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@liveswired Loathing? Nintendo loves to make money off their NES / SNES / GB(A) / N64 libraries. In the last decade we have: all of those platforms on NSO, the NES/SNES minis, that NES championship game, multiple X99 revisions of NES / SNES games, the Links Awakening remake, Advance Wars 1+2, and Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. If anything, they rely on that era too heavily.

@shoeses I said nothing about the quality of ScVi (I do love Let's Go for what it is for the record.) All I meant was that ScVi tried something new, for Pokémon. Pokemon's never has and never is going to be doing things never before seen in video games (heck, even Red & Blue weren't the first monster collecting games, Megami Tensei beat them by four years), but at least ScVi tried to combine ideas in a new way.

@shoeses Let's Go was a more interesting game? I mean, it was higher quality and less buggy than ScVi, BDSP or even SwSh, but as a concept it was probably the most boring main series game ever made. Just yet another Kanto revisit, but with less battling and bad motion controls in an era everyone was sick of them. ScVi at least had a unique concept.

Legends on the other hand was the most interesting game this gen, hands down.

@westman98 Not sure at all, but I at least haven't seen any evidence that is dated prior to his (other than Prime Remastered which, let's face it, had literally hundreds of leaks prior, his was about the release date not the contents IIRC). I would expect he probably is piggybacking since he's clearly just an attention seeker but no idea where he's found that's suddenly got him with such a good track record.

@westman98 As annoying as he is, he correctly leaked Metroid Prime remastered, SM RPG remake, and Princess Peach Showtime recently. So he likely has gained some sort of legitimate source finally.

(But to be clear he was definitely a fake leaker during the Smash era)

It's nice to have a week where both logos are awesome. Japan's might be a clear winner, but the wests is still a great box art that just has to work within it's limitations.

@WheresWaveRace In-Game purchases almost always means NSO and nothing else

@fenlix Honestly I pulled them off wikipedia, my bad.

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot To put it into perspective, 5 million is equivalent to the lifetime sales of Guild Wars 2, FF VII Remake, and Monster Hunter World or the original release of Kingdom Hearts, and outsold every Kirby, Fire Emblem, and Metroid game.

Not a CoD / Pokemon / Animal Crossing level success, but still a huge amount of sales.

@MrCookieCrisps Well there's no reason to sic an engineer on it immediately if it's not going to get fixed same day. They had 4 years to get around to it.

@GarlicGuzzler You absolutely are. The QA testers were responsible for testing the localized versions of Nintendo developed titles. Not just random eShop games, or even ones that Nintendo only published.

Me looking for FF VI on SNES and not finding it... whoops

This article already needs a heavy update @Olliemar28 ... They took it down and uploaded a Color Pulse AMV instead

2 of my favorite Gameboy games...

So uh... is this part of their plan to get the merger through? Weird... I mean I love their work so at least they're no longer helping with the dumpster fire that is CoD and maybe making real games again.

@Boo_Boy52 It was a pre-order bonus for the Xbox version, and never generally available, nor available at all on PS2 / PC

@martynstuff I will genuinely celebrate if Pokemon Presents has no new mainline titles. Just give me some non-mobile spin-offs not made by ILSA/Game Freak/Creatures.

@Hoshiko Next month still seems quite likely if it is indeed coming this year. If it was 'delayed' into next year, June/July would make more sense.

Man, I love DK '94, but hate the minis... do I want to try this one...

@BLD Nah, there's a couple that are in places. Unless you really think someone's going to bothered creating a new version of the model to show a demo video with that's somehow visually indistinguishable from the real one. Kinda hilarious how you'd rather assume I'm lying than a company doing something immoral, that's how people make money lol.

@Tasuki I mean, there are models in the game that are poly for poly the same as Pokemon models on certain limbs. There's a difference between inspiration and taking actual models from a game and slightly tweaking them in a model editor, and significant evidence suggests these are mostly (all?) built on the base of Pokemon models. P sure that cross the line on copyright law.

Does anyone know if the NSO version lets you save data transfer automatically, or do you need to write down the password?

I love the JP and NA covers... not so much the EU one. Alas, Red Hot Kick + Sylvia with guns wins out

@Drac_Mazoku Okay I'm curious, do you play only in tv mode? I've played the game portable only and about once every 5 minutes or so the gang will hang for quite literally 1-5 seconds worth of frame drops, so I wanna know your secret.

(And before I get dragged into this dumb argument no I don't think it makes the game unplayable outside of one location in the base game, yes I have constant frame pacing issues any time it rains or I'm on/near water)

@Clyde_Radcliffe Primarily cause episode 1 was so bad people didn't play 2 and assume it's just another set of levels.

How the heck does City run better than Asylum? Asylum is built to be way less demanding.

@Spider-Kev You say that like most players got to see any of those before playing. I remember playing OoT as a kid, I hadn't seen a single commercial (did the game really have commercials?), and my dad had opened the package before I even got to see it. I wouldn't get a Nintendo Power subscription until the late GCN era. I can't imagine I was the only one (and it sounds like I wasn't) who went into the game fully blind, it wasn't that hard in the pre-internet era.

Honestly I don't think I connected him to Ganon either until far later, despite having played the original LoZ a couple times. Not sure I ever learned Ganon's name in that though.

@Bret @Wilforce This isn't a major version update. The number isn't changing at all, 17.0.0 was released a while ago.

Also, the numbering scheme on the Switch OS refers to API compatibility changes when a major number increase occurs. It's not some arbitrary choice. Major.Minor.Patch - Major = API change, Minor = Notable, but fully BC change, Patch = Minor bugfixes

@liljmoore Nintendo doesn't report digital sales.

