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@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.

@Ashunera84 I don’t know about Polygon but not a fan of IGN. There are too many nerds there that try and act cool rather than just being plain old nerdy like the NintendoLife staff.

@Vortexeo No. Bayonetta 3 is a Nintendo game so won’t be shown.

@KindofaBigDeal Mario Kart 8 has a long ways to go to reach GtAV. I think it’s sold like 170 million

What did the studio work on after Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, though?

@Silly_G The game has continued development since its launch 6 years ago. It will probably never be complete.

@FoxMcCloud Thanks. I've heard this 65daysofstatic album before and many of their other albums. But I'd like to hear it as a soundtrack to this game, even though they have much better albums.

Want to play it just for the soundtrack. Love me some 55daysofstatic

@Ragdoll72 It's been just over 2.5 years since Luigi's Mansion 3 so yeah, they didn't have a lot of time to work on this title. Probably Nintendo will have them work on it post-release.

I was starting to regret backing this but looks to be turning out pretty better than the other games I’ve backed.

@the_beaver It has been a successful formula. I can understand why you would want it to have everything from the start, but that makes it hard to keep the game active. A periodic impulse of new content/modes is more likely to keep intrigue

Also, there is an overemphasis on content these days which makes a lot of games feel bloated. I’d much prefer the game be tightly engineered.

@UltimateOtaku91 BOTW was an exploration game. Calling it sparse is kind of a silly criticism and there are always new things to discover. If you were just trying to get from point a to point b, you weren't getting the most out of the game. Sonic is not an exploration game. So that makes the game looks disjointed to me right now.

@kingbk I don’t know why Nintendo bothers with Jaleco games. They seem to be mostly bad. Especially when there are still a lot of good SNES and NES games not available yet

@Maulbert I've only played Fire Emblem Warriors so can't say anything about the rest but FEW was not just button mashing. There was a decent amount of strategy involved.

@NinjaNicky Wrestling games are already RPGs, though... At least the season modes are. I think the main thing this brings to the table is the turn-based combat

@Ryu_Niiyama I am also a little confused by people getting up in arms about contractors being treated differently from employees when contractors are not employees and by definition a different class of worker.

Companies need to be very careful not to treat contractors as employees or they could get sued by the contractor for misclassifying them, which could have serious consequences.

@AndyC_MK111 I think they did not phone it in, they just didn’t allocate enough resources to develop it. It probably had less than a two year development period. I think it kinda sucks cause Sports started out as an incredibly innovative series and this one is extremely uninnovative.

I imagine they also weren’t sure about the series since it sold so poorly on the WiiU. So they decided to test whether to continue with it by putting out a budget title.

@UltimateOtaku91 It’s still over 2 billion dollars. I’d say that’s pretty impressive.

@Abeedo It's just too expensive to develop AAA games these days. It's basically the same conundrum that Hollywood is in. You cannot be innovative because the risk of failure is too great. For risky projects, you want to spend much less money.

I think most innovative titles by big publishers in the past 10 years or so have been published by Nintendo. And even most of those were not "truly original".. Aside from maybe Labo and Ring Fit Adventure.
But Nintendo allocates much smaller development budgets and many of their executives are creative types.

@LP09 It’s Nintendo’s fault, though. They didn’t know what they wanted to do with the system. If it had launched with Splatoon and Mario Maker and they continued to make compelling software, it probably would have done far better

So does this mean we’ll start to see more video game adaptations?

@SpiritOfTheHero I doubt he handpicked Bowser but he may have recommended him. I doubt there would be any consequences but if he did recommend him that would make Reggie look bad.

Nintendo is a Japanese company and Japanese companies are much more sensitive to public perception so I imagine the situation will get resolved.

@Dr_Lugae I don’t think there’s an X-factor cause Square does release putrid games from time to time. Also the original Rodea was good so Naka still can develop good games.

Square does not develop platformers though and shouldn’t have taken on the project. Also they released the game in a bad state. It’d have been better to cancel it. That’s what Nintendo would have done

@Hero8-Bit I think if you like JRPGs or indies it is is still great from a 3rd party standpoint. But Nintendo hasn’t got much for 3rd party beyond that. It’s also 5 years old so probably just one or two more years until the next iteration

@Hero8-Bit It wouldn’t sell if it was treated as a tablet. That’s not how it was designed and not the problem it’s aiming to solve. There are much better tablets out there. And maybe you feel that way but the system is still selling well and will be at least the third best selling game device of all time.

@Ralizah Yeah. I’m sure it was but it wouldn’t have been in production til after Animal Crossing was finished. But the core members probably had a couple years to do R&D for it. We still don’t know how much new this entry will offer either. I’m pretty sure it’ll offer much more than 2 and 2 offered quite a bit more than 1 counting its DLC.

@Ralizah The turnaround time from Splatoon 2 is 5 years but the turnaround time from Animal Crossing New Horizons (same division) is about 2.5 years which is on par with that from 1 to 2, with less momentum probably.

If Nintendo doesn’t want to localize it, why don’t they contract Marvelous to do so? Seems like a waste.

I think it will launch with the successor. Nintendo will not make the mistake they made with the WiiU and the Gamecube, which was not launch with compelling software. Zelda is their most compelling IP and they'll have worked on this game for probably 6.5 years by the point it releases. I think they will not pull a Skyward Sword and release the next Zelda game a year before the new system comes out.

@BTB20 I believe NST handled the 3D World port not EPD. Though I think Bowser's Fury was a joint effort between EPD and 1UP.

@BakaKnight The year's already packed and they haven't even finished announcing the games in the latter half of the year.

@Dezzy70 I'm sure Nintendo has been working on a new 3d Mario. 5+ years seems like a long time in between 3D Mario releases, though.