The thing is, this isn’t an artistic choice. Nor is it an issue with budget constraints. The Pokémon company isn’t a small studio and Nintendo isn’t a small publisher.

I agree that people frothing at the mouth over this is silly, but I also find the dismissive attitude that Kotaku has taken on this topic strange.

Is it really a waste of time to make a background element look decent when it’s going to end up covering 25% (or more) of the map? The game is about roaming around in nature…

at least RDR2 has great horse animations (imo). Riding around in any other game after that just feels... janky.

One of the many annoying things about fandom is that it’s so loud and whiny that valid complaints are lumped in with feral screams.

Suffice to say I don’t agree with this particular take. There’s things to get excited about in this game, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t raise an eyebrow at odd choices or call out things in the trailer that don’t look good.

On the one hand, I’ve been playing Ghost of Tsushima and it’s amazing how dense the grass and foliage is in that game and how it all blows in the wind. I think about how cool a Pokemon game could be with that fidelity.

This is a weirdly defensive article, and a weirdly circle jerky comment section... What are yall doin, yall ok? It’s just fucking Pokemon.

No because Fortnite itself is a derivative of PUBG while most shooters are derivatives of the Halo formula, 4X strategy games are derivatives of first board games and then mostly Civilization, and Among Us is basically just a version of Mafia and we don’t have a problem with those things doing something better or in a…

But does it take 400 years to move your army from the capital to the city being attacked by invaders?

Yeah, perspective time: CDPR delayed their game several times too, each time citing the same “we want to get it right” rhetoric before ultimately releasing it in the state it was in.

Every year or two, I come back to No Man’s Sky and play it for about 20-30 hours. I really enjoy myself for that time, and it is indeed relaxing, but I just sort of lose interest. I really love that game, even though this has been my experience, and I would recommend checking it out for anyone who thinks they might be…

I knew this was a scam! This is why you can’t trust developers to finish their games!

I get what you’re going for here, but - admittedly, just anecdotally - I feel like you’re kind of in the minority: most people I’ve talked to or read about, even when they do ‘switch’ from handheld to docked with their Switch, they also switch from using the handheld inputs to a Pro controller, especially when playing…

I don’t think it removed anything. You can still play the entire game with motion controls.

I can’t speak for everyone, but this is actually the perfect Switch replacement for me. For me the Switch was overall a really bad purchase. None of the Nintendo exclusives really clicked for me. I had fun, but they weren’t top tier. I had a lot more fun playing indies on it. And once you go in that direction, well I…

People who want a handheld indie machine likely already have a Switch.

Hi. I'm a lawyer (so I can afford some luxury items) and because I have a young kid and a wife to share the TV screen with, I have been dying for a solution like this for a long time, so I can play modern games sitting on the couch staring at a smaller screen.

This piece seems to acknowledge the existence of one group but then conflates it with another. The “I want to play this on Switch” crowd and the “I have a Switch for Animal Crossing” are not the same audiences. The “I want to play this on Switch” crowd is almost definitionally of the more hardcore segment, because…

Consider me interested. Design aside, I have wanted a way to access my Steam library and Steam games on my TV for some time, especially now that my laptop is old. The handheld aspect is less interesting to me, but we’ll see. Who knows if this thing will be even remotely available at launch, which means I should have…

I’m still really excited for this idea - more for ‘it’s a cheap way to run a whole bunch of Steam games a $400 PC/laptop probably couldn’t run’ than for the whole handheld thing - but... yeah. That does not look comfortable to play on. And the dual-touchpads seem like a weird choice as well. (All the same, if the dock…