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@Kidfunkadelic83 Sadly that's 99% of gamers who don't read websites like this. Hopefully some of them will do a search and find articles like this with the fix, or ask a friend who may know. But many won't.

At the end of the MONTH that's a long wait for gamers who are near the end after days. ouch!

In a perfect world I agree all should be listed. However I do think there are some valid reasons companies do this as we don't live in a perfect world.

1) to stop people building a quick portfolio by jumping between companies and games. Why get credited in just one game over 4 years when you could get credited in five or more? This could increase employee turnover, and incentivises loyalty.

2) Not all stages of production are equal. They don't want to incentivise people to bail when the harder stages come.

Regardless both 8 or 11 months sounds like a long enough stint to warrant inclusion.

Hopefully it's the original version!

I don't really care about the backwards long jump or speed running - though that's fun to watch. But I do want my 'Gay' bowser back. (if you hear something else, that's fine too)

@Ironcore "I still don't understand who is buying this."
People with more money than sense.
People who have to have the newest things, even if they won't really use it.
People who get annoyed by tongue in cheek internet comments...

Wait a few years: Switch to output YouTube in 4K

Do you really think N64 and MD games are going to be a lot LESS than SNES & NES?

This is Nintendo.

Though with WND's who knows.

Glad to hear so many gamers are enjoying Metroid Dread. Was on the fence as I didn’t think Samus Returns was as good others, this is just what I needed to hear.

OLED no use to me as play docked 95% of the time since covid, but again glad to hear others are enjoying it and it’s subtle changes are shining through

@Pod I’ve personally replaced sticks because of drift on 8 separate joycons. Both of mine, all 4 of my nephews and 2 of his best friends.

My joycons were less than 2 years old and hadn’t been used much, relative to my other console controllers (less than 500 hours according to games played times)

On the flipside I have only had drift on 2 other analogue sticks over 20 years and 10 consoles. Each of those were over 5 years old.

It’s a much worse problem.

@Rin-go Which part of "to me" didn't you understand?

Hint: Every post here is a personal opinion.

Good that it is reviewing well (currently 88 on Metacritic), but personally I'd also take that with a large pinch of salt.
Samus Returns got 85 which to me was massively inflated.

Salt levels in the comments are over 9000!

@Eddy9000 aha! That would remind me of my twenties… but they’re a bit hazy

@BloodNinja I've got to run and get back to work but just to leave you with the monetary part of the reform vs imprison debate, obvs. far more complex, but it's a start and it is interesting... and sorry... bad form to post and run

In 2020 it cost, on average, around £44,000 to imprison someone per year in the UK.

Meanwhile a year of education at Eton College, one of the most expensive boarding schools (food, board and education included), was also around £44,000.

While i'm not suggesting we roll out the red carpet to all wannabe car thieves, it does beg the question; given better opportunities and education how many would make the same criminal choices?

@BloodNinja Having travelled a fair bit i'd recommend Bali! lol

I'm off to Manchester from the big smoke this weekend in fact.

@BloodNinja Don't you worry we've got PLENTY of that too!

But yes it is a really interesting topic with no easy answers. Yet many feel very passionately one way or the other... often without much basis in fact other than a few dubious statistics and misquoted sound bites. Sound familiar

@BloodNinja Depends on what obligations the judge imposed AND where you sit on the reform vs imprisonment debate.

Usually if they think the scare and suspended sentence has a chance of actually helping the defendant reform they'll go with that. Not least prisons are over subscribed and expensive!

But yes it sounds a little lenient to me as published in the BBC.

@Damo Yeah, doesn't look Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed

Worth £20,000 according to who? Heritage Auctions?

@1UP_MARIO Haha! 👍

@GamingDude800 Apple Arcade??? You mad bro?

The Pathless, Manifold Garden, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Fantasian, Tetris Beat, Thumper, Alto's Odyssey: Lost City, Hitchhiker, Lego Builder's Journey, World of demons, Threes+, Overland to name a few.

PLENTY of great titles on Apple Arcade and £4.99pm is very reasonable if you like playing on the go.

Hardly surprising considering the size of the mobile gaming industry and until Apple Arcade they were mostly just leeching 30% off everything.

The 30% tax needs to be stopped though, even if they have limited it to 15% for apps/games makers making less than $1 million/year (That's for the studio not one game/app)

Apple Arcade IS a good service though, that has tried to undo the worst aspects of mobile gaming MTX/Timers/gatcha/F2P etc. and replace it with full games. It's their best contribution to the industry thus far.

Never played the game, have no interest in it, but i'll tune in.

They have done a wonderful job with these announcements. Pure gaming entertainment filled with in jokes.

Sakurai's long been known as a video game collector and nerd.
Great setup that i'm sure has been upgraded since.

PS5 and XSX are both brilliant bits of hardware.

I'm not the biggest fan of TGAs, but even if you don't like Geoff you surely have to respect his hard work and dedication to gaming over several decades.

His body of work from GameTrailers, G4tv, Kotaku and Spike VGAs is huge. Not to mention his brilliant The Final Hours series.

I'm not his biggest fan, and I find TGA's a bit of a self congratulatory circle-jerk (far too much like the Oscars in that reward) but I have to hand it to him for creating the awards out of nothing.

A hard working man who loves games and gaming. Keep it up Geoff.

@KiraMoonvalley "I'd take 1080p screen and 1440p native docked with dlss to boost it to 4k."

Take my MONEY!!!

Though I think it will be difficult to get 1440p + DLSS in a small enough heat/power profile right now. Few years away.

I wonder why he said that this week of all weeks?
Did they just release a game or something...

