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I'm not very good at stopping buying games when they're on sale, I'm a collector so I try to use that as an excuse, but I've been reminding myself the last year or so that most games aren't going to fluctuate in price a whole lot, and newer games will be cheaper later anyway, so I don't need to get them now. I was doing terrible for years with my backlog, I figure from 2012 to 2018 I probably only beat 3-4 games for the first time each year. I just started keeping a list toward the end of 2018 of the games I beat and I've been doing way better. I beat 11 games in 2019 (even though I spent a few months playing mainly world of warcraft classic), and I've already beat 4 games this year, and about half way through the 5th.

100% NA, kinda surprised to see the support of the Europe art, seems uninspired to me.

NA for me.... Lazy? Yes. Generic? Yes. Memorable? No. Scary, bad, straight from nightmares character models? Thank God No.

Maybe its time Nintendo pulls all manufacturing out of China, that would make me happy.

I get so frustrated with publicly traded companies. The finance sector tries to apply one size fits all business models to all industries and pretend that they know what's going on because their models "kind of" work. Ultimately investors typically have little knowledge of how to run the businesses they invest in, and this is clear here too.

I love the Nintendo logo, it's like the Disney logo to me, it's not a good idea to change it at this point. That said, I do like the lettering they used for Gamecube, maybe I'm biased though because it's a system I hold very dear.

I'm not super keen on any of them, I like JP best for the original releases. I think I prefer the NA 3DS cover.

It depends on the game for me. When determining if I want to buy a game on Switch to get portability for a decrease in performance I ask myself if I'm ever going to play it on the go anyway. Most of the games I play on the go are Nintendo games anyway. If the performance gap is minimal or I'm unlikely to even notice I'll default to get it on Switch, but if it's a game I think I will notice and I don't think I'm going to play it on the go anyway I'll buy on PS4 or PC if available.

The JP art is good, but something about it just doesn't look "official" to me. I'm going with NA on this one, I think it looks great.

To be honest, I would rather stop with the Wii U ports. It's beginning to get to the point where having a Wii U is pointless, and that's a shame because it's an awesome system.

Agreed 100%. I was under the impression that it was a temporary UI when it was released, why can't they just make the menu like the Wii U menu? I thought the Wii U menu was perfect.

I feel like Federation Force gets too much slack because it doesn't have Samus and isn't exactly traditional. For what it is, it really isn't a bad game, everyone just has a bad taste in their mouth because it was revealed at a time when it had been a very long time since the last Metroid game and then fans flipped out that it wasn't what they wanted.

You know, I guess I understood people were upset with RE6 being more of an action game than a horror game, but I always thought it was a good game. I played it coop with a friend while I was in college, around 2013-14 or so I think, and I remember having a blast, of course we were playing it split screen, and just about any game with couch multiplayer is going to be fun.

I had an overheating issue with the gamecube and the wii, they were dropped and a cooling fan got stuck, pretty easy to fix. When I got my wii u, the gamepad was dead out of the box and had to send the whole console to warranty service (retrospectively, I should have just taken it back to the store and asked for a different one). Warranty service sucked, unfortunately they sent me it back saying it was working, but it wasn't, had to send it in again, since then it's been working great. I had an original GBA that ended up with a broken R button after awhile, it was around the time the SP came out and I wanted the backlit (er frontlit) screen anyway, so I just bought that. No problems with any of my other nintendo systems as of yet.

Breath of the Wild: Anime Girl Edition

Been years since I played it on PC, might double dip on this one, I remember it being really well made.

Never heard of him, 'kaizo' type levels aren't fun anyway, no loss.

I'm a little confused by this device. The gamecube adapter they put out before made sense because it used the gamecube's digital out, but the n64 doesn't have digital out does it? I believe the hardware supports it, but there's no port for it which is why you've always needed to mod the system for it. Being that this plugs into an analog out, isn't it just doing the same thing as other upscalers, albeit only to 480p to reduce lag?

I knew it would happen eventually, I just hope not too many are cut.

My wallet hurts, seems that Nintendo owns my gaming budget for the rest of the year now, and probably into next year. I've preordered Mario Maker 2, Luigi's Mansion 3, Astral Chain, Daemon X Machina, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and Legend of Zelda Links Awakening, and that's all coming out this year still! I'll probably pick up Pokemon this year still too. I'll be preordering games coming out next year when the release dates are a little closer.

You know, Nintendo's offerings have always been far superior to Sony's in the handheld world, but I'm pretty sad about this. I hope third parties will continue making Vita games for awhile. Even though I prefer my 3DS, the Vita is really one of the most underrated systems ever in my opinion.

