Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@nessisonett Nintendo has never announced something like this. Why would anyone do that? The whole point of digital is that you can fall back on it if when physical copies become unavailable. Imagine if other companies started doing this when sales for that collection explode.

Urgh...

@Ralizah The simple answer of why anybody would do this... manufactured demand. Now of course this will just result in scalpers being the true profiteers for physical copies but short term and digitally, Nintendo will make a fortune from people clamouring to get a copy while they can. It’s shady but it’ll work.

Super Mario 3D All Stars: Cool, but eh. Looks like the games are only getting a resolution boost. Mario 64 won't support wide screen either. Full price was expected, but I expected more. No Galaxy 2 is also a weird omission. And the limited physical and digital copies is just plain ol' stupid. People complain about EA and Activision being anti-consumer, but the stuff Nintendo gets away is absolute madness.

Bowser's Fury looks good, but again, it's locked behind a full priced port of a game I already have. Why isn't this available on the eShop as a standalone thing for €10-20? Right, because it's Nintendo.

@nessisonett Mario games sell well for YEARS. I get why they make other items limited, but this is only going to lose them money in the long run.

Maybe after the collection is delisted, they're relist the games individually for $29.99 a pop or something. That'd make a lot more sense.

@Ralizah The main rumours I’ve seen is that they’ll list them separately or they’re planning to add N64 games to the online service. No point selling Mario 64 if they’re adding it for free.

lol, Galaxy isn't really playable on a Switch Lite. I guess the Lite really does have substandard gyro.

@Ralizah I didn’t even think about that. Oh wow, that’s a huge loss.

Stop your moaning.

@nessisonett At least it'll probably be playable in handheld mode on the big Switch, since it should be easy enough to use gyro to collect starbits. Unless Ninty is stupid and doesn't map the spin attack to a button.

Pls no.

Also means it's not playable on third party controllers without gyro support, which is almost all of them.

@Ralizah I think this is a TV only game...

Being able to play Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine were the main highlights for me. However, it's odd that the All-Stars collection is only being sold until the end of March. It does seem to be exploiting the fear of missing out, so I don't like how they're handling it.

Also, I'm not keen on how Nintendo is shadow dropping their videos these days. I get more enthusiastic when they announce a Direct a couple days in advance, allowing me to watch the video live. Just reading a news headline detailing the new games isn't as exciting.

@Octane @nessisonett

Oh sweet jesus, it really does force you to shake the joycon to spin attack.

@Ralizah I guess it’s just an issue with how they’ve ported them over. From the looks of it, the ports are nothing that emulation hasn’t done before and while you can map spin attack to a button, emulating pointer controls is an iffy area due to the way it reads the inputs. Ideally you could just use the right stick but that would create its own set of problems.

Never mind lol, guess that’s that. I love motion controls but I can see why some people don’t.

@Ralizah That's a big bummer.

I think you're right @nessisonett, these looks like straight up ROM dumps that got a resolution increase.

If you look at the gameplay of Mario Sunshine, you can see that it still uses the GameCube button icons in the UI. So it's a straight up port it seems.

@Octane Interesting they call it All-Stars when that game was full blown remakes but hey, I’ll take it. I just want to play Mario Sunshine without having to dig out my Wii U. I assume my GameCube controller will work too which is good because that game is unplayable without analogue triggers.

@nessisonett I think I'll buy a few, if only because they're worth double their value once the stock has run dry

So the UK page for this collection is making it sound like the motion controls are optional. WTF

Is this just a case of NoA being terrible at communicating with consumers again?

@Octane

@nessisonett