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Today I learned that this game exists.

Well. Existed, I guess.

@larryisaman It’s sad that this statement is so true. This could be a Switch 2 game and no one would be shocked at the performance.

They could release this on PS5 and Series X and the jank would still be real and present.

@LadyCharlie raises hand I don’t play my Switch online and mostly have the membership for the nes/snes/etc games.

So…you’re wrong.

@-wc- I’m not a history repeating itself type. I’m a “Nintendo found a formula that works and seems to be sticking to it,” type.

Nintendo has always made bank on portable consoles. Nintendo has (almost) always made bank on desktop consoles. Nintendo made staggering bank on a hybrid console model that combines both.

Pretty sure they won’t be going away from this before I turn 50, especially since I’m in my mid-forties.

Btw, what are you not liking about the Switch in general? I use it primarily as a docked console, and other than the CPU being a bit slow, I enjoy it. I enjoy my PS5 and Series X more these days, but still.

@-wc- glances at the massive success the big N has had with the Switch

I…wouldn’t bet on that.

One more nail in my old Wii U’s coffin and I’m happy to see it!

@EightyTwoStu You think that him being able to offer behind the scenes info is…an opinion and not a fact?

Alrighty then.

@EightyTwoStu Was he in charge of a massive gaming company for years?

Then regardless of what else he’s done, he can still offer insight into behind-the-scenes stuff that is actually kinda interesting. However you or anyone else feel about him, that fact doesn’t change.

“The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is not on Switch, no.”

Pro-Switch selling point confirmed!

I was pleasantly surprised by the Sonic films, honestly. Glad a fourth is in the works.

@Luminous117 ALWAYS MOAR DAKKA

@Princess_Lilly I freely admit that I DO have a Nintendo-branded card in my Switch currently. But said card was also on massive discount at the time and I needed to expand my storage badly at the time.

And dem flash gitz know howta paint dem propa, dey loadz da fastest!

A reminder that these cards will live undisturbed inside your Switch 99.9% of the time and a logo on said card doesn’t make it run better than a non-Sonic branded one.

Unless it’s painted red, of course. Da red wunz go fasta, as all civilized people know.

“Stellar year for Atari,” is not a sentence I thought I’d ever read this long after 1983.

@LavenderShroud Exactly. I suspect that for whatever reason NoA/UK/whatever just isn’t down with having their previous/current consoles mocked/compared to other consoles.

Or Idea Factory made some other boo-boo. Either or. But saying it’s a “oh no Christian censorship!” thing is ludicrous.

@HeadPirate Which says exactly NOTHING about what content. You grabbed that and ran into the distance screaming Christian censorship with exactly zero basis in fact. XD

@HeadPirate You’re so far off target on this that it’s hilarious. Look at the other games that Nintendo is still currently allowing to be sold on the eShop and then tell me that the Neptunia series is somehow unacceptable to NoA or Nintendo of UK.

You’re either trolling, misinformed or have to drag politics into everything. Nintendo allowed SENRAN KAGURA REFLEXIONS to be sold for Pete’s sake, and still does.And you essentially GROPE GIRLS in that game.

@Vyacheslav333 Picked it up for $5.99 on Xbox, picked it up for a similar price on PS a few months ago.

VERY odd decision from Sega to not discount here as well.

A Tetris themed event in Tetris 99.

Isn’t that just…Tetris? XD

So a total of…$71.64 for all six individually.

The eshop has the whole bundle on sale for $56.24, fyi.

You can buy a Switch physical copy on Amazon for $74 and for PS4 for $55.12 at the time I write this.

“Don’t panic folks, your games will work!”

Also

“We don’t know if physical games will work…”

So maybe panic, maybe not. Useful!

@Anti-Matter Bad assumption. They only said software will be compatible. They said nothing about game cards. Wait till they actually say Switch game cards will work.

@KingMike Exactly. And of course back then some PSP games didn’t get digital releases so it didn’t work out well.

