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Glad to see Level 5 is making a comeback with this and the new Professor Layton

@IronMan30 Considering they started a film production company my they must be focusing on more than just the Mario movie.

@DarkTron It’s a financial report. Do you expect it to cover much besides sales?

@iLikeUrAttitude New years. In Japan kids are given a bunch of money on New Years. It is also a big shopping period.

@Ralizah Interesting. Thanks for the info.

@Ralizah Is Koei Tecmo involved with the game? So far as I can tell Intelligent Systems is the only developer. They needed help with Three Houses cause they didn’t have much experience with 3d at that point.

@Maxz Being a "developer" does not imply that you write software code. That's just colloquial use of the word and semantically sloppy.

@WoomyNNYes Yeah. You think Konami would have ported at least MGS 4 and 5 to the Switch.

@Dragonite89 Hemsworth is a boring actor too. He’s a b action movie actor at best. At least Cavill has on screen presence. I suppose that counts for something.

@Belatarr Is the exposition/dialogue as bad as God of War Ragnarok? That game had dreadful dialogue. I don’t know if I can play this if it is that bad. I like exposition when done well, but in your face exposition will really wear on me.

@MrA-Game Maybe the reviewers honestly thought it was 9/10 and had good reasons for doing so You can’t expect everyone to have the same opinion as you. And I don’t think you should worry if a couple sites gave it that score. if every site had given it a high score, I might be able to empathize with your grievances, but most sites didn’t.

@Samalik @Kilroy Nintendo is a joint holder of the copyrights for Bayonetta 2, 3, and this game as well with Sega. That means that in regard to the individual games, the Nintendo has ownership, and thus "owns" the IP to those games.

Given that Nintendo financed the games, they most likely entered into an agreement with Sega gives them most of the rights over the games. And probably entered into other agreements with Sega in regard to the franchise. They've invested too much into the franchise not to. That's why I said it's "essentially" Nintendo's franchise. Unless Nintendo transfers ownership or Nintendo changes internal practices, you aren't seeing any 2, 3, or this game on non-Nintendo platforms.

@Kilroy No. Nintendo is publishing it. And Sega doesn’t really have anything to do with Bayonetta anymore so far as I can tell. Nintendo finances the series so it is basically a Nintendo franchise now

@SalvorHardin Yeah. I can’t believe God Of War is rated so high. It has great production but the sheer degree of bad exposition in the game should be disqualifying.

@kingbk RPG and adventure are not mutually exclusive because a lot of RPGs are adventure games. And, as an adventure game, I'd say Xenoblade is better. Elden Ring like BOTW is more of an exploration game than an adventure game.

@Goofonzo They gave Scarlett and Violet a 7 though. Just seemed to me like they had been scoring harsher of late. I think that it does ruin their credibility a little when games like Mario Strikers and 3 Hopes get 9s. I imagine they are fine games, but “Amazing” seems like a bit of a stretch. They don’t hand out many 10s so not sure what you are talking about there

@jerrycoeurl I get the feeling Nintendo Life is scoring harsher recently and think that’s a good thing. 5/10 is a supposed to be an average score. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that someone might think this is average. Like 50% of games technically should score below average. For some reason average has come to mean bad in Anglo societies.

@Orpheus79V It's a translation from Japanese so you can't put too much stock in the language. Here they use the term 映像 (eizou) rather than 動画 (douga), which makes it pretty ambiguous as to what it refers to. If it used, douga, I would expect it to be more short videos.

@Tasuki So when is Starfield arriving on PS5? Microsoft obviously does care which platforms its first party titles are available on.
Microsoft purchased Activision, Bethesda, Obsidian etc so they can take control of the Western RPG and shooter markets. I think that's pretty obvious. They may decide to allow some of their titles on Playstation, like they have with Minecraft, but that's not a given.... And Sony will continue to dominate in terms of cinematic games, I imagine. I am not a Playstation fanboy by any means.

@BlueCoolYoshi In Japan.. yeah his career is toast unless he starts up his own business and does a crowdfunding campaign for Balan 2

@Crono1973 I think our points are related. Game Freak knows people will buy the games no matter what so they don’t invest in the human resources that should be necessary for a game of the scale of Scarlet and Violet. It is not just a matter of the graphics looking behind the times also. I do imagine it is also demotivating for developers at Game Freak to release a game with a plethora of technical issues. They’ll probably pay for the lack of investment now in the long run.

@JudaiMasters I think it’s a human resources issue. Game Freak had their staff split between Arceus and this game and they have way fewer employees than Monolithsoft. They should have far more capital so that’s kinda crazy. But they are also not under Nintendo’s umbrella

@RR529 I found Fire Emblem Warriors to be more interesting in terms of strategy than action. I haven’t played any of the other games so don’t know about them.
But I also like junk food in moderation so I don’t think it’s slight against them to call them that.

@Anachronism I'd say the same for Platinum. Out of Platinum's partners, Sega, Square, Activision, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc, Nintendo has easily been their best partner. They may have had their biggest game with Square, but Babylon's Fall was an absolute mess.

Given that the new Vice President of Platinum is a higher-up from Nintendo I think it is highly likely they'll continue working with Nintendo. That kind of personnel movement is far less common in Japan.

