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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 28, 2022 5:53:56 GMT -5
Kirby and the Forgotten Land is the biggest series launch in UK history, selling 2.5 times the copies of Kirby Star Allies and right now ranking above Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and Elden Ring in the UK sales charts.
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Post by King Boo on Mar 28, 2022 18:02:45 GMT -5
Kirby and the Forgotten Land is the biggest series launch in UK history, selling 2.5 times the copies of Kirby Star Allies and right now ranking above Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and Elden Ring in the UK sales charts. I understand completely; it's such a colorful, enjoyable game.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 29, 2022 9:04:04 GMT -5
Breath of the Wild 2 delayed until Spring 2023 because yeah, of course it is. Putting it in the same block as Pokémon seems like a bad idea.
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Post by CMWaters on Mar 29, 2022 9:07:45 GMT -5
Breath of the Wild 2 delayed until Spring 2023 because yeah, of course it is. Putting it in the same block as Pokémon seems like a bad idea. And Xenoblade 3. Even if it's one of Nintendo's bigger franchises, better to have Zelda have room to breathe. And this means I have time to actually hunker down and beat the first BotW.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 29, 2022 9:11:48 GMT -5
Breath of the Wild 2 delayed until Spring 2023 because yeah, of course it is. Putting it in the same block as Pokémon seems like a bad idea. And Xenoblade 3. Even if it's one of Nintendo's bigger franchises, better to have Zelda have room to breathe. And this means I have time to actually hunker down and beat the first BotW. You also don't want to neglect the new Mario Strikers and Mario and Rabbids games and whatnot to give them some wiggle room and not be dwarfed by Zelda.
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Post by Ganon83 on Mar 29, 2022 9:28:33 GMT -5
Ultimately I think what happened there is that they saw how good Kirby is doing sales wise and decided it wouldn’t be a bad idea to release in March or April.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 29, 2022 9:32:20 GMT -5
Ultimately I think what happened there is that they saw how good Kirby is doing sales wise and decided it wouldn’t be a bad idea to release in March or April. I'd say that factored in but the moment they announced a new Pokémon, that said to me that Zelda had to move because there was no good reason to have both of them release at around the same time this year.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Mar 29, 2022 10:06:37 GMT -5
I kind of figured this was going to happen, but now at least they have the opportunity to tie BOTW 2's release date into the 5 year anniversary of the release date of BOTW 1.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Mar 29, 2022 10:50:54 GMT -5
Breath of the Wild 2 delayed until Spring 2023 because yeah, of course it is. Putting it in the same block as Pokémon seems like a bad idea. Is it weird that I'm glad they are holding this back? Now I'll be getting more time to play Splatoon 3 and maybe the new Pokémon without playing it for a month and then putting it on the backburner because Zelda. I was honestly expecting this and would have been more shocked if it did release this year. All in due time.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Mar 29, 2022 10:52:51 GMT -5
I kind of figured this was going to happen, but now at least they have the opportunity to tie BOTW 2's release date into the 5 year anniversary of the release date of BOTW 1. 6 year. March 3, 2017 was its release
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 29, 2022 10:54:14 GMT -5
I'd much rather Nintendo takes the time to release a good game than the bullshit of releasing broken code. I am more than ok with the wait for quality.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Mar 29, 2022 11:03:39 GMT -5
I kind of figured this was going to happen, but now at least they have the opportunity to tie BOTW 2's release date into the 5 year anniversary of the release date of BOTW 1. 6 year. March 3, 2017 was its release Oh yeah, I guess I'm using some kind of reverse Vince McMahon logic when it comes to dates.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 29, 2022 11:48:16 GMT -5
Well that will give me ample time to re-play the other Zelda games with my kid first.
We've completed Breath of the Wild, Wind Waker, and are working on Twilight Princess (Man this game could use an HD remake. EDIT: Which it apparently did get and I forgot about)
Not sure what we will do next, Skyward Sword or Ocarina of Time.
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Post by burdette25159 on Mar 29, 2022 12:59:55 GMT -5
I guess Wind Waker remaster, and Zelda characters in the new Mario Strikers as DLC this year to tide us over, and is there a Zelda N64 game on Switch online?
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Post by chrom on Mar 29, 2022 13:13:32 GMT -5
I guess Wind Waker remaster, and Zelda characters in the new Mario Strikers as DLC this year to tide us over, and is there a Zelda N64 game on Switch online? Majora's Mask
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Mar 29, 2022 13:14:01 GMT -5
I guess Wind Waker remaster, and Zelda characters in the new Mario Strikers as DLC this year to tide us over, and is there a Zelda N64 game on Switch online? Both N64 Zelda’s are already available on Switch Online
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 29, 2022 13:22:47 GMT -5
Really hoping they use this as a cue to finally port Wind Waker and Twilight Princess instead. ... Honestly I'd be significantly more hype for those than I would BotW2 anyway.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 29, 2022 13:39:44 GMT -5
Really hoping they use this as a cue to finally port Wind Waker and Twilight Princess instead. ... Honestly I'd be significantly more hype for those than I would BotW2 anyway. Wind Waker could be more of a port, the WiiU version still holds up fantastic due to the art style. Twilight Princess would need a lot more work visually. I hasn't aged as well since it tried to do a more realistic style as a Gamecube/Wii game, and those issues are made worse playing it on a 4K TV it wasn't designed to be played on I think. EDIT: I just remembered there was a WiiU HD remaster of Twilight Princess as well. I have been playing the Wii release. So.....nevermind what I said I guess, I have no idea how the Wii U HD remaster of it looks
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Mar 29, 2022 13:48:05 GMT -5
Really hoping they use this as a cue to finally port Wind Waker and Twilight Princess instead. ... Honestly I'd be significantly more hype for those than I would BotW2 anyway. Wind Waker could be more of a port, the WiiU version still holds up fantastic due to the art style. Twilight Princess would need a lot more work visually. I hasn't aged as well since it tried to do a more realistic style as a Gamecube/Wii game, and those issues are made worse playing it on a 4K TV it wasn't designed to be played on I think. EDIT: I just remembered there was a WiiU HD remaster of Twilight Princess as well. I have been playing the Wii release. So.....nevermind what I said I guess, I have no idea how the Wii U HD remaster of it looks I thought you were being a smartass about them not being ported to Switch yet when you said you wished Twilight Princess would get a remaster
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 29, 2022 13:48:08 GMT -5
Really hoping they use this as a cue to finally port Wind Waker and Twilight Princess instead. ... Honestly I'd be significantly more hype for those than I would BotW2 anyway. Wind Waker could be more of a port, the WiiU version still holds up fantastic due to the art style. Twilight Princess would need a lot more work visually. I hasn't aged as well since it tried to do a more realistic style as a Gamecube/Wii game, and those issues are made worse playing it on a 4K TV it wasn't designed to be played on I think. EDIT: I just remembered there was a WiiU HD remaster of Twilight Princess as well. I have been playing the Wii release. So.....nevermind what I said I guess, I have no idea how the Wii U HD remaster of it looks TPHD is kind of a mixed bag. It made everything brighter and more colorful, which is definitely a point in its favor, but everything was kind of just reskinned so some aspects of it look rather strange. Ilia in particular looks like some kind of freaky alien. Still, I'd say it's the best way to play TP on the whole if only because they ironed out some of the pacing, especially at the start of the game.
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