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@NintendoEternity Don't wish for that.

Market concentration in the hands of a few companies is terrible for the customer.

90% of the movie and TV industry is in the hands of 5 conglomerates (Disney, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony), this is a major reason why Hollywood sucks, even when they release good movies, they don't want to create new things and want to just keep recycling what they already have, and these conglomerates also own journalism companies, making things even worse.

Disney buying Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox didn't go well, for the people who liked the franchises Disney bought and for the people who liked Disney before those acquisitions.

Warner Bros. and Discovery merger caused many projects to be cancelled, including some of them that were finished, and even works that were already released were removed from distribution.

Activision and Blizzard merging was terrible for Blizzard fans.

20 years later, most people agree that SquareSoft and Enix becoming Square-Enix allowed us to play some great games and there are franchises that stayed well, but overall, the merger was bad for those who liked what both companies had to offer.

EA has a history of buying smaller companies who are not billionaire but still, and ruining them and their franchises, and shutting them down.

Before Konami became a terrible company, they bought and absorbed Hudson, not only ruining the Castlevania, Contra and many other Konami franchises, but also ruining Bomberman, Adventure Island and other Hudson franchises.

But relax, Microsoft buying Activision is going to be good for us and Blizzard will be fixed, trust me bro, everyone who complains is a whiny and envious Sony fanboy.

@HeadPirate Don't forget about a problem Pokémon always had and this game is an epitome of it, you can't have all the fun without buying more games and connecting them.

In Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2, you won't enjoy 50% of what the game offers without the Game Boy carts and the Transfer Pak, maybe not even 10%, yet Nintendo Life gave 8 out of 10 to an emulator port that cuts the whole point of it, sure, the minigames are the best these games offer and you don't need the Game Boy games to enjoy them, but with just 9 minigames you can't have a good game.

@TanukiTrooper A Pokémon Stadium 3 designed for the competitive crowd could work, but seriously, just improve the mainline games first.

Making a separate Pokémon game just to have better animations and graphics would seal the fate of how Game Freak is incompetent.

Also, just make a Pokémon game with just the minigames, including all the minigames from Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2 remade, they were the best thing they had to offer anyway.

For the ones who want the Stadium series back, with a Pokémon Stadium 3 or a remake or the old ones, forget it, highly unlikely.

The appeal of these games was from a time the mainline Pokémon games had 8-bit graphics and little to no animations, so playing battles with 3D graphics and animated Pokémon on a console was a big deal, now, the mainline games have 3D graphics.

Sure, the recent Pokémon games have terrible 3D graphics and animations, and don't have the whole Pokedéx, this is when a Pokémon Stadium 3 with better graphics and all Pokémon could be a great idea, but no, we need better mainline Pokémon games.

European Portuguese voice acting included?

@Roibeard64 The discussion here is not physical vs. digital, it's product vs. service.

Many games released as physical games are still live services, if servers close, your game becomes a paperweight, it happened to Overwatch 1 that at least got a free sequel, and Babylon's Fall which didn't get any sequel.

For those who want the Pokémon Stadium series back, forget it, the appeal was when the mainline Pokémon games had 8-bit graphics and the N64 could have 3D battles, now that the mainline Pokémon games have 3D graphics, there's no commercial value in a new Pokémon Stadium or remakes of 1 and 2, during the Wii era, Battle Revolution didn't do well.

Sure, the graphics and animations of recent Pokémon games are terrible, even a N64 game is better animated, but we need improvements and Game Freak should just outsource the models and animations.

@Serpenterror Even if you think that way, Sakurai wanted Rex & Pyra to be a tag team, plus, you could just press a button to switch to Pyra as the one in the front.

And my point is that Warner Bros. has characters like the Powerpuff Girls, the Warner Siblins and Ed, Edd and Eddy that could be not just double fighters, but triple fighters.

In Smash, we didn't get the Chorus Kids likely for that reason.

@ComfyAko Is it that hard to rework and rerelease the game as a product instead of a live service?

@ComfyAko MultiVersus is closing for 7 months, the real launch happens in 2024, if Warner Bros. doesn't pull the plug like they did with many other projects in movies and TV.

When the game comes back, it's time to ditch most of the F2P live service elements and focus on a strong offline mode + single player campaign.

@CharlieGirl Live services are a crapshoot, even if they are good, competition is fierce, and if not enough people are playing them, they shut down and no one can play them anymore.

