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Surely, though, its hard to compare as previous launches have not had enough hardware to meet demand whereas for this one they stockpiled hard to meet demand?

I opened the Plex media server app on my phone today as I was commuting home and it tipped me off that it was the 15th anniversary because when you bought the OG Wii version and registered it online you got a free download of the soundtrack. Plexamp's homepage always flags up any anniversaries from your music collection.

Kind of blew my mind because it feels like way more than 15 years to me. I finished it on the Wii, got halfway on the 3DS, beat it on Switch, beat XBX on the Wii U, played through XBC2 three times, played the DLC, beat XBC3 and the DLC. Now playing through the XBX remake.

It feels like a lifetime of gaming, 15 years seems too short!

Anyway, you're right, what an amazing chapter it was. Normally I detest it when a major character gets killed and we have all the drama around that only for them to be brought back. Yet here, we have something so much more complicated. Yeah, she comes back, but is she even human any more? What kind of future could they have? It haunted me then and it haunted me when I played through again on the Switch. Something very understated in the way they explored that story.

I'm curious about how Bond will look. Will it be Daniel Craig? Would be weird if it was, now that he's left the role. Yet we don't have a replacement announced and don't know if the existing deal would entitle them to a new one.

Why doesn't the game have amiibo support? We've got Amiibo for XC1, XC2 & XC3...

Surely a HD Pixel remaster?

@rjejr they were pretty early with their PSVR and PS5 versions of the game so I'd be amazed if a Switch 2 version doesn't drop in the consoles first year

Of course these are real, there'd be no point manufacturing and selling accesories for imaginary consoles. Nintendo like to play the hype game cooly. Game developers will be NDA'd to the brim so they can make a big splash with the announcement but 3rd party hardware manufacturers are a way to build buzz without really spoiling anything much

In a totally different industry, I know a distributor who called up Amazon to complain they were selling their new product at a loss price and the response was "Don't talk to us about pricing" then a phone slammed down.

I imagine antics like that would not be well received by the big N.

@cylemmulo the Wii U version was completly seperate from the other games with no connection at all. Hence it being X rather than 2.

However, when they ported over 1, they created the "Future Connected" game which, like the "Future Redeemed" DLC for 3 and "Torna" DLC for 2 felt more like a mini-sequel.

So it's almost certain there'll be something like that for X and how could they not take that opportunity to tie it into the wider saga that evolved?

That mysterious clip at the end of the trailer seems to be from it. I don't think its a Kingdom Hearts cross-over, whoever has the hood on is more likely a character from the mainline series.

Wait, it's a game from 2016?

Game wasn't even on my radar but with an endorsement from a legend like that, I'm going to have to investigate.

My soul needs more Xenoblade

Was so hyped for this game but had to finish off the Xenoblade 3 DLC first. Trouble was, after that and the previous one, it felt under baked. I got to my first temple, the fire one, and I actually got bored. I keep trying to resume it but it's not holding my attention

@Jemil1992 I think its just purely as now Twitter charges companies for features like that. As the article said Sony & Microsoft politely declined to pay a large fee for a minor feature.

Xenoblade me please

Pandora's Tower and The Last Story

Translating humor is not an easy thing to do. That's why Japanese horror films, dramas and action films have a cult following but their comedies rarely do.

Also, whoever produces an official translation will then get hounded by fanboys over the choices they made that were different from the unofficial translations.

I'd love this to happen but I'm keeping my hopes in the box.

Jeez, finally caved in and bought V deluxe in the January digital sale...

Older gamer here. Used to hear it all the time in the 80s but in the last 7 years I've been working in companies with much younger workforce and I never come across it. They're all companies with relaxed dress codes and I see a lot of gamer t-shirts and in my current job we have a Switch in the break room on our floor.

However, something like Sky News, its not aimed at the youth crowd. It's for the "you kids get off my lawn" brigade. It's not surprising they have presenters who are about 30 years behind the times.

eShop starting to feel like a dusty old thriftstore these days

I got confused and thought it was a Steam exclusive so bought it there by accident. Great game, though

This game is so good, haven't been able to tear myself away

Well, I'm a big fan of the films & TV show. I really enjoyed Dead By Dawn and Friday the 13th games but I found this one on PS5 a real non-starter.

