electrolite77

Unusual to find I agree with one of these lists but can’t argue much with that. Maybe 3D World a bit higher but generally I see why this is how it is.

@Toastmaster

See post 71 for what they were doing in the 2010s. I forgot refusing to launch games like Xenoblade in the US, the Circle Pad Pro farce, the Wii Mini, different proprietary plugs for charging their devices, not including a charger with the New 3DS, Amiibo launching with content locked behind some, NES and SNES Mini and the artificial scarcity of those, and the Nintendo Creators Program

As for the Wii U price it launched at £249 for the basic set (£269 in 2017 adjusted for inflation) and £299 for the Deluxe set (£322 in 2017 adjusted for inflation). Switch launched at £279.

I probably wasn’t going to get them but now I’m definitely not

@Moroboshi876

NSO is a revenue stream. That’s their favourite thing.

@sixrings

Of course. Once something isn’t officially available it’s fair game

@sixrings

Right. I wouldn’t have thought so. This is probably a separate thing?

@Ganon821

I’m not sure why anyone would expect a new Mario game for the 40th anniversary when we haven’t got one before. Even Mario Galaxy 2 which released in the 25th anniversary year wasn’t billed as being part of any anniversary celebration-the anniversary release was Mario All Stars, a SNES ROM dumped onto a Wii disc.

@Moroboshi876

By the time NSO shuts down AI will be able to rewrite the code into a Power BI app on your eyelid streaming chip and 3D print you a proper Virtual Boy

@Boopero

They’d be even worse in 2D. This is a novelty thing where the peripheral really is required. It’s as far from essential as anyone can get so the price is neither here nor there. Funny though.

Absolutely hilarious. One of the maddest Nintendo announcements ever. Made the talking slower toy look sane.

I don’t think I’m going to get it because the VB was rubbish but still, don’t ever change Nintendo.

@whiskeydave

Reality is out of over 110 Nintendo games on Switch 13 were Wii U ports. Their schedule for the rest of the year is Mario Galaxy 2, Pokemon Z-A, Metroid Prime 4, Kirby Air Riders and Hyrule Warriors which is 4 new games. What they’ve announced for next year is all new too-Rhythm Heaven, Tomodachi Life, Splatoon Raiders, Mario Tennis, Yoshi, Fire Emblem and the two Pokemon games.

@Real_Obsi

Rage bait generates clicks

@SuntannedDuck2

You can just buy Galaxy 2 digitally

I went for 8, it was a 7-8 really.

Lots of good stuff.

New Nintendo games-Mario Tennis, Yoshi, Fire Emblem. They’re releasing 5 games between now and year end, 4 of them new (including Hyrule Warriors). We also have a picture forming of next year with the three above plus Rhythm Heaven, Tomodachi Life, Splatoon Raiders, and 2 Pokemon games.

I was hoping for more third party support. Resident Evil Requiem is a big one though not really my thing.

I also liked that some stuff was just plain weird. Anyone who predicted the Virtual Boy is lying. A talking flower toy? Sure. Samus has a bike. They were rambling on about a marathon at one point. Very quirky.

@foursider

Generally profit driven multinational corporations do behave in quite a capitalist way. Their entire existence.

@Yoshi3

I gave you several examples of what they were doing 10 years ago. If you want to go further back we can get to their antitrust cases, bullying of retailers and publishers, aggressive litigation, price fixing, artificial scarcity etc. They’ve never been any different.

@PessitheMystic

There is no objective when it comes to value. It’s all subjective.

The majority of 100-something comments is totally irrelevant to anything.

Nintendo aren’t obligated to make anything attainable. Neither is any other entertainment company. They only answer to their profit margins and shareholders and they price to what they think will maximise those profits. This isn’t housing or heating or food, nobody needs it.

@Yoshi3

I’m not interested in what they said, I’m comparing what they did. What they said is marketing fluff.

@WOLF13

100% correct. It’s weird how many people convince themselves Nintendo are their best friend and then are all shocked when they try to make money.

@PinderSchloss

I just won’t buy anything I don’t think is good value. I won’t presume to tell anyone else what they should do though.

@PessitheMystic

There’s no such thing as them objectively costing too much. Value is subjective. How are you measuring your belief that ‘the majority has spoken?’ Are you confusing 80 comments on a website with ‘a majority’ of something?

The cost of living crisis is irrelevant. These are Consumer goods that nobody needs to exist.

@PinderSchloss

I’ll buy whatever I want with MY MONEY thanks

@datamonkey

Yeah I’m a bit nervous about this. I’m not convinced it’s really open world though, more a method of navigating between areas. Hope it’s good.

@cmbaum

It’s not that nobody wants to hear it. As with everything the complainers make more noise than those who are fine with it.