I'm a little cautious about the idea of games being streamed. What happens in 15 years when the servers are shut down? Do I still get to play the game that I "own"?

Federation Force really isn't a bad game, it's just not what the fans wanted at the time it came out.

I'd say Odyssey is the best 3D Mario game, I like the more open world Mario games, and Odyssey was pretty much a dream come true. The Galaxy games were fantastic, but they were a little too linear for my preference.

This is interesting... I'm not the target demographic, but I might buy one to try it out

For real though, what difference does 4k make? I've seen 4k displays in stores, but they really don't look any better than 1080p, maybe I need to get my eyes checked because I don't get it.

Super Mario Odyssey for sure.

Mara for smash.

I thought it was a dumb idea to start with, but was reserving judgement until it came out hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Why does Nintendo constantly feel the need to over complicate relatively simple things?

This year is only the second time we've ever gotten a main series mario and zelda game on a home console in the same year (to my recollection, sunshine and windwaker was the only other instance of this). That makes the Switch's first year astounding.

I feel like most people don't have 4k TVs, so the Xbox One X is kind of a niche market. Even those who do, I can't imagine that many of them care enough to drop $500.

The Switch also doesn't have the problem of being confused as a peripheral for the Wii, so there's that.

Haven't gotten my Switch yet, I failed getting a preorder and I refuse to spend more than MSRP. That said I preordered Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Puyo Puyo
I enjoyed Lego City Undercover on Wii U, but not enough to buy it again.

Wow, I think people were expecting way too much. I was barely expecting anything and I'm super excited about the Switch now after watching the presentation. Everything they showed was super cool. I called the price tag, so foreseeable (was anyone seriously expecting $200? It's a gaming tablet with a dock and controllers for Christ's sake). I wasn't expecting the paid online, but if I'm willing to pay Sony for online, I guess I'll pay Nintendo too, it depends on the price, but I don't foresee it being that big of a deal. Honestly, I thought people would be more excited, it's a lot of what the community has been asking for: Region free, (presumably) better online interface, new Mario akin to Mario 64, Splatoon 2, home console/portable hybrid.
And honestly, I though 1, 2 Switch looked like a fun party game. Arms looks pretty cool too IMO.

Who knows what will happen, but if I had to speculate, I would say the tablet won't be more than 720p (2 reasons: cost and battery). The dock likely has an extra processor or something to help speed up the tablet's processor letting it output 1080p and at a higher frame rate than the tablet by itself. Historically, Nintendo has always aimed for their consoles to be affordable, so I don't see it being any higher than $350 at launch. If I recall correctly, the Wii U was the most expensive Nintendo system at launch at $300 and it wasn't until the Wii that a Nintendo system launched for more than $200.

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I'm sure he does a lot for Nintendo, he is the COO. It's unbelievable the amount of work it takes to work in that level of management, there is a lot more to running a company like Nintendo than making video games.

It was a good game, but having to go through the temple of the ocean king what felt like a million times ruined it for me.

Save for a few exceptions, EA games are terrible anyway.

While it won't really effect the experience for me, I fail to see the point of doing this... Honestly, if they're concerned with the image of the company, I feel like removing this feature will draw more attention to it's existence than leaving it alone.

From what I've seen of this game I haven't been very impressed. I may pick it up when the price falls.

Didn't see that coming, wow. He will be remembered well. I can't help but to think what's going to happen in Nintendo now. Not something worth worrying about right now though.

RIP Iwata-san.

One more Mario game on Wii U please? If I have to wait, I'll wait though, can't rush greatness Just keep bringing in the great software as usual and I'm happy.

Looking forward to this and loving the artstyle. Also multiplayer! that's always great news.

Definitely MK8. While it had a skimpy battle mode, it's main game has the most control options, characters, karts, and in my opinion a better list of tracks than the rest. The battle mode was more of a distraction anyway.

For those of you wondering why GBA games are coming to Wii U and not 3DS, they need to sell the Wii U. More compelling software = more hardware sales.

If this game gets canned on Wii U I'm not getting it at all.

Put SMRPG on the Wii U VC and I'l get it, but I won't until then, I shouldn't have to go into Wii mode for anything but to play Wii games. (Also it's a pain in the butt the Wii shop stuff isn't in the Wii U eShop, why not? the DSiWare is in the 3DS eShop)

So if you don't have the motivation to exercise, you won't still get the benefits from it? NO WAI.

I think the best way for Nintendo to avoid Smash 3DS eating up Smash Wii U is to release Smash Wii U in late November or so (close to holiday season) and then release Smash 3DS in January.

I'd give him another year before calling for him to step down, Iwata has fixed his messes before, lets hope he can do it again...