From one Pixar fanman to another, give Luca a chance. It’s a refreshingly simple movie, content to just be a fun ass adventure, rather than milk all of life’s deepest existential questions for as many tears as it can. It’s also a gorgeously animated movie, and it has a little of that Studio Ghibli kind of “low stakes…

Incredibly disappointed to learn that Echo Generation is not, in fact, the return of everyone's favorite 16-bit era dolphin.

Here’s another “leak.” Appears that a new Mario + Rabbids game is being announced sometime soon, but... Nintendo’s already got the page up for it?

I’m guessing the app is for printing pictures from your phone after transferring them from your Switch. You don't need a dedicated app to send pictures from the Switch to the phone, though.

It’s not though? There’s literally no microtransactions or purchases in the game whatsoever. These are just updates to keep people excited about playing.

DC is part of Warner Bros, not the other way around. It would make no sense to reveal a Harry Potter game at a DC event for the same reason it wouldn't make any sense to talk about the Muppets at a Marvel event.

Not really. Aside from a brief mention, Luigi only makes an appearance over the end credits of the game.

No one’s saying that you should do that? The post that you replied to was simply saying that they use the CRT filter, a feature included in the retro offerings on the Switch.

“Are you going to tell someone that their religious beliefs are wrong?”

Your wife could absolutely play while you’re not around, but you’re really going to want to do different save files, because this is a game that really at its meat and bones is about interaction between people. You can be two different characters living on an island together, and when you’re both around you can pop in…

To be fair, I don't think the longer, game-specific Nintendo Directs are ever really for the new audiences who aren't sold yet. The shorter trailers are for selling the game; not a lot of people are going to devote 25 minutes of their day to hearing about the minutiae of a video game unless they're already on board,…

You kind of always did, in a certain way. In the earliest days of handheld gaming, assuming you had a friend who owned a Game Boy and would let you borrow, at the very least you needed a Game Link Cable. The more recent titles didn't require a cable, but they've almost always required the use of a second console. I…

That's how it's always been with transferring Pokémon from one generation to the next, though.

Do we know for certain yet whether D+ will have ads? I can't seem to find a concrete answer.

I think I still have the one my dad made somewhere. Did everyone's parents who played video games make one of these back in the day?

I mean, it's not? There's going to be a whole Donkey Kong Country section, and a Yoshi ride (I know that Yoshi started out explicitly as a Mario character, but they're now their own franchise).

I'm inclined to agree with you that we're not going to see anything about Banjo just yet. I wouldn't necessarily discount Nintendo's ability to "oh one more thing" all over the place, though. They could, in theory, pull out another Piranha Plant-style extra DLC character that exists outside the Fighter's Pass. I won't…

I mean you have to consider that spec-wise, this is identical to the regular Switch. It's not a technical downgrade; it's the same system made more compact, just without the docking capability. So a $100 drop in price seems perfectly fair to me.

Yeah, it's especially disappointing as this is the games' first entry on a home console, meaning the cartridge/file size for these games is bound to be a MASSIVE step up from the previous titles. To be asked to accept that, suddenly, the games' development could not facilitate animating all of the Pokémon this time…

I don't think the thesis of the article is that it's necessarily a bad thing that these references were cut out during localization, or that they should have been kept in the game. It's just an article to show us something cool we might not have known about the original Japanese version of the game.