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This seems like a problem on the retailer end, in estimating supply. My guess would be that stock is lower than they expected or demand is higher.

It would be weird for Nintendo to try to control a sales channel like this, I don't know if they can even do that. There doesn't seem to be a reason for that either.

Makes sense, helps making people avoid buying the worse game for the same price.

Not happy with the re release myself though - there should be a way to upgrade for those who bought the original game

@OctolingKing13 I just started playing, bought it in japan for very cheap. And I must say, I thought it would be awful with all the complaints about it I read online, but it's really not, I'm having a blast, it's very open.

Maybe it is super improved since its release, but I'm liking it way more than I liked Sword/Shield

@CaleBoi25
Dog water is Baldur's gate compared to my opinion. That's just tears of the kingdom tho.

Who came up with that name??

My favorite didn't make your list, its Matthew, from the Future Redeemed DLC of Xenoblade 3, he's the best!!

I wish future redeemed from xenoblade 3 was here, but I good list.

Id love to see a reimagining of Ocarina of Time - almost in the scope of botw/totk, but with the main areas and most of the same story

Oh this is going to sell like a dream in the holidays

Congrats to the team!!! Top notch work, content, one of the best websites in the web of actual content

For me buying physical, a nice boxart has a lot of appeal... that one has lazyness written all over it

Mario RPG deserved better

Reading the comments here, glad to see that the amount of people that see that this "community backlash over IP protection" is actually bizarre seems to be growing

Nintendo has by far the most valuable IPs in gaming. Other publishers don't have the same control because having their IPs on these types of tournaments is free (and sometimes very welcome) marketing. These places are not Nintendo's target audience, but they do make a ton of noise.

80% of discount on AI nirvana initiative comes down to 26 pounds? That must be a mistake right?

They will release "expanded / master edition" totk for Switch 2, that's what I'm betting

Another good addition... the only game I'm maybe missing is probably Conker's Bad Fur Day, but otherwise, the n64 online library is already incredible

@Mrkittyhead It does not lack puzzles at all, that evaluation is completely wrong in my opinion...

What people usually claim is that Ages is more puzzle driven than Seasons (kinda true). But that doesn't mean Seasons doesn't have puzzles, it has a lot of them

Minus what now?

Two phenomenal games.

@Don It was multiple games per week, but 5-10 dollares each. Don't miss that at all

@Mauzuri Yeah it botters me a bit, I see the same thing happening with Nier Automata... starting to feel like these games are more "business decisions" than anything else

Am I the only one that feels they're milking the Persona 5 cash cow a bit too much? How many spin-offs are there?

@Chaotic_Neutral there's a functionality you will unlock later on that helps with that

The lack of the original sonic 3 songs are a huge stain in that collection for me... (I have it already)

But I have to admit that these covers are pretty sweet

This nothing like Persona, it is very clearly based on the previous Torna battle soundtrack (and maybe a bit of future connected)

GLEEOK FROM ZELDA 1 IN THE END THERE!!

@CharlieGirl ah yes, so basically when its versus big corporation, anything goes? Do my eyes deceive me or did the employee actually do something wrong?

Its crazy how we immediately go to "greedy corporation" generic argumentation.

And come on, let's not pretend that a gamestop job is not the type of job that is easily available anywhere.

Im glad the focused on gameplay, gameplay is king

I'm on board with this, Metroid Dread suit is the dopest thing ever

Maybe they are renaming Silksong?

Metroid Prime 4 is almost on "Chinese Democracy" status... its been almost 5 years

@RiasGremory devs have absolute zero relation to distribution decisions (whether a game is digital only or gets a physical release as well)

@dew12333 Yep, and I'm usually the first person to defend Nintendo on most things....

But this is clearly a cost reduction lever, packaging and logistics costs. Nothing wrong with that, but they could be transparent about it - we're reducing these costs AND helping the environment...

