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@Morrow Things change; perhaps it made sense to be a Switch exclusive when they fist announced it, but a few months later, it made more feasible sense to be ported to other platforms.

Not only does this benefit more gamers, but it benefits their relatively small company as well. This will help finance the release of a NMH3 as well.

@Morrow This isn't a 1st party game, nor did Nintendo do anything to lock down exclusivity for it, so I don't know why you're annoyed or surprised it's coming to other platforms.

Well, it's a UE4 game, so it makes sense that it would go multi-platform and was probably super easy to port.

As for me, I didn't get it on Switch, but maybe I'll pick it up on a Steam sale down the line.

In 2016, Sony moved PlayStation HQ (Sony Interactive Entertainment) to California, and ever since, we've seen more and more problems arising for Japanese game developers and gamers. It all culminated late last year, where it was revealed that Japanese developers are being forced to censor their games, even those released exclusively in Japan, and those who wish to dispute it must submit their response in English:

https://nichegamer.com/2018/10/27/new-sony-censorship-policy-is-forcing-even-japanese-developers-to-censor-themselves-in-japan/

Ever since, Japanese gamers have been super p'd off at Sony. The general feeling is that, it feels like Sony is pushing western ideologies and politics on to Japanese gamers. Furthermore, Sony execs have essentially said things like, 'Japan needs to get with the times like the rest of us', further angering Japanese gamers and even PlayStation's Japanese president said censorship was to 'protect the children': www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/12/sony-japan-president-says-ps4-censorship-policy-is-to-match-global-standards-and-protect-kids/72781/

With PlayStation's anti-Japanese developer/gamer censorship policies, a lot of Japanese gamers are jumping ship from PlayStation consoles, in favour of PC and Switch. Also, it's the fact that PlayStation is a Californian company now, so Japanese gamers don't feel any national loyalty to PlayStation anymore.

In response, seems like Sega will be porting more of its big franchises, like Persona, to PC:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/65722/sega-refocuses-existing-ips-promises-more-pc-ports/index.html

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/sega-wants-to-focus-more-on-overseas-and-pc-markets

https://www.pcgamesn.com/persona-5/sega-games-pc-port

Kodama isn't even the right person to ask about a sequel. Someone like Shuntaro Tanaka, who wrote and directed Skies of Arcadia, and the first Valkyria Chronicles (who Vyse and Aika cameod in) is the more appropriate person to ask.

I personally want the smaller Switch more. I don't really consider the Switch to be a portable; I find it too large to stuff in to a coat pocket, like I could with Nintendo's past portables.

@NintendoFan4Lyf @icerzerocool There are pocket gaming PC's, like the GPD Win 2 or Smach Z, that could play this on the go as well.

Portable gaming PC's are an upcoming tech, largely thanks to the new range of smaller, more power efficient processors coming out.

I have it on PC with the ENB graphics mod, which makes the lighting look so good I could never go back to playing the murkier vanilla / console versions.

@JaxonH Nintendo is too reserved compared to him? This guy is literally pro-censorship.

Policenauts (1996; PlayStation): "When Policenauts was being evaluated, Shuhei Yoshida of Sony Computer Entertainment told Kojima they were discussing the extent of breast jiggling in the game."

Kojima: "I'll never forget arguing over the 'breast jiggle issue' with Shuhei Yoshida, who was our SCE contact at the time."

Shuhei Yoshida: "We need to be inclusive of all genders, ages, races, sexual orientations"

Fair statement, but Sony are censoring fan service games, so they're inclusive to everyone, except the fanservice market of gamers.

Dead of Alive Xtreme 3: "In Western countries, the awareness on how to treat and express females in the medium such as games are very differs from Japan."

Except, it's realistically only a vocal minority of extremists in the west that are complaining about said games.

By that logic, surely he should equally be listening to the large number of people in the west who complain about violent video games, who want to see such games banned / censored.

There's some other examples of his idiocy out there (e.g. saying Dragon's Crown was poorly received in the west, due to its titilation, when the Metacritic says otherwise).

The belief that Shuehei Yoshida is laid back and unreserved, is quite erroneous. He may be seen as Sony's only likeable exec, but he's just as bad as the lot of them.

@Dezzy The relationship mods in the Bethesda games would fall under soft/hardcore, depending on which mods you installed.

But to your point, there aren't that many games officially made from the west these days, for obvious reasons of snowflake culture, etc.

@deafswin37 Says the guy who literally keeps replying to me, just to throw insults ("little boy", "troll", "get a life"). The irony of you calling other people, "losers", might be lost on you.

Now please, actually ignore me this time. I don't even want your name on my own ignore list.

@deafswin37 So in other words, you're just a bully who dislikes people for no particular reason, other than they're a "loser". Gotcha.

@Dezzy Skyrim/Fallout 4, etc on PC + adult mods.

@deafswin37 Why? Please don't tell me it's because he didn't review Ghostbusters 2016...

"Lol, Duke Nukem is a terrible character, whose viewpoints belong in the pas ... "

*this just in, Duke of Switch Edition Set To Storm Switch This Summer!"

"... I have always loved Duke Nukem! Duke Nukem is awesome!"

@BulbasaurusRex Actually Sony Interactive Entertainment is an American company; they moved their HQ from Japan to California in 2016. And now, all games, even those exclusively released in Japan, have to be certified through their offices, which is the reason why certain Japan-only games are getting censored. Even worse, Japanese developers who wish to plead approval for their game to be on PlayStation, need to now submit their request in English. But even their Japanese President recently stated that their censorship policies are about 'matching global standards' and to 'protect the children'.

