes sense they wouldnt approve it and given that Nintendo is family focused im really surprised they are doing it. Kind of seems like a desperate move to get more niche titles on the eshop.

Does Nintendo just had NA? We never get deals like this, i would totally pickup Toad for that price.

Rare " doesn't have the appetite" for anything these days. One of the most innovative studios around and Microsoft turned them into a Kinect centric studio that pushed out crappy games. The last thing we had from them was Sea of Thieves, which for the most part was a flop.

@The_Top_Loader I dont understand the hate for it, i loved those games.

@N00BiSH Somone gave Bubsy 3d that score? MY god...thats how you know you cant trust a review..damn that game was trash.

They themselves have proven time and time again that it can't be done right. How are they so unbelievable stupid?

@mattchew I was thinking somewhere bigger like Toronto or another major city.

@andywitmyer yeah said the same thing..it was extremely obvious from the second you meet that dog.

The revelation? Wasnt that just glaringly obvious? I never played Nintendogs and the second i saw that dog in Odysee I knew where it was from. Like..really..really obvious.

Where's Grandia III? Then it would be a collection.

@Dman10 Nintendo has no idea what a sale is lol. They just discount the same games over an over an call it a sale.

@SamirMalik Colours is what it got bad? It was bad after Adventures and even that was questionable. Remeber 06'...that game needs to burn in the deepest rings of hell

@Quinnsdaddy11 Well after some research it makes absolutely zero sense. In Canada, Xbox $29.99, Ps4, $39.99, Switch $37.79. WTF is up with that pricing.

@Quinnsdaddy11 To me its more of a principle. there is absolutely no reason it should be more on Switch. Its also 5pound but in NA it will be up to at least $10 more which makes no sense.

Monster Hunter is a maybe but as usual I'm sure Canada will be stiffed on the sale and have nothing. Happens every time.

Tried the demo and didn't like it. Art style was neat but i'd finish the game way too fast for a full price game. Far too simple and easy.
I get it, its meant for kids, but so are the Mario games and the end game levels can be insanely difficult.

@Mdhoover Normally i would argue and say "Have faith" but as an old school Sonic fan who was raised on Sonic 1...i have no faith at all.

What is this crock of s**t? It's not that hard to turn off automatic renewal and you have other options with prepaid cards.
If you dont turn off automatic renewal that's your own fault.

@Reignmaker PC doesn't win, neither does console gaming. Both have good points and bad points. PC's are high cost and high maintenance that require upgrades etc. But they delivery on graphics and frame rate. Consoles have lower graphics fidelity and a lower frame rate but they are fool proof. No upgrades, low cost, put the disc in install the game and it works. 100% hassle free which no one can say about PC games and if you claim they are you are lying. As someone that built his own rigs for years i know first hand that PC gaming is far from hassle free.

For myself i love being able to play what i want without worrying it wont work or worrying about upgrading in a few years. I have a launch PS4 and still works as good as day one. You could not say the same thing about a 5 year old PC.

Both have their intended uses and both do it well. Still shouting about PC master race is a stupid and childish endeavor.

@Reignmaker Yeah..because that's all there is right. Hows Red Dead, Spiderman, Kingdom Hearts 3 and the countless other console games not on PC?
Also I will guarantee you that the PC that can run that isn't the same price as a Switch. When was the last time you used your gaming PC on a bus or while flying? Sure you can get a gaming laptop but thats really bloody uncomfortable to use on a plane and damn near impossible on a bus.

PC players aren't the master race, its just another way of playing a game thats it. That whole master race **** needs to go away

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@Reignmaker No..it really doesn't.

@Spudtendo Only if at some point you over level like crazy. It's even a common issue on forums people saying there are issues with random difficulty spikes. I stopped playing because of that. Tried to pick it up again yesterday. I have 4 characters on chapter 4 and chapter 5 is now way too difficulty like, walk into a regular battle and get wiped difficult.
Yesterday i was in a low-level area where i was 20+ above the level of the enemy and he was still hitting me harder than I could hit him with good gear. I also tried the bewildering grace XP trick and all i get is negative effects just a few XP ones which hasn't been worth the effort. Now I'm forced to try an do the other low level stories in hopes of some cheap XP.

@Bunkerneath I didn't see Nintendo fans ******** when they started getting previous exclusives. Everyone looks super excited to get Cuphead and other Xbox exclusives

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Maybe they will finally fix the broken mess of a battle system. I'm sorry, I loved the stories, the music and the art style. But that battle system was garbage. The leveling was way off an so was the difficulty scaling. You could be in a simple fight with good gear at a higher level and still get floored by a low-level mob hitting twice as hard as they should be able to.

Dont get me wrong i love some classic games. But i feel NES is a little far back for the general public now. SNES would have sold it for me as i feel those are still playable and still fun enough. Playing the original Mario is rough as heck now but Super Mario Worlds still holds up incredibly well.

Great game but not for that price.

@Aneira Minecraft looks like it designed for a child but has a huge following of all ages. Mario is also aimed at children but i know just as many adults that play it as kids. If it plays as well and its addictive the style wont matter. What about Stardew Valley? Looks like an old 16bit pixel art style an that game exploded into gamers hearts.