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I don't think anyone can honestly think that any other Nintendo platform had a comparable 7th year to the Switch.

@EaglyPurahfan
Imamura mentioned how developing F-Zero would cost a lot, whereas developing Everybody 1-2 Switch probably cost about as much as a large coffee from Starbucks.

As I suspected, the game is mediocre but not a reputation-destroying catastrophe. The story of this game's development was ultimately more interesting than the final game itself.

GCN games aren't going to NSO when Nintendo is selling their HD ports or remasters on Switch.

Final Fantasy uses to sell 1.5-2 million copies at launch in Japan, while Zelda used to sell 300-400,000.

The situation has now flipped.

I'm surprised Nintendo even bothered to do any previews for this game given how it was internally considered one of their worst games ever.

Given these impressions I guess the game will still suck but won't be an unmitigated catastrophe like RedFall or The Lord of the Rings Gollum.

Basically reconfirmed Nintendo's plans from late 2021.

The audio files containing recordings of that talking flower probably accounts for a significant proportion of the game's overall file size lol

Switch isn't a direct competitor to Xbox/PlayStation because of it's greater product/software differentiation, but they are all still video game consoles that share the same general business model and shelf space. They are absolutely all competing for consumer dollars.

I thought that one shareholder who attended a meeting just to ask for free Super Nintendo World tickets was crazy, but this goes beyond that lmao

This would be the 2nd 1st party 3DS remaster on Switch after Miitopia.

Can't wait to see this beautiful boy in HD

Feels like the first time since Mario made the jump to 3D that a 2D Mario game has the same zaniness and creativity as the 3D Mario games.

Wonderful announcement.

I don't really have any strong feelings about the minigames themselves, which look very similar to the ones in the original 1-2 Switch, but that horse host is quite off-putting.

Iterative sequels have no issue selling well on Switch - one is dominating the charts as we speak.

The issue for Ubisoft is that a lot of people bought Kingdom Battle simply because it is the cheapest and most regularly discounted Mario game on Switch. Sparks of Hope is neither as cheap nor as frequently discounted as its predecessor since it is fairly new, so it won't sell to the price-conscious consumers who Kingdom Battle such a big success.

It's telling that Kingdom Battle still outsells Sparks of Hope from time to time.

Gotta eat crow on this, I thought there was no way a Driect would air this month. It seems E3 not existing anymore simply means Nintendo will air the Direct at the end of the month rather than near the beginning.

There is no way Meledandri would reveal any details about the next Nintendo/Illumination project in some random interview, especially with the current ongoing writer's strike that makes confirming any project a challenge.

@fenlix
Neither of those two games are great, but they are a lot better than Balan.

@Magician
That has less to do with Arzest being a bad developer and more to do with Yuji Naka's poor leadership causing massive internal strife during Balan's development.

MK1 looks really good but not that much better than MK11, whose Switch port ran decently enough (solid performance in the actual fights, not so much in the Krypt). I'm not too concorned about the Switch port.

I'm more interested in how Hogwarts Legacy will run on Switch.

No shock here. Illumination's CEO literally sits on Nintendo's board of directors and probably even has right-of-first-refusal to all Nintendo movie rights.

As long as Aonuma is supervising, I'm sure the quality will be fine.

@Elitepatriot
I find it hard to believe a Zelda movie will use anything other than a modified version of BOTW/TOTK's artstyle given that they are the two most popular Zelda games by far.

Apple needs anything and anyone they can to help sell their $3500 Vision Pro headset.

@StarPoint
I said this before and I'll repeat it again, but I'm even if Nintendo was hosting a Direct imminently (they won't), there is no way a game like Everybody 1-2 Switch would show up. These blue ocean-oriented titles are almost always announced on their own outside of Directs.

@Bolt_Strike
I don't think there will be a Direct this month, but a game like this would have never been announced at a Direct. Titles like Labo, Ring Fit, Brain Training, Game Builder Garage, etc were also announced via Twitter, outside of Directs.

Dillon is probably dead now, which really sucks but isn't too surprising as it has always been one of Nintendo's smallest franchises. I assume most of the Vanpool devs are going to end up joining HAL or Nintendo.

