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Mentioned it in the 3DS eShop thread but until the end of today, Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow are 30% off making them £6.29

They just reduced the price by 30% for Pokemon so they're back in my good books :p

Why the fuck are Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow out of stock? How the hell can a digital game be out of stock? Are they insane?

This is the one thing I'd agree with, it has to be more than this.

Sooo... what's the deal with the title of this thread?

But it was never referred to as fact by Eurogamer. There's a difference between multiple sources claiming something (which can be anyone), and publishing something based on how much you trust your sources. Anyway I'm not saying this is 100% certain, just that I would be very surprised if Eurogamer embarrasses themselves over this.

Eurogamer are being pretty ballsy if this turns out to be fake. They're not even calling it rumours, they're saying this "is" the NX based on multiple sources. If it turns out to be wrong, they're going to look like idiots, so I doubt they'd take such a forward approach if they're at all skeptical.

Yes... exactly... I don't understand the confusion here, I thought that was obviously the whole point of the system (although I never said multiplayer).

Well, the idea is for it to be played on the go right? So you take it to a friend's (without the docking station, because presumably that adds more features and a power brick or whatever) put it down and play. In this circumstance, absolutely it would need a stand.

I wish caterpie was more common around me. I'm drowning in Weedles, Pidgeys and Drowzees but still haven't evolved a Butterfree. What I really want is more Gastlys! Do they only come out at night? Went for a walk near Manchester on Saturday, around a reservoir, caught loads of water types I didn't have, as well as Dratini, Slowpoke and Slowbro. It was obvious that loads of people were playing as well. Tried my first attempt at a gym but didn't realise that the leader would have multiple pokemon, higher than the one showing. Their first was a 400 Pidgeot but their best was a 1000+ ice type, forgotten which. Afterwards, hanging out with a bunch of my younger family members and their close friends... we were all playing it and talking about it :p I took my first gym as well, yesterday morning, but the Vaporeon I left there was returned to me before I'd even gotten home :p Hatched Mr Mime and Aerodactyl on that walk. No matter how much content there was, the buzz for the more casual players would die off very quickly. Almost every very "casual" player I know doesn't know a thing about the game, I've taught all of them what evolution is for example. So ultimately the game will lose interest within weeks no matter what but if a significant update comes out a) it will pop up on their phone that the game was updated and they will investigate and b) the buzz might be rebooted on social media. I think it was best that they launched the game as-is. I wouldn't really call it buggy either, at least not in my experience. Server-side features struggle and the main one is currently offline (distance measurements) but that's a result of the overwhelming popularity, which would've happened no matter what. No degree of testing and debugging could've prevented that.

The main reason I never played UA2 was that it never dropped in price, even years after release. Now this is announced and the price is still ridiculous. $60 for two old last-gen games that weren't that amazing in the first place, with hardly any upgrades? "We wanted to stay as faithful to the originals as possible" is like calling a small room "cosy", just a way of spinning the fact you spent no effort upgrading the visuals. Typical Activision...

I'm not sure all aspects of the buff apply to consoles. I can't turn a 90 degree corner without jumping for example (saw someone else do it).

No it can't run in the background but why would you think you have to hold it? Put battery saving mode on (the in-game option, not a device setting) and put it in your pocket upside down, the screen will go off to save battery but the game is still running.

Sonic Mania looks fucking amazing. I can't wait. It's pretty much exactly what I laid out above although I wouldn't have expected the old-school visuals, and that makes it even better.

A quote... from who? A developer? :p

You're basing your logic on themes of a game not released in English. I'm basing mine on the logic of how to market, produce and sell a movie with a cute cgi mouse as the main character.

Imagine if the meet had been this week, with Pokemon Go at the height of popularity, that would've been the whole day sorted Very much looking forward to this :-) think I'll buy myself something to sleep on this time....

And yet it's clearly going to be the opposite. It will appeal solely to young kids who think Pikachu is cute, and have absolutely nothing for fans of the games.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. They might be smart and tie smartphone usage to the console similar to Sony remote play and Xbox's smartglass, but with more depth, but I imagine they're able to appreciate the separation of what makes this app popular against what a console needs to succeed. Hopefully, the NX is not heavily dependent on a gimmick which will age. Also, AR is a long way from being what makes PoGo popular IMO. It's the collectability, real world/outdoors nature and self-generated social aspect. Everyone I know turns AR off most of the time to save battery.

http://n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57035

Seem to be! I'm out of pokeballs for the first time anyway....

Do you play console? Torb's nerf has been the most looked forward to and immediately celebrated change for me and the other N-E players. It's way overpowered on console, snapping round and killing squishies instantly at any range. Even Widowmaker doesn't make a good counter given there's never a line of sight over 40m away. Stacking Torbs was an impassible cheese until today.

Iron Fist looks great, don't really know anything about the character but looking forward to that. Wish a few more things were coming out this year though

"somehow" "by intentionally tricking the system" :p