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The "mature" app has been updated as well.

I wonder if "problem" games will also transfer over, even if known to not currently run???

Belle Boomerang is now on my Wish List!!! Not sure how I missed this one before

@Sam_TSM Never hurt me any to show respect and look up to others in life...

Here's hoping they find some way to add this, and other Zapper titles, to NSO. Perhaps a separate app for Zapper and Superscope titles?

Wouldn't be surprised if they are announced for the Switch the day the 3DS eShop goes down. They wouldn't want to miss up on those last few sales!!! (getting cynical in my old age LOL)

I wonder what happened to Azurda/Gramps? Part of me would have loved to have found his remains, on top of some hill, covered with flowers...
I hope there will be more references to XC1/2 in the story DLC.

Nothing against the Steam Deck, I'm sure it is a pretty impressive device, but... why is this on Nintendo Life?

I'm sure there is far more you can discuss, review etc. Nintendo-wise if you wish to post something fresh.

@Crono1973 I didn't say I was stating fact. Personally, if I had written and was invested so much in a game I wouldn't allow someone to change it for reasons of political correctness... but who knows the real reason.

You do know buying and playing repro carts is actually something Nintendo don't allow, right? I wouldn't risk my Nintendo Account over it.

Probably Nintendo wants to make edits, and Itoi won't let them. It's a question of who blinks first, I guess.

@AntiMatter, if you buy the DLC you don't need any Nintendo Switch Online subscription. It's a one-time deal. Obviously to visit other people's islands you need it, but the standard online deal would be fine for that.
If you upgrade your subscription to the Expansion Pack, you get the DLC as rental for that year. You would lose the DLC if you unsubscribe or downgrade, so would then have to buy the DLC properly to carry on using.
Any items unlocked through the DLC in the base game will remain unlocked from that point on.
Does that help clarify things?

Fantastic news!!! I love this game and can't wait to snap my way through these new environments!

Hopefully this site doesn't just become swamped with Steam Deck stuff. Personally I fail to see how this is really news-worthy to Nintendo fans?

Personally I will remain primarily physical until the digital prices come down. I will never understand why digital games are more expensive than their physical counterparts, I'll forsake convenience for getting £10+ off any day!

I have been very pleased with Railway Empire. Yes, the graphics aren't the best but it really does hold up on Switch.

Wow what an incredible 35 years. Every single one of these games (well, perhaps not the Japanese SMB2!!!) stands the test of time in ways other game series can only dream of.

Now leave me. I feel old LOL

I have bought this game on Switch and love it. I am surprised though that you didn't call out the performance issues though. At certain moments (especially when entering the forlorn puzzles) the performance is surprisingly bad.

Personally I enjoyed the sequel even more than the original. It brought back Yoshi and my fave enemy Lakitu. Hoping both of these return - properly - in the next instalment!!!

I take it there must be some sort of system-wide cloud save going on in the background... otherwise how can an island be restored from the server in the first place? ::

I do agree that the score's a bit harsh.

As reviewed, the game seems to do everything it sets out to do, and it does it with style.

Just snapped up Monopoly! Was on my "to-get" list anyways so figured I might as well snap it up!!!

This game is surprisingly addictive! Don't knock it till you've tried it people, please!

I admit I have a bit of a soft spot for dear ol' Tingle...

Has this or the recent system update sorted the "won't-go-to-sleep" bug with the Pro Controller?

Guaranteed to be a million-seller in the UK now then!!!

Can't wait to be Splat2n'd this March!!!

@Iggy-Koopa I agree with you. I have decided not to chance it!

I would miss both YouTube and BBC iPlayer, since I used them for hundreds of hours on the Wii U (and the BBC is discontinuing the Wii U app this month).

Why has Nintendo got to engineer the Web Browser? Let Google/Apple/Mozilla program the thing. I'm sure if the system takes off that this will happen anyway.

@ironside1911 I appreciate the bad reviews but I, too, have used them before with no problems. Like you I am having difficulty reconciling the £198.50 price with reality but they are also an established company that has been around for years.. wasn't sure if you had any background info on any financial problems the company may be having. Thanks for replying though.

@ironside1911 Do you have any evidence to back this up?

I've been burnt by GAME before several times on pre-orders so I'm waiting for Amazon. It's a pity, I used to always swear by Gamestation before GAME bought them, but these days they just don't seem to be able to get their act together.

"Should not interfere..." haha. It's the bit about the need to have "available funds" that's really quite amusing, I for one don't have £999.99 in my current account!

We've heard THAT before...

@Cathousemaster Surely it can just connect to Wi-Fi like most tablets?

@DireDireDocks To be honest how many of us doodle on the gameplay AND look at the TV at the same time? I find I continually just look down when for example creating a SMM level. You just detach, create, then reattach to play levels on the telly as and when you want. Menus would be more of a problem.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Thanks!

@MADGAZ Well given that they managed nigh-flawless 720p at 60 FPS on hardware 4 years ago that was around 4 years older than that, I would say the games'll play fine, no problem 😀.

@Luna_110 Well the only way is up from the Wii U, they could hardly do worse LOL

Perhaps Super Mario Run will be released on Android "just in time" for NX launch day? Coincidence?

@andregurov Surely the fact they showed Splatoon (though I grant you they showed local multiplayer) is proof of online capabilities? That game could hardly function without it.

If it doesn't, then surely it cannot replace a tablet, and who could carry both around with them? And that is what they are basically proposing, at least it seems so to me. I don't think we have heard half of what this device will do yet.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Where did you hear the report about the touchscreen capabilities?

Perhaps it has a front to it, so that you don't pull the handheld off the base connector and have it go smash on the floor when you click the gamepads off of it?

Can't believe it, the fun starts here!!!

I think the one thing, in the UK at least, that indelibly stained Nintendo's image was the N64. The long, long wait till March 1997 for the console to launch, the paltry 20,000 units available, the infernal cheek to charge £250 for a console that was much cheaper worldwide, and £60 for the initial games (a BIG hike up from the hitherto customary £40) and then, 2 months later, a £100 price cut... I remember my mum boxing the console back up, marching down to Argos, returning the console as "faulty" (with the connivance of the store manager) and then going next door and buying a new one from Dixons. She was disgusted with Nintendo, she felt ripped off and I am sure there were many other parents who felt the same way. And a lot of what was promised (64DD) failed to materialise.

In the late 80's and early 90's Nintendo enjoyed an almost "Disney-like" reputation in the UK. Even deliveries of games were a tightly-controlled, semi-mystical event. The expectations of everyone for the N64 was huge and they blew it big-time.

Funnily enough, she is a huge fan of the Wii U. In her words, "Nintendo have finally delivered what they promised"... and they have, regardless of sales of the console and games... just too late for anyone to care in this country. The Wii was a phenomenon which as a fad was destined to be successful, but how many people bought it because it was Nintendo is questionable.

If they don't show it at E3, they need to have other titles in the pipeline for Wii U and 3DS... otherwise there will be nothing... Zelda can't carry it alone...

You could say rebought, since Warner Bros. division Warner Communications owned Atari Inc. during their late 70s/early 80s heyday. When Atari Corp. (the computer division) was spun off in 1984, they retained the arcade division which ended up part of Midway and provides most of the classic library.