karlhendrikse

Makes sense. The kind of people who buy an expensive system like this at launch generally: 1, have money, and 2, are really into video games. Those people already have a PC/PS5/XSX and have already played the third party titles they care about.

For example I got a Switch 2 at launch and I'm pretty keen to play Cyberpunk 2077 at some point, but there's no way I'd play it on Switch 2 when my PC is right there. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

This is an app for journalists, not end users. Y'all can dig through the press release app and give us the news please, so that we don't have to.

I played Palworld recently. It's a little bit of a ripoff of Breath of the Wild (sound effects, font, climbing, paraglider, general vibe). It's not a ripoff of Pokémon at all, except in pretty superficial ways. Nobody is playing Palworld thinking "I guess I won't bother buying Pokémon now" (the Pokémon games are doing that themselves). It's a survival crafting game, not a creature-battling RPG.

It's a shame that Pocketpair ripped some of the designs from Pokémon. That was acting in bad faith. But now Nintendo is acting in bad faith too. Two wrongs don't make a right. At the end of the day, Palworld, janky as it is, adds to gaming rather than taking away from it.

I don't even know what Nintendo has to do with this at all to be honest; they didn't design the Pokémon or develop the Pokémon games.

@90sRetroGaming Wii had it too. I also use this for myself - I am my own parent - because it's the only way to see playtime.

God of War: Ragnarök, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Yes it's a Nintendo website, but it's ridiculous that you can only select Nintendo games in the voting thing. Presumably the majority of Switch owners play other games too.

White joy-con? There's only one thing in the world more boring than that and it's grey joy-con.

I see a bunch of awesome games on the left (plus ARMS lol) and an awesome game on the right. Of course it's heavily inspired by Nintendo; there's not much else to be inspired in that genre. As a lifelong Nintendo fan and a more recent PlayStation owner, I want more of this! It'd be cool if Microsoft did one next (Banjo-Threeie? I am begging you please?).

I much prefer "Tears of the Kingdom", primarily because it's a pun. All the holes in the ground are literally tears (rips) in the kingdom.

Plus using "of the Dragon" is unnecessarily similar to House of the Dragon. Not to mention Like a Dragon.

The Witcher 3.

I'd really like to see the full interior of a dungeon done with Lego. Little traps, interconnected rooms etc. I don't know what dungeon.

A Hyrule castle set would be cool. I suppose the Breath of the Wild version.

Um. Humongous Tingle head.

I was stuck for a minute wondering why you would compare those two games. Then I realised, technically, they are in the same series. Anyway, I really liked The Origami King. But not the same thing.

That's a completely pointless wishlist - these games already exist!

My wishlist (not for Switch though ideally; I'd like better graphics than that):

• Banjo-Threeie
• A big open world RPG with no map (I want to have to triangulate my position and actually learn my way around) and no quests (I want an adventure, not a checklist)
• A second 3D Donkey Kong game
• A mainline Pokémon game developed by Nintendo, not Game Freak (completely Breath of the Wilded from the ground up; Pokémon 2)
• I could be here all day

This is such a joke. Every single game ever released for any of Nintendo's consoles should be available. At least every 8 or 16 bit game. It's pathetic that they actually charge money for this service.

Calling it now: it's Helena Taylor.

Within how long after hiring? The statistic is completely meaningless without that information. Is it that 1.2% of new hires quit within five minutes of starting?

@Sequel Reckon probably closer to 3 than 400 ay

Bad bad bad. I'm a big Nintendo fan, a big Zelda fan, but this is terrible. Patenting the idea of relative movement while standing on a moving object? That's so ridiculous it must be a mistake in the article.

Who cares? Just buy a PlayStation or an Xbox and get a much better experience there. If that's not an option, you either don't have the money (so presumably you have more pressing issues than video games - don't play Batman on Switch, spend the time working) or you're not that into gaming (which is fine, read a book or something?). Switch is for Zelda and Mario (and Metroid, and Donkey Kong, etc.). I can't see why anyone in their right mind would want to play a game that was available elsewhere on it.

