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Honestly, I just love getting a formal email from Nintendo that begins "dear stink"

I love how there's been no Metroid for donkey's years and fans are still making this stuff. Go Metroid!

There's gonna be a rush for the first person to make the fly swatter game in Game Builder Garage, isn't there?

Can we get a Balan Wonderworld sequel?

@GrailUK who needs an excuse to talk about the New Pro Switchbox?

@gameboy-x sonic 3

@Spider-Kev it was for mobile i guess, idk, I don't make the rules, my uncle who works at Nintendo does

ARMS 3 & Knuckles confirmed?

@Kaiffe123 Cheers for the clarification! But oo boy, does this look cool.

Is this a translated version of the Japanese overview from a few weeks back? Or is this a new one?

And this, my friends, is why I'm super looking forward to Game Builder

This is the Yooka-Laylee Playtonic right? Good for them, I enjoyed those games. Not too interested in golf, though

@NTDO89 @SuperCharr that awkward moment when you leave your laser engraver in your pocket when you put your jeans in the wash

Wouldn't it be really cool to bring Face Raiders from the 3DS over to mobile? Sure it might just be a novelty, but that mode was FUN I PROMISE

I played a decent amount of chess when I was younger, but once I was beating my dad every game, he refused to play with me anymore and I haven't really touched the game in a couple years. So hey, might check this out, I can think of worse ways to get back into the game

Not my cup of tea honestly, I'll be picking up Subnautica instead, but great for people who like this kinda thing

Reject Mario.

Embrace Donke.

If this is real, then I think we're gonna see Stadia 2 Electric Boogaloo levels of success.

@ChakraStomps at that point isn't it just a Wii U?

@twztid13 yeah, I only really found out about Sony through comments here lol. I suppose that comes down to the fact that Nintendo won't because Nintendo. Which isn't that the excuse for everything?

@Chowdaire thank you for being polite in response to my comment. People treat this like an all-out war, when there's no reason it should be. Perhaps its worth stressing that its a subset of the community that is like this, but they're the vocal ones, so it does seem like its everyone sometimes.

@__jamiie I'm saying that people don't have to be hostile about it. You're treating these people like they've murdered your family because they've chosen a different way to enjoy their media. I'm all for discussing this: I admit it's a move that rubs people the wrong way but personally it doesn't affect anything to me, because I still get to enjoy the game. There's the opinion. And at no point there does anyone get thrown under the bus or berated because of personal preference that doesn't affect me.

Can everyone chill out?! You do realise you can appreciate games in a digital form too, not just with a box! And also that stuff digital isn't gonna be our repentance to save our poor souls? You do you if you're gonna self-impose arbitrary price caps on what you buy digitally, but that doesn't mean other people are bad for... buying digital. And physical collections can be valuable too - collectors aren't bad either!! It is sad for people who have extensive physical collections, but surely the main thing is experiencing the game? Not berating how people choose to... enjoy the game? CHILL PEOPLE

@BabyYoda71 SCRATCH!!!! That's a throwback!!! I remember playing around with that a bunch in secondary school, making a whole bunch of stuff on there. None of it was particularly good, but my god was that fun. I kinda dropped programming after then; had a course in my first year of uni using MATLAB where I made a couple simple functions before I dropped out. Tried picking up Python back last March but I really wasn't in the headspace for it. Scratch was soooo wonderful

@Wargoose I know (i think?) Microsoft do this, but doesn't that undermine the console release? I can see why third parties would do this, but I'd imagine it's quite hard to make the big 3 comply

So would these have been exclusives to Epic and Storefront? I doubt any of them would make games they couldn't sell on their own consoles. And exclusives push people to buy the consoles - who bought a Switch saying "Doom and old Fifa are great, who on earth are Mario, Zelda and Isabelle?" Good exclusives sell consoles- BOTW and ACNH are why people buy switches. Sorry Epic... you tried

I guess we also have demos nowadays for certain games, which can somewhat satisfy the "try-it" nature of a rental, the caveat being that only some games have them. Their digital nature does also allow them to reach more people. But I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that demos are detrimental to sales - people who would've tried BotW or RDR2 because of the positive press wouldnt have spared their money if they didn't like a demo for it, and Balan Wonderworld... Balan Wonderworld. So it doesn't seem like something game companies themselves would be willing to support. And the restriction to physical media leaves out a lot of indie games. I see no real way that this can happen. Whether it'd be good or not - I grew up at the end of Blockbuster's life so I don't have any real nostalgia there anyway, so...

Did @JonComms narrate the second one?

America's one just seems a bit too busy for my liking

We've had quite a few limited consoles cropping up again. First the Golden Wii, now this

Where's my Wii U Mini?

Does this have the Gamecube support? If not, I'm out.

The day Ubisoft doesn't have a sale is the day the world ends

Yup, that sounds like a new ACNH update alright. No surprises here

Where's the spin-off with Yoshi's tax fraud?

Good news for those of you who refuse to go near a game unless it comes in a box with a ribbon. I snatched this one up from the eShop for about 99p if I remember, which I definitely can not complain about. Must say the box art looks good

Why did this happen to the ratings? We need a detective...

@TryToBeHopeful yup, that's the most recent one I purchased.

@thesilverbrick as someone who only got a Switch recently, it's a nice option to have since I've missed a whole bunch of these. And they do stay limited for quite a while, so there is that going for it.

It's nice to have these trials. Heard good things about this one if it's the one I'm thinking of.

Life makes me sad. Almost as sad as no F-Zero

Tetris had a rocket? RIP me for growing up in the DS era

WITH FUR?!?!?!?! NO WAY!!!!

Maybe if the mouse would emulate the gyro controls rather than the right stick? Yeah, you still don't have the fast turning, but you'd probably get the precision that way?

Or just use the gyro on the pro controller

And let's face it - the name "Brain Training" is just so much better than "Brain Age." Fight me, Americans!

I'd assumed he was talking about the fan version, but I can't imagine Nintendo being happy about that, even if Reggie doesn't answer to them anymore. Can't imagine Nintendo is too happy about this either way

@RupeeClock

@RupeeClock

Me: "Those edibles don't do nothing!"
Me 2 hours later:

@FargusPelagius Those dogfights were fun, I agree, which makes me really wish it had an online multiplayer mode with dogfighting with other people online. It would also make up for the game's ridiculously short length, and I never found it too compelling to replay. I did enjoy it though, even if pressing minus to switch the views doesn't completely remedy the problem of having an inaccurate crosshair on the TV.

@Strumpan you make a good point there actually, I suppose you aren't selling to people who already know about the game, you're trying to get on people's radars, right?