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This is a stupid article. Of course Prime 4 is going to be a Prime game and not anything drastically different. Its not a new series. Secondly, Prime was Metroid’s BotW moment. Third - This is WAY TOO early to have this discussion. We hardly know anything about the game, there can be a lot of new gameplay evolutions here. The first time Nintendo shows its major games, a year + from release, they often don’t show off the new mechanics. They unveil those closer to launch.

@Serpenterror eh they released RPG games that didn’t sell great or get the attention they deserve

The last 2 years (* means exclusive to one console)

• Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince*
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth*
• Star Ocean the Second Story R
• Final Fantasy XVI*
• Octopath Traveler 2
• Crisis Cord FFVII Reunion
• Dragon Quest Treasures*
• Tactics Ogre Reborn
• Harvestella*
• Star Ocean Divine Force
• Vakyrie Elysium*
• Diofield Chronicle
• Various Daylife
• Live A Live
• Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
• Triangle Strategy*

@Banjo- majority of game sales, for most games, happen in the first couple weeks. Only things like big Nintendo titles, GTA, COD and Minecraft sell months after release. Sega had to drop the price down to $40, even $30 fast. It was $30 (half price sale) before Christmas. So think how they had to sell 2x as many copies to make the same money as opening week. Now its down to $20.

@Banjo- how in the world can you think that releasing for the same price as Mario, in the same week as Mario, doesn’t hurt Sonic’s sales? People only have so much time and money. Most people won’t buy 2 brand new full price games within a week

This seems like a parody of what indie games have become. I also find it funny everybody here in the comments is praising the game or talking positively about it while at the same time saying they have no interest in playing it.

It needs to be backwards compatible more than any previous console especially for preservation purposes.

Lets be honest, the joycons are the least reliable controller Nintendo has made. The Switch 2 undoubtedly will have a new controller which in the future will make joycon drift and such failures irrelevant

Its also a portable/hybrid system, not a standard console. As soon as 3DS stopped production the systems and games went UP in price. A N2DSXL console USED goes for the price of a new switch. This hardware gets damaged more than consoles, screens get scratched etc. its going to be less likely Switch consoles will be preserved as well as previous Nintendo consoles

If its not backwards compatible i will never buy digital from Nintendo again

@RupeeClock I agree. I hate this art style and character models. Seems like a poor choice for a remake too, I love Contra and never thought this needed a remake (Maybe Operation C). Wayforward did Contra 4 and that art style was much better than this. This looks almost amateur

@progx to be fair they know about games that were in development when they left that still havent been released

@frabbit yeah but it doesn’t take very long to get tapped out of all of that library. Then all you have to look forward to are new additions. Similar to netflix. No matter how much content they have, only a fraction of it is appealing to each person, and once you’ve seen it, There’s no need to see again

@frabbit the game is only $10 more than a 1 month sub or $5 less than a 2 month sub. Is there really going to be another game of quality content added to GamePass in the next 2 months? Not likely. So pay a $30 rental fee for 2 months or $25 and own it.

There’s also a lot of ways to get a discounted eShop card. Like Costco always has $50 cards for $40.

@Expa0 @partisan Konami made a lot of collections the past 2 years. Castlevania, Contra, Arcade Classics and TMNT. Hopefully they keep going

@TheFrenchiestFry LoS1 was amazing i cant even understand how bad LoS2 was and how that happened

@JeanPaul Mutant League is fun. Its obvious more Arcade style and fast paced like a Blitz game

I played BloodBowl2 on PS4 years ago, and its fun in the sense that its something different...i think i might have preferred humans and more normal style football than monsters, but it is unique in its chess/strategy type moves. You don’t really control the players i think, it was more like coaching simulator. As a football fan, you’ll probably appreciate it

@Specters I’ve never once defended her. I called her a liar from the start and said that nothing she said made sense

@Jhena definitely. If you have a Switch, of course check it out. If you don’t like it, it will hold good resale value, so you can get most of your money back if you sell it

@Specters yeah not even close to what she said. The game might sell 2.5m

@Chibi_Manny here’s the thing, it’s no longer ps3/360 era and before. Pretty much everything will continue to be re-released or even reprinted if a dollar can be made. I don’t think nearly as many games will be lost forever. Companies like LRG are re-releasing PS4 games on PS5 even with it having backwards compatibility. It seems like from this point on into the future the digital stores will carry over and remain backwards compatible. There are PS3 games that got remasters on PS4 getting released on PS5.

Retro collectors and gaming archivists shouldnt apply older generations logic and fomo onto modern gaming. The industry realizes the value in keeping these alive much more than in the past and often future proof their licensing

@Vil because the developer/publishers will make more money selling it than putting it on the service. Similarly that is what killed the Virtual Console, more publishers wanted to release compilations or retro titles on their own terms

@Kienda The American one actually looks like the in game characters more, I’m actually pretty sure it’s partly an in game character model.