This makes no difference, because of patches. There's no point putting any data on the physical release when it's obsolete on release day anyway.

Switch is definitely a competitor to PS and Xbox because I don't know about you but I can't play both at the same time. Switch is also a competitor to Netflix, to exercise, to reading a book. Say that it isn't.

But anyway yeah what they're missing is that there's nothing such as a "high end" console market, because if you restrict yourself to that market then you can't play Zelda or Mario. If all games were available on all consoles then sure, but in that case I assume the Switch wouldn't exist at all.

Honestly it just seems like someone at the FTC is a fan of Call of Duty and has never played a game that was too colorful because colors are for babies.

No please, I ain't got enough life let in my life to be waiting 5+ years between installments of every franchise.

The problem with Sparks of Hope is that it was only ever going to appeal to people who played Kingdom Battle, and it isn't anywhere near as good as Kingdom Battle. The first one was awesome but clearly a niche franchise. If they thought the sequel was going to be some kind of mainstream hit they were clearly dreaming.

I'm still annoyed about the trailer for the first one featuring AC/DC music but then that not actually being in the game. I thought "what, this is crazy". It was not in fact crazy.

I was done at 95 hours but I forced myself to push on for a few more so that I could hit 100 hours in the first month. A bit of a personal achievement for me. But yeah after the 11th I haven't touched it. It's not clear whether I'll play BotW or TotK again next, but it definitely won't be this year.

It always seems strange to me that it seems to be worth it financially to port multi-platform games to Switch. The people who have ONLY a Switch surely don't really buy any games except Nintendo games, do they? If you only have a Switch you must either not care about non-Nintendo games, or not have any money. Either way it seems very unlikely you'd buy something like this.

I don't care very much about fighting games so I don't think I'll buy MK1 but if I did why on earth would I purchase for my Switch when my PS5 is sitting right there? People must, but I don't understand why.

@Felixfromdownunder I agree. If I played both games in 5 years I'd probably guess that Kingdom Battle is the sequel. Having the battles take place in the overworld instead of being whisked off to copy-paste land is such a huge improvement.

Mortal Kombat 1? I don't want to know what that is or why it is called that. Hard no buy, stupid name.

It's cool that it made some money, but not like this. Not like this. This is far too much money for how good the movie is. It sends the wrong message.

It seems likely that the movie has sold, or will sell, more tickets than the approx 60 million copies each that have been sold of Super Mario Bros and Mario Kart 8, the highest-selling Mario games. I don't think that's true for dollars, but for tickets/copies, I think so. Not cool!

The worst-case scenario is that Nintendo gives up making Mario games because it's easier and more lucrative to make movies instead. I don't think it will happen. But as a fan of video games I'd really like this whole movie/TV distraction to go away entirely just in case. Maybe Nintendo thinks this buys them more time before the next Mario game. Maybe they start viewing Mario as a multimedia franchise, of which the games are just one pillar. Maybe they start making games as marketing tie-ins for movies. There are a lot of horror scenarios.

Anyway please for the love of all that is interactive, don't ever make a Zelda movie. Please.

Most comments are missing the fact that this is not just about copyright infringement. It isn't really about copyright at all, although that may be the legal tool Nintendo is using.

This is about leaking internal company information, i.e. a violation of an employment contract or an NDA (or both). This is similar to a retailer breaking a street date or a review site breaking an embargo. Usually this sort of thing would be sorted by somebody being fired, or by a business relationship being severed.

It appears to me that Nintendo is asking Discord for the information not just so they can immediately file a suit (though they might end up doing that too) but so that they can figure out which of their people or business relationships is the problem and do something about it internally.

Can they please just actually give it a try? Put Super Mario Odyssey on mobile. Free for the first run through Bonneton, half the price of the Switch version to unlock all the rest. The way Super Mario Run was monetized was perfect. The problem was the game was overly simple and a bit gacha-y. A real Mario game on mobile would sell like absolute hotcakes.

If it was straight gold sure. With all that crap all over it? And not even symmetrical? No thanks.

They could probably triple the price and still be less than circa 2000 prices plus inflation. It's absolutely crazy that games have gone down in price since then. So no I'm not worried about $70, or $100, or $150.

