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@gcunit I mean, didn’t you know that was considered a racist term? Not sure where you are from, but I’ve known about that one since I was 8. We all make mistakes, glad you realized it.

Also, really good call on the GIF for your one response

@Polvasti yeah, I don’t think they’re a Nintendo fan. Their comments come off as super passive aggressive, it feels like this person wants to fight anyone who disagrees with them. I hit the ignore button them a couple of weeks ago.

@Ryu_Niiyama these type of games weren’t common during Voyager’s original run. SimTower is the only game that would’ve been slightly close to it in the day that comes to mind, but it’s a BIG stretch for the comparison. It would’ve been cool if it existed during the show’s original run, but it would’ve been this way. FTL didn’t get released until the 2010s, which is the style of game it’s borrowing from. I don’t think this game would’ve fit the mold of a Star Trek Armada or Starfleet Command, plus the game we got with Voyager’s name is still the best.

Star Trek Voyager Elite Force is already considered the best game in the entire franchise, so there was a tie in to the show with full cast voice over. I believe it was the only game before this one to have Voyager in the name. This game is top five in the Star Trek world, showing Voyager has a grand pedigree with its name on video games. Elite Force II doesn’t count since it was more of a Nemesis sequel, plus Voyager’s name was removed.

This game definitely tweaks the Voyager story a lot. It makes sense from a gameplay stance, you have the chance to gain heroes to your crew. Make decisions that would not have happened in the show, like forgiving Seska for her betrayal or allowing Tuvix to live for the loss of Tuvok and Neelix.

@HingryHuppo ... and why do you want to kill kittens?

@RupeeClock I believe @fersama said it best, they laid out the versions and there would be no upgrade path from the Switch to Switch 2. The Switch 2 version of DQ I & II was released the same day as the Switch version.

@WiltonRoots I was trying to be generous. That was my first guess honestly

@Duncanballs "Unfortunately we have a minority that are very self centred and think the industry is only there for them and exhibit themselves in a child like manner when they dont get their own way."

Beautifully written and sadly very true.

@dew12333 and thank you for proving my quoted point.

@Bizzyb just like Animal Crossing New Horizons. As someone mentioned in an earlier comment, never underestimate the power of a cozy game.

@GgGames I've been with Xbox since the latter part of the 360 era. I'm not getting their PC, I can build my own and I don't want AMD's graphics because I prefer NVIDIA's RTX line. I'll continue to play my Series X for as long as it works for my Xbox catalog.

I'm pretty much going to be Switch and PC for now.

@SillyG probably about the same. This particular audience, you know the vast majority of Switch users, don’t care about our hangups or nitpicks. They just want to play games. The mobile gaming crowd rarely scuffs at any price tag for an app or add-on. They likely tried to join in on the discourse we have, but they get bullied out and shuffle off. I’m still convinced about less than 20% of actual Switch gamers even know NL exists.

For me, it would not have mattered if the entire was on a card, I was still not buying it since I'm not a Pokemon fan.

@EarthboundBenjy guess this proves my original theory, it’s a studio choice on the GKC rather than the publisher. I’m not sure it was Game Freak, my guess is Omega Force or Pokémon Company didn’t want to put the game on the card.

@DollyrotsFan1 well, I don’t know where you live, so it’s not hurting Nintendo terribly. I don’t know why you keep highlighting parents and kids, most Switch owners I know don’t have families. Also, the Switch was a bigger hit with 20-40 year olds than people under 15. Most parents aren’t buying electronics for their kids that aren’t durable, so likely most of them are growing up with phones and tablets now.

Aniimo is on PC and mobile as well. For "consoles," yes it is exclusive to Xbox. On the PC, you can get the game on the Xbox and Steam. I don’t think anyone will be buying an Xbox to play it if they can just get it on their smart device that runs iOS and Android.

Also, this new Xbox is literally a PC that will have the option to buy outside of the official store and play Xbox titles. It’s going to be over $1000 minimum when it comes out. So, I guess in your country it’ll be $7000. The Series S and X will likely sell better than Project Helix.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see the people chiming on “resources wasted” on here. No one has a clue how things are made, especially when Nintendo licensed a model of Yoshi for the film. That’s why companies like Nintendo and Illumination pay for marketing/promotional firms to line these up, then they’re contracted out to a company like to make them. To those who think they believe this is a waste, to whom is it wasting from exactly?

Doubtful Cinemark will have it if AMC is advertising it. Bummer. Would’ve gladly bought it, looks better than most those that get released for films.

@EarthboundBenjy mobile isn’t there primary focus. They make experience for iOS/Android tailored to those gamers, plus as @PtM highlighted for marketing purposes. It’s clearly working with other titles like Mario Kart Tour. Nintendo’s partnership with DeNA has worked out decently for them.

Most players of mobile phone and tablet games look for the simplest experiences possible. They’re not looking for a full experience games.