Isn't the inclusion of saving party configurations in this update as well? To me it added that improvement as well

I played Chaos Child on PS5 and loved it. Will definitely give this one a go

I feel like a direct right now makes little sense, there has been a very recent one, and this holiday season is already filled with announced games on switch: Pokemon, Nier, Bayo 3, Persona 5, Mario rabbids, Splatoon this month

But who knows?

not really feeling this one... even from the graphics, while they look ok/good, you can see that many environments have even less attention to detail than even 27 year old chrono trigger

those dungeons areas look very bland

@SwitchForce I disagree, I think you were expecting something that was only on previous games. What I wanted was there on Xeno 3, and was not there on the previous games. They are all great, but I just think 3 is better.

It seems that for people who loved Xenoblade 2 and the connection it made with 1, Xeno 3 was a letdown.

But I think that as a stand alone game, it is way better than the previous ones and caters to a wider audience. All the characters have much more higher quality voice acting, way more characters are fleshed out apart from the main party, the combat is better and more varied, the graphics are a huge step-up (Xeno 1 and 2 had horrible pop-in textures all the time even though graphics were simpler and more "anime-like").

The quests are much better. Xenoblade 1 had a lot of problems with the quests, and don't even get me started on switching blades to use field skills on Xeno 2... . User interface on Xeno 2 was not good and the combater was not well explained, even though it is simpler than in 3. I also think the music is better, but it is more delicate when compared to previous ones.

The story is more mature and less sci-fi than in previous games, and I get that people who like the sci-fi aspect are disappointed. But the characters are better written and deeper vs previous ones. Also I think the story is more consistent on itself (Xeno 2 was constantly interrupted with cringy moments, and Xeno 1 was very dependent on Shulk seeing the future with the monado to drive the plot), and consistent with a single theme (won't say to not spoil anyone).

I kind of agree that the world "feels smaller"... but then I loaded up the previous games and realized that they felt bigger due to having huge amounts of empty space and pop-in of textures, and they were way uglier on average.

I think Xeno 3 is better in almost every way. Also has the best chapter considering all Xeno games by a huge distance (you know). But now they need to reboot the series.

@Not_Soos That is all true. But you have to take two things into consideration:
1. Kotaku does not have a good journalistic reputation already
2. They have a bias against Nintendo due to their existing relationship

That just reinforces the importance of evidence in this case. If this is true, again, it is concerning. As a japanese company, Nintendo can translate corporate culture that is concerning to all the regions it has offices (this was specially true in the 90s).

Kotaku, hm. This is obviously concerning, but Kotaku and Nintendo are on terrible terms, due to the "Metroid Dread piracy" controversy.

I'm definitely interested, but considering I already own Splatoon 2 and the upcoming launches of nier automata, mario rabbids, persona 5, bayonetta 3, and pokemon, this is gonna have a lower priority on my list

@Finntendo XC2 takes a while to really click, for me it was the end of chapter 3. I did abandon it on chapter 2 and only revisited months later - after I got to chapter 4 I went forward until beating it

It has in my opinion the most satifying battle system considering XC1 and XC2, but it is horribly explained... so I totally understand you. I had to read online tutorials at some point to understand

On XC3 it seems they're overcorrecting that a bit with a lot of explanation about every tiny detail on the combat...

@AtlanteanMan my friend, it's nice that you're giving XC3 a chance, but given your comments it seems unlikely that you'll enjoy it. That's more true if you didn't beat the first two installments.

I get the complaints, but I gotta say I love Sena's voice actress specially when Sena is getting ether hahaha "Yesss give me some of that SWEET ETHER"

@eaglebob345 "ah, but we were just getting storrrted" 🤣

100% agree. Played mario 64, sunshine and galaxy for the Mario All Stars collection recently.

Mario 64 didn't age very well, and galaxy was boringly easy and linear for me. Sunshine was the only reasonably challenging one, while still fun and beautiful. I get people love Galaxy from their childhoods... but it was still a sequence of 120 very linear and easy missions to me

I loved Tetris Attack on the SNES and loved this one even more, used to play them with my sister all night long. Ah good times

Awesome addition to the N64 switch online library

Me and my sister used to play this with each other all the time when we were kids! Time to bring the old battles back 😁

13 Sentinels is very underrated, what a great game.

@Arawn93 In publicly traded companies, C-level compensation (CEO, CTO, CIO, etc.) is not defined by the executives themselves, but by the board of directors, which is above all of them.

A lot of people here don't seem to understand very well how these public companies work