"This means KH3 and Monster hunter World, etc on the Switch!"

Not necessarily... it depends. If those games can't run on the OG/weaker Switch, and are only for the pro model, then they'd only be targeting a potentially very small market of gamers. Might end up not being worth the investment to publishers.

Nice. It's about time these quirky adventure games started showing up on the Switch. All I want now is a new Hotel Dusk or similar game, from Taisuke Kanasaki on Switch.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was Sony paying them to not publish how much they're getting beaten by Nintendo.

@Octane Just pointing out that Nintendo released a digital camera for a gaming device first.

And I'd call the EyeToy more of a Richard Marks idea, less an internal Sony R&D idea. Marks wasn't employed by Sony when he came up with the idea in 1999; he was later employed that year after presenting the idea to them.

@Haywired The Wii didn't invent Motion controls, it just popularised them to a mainstream level. But you could argue Nintendo were doing motion controls to some extent with stuff like the NES Zapper before that. And there were other motion controls and camera based gesture technologies that existed before the EyeToy as well.

@Octane

I own both the Wii U and Switch copy of BotW, but ended up playing through it on Cemu on PC. The game just looks stunning running at 60fps and native 1080p.

@ThanosReXXX Ah, oh well. That's been happening to me a lot lately with I try to post images on here. I'll edit it later. Your post explained the Morphus better anyway.

But yeah, it's funny; I remember this SuperMetalDave64 video at the time mocking Eurogamer's leak and stating how the idea had already been done before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynqq3wetjQE

@ThanosReXXX I beat you But touché with the videos

To be fair, it's not like the Switch is an original idea. This thing, the Aikun Morphus x300 was first seen long before the Switch was announced:

Had removable Joy-Cons, too:

It'll probably be censored to some extent on PS4; rule of thumb with these sort of games is to only get them on Switch/PC.

Nice man cave. Loving those chairs; I need to get a gaming chair like that.

In my opinion, if you haven't played the classic JRPGs of the 8-32 bit eras, go play those before you play a fake old school RPG.

The frame rate needs a lot of work. Maybe they're removing it because it's a bad indication of the final product...

Eastshade on PC

@impurekind Ah right, gotcha. Yeah, I played a few maps from Nintendo games in Pavlov VR, and those were awesome, especially the Majora's Mask map.

@Malcrash The Phoenix Wright movie is really good.

@impurekind I have an Oculus Rift as well; how do you view this in VR? Like what browser, etc, are you using?

Damn, that's really sad to hear. Been a fan of Reggie even since his epic E3 2004 debut. Nintendo press conferences, etc, are just not going to be the same without his presence.

They can try, but China, South Korea and other non Japanese Asian countries really don't care all that much about console gaming, they instead prefer PC and mobile.

This would be amazing if true.

@Hughesy I think the Oculus Rift's resolution is perfectly fine for its $350 price point. But yes, the Switch is unfeasible for VR; either they're releasing a beefier Switch or this VR headset won't use the Switch's screen. Ultimately though, this is an Emily Rogers rumour, so it's best to take it with a grain of salt.

@Octane You probably haven't played Skyrim VR on PC with graphics mods. Also, Skyrim VR supports multiple control schemes: Teleport, Smooth Locomotion and regular gamepad/MKB controls.

More VR games are doing smooth locomotion now, but yeah, it is annoying when certain games only do teleport. Though, in the case of Budget Cuts, the teleport movement worked really well in that game.

@Charlie_Girl Why not, though? 🤔

@Fandabidozi I know, but why were you directing it at me? I not only have a phone, but I was also directing someone in the comments to try the game for free on Google Play.

@JaxonH We'll see, but based on the trailer, it wasn't resonating with me. For me, it comes down to how good the story is; if they can craft a narrative nearly as good as NieR: Automata's then the game will have my full attention.

@Fandabidozi Why are you asking me that?

A game that literally came out before a lot of NL users were born.

That's a shame. I would love to see what Sakurai could create in VR. With the Oculus Quest, I think VR has the chance to become more mainstream, by offering a $399 all-in-one device, maybe that's the type of device Sakurai needs to try to quell his interest.

@Wanjia I'm just trying to provide you with a means to play God Eater 3. You seemingly appeared to own a gaming PC and didn't want to buy a PS4 for the game, so I was trying to help a fellow PC gamer out. But if that's how you want to be, then fine.

@Wanjia It's not your PC alone that has to be connected by Ethernet, but the Steam Link as well. You shouldn't be noticing any visible lag after that. Only in the most fast paced twitch games, played with a mouse may you notice some miliseconds in delay, but for anything played with a gamepad, it's perfectly fine.

But I'm using an nVidia Shield, which is considered much better for local game streaming than a Steam Link; it even supports up to 4k60 with HDR, unlike the Steam Link. So my experience might be quite different from yours.

@Wanjia You would have it connected via Ethernet. Your boot up situation is very anecdotal, it literally takes seconds to boot my PC. But I generally keep mine on sleep, and SteamLink/GameStream will automatically wake the PC when the game is started; and can also put it to sleep again from Steam big picture.

@Wanjia For situations like that, I just have my gaming PC connected via my Shield TV, and play the games from the living room TV. The nice thing about PC gaming is the options of how you wish to play.