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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 20, 2022 10:37:39 GMT -5
Is pretty nice to see them work in, "I am Ferdinand von Aegir!", especially given the troubles his VA's going through.
Not crazy about that haircut on Bernadetta though think I could get used to it.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on May 20, 2022 13:40:05 GMT -5
Ratings for Skyrim: Anniversary Edition has been listed for Switch, so hey, another port.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2022 9:28:18 GMT -5
The Switch is five years old, yet they refuse to make substantial changes to the user interface or offer anything different to the eShop as far as browsing because there's just so many cheap, crummy games that flood the shop every week with no means to properly weed them out in searches.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 21, 2022 9:31:23 GMT -5
The Switch is five years old, yet they refuse to make substantial changes to the user interface or offer anything different to the eShop as far as browsing because there's just so many cheap, crummy games that flood the shop every week with no means to properly weed them out in searches. Yeah, I kind of continue to be amazed at how bad the eShop's organization is. It was legit easier to find things on the Wii.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on May 21, 2022 11:36:38 GMT -5
Ratings for Skyrim: Anniversary Edition has been listed for Switch, so hey, another port. Sorta. The Special Edition is already on the Switch, and the AE is just adding all the Creation Club stuff into the game.
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Post by castletonsnob on May 23, 2022 13:29:02 GMT -5
What is it about consoles that makes people so tribalistic? I mean, you don't hear Coca-Cola drinkers bragging about how much better Pepsi is or how much better Coke is selling than Pepsi. You don't hear people who own LG Vs bragging about how much better they are than Samsung TVs.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 23, 2022 13:32:32 GMT -5
What is it about consoles that makes people so tribalistic? I mean, you don't hear Coca-Cola drinkers bragging about how much better Pepsi is or how much better Coke is selling than Pepsi. You don't hear people who own LG Vs bragging about how much better they are than Samsung TVs. I mean, you do though. What operating system you use, which wrestling company you prefer, who you ship, what YA romance series you're into, people are just naturally compelled to fight over dumb shit like this.
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Post by Rolent Tex on May 23, 2022 13:42:12 GMT -5
What is it about consoles that makes people so tribalistic? I mean, you don't hear Coca-Cola drinkers bragging about how much better Pepsi is or how much better Coke is selling than Pepsi. You don't hear people who own LG Vs bragging about how much better they are than Samsung TVs. To be fair the companies jumped head first into this. Remember the Genesis vs SNES wars and the shots they took at each other.
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Post by castletonsnob on May 23, 2022 15:38:37 GMT -5
Is Nintendo bad at making consoles?
Would you say Nintendo had exited to home console market?
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 23, 2022 17:13:45 GMT -5
Is Nintendo bad at making consoles? Would you say Nintendo had exited to home console market? Ummm, isn’t their current piece of hardware like the 4th or 5th best selling hardware ever? Yeah, sure, they’re bad at making consoles if your standard is “did it sell more then PS2”
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 23, 2022 17:22:55 GMT -5
Nintendo's good at what they do. They're not great at making powerhouse consoles to compete with Microsoft and Sony in the escalating graphics arm race, but that's also not really their business model and their consoles tend to be a lot more about being outlets to sell their own games than being particularly concerned about third parties.
I do think Nintendo has their failings - the biggest ones being they're like perpetually 15 years behind on anything to do with online, it feels like they pass on a loooooot of free money through their endless absurd resistance to ever lowering their prices on old games to any meaningful levels even though it's a business model that demonstrably works wonders for pretty much everybody else that does it, their desire to innovate can often reach the point of just needlessly changing shit for the shake of changing it with no regard for if it actually makes for a better product, and they reallllly like to exploit artificial scarcity - but between, like, Mario, Zelda, Kid Icarus, Fire Emblem, Pikmin's kind of getting there, Pokemon, Smash Bros., Metroid, there isn't anywhere even close to a publisher with as many, "I'm getting this day one," games for me as they are.
