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This wouldn’t surprise me, if it’s something else that can be monetised I’m sure they’ll find a way to make it work.

@HobbitGamer I’m terribly curious, what is it about the commercials you mentioned that you don’t like? 😅

@rames05 I get where your coming from, and I have sympathy for people in the situation you describe or worse. Your post is purely an explanation though, not a justification, right?

I don’t think it’s a valid justification at all, but I don’t think you intended it to be

@SmaggTheSmug yes, true enough. I wonder how many copies it sold on wiiu though, and how many it will sell on Switch. Couldn’t find the wiiu numbers. That seems the pertinent fact, to me. I shall remain optimistic though. It’s a decent game.

@theberrage Feel like the review should have made more of the terribly empty state of the wiiu online lobbies -ruined the game for me too. See no immediate reason why the lobbies will be full of players on Switch.

@ballistic90 Nintendo should buy a company to ensure it has a team to handle ports? Staff port games, staff come and go. If Nintendo needs staff it can hire them. Buy a company that has no significant tangible assets to ensure it doesn’t cut ties with you? What exactly would Nintendo miss out on if Panic Button ‘cut ties with them?’ More resources? Do you mean more staff, more office space, more IP? You don’t need to buy a company to obtain the first two, on the contrary it would be an absurd waste of money to do so. Maybe Panic Button has IP I’m not aware of, or something else I’m not aware of. If so, make me aware and I could agree with you.

I agree that the staff at Panic Button are obviously talented, but the points I’ve paraphrased above are pretty confused.

I don’t mean to grill you about this, but it becomes tiresome seeing ‘Nintendo should buy X company,’ beneath various articles, written by people who clearly don’t have the faintest clue what they’re talking about.

@ballistic90 indeed, so Nintendo should hire some of panic button’s staff? It’s a fair point. 😂

Not the same as buying panic button though, is it? And staff can always leave. I agree with your point, but maybe you missed mine 😝

@Enso But what would Nintendo be buying? I have no idea what IP, if any, panic button has? Do they have any assets it would be worth Nintendo owning? Clearly they have some talented staff, but you can’t buy them

@Ralizah Until fairly recently I believe Sony, as a whole, was actually losing money hand over fist. Glad to see them doing okay now, though. Their gaming division usually does okay.

What are the online options? Even if you couldn’t test them, they’re an important part of the game for myself and doubtless many others, and perhaps should have been covered in the review.

I don’t understand how one can derive any satisfaction from a victory obtained by cheating.

Can’t see any reason whatsoever to be unable to play online, with friends at the very least. A technical reason perhaps? Or the game is being rushed out and they’d rather not get proper online sorted? Certainly not for the best, how could fewer features be for the best?

It looks like a remaster of the wiiu title to me, with more content thrown in, but what do I know?

Sorry to be that guy, but I think it should be “fewer delays.”

@Hyrule ‘here’s just a small list of games’ isn’t a pun, buddy 😝 Thanks for making that list, though. There’s a lot there.

Did the fact that Olimar’s helmet cracks for a second when he is hit need to feature in Nintendo’s E3 presentation?

I agree there was some good stuff in there, but perhaps take a slightly dimmer view overall than Damo. I thought it was anti-climactic, badly paced in general, and lacking in charm.

Dig 2, Rocket League and have just bought Ni No Kuni 2 so would like to start that.

I’d very much like Pikmin 4, already bored of fortnite though might get back into it if I could play it in bed.

@Fuz I guess I do not agree that tourism would be negatively affected, at least not in the long term. So we’re perhaps at an impasse there and must agree to disagree.

As it’s an economic argument I also do not really think it’s possible to separate one aspect of it, tourism, from the wider economic context - though I understand that your original point was intended in response to something else

Good exchange, I enjoyed it, thanks.

On topic, good poster, excellent marketing 😂

@Fuz yes, I read that article when googling before I posted to you, among a few other bits, am also familiar with ‘Republic.’ A supporter of that cause, in the interests of full disclosure - in case you hadn’t guessed. 😂

I appreciate the long, interesting, well written and civil post and agree there may be a ‘destination marketing’ aspect to these types of large scale events. But the economic benefits outlined in the article you linked are pretty spurious - much of the data put forth in such articles seems to conflate tourists visiting historical Royal buildings because historical Royal buildings are rather nice with visiting said buildings because we have a constitutional monarchy in 2018. They also rarely seem to make any attempt to offset annual spend on the Soverign Grant and related security expenses. Most of the sensible writing that I’ve come across states pretty clearly it’s not possible to really quantify, with any degree of certainty, the economic benefit, or lack thereof, that the royal family brings to the UK through tourism.

