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That's such a feel-good trailer to be honest. Won't be picking this up, but I'm glad this exists.

@dux Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Indo-Australia, Antarctica and the Pacific. So 7 if you go by plates

@Realness sweats furiously I just... think its sweet... how compassionate you were to NINJA. Really, there's no need to be alarmed. Lower the cannon and we can talk...

@BloodNinja @Realness this is the greatest love story of the century.

PEPPA PIG REPRESENT!!! That Metroid game looks kinda decent too I suppose...

NINTENDO LISTENED GUYS!! THERE'S ADULT CONTENT BECAUSE OF LUIGI!!! If you play your cards right

I think there's an argument to be made that having older Metroids available might harm Dread. There's no denying the hype right now, and I'm short that's gonna push many first-timers to try Dread. Unless you provide them with a cheaper way to try the precursors - if a prospective new customer tries out the older titles to get a taste and doesn't like it, then they aren't gonna shell out for Dread, and Nintendo loses money. That, or people get their Metroid fix beforehand and dont buy Dread, at least not immediately.

On the other hand, Super is available, so I'm not sure if that makes this whole point obsolete

How is Wuhu Island not on here? Surely of all places designed for holidays, it'd be a literal resort, right? Barring that, maybe I'll become a chicken herder in Kakariko

I just wish there was gyro. Day 1 for me if there was. I'll pick it up in a sale I think if it doesn't get patched in

No one else uses Rip and Tear as a bedtime lullaby?

YES TO SLIME RANCHER!!!! Astroneer, Islander, and Metal Slug also all seem decent, people are saying Axiom Verge 2 is pretty much perfection in pixel form, and I'm sure the other games are great, but these stood out to me.

@angrymice I had a quick Google and I can't tell. I really hope there is gyro though.

@tee-cup that's brilliant, cheers

I was confused about the "Plortable" tag - is it the same as the version on other platforms? Cos if so, I'll definitely pick this up. I played it for a bit for free on Epic store a while back, and it's something i really wanna revisit

I'd have thought this game would've had a bigger section in the direct, rather than "PLOP it's out now." But idk

@MJF we'll make Beedle proud

This made me think about solar panels on the Switch. OK, I'm no engineer, but:

According to Source 1, the Switch has a power consumption of 16W discharged with Joy-Cons. This Quora post (source 2) says calculator solar panels provide a power of 1300W/m2 in sunlight. Let's go with half of that to account for decent light, but not direct sunlight, so 650W/m2. On the top of the Switch, from my measurements, there's a 0.7cmx3cm rectangle between the volume and the air out bit (this seemed like the most natural place for a solar panel, seeing as the top of the console is most likely to get the light). That's an area of 0.7x3x10^-4=2.1x10^-4 m^2. That area gives a power output of 2.1x10^-4 x 650 =0.1365W. Making the Switch consume a relative power of 15.9W. Which is basically the same as before.

Suppose we wanted to improve the Switch to effectively use half its current power; we'd need these solar panels to give a power of 8W. Then the area we need is 8W/650W m^-2 = 0.012m^2=123cm^2. The Switch screen has an area of 7.8x13.6=106cm^2. So you'd need more than the area of the Switch screen of solar panels in order to extend the Switch's battery by 50%. So yeah, at that point, I guess there's no reason to include solar on the Switch.

Source 1 - https://www.anandtech.com/show/11181/a-look-at-nintendo-switch-power-consumption/2
Source 2 - https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-can-I-charge-a-solar-powered-calculator. Both accessed 12:15 UK time on 11/8/21.

@RupeeClock Metroid 35. Everyone gets placed randomly on NES Zebes and has to hunt the other players to the death. Please Nintendo

I was talking to a non-Nintendo-worshipping friend the other day (I was shocked they existed too!) who was saying the Switch was missing out by not selling itself as a family device like the Wii was. Not only would this return to Wuhu be great for us with lewd diary entries about Miyamoto, but it would also help the Switch recapture the audience largely ignored by Sony and Microsoft, and who was tantalizingly teased with ac:nh and clubhouse

I think its really cool seeing how much people are praising Xbox Series here. I was looking at getting one of the new ones, you know, to get games that can actually run, but I feel like I just can't do it if none of the games on there use gyro, especially shooters. I've grown so used to it now, that I tried the Switch Bioshock ports, but I couldn't finish due to how horrible shooting with an analogue stick felt. I know Sony have gyro, but if no devs are actually using it then what's the point!