@DollyrotsFan1 well, your prices aren’t the reality elsewhere. The Switch 2 starts at $449 in the US, the Xbox Series X is $649. Most games on consoles range from$50-70 brand new. There are none for over $100 here. The Switch 2 is way cheaper in Japan with its exclusive model, but the catch is its region locked to the country. It’s looking it will easily sell very well as time goes on, including whenever a new Mario mainline game is announced.

You can find good PCs for under $7000 as well. My Mac mini M4 was $959 after trade-in with 1TB and 24GB of RAM. My last PC build was slightly over $1200 collectively, however I use Windows for games only.

However, I don’t disagree that most people no longer use them. Smart devices and tablets are very popular here too, but a lot of older folks have stopped upgrading their PCs.

In terms of Xbox, the next one is going to be over $1000 since it’s going to be a Windows PC. Out here in the US, there are some retailers who no longer stock Xbox in stores. Microsoft has basically given up on the console business, Forza Horizon 5 was ported to the PS5 last year and sold way better there than it did on Xbox. You could argue Game Pass killed it. Likely, it will cost more in your country in as well whenever Project Helix is released.

@DollyrotsFan1 there are a lot of people who still have PCs. Not sure where you’re living, but I think you must be quite rich if you think Series X is cheaper than the PS5 and the Switch 2.

@DollyrotsFan1 really? People are Xbox Series X consoles for $649 over a Switch 2 that’s over $449? That’s quite a price jump. The PS5 starts at $549…? Not sure where you think the Xbox line of consoles are outselling either of them. Especially when the Switch 2 has sold over 17 million within the first eight months of its life

@DollyrotsFan1 since this is essentially a PC, there aren’t going to be anything exclusive to the Xbox store. Anyone running Windows will be able to play it, so I don’t see your logic? Especially when the rumors are coming out that the R&D on this box is too high not to release it, so it will be north of $1000 as a prebuilt PC with an Xbox sticker on it

@The_Nintendo_Expat some of those titles are a bit of reach. Half-Life: Alyx requires VR hardware to play it. Also, I don't hear many console gamers complaining they can't play those games either. I doubt 90% of the Xbox and PlayStation faithful are pining to play those games stuck in PC land, let alone Switch and mobile device users. Speaking of the billions of phone and tablet users combined, they're probably having the time of their lives right now. While people on here continue to fixate on which clunk of silicone electronic with plastic (or aluminum) can play whichever game X million of people play.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again, if consoles bomb then most of these people will be happy to play on Apple TV and/or Android TV. iOS and Android stand gain, we're still in the post-PC era.

@DollyrotsFan1 except the last Call of Duty titles is the worst selling title of all-time for the franchise.

I guess any Xbox users that are left are going to leap over to PlayStation to "restart" their collections. Any console user that has wanted to go to PC has already jumped. The cost of this PC is going to be expensive. Also, I very much believe the Xbox hardware games will either be locked to their box; or it will be streamed. The Xbox Store app will lose A LOT of releases from their studio partners if they flip the emulation of your Xbox games onto PC.

@AG_Awesome were you channeling Wayne Newton's performance from "License To Kill"? His character was a televangelist in Las Vegas and he kept saying "Bless your heart!" 😅

@gcunit and Capcom responded, “I don’t even know who you are.”

@metaphysician gotta love GOG’s table that says this game is 2026 ready on Windows 11. Elsewhere has a question mark… I guess with Steam you’re left to the developer and DRM 😆

@The_Nintendo_Expat for the people that talk on this board? Maybe. Most people who choose consoles and/or smart devices want ease of use. PC gaming isn’t for everyone, no matter how much you claim it’s easy. For consoles, iOS and Android, it’s a very easy experience. With the Steam Deck and SteamOS, you still have normal PC settings, plus the device and Proton layers. This will frustrate about 90-95% of those people, whom also spend more time playing games rather than talking about perspectives and tastes that get played as supposedly fact.

PC would be more like a rocky road flavor and less like plain chocolate.

@The_Nintendo_Expat meh. I sold my Steam Deck years ago and went with the Legion Go. Happy I did. Windows 11 Home runs fine, plus I can run my GOG titles on there instead of running a launcher within a launcher to play my games. DRM free installers that I can place into an external device. Didn’t want to be tied to Valve’s world since they fold like paper when the banks give Gabe a tiny little pinch.

For everyone else, Steam was a way cooler place before the Deck came out. The cringe gamers just took that device and ran with it. Polluted Steam and the Linux boards as well. If you want “independence from a storefront,” then go with any of the other PC handhelds. GOG is the best option for buying PC games.

However, this a big note, a PC is still a PC. The games don’t behave the same way, regardless if it’s Windows, SteamOS or any other Linux flavor. You still have to tweak your settings within the game, the problem with the Deck is you add another layer of device settings that adds more time to balancing everything out. If you want the quickest route to playing, then stick with consoles and smart devices.

