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@LG555
Because it makes money? Draw customers in with the allure of backwards compatibility while also selling remasters/ports of current Switch games.

If Zelnick has yet to acknowledge the closure of 2K Marin (the developers of Bioshock 2) even after 11 years, then there is no way he'll acknowledge the closure of any studio ever.

@link3710
Are you sure he was the one leaking the existence of those games, or was he just piggybacking off of actual credible leaders like Pyoro?

For example, somebody on Resetera leaked Metroid Prime Remastered as far back as 2021 (before the release of Metroid Dread) and the details that person provided ended up being 100% correct, so it definitely wasn't Papagenos who leaked that game. Not sure about Mario RPG or Peach Showtime though...

Predictable, proving that Nintendo intentionally sold defective controllers was always going to be near impossible.

I dunno if I believe this. What is PapaGenos's track record when it comes to leaks like this? I recall him being prominent in the Smash Ultimate DLC character scene but I'm pretty sure all of his Smash leaks ended up being completely wrong 😄.

Square Enix incurred a ¥8 billion loss in the last fiscal year despite the release of both FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth, this is completely unsustainable and the shift to a full multiplatform release strategy (that include Nintendo platforms) was inevitable.

@WiltonRoots
I think you are referring to the Walnot Mountain cave, I enjoyed spelunking through that as well.

I think Nintendo did a great job with caves in general given how large and labyrinthine many of them were. To me it was fun to enter a cave just to see where or how it would end.

Beyond caves, another fond memory was completing one of the labyrinths for the first time. Navigating the surface labyrinth, then making my way up to glide across the sky labyrinth in low-gravity, and then diving from the sky all the way down into the Depths to fight the Construct boss was such a genius way to integrate all 3 layers of the world map across a single objective.

Beat him last summer after completing all of the main quests and almost all of the side content so that the final boss was the actual "end" of the game for me, easily the best ending to a Zelda game by far.

Sorry, there isn't an Ounce of truth to this - the Switch successor codename isn't Muji.

Man, the artwork for both BOTW and TOTK is just 🤌

Favorite memories of TOTK:

• The entire Colgera boss battle, mostly because of the music.
• Encountering Colgera again by complete surprise in the Depths.
• Exploring the cave inside the Lookout Landing emergency shelter only to realize that the cave was absolutely gigantic and stretched all the way to Hyrule Castle.
• The Construct Factory + Spirit Temple combo, it was probably favorite dungeon and I hope future Zelda dungeons have a similar design and structure to this one.
• The entire final boss battle and ending sequence.

"We do not think the announcement of the successor to Nintendo Switch and future related communications will have zero impact on Nintendo Switch sales."

They are saying the exact opposite of the headline of this article.

Makes sense as the next evolution of Mario Maker, though making an intuitive 3D Mario level maker won't be easy at all, certainly far more difficult than a 2D Mario level maker.

@Sondheimist
Batman Arkham was also huge back in the day.

The superhero games that have been unsuccessful are the ones that try to shove live service elements in them ala Avangers, Suicide Squad, or even Gotham Knights to a lesser degree. (Speaking of Suicude Squad, I have no faith that Rocksteady will be alive in the next 5 years).

Since the Arkane Lyon Blade game will be a strictly single-player game in the vein of Dishonored/Deathloop, I have faith it won't immediately crater like Avengers/Suicide Squad.

Xbox gaming is starting to look more and more like like Embracer Group.

Seems like that PS5 port of HiFi Rush was a test on whether Microsoft would shut down Tango. Unfortunately, they failed

@LG555
The PS5 and Xbox Series are fully backwards compatible yet they are absolutely filled to the brim with cross-gen games and even ports of some older PS4/XBO games. I'd expect no different for Switch 2.

@liljmoore
Nintendo is a Japanese company, no one over there is asleep right now haha

@jedgamesguy
NSO addition? No, it's going to be a premium game that you purchase.

Almost every environmental asset is new, this is definitely a full-on remake.

It's because TTYD remake runs on the same game engine as The Origami King and Color Splash, both of which were 30FPS.

Speaking of backtracking, this is arguably the biggest weakness of the original GameCube game. That’s still the case in story chapters (looking at Chapter 2 in particular), but you’ll gain access to a Warp Pipe room which allows you to fast-travel back to the other towns. Yes, this existed in the GameCube version, but it’s been tweaked heavily for the Switch release – no longer do you need to break huge blocks to access pipes, nor do you need to remember which pipe goes where. Each blue pipe is labelled with a number corresponding to the chapter you visited that town in, meaning you can easily get back to Petalburg or the Great Tree by simply following the numbers. It might take a minute to unlock, but it makes those Trouble Center requests much easier to complete. And you can access it straight from Rogueport rather than going through the Sewers each time.

Thanks goodness

I find it hard to believe Nintendo would suddenly care to have Garry's Mod content taken down now. Has to be some copyright troll.

“Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends”

Did Saruman come up with this name?

@OctolingKing13
The Switch version releasing fairly recently and being quite successful is definitely sustaining Hogwarts' legs.

@RupeeClock
The global chip shortage started almost immediately after Covid became a pandemic in 2020 and has largely ended by now.

Since Corsi was (at least partially) responsible for convincing Sega/RGG to localize Yakuza for the west, one has to wonder if he will convince them to port those games to Switch/Switch 2 lol

Nintendo owns Yuzu and all of its source code, which gives them somewhat of a legal path to go after Suyu.

Seems like he is saying that the $70 price for big AAA games is too cheap, and as a result the price of AAA games will either go up (to $80 or more?) or developers/publishers will start developing cheaper AA/A games that are priced below $70 to begin with.

TBH I'm not sure I believe him. The market has now largely accepted $70 AAA games - Nintendo is basically the only major publisher who hasn't totally transitioned to the $70 price tag and that is only because they have not released the Switch 2 yet.

Doubling the amount of RAM will not "double the power" of the console itself without similarly upgrading the GPU/CPU. Of course performance will take a massive hit in this case.

Don't be shocked if/when Microsoft becomes one of the strongest 3rd party supporters the Switch 2 once it releases.

Can't wait for Sakurai's next game: Super Smash Bros Director Simulator

I'd love to be wrong but I think it's more likely Xbox leaves the hardware business entirely than make a handheld/hybrid. If they are struggling to compete against PlayStation in dedicated home consoles where they have been a major player for the last 20+ years, I don't think they'll find much if any success in handhelds where they have 0 experience.

@Spider-Kev
Nonsense, he has produced some very good if not outright excellent films.

@Edu23XWiiU
As far as I can tell Derek Connelly has largely been a co-writer for various big movies (most frequently working alongside Colin Trevorrow) and has never written a movie as the sole writer up until now with Zelda.

@Anti-Matter
Funny enough, Everybody 1-2 Switch and its 54 Metacritic score is the main reason why Nintendo didn't rank higher in the chart.

@SpaceboyScreams
I don't see Madame Web on Avi Arad's IMBD page so I guess not. The most recent film he produced was Across the Spiderverse.

@SpaceboyScreams
No, the writers are not the one who wrote Morbius.

One of the producers of the Zelda movie is Avi Arad who also produced Morbius, but he produces every Spider-Man or Spider-Man-related movie at Sony so that tells us absolutely nothing about the potential quality of the film.

@Yozora146_
That too 😆

GameFreak only ever did 3rd versions because DLC sales on Nintendo platforms prior to Switch were quite small (or didnt even exist prior to 3DS). Now that Nintendo platforms have a strong digital ecosystem, doing normal DLC most other games is more than enough.

@Anachronism
Mass video game industry layoffs began happening in 2023 (particularly with Embracer Group), but it has massively accelerated during 2024.

The primary cause is rising costs and stabalization from Covid-fueled growth that is now gone.

@SalvorHardin
I would go so far as to say it would be borderline business malfeasance for Nintendo to revert Zelda back to the old formula that nearly brought the franchise to its knees.

The best way for them to stay alive is to STFU and NOT bring any publicity to themselves.

A sequel would be great but it would need to be done right. It definitely should not be like NSMB2, which was a bit too similar to NSMB on DS and only distinguished itself by focusing on a single largely-uninteresting gimmick of "What if there were coins everywhere?".

On another note, it would be cool to see some elements of Wonder (the Wonder Flower effects, badges, the Souls-like multiplayer, etc) adopted into the next 3D Mario game. Those things should also be in the next Mario Maker 3 as well (as I'm certain the next Mario Maker will arrive before the next mainline 2D Mario title).

@JRiegler
Nintendo already effectively won their battle against Yuzu, Pizza shutting down is just collateral damage.

Since Yuzu was open source, I'm expecting a mysterious new Switch emulator called Uzuy to pop up "out of nowhere" in the coming months.

@imadeanaccount
Electronic Arts isn't even the first company this week to announce mass layoffs.

@AccessibleDaydream
I'm gonna be honest, "lacking Nintendo charm" is such a minor non-issue that I can't believe anyone would be concerned over it.

No new Pokemon game for 2024 is quite shocking and would mark the first time in this franchise's history where there isn't a Pokemon RPG for 2 consecutive years.

At least Pokemon Z is finally real now, just not in the way anyone thought.

@AccessibleDaydream
Correct, the vast majority of people care about Nintendo because of their games and hardware, not because of their quirks (whatever that even means).

Pretty mid Direct for me though the fact that Nintendo is reviving Endless Ocean is quite surprising. The lineup is fine but it's clear that most heavy hitters - both 3rd and 1st party - are being saved for Switch 2.

@PikaPhantom
Exactly what I thought, though it is a bit weird that YouTube would default to automatically choosing Gold/Silver instead of the countless other Pokemon titles in existence.