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@Rin-go This is the last time I'll explain to you: Famitsu is a very famous magazine. Their reviews are spread worldwide. We don't have to be afraid for them. That's the sarcasm you didn't understand, or admit you didn't understand.
You've said a lot of phrases regarding the person, not the comment as an argument.
Fallacy: "Also the graphics aren't up-to-date. 4/10". You are lying to prove your point. No one said that. That's far from paraphrasing as you've said. The points are clear here. Again, be happy.

@Rin-go Ok kid, it was not a joke because you said so. Use fallacies, lie about what the other person said. Be happy.

@Rin-go "These are reviews by connoisseurs. Critical reviews, like from people who studied game design, are a separate thing."
If you really think like that, you wouldn't write half of your comments here. Btw, nice touch summoning Ocarina of Time.

@Rin-go I think you should look at yourself before saying that to anyone else.
And regarding famitsu, I think you didn't get the sarcasm.

@electrolite77 There is, people worry so much about it. I just hope people don't go hating on Famitsu... Metroid Dread: 9/8/9/8 = 34

@Rin-go And? "you are repeating"... "you the expert", "seems arrogant". Dude, enjoy the game. Get over it. Stop this hate, bring arguments saying why the graphics are so incredible. I just hope that Nintendo realizes they will have to improve this in the future because they are not one, but two generations behind now.

@Crockin The thing I think they guy was saying is when someone shows a blind passion for the game, they can't see the reality, everything is perfect... so... "the gameplay is nice, so it's a 10/10 doesn't matter the graphics". The fun factor is 10, not everything else. Then we hear It's a 12 hour campaign, but it's a 10/10 because it's the perfect time for a campaign (???). I remember only one person saying a good argument: "Eurogamer said this is one of the best looking games on Switch". That would be fine. We can't compare that with Death Stranding and Ghost of Tsushima (which are not last gen games anymore). But I'm still sure I would have more fun with Metroid Dread than Death Stranding (no joke, DS was boring).
There are other things that could be added on this kind of thread...you know, people complaining about Oled switch, expecting 4k, better hardware, better video card... WHY? Nothing else matters than gameplay, right?

@Rin-go I've watched the videos. I can tell you if the graphics are amazing, good or bad. I don't have to be an expert. In fact, I didn't say that. You are the one who said that to justify your fallacy and the flaws in your argument (as an expert).
But relax kid, 8/10, 9/10 is still a good game. Enjoy. The game doesn't have to be perfect.

@Rin-go you don't need to play to see the graphics and hear the music with so many gameplays on youtube.

@Thatsalie it's a 10/10, get over it. Let's pray that Nintendo consider this the base for their future games in the market.

@michellelynn0976 no trolling at all. I was very clear in my arguments. Since the first post I've made it clear that it is a game I may enjoy in the future. Discuss a biased review is not anything near trolling. People get crazy listening to good arguments explaining why it is 88/100, 9/10, and saying you have to ignore every problem and consider it a 10/10 because it has good gameplay and it is metroid.

@Indielink The same valid reasons to explain why this is a great game but not a 10/10. To be fair, I was just talking about the dated graphics, but now I'm reading other comments, we are talking about a 12 hour campaign too. Probably an 8/10 or 8.5/10 (using the same criteria of other games).
I think it is a nice message for Nintendo: We love your games, we are not complaining about perfect graphics, but please, at least try to keep only one generation behind

Just to put in perspective here: Fifa 22 in this website was 2/10.
Great graphics, great gameplay.

@quinnyboy58 Exactly. Leave the game without sound, put it with a 3DS resolution.
Probably you'll say something like "oh... but in that case it will ruin the gameplay". Not really. The gameplay is the same.
That's why we have different scores. 7. 7.5, 8...

It's not like "Gameplay is 10/10, so if graphics and sounds are average, it keeps a 10/10". At least not in the real world.

The work from 3D designers and musicians should have the same honest review, since they are responsible for the game too.

@PoliticallyIncorrect
See, unfortunately your experience with games are not longer than mine. We had the same first console.
Everything should be considered in a game. The sound fx, music, graphics, replayability, fun factor.
You can't give a game 10/10 if the music sucks or it doesn't have nice sound effects. That's the same with graphics. That's the same with many other factors. And don't try to bring in discussion the most important factor. It's clear. But the gameplay itself doesn't justify a 10/10.
It still looks like a dated game from an older generation.

@PoliticallyIncorrect I'm 38 years old, I had a 386. My first console was an Atari.
Don't fool yourself.

@PoliticallyIncorrect "Graphics don't matter, gameplay matters."

Gameplay is more important (the most important factor maybe), but graphics matter. In this case, a lot. Don't fool yourself with this.

