Depends on the definition of limping, I suppose. No doubt it got a boost from being added to the Selects line, but a month after release it had already cleared 2 million shipped.
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Depends on the definition of limping, I suppose. No doubt it got a boost from being added to the Selects line, but a month after release it had already cleared 2 million shipped.
I'd Mario Maker 2 is real.....
.....I honestly don't know what I'd do with myself. Or to myself with myself.
.....I honestly don't know what I'd do with myself. Or to myself with myself.
Until an announcement? I thought an announcement was supposed to come 9 and a half hours ago... What time does Nintendo normally announce these things?
Directs usually get announced at 2pm UK time, so 3 and a half hours
Good point! I completely forgot the Wii U virtual console had so many... there's 90 NES games available on there! Do we think these are straight forward to port across?
Also, looking at when Nintendo added their games to Wii U, the amounts are pretty similar to the Switch era, and they did overlap their NES and SNES releases.
90 NES Additions
34 were added in 2013
30 were added in 2014
11 were added in 2015
12 were added in 2016
3 were added in 2017
50 SNES additions
25 were added in 2013
13 were added in 2014
10 were added in 2015
2 were added in 2016
Freaking losing it lol
Usually a day before to two days before haha.
No, there's always a chance the announcement is on Wednesday.
I just need SNES games as a "free" addition to the yearly subscribers.
And Metroid Prime Trilogy.
And the first AC teaser.
And Pikmin 3. And 4.
Is it too much to ask?
And Metroid Prime Trilogy.
And the first AC teaser.
And Pikmin 3. And 4.
Is it too much to ask?
Or they just drop the video without announcement. Random Nintendo is random sometimes.
Not really. All of those are inevitable, and I feel like we'll see about three of them in this Direct.
Insiders won't know the timing of announcement, they can only know the direct date. So 13th is definitely the direct date and not announcement. Announcement in 200 mins or else Nintendo's doomed
we will just reset the clock
I doubt they will do that this time. Last time they where teasing the mini direct with cryptic messages.
If no announcement today, then tomorrow, maybe King Zell hinted with 13 ( February 13th) is the day it gets announced?
Thanks amigos.
It just shits me, because it leads to avoidable frustration I find hard to sympathise with. Over excitement and literal interpretation of grapevine gossip from yes, reliable sources of information, but none of which can be actually vetted by anyone else here. The things these people tease and say are not in any way facts. They are not absolute truths, not even necessarily 100% confirmed to the people sharing. They're not Nintendo and treating their teasing and leaks as official announcements is so foolish.
The Metroid-at-VGAs thing is a great example. I don't doubt the leakers stating as much were extremely confident it was happening for reasons we cannot possibly know. We also can't possibly know what actually happened. We can't know if it was real, and pulled. Or if their sources misheard something. Or they lied. Or it was a deliberate bait and switch by Nintendo to weed out leakers. We can't know and they don't seem to know either. In a sea of strikes this was, for them, a miss and is noted as such.
I just remember when I worked in some journo stuff every once in awhile I'd see or hear information that I was personally one hundred percent sure of yet in sharing couldn't necessarily be trusted because...why would you? Like, I literally viewed alpha tech stuff of Mass Effect Andromeda a good year+ before it was even announced. I saw stuff that never made it into the game. And the same person who shared this content with me told me plans for the game that, to this day, still aren't formally "confirmed" (Kotaku later leaked a lot of it though). I made a video about what I'd seen and heard. And even though I knew for a fact based on visual evidence that what I'd seen and heard was absolutely true and real, I encouraged people to take what I was saying with a pinch of salt because I personally do not work for EA, I do not work for BioWare, I am not working on the game in any capacity. I am just a stranger on the internet.
I'm confident the Direct is coming as hinted because I like the leakers collective strike rate. But it's not a Nintendo announcement. So until that happens, there is technically no Direct.
No, we have 2 more chances: tomorrow for 14th or 14th if it's a mini Direct
We can't have as many NES games as Wii U, though. Wii U had third party games. I can't see a huge amount of third party games being added to NSO as Nintendo would have to pay for them.
We already have:
- Blaster Master
- Mighty Bomb Jack
- TwinBee
- Double Dragon
- River City Ransom
- Ghosts'n Goblins
- Tecmo Bowl
- Gradius
- Solomon's Key
- Super Dodge Ball
- Ninja Gaiden
I don't believe in Mario Strikers 3 because Next Level Games makes it and they have Luigi's Mansion 3 coming this year. I can see Mario Strikers 3 in 2021 if NLG wants to make it. Of course if Nintendo finds another developer to make it it could come earlier.
They said that early on most subs opted for the yearly subscription but now people are buying more the shorter periods.
You might think it's a jest, but it would be great.
Eurgh I have a two hour meeting starting at 2pm.
Why do I care about missing an announcement?
Thats far from "awful". As Jonneh noted, the budget was a fraction of botw.
I don't think that a MPT is a thing...and i hope it's not 'cause a well made hd remaster for 3 games sold together are not possible.
they could announce the remaster for all 3 games though and sell them separately with the first game coming soon.
they could announce the remaster for all 3 games though and sell them separately with the first game coming soon.
20 dollars for a year is a good deal already for snes games.
Also slow down on the baby making dude
Nothing?
Have you been living under a rock?
There's like 15 AA to AAA games slated for Switch already for this year.
At the risk of sounding like a protagonist from a shonen fighting manga... my friends are my family!
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This Direct is going to be really good. I can feel it already. 5 months of no direct and Furukawa saying he delayed unannounced games to this next fiscal year (April and forward), and him saying he wants better momentum from April-September points to a really good Direct coming.
An announcement for the time when a pre-recorded video of announcements will be made public
It's especially weird to me that people harp on the "well, they said Metroid was going to be at the VGAs" thing, given that we now know that Nintendo's plans for Metroid did change quite dramatically late last year.
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