Definitely just being used as the catch-all for the different Nintendo Switch systems currently on the market today. The much more suspicious thing, which likely does point to a hypothetical console release being moved from later this year to early next year, is the total lack of anything Pokémon-related being…

I do think this larger dump of (slightly) lesser Rare titles does ultimately bode well for the more significant remaining games (specifically, Banjo Tooie, DK64, and Diddy Kong Racing).

What's probably more likely re: Pokémon, is that whatever new game(s) they announce in the inevitable Pokémon Day presentation will be announced for Switch at first, and then they'll reveal in a later presentation that the game(s) will be released simultaneously for both consoles.

That's reporting? Sometimes silly things happen in the world, but if you're reporting on the things going on in the world, then that's what you report on.

Anyone is free to choose whether or not to scroll down past the “Spoiler Warning” banner. Why does it matter to you when they publish an article?

There was literally one single DS remake and one 3DS remake in that Direct.

“It sure seems like Nintendo anticipated this success, and planned to leverage the financial confirmation of Mario’s popularity in the modern age to make even more money: by throwing a ton of Mario and Mario-related Switch games at us in the next year or so.”

Maybe you should read the article next time, because the article doesn't ever make the point that you're saying it does.

You forgot the most important question:

Yeah, when everything started coming out about Roiland, the general consensus from literally everyone who is professionally associated with him seemed to be "ugh yeah sounds right."

To be fair, that was a dub decision for Killa. In the Japanese version he just talks normally.

Why?

Wait, did people actually get *upset* that he ended up revealing Pikmin 4??? To me the real bait and switch was that it seemed like he was only there to talk about the Mario movie and the theme park, but then ended up making the exciting Pikmin announcement! Those other projects are (potentially) exciting, but I'll…

Nintendo will almost certainly do a Direct around the same time. They just don't normally announce them until a day or two beforehand.

Well here's yet another box checked from the Nvidia leak last year. One of the only huge announcements left now is this supposed Final Fantasy IX remake...

A company worth $50 million couldn't afford to keep on 100 employees in different roles in the face of restructuring.

Conquistaduck?

Having played the base game on PC, I’m VERY curious to know how the very spoilery late-game stuff translates to a console game, but I don’t think I’m curious enough to drop $12 on it.

For me, who currently has 3 household members playing ACNH, the choice is more like this:

Maybe some sort of policy where the default timeframe for a refund is still two hours, but in cases like this a dev can flag their game as taking less than two hours to complete, at which point they'd set their own refund period? Then when a customer goes to purchase said game, they would have to agree that they…