Looks good. But tbh the graphics are dated.
No, seriously, it looks like a PS3 amazing indie game. And I know, it sucks to say the truth, but it is not like Super Mario Odyssey or Zelda BOTW that were system sellers and made a lot of people say "wowww, that's an amazing Zelda game, wowww Mario in a real city (Metro Kingdom).
I'll grab it later, believe me, I'm a big fan of the series, but considering everything else is perfect in this game, just looking at the graphics, it's definitely not a 10/10 in my opinion. And I know a lot of people agree with me.

It will be incredible, it will change our lives! Please watch this even if you don't play SSMB!
(it will be another random Fire Emblem character...)

Ok, Apple has 30% of all sales in their platform. That's very, very far from net profit of 8.5 billion dollars.
It may be bigger than Nintendo because Apple is much much bigger than Nintendo...
But they have to keep their AppStore, Apple Payment and few other services to make it work.
There are thousands of developers and DevOps that are always developing updates for all these platforms, as well doing market research for new features. Usually their salaries are good.

For some reason people are fascinated creating stories like this:
"apple has more money than us government"....

Nice
We had the classic Top Gear experience.
Now, the Super Monaco GP experience.

@Reaast wow 2007 Switch

It must be a rare prototype that WATA would sell for a billion dollars

Is it worth buying the new Nintendo Switch Oled version?
Consider the conditions below, you're welcome.

You are very rich -> YES
You play a lot in handheld mode, and you are rich -> YES
You play in your TV, sometimes in handheld mode -> NO
You play a lot in handheld mode but you don't have money -> NO
You are a casual NS player -> NO
You have to choose between buying the console or new games -> NO.

Wanna Bayo 3 on PS5? Ask your mom.

@TryToBeHopeful Doesn't have to be in cash. All you need is an unknown origin. Protected by any kind of classified international bank. The seller is not responsible to prove if the buyer's money is legal or not.
So, if you have some "illegal money" and you sold Sonic for 400.000 dollars, you can "receive" this payment (of course, paying the bid taxes) and now this money is legal. The origin was a bid. You can say to everyone "I have 400.000 dollars because I sold a sonic cartridge"

They've bought a lot of mint sonic copies. Now many people will try to sell the ordinary game for 10.000 dollars, maybe 5.000 dollars. That's how you destroy a market.
A rare painting from a famous person would require material proofs, historical analyst, complicated documents to prove its value. These guys from WATA are trying to do this with famous, but ordinary games without any decent criteria. VGA was considered a joke by many collectors, but WATA took this to another level.
Karl's video tried to say that this is market manipulation and not money laudering. I really think that maybe, maybe...nevermind.

And yes, there are guys working hard for this kind of market. Recently I remember Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii. Its value was increasing a lot, but then, we had a kind of re-release of this version from U.A.E. (United Arabian Emirates), and there were people in forums and ebay saying that this version was cheaper, and the valuable ones should have the U.S. stamp on it.

@Yorumi You know... the fake market is destroying the real one. I'll explain how in few steps (not real cases):
1 - We have 10 copies of Megaman X3, each one for 100 dollars.
2 - One guy, with a mint copy, tries to sell for 1000 dollars.
3 - Months later, the 1000 dollars copy is still there... but we have only two for 100 dollars. These guys decide to sell for 250 dollars.
4 - The guy selling for 1000 dollars says his copy is now 5000 dollars.
5 - Values keep increasing, and since it is all about speculation, now everyone with a Megaman X3 copy will try to sell for 1.000 dollars.

We are not talking about a Picasso masterpiece that people would pay to see it, something done by a historical artist. We are talking about products that were made in different factories, sometimes in different versions with different boxes, with materials that people could make a perfect replica and with the risk of deterioration.
Even with "rare CDs" this is happening. Metal Slug for Neo Geo CD. You pay a lot of money for something that will deteriorate.

They just want to avoid this subject to stay away from the spotlights and then, avoid investigations about this.
Any kind of market is subject to fraud, money laundry and deception. In the end, when a fraud is proven, those Heritage Auctions will just say they were the victims and they couldn't do anything to stop this.

Believe it or not, MK8 is back on top of the charts, followed by GTA 5, believe it or not.

I can't believe it.

6 dollars for wolfenstein is fine.

Remember to follow the Live chat during the Indie Showcase! You'll see a lot of people complaining they are not triple A titles

They are using this moment without other games on sale to promote their rpgs.
That's it. I thought Nintendo would allow this strategy only twice a year, but it seems to be valid only for Indie developers.

@BloodNinja Depends on the quality. I bought MK11 (on sale, 50% off I admit), and it was good enough to me.
It would be the same for SFV.

@BloodNinja Capcom did a great job porting SF IV on 3DS.

I think it wouldn't take so much effort to downgrade SFV for NS.

@BloodNinja No hate speech please

We all know that Switch can run a nice SFV PS3 version with many tweaks and nice gameplay.

Scorpion and Subzero can be a part of Smash Bros.

