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@DKG-85 Ninja Gaiden would be great. I hope we see some announcements for Capcom games like Pragmata and Onimusha, too.

@KidRyan Those are all at least partially funded by Nintendo so I don’t think we’ll see them.

@IronMan30 The core gameplay on the first one was good but it seems they didn’t have the budget to really build up the world and the storyline. Maybe with the sequel they’ve been able to

@MeatSauce Thanks for the info. Sounds like a great time. I'll probably pick it up.

@MeatSauce I haven’t played a wrestling game since the PS2 era. What exactly do you like about this one? How microtransaction-ridden is it?

I don’t have much experience with this generation of D&D games, though have always been curious. I played the games in the early to mid 90s a bit, though. Probably my favorite was Fantasy Empires

@Wisps A lot of S1 games play significantly better on the S2. You just won’t have some of the upgrades that the S2 version has. But for a game like this, I probably wouldn’t care. They’re gonna want to treat S1 owners well too because there are far more S1 owners in Japan than S2 owners.

@IronMan30 NVidia's CEO is an engineer so not your typical corporate type. Granted not all engineer CEOs are genuine, but a lot like him (and Iwata) are.

@StyrofoamCup SE should be blamed. They know Forever has a bad reputation for quality and went with them anyway. Likely because they are cheap. I am still surprised Nintendo invested in them despite the low quality. There are much better port/remaster studios.

@BoomingEchoes I had the opportunity to go the home of a CEO of a major corporation in Japan for dinner before and it was a bit surprising. It was just a middle-class home. He bought the home probably in his early 30s and just stayed there. That would be unthinkable in the US. But things work differently in Japan, and you have to view everything through a different lens. Though those in IT like Masayoshi Son tend to be more like the type of CEO you'd see in the US.

@Arawn93 it depends where you live. If you are in Montana you can live in a castle with 6 figures but if you are in Silicon Valley, you’ll be in a roach filled apartment

@JohnnyMind Nintendo is a Japanese company and it’s not a good look in Japan for a CEO to make so much more than employees. And Nintendo’s CEO fairs better than a lot in Japan relative to the median employee wage. For all the flack Japan gets in regard to working long hours, employers tend to have much more regard for employees than in the US.

@axelhander I'm old enough to remember all the really bad CG art that people tried to peddle in the late 90s and early 2000s. The world was not as globalized back then so it wasn't quite what it is now, but eventually people tired of the novelty and quality won out.

@chapuH Did you play MK8 when it was first released (not MK8 DX)? MKW has a lot more than MK8 when it first came out.
MK8 had

• 8 cups
• no real battle mode
• far fewer characters
• no 200cc

Since Splatoon, Nintendo has taken the path of gradually adding content. But still in comparison, MKW has quite a bit.

@Paper_Yoshi I like the intermission races too. I imagine most people really don't care and just want to play something fun.

But this particular article is written for people to vent, and a lot of gamers struggle with change.

@BlaizeV Japan has a large population but not the percentage of young people is low and the percentage of old people is quite high. That’s kinda sucking the life out of the domestic market.

I’m hoping for 16 since I haven’t played it yet. Not that interested in 15. And the 1 remake doesn’t interest me too much

@LikelySatan Yeah. I forgot about the movie. I don't know if I want the movie to connect to the game. Maybe I'll change my mind after seeing the movie, though.

@Dhaladog Nintendo tends to release one Zelda game a year. This year it is Hyrule Warriors. I’d guess next year will be a remake of a 3D title, though I really have no idea.

@Strumpan @JokerCK He said the Series S, not the PS5.

Even just in terms of the raw numbers, it is much more powerful than the PS4, and close to the PS4 Pro.
But that doesn't take into account being able to use DLSS and having better hardware, which gives it an even greater edge and puts it closer to the Series S, and above the PS4 Pro.

@Paraka Okay. The WiiU was actually backwards compatible with the digital library for the Wii, though. But the WiiU backward compatibility functionality sucked to use because you had to restart the system and go into "Wii mode".

@Johnny44 I don’t know about other countries but here in Japan a lot of people weren’t able to but a Switch 2 that wanted one. It’s probably 75% or so that couldn’t get one

@Paraka Both the Wii and WiiU were backwards compatible.

ARMS was great. But I think to really get big as a fighting game these days it needed more frills. The core experience was really solid. Also, it was not as addictive as Splatoon so that maybe hurt it. I hope Nintendo gets back to developing new IPs.

I feel like between 2015 and 2019 Nintendo was doing more innovative stuff than now.

@rjejr I'd prefer someone like Keishi Ohtomo to direct it. I can't think of a Western director who'd do it justice now other than perhaps Villeneuve.

Garland's best screenplay so far was by far Never Let Me Go, but that was an adaptation of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel so probably doesn't count.