Really shocked at how sudden this was. AlphaDream's death was more predictable given their failed internal projects, financial struggles, and severe lack of technical prowess (they had little to no experience in HD game development or even 3D modeling). On the other hand, Vanpool never reported any financial issues, worked as a co-developer on a very successful franchises in Kirby, and were technically equipped for modern game development.

I'm not sure how much more Nintendo could add to this version of Hyrule. Simply adding more sky islands, more caves, and deeper Depths won't have the same impact again.

Nintendo did an excellent job expanding Hyrule to make it feel somewhat fresh again, but for the next Zelda after TOTK, a brand new map/world is probably needed here.

Never really thought the existence of this game was all that great of an idea to begin with.

Beyond the functionality (or lack thereof) of this Project Q handheld, it is also quite possibly the ugliest officially-produced PlayStation product I have ever seen. It looks like someone just used Ultrahand to glue two halves of DualSense controller to a tablet screen.

How the heck is "brand momentum" even measured here? And why should anyone use Sony's own brand momentum tracker (which will obviously be biased toward their own brands) as opposed to the brand momentum tracker of an unbiased 3rd party?

Try not to discover an item duplication glitch challenge: impossible.

How I feel when playing Tears of the Kingdom:

@CharlieGirl
Delaying this 3.0.0 Home update is the quality control, otherwise it would have probably introduced some (possibly game-breaking or save-file corrupting) bugs to a game that is already filled to the brim with bugs.

But knowing GameFreak, the Home update will probably launch like a week later (i.e. May 30/31) and still introduce a bug or two to Scarlet/Violet.

They didn't just bring a clownshow, they brought the entire circus.

In all seriousness, someone must have been discovered some last minute bug.

They really gotta come up with a better naming scheme lol

• Fastest-selling Zelda game ever
• Already the 2nd best-selling Zelda game ever
• Fastest-selling Nintendo game ever outside of Japan
• Biggest Nintendo launch ever by revenue

We just witnessed a historic launch, it won't be until the next Zelda game when these records will have a shot at being broken again.

I'm not an Overwatch player but isn't PVE the biggest feature that made Overwatch 2 different from the first game?

@Polvasti
Yep, BOTW did the exact same thing.

@Haruki_NLI @Giancarlothomaz
Going by Nintendo's revenue projections for the coming year, there won't be a Switch price drop whatsoever (or if there is, it won't happen until the very end of the fiscal year ala March 2024).

@RasandeRose
SNES and GBA were not on the market at the same time lol

I don't think this is a spoiler but I'll mark it as one anyways, but from what people have told me, nobody who has the game has been able to finish it as of the writing of this comment.

Sigh...I haven't seen any leaked footage of the game but I did run across a single image file that spoiled something big.

Time to leave log off social media now.

@Diogmites
Be careful, Nintendo ninjas are going after you now.

By the end of its box office run, the Super Mario movie will likely make more money than both Sonic movies + the Uncharted movie combined.

Microsoft convincing the CMA to drop their console gaming substantial lessening of competition concerns over Call of Duty, only for the CMA to block the deal anyways over cloud gaming, which accounts for ...check notes... under 1% of the global gaming market, is the ultimate irony.

Whatever happens, please...no "Nintendo Cinematic Universe." The last thing I want to see is Mario popping up in a Zelda movie for no good reason or for Link to randomly appear as a cameo in the Luigi's Mansion movie, etc.

I tried this on Switch back when it launched and it ran pretty well (close to locked 60FPS IIRC). I stopped playing as the game didn't hold my interest for all that long, so I guess later updates killed performance?

He didn't have the makings of a varsity plumber.

Anything Mario-related should fit very well with Illumination. Kirby, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon could work for them as well.

Anything more fantasy-oriented like Zelda, Kid Icarus, or Fire Emblem would be better suited for Dreamworks.

Metroid should be a live action film - not sure which studio would work best for this though.

@Discostew
Yeah, Nintendo USA and Nintendo JP don't exist, it's Nintendo of America and Nintendo Co Ltd (NCL).