The fact that Black & White and Sun & Moon are the two big examples of the series moving forward narratively is actually telling, as both of those generations were the two generations which did NOT have to deal with new hardware; Black & White was the second generation on the DS, and Sun & Moon was the second…

I just want a goddamn Battle Frontier.

Yes, I remember 2002, and so do all the other 25+ year old Pokemon fans. This is the problem.

This. I don’t need Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Pokemon, I want a Pokemon game that feels like it’s shaken off its roots as a budget Bameboy title and is now the tentpole of the single highest-grossing entertainment franchise in human history. Legends: Arceus seems like a step in the right direction, but it also…

Personally, I don’t necessarily want Pokemon to be more grown-up, I want it to be more ambitious. They haven’t fundamentally changed in 25 years except to add bells and whistles, and they seem pretty relaxed to stick with it.

I dont even care if its more mature, I would just love if some actual effort went into these games for once. Sun and Moon and Sword and Shield are so paint by numbers Pokemon that it hurts, not to even mention the price hike for what is essentially the same animations and models they’ve been using for the better part…

Yeah. When I read this I was quite surprised at the headline...Nintendo normally never directly addresses backlash and often gives a very passive remark or statement that CAN be attributed to some sort of “addressing”.

Yeah, not sure why anyone’s read one boilerplate line as “they’ll fix what’s broken.” He only seemed to mean “we’ll keep adding more games.”

Translation: We’ll add another console to the lineup a year from now. Enjoy your busted N64, but surprisingly well emulated Genesis games.

I just hope they iron out the technical issues because when it works, IT WORKS. Playing online Mario Kart 64 with old friends where it was a staple of our childhood is the kind of warm and fuzzies I was hoping for... Until the brutal lag shows up.

The idea that Mario alone has the fastest car makes the game designer in me cry rivers of blood.

you’ve got a shiny new piece of tech that can replace a centralized database with an environment-destroying decentralized blockchain

Amiibos aren’t unique.  And they are also a physical object.  

No, see, the brilliant thing is that there will be other people playing Mario, but you’ll be only one “owning” Mario. But not THE Mario. Just YOUR Mario.

Oh man, the idea of one of these NFT “game” ideas being subjected to the types of hackers games have to deal with is something I’d love to see.

This is my kart. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

“My Kart is superior to all other karts because it’s my Kart and I own it and” —
** blue shell knocks him into 12th place**

In Mario Kart, as in life, superiority is never a guarantee.

Yeah but think of how valuable those 42 characters would be!!!!!!

“Because your Mario is an NFT, he’s impossible to duplicate. You and you alone own him. And because you own Mario, your go-kart is always better and faster than the ones piloted by other familiar faces in the Mushroom Kingdom like Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach.”

This is an incredibly stupid idea, but Mario Kart is an especially terrible example to use for it. There are 42 playable characters in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and the game has sold 35 million copies. So turning those characters into NFT’s that only one person can “own” would mean you’d have to lock all but 42 people out…