Quit with the transparent BS moves Konami. You know full well if you made a decent new Castlevania game it would sell well. Hell an average one would at this point.

There's nothing I want more in gaming that for Konami to sell their IP to someone who actually cares.

@Bobb Same cautiously optimistic. Also wasn't a fan of Samus Returns and it's Mercury Steam again.

Thought It was very good though there wasn’t that much that appealed to me directly

I was definitely in the sceptical until proven otherwise camp.

I think this was a sensible position at the time having owned and been jaded by the Wii U, and to a lesser extent the Wii - a console that abandoned many longtime gamers in favour of short term gains and gimmicks.

I played Breath of the Wild on the Wii U (all 120 shrines). It wasn't till 6 months later when Mario Odyssey came out that it became a must buy for me. I rebought Breath of the Wild and re-did all 120 shrines and more. (It's virtually identical to the Wii U version)

The BIG difference is that third parties and indies flocked to the Switch, the complete opposite of the Wii U.

Joycons still janky AF and could do with a CPU/GPU/resolution boost. But aside from that it's been great.

Having been a little over-obsessed by folders etc. in the previous gens (and on Xbox S X) I now really appreciate the minimalism of both the Switch and PS5 interface more.

Too much going on here.

Don't usually go in for VG memorabilia, or any clutter, but damn I want this!

Sounds like my TV idea from a few years back "Let's hunt and kill the Kardashians" a reality show where every week we hunt and kill popular Influencers for crimes against humanity.

I'll take the royalties in bitcoin please Wales Interactive

Sadly as there is only one not two it's unlikely to be revised joycons that address drift and other issues.

I'm just shy of 76% my file is missing exactly 300 of the 900 Korok seeds. (72% total for all the Koroks, 24% for the missing 300)

Honestly I've completed it and all shrines 3 times across Wii U, Switch and Hard mode, but the 900 korok seeds for the prize of a golden POO is just not worth it imho... and virtually impossible without a guide... which is exactly the opposite of what BotW is all about.

@Kreko were you thinking of others when throwing around insults like a child?

No one needs to buy all of the versions. If they want to that’s on them.

If a GOTY version comes out with all the dlc and it’s cheaper is that a problem? What about a compilation like this a few years later.

Get some perspective and grow up.

@Kreko Looked at another way, you don't have ANY copies of Ori and now you can get both for less... struggling to see what you are complaining about tbh?

Games usually get cheaper over time, and nobody HAS to buy these again, they are the same games. But if they so desire there is that choice. If someone want's to buy every version of something that is on them, no one else.

@faint Someone with some common sense!

I've put almost 1000 hours into BotW across both Wii U and Switch and this is just outstanding. Still surprising me after all this time.

@Yosher Both my niece and nephew have Minecraft on PC but also have it on their Switch's. Tried to get them to share one copy, but no! they love and play it enough to warrant one each.

Guessing a lot of other kids (and adults) are the same.

I've been playing Metroid: Samus Returns in the UK and got a few hits. Never use the service though, but did notice it.

Not in it's current state! one of the worst "remasters" i've seen. Ugly as sin

A few of these games OK.

But still wishing for that proper Virtual Console STORE. I actually want to pay money for some games! Shocking, I know! But honestly Switch is the perfect platform for this.

Instead I'll keep using my jailbroken Vita in lieu of an official option.

My first thought: Raspberry Pi (despite still owning many. Convenience!)

My second thought: Does Chrono Trigger REALLY sell for $200+ dollars (I have a copy of that, Secret of Mana and many many others) I might sell it if that's actually the case.
Goes on Ebay. More like £15 - £35. More clickbait then

These should be donated or recycled. 😠
This makes me mad enough to break something...

@NEStalgia "Nintendo. Nintendo never changes"

This got a hearty chuckle. But while it's so true and infuriating most of the time, I also wouldn't change it!

@NEStalgia Ladies and gentlemen we just found a TRUE collectors item an ACTUAL buyer of the fabled Virtual Boy! We're not worthy. lol.

It's the one main Nintendo console I didn't buy, other than the NES - I was a Shinobi & Sonic / Sega Master System Stan back then.

The 2DS was always interesting because there was a lot of chat about the 3D possibly being bad for kids eyes so the 2DS was made primarily for that market. But a lot of people weren't convinced by the 3D (I flip flopped between having it on max and turning it off) and it ended up selling REALLY well, hence the other models.

It's also classic Nintendo, just like the the Switch Lite. Name a product after it's main feature '3D'S and then drop the 3D; or the Switch which doesn't switch to the TV. So little foresight, i'm convinced they are making it all up as they go along.

Still amazed they haven't made a Switch Lite dock but that is probably next year's revision but only with that new Switch Lite OLED model... and so it goes!

@NEStalgia The makes logical sense. But I've given up trying to predict Nintendo. For decades they've done the unexpected.

This is the company that gave us 6 distinctly different models of 3DS over 6 years including the 'NEW' Nintendo 2DS XL that arrived AFTER the Switch was released. All sold well.

And 4 DS models the last of which arrived Just 3 months before the first 3DS. So i'm not convinced by the cannibalizing argument.

What I am convinced by is that they will have SOME sort of new hardware out sooner rather than later. Just hope it's one I want... but I don't expect it.

@NEStalgia Considering Nintendo have literally denied new models days before announcing them in the past. I'd say so

Though personally I think it's more likely to be a Switch 2 in 2023 (or possibly 2022) at this point. Current Switch is still selling gangbusters.

@SkullDragr It's only a few mm longer which is likely accounted for by the Microsoft Surface style 150+ degree kickstand's hinges.

I'd be very surprised if ANYTHING major has changed in teardowns.