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Brilliant, brilliant game. Hopefully it plays well on Switch.

Looks lovely but 2024 is a looooong way off.

@infernogott 5 year old hardware? The hardware was almost 5 years old when it released

While they don't break this down specifically on their investor briefings of supplementary documents they're definitely making a tidy profit on each unit and have been doing so for a long time.

@Orokosaki This isn't Sony or Microsoft who do usually sell the console at an overall loss (including R&D, advertising etc. not just BOM) but then make it back on the software. Nintendo typically makes a profit on hardware too.

Honestly I think if you are reaching the limit of 2000 games you might want to rethink your life balance. I play far too much and have less than that across PS, Xbox and Switch.

How do you even find time to play that many?

Great to see Xenoblade doing so well. Like FromSoft and Elden Ring Being rewarded for years of top games. You love to see it!

I would have been interested for a complete package but splitting it like this and making each overprices is a simple hard pass!

I would have been interested at the right price/package. But splitting them in two is just a cheap move. HARD PASS!

Only dipped my toes in so far as have too much IRL stuff to be getting lost in a JRPG right now. But what i've played has been wonderful. Looking forward to delving in properly soon.

@Friendly Didn't hear anyone complaining every time Ryu went "Hadouken" or "Shoryuken" every 2 seconds. lol

I've only played a handful of hours but already the voices repeat a LOT. Surprised they didn't just add more lines of dialogue, there aren't that many characters and it wouldn't have been much effort. Doesn't bother me much though, really feeling it so far.

“you will know the pain and suffering you caused the emperor and FIORAAAA!”

Shulk is usually quiet and well natured but part of what I loved about him is his passion when things got serious. When it was fight or flight this mild natured, kind character stood his ground and fought for his friends and loved ones. A well written and balanced protagonist, not your typical cool hero, and so much the better for it.

@UltimateOtaku91 @johnedwin There is no such thing as a perfect videogame (except perhaps Tetris), there is ALWAYS room for improvement, which would make the review scale 1-9 by your reckoning.

10/10 has never meant a game is perfect, ever. Just as a 5/5 review for a film does not mean it's flawless. 10/10 just means it's one of the best games they've played and deserves exceptional praise.

BTW It's not NintendoLife, over 10 reviews have given it top marks.

@Reyren The Eurogamer review says "is the most approachable in the series to date; indeed, it seems tooled towards an audience who've never played a Xenoblade game before, or maybe even one that's not touched a JRPG before." Because there is a 'very easy' mode.

My copy just arrived 3 days early! Sadly I have too much IRL stuff to be getting on with and it will have to wait. But glad to see reviews are phenomenal. 89 on MC right now. Love Xenoblade.

@Roibeard64 Perhaps. I'm on the other end of the scale where this has highlighted that I have DLC I need to buy. If it hadn't been singled out i'd be none the wiser. Guess they win some, lose others.

@Roibeard64 Re: FE:Fates. You have to play up to the end of Chapter 6 and then select if you want to play the other starter game (Birthright or Conquest) or the concluding game (Revelation). It seems they are giving people a month to get to that point and decide if they want to buy the rest as DLC.

Pong I think, or Space Invaders. I was pretty young.

Though I remember staring endlessly at a Pac-man table at a pub my family used to go to when I was a kid. I was already hooked.

Lovely article @KateGray combination of two of my favourite hobbies, lots of great books here to recommend. Many of these games are better the more you know on the subject matter. Hades in particular was a joy the more you knew about the various gods and demi-gods.

Tip on the wine: when they give you a sample, you’re actually just meant to be checking if the wine is corked (i.e. spoiled) and not if you like it. Just smell the wine in the glass (or the cork if at home) if it smells like wine you’re all good if it smells acidic or vinegary then send it back! No need to taste it. At least you’ll look like you know what you are doing!

Not a fan of adding extras characters and skins 6-8 months after launch but i'm looking forward to the story expansion.

Loving the diversity of the tracks announced so far. One of the things that made the first Xenoblade Chronicles so good was having multiple composers each with their own style. It meant you had sweeping, adventurous open world tracks like Guar Plains but also rock, metal and electric guitar tracks when the action heated up.

Remains one of the best soundtracks of all time

@Kogorn733 Sadly absolutely nothing. Platforms like eBay are more interested in money and a mass blacklist for who? There's always going to be people willing to pay. Sad but true.

