mordecai

You can see a physical prototype of the AVS at the Nintendo NY store in NYC.

This is nothing new. Popular, sealed games have always commanded a premium as it's a natural progression of "I want a nice copy for my shelf". It's a little mental to want one you can't play but the counter argument is by being sealed, it's in better condition.

@Dman10 You're off by several zeroes.

I must be in the minority that thinks wonderful 101 wasn't any good.

This game makes you feel stupid very quickly. It's excellent but easily the hardest puzzle game I've ever played.

There are so many of these now. Kind of hard to see why this is different.

Please release this now

Is this a Namco game? Looks like Bosconian.

The "store page" link is a tumblr-redirect. How can this happen? Don't you check the links before you post them? I refused to click that link.

@YANDMAN @NinChocolate

These are nothing more than fancy bootlegs. No different than junk from aliexpress, yet Nintendo Life still gives them press.

Please don't give Rose Colored Gaming any of your money. It's overpriced nonsense. It's style over substance and undermines the game inside.

Why are you reporting on eight month old news?

@GravyThief: Absolutely. The SNES offers native RGB output as well. There is more of a case for a NES clone since you have to mod, SNES not so much. The problem with this clone is it falls in the middle between casual and high end. Casual can fall on the Classic Minis, mod them and put roms on and be done for $80. The other end of the spectrum will spend considerably more than $200 on a XRGB or OSSC, systems and cables. Also the Analog option (at least for now) covers 1 system. The other ones cover considerably more. While the system is top notch, this point needed to be elaborated in the review because it is something for buyers to consider and where the review falters. They need to see where they fall.

Also, SNES prices slowly creeping? That would imply they're not already astronomical? Are you sure about that?

@BigKing They also released a physical version of the game in Germany and Austria back in November for 39,99€ (=50$)

The worldwide list contains only games that were also released in the japanese e-shop. That's why Golf Story is missing.

@Anti-Matter No. It's an 2D adventure.

Great! I loved "And Yet It Moves" from Broken Rules on the Wii.

@Filth_Element It's not a "free" mobile game. It's Fee2Pay. A big difference.

@Racthet916 It will not be Free2Play on the Switch and that's good.

@RyanSilberman Did you play it? I did, and I liked it.

I have to disagree with the score. It offers limited content but it is not a bad game. Don't forget that it costs only 4.49$. It's basically a multiplayer version of Snake in 3D and I had a lot of fun with it.

Interesting game. Would consider it as an "art game". Definitely up for video game theory critique.

I recently finished the PS2 Fullmetal games and now I discover this. Such good timing!
The original FMA is the best by far. They managed to turn a cliche, shallow manga into something intelligent and thought-provoking. And with a much better ending.

@nab1

Uhh.. Do you know what "sovereign citizen" means? Because it ain't these people. You could throw a whole lot of mean, variably inaccurate terms at them, but "sovereign citizen" is one of the ones that really, totally does not in any way apply. Maybe you should go away and learn a bit more before commenting again.

Sorry, but $29.99 is too expensive.

December 29th is just a placeholder date. Skyrim, Xenoblade 2 and Mario Odyssey have the same date listed.

@Jeronan You forgot FIFA18 and NBA2k18.

@gaga64 They also bought all IP from Rainbow Arts.

Constructor will be delayed: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5vack2/constructorhd_went_from_april_28_to_tba/

Do people know Mario in China?

You missed Constructor HD!

I wasn't sure after the presentation, but pre-ordered 3 days later, after I saw all the games that weren't mentioned in the presentation. Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_games

I love this game! I played it for month on the PS1.

Are these people stupid? Despite the high price, Mario Run is currently the top grossing app in 50 countries. What did the investors expect? A second Pokemon Go?

A large consumer electronics retailer in Austria got lots of NES Classic Mini last weekend.

@Lucina

"It just makes you more bitter."

Um, have you ever read any of your own posts?

@Wolfgabe

There's a difference between being cautious and sending out 3 items per retail store. That's incompetence.

Phil Spencer has praised Nintendo and Sony on multiple occasions. Likewise, Shuhei Yoshida has also been complimentary to Nintendo and Microsoft often.

Reggie has, um ...

@CyberGW

Nvidia has always used the same core architectures from GeForce in the Tegra GPU's.

@PorllM

"How do you know they don't know how to market the NX?"

Because of this:

"they haven't even announced what it is yet or made any attempt at marketing it"

I really don't like it, for 2 main reasons.

The first is that it creates this paradigm where I'm expected to look at two screens at the same time. Eyeballs don't work like that. And you can either pause the game, not look at the action to look at a menu, or you can look down at your lap, not look at the action to look at a menu. I've seen people complain that on-screen menus are too slow, but they have the benefit of stopping the action while you're doing it. In Arkham City, you would have to find a perch on top of a building to safely look at the menu, meanwhile you hear the criminals on the ground saying the same things over and over. Obnoxious. You also have times where the TV image has to say "look at the Gamepad." How is that useful? If you have to display that message, you could just be displaying the thing you want the player to look at in the first place.

The second thing is simply ergonomics. It's not heavy, but since it's only slightly larger than the state of Montana it is a bit unwieldy. Plus you have tiny vertical grips way at the bottom of the controller, but the analog sticks are way at the top on the other side. It's like the controller was designed for people with the hands of small children and the thumbs of Pumpkinhead.