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Re: Video: Even Menu Controls Are Challenging In The Switch Version Of Dark Souls

gwyntendo

Anyone who owns a playstation or an xbox as well as a switch will be all too familiar with this. Long before playstation or xbox even existed, nintendo has always had the confirm button as A and the back/cancel button as B. And A has always been on the right and B on the left. Playstation and xbox have always done the opposite. It freaks me out every time I switch between consoles and always takes me a good 10 minutes of infuriating mistakes to adjust.

Also, for some reason, Fifa has also always put lob and shoot buttons the opposite way round on nintendo systems. Whhhyyyyyy?!

This has been a bug of mine since playstation launched back in the 90s.

Re: Talking Point: It's September And We Still Don't Know Enough About Nintendo Online

gwyntendo

don't care about nes games. i've been playing them for 30 years. i just want a modern, stable backend network service where i can easily play with my mates from over the world, and i want it integrated in 1st AND 3rd party games just as well too, like fifa etc. be cool to have a community section of the switch firmware where you can see who it online, send messages, view stats etc etc etc, but there's just no way nintendo is gonna do all that

Re: Shigeru Miyamoto Urges Game Developers To Embrace Subscription-Based Services

gwyntendo

this is happening and there's nothing anyone can do about it. about 10 years ago (maybe more) a colleague said to me that the future is subscription based. "no one will own anything digitally any more", he said, "everyone will pay a monthly fee for access to vast libraries of content.". i pretty much laughed in his face. not only was that a massive change in the way society works, but would require a technical infrastructure i could not perceive back that. then the cloud computing boom happened. now look - who buys music any more? who buys books? these people are few and far between. games are the next medium to follow in this trend. games are a more complex media due to having to them being interactive and bigger file sizes etc, but trust me; this is happening. 10 years from now, every game will be available via subscription services, and we will look back at owning games as something so alien, much like we look at owning music today.