[Nintendo] Star Fox Adventures was very good

Chincymcchilla

Speed Racer wrote: »

I mean I've payed full price for warioware games before

Have y'all not?

This looks like literally Warioware with more casual-friendly marketing

I have! 30 bucks, and it didn't require multiple people to play

Mr. G

I really hope the boxes for Switch games are tiny, like Japanese Gamecube games



I have a few import Gamecube games and the boxes are so cool

bowen

Mr. G wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/819952890286460928

THANK YOU

LuvTheMonkey

Amazon has them but i can't find their Zelda Switch entry.

bowen

afaik there's no zelda themed switch

but the "Master Edition" comes with a switch carrying case and the master sword + map and CD

LuvTheMonkey

Oh yeah no, I mean the game itself.

Mr. G

https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/819956802741747712

Nintendo: fucking up in new and unprecedented ways

Frem

I was kinda waffling on it, but just in case they sell out, I went and preordered the Switch (and just the Switch) at my local GameStop. (Which I actually really like; the people there know their stuff and aren't scumbags.)

They had 16 units, and only a couple other people had put down a deposit for one.

Radius

Mr. G wrote: »

https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/819956802741747712

Nintendo: fucking up in new and unprecedented ways

priceisright.wav

Knight_

Mr. G wrote: »

https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/819956802741747712

Nintendo: fucking up in new and unprecedented ways

Boy Nintendo managed to just fuck up everything huh.

I still preordered one but I'm pretty sure I'm going to cancel it at this point. Too expensive for not enough power with no games. Breath of the Wild must be eating all their development teams.

Radius

Not enough power doesn't even make sense, it's playing Skyrim

Mr. G

Unless it's like, 20 bucks for a full year, I don't see any reason to pay for online, especially since Splatoon 2 is coming out in the free window

DrDinosaur

So the paid service gets you:
Online Play
A free game every month but only that month
Voice chat on your phone
"Game invites" from your phone

Is that it?

Wyborn

Mr. G wrote: »

Unless it's like, 20 bucks for a full year, I don't see any reason to pay for online, especially since Splatoon 2 is coming out in the free window

I'll be wanting to play Splatoon for a logn time so I guess they got me

Lasbrook

https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/819957925976350720

This is not a good look.

vagrant_winds

Mr. G wrote: »

https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/819956802741747712

Nintendo: fucking up in new and unprecedented ways

Wait, so it's just a rental?

Mr. G

To be clear, it's not like PS+

Once the month is up, your access to the game is gone

Grey Ghost

Is Nintendo or anyone else selling cases for the tablet

Knight_

That's what I read his first post as, so not at all surprised.

This is Nintendo. Of course they're going to make the worst possible decision. Unless online is super cheap for the year it's just another overpriced piece of an overpriced pie.

Chincymcchilla

voice chat ON YOUR PHONE????

What absolute garbage

SyphonBlue

Mr. G wrote: »

https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/819956802741747712

Nintendo: fucking up in new and unprecedented ways

what the fuck

jgeis

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if "voice chat on your phone" meant "a conference call with the other players"*

*Additional cellular voice/data charges may apply

DrDinosaur

I guess if you have Nintendo friends that you don't want to give your phone number to, there's a very small use case?

But you could download, like, Discord instead and voice chat for free

Do they figure Nintendo IDs are the premier online identification system and nobody would be comfortable with anything else??

Librarian's ghost

Okay. Amazon Pre-order obtained and Target one canceled. Now to make sure Target refunds me for all the money they charged?

Grey Ghost

If my local Gamestop won't fuck me on it this is definitely the kind of thing I will take the 3rd off for and go pick up Zelda at midnight and play forever

Mr. G

The online stuff is all incredibly stupid

But like, I wasn't gonna do online anyway, so

Grey Ghost

I want online for Splatoon, but I don't need to talk to anyone

SyphonBlue

I now have negative confidence that purchases will be tied to your account instead of hardware

Mr. G

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I want online for Splatoon, but I don't need to talk to anyone

And that's the thing, if they really wanted to incentivize paying for online then maybe they shouldn't launch literally their only major online multiplayer game in the timeframe where it's free

Knight_

SyphonBlue wrote: »

I now have negative confidence that purchases will be tied to your account instead of hardware

I never had any confidence that was going to happen, so not at all surprised.

Kwoaru

Mr. G wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I want online for Splatoon, but I don't need to talk to anyone

And that's the thing, if they really wanted to incentivize paying for online then maybe they shouldn't launch literally their only major online multiplayer game in the timeframe where it's free

I think having online be free during the period they need their online multiplayer game to build a loyal audience actually makes a lot of sense

they just need to also plaster the whole thing with YOU GOTTA PAY TO PLAY AFTER X DATE SIGN UP TODAY

Wyborn

Mr. G wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I want online for Splatoon, but I don't need to talk to anyone

And that's the thing, if they really wanted to incentivize paying for online then maybe they shouldn't launch literally their only major online multiplayer game in the timeframe where it's free

Seems like a decent play to me

I'll definitely pay to continue playing Splatoon online, and also Mario Kart

Grey Ghost

Also I sure as shootin' don't care about playing NES or SNES games, ever

Madican

Preordered through Amazon when it came back up. Still waffling, but I have two months to think and budget because Amazon won't charge until it ships, which is super nice.

Mr. G

PS if you asked me a week ago I could have written down on a piece of paper and folded it up to reveal on this day "Nintendo is going to reveal at least 8 monumentally stupid decisions that cause people to not buy the machine and I will be loudly and stupidly saying none of them are dealbreakers for me"

Goose!

Mr. G wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/819952890286460928

I was able to reserve mine. Just got the plain gray because whatever. Just glad to have one through Amazon, I had a $100 gift card I was saving for this.

Goose!

I mean, if they decide to make it ANY NES or SNES game in the catalog, and you get to pick, and you get to rent it for 30 days? How is that a bad thing?

Mr. G

Fire Emblem Direct announced for 2 PM pacific on January 18th

Wyborn

Fire Emblem direct next week, January 18th at 2PM PST

A lot of Warriors stuff apparently

SyphonBlue

Mr. G wrote: »

PS if you asked me a week ago I could have written down on a piece of paper and folded it up to reveal on this day "Nintendo is going to reveal at least 8 monumentally stupid decisions that cause people to not buy the machine and I will be loudly and stupidly saying none of them are dealbreakers for me"

None of them are dealbreakers for me, either

But they are monumentally stupid