To be clear, I did not say they didn’t bring that benefit. I do not believe it’s possible to make that claim with any degree of certainty. But nor can anyone claim the opposite, as so many in this debate seem to do unquestioningly.

@Fuz I hate to continue taking this away from gaming, but what evidence do you have for the claim that our tourism industry would be adversely affected were Britain to become a republic?

‘We’re also pathetic weaklings,’ made me chuckle. Good hardware review too.

No voice chat solution, no party’s, no games that interest me. I’ll subscribe to play online but I really can’t see anything good about this at this time. Not sure how the author can suggest that the features offered are close to those offered by Nintendo’s competitors. Also, the idea that because Sony and Microsoft’s online offerings have developed over time these past few years we should wait patiently - who knows how many years - for Nintendo to realise it’s 2018 is absurd.

Edit: I don’t mean to moan, I know it’s cheap so it’s not a huge issue. The announcement just didn’t fulfill any of my hopes, I guess.

@Captain_Gonru general chaos remake would be ace.

Somewhat worrying news, hopefully E3 will bring some good news.

@cleveland124 I hear you. I’d even be pretty pleased with one SNES and one N64 game a month, or something like that. Considering Nintendo’s back catalogue, let alone deals they could strike with third parties for some of their older content, surely something half decent should be possible.

The same old NES games, fingers crossed more systems get included in this sooner rather than later.

I know psplus is twice the price but it’s pretty reasonable considering what you get; I’m currently playing Rayman Legends, which I only played a little on wiiu, and beyond: two souls, which seems kind of okay so far. Last month I got Mad Max, Bloodborne the month before. The contrast is pretty stark.

I see @BigKing has just made the same point above. 👍🏻

@Kevember I also miss his contributions; always gave an interesting and honest opinion. Slig - you’re the hero this site needs.

@Jayenkai couldn’t agree more. I try to avoid buying any game that also has a ‘Super Great Deluxe’ version. It’s not uncommon to see three versions of the same game released on the same day on the ps store, the most expensive of which, that I’ve seen, being £85 if I recall correctly. Seems to be becoming more and more common.

Have never taken any notice of achievements on any console. Some people certainly seem to like them, though, so Nintendo may as well introduce an equivalent system. More features is generally a good thing.

“Unlucky gentleman.” Unlucky, right, yeah, awfully unlucky that. Poor guy.

Perhaps I’ve misread something in the article, or made some other mistake, but Universal studios Japan is in Osaka. I thought that was where ‘Super Nintendo World’ was being built?

I love this game but hope it includes all the dlc for that price, including don’t starve: together.

Could be good but looks like a poor man’s breath of the wild, hope it turns out well.

@FTPinkRabbit what was originally intended to be the ending? I had a quick look online but couldn’t find out 😅

@Shellcore I, for one, sometimes miss our ‘humble scribe.’

@Galactus_33 That’s pretty mean-spirited

@WiltonRoots is that your hand?

@dequesi don’t be so silly 😉

@SLIGEACH_EIRE terribly curious to know why you think Stephen Fry’s a creep? I know very little about him, what did he do? 😂

@Natzore I don’t think Sony’s deals are crappy. Some months on psplus are a bit off, but some are awesome. I’ll be surprised if Nintendo offer anything even close to as good as Sony’s Online infrastructure, I’m sad to say

Enough of the app.

I don’t understand why alttp is on the list but not in the top 5.

There are two typos in the first sentence, three in my opinion. Obviously the writer has a lot on what with starting a new role, and I don’t mean to sound nasty, but it’s a bit amateurish.

@Mart1ndo didn’t Miyamoto say they had almost completed Pikmin 4 some time ago? Perhaps I’m mistaken; don’t know why they would’ve left that lying around in someone’s drawer.

Feel as though this wackiness deserves 500 comments.

I’m also not one to usually complain about such things but I have noticed significantly more typos recently.

I’ve often said I’d buy a cardboard box if it had Nintendo written on it, now I can put my money where my mouth is.

Pretty barmy, perhaps brilliant. Got to love Nintendo.

@Nincompoop South Park is satire, it’s neither racist nor sexist.

@Anti-Matter well, as you asked, I’ve never pressed the ‘ignore’ button, it seems absurd to me that anyone would find such a thing to be necessary. Are you frightened of other people’s opinions?