• GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Also wasn’t gonna buy one anyway but will pretend to have been excited as hell before the price thing. I’ll add that they should make another F-Zero game and have Hideo Kojima write the story.

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        Considering YouTube live streams about games are usually filled with incels complaining about woke, I hope video game studios have a standard policy of ignoring them.

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          I knew they’d eat shit on this one in like 2019. Nintendo goes full hubris mode any time they see success, iwata and fils Aimee not being the evil ceos in charge and more hedge fundy guys taking over. I got a switch in 2021 knowing this all full well but there were enough games to make me want one by then. Things have only gotten to be more of a ripoff as time went by as well cause they had a giant hit and Nintendo always hits the squeeze and the evil ceos who navigated that issue sorta okay aside from the wiiu in the past and but managed the 3ds price crisis okay and did course correct before too much wiiu trouble happened. Hard to course correct when the console is already something thst works conceptually and is an iterative upgrade. Unless they try a wiiu2 when this fails. Also 1st party Nintendo slop has become more and more of a ripoff. Mario vs Donkey Kong or the DK Country wii game remake are easy example. My retired parents got the $50 gba HD remake and have had a great time, I’ve already played the original and cake walked the game when I borrowed it. Wouldn’t be worth a dime to me, add new levels, like double the count or more, which is easy, it’s a simple gsme and I’d have been okay to shell out like $40 or so.

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            So many Switch games are ports, remakes, bland musou games, and content-sparse.

            Fuckin’ look at this list: https://www.lucklessheaven.com/nintendo-switch/games-us

            If we subtract the ports and remakes:

            2017, probably their best year
            1-2 Switch (awful)
            Breath Of The Wild (I say it’s technically not a port)
            Arms
            Super Mario Odyssey
            Xenoblade Chronicles 2
            2018
            Kirby Star Allies (OK, I guess…)
            Mario Tennis Aces (a borderline port)
            Super Mario Party
            Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee/Pikachu (quasi-remake of Red/Green)
            2019
            Yoshi’s Crafted World
            Super Mario Maker 2 (again, basically a port)
            Fire Emblem: 3 Houses
            Ring Fit Adventure
            Luigi’s Mansion 3
            Pokemon Sword/Shield
            2020
            Animal Crossing: New Horizons
            Clubhouse Games
            Paper Mario: Origami King
            Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity (probably the only muso collab I don’t totally loathe)
            2021
            the Bowser’s Fury part of the Super Mario 3D World port
            New Pokemon Snap
            Game Builder Garage
            Mario Golf: Super Rush (has no content)
            WarioWare: Get It Together
            Metroid Dread
            2022
            Pokemon Legends: Arceus
            Kirby & The Forgotten Land
            Nintendo Switch Sports (just barely edges into being not a port)
            Mario Strikers (again, barely any content)
            Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
            Xenoblade 3
            Splatoon 3 (should have been a single-player expansion to 2)
            Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
            2023
            Fire Emblem Engage
            Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon
            The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (again, should have been an expansion to the previous game)
            Everybody 1-2-Switch! (stupid)
            Pikmin 4
            Super Mario Wonder
            Detective Pikachu Returns
            WarioWare: Move It!
            2024
            Princess Peach Showtime!
            Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
            Super Mario Party Jamboree
            Mario & Luigi: Brothership
            Emi: The Smiling Man - Famicom…
            2025
            Metroid Prime 4?
            Pokemon Z-A Legends?

            And only a few of those are new games or even do anything new inside a long series of sequels.

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              I’d argue breath of the wild is for sure a port but Nintendo has hidden it by keeping the Ui in subsequent games even if it’s clearly meant for the gameplay touch screen. Wiiu breath of the wild has way less issue swapping arrows equipment and stuff cause you use the gamepad

              A lot of these originals also fucking sucked or if good weren’t worth the price tag

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      anakin-padme-3

      Are they even interested in knowing what peeps think? Ill bet they aren’t.

      Email survey is the easiest to manipulate. I bet they publish the most positive ones, fudge the numbers, maybe toss in some very soft dissent for flavor and realism and voila!

      An apparent net positive opinion poll, more advertisement of the new feature set, serving double-duty in reducing appearance of backlash and shamin’ away the naysays! Nintendo always has had tight narrative control.