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I don't need it to be 4K.
I don't need it to compete with Sony & MS.

But I do want a little more power. It's seriously old tech now and struggles on many games with more ambition.

Games like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 dropped as low as 368p in handheld mode at launch. 368p!!! It looked grainy as hell and the frame rate was bad too.

I wouldn't mind a 720p minimum in handheld and 1080p minimum docked as long as those were minimums.

At a push 1440p docked would be great. It's a really solid resolution that still looks good on 4k screens would be a perfect balance but probably asking too much.

Aside from resolution a better processor and ram to allow better framerates and textures and just enough specs to allow ports of next/current gen games.

Considering how much tech has evolved I don't think this is too much to ask at a similar pricepoint.

@Ralizah "I'm guessing this'll be a cross-gen release with whatever Ninty's next console is. Hopefully around 2023 or so."

HA! i've been thinking this more and more with MP4, Zelda and (presumably) Mario all suddenly taking longer than expected.

It depends on the game, genre and price.
It's also always subjective.

But personally I would almost ALWAYS take a shorter focused experience over a bloated cut'n'paste fetch quest filled time sink

i.e. don't create needless busywork just to artificially extend the length of your game.

Having been a Wii & especially a Wii U owner I was a sceptic!
Glad to see it all worked out.

Gameplay was great!
Story was woeful even if it tried to hit some deeper notes.

Could live with the last but they did a dirty to Samus turning her from the greatest bounty hunter in the universe into a simpering fool crying about Adam and 'The BABY' ad nauseum.

I'm all for creating a deeper character but this was seriously regressive stuff.

TLDR: She became a female manga cliché! #NotMySamus

Many of these were great at the time, but time has not been kind to many.

@nessisonett I wouldn't be too bothered by Dune either... if Denis Villeneuve wasn't the director.

Brilliant from his early stuff like Incendies & Prisoners, to later bigger budget projects like Sicario, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049.

@BloodNinja "If that's the case, we will start to see more evidence, as the story seems to be in it's infancy. If not, then we know it's more hearsay."

I'm not sure this is 100% true. The studio is based in Spain and very few reporters have the contacts or confidants for this sort of access.

It's similar to the very infrequent reports of the state of some of the support studios in Asia. We know it's happening even if there aren't a wave of news about it. On the whole Western news has a very short memory and news cycle, especially for things not on it's doorstep, and it quickly moves on to something else.

In this case it's been reported several times before that the boss does a great job of keeping people quiet through a culture of fear and making a point of ruining people's careers. Yes these were just a couple of new articles and a few anonymous posts on things like Glass Door, Neogaf, reddit etc. It COULD be just a few really disgruntled employees but then why don't we see this after the release of every game with so many other studios. Plus there were similar stories after Castlevania LoS1 & 2, this isn't a new thing.

The Glass Door rating of 2.4 is the lowest I could find for any game studio, even Konami gets a 2.5... lol

Just to further add if you look at this Glass Door reviews it is an abysmal 2.4. That's one of the lowest I could find for a game studio.
Looking at other studios/companies comparatively.

• Mercury Steam - 2.4 / 5 (just 1.8/5 for Culture)
• 343 Industries - 3.0
• Retro Studios - 3.2
• Blizzard - 3.5
• 4A games - 3.6
• The Coalition - 3.7
• N.O.E. - 3.8
• Gearbox - 3.9
• Ubisoft - 3.9
• EA - 4.1
• Nintendo - 4.1
• Bloober Team - 4.2
• Insomniac - 4.3
• Santa Monica - 4.7

IMO Mercury Steam has always been a badly managed studio.

UPDATE: Konami gets a 2.5. So I guess Jim Sterling had it wrong all along, Konami is not actually the worst. lol

@Lordplops "Stress is a part of a lot of jobs, deal with it." BAD take.

Mercury Steam have LOTS of history here. It sounds like the boss is a total tosser. Loads of complaints after Lords of Shadow 1, even more during and after Lords of Shadow 2. Not surprised to see more here.

On the counter side obviously disgruntled employees show things in a bad light, things likely are quite as bad as they say. But that doesn't mean they are good either.

Reading between all the lines it sounds like a bad workplace with a top down toxic culture. That shouldn't be acceptable under "stress is a part of jobs"

EXACTLY what I expected.

@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.