@PALversusNTSC Sony has the dev kits already. Since the MLB game is exclusive to one of their in-house studios, they can easily get one

@NTELLIGENTMAN Wolverine and X-Men on the NES were published and developed by LJN. Not Konami.

The same goes the other games on your list, so who knows where those games are living right now. Those span multiple different publishers. Even though Acclaim is back, do they still have rights to their back catalogue? Including the licensed titles, like Marvel, that they made.

These are only titles that Konami developed and published.

Who knows? A set could come out with these games, but it would be several different ones due to the different publishers.

@Dalamar wait… so, if someone doesn’t request a refund from reading this article they’re considered “blindly loyal”? Isn’t that a bit of a stretch if someone bought this upgrade pack who doesn’t read the news?

@Rice then play the Switch version until it’s fixed and get your money back in the interim. There’s no reason to be picking fights with people who don’t share your opinion.

I’ll hold tight with my purchase. Didn’t get to play it over the weekend like I wanted to do, so I’m sure they’ll get it fixed. I guess it’s good to know their customer service is giving unhappy customers their money back.

@PinderSchloss ok. So, I bought this on launch day for the Wii U. I’m very mad now that this was released for the Switch. It should’ve been locked to Wii U forever. Since you told me I need to be mad

@Sindayl unless you’re Mac gamers who bought and paid for skins and countless other DLC you lost access to when Valve delisted Counter Strike. Before that, they cancelled Counter Strike 2 on the Mac. Mac users were greeted with "just buy a Steam Deck bro."

But hey, Gabe offers the greatest casino in PC gaming with countless price tags on many of their content for Counter Strike 2, Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2. Then again, you guys worship him and hope he’ll let ride one of his super yachts

@RainbowGazelle except Sony was charging $10 for many of their titles going from PS4 to PS5

OBJECTION!

They have to use it when you accuse someone of being the imposter now 😂

Sounds like fun!

@Buizel the heads of grifters are almost out toward Saturn now 😆

@thenikdavies put the brakes on that statement chief. It has only been out about 8 months. Nintendo hasn’t put out a multiplayer focused bug title yet for the Switch 2 only yet.

@spiderman0616 I’m not sure many of them have touched grass in the last decade. Flies to the lamp

@axelhander not sure why you keep wasting your money

So many RPGs coming to the Switch 2, so little time to play them all. Woof.

Guess there’s worse problems to have.

@Darthmoogle yes, I was shocked at the release date as well. However, it jives with the team’s desire to get these titles out on the Switch 2 as quickly as possible. It looks like it plays very well on the device too. I’m impressed!

@SBandy1 it could’ve been a 9 out of 10, but it still wouldn’t have reached non-Metroid fans. Wherever the numbers land for MP4 is where it was likely going to go. Metroid Dread has outsold the entire Metroid Prime franchise, which is the first time a game from the entire series has sold close to 3 million by itself.

@abbyhitter I think they were attempting to lean into the multiplayer aspect of the game like New Super Mario Bros Wii did back in the day. They wanted to add more party elements to make it approachable for settings of parties and crowds. Wonder is one of my favorite 2D Mario games, but it doesn’t lend itself well to those who aren’t big game fans. It doesn’t go on a "straight line" like SMB or NSMB did.

@Bizzyb I agree. This looks very bad for AdHoc, especially if Nintendo said you can release the normal PS5 version with the toggle, but you’ll have to do a separate Japanese version to satisfy the CERO requirement; which the PS5 in Japan is the same version is the same as the Switch.

Poor move on their part.

What I find extremely funny is the PS5 version outside of Japan has the toggle. Whereas the Switch 1/2 versions and the Japanese PS5 version are the same. AdHoc is really trying to circle the blame away from them, but it isn’t working if you’ve seen the eShop lately. There’s nothing special about their game in terms of nudity, it isn’t an AO rated title on PC. Whomever made this decision, it’s really going to affect them with about 180 million Switch and Switch 2 users that could’ve been potential players. About 140-150 million of them are active and buying games.

Extremely disappointed in their childish behavior on this one. Probably won’t be their game on any platform if they like to play games.

@contractcooker @TheExile285 there’s an extra step Valve offers their partners to optimize it for Proton. It’s a simple check box in the submission process. Also, I believe developers make some resolution adjustments for Steam Deck screens too.

@Bizzyb I think it’s likely true AdHoc wanted to penny pinch on this one. Or development of the Japanese version for CERO proved to cost a lot of money. The PS5 version has the toggle, which I believe they could have included for the rest of the world. CDPR maintains two versions of Cyberpunk 2077 for the Switch 2.

@N8tiveT3ch you mean make sure you keep the CERO version for Japan and give the rest of the world the full vision

@tabris95 thank you. I learned something today