Of course, they won't have the same gameplay style of Mortal Kombat, and that's it.

Smash Bros has Ryu, Ken, Virtua Fighter Kids, Tekken, Fatal Fury characters... and the game style of Smash Bros has nothing to do with these games.

A Mortal Kombat x Street Fighter game would be incredible, but I think it would be easier to be closer to Mortal Kombat style... (Almost like a Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter The Movie).

NBA 2K22 Legacy edition, for PS4/XB1/Switch.

If it is not that rare, it cannot be that pricey.

As I've mentioned for Super Mario 64, maybe they want to raise the value for loose cartridges... "See, Zelda was sold for a million, my loose game is at least 10.000 US$"

And of course, money laundering. For those wondering how it works: "An Unknown person, with unknown money bought my game for 870.000,00 US$. Now I have 870.000,00 US$ of legal money. I can explain the origin of my money: I sold a game for this value. If you wanna know if the origin of the bidder's money is illegal, search for the bidder, it is not my problem". And of course, the bidder is from another country, a distant one... you can find "it" online only, and since it is hard and complicated to prove anything, they don't care about giving interviews and saying "it is about experience and legacy...".
That happens with the art market too.

That kind of move from Steam should be an alert for Nintendo. But the problem of NS success is that it seems Nintendo is, again, proud and a little bit arrogant since everything is selling well. Let's charge 60 dollars for Wii U Ports, for medium budget games with our characters, let's sell a premium console with small changes...
An so far, they were right: NS and 1st party games selling pretty well...
I'm just afraid that their reaction will be slow as it was with Wii U. Something like "Ok, now Steam's Handheld is selling better, but that's because it is a new console... they don't have Mario and Zelda". Then, after 3 months, if it is still selling better than ns, Nintendo will keep the arrogance "well, our userbase is 10 times bigger, they don't have exclusive games like us". Then they'll start crazy slashes on ns price but it will be too late.
Remember: When the "battle was lost", Nintendo released Mario Kart 8 on Wii U along with a free game as if it was easy to do a miracle. In some countries they were selling MK8 and you could take Zelda Wind Waker for free...
Can you imagine, a company like Nintendo, that charges 60 dollars for emulated games and always give small discounts for its older games, giving a nice Zelda game for free?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/04/mario_kart_8_club_nintendo_promotion_offers_a_free_wii_u_game

Let's raise the tag nintendoomed today, before it's too late.

That's the same question that EVERY Game Company thinks before releasing a game on Switch. Millions of Switch Owners have also a PS4 or XB1...
Can you imagine if EA decided to release the same Fifa for PS4 and Switch? Owners of both platforms would buy only one... so they try to separate the experience: "For a Full Experience, buy the PS4 game, for the best Handheld experience, buy Switch legacy version".
Sometimes the market perspective is bigger than any port downgrade. Trials of Mana first release, for PC/PS4/Switch (AND NOT XBOX ONE) is a good example. Then they realized it was a big success, so they are planning an xbox port.

Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (SNES version, LJN Classic)

Batman Forever (Snes)

Mighty Bomb Jack (Nes... and Switch Virtual Console)

Special Mention to N64 Nagano Winter Olympics 98. It is so bad that it is not even in any "Worst Games List". But I like it.

Scammers working hard. That's it. Soon many Super Mario 64 copies will popup with discounted prices like 10.000US$...

As a retro collector I can say this market is sick and sometimes senseless.

It needs to be a name with minimal changes that will cause a lot of confusion like

"Switchy"

Nah, I don't have any expectations anymore with Konami. They were a giant in the past. The opening scene with that "Pink laser" on Snes showing their logo was a meaning of good games 30 years ago. (Green laser for Genesis, Blue for PC Engine). Now they are ordinary.
After the success of Bomberman and Momotarō Dentetsu, or if you prefer "mobile games", we can't expect something big like Capcom did with MHR. In the best scenario we'll see a Metal Gear Solid port from PS3/X360. That's fine.

Rayman Origins + Legends Definitive Edition 19.90USD

They forgot to add Zelda in this list

Zelda: a link to the past is the best Action-Adventure-Exploration feat. RPG for Gameboy Advance.

@everynowandben @BloodNinja Is it East versus West?
or man against man?
Can any nation stand alone?

Zelda has primitive RPG concepts.

Usually you start the game with three hearts. The level progression results in: More hearts (20 hearts in the end) and more stamina.
It is not saying "wow now you are level 4...". You have 4 hearts, that's it.
The equipment update exists too, but it is tied to level progression.
That's why it is considered by many an Action RPG.
It is an exploration action game with primitive concepts of RPG (which turns out in something simple with wider audience)

Whaaatttt, that's absurd! They want to release a 2018 game on Nintendo Switch for 60 d... oh wait, that's fine, it's for xbox and maybe ps5