She doesn't seem to realize that Platinum has to budget their money and that she is not worth what she thinks she is worth. Spending more than $15000 from a game with a budget on the lower end for AAA on a voice actor for 2 workdays sounds like it would be fiscally irresponsible unless the voice actor is a big name and able to bring in revenue.

@MarioFan432 Ms. Taylor is the one that started this and requested a boycott and requested Ms Hale never doing signings.. She needs to make a strong case for why we should do that. Even her original arguments were not supportive of such extreme actions even assuming they were true. She just made an emotional appeal. So I don’t think it matters if she was lying. Her behavior was pretty deplorable even if she was telling the truth

@Tangerine I don’t think people will learn. Cancel culture has gotten worse but it has always existed. Think of those in Hollywood who were kicked out of the country for being “communist”. Or people being canceled because it came out that they were gay. Though I think one problem today is conflating the left with liberalism when the people on the left behind cancel culture are definitely not liberals.

@link12684 There are two sides to a story but also sometimes there are liars. If you look at the situation objectively it’ll make Ms Taylor’s actions look ridiculous even without this news. It is good to be wary of anyone who tries to manipulate you by making you feel sorry for them.

Wasn’t Bayonetta 2 “boycotted” by all the fanboys who couldn’t accept that it was going to be a Nintendo exclusive?

@alecseus What’s messed up? Platinum games or this entitled lady? After hearing her reaction there’s no way I’d hire her. The easy thing for her to do is just refuse the offer and move on. Now she could get sued, I imagine. I think she’s pretty stupid

@Sculptor Yeah. I think there’s a huge amount of potential but it has to be more than an on-rails shooter in this day and age. I would like to see Platinum do another Star Fox game but not under the direction of Nintendo. I think they can do far better than Namco.

@FishyS Nintendo 64/PSX are kinda comparable to the NES. There were some great games on them but there was a lot of crap as developers tried to learn to work with a new dimension.

@Fizza For a Nintendo Direct though, it probably was average. In my book, an average Nintendo Direct is good. I imagine it was too RPG heavy for most people. I think they probably tried to squeeze too much into the 40 minutes. It was kind of the polar opposite of Sony's, where they ramble on and on.

@ModdedInkling It was number 1 in UK so is successful apparently. You shouldn’t pay too much attention to the rumblings on NintendoLife since there are a disproportionate number of negative comments on here. Based on the comments here, you’d think that the Pokémon games wouldn’t sell at all.

@Snatcher Well. There was the WiiU exclusive, not Lost World, the other one that really stank, Sonic Boom or something. It can always get worse.

@YoshiF2 Wooly World came out on the 3DS so is not stuck on the WiiU, but I think a Switch port is in order.
Xenoblade X will probably be a year or two away if it comes out since 3 just came out. Star Fox Zero would probably need a bit of work but I'd like to see it get another chance. Paper Mario Color Splash also should get another chance since it came out when the WiiU was in its death throes..

@Freek Yeah. I’d like that but I think RawThrills would be an equally good option

@Drac_Mazoku I have trouble believing much of anything anymore. So much is amplified and distorted and filtered. It’s not just Kotaku. There’s much worse stuff out there.

Then you also have Nintendolife reporting these claims without much critical thinking.
But yeah.. the article does read as propaganda to me.

Xenoblade X was by far the best in terms of sidequests. Is 3 better than X in terms of sidequests?

@Snatcher Yeah. I’d say FFVII remake wasn’t actually a remake cause it was a different game. This seems more like a remake.

@Erigen Nintendo fixed many of the problems that they had with the WiiU... No more console/handheld split. Solid vision for what they are trying to do. Better marketing. And for better or worse, their current CEO is much more practically minded than Iwata so I doubt there'll be a huge deviation from the concept of the Switch. It sucks in a way because Nintendo has lost a lot of its creativity because of that, I think.

Nintendo would have to make some pretty bad decisions to do as bad as they did with the WiiU.

@Mattock1987 There are several first party games lined up: Splatoon 3, Kirby, Bayonetta 3, Pokemon.. There might be something else unannounced. Nintendo likes to release a Zelda game every year but they haven’t announced anything yet. So there could be something

@mattesdude Or Terranigma.. or Treasure of Rudras.

@LittleGhost Selling 20 million is a huge feat for any game let alone a JRPG even if it takes 20 years. There are only a few games each year that surpass that mark.

@FragRed I don’t think it signals a buyout yet but this move most likely signals a tighter bond between Nintendo and Platinum. Japanese companies tend to work like that.
Like Iwata was from Hal. The current CEO was from the Pokémon company.

@StarPoint They already did a Direct two weeks ago if I am not mistaken.

@ModdedInkling Nintendo also paid for Zangeki no Reginleiv. Bayonetta may have a bit of sexuality but doesn't compare to that game in terms of violence.

@Pillowpants Compared to most of the crap that was shoveled onto the Atari 2600, a lot of those horrible games on the NES were masterpieces, though.

@Friendly Yeah. It looks to me like they are planning on putting out the Switch 2 next year also. I don’t think they can hold back the next 3d Mario and Mario Kart too much longer. It’s looking like Nintendo may not release Bayonetta 3 this year also.

I hope Nintendo puts out a Dragalia Lost game on the Switch someday.