Very true. Loved World of Goo on Wii then grabbed Little Inferno on Switch and there was a world of difference.

Another thing the Wii does better is the Wiimotes work better for solo play than single joycon. We're visiting relatives who have their Wii U in the living room and my 5 year old is way better at Smash Brod when using a Wiimote than she is with a joycon

I'm looking forward to that one nobody expected that finishes its preview with "and is available right now on the eshop"

I was an early adapter of the 3ds but lived somewhere pretty rural at the time so it was months before I got my first hit when in the train station of a larger town. That was an incredible moment.

A few months later at one of those funny little county village events, I was amazed to get a hit and found out it was a friend of a friend, so we quickly became best mates.

My favorite was always taking it traveling. Used to get hits from all over the world going to places like London or Paris.

Sadly, lost my 3ds on a bus, rushing to a family emergency and though I got a new one, and Nintendo was able to restore a lot of my data, my street pass collection was lost for ever. My heart wasn't quite in it the same anymore after that but it was one of the best features of the 3ds

Well, this will end well. What could possibly go wrong?

I get the investors concerns. The arrival of a second new Zelda game is normally the death knell for a Nintendo console.

Loved that mode so much and was really saddened to find no equivalent in the last couple of Smash Bros

I was a sucker for these when they first came out but back then we were a Nintendo-only family and the kids were just the right age. Now we're more of a multi-playform family and my oldest is going to be a teenager on Sunday, they don't seem like the priority they once were when we were playing Smash on the Wii U. Think the last one we got was for Monster Hunter Rise.

Last years of the product or not, we can safely call them a great success that far outlived the competition such as Lego Dimensions, Disney Infinity and Skylanders.

I'd added it to my wishlist because people said it was "folk horror" but when you said "Yorkshire" I bought it immediately

I remember buying this off eShop in the early days of the Switch. So unexpected that they're doing free DLC for it, will definitely dive in. Can't beat a bit of the macabre for Christmas

Some sort of Fortnite rip-off with all their IPs thrown in but locked behind micro transactions.

This game really makes you appreciate how much hard work, support and commitment went into Smash Bros. It was given away free with PS Plus which is the only reason I tried it. Like every other Smash clone, it's all license and no hard work. Nobody with a Switch needs to know it even exists. Even my kids lost interest after two matches

Well, whichever side is the liar should be ashamed of themselves but I'm &^%$ed if I know which one it is

Epic facepalm times a million

@Knightrider1 well as Nintendo is currently doing business in Russia and as Russia right now has something of an image problem, I think the game should be uncontroversial.

I'm not worried as I don't follow that sort of person on social media

So, for that money you get a cell phone game designed especially for cell phones and a VR game without the VR. Just buy Lonely Assasins for your phone. It's a game that emulates a phone screen FFS.

@Synplex a soundtrack for starters

By the time the site loaded, they'd all gone. Still an extra $30 for a pretty tin and a book of screenshots? Think I'd rather buy a real book, a pizza and some beer with that money.

Mega CD? Hallelujah! At last!

@Rambler nice choices in albums! I've had a lot of milage out of my copies of those babies. I've used "Oh Yeah" and "Hero" as ringtones before

@Rambler the artwork was amazing. I may have accidentally copy and pasted a little of it into gig flyers once or twice.

Honestly, I've been so tempted by this on my phone's app store but I hate playing games that way so this announcement really makes my day

@Rambler oh I remember that. I definitely had the Penguin version of the second book. Looked much better without the FF border that they added when they moved them to Puffin. Definitely buying this

When the 3DS first came out I was promoting a lot of concerts and I tried this once. Only once. Aside from the poor visuals, the sound was awful too, especially compared to my mobile phone (this was just before smartphones) I hsd at the time, which actually made decent recordings. Hang on, did I say the sound was awful? Sorry I meant completely %$^&ing abysmal.

Earthbound Termination

Come on, kids, always use protection

This is excellent news. So glad they moved to ar*ehole instead of as*hole. I turn to Xenoblade to escape Americanisation.

@Wexter I doubt they'd be allowed to discuss it and as I'm based in a different state to Nintendo, probably nothing to do with the office I work with. I will say, hiring and firing and disciplinary decisions rest with us so IF something went down then it would fall on the big N. Of course, that's a big IF and I'll leave that to the courts.