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Post by msc on May 23, 2022 17:23:43 GMT -5
When I was a kid, people were talking up the impending doom of Nintendo.
30 odd years later, I have a kid addicted to Nintendo games and it's the same impending doom tales.
Apparently 2022 is a slump year for them, with profits announced of around 4 billion pounds.
I think its quite clear that Nintendo are very good at what they do. Which is shifting gaming empires to kids, and the resulting merchandise.
Except when it comes to having a Pokemon Stadium game available on the Switch, which I've been hear complaints about the lack of for several months now...
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Post by msc on May 23, 2022 17:25:13 GMT -5
Although can I just add, as an out of touch person, Sonic the Hedgehog being a playable character on Smash Brothers now utterly blows the mind of this former 90s kid!
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Post by Ganon83 on May 23, 2022 19:02:23 GMT -5
Nintendo are absolute geniuses when it comes to the hard parts of the video game business and clueless when it comes to the easy parts of the video game business.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 23, 2022 20:44:50 GMT -5
Nintendo are absolute geniuses when it comes to the hard parts of the video game business and clueless when it comes to the easy parts of the video game business. Come up with innovative new ways to play, new concepts in gaming, and being able to squeeze every inch of power and compression into our hardware... yeah no problem. Get like a fully functional online mode, or like ability to buy a bunch of games and stuff and own it over multiple generations... nah...
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Post by Ganon83 on May 23, 2022 20:49:40 GMT -5
Nintendo are absolute geniuses when it comes to the hard parts of the video game business and clueless when it comes to the easy parts of the video game business. Come up with innovative new ways to play, new concepts in gaming, and being able to squeeze every inch of power and compression into our hardware... yeah no problem. Get like a fully functional online mode, or like ability to buy a bunch of games and stuff and own it over multiple generations... nah... Or even severely cripple their greatest enemy (emulators) by just pushing out everything they have the rights to pre GameCube on a Netflix style anywhere-anytime service. All at once, not drip feeding like they have for a while now.
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Post by Ganon83 on May 23, 2022 20:53:59 GMT -5
Like could you imagine if Microsoft had that software library and what GamePass would look like right now? Nintendo's greatest strength is their library and they have never used it at their maximum potential for no particular reason.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 23, 2022 21:04:23 GMT -5
Like could you imagine if Microsoft had that software library and what GamePass would look like right now? Nintendo's greatest strength is their library and they have never used it at their maximum potential for no particular reason. It really is just utterly baffling. Like... The Switch can run Gamecube and Wii games. This is an indisputable fact. They even have an emulator already made for it that's used for Sunshine and Galaxy. Why in the hell are they not dumping everything from Thousand-Year Door to Eternal Darkness to Pokemon Colosseum to Donkey Kong Country Returns to Other M on the Switch and milking it like absolute crazy?
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 23, 2022 21:05:11 GMT -5
Come up with innovative new ways to play, new concepts in gaming, and being able to squeeze every inch of power and compression into our hardware... yeah no problem. Get like a fully functional online mode, or like ability to buy a bunch of games and stuff and own it over multiple generations... nah... Or even severely cripple their greatest enemy (emulators) by just pushing out everything they have the rights to pre GameCube on a Netflix style anywhere-anytime service. All at once, not drip feeding like they have for a while now. I could kinda understand drip feeding to an extent as to not overwhelm people with choice... but... like... there are levels between eye dropper and flood gate...
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Post by CMWaters on May 23, 2022 21:29:10 GMT -5
Like could you imagine if Microsoft had that software library and what GamePass would look like right now? Nintendo's greatest strength is their library and they have never used it at their maximum potential for no particular reason. Without researching too much...how much of that would be a different in cultural mindset with things between North American viewpoints (Microsoft) and Japanese viewpoints (Nintendo)? I mean, that was a country that wouldn't even allow video game rentals back in the height of the Blockbuster and such stores days IIRC.
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