All live services should do what Knockout City is doing, the game is becoming a product, players can make their own servers without needing the developers.

Maybe this is the reason why MultiVersus didn't get a Switch version, and no word of a Switch version for the full launch in 2024.

People say "Why would I play a crummy Smash Bros. ripoff when I can play the real deal?", but the other Nickelodeon game sold more on Switch than all the other versions.

Sakurai wanted Ultimate to have Rex & Pyra fighting together like the Ice Climbers, but the Switch was not powerful enough, they have plans for potential triple characters like the Powerpuff Girls and the Warner Siblings (Animaniacs).

@Browny Not just difficult, but pointless, the whole point of the games was transfering the Pokémon you had on Game Boy and sending them to battle in 3D, these games were almost useless for kids who got it but didn't have the Game Boy games, and for people who later emulated them in an N64 emulator with no support for Game Boy transfer.

Unless you just play the minigames, the best the games had.

For the people who want the Stadium series back, forget it, this was the time Pokémon games has 8-bit graphics and little to no animations, and playing the games with 3D graphics was a big deal.

Now, the main Pokémon games have 3D graphics and animated battles.

Just make a Pokémon game with only the minigames, they were the best they offered anyway.

If you play Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2 without having the Game Boy games and also the Transfer Pak, you won't enjoy not even 10% of what they have to offer.

We need to be able to connect to Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver/Crystal on Switch Online.

Smash Bros. should have 9-Volt as a Fighter, bringing not only the Ultra Hand, but many other classic Nintendo toys.

@nomither6 It means professional players already found all the techniques and legal glitches they could find, metagaming is basically the game around the game, playing it competitively and finding the best way to win, Melee tournaments don't have anything new anymore, players played so much that no metagaming can be squeezed anymore unless they allow items, more stages and more modes, which goes against professional Smash.

Remember, Melee is a solved game, it must be the only competitive game where the metagame was finished.

After players spent years only using the high-tier characters, they started using the low-tier ones, winning, and make them rise in tier lists, but now it's done, there's no way to find anything from even the bottom tiers.

Everything they could get from that game, was taken, they should allow tournaments with a few items, not all of them, just a few, allow more stages, so tournaments can have more stuff.

Melee HD why?

Just play the original, just rerelease the original with emulator filters but it's still the same game, no code alterations.

Still needs:

• Master System games
• Sonic 3D Blast
• Sonic Spinball

Sonic 3D Blast kinda sucked, but there was a Director's Cut made by the original developer and released as a mod, should get an official release.

Bring also the Master System versions when possible, especially if there are brazilian Master System versions.

The Game Gear is basically a portable Master System, but with a much smaller screen, many games were released for both systems, and the main downside is how the Game Gear ports of Master System games constantly have a screen crunch that makes the game much worse.

And my country Brazil, an alternate universe where Sega defeated Nintendo in the 1980s and 1990s, had games originally released for the Game Gear, ported to the Master System, getting a bigger screen.

The good: Atari is finally back, finally they are a respectful company again, profiting on their past without relying on the past, they are still making sure their retro revivals are cool on their own right.

The bad: I'm sick of videogame companies getting bought, at this rate, someday we will have 5 or 6 companies controlling almost the entire market, the movie market is already like this, Disney, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony control almost the whole TV and movie industry.

@Yhdekskymmenen They removed the random paid prizes, but there are still random free prizes, and the game is still designed to make the player play every day, if they don't, they will miss progress, rewards are still given to the player like a dog getting treats.

This game greatly improved over the years.

Although I'm still avoiding to go back to it because gacha games are designed to feel like your second job and take too much of your time that should go to other games.

@HistoricKombat Side Pocket is cool, a great pool game with many options, I think it is still great to play it now.

All the additions are good, even Side Pocket.

@Randinator123 I'm saying that for years, adding more platforms like SNES, N64, Mega Drive, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance helped the service becoming better, but there are still many good NES games missing due to the slow pace.

First we need faster games, then we ask for DS abd GameCube.

It took 6 years of games coming on a dropper, but finally this service is becoming good.

My point still stands, these games are coming too slow, adding DS and GameCube is not the answer

Where can I find the Top 40?

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a different game now, Mario Kart 8 is almost a service-based game now, at least it doesn't require online.

The good about videogames getting updates is that usually they are for the better, no matter how much you test, glitches appear, broken tactics appear, the final costumer is always the best person to find problems in your software, and games can keep getting improved instead of requiring you to buy a brand new game.