@johnedwin Mario sales numbers are physical only. Spider-man 2 numbers are physical + digital.

Button latency is only an issue if the game is checking inputs at 30fps. If it's checking at twice the render rate, it'll be fine.

@Haruki_NLI Well they are, Genshin is on Unity so they'll want pay on every download.

@GOmar Yes it's confirmed, you can repeatedly uninstall and reinstall the game and they'll get charged each time. Plus, there's no cutoff date, you'll continue owing money on people installing the game for life, even if you remove it from stores.

@RenanKJ Doesn't even matter if they remove it from stores. If you already bought it, you can continue to uninstall and reinstall forever, costing money while you've now removed the only potential income stream. There's no expiration date either, so they'd still be trying to charge if a game is reinstalled a 100 years from now, you're on the hook for life.

@120frames-please To be fair, the frame rate is almost certainly better than at launch in some (but not all) locations. 1.2.0 was a huge performance patch in particular. There were a few areas that were nigh unplayable at launch that run fine for me now. And the DLC area runs relatively smoothly with better textures and more populated areas. They just aren't specifying the details in the patch notes.

...Though there's still one area in the main game I'm aware of where the frame rate tanks to unplayable levels for no clear reason. And when I say unplayable, I mean I tried to shiny hunt there and got motion sickness after an hour or two from the constantly shifting frame drops, something I've literally never had from a game before. So y'know, can't say you're wrong to skip if that's what you want, but there hasn't been no progress either.

Seriously? Not going to make a Tears of the Kingdom DLC announcement prediction? I mean it's more likely to be at TGA again, but still.

What I'm really hoping we might see is a Pikmin 4 DLC announcement, the timing would be perfect.

@Schizor88 Based on the leak specs from NVidia's public API, the console will be about 10-20% more powerful than the Steam Deck. Which, yeah, would be strong enough to hit PS5 level graphics (approximately) with DLSS, assuming there're dedicated cores for lightning (also leaked), in addition to the cores for DLSS. Based on the stats, it's expected the effective graphics output would be definitely above the XBSS at least, which is no small feat.

The stars kind of lined up on this one in Nintendo's favor. Right around the time they likely started developing it, ray tracing had just finished the drop from non-real time to super high-end PC only to possible with dedicated cores at way lower power draw, DLSS hit the scene, on-board memory and RAM costs dropped drastically, ARM laptops + AI chips meant ARM had started rapidly catching up with X86-64, and they had both the sales numbers and a relationship with NVIDIA to design a chip to take advantage of these things for them instead of using off the shelf parts as they always had pre-switch. I think when we actually get our hands on it there'll be some notable flaws that hold it back from being mistaken for a PS5, but it'll still be an incredibly impressive piece of tech.

@Schizor88 The specs don't match, the effective output comes close. DLSS is a modern upscaling technique using dedicated CPU cores that allows weaker computers to put out graphics that comes close to dedicated gaming computers. There's some loss of visual fidelity over a native image, but generally it's close enough you won't notice unless you take screenshots and compare.

Anyways, that's just the GPU. I still expect the CPU and RAM to both lag behind the XBSX/PS5, as well as loading / bus speeds. But it's probably enough to impress 98% of consumers which is all it needs to be.

@vyseofhr Actually if a game is designed right it should be significantly more power efficient than the OG Switch. DLSS + 480p native rendering is way less of a power draw than rendering at native 720p in handheld mode.

Even docked mode shouldn't be significantly higher since it'll still be internally rendering at 1080p. And the chipset used uses a smaller transistor size, which also reduces power draw relative to performance.

I loved the first one, to bad we'll never get this.

@dew12333 Other than featuring a magic school, what does it even have in common with Hogwarts Legacy? The genre, graphics, and presentation are completely different.

Dang... no one ever references this arc, like ever. Not that it's bad or anything, it's just that weird arc where he's an adult but it's not yet DBZ.

Man I love Contact, had to click just cause I saw the prof in the thumbnail.

Yeah, I'm wondering if they're doing this because that way, if they get rejected by the patent office and someone else does try to patent these things down the line somehow, they've established precedence. Most of these (especially the loading screen one) seem phrased in a way designed to get rejected.

The chances of the Switch not getting the record are pretty slim. Looking at sales momentum, I'd wager it'll be somewhere between late 2024 and mid 2025.

Probably after the next console drop, but I see it easily hitting 140 mil before the switch 2 is announced. Theres no way it won't sell another 10 mil before it's retired.

It's funny that Baten Kaitos isn't on the list as it's first party developed. Not often a game like that is third party published. Actually... I dunno when that's happened at all before?

@Quarbit Ha. We all know that people will just be transitioned into even lower income jobs, or become homeless. There's not suddenly going to become a new need for employees as a result of this. The money will just keep getting siphoned out of the system once the people who have money no longer need to pay people to make more money.

45% higher? Well if that continues (big if), Pikmin 4 will break 3 million copies. I really am hoping for a Forgotten Land level break into 5+ million for the series (then maybe Pikmin might become a more regular franchise... maybe...) but it seems unlikely.

Kid Icarus followed by Elite Beat Agents are the top two.

I'd love DKC back but it also hasn't been that long.

@N8tiveT3ch You do realize that Monolith Soft is also fully owned by Nintendo right?

@Kiliomp I doubt even the PS5 and XBSX will be able to play Elder Scrolls VI... It'll probably debut on PS6