Um, hell yes it feels old. I own a Switch, a PS5, an XSX, and a (mid-range 2017) PC. Suffice to say, yes.

The worst thing is that the Switch "feels" older than the Wii U, because of its disgusting 720p main menu. The Wii U main menu was 1080p, and everything was shiny and beautiful. Switch menu is all boring flat colors, and horribly blurry to boot.

So Minecraft is a Nintendo game? If you say so...

Luigi every year!

Nah but seriously, 2013 was a good year so maybe Nintendo were on to something.

Let me know when Nintendo develops a Pokémon game. I'll wait.

Best GameCube game?! I mean, it's not bad, but The Wind Waker dude, come on. Also Twilight Princess. Also don't people love Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door? Like it's OK, but seriously.

I've never played a Sonic game, and what I'm getting from the feedback I've seen so far is that there's no good reason to make Frontiers the first one I do play. That's fine - call me when the next one comes out.

With so many games around these days, if not even one person is saying it's the greatest game ever made then it's definitely not worth playing. Sad but true.

"Even though the whole game is scripted, there are still elements of player interaction."

Elements of player interaction? Hm. If I'm spending my time on a video game I'd hope there's a little bit more than "elements" to it. Hard pass.

@elvestinkle I did try to play Zelda 2, but what I found was absolutely nothing except difficulty. I could have dedicated my life to it in other to "git gud", but I found much more enjoyment and relief by instead "git don't play it".

It's definitely Breath of the Wild. Don't make someone who is new to the series, probably a child, suffer through bad graphics and old cables (or an emulator), probably a broken controller... when they don't even know if they like it yet. Realise the power that nostalgia has and that this person doesn't have any of it. If they like Breath of the Wild, then they can play Ocarina of Time. If they don't, then maybe they should still play Ocarina of Time (because Breath of the Wild be very different). But don't make them play Ocarina of Time first. And the suggestion that if it's not Breath of the Wild maybe it shouldn't be Ocarina of Time either? Don't make me laugh.

Who pronounces those words differently? Strange.

OK and what is a Vtuber

The stress of the case has caused him negative side effects - so maybe withdraw the case then, you idiot? And cheater?

Nah nah nah you gots to play TP properly please. Stone cold classic. Except the wolf bits. But without the weight of the future of Zelda on its shoulders, and without the rupee pickup messages, 🤌

Saying it's "pretty convincing" doesn't really make sense; the result is literally exactly the same as if the skybox had been any other size. This was probably just a convenient size for development.

Where are the capture and home buttons? Why haven't the shells been taken apart into their three pieces?

OK but why does it say DIRECTUION

Surely Link's Awakening - a smaller handheld title - doesn't count. The relevant gaps are ALttP-OoT and SS-BotW.

I was really hoping they'd make a Majora's Mask to Breath of the Wild's Ocarina of Time and turn it around in 2-3 years. The ship has well and truly sailed on that idea.

Something really needs to be done on the development side about games taking longer and longer to make. More AI tools or something. It's not sustainable.

Not bothered in the slightest. If there's a game I want to play in the future, and it's not available... well it is available, isn't it.

I'm torn with this game: I want to buy it because it looks cool and the first one was cool, but I don't want to buy it because it's made by Ubisoft and I need Ubisoft to fail and shut down.

I think I'm gonna buy it. Eventually. It still makes sense to reward them when they do something right, doesn't it? Then they have a clearer incentive to change.

One whiff of any shenanigans (microtransactions, seasons, or heaven forbid anything even tangentially related to blockchain) and I'm right out though.

Never played Spirit Tracks but I absolutely hated Phantom Hourglass. Not more than I hated The Adventure of Link, but close.

Terrible DS graphics with washed out colors, overworld like a very boring version of The Wind Waker with low draw distance and enemies everywhere, that one neverending repeated stressful dungeon with the Phantoms, and on top of all of that just generally mediocre in terms of the normal Zelda things. Also the stylus control was "well done" in that it worked, but just using an analog stick still would have been better.