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True, but you do have to consider that 4/6 of those games are remakes. We're definitely coming near to the end now and it shows in the lineup. And I suspect that the second half will be every bit as remake/remaster heavy as the first, if not moreso... surely Nintendo wouldn't want to waste Metroid Prime 4 as a current Switch exclusive at this point!?

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240310.html The second highest grossing 3D animated movie of all time is getting a sequel? Who could’ve seen that one coming!?

Dr. Mario, Mario Golf GBC and Mario Tennis GBC come to NSO on March 12th.

June 27th.

May 23rd.

BTW, saw this earlier, but it looks like Balatro does have an official “Kill Screen” of sorts… No idea if it’s actually achievable without hacking, but Ante 39 is as high as the game goes… … also I just learnt that “NAN” is actually official notation in computery mathematics (it’s an initialism for “Not A Number” that basically refers to any invalid figure that can’t be calculated). Who would’ve thought that Balatro could turn you into a maths nerd!?

I literally can't think of anywhere else to post this. From Sakurai's latest video... WTF is this controller meant to be!? I... can't post this controller image anywhere else! It literally hurts my brain to look at it.

It's back up on the EU eShop now... with a PEGI 18 rating owing to "Prominant Gambling Imagery"... That's fucking outrageous. Playstack should sue for libel.

Oshawott has the best song, so they win.

Enjoy your present

Bloody hell! So sudden and all, he was only 68! Supposedly it was a head injury that did him in, dang… … wonder what happens with Dragon Quest now? His company (Bird Studio) holds some of the rights to the series. The series has now lost its main composer AND character designer now. So sad… he was a true legend

TBH, I don’t think we can pin all the blame on it being a PS5 exclusive (though that certainly doesn’t help), because the series has been in terminal decline in Japan ever since FF13. The bigger issue lies in how they’ve continued to abandon the series turn-based RPG roots, in a misguided attempt to chase western publisher trends by continuously trying to force the series into becoming an action game. All the while, their “low effort” “throwback” games like Bravely Default and Octopath Traveller have gone on to become explosive successes that sell almost as well on a fraction of a fraction of the budget. If they want to restore the series’ prestige in its home country? They should make an actual turn-based Final Fantasy game, and one that’s actually good (unlike FF13!). That means a reduced graphical scope, an expansive handcrafted world, meaningful side quests and side stories, a traditional world map, dungeons with proper maze-like level design and meaningful puzzles to solve, and a well thought out and strategic turn-based battle system.

Xenoblade 2's latest Japanese retail sales number is at 303,758 according to the Game Data Library, while Xenoblade 3 isn't far behind at 214,062. Both games had remarkably strong legs for an RPG (a genre while typically sells around 90% of its lifetime sales in its first week or two of sale; a standard sales pattern which FF7 Rebirth will almost certainly fall in line with). So yeah, there's a very real possibility that FF7 Rebirth may fail to beat Xenoblade 2 in the end (and Xenoblade 3 hasn't finished selling either). Yup, bonkers. And yes, you're right. S-E purposly undershipped most of their 3DS and Switch games at retail in order to try and force people to buy digital (famous examples being Bravely Default and Octopath Traveller), so the real sales numbers of their 3DS/Switch games are actually probably quite a bit higher than what is being reported.

Bloody hell! I can't believe it sold less than FF16; that's a full on gigabomba. The FF franchise is just done in Japan. Fire Emblem is now officially way bigger than FF in Japan and FF now roughly on par with Xenoblade, absolutely crazy! Edit: Just realised that there's a very good chance that FF7 Rebirth might not even beat the original Bravely Default on 3DS when all is said and done... (which sold 360k at retail), oh the irony!

Yup. I was right. It’s a Good Feel joint. https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/66512/demo-now-available-for-princess-peach-showtime#:~:text=Additionally%2C although not confirmed by,developed by Good Feel Co. Nice to see that they’re still working with Nintendo after all

Run died on the Boss Blind of Ante 8 with Black Deck. Profound Sadness…

Forget that depressing Embracer TimeSplitters reboot, here's some footage of the REAL TimeSplitters 4! An early prototype of the original TimeSplitters 4 for PS3 was only just found a couple of days ago! It's out there now for those with modded PS3s to try out. And amazingly enough... it actually looks like a TimeSplitters game! A game called TimeSplitters that actually plays like TimeSplitters, what a novel concept!

It was even a prominent plot point in the Detective Pikachu movie.

So... footage of this supposed "TimeSplitters 2 Remake" has surfaced and... https://insider-gaming.com/timesplitters-2-remake-gameplay/ https://streamable.com/ga4vxi ... maybe it's for the best that it was cancelled. Fucking hell. Somehow, the fact that this could've been released is even more depressing than what we thought was being cancelled was cancelled!

Worth noting that Matt McMuscles did a video on this travesty of a game... ... it actually has quite an interesting development history though! Worth a watch!

This came out a couple of years ago and I had no idea! Adds 4 new gameplay modes, including a reworked "Definitive" mode that increases the difficulty to something resembling the older games. Might have to give this a try at some point

It's being published by Nintendo themselves, just like the two games on Wii, so yes. It's a first party release.

Nintendo sued the creators of the Yuzu Switch emulator and won via settlement. Yuzu will pay $2.4 million in damages to Nintendo and shut down all operations involving the emulator. Hell of a victory for Nintendo here. I’m surprised that the emulator developers folded so easily, but I suppose once it was discovered that they were pirating ROMs and confidential Nintendo code/keys openly on their official discord server; they quickly realised that they were fucked.

No you may not have my attention Xbox.

Well this is good timing... False Swipe Gaming just did an updated video on Swampert's competitive history... Turns out that Swampert and Mega Swampert did a lot better in the competitive scene than me or @Glen-i gave 'em credit for!