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@Meteoroid Samus Returns and Dread did take elements from Other M. It would be nice if they gave another stab at what they tried in Other M

The issue with the first person perspective in Prime is that it makes vertical movement hard to pull off, but that is important in the side-scrolling Metroids. I think the perspective in Other M makes it much easier to do vertical movement.

@westman98 DLSS uses a gpu to run so it would need an external gpu if they implemented it on the dock.
NVidia uses so-called tensor cores for DLSS2, which are a type of specialized gpu. But you can implement similar technology on a regular gpu.

@westman98 Nah... You're wrong about that.

Nintendo even has a patent for a "supplemental computing device" from a few years back. So it's something they are considering.

DLSS does not require two-way communication (it would be implemented as a pipeline) so your argument about the bandwidth doesn't matter. The GPU on the dock would not need to communicate back to the unit.

You can check out the paper here https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Neural-Supersampling-for-Real-time-Rendering.pdf

I don't know how or if it will get implemented in next iteration of the Switch, though.

@Samwise7 Nintendo is a tech company. A lot of companies called tech companies aren’t but Nintendo definitely is.

@Hinade Well. It depends on what they value. Ultimately, I think giving games like Last of Us 2 or God of War major awards is bad for gaming. It's basically like giving the Avengers "Best Picture". I don't have anything against the Avengers by the way.

@Kiz3000 At least on Metacritic it does have some 8s and 9s. So there are some people who really like it. But seems like it’s a niche audience of people who really like leveling and customization from what i gather

Everything looks nice but pretty uninspired. It seems to be a game without a vision.

@Meteoroid Furukawa seems pretty conservative so he will probably want to time the release of the next iteration of the Switch with the releases of BOTW2, Mario Kart and the next 3d Mario.

@EVIL-C I don't think Nintendo would let Limited Run make a physical version of one of their games.

@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed Not to mention the Mario Kart team. They've been quiet since Arms. The 2D Mario team has been quiet since Mario Maker 2 (which I imagine only required a small team since it was an expansion on 1).

The 3D Mario team did work on Captain Toad and Bowser's Fury, but those were relatively small projects.

@Grumblevolcano Metroid Prime 4 restarted development 3 years ago so probably won’t hear about it for another year. Seems like a pretty big project.

Why not just make a real chocobo racing game and not a MK clone? If I could race on chocobo’s through FF inspired tracks, I’d have probably bit.

@MS7000 The first Astral Chain sold well so Nintendo will probably give us a second one with a bigger budget so they can improve upon the gameplay... like making the sidequests more interesting.

Isn’t Dracula X for the SNES a pretty different game from Rondo of Blood just with some shared assets?

@ecco6t9 Probably has to do with their arrangement. They are in the same building so I imagine there's a lot of communication that goes on between them.

@VoidofLight I’d consider saving the world to be cliche. Though there are exceptions like Octopath

I like them more for their settings, which tend to be more unique than Western RPGs.

I hope they give the sequel a little more budget. The first one had a solid core but lacked the frills and variety to really go beyond being a niche title.

@Solomon_Rambling I don't think you should expect this to review really well on the whole.

It's a low to medium budget title and this type of game is not really popular anymore so a lot of reviewers probably won't be able to appreciate what it does.

Bayonetta 3 is on the list so.. yeah the list is most likely fake. It's not even really a 3rd party title.

@westman98 It's ¥30000 in Japan which is an even bigger disparity. Like around 270 USD.

@Nalverus Nah.. Mega Man was especially bad. I initially didn’t play the game cause the box art was so bad. Then my friend rented it and was really surprised it was a good game.

@dew12333 That’s a good one.

It was a budget game, though so they probably weren’t expecting a lot of sales. If it had high expectations they’d have invested more in development

@LUIGITORNADO Did you check how many exclusives are coming in the next 4 months? Like it’s the most in the final four months since the Switch came to life.

Nintendo never joins the Tokyo Game Show.

@Duncanballs I think it's a really niche game anywhere you go. I would be interested in seeing what the reaction would be if it was a big budget AAA game, rather than a BBB game as Suda put it.

I’m surprised the plurality of people have the ridiculous, entitled viewpoint.

@RushDawg Splatoon 2 already was a huge success just being on the Switch though... Like it has sold well over 10 million copies. It is also a major system seller in Japan, which makes it much more valuable as an exclusive.

@StefanN So this is not even really a game, then? More like playing with Legos?

I hope to see World of Demons come to Switch.

Platinum cannot discuss Bayonetta 3 because they don't own the game. People imagine all kinds of scenarios. But by far the most likely scenario is it just hasn't completed development yet. Games take years to make.

@BloodNinja If you want to compare software, yeah,that’s all there is to compare. But comparing software is prone to a lot of error because the engineering has a huge effect on performance.
That’s why it’s better to compare hardware specs..

Also, it appears this title performs considerably better on the Switch. I haven’t really looked into comparisons of other Switch software and XBox360/PS3 so I don’t know too much about it

@BloodNinja It does smoke those systems. Just compare the specs. It’s about halfway between the 360 and the Xbox 1

Ports of software programmed for very different hardware are not always the best way to judge.

