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Think I might buy the Paper Mario Thousand Year Door remake while it's on sale digitally ready for the Switch 2. Kinda tempted by Skyward Sword again at the same time but I'm never really sure if it's for me.

Yeah paying eighty buckaroos for a game is just a straight turd sandwich. Not even mildly interested in paying a premium for 8nm silicon that drains system battery in two hours. I'll just get a Steam Deck, and still be able to play Prime 4 on OG Switch.

The original Joy-Con was "good enough" for me too, even with the shortcomings so I'm fairly confident you'll be right here that these will be enough for me again. The expensive of buying another set and then another grip on top of that doesn't fill me with joy, mind you! Am I right in thinking there isn't an official grips to buy other than the charging grip, much like the original Switch? I ended up just buying a couple of unwanted standard official black grips that come with the Switch from eBay so that I had 4 sets the same..

Don't be a doomer bro, we got good games. A lot's riding on Virtua Fighter 6 now though...

TBH, the new Pro Controller feels like a superfluous purchase to me. I reckon the new Joycons & Charging Grip (which comes with the extra mappable back buttons) is good enough really.

We knew that news on it was coming at Celebration, and there were some recent purported leaks of earlier builds, but the marketing machine has finally started for BitReactor's turn-based tactics game, Star Wars Zero Company! Per StarWars.com: The upcoming turn-based tactics game puts you in command during the Clone Wars. An Umbaran on the left, a Jedi, a smuggler, clones and Mandos, I'm curious to see if there are any customisation options for your squad! Platforms still TBC – Switch 2, I wonder?

Same as the rest of the industry. Going down the toilet.

Garou is one of my favourite games of all time, but all the shenanigans with silly guest character is kind of harshing my vibe with this game. I played both betas, and while I like the systems, the button arrangement makes it so awkward to pull off feints correctly. Also the KSI and Speed trailer was just Saudi oil money trying to make this game a bigger deal than it's ever going to be to the mainstream market. The hell is going on with fighting games recently?

Just like when we were all kids I do the same, get the challenges in on any games for some PSN credit. Did save some for a PS+ renewal last year, saved me about £25

New trailer: Still can't decide on whether I'm picking this up at launch...but the radio silence on performance/patches on Switch 2 for other S-E JRPGs I need to catch up on is certainly helping its case!

Delighted to heard about the improvements to the controllers 🙂 I've been exclusively a joy-con user throughout the entire Switch generation and never bought a Pro Controller. I like having controllers that can do everything the console has to offer without only being able to use one controller for certain games. Having said that, I had been considering the Switch 2 Pro Controller if only just to feel something considerably different going into the new console but I did expect the joy-con 2 to be a significant upgrade. The sticks are definitely the weakest part of the current joy-con (not just the drift but the lack of travel too) so it's so encouraging to hear your positivity about the improvements. Will it be good enough to deter me from the pro controller? I wasn't entirely sold on the Switch 1 Pro Controller (one of the reasons I never got one) but the new one somehow looks much more enticing!

My purchasing on brand new games has fallen off a cliff over the past year or so. I'm mostly happy enough to wait until things go on sale. I've been quite tempted to back to the PS3 as there are a lot of games on there that I never got around to playing. Most are pretty cheap as well. Indeed.

Crazy but not surprising. Nintendo is up there with the worst (in my opinion the worst) when it comes to re-releases and pricing. Then again, these days every company is the worst

This is why I do my challenges. New games are pretty much a birthday and Christmas thing now.

I did read about that but wasn't sure if it was true or not. Crazy if it is.

Not forgetting re-releasing Breath of the Wild at an increased price, and not including it's DLC (game is 8 years old) Usually by now, console prices are coming down in price. Not going up....... The PS5 digital edition is practically the same price (near enough) as the disc edition PS5 was at launch now. Coupled with an increase in PS+ in some areas, this really is becoming a niche market. I did read on a Reddit post that Sony may want to consider re-branding the PS5 Pro into the PS6 going forward if prices just keep going up. On one side now, it's making the Switch 2 look better.

Considering how things are playing out, I feel Sony will do the same as well. I'm still working through PS4 games and will probably be doing so for quite a well yet.

The first game on a Nintendo console from Black Box Games, a noteworthy studio because after making a little known game called SEGA Soccer Slam, a large chunk of the development staff would splinter off to form a little studio called Next Level Games; yes, THAT Next Level Games. First in a long and storied line of OTT sports games and excellent first party Nintendo titles to come!

Annoying news. Not particularly for me, though. I'll probably stick with the PS5 until quite a bit into the 2030s. PS+ is keeping me afloat and it's not too big of an investment per year.

The UK price of the PS5 digital being the same price as the Mario Kart Switch 2 bundle is probably great news for Nintendo.