I think advanced AI will be the next "leap" rather than graphics, since graphical differences are producing diminishing returns.

This may put Nintendo out of the game for truly "next gen" titles.

@skycargav2000 In terms of raw specs it looks comparable to the PS4 Pro but its architecture is more modern which improves its efficiency and use of those TFlops. Also, it supports DLSS which also helps it do a lot more with less.

So it looks actually better than the PS4 Pro.

It looks like Digital Foundry was way off in their original assessments. But that was obvious from the reveal even though they didn't want to admit it.

@UltimateOtaku91 The PS5 looks to be pretty much on par in terms of sales with the PS4 and PS3 in Japan so it's actually done fairly well, I think.

@riggah Or more recently similar to the 3ds. Nintendo has offered upgraded experiences quite a bit actually. Their more innovative experiences have been hit and miss. The WiiU and Virtual Boy especially. I did expect Nintendo to lose some creativity when they selected their current CEO, though.

@ChakraStomps I don't see good evidence that building up manufacturing is an ends. It could be a means, though.

The main pattern I've seen throughout the last couple months has been subordination. Subordinating congress. Subordinating the bureaucracies. Now targeting the press and lawyers.

The tariffs provide Trump with another tool for subordination. Through them, it seems he aims to subordinate foreign nations, domestic corporations and possibly states.

It all looks like a self-coup (authoritarian takeover).

@Uncle_Franklin Negotiations are the aim. Trump wants to subordinate the allies and kill the current economic order of free or nearly free trade. That is from Oren Cass. It’s likely to fail because no country is going to trust the US and he’s started economic warfare on all countries around the world at once. But the premise is bs anyhow. The US has not been ripped off.

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT It will get cheaper and easier with AI to max out specs for graphics. But the differentiating factor in future games will be in-game AI not the quality of the graphics as much.

He was a great actor and probably was the perfect fit for Batman. My personal favorite of his was Spartan.

Unfortunately, his apparent difficult personality lead to fewer roles for him than he should have had.

@RupeeClock I think Xenoblade 2 was a bit rushed. Xenoblade X ran much better on the WiiU, albeit with some pop-in and the WiiU was a weaker system

@Waluigi451 I wonder why they don't offer both. Like why not offer people the ability to buy the game if they want to?

@roy130390 There are lots of sidequests. In fact, most of tge story is in the sidequests. That might be the best way for you to explore cause it gives you a purpose. It’s also cool because the city evolves as you go through them. I personally loved free roaming and seeing the landscapes but if you want a lot of towns and villages there isn’t a lot to see from what i recall other than some Nopon and enemy outposts.

@Potimarron If you want to watch a good movie about a bathhouse, check out Melancholic.

@Lord There were other games the motion controls enhanced like Call of Duty. The motion controls actually made sense for Okami, but were not implemented well enough. The team likely did not have the technical expertise to implement them properly. Now it would be easier, though, since computer vision has advanced considerably in the past 20 years.

@Rob3008 I doubt we’ll get another Direct before April unless it’s really small. I imagine the Switch 2 will probably release in June (given they are having events near Tokyo in April) so it won’t be too long.

@Bluerangervegeta The models and textures were actually updated. Technically DKCRHD was remastered, though you may not like the remastering job.

Was the 3DS a stopgap generation? To me it seems like Nintendo learned their lesson. Like with the WiiU, they tried to innovate too much as well as have a Wii and ended up with something complex and expensive without a clear vision, and that hurt them badly. They can innovate with their accessories.

@rushiosan Unfortunately Nintendo invested a lot of money into Forever rather than Panic Button or Tantalus.

@Frailbay30 Most video game writing is bad. Like even God of War Ragnarok had terrible writing. I think video game developers just need to get professional writers. I don’t play video games for their writing quality.

There hasn't been that many. Sure the novelty has worn off, but it is just a stylistic choice. It is like saying "no more realistic-looking polygon games". Some people might want that, but there are also far more of those than there are HD2D games.

@Lightsiyd Yeah. His new studio is called "Clovers". There was an article about it in Famitsu.

@Toastmaster Who told you it’s legal? The people who are doing it? Or a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property roghts?

@WheresWaveRace Not when you consider the PS5 Pro is going for ¥120,000. Now the yen is weak but normally that would be about $1000.

@JDCII It’ll be awesome if it can at least increase the resolution and framerate.

@somnambulance I think Mario Party games consistently sell over 10 million copies. Top-down Zelda games don't sell nearly that many. So Jamboree is the big game this holiday season.

This was developed by Acquire who made Octopath Traveler, I believe. You wrote Nintendo developed it.

It bothered me a lot that FFV got cancelled in the US. It was supposed to be FFIII and introduce me to the job system but it didn’t come til years later