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It's finally here!!! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DFWJYXTX?th=1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DFX1XFFH?th=1 At long last! We have finally reached the coverted 2TB Micro SD card! The maximum of the SDXC format, and the maximum that the Switch and all other currently commercially available devices can support! Finally! An upgrade worth considering for me... maybe not at the current price though Going beyond 2TB will require SD Cards to move to the SDUC (Ultra Capacity) format, which isn't commercially available yet, nor supported by any currently available electronics device (Supports up to 128TB at 4GB per sec). I suspect that Switch 2 will be the first device to support it, because there isn't really any other choice of mobile storage format that can give you the storage speed that you need to keep up with PS5/Series X games (unless Nintendo start shipping games on SSDs lol).

Wow! Didn’t expect the Hokkaido Serial Murder Case to top the charts in Japan! (20.919 copies sold) https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/media-create-sales-week-37-2024-sep-09-sep-15.3014/ @Ike, it actually outsold the FDC Switch remakes’ first week (12,269) and almost matched Emio’s debut! (25,028). Very impressive for an old school text adventure game!

AFAIK, it’s a standalone story. So you don’t need to have played the others first.

Shocking that it took them this long. The asset theft is so blatant that it may as well have been an Ace Attorney case. Can't help but feel that the damage has already been done. Pocket Pal have already made out like bandits, and the courts may not side with Nintendo for having taken too long to bring the matter to them I fear... Still, it's interesting that they're approaching this from a patent infringement perspective, rather than a copyright infringement perspective... Sounds like they have an interesting battle plan here, perhaps with the goal of opening up Pocket Pal to Discovery; where they will inevitably find more incriminating evidence of their asset theft…

Also, those devices are incremental upgrades that come out every year. Most people don't feverishly buy every new version of a phone that comes out, because they know that each one is a reletively minor upgrade over last year's model that runs all the same apps and does most things exactly the same (but just a bit faster or shinier). It's very different when you're putting out a new generation of console hardware that has a completely new games library, being released 5-8 years after its predecessor. You expect something massively different and new; so when it comes out looking almost the same as the previous console (especially after you already released several redesigns/refreshes of said hardware before), you have a Wii U/3DS situation on your hands. The expectations of a new console vs a new phone are dramatically different.

Just gonna point out that custom PCBs are something quite commercially available now, through services like PCBWay. Would be reletively trivial to make a custom PCB that looks real when making fake console photos these days... That's another reason why I don't believe it's real. It looks too much like the existing model. A lesson that they would surely have learned coming from the Wii U and 3DS (consoles that both suffered heavily in terms of sales & marketing from looking too much like their predecessors).

So I just beat AAI 1 again. Thoroughly enjoyed my time, meme final case and all. Really great playing it again after all these years So now I'm finally starting AAI 2 and I've just gotten up to the first save point in case 1 and... Game's off to an explosive start, especially for a long-time fan!

Damn, that really sucks. Nothing's worse than a save file destroying bug. Yeah, don't touch the game until they actually finish it. Its clearly been pushed out the door way before it's done cooking.

In this age of easily accessible 3D printing and AI image generation, today's fake consoles are gonna be wild

Ahh, we're now getting into the time of fake images. One of the most fun parts of any good pre-console launch window period Edit: Speaking of fake images... here's another one!

Good for Vita fans (full disclosure, I had a Vita on day 1, but just wasn't interested in this game). Personally though, I'm far more interested in the implications of a First Party Playstation Japan Studios IP suddenly coming to Switch. There are a LOT of Japan Studios games I'd be very interested in if they were to come to Switch [cough]Shadow of the Collosus and Everybody's Golf[/cough].

You could say a lot of the same about Japan Studio's IP in general though? The majority of their output was co-developed with outside studios. Off the top of my head, you have Level-5 (Dark Cloud 1-2, Rogue Galaxy, White Knight Story, Jeanne D'arc) Cattle Call (Arc the Lad) Matrix Software (Alundra IP) Media.vision (Wild Arms) Marvelous (Soul Sacrifice) NanaOn-Sha (Parrappa The Rapper/Umjammer Lammy/Vib Ribbon) Everybody's Golf (Clap Hanz, Camelot for the first game) You even have several modern studios that splintered off from Playstation, such as Playrise Digital (former Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool), and Gen Design (former Team Ico/SOTC) that could potentially bring back other forgotten Playstation IP (such as WipeOut). This move opens up a lot of doors all of a sudden!

WTF!?!? This is a First Party Playstation Japan Studios production!! Sony still fully own the IP! That's nuts! So they're now willing to port their abandoned Japan Studio IP over to the Switch? Can we have Wild Arms please?