@Yoshi3

People are complaining now. There’s always people complaining. But Nintendo have never changed. They’re a multinational corporation that only exists to make profit. Ten years ago they were years into DLC, had region locked all their Consoles, had awful system locked DRM and were tinkering with gacha mechanics in Badge Arcade.

Hmmmm. What they announced didn’t convince me in the slightest. Will wait and see.

I expected £30 for Galaxy 2 so wasn’t far off

Couldn’t care less about it being a GKC myself and it wouldn’t have fit on a Cart anyway. Might wait for a sale though. I’ve considered buying a couple of times on PlayStation but never been pushed over the edge. Another on the maybe pile.

@sixrings

Odd question

Another one on the maybe pile. I liked the first one but was pretty terrible at it.

@Yoshi3

Nintendo have been doing DLC since 2012. The first was New Super Mario Bros 2 and that DLC released 2 months after the games launch. So they’re pretty consistent.

I’ll wait for some reviews of this, not immediately inclined to jump in. Weird it’s getting DLC before Mario Kart World.

Finally, a release date! Lot of pressure on this game, really hope it can live up to expectations. It does look good, and the run up to Christmas is really stacked now with Hyrule Warriors out as well.

Somehow missed the bit in the video where it said you could buy them separately. Was all set for a b**** and moan about having to rebuy Galaxy 1. All in for Galaxy 2.

@Boopero

Nobody is forcing you or anyone else to buy it

Having finally played one for real a couple of years ago I’ve no desire to ever go near one ever again. Nice to see some proper Nintendo craziness in there though. This is serving a very niche niche.

Why didn’t they announce this in the Direct? 🤷‍♂️ 😆

Not my bag but getting a big name third party release day and date with the other versions is a significant moment. Good to see.

@Dee123

Which is exactly why I can’t get all that animated about whether a game is ‘on the cartridge’ or not. Last time that was truly the case was the Wii.

An hour! Looking forward to this even if I’ll have to watch it on a delay.

Not going to make any predictions as they’re always wrong nor am I expecting anything that will cause me to disregard what gets announced and proclaim the Direct a disaster because my whims weren’t attended to.

REALISTIC EXPECTIONS/HOPES-

• plenty of third party activity (I’d love Forza Horizon 5 and the rumoured RDR2 plus some Switch 2 footage of the new Sonic Racing)
• some updates of Nintendo games, especially those that run at 30FPS

-There’s always a couple of first party announcements. Wouldn’t be surprised to see another Mario collection for the anniversary, maybe Mario Maker 3 imminent as it could really use the mouse controls

• Dates for stuff we already know about like Metroid, Hyrule Warriors and Hades 2
• more info on Splatoon Raiders would be nice

Feels like a big one to build momentum for Christmas and then into next year. Fingers crossed for a good one.

Just got a sneaking feeling this won’t make 2025. Really hope I’m wrong.

I remember the hype for this being pretty intense. This was going to be a Sonic and Mario beater. Turns out it was nowhere near either of them. It couldn’t even compete with the next tier of SNES/MD platformers (e.g. Decapattack, Tiny Toons, Addams Family, various Mickey Mouse games etc)

@sixrings

Who’s ‘we?’ You speak for yourself. Whether you like it or not doesn’t change reality.

@Jujuman

“ We have a portable console, its never going to have the specs of a stay at home”

Obvious stuff yet it seems some people don’t know this. Click bait sells I guess.

@Guitario

From my POV that’s an impressive amount of wrong in a small number of words

@WaveBoy

The Wii picked a up a lot, it was so unique bit was almost hard to do the traditional thing. Now developing games is so expensive everything is engine based and making games for a single system is too much of a risk financially.

@WaveBoy

3rd party exclusives are very rare these days. Have been since the 360/start of XB1 generation.

@sixrings

That’s because it’s a portable and has a screen and a battery. They add to the price and affect the power draw. The Series S and PS5 are not Portable systems. Different things. Portable games systems have been around for 37 years now, it’s well established that a portable system with a screen and a battery is never going to operate at the same power level as a tethered Home system of similar price.

Poor effort really. There’s some really good ports on Switch 2. Of course sacrifices have to be made for a portable system, handheld Consoles have been around for 37 years now and everyone gets it. A £400 portable isn’t going to perform the same as a £700 home system.

But this seems a bit phoned in when you’ve got other Devs getting the likes of Cyberpunk, WWE and Star Wars Outlaws running. Not even the frame rate, that’s not a deal breaker, but low resolution as well. Not great.

Are the Cronos sales weak? Figures so can find suggest a 15-20:1 ratio of PS5s sold in the UK compared to Switch 1. Cronos sales are just higher than 10:1.

Good to see Star Wars doing well, the team that did the port deserve some recognition.