THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW THAT NINTENDO IS WORSE THAN IF POL POT AND MING THE MERCILESS STARTED A KISS TRIBUTE BAND WITH POL POT PLAYING THE SAXOPHONE.

Ok.

No.

They might be worse than Hitler even.

I had so much fun with this game I will replay it on a harder difficulty one day probably. Nice seeing all the improvements made in the meantime.

That’s fine, avoiding things you dislike is very healthy. I question the actual dislike with the number of people pirating Nintendo stuff though. Not liking business decisions of a luxury toy maker doesn’t really give anyone right to just take it without asking.

See other comments here. Long term this is what employees prefer. I work in a company that does a bit of universal bonus and doesn’t skimp on salary increases and that’s much better than me getting 20% yearly salary as an arbitrary bonus because I can’t depend on it to be there the next year.

Someone giving something away for free doesn’t mean other have to. Different companies can think what’s best for them independently. They don’t owe us anything because we live in capitalism.

I work for a company that does profit sharing which is paid out equally to all regular employees, definitely beats circus that happened in places that did arbitrary bonuses. Best place I worked at even though I was a beneficiary of those arbitrary bonuses. You can plan if you know what your profit sharing is based on and people like financial stability.

This is something real to get angry over, for people looking for reasons, you’re welcome ;)

PS5 gamers are in for a treat. This game was released in already polished state but they’re only making it nicer and nicer.

Can you provide a source behind locking games unless upgrade pack is purchased?

Source? Switch 2 is backwards compatible. Why would this game not work?

You can play your copy of TOTK on Switch 2 without paying. Upgrade with enhanced graphics and new features is paid. Nobody is taking anything away from you. Nobody promised anything more.

Nintendo employs people who eat. Go explain why you want to freeload to someone who believes it ;)

This is integrated to the point the app is aware where in the world you are. It’s okay to charge for new things, one reason being that people eat and food costs money.

Entertainment replacing entertainment is fine. Journalism being replaced by ads isn’t.

YouTube is Google though :)

This is a weird comparison. I don’t think we’ve ever had journalism focused on PC big box or DVD jewel cases, even though LGR is trying. There is definitely journalism around consumer media.

When it was still possible to support yourself from journalism you could see concessions being made and certain news being definitely sponsored but it was never as bad as it is now. If you subscribe over RSS you can see how much crap is being created - every new game release means my feeds are flooded with dozens of „Best places to farm underpants in Zenless Zone Zero” or „How to beat minor boss in episode 27”. Google broke the internet.

Best I can do is three fiddy.

If you want to see where this goes check where mobile gaming journalism is currently. After Touch Arcade went tits up last year there’s basically nothing that isn’t 90% sponsored content or a SEO farm.

I’m the same, which sucks because I want to play Hades 2 badly. I think it’s safe to say it should be pretty polished by 1.0, that’s the point of early access when done right.

Supergiant Games have a reputation to uphold, I wouldn’t bundle them with other companies in the business of selling unfinished games, even if they belong to that group.

Despite a screen in the video that says Hades II will launch “first for consoles on Nintendo Switch 2,” developer Supergiant Games clarified on X that the game is also launching on the original Switch when it reaches v1.0. Supergiant is promising to share more information about Hades II, which doesn’t have a set release date, “later this year.”

He just doesn’t know but internet is the place to exchange ideas so we just need to keep trying.

What we think of Elon matters to Elon, so yes.

Thank you for making the effort to write this down. My comment was obviously cheeky too although younglings might appreciate the history lesson :)

You assume too many things you don’t know, that’s no way to come to reasonable conclusions unless you mean to come to predefined notions.

Nintendo creates art and text for decades now mate. They don’t need to steal, they can cross-license that stuff with other IP holders for even more content to train on. You must be thinking of parasitic GenAI companies that do not create anything but bundled Nintendo with them because you don’t like them.

How did you come up with that? There’s no discussion on whether Nintendo sources training data ethically / legally. They could train it on their own property since they own tons too. Given Japanese sensibilities I’d be surprised if Nintendo behaved like Western companies in that regard and that’s part of Nintendo quirkiness that I will defend like a fanboy.

If Nintendo started to cater to that niche demographic they wouldn’t be able to balance that with being effectively a toy company. If Nintendo wouldn’t be the kind of assholes they are sometimes, they wouldn’t make games worth playing too. What they’re doing confuses people because they’re the only ones to do that. I think that’s worth preserving regardless and other people must think that too, otherwise they wouldn’t be so angry about Nintendo approach to roms and stuff - they want to play it even after so much time passed.

The thing about growing anti-piracy disdain - Nintendo doesn’t care about it because pirates don’t buy their stuff. Nintendo sells stuff for children so they are not that interested in building brand awareness by being lenient on anti-piracy enforcement. By the time their customers have money they are playing Call of Duty and Nintendo ain’t about that. Just a different strategy compared to Microsoft or Sony.

Maybe they’re not in the business because they used Hall effect sticks 🤔

It’s not compelling if you own other gaming systems but kids brought up on Nintendo will probably love it. Only Nintendo targets this demographic for some reason and that seems to be working ok for them.

Ah, so that’s why joycons attach magnetically this time! /s

I’d rather buy $5 headphones at a train station shop than to use BT but I envy people less sensitive to latency because I did that and those headphones sucked XD

Enabling that BT connection was a mistake that Nintendo made under pressure tbh. Switch doesn’t support low latency audio of any sort so that feature is useless imo.