Have never played BvsDD, one of the few Rare games I've yet to play Nice update!

I bet it was working fine on an earlier version of Proton, but is now broken on the current version. Even more reason for me to wait until the game is fully patched up and actually finished before playing.

Yeah… I think I’ll wait until the dust has settled. Game is clearly coming in hot and being pushed out the door before it’s finished cooking. Gives me time to play through AAI 2 and Emio anyway.

Looking forward to this one. Have always wanted to play it officially in English!

That’s a good problem to have. It’s the sign of a good game

This. Plus the fact that we now have portable PCs like Steam Deck that have stolen the Switch's core USP. I'd say that a new Nintendo console that attempts nothing new or novel is in of itself a huge risk.

My running theory for the past couple of years or so has been a dual screen design using a foldable screen. One large display that can be folded over to make a dual screen display when needed. That way, it can be used as a traditional horizontal 16:9 handheld display, but it can also be used in a vertical orientation like a DS; or even used in Tabletop mode as a front and back dual display (perfect for local splitscreen multiplayer!). With this device, Nintendo would move away from the mechanical rails for the Joycons in favour of electromagnets with QI charging (something previously rumoured, but I came up with the idea first of course ). Of course, it remains to be seen what they would do in TV mode though... Perhaps a screen on the dock itself?

Bare in mind that this is a machine translation, so I'd take the exact wording with a grain of salt. But yeah, the rumours are heating up now and are starting to come from more reputable outlets... Once we see the Nikkei throw their hat into the ring, that's when you know for sure that there's true smoke coming from this fire!

Nintendo moved over all of their console manufacturing to Malaysia about 5 years ago, after the big scandal with Foxconn came out. As such, nobody working in a Chinese factory would've caught a glimpse of any units on the production line. Allow me to present a better theory... https://money.udn.com/money/story/5710/8229942 https://www.resetera.com/threads/taiwan-economic-daily-news-switch-2-will-have-a-dual-screen-design-increased-battery-life-some-ai-features-and-400-price-tag.981882/ Now this definitely sounds more like a "Nintendo-esc" console

I’m gonna have to give you a two tiered answer to that question, because it really does depend on just what Switch 2 actually ends up being. I’m sure it’s no secret that I’ve been a bit disillusioned with a lot of Nintendo’s choices this generation; and with how conservative both their hardware and game design in general has been this generation. So a lot of this depends on what kind of successor we’ll be looking at here, because we still know so very little about it. 1: If Switch 2 ends up being essentially what the PS5/Series X was to the PS4/Xbone (a straightforward SSD/GPU/CPU upgrade and little else), then I’d pay a lot less. Probably a max of £350/€400 if it plays original Switch games with improved performance (similar to the competition), but a lot less if it doesn’t (maybe £279.99? And certainly not until much later when there’s a substantial library in place). And if there’s no BC whatsoever? Then I’m done buying any future 3rd party releases on Nintendo consoles, flat out. 2: If Switch 2 is a proper “Nintendo-like” console, with crazy new input & gameplay gimmicks, and a daring & creative games lineup that bucks industry trends? Then there is basically no limit to what I’m willing to pay. If they make it? I will come, day 1, no questions asked.

Pokemon Box got released in two different forms in Europe. First way to get it was via the Pokemon Colosseum Mega Pak, which was a console bundle (Desperate Nintendo did desperate things back way back in the GCN era!) that included a black Gamecube, Pokemon Colosseum, Pokemon Box (as a loose disc), a Memory Card 251 and a GBA-GCN Link cable. Actually would've been a really nice bundle if you were in the market for a Gamecube back in mid 2004 The other form was as a standalone release, which was only available via the Nintendo VIP 24/7 service (the precursor to Club Nintendo; crazy to think that the UK was the very first region around the world to get a loyalty reward service from Nintendo!). This version came in an actual box and is worth substantially more on the second-hand market as a result... Pokemon Box Box Standalone PAL copies of Pokemon Box typically go for anywhere between £150-300, depending on condition and how complete they are, while loose discs from the Mega Pak can go between £65-85... That being said though... a complete Pokemon Mega Pak console bundle has been known to go for a whopping £400! So concludes this episode of eBay Watch

Tomb Raider Legend is my favourite Tomb Raider game. It was exactly the shot in the arm that the series needed, finally ditching the clunky grid-based PS1-era platforming in favour of smooth character motion more akin to Super Mario 64. The level design is perhaps not as intricate as the earlier Core Design games, but it's well paced with some fun setpieces that emphasise meaningful platforming and some good variety with driving stages and such. Was the first Tomb Raider game I genuinely enjoyed... and sadly also one of the last; as the series basically fell off a cliff once they turned it into an Uncharted clone (oh the irony!).