I don’t think this looks interesting but also don’t understand why it should matter. Games should give people options. That’s what makes them fun

This review doesn't give me much of a glimpse as to what the game is about.

If you don't like the game that's one thing, but I'll watch a review from a random YouTuber if I want something trying to be cute and overly dramatic with little substance.

@CactusMan I was taking it for granted that they’d publish the code or publish creations they made with it. They aren’t going to?

Also, this article made it sound as though it would be legal to distribute what they’ve done cause it would be in another language.

Is it really confirmed that this is legal? The writer seems pretty confident about that. But it seems fishy to me.

It's not legal to translate a work of fiction into another language without permission from the copyright holder. I imagine this would be covered by such laws.

@MarioBrickLayer I think so. And Usually Nintendo covers only unannounced titles in Indie World. Still people expect them to talk about games already announced every time they have one.

Nintendo has a huge amount of extra money now so they need to be investing more in riskier projects and/or new properties. If they are too conservative, they'll end up hurting themselves in the long run.

The game coming to the Switch is a new game. And so far as I know, it's still being developed. It was scheduled for release in 2020 but got delayed.

https://colopl.co.jp/shironekonewproject/
https://colopl.co.jp/news/pressrelease/2019121202.php

@NintendoKnight Though it's rated mature, I think NMH3 is about as immature as you can get. Quite looking forward to it, though.

@noobish_hat Nintendo will get a better idea of what’ll succeed. So far FE Heroes, Dragalia Lost and Pocket Camp have done well aside from Pokémon. Nintendo will probably focus more on sims, RPGs and AR, if they continue.

@Themagusx1 The review just came off like a review from a high schooler to me rather than a professional so I couldn't even make it far into the review.

The problem with IGN, I think, is they heavily rely on freelancers because they have to review so many games. Nintendo Life does too somewhat, but Nintendo Life's core team is quite good, I think.

My only beef with Nintendo Life is that they need to spread out the scoring more. I think they give out too many 8s.. They should give out more 7s and 6s. And bad games should be below 5.

@Rika_Yoshitake I tried to listen to the IGN reviewer and had to quit after a minute so I didn't know they gave it 7/10. The quality of review was just so much worse than Zion's.

Maybe Nintendo will someday start translating its games into Ryukyuan or Ainu.

@Clyde_Radcliffe That's only a few titles that had control problems.. The problem is most likely partly you, though. It takes time to get used to a new control scheme. If you give someone who never has played video games a game controller, they will struggle with the controls, even for relatively simple games control schemes like Super Mario World.

The other part of the problem is that motion controls are much harder to program and I don't think Nintendo has the human resources to really take on that task to make impeccable motion controls.

In the case of Star Fox.. they should have scrapped the idea early on. It should have been apparent in the early stages of development that that control scheme was overly complex. But I think they made an error of judgment in thinking that they needed to innovate with using the gamepad to justify its existence.

@Caryslan Yeah. I know not being able to put games on it from Square/Enix, Capcom and Konami/Hudson is a big blow but there are other developers like SNK, Irem, Tecmo made quality titles for the NES and do not seem to be interested in releasing their games as packages like those other three developers. I imagine Konami has a lot of titles from both theirs and Hudson's library that they will never rerelease like Faxanadu so I hope Nintendo finds a way to bring them to the online service. Capcom is probably a bit tougher cause they made so many licensed games which would be hard to release on the service.

Also, Nintendo does have other first party games they can release besides what you mentioned like RC Pro Am. And also quite a few that were only available in Japan like Devil World, Famicom Wars or Murasame Castle, though RPGs like Ginga no Sannin may cost too much money to localize.

In the case of the SNES, I think there is a huge number of titles they could release.

@SmaggTheSmug Yeah. There are some like that and some licensed titles. But there are great titles that those three companies won’t bring back because they don’t have a large enough cult following, games made by other companies like SNK or Tecmo or even good games made by Nintendo still unavailable.

Is Nintendo even trying? There are so many classics for the NES/SNES that haven’t been released yet to NSO but they are putting out a lot of mediocre to bad titles for it.

@zool You may feel that they don't put games as the top priority, but the data doesn't support your feelings unless you think Nintendo should be releasing two first party titles a month rather than a number closer to 1.5 per month.

Not to mention, I imagine Nintendo paid to get Monster Hunter Stories 2 and Rise on the Switch as console exclusives as well.

@MasterJay It doesn’t say. But dollar sales is a stupid metric that Nintendo haters started citing to make it appear like Nintendo is not doing as well. What matters is units sold and profit.

@The_New_Butler Hmm. Okay. Maybe I didn’t read carefully enough. I hope it gives Nintendo some competition, though, cause they always seem to do best when they have competitors.

@Crono1973 This is a handheld (no dock/detachable controllers) so it should be compared more to the Switch Lite. Which this is 2x the price of the Lite. I am considering getting it though.

I am hoping this will put pressure on Nintendo to bump up the compute for the next system.