Maybe new Kotaku staff did not know, but old Kotaku staff were aware:

This is absolutely not the Switch 2. There are recently filed patents demonstrating a device nearly identical to the switch oled, but with notable differences in joycon coupling rail. Additionally (and for some reason this keeps getting ignored) the patent for DS thing makes references to haptic touch controls that…

Musk is a good money man and a decent engineer..

Nintendo isn’t Nintendo either then.

Ethan, please stop willfully misrepresenting the truth.

Valve went to Nintendo to see if they’d have a problem with it, and they obviously said yes.

Mike Fahey died, he was one of the few that made this site worthwhile. Where’s his memoriam article.

“This is something to remember. The people at Gamefreak who are working on this game are spending months and years of their lives developing this new Pokemon adventure.”

I read the first few paragraphs before it seemed to be abundantly clear that you have an axe to grind with this type of game and should not be the one reviewing it.  I stopped reading there. 

No, wait, I’d like to change my comment, if I may. This kind of knee-jerk immaturity serves no one. And obviously it’s more like Chuck Wad, am I not right.

I didn’t call you a neo-nazi, nor a sympathizer, and I don’t think you’re remotely close to one. I know your stance on things well enough. I think you’re a good person who pooped out a Bad Take- it happens to all of us!- and is currently digging in her heels in its defense because you feel ganged up on. 

Honestly, most of what I want is just quality of life/UI stuff.

For anyone who has ever been curious about the game but heard how awful the combat/general gameplay was, just do a pistol stealth build and please enjoy this unique as fuck game. The janky gameplay won’t even be a thought after a couple hours.

Oh fuck on off. Posting a set of legitimate grievances is not a rant. And someone being angry does not invalidate their opinion.

Fine sentiments, but the actual games, especially the jump to 3D (despite Gen 6 being my overall favorite Gen), don’t really reflect that since SO many games have well liked features that are completely junked by the time the next games come out.

No offense, but the whole “it’s about growing” point is undercut by Game Freak’s lack of real growth. The series’s stories aren’t very good and haven’t gotten that much better. The mechanics didn’t really improve much beyond “Hey what if we did two on two” with everything else being gimmicks that make stuff a bit more…

I’m so sorry everyone to bring this out of the grey but I feel the need to display this glorious run on sentence from hell.

Gods, these are completely terrible. What marketing department would approve an illegible logo? And whose idea was the Virtual Boy crimson monochrome color scheme? A blind person?

Excuse yourself from this conversation.

load times actually mater. A lot of game design currently is working around loading zones and texture pop in.  Eliminating that is actually quite interesting from a dev standpoint, and changes how levels and textures are designed.