That silver one is kind of reminiscent of the original PS3 before it got hit by fan backlash, probably mostly by virtue of being giant silver behemoths, but still. I kind of like it, just not sure I like it $55 more...

Having a movie about Mando and Grogu end up being about Luke and Padme is like if a show about Boba Fett ended up being about Mando and Grogu, so it’s a real possibility!

You are absolutely right, opposite of you I hated The Last Jedi, though based on all the spoilers I heard I actually thought I would love it going in, I just thought it was terribly done even for what they were going for. I loved Brick and Looper so I was pretty disappointed, I guess it really felt like Disney Presents…

I didn’t play FFX for quite a few years after it came out. I’d heard about Blitzball and was so stoked for it, and then after years of waiting I finally played it, and it was a resounding, “eh.” Not quite “meh,” I still liked it, but not nearly as much as I had anticipated. I would definitely welcome a revamp in a…

Fair, I do actually view the Virtual Boy as their most novel console though (I loved that thing), but you’re right that leaves little allowance for actually differentiating anything. I just feel like there’s something to be said of the fact that Wii really didn’t even need new hardware unlike every other console…

You said, “but it seems very likely that they’ll keep the same basic concept and just add a few secondary gimmicks”

I was pointing out more evidence for that conclusion. Despite how much people credit Nintendo for doing something totally different with the Wii, it was still the same basic concept with a secondary…

Not to mention it was based on the Tegra X1 from 9 years ago. The Wii U only ever got one $50 price drop as far as I’m aware despite its abysmal sales. Nintendo’s current pricing model is: t(≖‿≖t)

To be fair, the Wii wasn’t even really a shake up, it was essentially just a Gamecube bundled with a new controller designed for the Gamecube and called a new console... They could have just released the controller for the Gamecube like originally intended and we’d have had the same exact thing except they wouldn’t…

Yeah, I certainly see your point!

But doesn’t shying away from things like 88 and letting it just be a nazi thing give them power by allowing their use to be more effective as dog whistles? Seems like you’re just handing it over to the nazis at that point. I’d think that keeping the name, but making a statement that nazi’s are garbage and you don’t…

I had no idea that Pikmin 4 even got released! :(

Loving all the love for Armored Core VI, but I’m surprised Lies of P isn’t getting more attention, I haven’t beat it yet, but it’s the best not Fromsoft Soulsborne I’ve played yet (unless maybe you count Hollow Knight).

At this point there are two things that should be standard to first party controllers yet aren’t:

Hey now, be happy for him, he’s finally getting married! ^_^

“For those unaware of Kuma, well, first off, rude.”

You’re not wrong! It’s not necessarily a bad thing to not prioritize money (often it’s actually a good thing), but a lot of their decisions just leave me utterly baffled. It would be incredibly interesting to see an Eastern perspective of some projects.

I said that it wasn’t a traditional JRPG. It (along with the other two I mentioned) is a Japanese Action Role-Playing Game (JARPG) to be more specific.

Suggesting that games with prerendered backgrounds are still commonplace because skyboxes exist is certainly a take... Yes, there are some commonalities there, but with that logic, character textures are the same too. Just 2D pictures wrapped around a 3D model with various mapping overlayed on top, all you have to do…

Western RPGs were booming during that period, but JRPGs? There were still decent releases every now and again, but I don’t recall any of them doing that well commercially. After a quick scroll through Wikipedia, Xenoblade Chronicles and Nier had reasonable success in 2010 all things considered? Dragon’s Dogma in 2012.…

I’m not sure what you mean exactly? Would you be able to elaborate?