Really hoping they keep the same game card format here.

@binkster Do tell where you’ve seen official word from Nintendo confirming backward compatibility before this.

I note that it just says Switch software. It doesn’t say anything about physical games, just software.

I really, really hope that it supports the actual game cards and not just eShop games…

@jojobar It’s IGN. They rate slop as perfection and great games as mediocre.

I’m inclined to trust this site more, even with IGN technically owning them now.

@LikelySatan I’m always all about the story in these games. The more cutscenes the better!

@gluccos Well, I mean…they’re owned by IGN now, sooooo

Complaining about cutscenes in a Yakuza game…

This amuses me.

@TotalHenshin Ahh, I completely missed that on my first readthru of the article. That’ll teach me to read things just after waking up!

…is it a remaster if the original game never came out?

Edit: On Wii U, at least? I completely missed the fact it had a mobile release on my first skim of the article!

I love that they’re taking the best approach possible and not changing the games/gameplay AT ALL beyond an optional graphics quality increase.

@SillyG If LRG is the only way, then I’ll just hold onto my PS4 copy and call it good. I’ve got every main game physically there and every one available on Xbox, I don’t need to kowtow to LRG for a Switch copy as well.

@larryisaman And then they’d have to implement it for Japanese, English, German, Spanish, and every other language.

@larryisaman They can’t maintain a consistent frame rate, and you want voice recognition added in on top of that?

Just a favorites section. That’s all that is needed.

Looking forward to it. Hopefully all the people who were gnashing their teeth at the casting from the first movie have settled down a bit, after it turned out pretty darn good.

I hope he joins the beat-cancer group with the likes of Masayoshi Soken and goes on to create even more greatness.

It amuses me that Nintendo Life is reporting on a thing about MS-owned Mojang before Pure XBox has.

That’s all I came here to say!

I used my last voucher for this game.

My body is ready for the moment it releases.

I can’t praise this game enough. Such a freaking work of art.

A perfect combo. Wonder is an amazing game, and I hope this package sells…ahem…wonderfully.

@Diowine Oh, I just hit ignore on them and moved on. The eyerolling was starting to blur my vision.

@larryisaman It’s a lesson that Nintendo has known for years, and that Sony USED to grasp.

They need to re-learn the lesson. I hope they do, as a Sony/Nintendo fanboy.

@GamingFan4Lyf I just hit ignore and moved on with my life. Makes life so much easier!

That also said, this article makes me so glad I have all three current major consoles. I can play games like Astro Bot, Mario Odyssey and…well, some XBox games and not care about who steals/takes inspiration/whatever form who. I just pays my money and plays the games.

@TCKuma OHHHH. Gotcha. Thanks for that reminder, I will instantly disregard those complaints then!

@Anti-Matter I’m not following you here.

Played through it and loved it.

It’s a very polished and gorgeous platformer. It can sit next to most Mario games as just fun. Fans really need to relax, developers take inspiration from other devs all the time.

@LikelySatan Indeed, I’m sure glad other series like Final Fantasy and Metal Gear weren’t ported to the Switch. Imagine how long those would be! Or games like Xenoblade Chronicles with their long cutscenes, oof!

TOTALLY not a good fit for the Switch!

@Serpenterror “Too late” for an MMORPG that still has millions of subscribers and just released a new expansion a couple months ago?

I respectfully disagree.

Thankfully my Stanley Parable preorder is via Amazon, and I’m sure they’ll keep me updated.

Somehow I think Reggie could have had just about any N64 game he wanted by simply asking for it.

@Tasuki XBox has SotN. PS has SotN.

Why shouldn’t Switch? It’s a freaking masterpiece. Whether it was MEANT to be on a Nintendo platform is meaningless. Hell, by that logic, FF7-10 and 12 should never have come to Switch.

Your “it wasn’t meant to come to a Nintendo platform” is REALLY weird gatekeeping.