Ah, well that’s the best time to catch up to older games!

What’s the next big game you are looking forward to?

Just looked it up, there are 8 River City games on Switch. 5 new ones since 2019, the other 3 are remakes or older games.

I played the first one in 2013, and loved it. Darksiders 2 I played much later, in 2023 and felt dated to me, though you play more retro games so your mileage may vary.

Yeah, have heard similar things before. It’s already on my list, but as you know I have a very long list, but with sequel coming out soon will bump it up.

Well, there is Mario Tennis Fever, but I am not sure. I enjoy sports game, but not sure if it’s worth $70 for me. Will check out the details about the solo content and then decide.

There’s also Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, but I still have 3, 1 and 2 to play before that, so no hurry about that.

Hehe, I can understand that, Donkey Kong Country games are really tough, at least in the last couple of worlds.

I have to start River City game, there are so many now. Trying to catchup to older series, so will probably get around to it somewhere this year. Let’s see.

Wow, 35 years! That’s worth celebrating! Have fun!

More companies should do that.

The free update part, not the Game-Key Card part.

Time for me to finally play Tokyo Xanadu!

As someone who doesn’t follow much social media, I thought it was pretty good.

I would’ve been annoyed if this was an official Direct, but this was the Partner Direct, and it showed a good variety of games, IMO. I remember when these were filled with half a dozen different farming games and everyone used to complain about it, now there’s a good mixture of games from different genres, including AAA.

Culdcept looked good, didn’t know it’s such a long running series.

That is a problem with long running series, for instance my biggest complain with Pokémon is that they just keep making the same game without trying new things, so the balance of doing something new but also keeping with the core of the series can be a tough challenge.

As for the Zelda games, they will probably make something new / different now, but I don’t think they will go back to the old formula. We will just have to wait and see.

Yeah, doesn’t sound like Nintendo is for you anymore. If you are still interested, you can try looking at existing library in a few years and see if it something catches your eye, otherwise just ignore the console.

Have fun wherever your play!

Heh, didn’t expect a golf joke here.

Thanks!

This doesn’t show me anything.

Wow, having an issue even on 5090?

Different use cases for different people I guess, and there is nothing wrong with that. As a parent of a little kid, Switch was a godsend when it released, and while it was unarguably weak when compared to other consoles, it worked really well for indies and many non-AAA third party games.

It is my most used console so far, let’s see if Switch 2 will surpass that or not.

Direct link to Nintendo’s financial data: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html

Looking at the best selling consoles, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles ) there are some other interesting things too. Switch is already # 2 and Nintendo Switch 2 is too new so not much to see there, but when looking at PlayStations, PS5 (84.2 M units sold) is currently the least sold Sony home console, but should take over PS3 (87.4 M) soon enough. I think it will cross PS1 (102.49 M) too, but whether it can cross PS4 (117.2 M) sales remain to be seen.

If the rumours about delaying PS6 to 2029 are true, then it has good chance to take over PS4, but with the way the prices and economic condition are going, who can say what will happen.

What about the version on Switch?

Oh cool, it’s on my wish list. How are you liking it?