Honestly, Nintendo plays a different game then Sony, Microsoft and third parties. They are focused on short term profits and getting as much money as they can within 90 days of launch.

Unrelated: Looks like Kotaku has gone full Polygon-layout-but-worse. That home page is a mess to look at. I’m glad clicking on ‘latest’ brings it more in line with my expectations.

This is what happens when you are both extremely popular and refuse to discount your games after a few months of release like your competitors

It amazes me how often Nintendo releases a console that is considered a “failure,” everyone predicts their doom, then they come back and kill it. See Virtual boy -> Gameboy color, Gamecube -> Wii, and Wii U -> Switch. 

Now that they're only selling tens of millions, they have no choice but to go third party next gen /s

Because their competitor is making sure controllers are compatible, so they have undoubtedly been getting a lot of questions about whether or not they will follow suit.

I mean, Super Mario World was the first Mario game I ever played, and I always assumed that the cape along with the “super” in the title was an allusion to Super Man, thus explaining Mario’s powers and abilities. I actually thought it was rather cool, because Mario was just an average guy. He wasn’t an alien from…

One detail from this leak that I’ve found interesting but I haven’t seen anyone discuss (and I for the life of me can’t find anywhere again) is that an earlier version of Mario’s cape sprite showed him wearing a helmet, which really gives the impression of a daredevil flying through the air. I always wondered how they…

Battletoads is an animated beat ‘em up that’s doing everything it can to channel the love and nostalgia around the 1991 release.

That looks terrible. The comedy is way too forced. This reminds me of when people try to remake or sequelize a bad B-movie.

I’m not usually a fan of these special shoe designs but this one works well enough that I might have to buy them. Going to have to swap out the laces for something that pops a little more, though. Any idea on the cost?

always bugs me when I put the number of years since the game was kickstarted into the headline and forget that development actually started in 2010-11.

Those are kinda clean. I hope I can get a hand on them. 

Alex Trebek: “Star Citizen, Half-Life 3, Winds of Winter, Doors of Stone, functional American politics.”

Did they just... roadmap their roadmap?

Yeah, the story goes Sturges sent him a copy of the film ahead of the release to get Kurosawa’s opinion on it. He loved it and sent back a sword.

My favorite fact about Kurosawa that he sent John Sturges a sword after he saw the magnificent 7.

This game is such a love letter to Kurosawa, and it’s great to see Japanese fans and critics really embracing the game. Funnily enough, Kurosawa spent his entire career being criticized for being too “Western” - and then Ghost of Tsushima becomes a critical darling in Japan. :P 

Let’s all take a brief moment and truly appreciate how ludicrous it is to name something “Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2.”

For God’s same: Stop with the flushable wipes! You think your house is messy now? Try messy & stinking like your whole family’s shit AND all the prior owners’ shit with an inch of backed up sewage in your basement (or crawlspace or backyard where the sewage pipe bursts!) because it may take a while for those wipes to…