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They must be joking, right? 2022 would be waaaaaay too late. IMHO gaming should've become digital-only 5-10 years ago.
Why not do it right now instead of unnecessarily prolonging it?

Well it's not a tennis simulation and that's exactly why I'll never buy this game.

@Kirgo Nope, you seem to misunderstand the concept of hacking. The main motiviation is gaining freedom by circumventing restrictions. It's essentially a form or protest.
If there is full freedom, there is no need to hack anything.

So, if everyone could just choose their profile picture freely - as they can on any other online service - hackers wouldn't have had a reason to do this.

@thiswaynow Why? There are still parental controls.
No one needs Nintendo patronizing their users, especially with things like apps, profile pictures etc.
Besides, Nintendo's policies don't replace parenting. Parents still have to do their job.

Also, Nintendo's products are not only for children. In fact, their target audience are young adults.

Forcing stuff on innocent people is wrong, but Nintendo practically provoked this kind of behaviour with their restrictive policy in the first place.
Just open the Switch to everything and everyone and stuff like this probably won't happen

Awesome! I've already played and completed both on Steam, but I'll probably buy them again just because they are so great. Limbo is definitely an all-time classic.

Wow, I didn't know all of that, but these changes sound great!

They're trying to make it sound like their products are something special.
They're just headsets, people, it's all just marketing blah-blah.

While I totally get how aggravating it must be - and I certainly condemn that they did it in League, when you are actually battling for something - at least this way we get to see the map sooner! And it reminds me a lot of Mahi Mahi Resort, one of my favourite S1 maps.

@Cosats The video isn't from NL, it's from some Splatoon players as you can see in the tweet.
And I wouldn't necessarily call it 'criminal activity'.

@Pestilence The online service won't change anything about that. It's just another source of income for Nintendo.

While I totally get how aggravating it must be - and I certainly condemn that they did it in League, when you are actually battling for something - at least this way we get to see the map sooner! And it reminds me a lot of Mahi Mahi Resort, one of my favourite S1 maps.

@Cosats The video isn't from NL, it's from some Splatoon players as you can see in the tweet.
And I wouldn't necessarily call it 'criminal activity'.

Well my Switch case can carry much more games because they're all digital.

No we don't.

Just like some people excessively drinking alcohol doesn't mean a reasonable or non-addicted person should assess how much they drink.

Gaming addiction is only a minor problem and more present in East Asia than anywhere else. So please don't blow things out of proportion. Our societies have much bigger issues to deal with.

For anyone who doesn't know:

This is NOT a good deal, FIFA 18 is for free on all the other platforms now, so don't buy it on Switch.

Because why would they even bother continuing Iwata's legacy?
Nintendo has really lost its soul...

@Marios-love-child Yeah, that as well. I hadn't even thought of a case like yours but for these cases the discount simply isn't significant enough.

FYI You can buy most of the big Nintendo games (without any discounts applied) for ~40€ in the South African eshop, so ~35 pounds. The same applies for non-Nintendo games of course, the SA eshop is just way cheaper.

So with that in mind, 45 pounds (~50€) doesn't even represent a discount, it's actually more expensive. ^^

Nintendo's discount policy (only give discounts in titles nobody buys) really makes discounts useless.
By the time they add a discount for an interesting title the person interested most likely already bought it.

E.g. what good is a discount on BotW if almost everyone who wants it already has it?
Nobody will suddenly buy BotW because it's such a great and huge high-profile game that people will buy it for the full price.
Whoever doesn't already have BotW probably doesn't like LoZ or fantasy or open world games in general.

With the limited number of interesting/good games on Switch (just look at the titles in the links from the article!), Nintendo should think about giving general discount codes so the user can choose the game they want to use the discount on.

I'd want that too but it takes too long.
Already bought the game on Steam.
They should've released it on all platforms simultaneously.

Cool, I'm backing this.

@jbrodack Oh you mean that, yeah that's true.
I'm not a big survival fan but I like BR/LMS even less.
I like building stuff however.

What's so exciting about this feature? I don't get it.

Well I certainly would've liked to pay for the Save the World mode. Well, maybe I'll finally buy it for PC then...

@jbrodack Not really. Save the World was the original mode, BR was only an afterthought.
There's nothing unfinished about Save the World, dude...