The bad about videogames getting updates is that even if the original version is inferior, too many changes make your game another game, there are purists who still prefer classic games as they are, no patches, no glitches getting fixed, and if an update actually makes your game worse, unless you can rollback, the game you like no longer exists, it's different from a game, movie or something else getting a bad sequel you can ignore.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the worst part of Pokémon Bank getting closed is that you can catch a Pokémon in one of the original GBA cartridges, and through many transfers, send this Pokémon to a game on Nintendo Switch.

Doing this is expensive, it requires many portables and games, but the old transfer services did not require internet, now they do.

It's just like when you were not allowed to transfer Pokémon from the Game Boy/Game Boy Color games to the GBA Gen III games, but now the Pokémon franchise is even bigger and has an even more vast history.

Can everyone agree that while people hate mobile games thanks to their gacha mechanics and their system where the player needs to play every single day and is treated like a dog getting treats, Mario Kart Tour has the best roster in the whole Mario Kart series?

This is the first Mario Kart game to have Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Dixie Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. all in the same game as racers (And the only one to have Dixie), and maybe we could get Cranky and K. Rool in the future, while Mario Kart 8 is the best in the series, the roster is really lackluster, from the list above, we only have Donkey Kong.

Gorilla Grodd has a minifigure, just reskin it to make Donkey Kong.

When Sony said they were not going to E3, Nintendo and Microsoft fanboys mocked them, saying Sony was dying.

Years later, we get the confirmation that E3 is the one dying.

@HammerKirby Thankfully, you are right, limited physical copies + infinite digital copies is not artificial scarcity.

If companies are engaging in artificial scarcity to earn more money, the copyrights and patents used for that should be void, sharing the stuff on the internet should be classified as fair use.

Thankfully, limited physical copies + infinite digital copies is not artificial scarcity.

One of the few Nintendo franchises that keeps failing in surpassing the first game.

Nintendo has a talent for making great games, and making sequels that are even better than the original, however, while many Yoshi games are good on their own, no one is surpassing the original Yoshi's Island for SNES.

@bonjong23 Ripoffs? It's a genre, you can't own a genre.

Nendoroids are way, way better than those ugly Funko Pops.

Hey, I'm all for videogame preservation, even the bad games deserve to be rereleased on modern digital services.

However, I think Nintendo should just attempt to put 95% of the NES, SNES and Game Boy library on Switch Online, and give the alternate option to own these games, how about a system where you can buy them separately, and every month, you randomly earn some you don't own yet for subscribing?

And how about a system where buying new games gives you the ownership of old ones, buy Mario Kart 8, you own Super Mario Kart, buy Mega Man 11, you own Mega Man 1 and 2, and so on.

Wish this game got a remake, with two graphic options, one that looks like if the game was made today, beatiful models, the other that is still the same polygonal graphics of the original, but in 4K and 60FPS.

WarioWare for the Wii had a Star Fox remake as one of the boss fights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEwJHpEprIw

When Activision Blizzard was caught doing terrible stuff in 2021, I decided to boycott them, but not forever and now I decided to go back to buying their games, still waiting for Microsoft to finish the acquisition.

If I decided to boycott everything similar to be coherent, what would I buy?

Why don't you post the Top 40?

We need Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, Funky Kong, Cranky Kong and K. Rool.

Now that this finally happened, get ready for people to start requesting GameCube, DS, Wii and Virtual Boy, and other consoles like Neo-Geo and Turbografx-16 when they start feeling that this service is still bad.

The real problem of this service is that the games are coming too slow, Game Boy games greatly improved it, but there are still hundreds of NES and SNES games missing.

@NTDO89 And not bother with high-quality hand-drawn 2D, like Cuphead.

At first it was cool to see games made with 8-bit graphics way after the Game Boy Color died, Mega Man 9 started this trend, but eventually it was overused, even when they done high-quality pixel-art, I started to get sick of these kind of games.

@masterLEON Thanks, and good to see that the videogame industry still has hope.

To make things even worse, I know that dead services usually happen because the game didn't make enough success and there are not enough people playing, usually because the game sucked.

However, it seems that the next step is service-based games being sabotaged by their own companies, look at the Crash Bandicoot mobile game, they are closing it in less than two years, while that game sucked, they could have fixed it, the problem is that the game was quickly abandoned by the developers.