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@SC7639 Yeah I have an LED backlit LCD TV from 2014 that uses PWM and I have no issues with it at all but I can't use these modern OLED devices for more than a few minutes without eye strain. It's crazy.

Well... this turns out to be super fun. Love the shot physics added to the 2048 concept. Is pleasurable, strategic, and can even get frantic.

Have been playing Castlevania 64 lately. Besides it being underrated (fight me!) it does suffer from slowdown in certain areas (some of which are VERY sluggish like the Tower of Execution) and the N64 slows to a crawl. And you know what... I don't care it is still awesome and I love the game. Thankfully this game seems to still render all of the frames but just more slowly so it is like the old 8 and 16-bit games where you avoid a slideshow but everything turns slow motion. I used to love that when playing games. Made things feel more intense.

I am unfortunately sensitive to PWM. I have not been able to keep a single OLED phone and I have tried a bunch of them. Very disappointing. Hoping that small OLED screens like those on phones and the Switch start to move away from PWM.

@JHDK YES! New Super Lucky's Tale is exactly what I wanted Yooka-Laylee to be as well. That game was terribly disappointing. NSLT on the other hand? I have played the demo like four times and practically can't wait for Thursday when I can buy the game.

Definitely scaled back from the Xbox one version but looking pretty good. Seems to run smoothly.

Am I the only person who the horrifically painful derivative nature of this game with Banjo just utterly rubs the wrong way? It is physically aggravating. (Which sounds ridiculous, even to me)

I love Hammerwatch. I've played it three or four times on PC with friends and solo. Will be purchasing this immediately when it is released.

@NEStalgia you could even argue that that is what life is for!

The game teaches you that you should be nice to mean people even as they shamelessly use you as a tool for getting everything they want in life.

This will be my third time purchasing this game... God I love it and am beyond ecstatic to play it on the Switch. Feels like Christmas in November.

Those poll results favoring Odyssey are probably hugely inflated due to the recent release of the game and the collective hype that still exists. We will need time for the game to set in before we can get people's reasoned thoughts on where it stands in the history of Mario games.

I'm mostly docked...

I bought it day and date with all the pre-order perks from Best Buy and the only challenge I have had is resisting the urge to play it all day long without breaks. My favorite Mario game of all time is 64 and this game FINALLY feels like a true successor to that game (sorry Sunshine).

This is the reality: different game worlds may require certain minimums in terms of horse power. And the Switch just can't handle this one.

Shameful

Still play my N64 all of the time. Still love it and am finding good games for it that I never played at the time.

Haven't even tried this out yet... And now I certainly don't plan too

This review seems fair. I played this game on my Apple TV a while ago with a Bluetooth controller. Was pretty fun. But the game is uninspired, completely derivative, and basically a low rent Wind Waker rip.

When was the last time that Reggie actually said something? I don't know why NOA feels it needs to be so cagey. They aren't Apple for heavens sake.

For that price I'll be signing up immediately.

Well I've been enjoying NBA Playgrounds already so the tweaks and a new game later this year sound awesome. Sucks that us Switch owners are sort of at the tail end of everything here but hey... at least we haven't been forgotten.

Ugh. Just ugh.

A Nintendo bump? Dang, haven't been seeing those much these days.

I am one of the 80,000! It is a fantastic game. I love it.

Never got the Wii U version. Have it on my wish list. Definitely going to buy the Switch version instead.

I'm definitely going to grab it on Switch...but I'm a bit worried about whether I will enjoy it or not if I'm honest.

I love Mario Kart 8 Deluxe! Hopefully it maintains its momentum.

Ironically, I have Mario Kart 8 for my Wii U. But I never ended up playing it very much. For some odd reason I think it works better on the Switch and I am enjoying it much more on the new platform.

They should just leave him alone. This is one of the nice things about games that were released a long time ago without update capabilities: glitches that shipped are there forever in the cartridge or on the cd and they can be tremendous fun to discover and exploit. There is a whole gaming subculture based off this kind of stuff.

I'm probably going to get this one. Still drag NBA Jam out to play occasionally so this makes sense.

Never noticed...

Well I bought it...lol

Interest in Switch is high right now. If they need to take a bit of a hit to the wallet in order to get more Switches out into the market I think it is worth it.

@Baker1000 No joke.

In the words of Steve Jobs, "You're holding it wrong!"

Apple issued bumpers... Any chance that would work here?

Like the new theme. Visually striking!

You remember in college when you threw together an interface prototype just to have something so you could run your background functionality in your programming classes? Yeah... That's what this looks like.

Ugh

I had trouble with disc rot a decade or two ago when I was heavy into collecting laser discs. It was a well known phenomenon and we collectors were always on the lookout for it. I only had it on one laser disc... But there really was nothing I could do once it started. And this is why I almost exclusively collect old cartridge and card based systems and not the disc systems. Too much hassle

Hmm. I don't think I even want one anymore. Sad

Wow... wow...

Eesh!

Still, have to give them credit for Big Bold Thinking. That's nice to see at least.

@Link118 It would be a bit strange to make the app absolutely required for that purpose. What happens to people who don't have a smart phone? Or it is charging in the other room? Or a kid whose parents aren't ready to give them a phone yet?

Lots of questions and very little info as you said.

@Link118 Yep. I don't enjoy using the Xbox app for that purpose though. Doesn't feel right to me. If Nintendo even half tries they can do much better than that. (Haven't used the PlayStation app)

Holy crap that's cheap!

Time to fire it back up!

For some odd reason I really love the idea of the voice chat and parties and whatnot being part of an app on my smartphone. This decouples it from the system itself and I can see a lot of potential for an idea like this... although we may have to start plugging in our phones when playing games for long sessions with friends... which will be kind of annoying.

It also means you can find out who is playing or online and send each other messages without even to have your Switch turned on at the time. I like that idea.

Would be interesting to start a chat with friends, play for awhile, and then maybe switch over to our phones and play some future yet to be released multiplayer Nintendo game that uses the same app for voice and party creation. I don't know.

It is fine and legitimate for Nintendo to view the 3DS as another "Third Pillar". But ultimately the market will tell them what they should do with it. If people keep buying them and playing them than Nintendo and third parties will keep making games for it... no matter how ancient the 3DS looks and feels by this point. (No really... that display is so bad... and the XL models only make it more obvious, and yet I love the 3DS games... argh!)

Miiverse was so messy and I never really figured out how to navigate it. I admit that

Heck... Nintendo pulled life support from the Wii U in most practical ways in late 2015. They wanted to distance themselves from it so badly you could taste it.

Sounds like Miis are ramping down. Bummer