You’re right, people hadn’t started complaining about graphics/power with the PS2 vs the Gamecube, that was my mistake. But as you said, they were complaining about the lack of third party support, plus the lack of an online service (though the Xbox was the only one who really had much of that in that gen). And the…

Yeah I don’t know how they made all this gorgeous pixel art without ever thinking how awful those fonts look. Reportedly they are being changed for the console releases, though.

Yeah, like look at Nintendo’s previous console release cadence - it was about every 5-6 years. The NES/Famicom took about 7 years until we got the SNES, but that was very different technology and they didn’t really have competition. SNES to N64 was 6 years, N64 to Gamecube was 5 years, Gamecube to Wii was 5 years, Wii…

Exactly. Not to mention, as with any emulator, some games will work better than others. And you’re definitely right regarding sales numbers.

They’re a chicken sandwich restaurant, they probably won’t sell a lot of these as it is but they’ll definitely sell more of them as sandwiches. If you don’t want the bread then just take it off.

There might not be much of an incentive to buy a Switch over a Steamdeck for you and others who know how to set up high-quality emulation and know where to get the new games and who have no moral problems with piracy, but there will always be a market for people who aren’t that. People who can’t or don’t want to mess…

Yeah I agree, I’m still very happy with what the Switch is bringing me. For a long time with earlier consoles (especially Gamecube and Wii), people complained that Nintendo games didn’t look as good as PS/Xbox games or that their favorite multi-platform games weren’t coming to Nintendo, but we seem to have generally…

Yeah, they shouldn’t have said “7-year-old” in the headline, but it is “entering its seventh year”, as it says in the first paragraph.

I honestly don’t remember anything that happened in the Dark Dawn even though I played it years after the original two, but I would play money for a Golden Sun 1-3 remaster.

A little surprised we didn’t get anything mentioned for it the other day, but the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (the first 6 FF games) are all coming to the Switch (and PS) some time this year (I believe “Spring 2023" was the last word).

The main spoiler I’ve seen going around Twitter is regarding a character who dies in the end of the game. I can’t say who it is or how important they are to the story since I haven’t played it.

Debateable if the “Act 1" intermission is them kissing or not, but I choose to believe it is.

Ah, good point, I rewatched the original:

Honestly surprised that Birdo wasn’t there already and I’ve played a TON of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (and Mario Kart 8 before it). I just always play as Bowser, so I don’t keep track of all the different characters (and she is in Mario Kart Tour, which I play a lot of too).

Honestly I forgot about A Link Between Worlds, that’s up there somewhere. Probably right below Minish Cap, but I haven’t played either in years.

Second-best handheld Zelda IMO (just below Link’s Awakening and just above the Oracles). Definitely worth looking in to for old fans and people who didn’t play it before.

It says that it’ll have two control options on the Switch, one close to the original (left stick move, dpad and right stick for visors and beams) and a more modern dual-stick control (which I assume will use dpad and ABXY for visors and beams, though that would mean jumping, bombs, missiles, and morph bomb will be…

I played all three Primes at release, but this will probably be the only one I care enough about to buy the remaster of. But it looks great!

“I’m not interested in gambling, sorry”

With Entei, Suicune, and Raikou, Gold and Silver introduce one of the most frustrating Pokémon mechanics by requiring you to chase these legendary beasts all around the Johto region in order to catch them. This would be repeated in multiple games in the series with a few quality-of-life changes that made it…