@Specters the series sales trend is increasing. This will be the best selling one

@duffmmann in California waiters get paid minimum wage

@cleveland124 also, Bayo 3 started development before Bayo 2 was re-released. So they might have made that offer even before the success of Bayo 2 on Switch

@TheStormGL eh. I dunno. $15k - $20k for 20hrs of work is pretty good. Especially for a game that might not sell that well, or I should say might not profit that much.

Bayonetta has been kinda niche and only really exists so Nintendo can have a M-rated exclusive. Its more about strengthening their library for the system than expecting it to be a big seller.

Its Nintendo’s big title of Q4 (non Pokemon) and they’re not advertising it at all. That probably reflects how little extra budget is left or how little they expect it to sell

Shes out of her mind thinking Bayonetta has made $450m

@InJeffable she hasn’t worked since 2014. Her career was over. Her career was Bayonetta. When she made a ridiculous counter offer and got passed, she upset.

@Wexter i used to work in QA at Zenimax/Bethesda. I know all about the crunches and bs

She clearly violated the terms by tweeting that out, and it’s absolutely unnecessary to tweet it out, if she’s willing to chase clout or brag in such a public forum about her position or about the work going on, who knows what she says to people privately. Its a huge red flag and risk. Very stupid of her

As far as her question to Bowser, she’s asking him/Nintendo which is the wrong place to even direct that question. It SHOULD go to the firm that should hire her, as that is her real employer, not Nintendo. Secondly, even issues like this with Nintendo is really supposed to be directed to Nintendo Japan not NoA.

Being fired for the question would be messed up, but her tweet is the clear and obvious violation that would lead to firing of someone so low on the totem pole, unimportant and replaceable disclosing any private information about a company highly concerned about leaks

Why kill the game?

I would never invest my time in 2 or anything in the series now knowing they will just pull the plug on it for a sequel

@Tasuki i just saw that video today for the first time and the game looked fun, I was gonna look into buying a copy if it’s not expensive, then this was coincidentally announced hours later

The only way that makes sense to me is if they make a big deal about Princess Zelda becoming a Queen in BotW2 or something

Otherwise who cares, she was a 96 year old woman. Its not a stunning tragedy. Entertainment news still exists. The world still goes on

@HammerGalladeBro probably a few things going on here

• Nintendo was unsure how well the Bayonetta ports would sell since it wasnt particularly great on Wii U, so they wanted to have just 1 SKU and not have 1 & 2 compete. So 1 didnt get a physical since 2 is where Nintendos money is
• Bayonetta sold better on Switch than it did on Wii U, so they are probably happy to see there is some life and excitement for the franchise and think they could release a small physical print. Probably 100k or 200k copies. They know it will sell out and not leave overstock
• Bayonetta 3’s success and sales are likely not threatened by Bayonetta 1’s release a month before, in a way, its promotion for 3

@MS7000 have you tried the sequel?

Its clearly not coming to the Switch, and doubtful it will be on the Switches successor. This game is at best, a 2025 release, but it was obviously just announced years ago to help create a metric Zenimax could use to inflate their sale value to Microsoft or who else would buy. This article is pointless

Missing Ultimate Muscle for GameCube

This and Gunbrella were the only interesting games, and this was pretty far ahead of Gunbrella

This game can go to hell

The game looks like a dumb waste of time, typical goofball indy game that won’t be worth money, time or disk space

Capcom give us

• Mega Man Battle Network Collection
• PowerStone
• Mega Man Starforce Collection
• Mega Man Gameboy Collection
• Mega Man Legends + 64 + Bon Tron + Battle & Chase

Very easy money grabs that we won’t complain about

@Gtask025 he didn’t win

He bet 1 year. These are the sales numbers after 5 months

I have had issues with my Switch Lite where it always says the battery is empty, even when it’s fully charged. It was caused by allowing it to fully drain. The solution is apparently to let it fully drain again, then recharge fully

@SwitchForce i mean it’s buying a video game, doesn’t seem like homework is needed. For a game to lack the systems standard functions is ridiculous. When you buy the Switch, you should expect the games to use the systems features. Its as dumb as a DS game with 1 screen or a smart phone that doesn’t allow earbuds when making certain calls

This is ridiculous. Ever since the Switch was announced, i thought table top bowling was an amazing way to sell the system to casuals. You could bring it to the office and play a game on break

@ShadowofTwilight22 and 2x more expensive than it should be

@Poco_Lypso i agree. And it will get worse

@Poco_Lypso big buyouts like that usually are from groups that don’t have some new artistic vision to advance the franchises but instead use the familiarity of the brands to extract more profits (merchandise, films, nft, dlc, season pass).

@ShadowofTwilight22 i never said Nintendo was better or worse. But $40 for 4 16 bit games that are already available cheaper on the same platform is stupid

@sanderev you’re too sensitive

@Poco_Lypso I’m not a big ubi fan either. But if they get taken over, they will be worse

@mariomaster96 there’s almost no possible way this will result in better games

This collection is lame and so bungled in a way only Sega can do. Half of these games are already on the cheaper Sega collection (+48 other games). This is way too expensive for what it is; but then they also made a bunch of different money grab versions. Something as simple as these ports should have been available almost immediately in the announcement and hype of the 30th anniversary or the movie release.