There's been times when I've been on a discord call playing BotW in handheld and a mate is playing CS or a racing game on his PC... I've always found it kind of awkward, almost that it defeats the point of the call... autism may have something to do with that though...

@MS7000 next thing you know, they're gonna be producing a drone to make an AR Star Fox game. It's just the gimmick the series needs!

@NintendoLifeStaff is it possible to do anything about the background/colour of hyperlinks? It's kinda hard to read with blue-on-blue. I'm on mobile if that affects it. Cheers

I'm wondering if at any point these keyrings and posters will be Platinum Points rewards. I'm not preordering because I'll probably just go to the nearest GAME or something on the day

Bah! Games were better in the old days! Why can't we just get a new version in the style of the fantastic dancing Smurf game on the Wii! Will be saving my money for Banal Sonderland instead

@Perryg92 that's a real shame. At least at this point we know what to expect from a Switch release

That trailer looks gorgeous, especially in the opening. I really hope that's running on a Switch. I'm not convinced that's running on a Switch

Is it just Mario stuff? It's a great deal, but I don't think I'd get much use out of a Mario t-shirt

These look so good, super nice for all you guys over in the Muricas.

@nessisonet Ahh yes, what a masterpiece

Poor Hope's Farm without a description...

Nice, I always base my life decisions on the Pokemon Company, thats why I've been indoors for the last year and a disappointment for the last decade

I hate RPGs, and I generally stick to Western-oriented games, but that E3 trailer has definitely piqued my interest in this. So I'll definitely keep half an eye out on this. Not enough for any collector's edition bonus though.

I think people sometimes need to consider the general reception of a game separately from their own opinions. I'm not a fan of RPGs, but it just because I couldn't care for Mother 3, SMT V, a new gen of Pokemon and other notable games doesn't mean that such a (hypothetical) direct wouldn't be monumental. Metroid Dread is bloody monumental, Monkey Ball seems excellent, I think we can vote this as excellent for a general fan.

Tetrimino for Smash. Please

Now my palms can bleed in HD!

That last shot with the castle rising looked like the same Hyrule as before. I really hope it's a new base map, and not just base BotW Hyrule with sky islands and cobblestone generators

I've heard great things about this series. I've been getting into tactics since Mario + Rabbids, so im gonna jump in on this if its not too dear

So on Treehouse Sakamoto said this will "Mark the end of the story arc" for metroids 1-4. Future metroids won't have metroids?

My throat hurts from screaming at this

Or even a subtitle. How about Metroid Prime 4: Repentance? Samus leaves a Federation ship unprotected because she finds out about secret Metroid research, so she leaves, and then Space Pirates attack it. She ignores their distress call, sees the research base crash down to the planet, so she has the battle to get back the research, all the while grappling with her guilt. We have the emotional development of Other M into making her human alongside her carrying on with the bad-ass attitude and pirate slaying everyone knows her from, without too much "oh pity me Adam" everyone hates. Hire me, Retro!!!!

@JohnnyC wow, that low already? I'm surprised, but also not as surprised as I probably should be.

@GinMiguel the original goes on sale for as low as £6 I've seen. Definitely worth the plunge on that price, it's the game that got me into the genre

@JohnnyC how near to release was that? I got it digitally last year for about £20/£25 maybe?

I just want them to do another Wii U version, is that too much to ask?

I want this. But I also feel that Ubisoft games go on sale so much, that there's no point buying it at launch

I made a discussion thread to talk about this, but my god, it's driving me up the wall that you're restricted to two decimal places. I'm trying to make a sine calculator, and I can't convert to radians using 0.02, at that point its worse than having pi=3

@Clyde_Radcliffe I'll keep an eye on it then, cheers. I've spent a bunch on games already this month, but maybe I'll take a look soon? Or it'll be relegated to the infinite wish list

Song was cool in Summer Games, and that tour with FoB and green day sounds great. And yeah, I wasn't really focused on the gameplay when i was watching, if I'm honest

@BenAV like what the 3DS had? That would be cool