Bash, come on. You’re better than this clickbait headline.

1. That is part of the reason people are mad - they know it cost Nintendo virtually nothing to make this, but they still charged the full $60 for it and gave it a limited release to artificially drive up sales. It comes off as being greedy, especially since (as you said) we all know they’ll do it again.

Only slightly?

I would go so far as to say “wildly out of touch”, but then again I openly admit I’ve not had the financial success they’ve had, either.

It honestly feels like, sometimes, they know people want something, and then go out of their way to do something different, just to fuck with them.

It’s true that you’ll still be able to get physical copies, but once they are no longer making new ones and you can no longer get the digital version, expect the prices to be a lot higher than $60.

there’s an old saying when it comes to Nintendo: “Nintendo, making the hard parts look easy and the easy parts look hard.” they will completely reinvent their core franchises perfectly on the first try (Breath of the wild, Mario Odyssey, Metroid Prime, etc.) but ask them to do basic network play, voice chat, or…

Whether one is “that” pissed about this is a matter of interpretation - what Nintendo is doing is cynical and greedy exploitation of FOMO to coax people into forking out money they perhaps would not have spent otherwise.

There’s just no logical reason to stop people who didn’t have a Switch (or a spare $60) for these six months to ever be able to buy these games. It’s more than “weird”, it’s an anti-consumer marketing ploy. For Super Mario Bros 35 I can almost get it because it really is designed as a celebration of this one game and…

On the other hand, outrage is an unlimited, abundant resource, so it’s fine to freely dispense it towards anything and everything that rates on the stupidity spectrum.

Lol fuck off with the apology. They knew the product was shit. If they believed the PS4/X1 versions were decent they would have sent them out as review copies and would have allowed reviewers to use their own footage ahead of release.

As an aside, it appears that one of the developers snuck in a right wing dogwhistle into the game...

If you want your reviewers to clap like a seal because the game looks and feels expensive, IGN.com is right there.

So now you can look great. Under your helmet... 

• Uses copyrighted Pokémon character and Pokeball in merchandise

Why the entirely unnecessary misogynistic insult?

Yes cause this was the take we were all looking for. Let’s judge her by her looks. Jesus Christ, gamers continue to be the absolute worst. Please eat a bullet. 

It was probably a 24 hour comic challenge.  It’s fine if it’s not your cup of tea, but you can just, you know, scroll on past it.

You don’t have to click and read these comic posts each Sunday.

In your other article, you lamented the lack of options that let you create a character that looks more like you. But in this one, you’re bashing players for doing the same. Seems kinda strange to me.

I often wonder why people go to such great lengths to create works based on other properties instead of just building it out as a wholly original thing. Things like this, or huge mods.