I think it’s a but silly but I also understand from a business perspective drawing a hard line on that to avoid messy wiggle room between definitions. The thing I’ll follow that with is I’m totally fine with cheating as long as nobody gets an unfair advantage. It’s incredibly silly to suggest that mods will hurt a…

You’re right about the battery, but I figure they could probably get away with streaming from one half to the other if they’re separated. Wouldn’t be great for, like, super precise fighting games, but probably fine for the average game.

It is classic but that doesn’t mean it isn’t targeted, haha

Admit it: you phrased the title this way to make people feel old when they see the DS called “classic” :p

Gengar has always seemed like a boring blob to me. Haunter is definitely cooler. Sadly middle stages are often overlooked.

I think my top 10 (in no particular order) are Blacephalon, Chandelure, Phantump, Pumpkaboo, Mimiku, Dhelmise, Sableye, Hisuian Zorua/Zoroark, Lunala, and Dragapult. 3 of those are Grass/Ghost, which continues to be an excellent combo for designs (and Decidueye and Bramblin almost made the list).

Well, I was planning on waiting until it was F2P to try it. Every once in a while I had to go back and check the FAQs to be sure I was remembering right that it was going to end up free, because everything I saw about it seemed to be treating it like it was going to be paid forever. It seemed like they were trying to…

so might as well quiet them down for a year with the announcement

You’re “allowed” to, yeah, but it turns out there are a lot of things that you’re “allowed” to do that are kinda shitty that you shouldn’t do.

“Sir, people are getting grumpy about ES6 not being announced”

As another commenter pointed out, the most surprising thing would have been if they didn’t do anything differently in that scene anyway. This doesn’t really give anything away.

Yeah that’s fair, my math was wonky. I excluded the first of each of course, but then I was mistakenly thinking of the Gamecube -> Wii -> Wii U chain as 3, not 2.

And there’s literally no reason to expect that

No, you’re remembering wrong, you could transfer your Wii save data to your Wii U and play your Wii virtual console games on your Wii U from the Wii dashboard. The catch was just that it wasn’t copied from your Wii, it was completely transferred, so you couldn’t play your VC games on your old Wii anymore.

I don’t think it’ll be “just” a Switch Pro, but I don’t think it’ll totally reinvent the wheel. I expect something like the DS -> 3DS, where it’s mostly a performance upgrade but with a few gimmicks/tweaks to set it apart.

The wii player base is the same as the wii u

When I say “consoles” I meant handheld and home consoles, not just home consoles

The Switch didn’t because the Wii U playerbase was tiny and the form factor/physical media weren’t compatible. It was a necessary evil. Unless Nintendo decides to eliminate this phenomenally successful form factor that they merged their handheld and TV console divisions to make, there’s no reason to think that’ll…

Requiring internet for a system that’s built around being portable is a nonsensical idea

That’s not nothing, especially coming from a company that has historically been happy to try completely new things from one console cycle to the next and get players to buy games they already own all over again on new platforms.