gaga64

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Re: Talking Point: How Do You Store Your Games Collection?

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My collection’s a right old muddle, but generally ordered alphabetically with its brethren.

The Wii, Wii U and Switch carts are kept boxed in the living room TV unit, where the Wii U and Switch are both hooked up.

Everything else is in the bedroom in various states: the cupboard houses boxed Cube discs in one storage crate (with an old Wii and Cube controllers etc. in another crate) while the N64 and SNES carts are “loose” in travel bags with their consoles.

My bedside unit has all the handheld consoles loose, with 2 travel bags of GB/GBC carts (60% in GB cases), a Tupperware tub of loose GBA carts, and 6 Hori cases full of DS/3DS carts. And there’s a handful of boxed PSP games on the floor, because I ran out of room elsewhere.

Whatever boxes I’ve still got for the loose carts is in a box in the loft.

So now you all know where to find my valuables when you burgle me. Happy hunting!

Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - WarioWare Gold

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The Japanese one feels a bit cheaper, but it’s a lot cleaner. The title in the Western one gets a bit lost among the jumble.

And I like the speech bubble on the Japanese one. Cheesy, but it fits the tone, and instantly brings the character’s voice to mind, even if I don’t know what he’s saying (though I can easily guess).

Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library Next Week With Fire Emblem

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@GameOtaku I’m just guessing that they’ve done some maths somewhere and decided that offering one-off purchases as an option would undermine the NSO value proposition and cannibalise NSO subs, so they’d feel compelled to increase the sub fee, which in turn would steer people away.

I’m guessing, I have no proof of any of it.

You can argue that they’d make enough profit from individual VC sales to compensate any drop in NSO subs, but without knowing the actual cost to Nintendo of each element of the NSO service, it’s hard to be sure.

Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library Next Week With Fire Emblem

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@Axecon this, exactly this. I bought hundreds of games across the Wii, 3DS and Wii U virtual consoles, and half are still sitting untouched in the backlog, waiting for the time to shine.

I wish my purchases migrated over to the Switch, and I wish I could at least have the option of buying individual classics to keep, without the subscription. But I’m not going to begrudge people who prefer the all-you-can-eat sub model. Ideally Nintendo would offer both options - though I imagine thwy don’t see that as financially sustainable

Re: Random: Nintendo Of Europe Makes Everybody 1-2-Switch!'s Horse Comically Small

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Not sure if it’s comically small or not, but it does throw off the image’s balance. The “large horse” version makes it look like the humans are looking at the horse, while in the “small horse” version they’re looking at the empty space above his head.

The change in his pose also makes it look like he’s saying “hey, I’m down here, look at me!”

Re: Soapbox: 15 Years Ago, The Action Replay Ruined Pokémon For Me

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I mucked about with an AR on Mario 64 and Goldeneye, all sorts of weird fun to be had there making random changes to things. But never used it for for cheating. Never needed to - I’d done everything already.

More recently used an AR to unlock Events in the DS Pokégames - those bits of the experience you can’t legitimately access any more. But I played them straight, no cheating once the Event was unlocked.

Re: Marvel's Midnight Suns On Switch "No Longer Planned"

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@Cashews while I agree with your logic about not hampering Xmas sales, Nintendo did announce the Switch in October 2016 for a March 2017 release.

Admittedly it’s not a direct comparison, as the Wii U was struggling for sales already, but the 3DS wasn’t doing badly, and they had the NES Classic chipping in too.

The main thing for me is that they’ve still not shown any first party titles beyond Tears and Pikmin 4. I don’t doubt they have stuff planned for Q3/4, and they do like to surprise us, but right now there’s nothing really driving Xmas sales anyway.