Great games. Stone cold classics both.

Not a bad showcase. But many games I can play elsewhere or don't interest me. And my heart years for Silksong...

Being patent and not skipping through to see the Chapter titles

Silksong date and i'll be happy

I’m really feeling it!

I think I still have callouses on my fingers caused by getting one of those SF2 SNES packages.

Didn’t watch the direct as I want to go in as blind as possible. But loving the look of some of some of those screenshots. Love this series.

IT'S REYN TIME!

Just picked up Xenoblade Chronicles Defeinitive Edition to play through, and Future Connected, before this comes out. Haven't played it since the Wii, it was one of my favourite RPG's.

Looking forward to this one.

Played this a few years ago, it’s a masterpiece of game design once again from Lucas Pope. Unique and never played a game that made me feel more like an actual detective, very little hand holding, it’s left up to you.

@Bunkerneath LOL Was about to post the same. I don't usually get motion sick in games but just watching that video made me queasy. I'm going to lie down

@KindofaBigDeal Ah! never played that one. Now I want to

Needs more of this

This is tough because Goldeneye (N64) was a 10/10 at the time, but it has aged woefully.

What I will say, it wasn't a great game, but I still enjoyed Blood Stone. The idea of a new James Bond adventure in the style of a movie with a great cast (Daniel Craig, Judy Dench, Bill Tanner, Joss Stone etc.) was really exciting, even had it's own theme tune and Bond intro.

A great idea that didn't quite hit home. Would love to see someone try this again now.

Generally don’t believe in pre-ordering but Monolithsoft haven’t let me down since Nintendo acquired them and it’s £39.85 at Shopto right now. Pre-ordered

Although Silksong was officially announced just over 3 years ago (Feb 2019) we’ve actually been waiting much much longer. Initially this was a Kickstarter tier reward to the original Kickstarter campaign way back in 2014 and was meant to be DLC.

It has been my most anticipated game for SO long now. Wishing Team Cherry well on getting over the line. Hopefully an update soon.

Will be interesting to see how this fits in. Look like the Mechon from XC1 and the brief glimpse of the landscape looks very Mechonis/Bionis.

The opening to Ori is up there with the opening to Up for most tear duct opening beginning in media

"False expectations" this industry seems to run on them

YAY! i'm younger than I thought.

Does this include the Cards? Loads of my friends kids are all obsessed with Pokemon cards again, it's like jumping back 30 years.

DQ Builders 3?

That was excellent. Whimsical little fan project. Love it. Well deserved A

To do that they will have to significantly improve their output which will take a long time.

@Ryu_Niiyama No issue at all. I just thought it interesting you were saying Nintendo don't make mainstream games. When to my eyes games like Mario Kart. Mario and Animal Crossing are the definition of mainstream. But I guess that is subjective. Peace.

Mario Kart Tour at $4.99pm is definitely a live service and you can easily argue that Mario Kart 8 deluxe and Super Smash Bros Ultimate with all their staggered DLC packs are also live service games, depending on who's definition you use. One of the popular ones is:

"A live service game is a type of video game that’s designed to keep people engaged, so they play it for as long as possible. That means that instead of making one game and moving on to the next, companies create a game they can update for years to come."

Sound familiar?

Perhaps. Though personally as someone who rarely uses the Switch's USP (portability) it is usually the worst place to play everything. If Nintendo's exclusives came out on PC I likely wouldn't buy their console which would also lose them out on console revenue, 3rd party store revenue and having to share the cut with Epic/Steam. The same isn't true for PlayStation/Xbox for me. YMMV but I expect there a enough gamers in my position for them to take a hit overall.

I'd posit that Mario Kart and Animal Crossing's numbers certainly make them firmly "mainstream". But at the end of the day it's just subjective pigeonholing and unimportant.

After a year of being pretty idle (lockdown 3 was a killer) I recently got back into this and it was the starting domino that pushed me back into regular and more hardcore exercise. It really is a great fitness tool and game wrapped into one.

I'd love to see other games that use the Ring-con and as others have said multiplayer

I want them to take as long as needed to make Silksong a worthy successor to Hollow Knight.

At the same time the wait IS agonising.

It's been over 3 years since it was announced and in January last year it was the cover feature of EDGE magazine. Even then it seemed 'It can’t be too much longer, surely!', yet here we are almost a year and a half later with hardly a word on the game.