It’s Miyamoto’s baby, and he’s more than earned getting to keep doing a series that doesn’t sell a ton but that he loves to work on. That’s why we still have Pikmin games despite how many other franchises Nintendo has abandoned that probably sell the same or better. If only other publishers would let their Miyamotos…

This comment section has so many people asking who this device is for, and then getting smug replies like “People who want to play games without looking at their TV, duh!” So we’re just pretending that Switch, Steam Deck, Backbone, et al don’t exist? THAT is why people are asking who this is for -- because there are…

It’s interesting. After FFVII came out, the people who hated it and continued to swear by the earlier entries — and only doubled down on doing so with the releases of VIII, IX, and X — seemed to all unanimously agree that the distinction of “Best Final Fantasy game” belonged to either IV or IV. It seemed like you were…

I think price point will be key. It’s no doubt a huge undertaking, but realistically, they have to look at it as a documentary and ONE single 40-year-old game. If it’s priced like a special-edition Blu-ray, that seems fair. But if they try to go 40-60 bucks for it, it’ll be a much tougher sell for most people. 

Okay but we all know why they made the ladder climbing so slow in the Charlie’s Angels game. Video games were required by law to be as embarrassingly horny as possible in the 2000s.

Energy drink companies do everything in their power to market to kids but then also try to claim that kids shouldn’t drink them. No adult is buying a YouTuber’s energy drink, so if  you know damn well kids are your target demo, then yes, you SHOULD be responsible in making sure it’s safe for kids to consume. 

The BBC used to be terrible about that. It’s my understanding that the only reason Monty Python’s Flying Circus survived was because of the companies that had copies in the U.S., and that the BBC had erased them all on their end. 

The team behind the Chrono Cross remaster said they created it specifically because they didn’t want the game to disappear. I’m not saying every developer should do that — or even has the resources to do that — nor am I saying the onus is on developers rather than publishers/copyright holders. BUT, more of these…

I loved Wind Waker’s style, but stretching it out over so many games and it becoming the de facto aesthetic for all handheld Zelda games for the next half decade definitely dulled its shine. It’s honestly hard for me to even go back and enjoy Wind Waker anymore because I got so tired of that aesthetic after it was…

Because Nintendo’s eShop is DEFINITELY the only digital storefront full of second-rate knockoff shovelware...

Not to defend Nintendo’s approach of drip-feeding content into its Switch Online libraries and making us wait for the best games, because it’s been pretty pathetic since the very first batch of NES and SNES games, but it’s not entirely fair to write off all the Advance games as the worst versions of each game. SMB3…

The "most powerful" console hasn't won a console war since the 16 bit days - and even that was sketchy because stuff like the 3DO and the Neo-Geo were also technically a part of that "generation". Having competing consoles that were more powerful on paper didn't hurt the NES, Game Boy, PS1, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, or DS.