This is so obviously modelled after Splatoon, I just hope it has good gameplay as well.

When?!

What about the browser? And tons of other useful apps?

Open the floodgates already, damnit!

Ok, but who is resurrecting Konami, the formerly great videogame company?

Who cares if it's playable in one store in one city on this planet with tons of cities and billions of people?
This is local news, not global news. Since when has NL become a local news site?

I'd rather have The Crew 2 on the Switch.
But whatever, I'll play it on PC anyway.

Nice! Though not a surprise.

'If you could just wait a bit longer, we'll work with Nintendo and announce them in the future.'

Ok that means they'll announce it during E3.

Please let it be PES! With crossplay!

Internet connections worldwide would have to become faster and more reliable, but yeah I could see it happening in the next decade.

Voicechat isn't necessary.

That said, Nintendo should implement a full Discord into the Switch's system.

@ryancraddock

Um, power banks are portable by definition...

I just hope they will implement proper motion aiming like in Splatoon, not like in Doom where you can't reset your rectangle.

@LightyKD I feel the exact opposite and I had GC controllers for many years (@GC and Wii).

-The c-stick feels like it's not moving around as freely as it should
-the size and position of the A/B/Y/X/Z-buttons is confusing and feels totally off (which makes it harder to memorize and inconvenient to use)
-the L/R-triggers constantly feel like they're stuck, you never know whether you've pushed them completely through or not
-the start button is too far away to reach without moving your whole hand
-and the fact that the d-pad and c-stick are located on peninsulas is just a bit irritating

Just saying, the reason why it feels like a natural extension of your hand is probably because you've used it too long/often. At some point, the connections in the brain are so strong that even the most uncomfortable device feels comfortable.

And even if that were not true, that fact still stands that they are purely banking on people's widespread Nostalgia (just as they are with the (S)NES mini) with these things, not how comfortable a small minority might find these.

In contrast to that, the Switch Pro Controller felt like a natural extension of my hands from day one, and that's because it's a perfect piece of hardware engineering.
The only small issue is that - especially with earlier versions of it - the d-pad sometimes triggers a diagonal movement where it shouldn't (e.g. BotW).

Why would I want to play in bed?!
Also, xou're guaranteed to get neckpain that way.

It's mind-boggling how far people's nostalgia goes, those unergonomic, cheap GC controllers are inferior to modern controllers in any way.

@Dom
Don't forget, you can watch videos anytime you want, it's called 'on-demand'.

This is the internet, not the 90's television.

Stock market share values are meaningless.

The Crew 2, PES 2018, Splatoon2, maybe FM18.
Maybe I'll give Mario Tennis a try too but I'm not really interested in it.

I wish they would focus on improving gameplay and tactics instead of unimportant stuff like the crowds. Who cares if they have facepaint and hats?!

@Appleflap Nope, that would destroy everything PES stands for. It's the more in-depth simulation out of the two and that was always their advantage over FIFA.
FIFA is already a little bit more arcade-like, so going in the same direction wouldn't help.

They could totally bring ISS back though as a full-on arcade title and sell both games.

I just recently got back into PES after playing a few rounds of FIFA on my Switch and it still has better gameplay and features that FIFA doesn't have. But it also has a few bugs, especially the PC port (which Konami doesn't really care much about for 4 or 5 years at least).

Konami really developed into a poopy company.

Well this technique was already known last year, but it's still impressive of course.

FINALLY!
I've been waiting for the Custom Dualie Squelcher for almost a full year!

Lol seriously, 9/10 for a compilation of ancient games? You must be joking.

No thanks, this looks as terrible as Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons was.

Of course you can choose the gender of your squid, that was never up for discussion. @Dom

I got two remarks:

1. Anything below 1080p is useless - why would you even advertise it as a Switch accessory if it offers only 854 x 480?!
2. Why on earth does it feature that same awful dock design that the original Switch dock has? They had the chance to make a proper dock and instead went with the worst option.

These two things turn it into a really laughable and useless product.

I don't quite follow, I already got a Mii on my Switch profile?

Well of these things would require eshop curation and that's exactly what Nintendo dropped. The Wii U eshop is curated.

lol how embarassing