It's honestly getting to the point where I'm really hating this hobby more and more. Prices of games continue to keep going up and that's without putting things like battles passes, DLC, season pass on top of the main price. Games are launching half baked and not even fully on physical media. Every company seems to be nickel and diming their user base, which is probably because the audience is shrinking and so they are needing to squeeze every penny out of the gamers they already have. Even Nintendo are at it, what with them charging for a tech demo and increasing the price of their games. The industry is just a mess.

I was surprised as well. That said, with where I'm up to in terms of playing, I'm very fed up with American Football. NHL Hitz 2002 We Know Hitz! NA release: 18th November 2001 EU release: 3r May 2002 JP release: N/A Developer: Black Box Publisher: Midway NGC Magazine Score: 79% Mods Used: Widescreen Hack With the success of NFL Blitz and NBA Jam, it’s quite surprising that it took this long for ice hockey to get the same treatment. With the tackling and actual fighting that goes on in ice hockey, it really is the perfect sport to turn into an other-the top nature, and it works incredibly well here, making this a highly enjoyable ice hockey game. One aspect that Hitz does extremely well are the unlockables. As you earn points for playing the game, you can unlock new crazy teams and stadiums to use, which meant I could set a village pond as the rink for Llaneron’s ice hockey team – they did well enough at American Football that they figured they’d try out other sports. Ice hockey did get a bit crazy, as they went up against pirates, woodmen and were even taken to the moon to compete against aliens. Hitz is fast, fluid, controls well and is just all round fun. The fun stuff to unlock gives more reasons to continue playing and there’s a surprising amount of detail in all the silly ice rinks. It’s a great sports game with a lot of nice touches. Great Remake or remaster? Over-the-top sports games need a comeback. Official Ways to get the game There’s no official way to play NHL Hitz 2002.

Indeed it is. Came back quite late last night but ended up putting in a 3 hours session Sitting at 8h now and while I did figure out a few things, the overarching thing is still a complete mystery to me. Some things still make no sense to me, at all. Fun times. Also: Figuring out a code for a certain safe was a nightmare. First I fell into my usual habit of making things way too complicated. Then it hit me and I thought: "Oh, drahkon, you idiot - KEEP IT SIMPLE". I entered the code and...no dice. Then I realized: "Oh, drahkon, the US is a dumb dumb country - use a different date format." I entered the code and...no dice. Then I realized: "Oh, drahkon, every other country is a dumb dumb country - in Germany we tend to celebrate that holiday just a tiny bit earlier." I entered the code and...FINALLY the safe opened Stupid dumb dumb people. Anyways, this game is fucking incredible. And I've barely scratched the surface. I'm not even sure if I'm even seeing the surface...

It would certainly seem that way I feel like the smart move here, if the US price was set to change too, would be to either namedrop the US situation as the reason why, or to say that a change to the price of the console in the US is currently being looked into. As it is, it absolutely feels like we're being punished for their stupidity, and to make it even worse? They dropped that news slap bang in the middle of the night over here, hoping no-one would notice. Also, totally missed this before (as the price changes aren't included in the table), but this also impacts some markets in EMEA territories. 100%. My first thought went to some kid who had been saving up for the PS5 Digital, the lowest price option, and now they've gone and randomly bumped it up. As someone who had to do the same to get the PS2 the year the PS3 launched, for only £60, from a Cash Converters, I had to check what the price is like for the console at Cex at the moment, and while it's just below the original RRP (£350 for a boxed console, £330 not), I doubt they've clocked onto the price hike here, so I might keep an eye on it, purely out of curiosity. How a kid whose parents aren't that well off is meant to save £350+ (let's not forget the games) for the cheapest entry point into the hobby via PlayStation's latest system is beyond me. I'd say get a PS4 instead, honestly, but you know how kids can be – I've heard a few accounts of kids being bullied these days less for what they did when I was in school (race, sexual orientation, gender identity, hobbies, etc.) and more for the tech they don't have. Like you say, they're pricing people out of the hobby, and even worse, pricing those out who perhaps could do with the escape that games can provide most and not giving them the chance to enjoy games when you get by far the biggest chance to get the most enjoyment out of them: as a kid. No wonder PC and mobile seem to be the go-to pick for people new to the hobby these days even with some quality games to boot, it really seems like they've skated by on the library and good will of the PS4 this gen. It's a shame Xbox has gone the way it has because, with no direct competition, I fear this only gets worse come the PS6.

In terms of Nintendo lotteries, most recent i got into was that "Mystery Game" thing they ran last year, didn't get into others. I mean, it is what it is. Wasn't lucky with Nintendo, i guess that was meant to be. I certainly fitted the criteria, but it was a lottery after all. Speaking of lotteries, ShopTo invited me to upgrade my Back Order (i was meaning to pay it last week) to a confirmed Day 1 order, just have 24 hours to pay. Sounds corny, but i trust ShopTo more than i would Argos, and Amazon with it's 2 days after release delivery date as confirmed (i checked with customer services, they confirmed the 7th as delivery day and wouldn't be any earlier)