Maybe it wasn’t a bad thing for Tom, but it very much was bad for the rest of us that Facebook took over.

Misusing wifi? Botnet distributed computer? What do you mean?

Recognizing that Nazis are people is necessary in order to understand how people become Nazis. Understanding how people become Nazis is necessary in order to fight Nazis.

I pre-preordered from Nintendo but haven’t gotten my email yet.

I don’t think any of these games are ‘gold mines’, and some of your examples are just games they did release but just not the way you wanted them to.

I could rattle off my own wishlist of classic favorite IPs that I wish would come back, but the thing about dead IPs is that they died because they weren’t making tons and tons of money.

“Ultra” versions of Street Fighter Alpha and Darkstalkers

Alpha 3 Upper is getting a rerelease on the upcoming Capcom Fighting Collection 2, and every version of Darkstalkers was included in Collection 1.

Ever since Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix flopped within the FGC, the idea of messing with classics has been regarded as anathema. USF2 was completely ignored as just HDR-but-worse.

They can’t renege on deals they’ve already signed with retailers.

JP Switches will only play Japanese-language games. So for non-Japanese-speaking consumers, that will be a problem.

This account is Mbin rather than Lemmy, and I’ve got another account on a Pleroma server for my microblogging. Thinking of trying Piefed, some of its features sound promising and it looks like development is going pretty rapidly, I may end up switching off Mbin.

But the other two did get ported to Wii under the title Metroid Prime Trilogy.

Important note to clarify, it still says that the screen is VRR, but no longer mentions VRR support for external displays. This is something that they could very easily patch in support for, so it might be that this just isn’t ready for launch for whatever reason?

Original Pro Controllers are fully supported. I couldn’t find any mention of whether that includes third-party controllers, but I’m assuming so until they say otherwise. (Please don’t break my 8BitDo and GP2040-CE…)

Old JoyCons work wirelessly, but can’t be connected physically, and you might need a standalone charger for them if you don’t have one. Also they obviously don’t support new features like mouse mode, so they might not be compatible with games that use those features.

Sounds like that is what they’re doing

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If you want to be upset about $80 Mario Kart, I’m not going to tell you not to be upset. But I am going to tell you not to lie and spread misinformation.

They are making new games too. Square Enix is a large publisher with a lot of different projects in their pipeline. Including their HD-2D team that’s still doing sprites.

The remake is split into an episodic trilogy.

FF7 Remake - Part 1
FF7 Remake Intergrade - Updated rerelease for PS5, featuring an additional bonus chapter
FF7 Rebirth - Part 2
Part 3 is still in development.

Say what you will about the direction they’ve taken the remake, but they most certainly did put work into making something very different from the 1997 original.

I thought the red meant cherry.

Well, that’s literally what the dock is doing. Third party ‘dockless docks’ exist that act like a USB-C->HDMI adapter.

Are they trying to say that $450 is worse than $599? Is that the logic here?

It is less bad than code-in-a-box. That’s not a high bar, but it is less bad.

There are two main reasons to buy physical:

Ability to share, trade, and resell your games. These key cards still support this, whereas code-in-a-box did not. So, slightly better.

Then there’s the peace of mind that your games will still work in the distant future. I think if you ask most people who primarily buy physical, myself included, we’ll say this is the main appeal of physical games, and the big reason why key cards don’t feel acceptable.

Some day when the servers eventually go offline, these key cards will become bricks. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when. We have no idea how long Nintendo will support them for, and they’re not going to hard commit a timetable out loud for us. But we know it can’t be forever.

But even for standard physical games, there is some uncertainty regarding their long-term future that I’m not sure people realize. When those servers eventually go online, your cartridge only has 1.0 on it, you won’t be able to get patches. That’s better than a brick, but for a lot of games that’s probably not the version you want to play.

And then the even darker concern is bit rot. No form of physical media is permanent. Every disc and every cartridge will eventually degrade. Worse yet is that for many forms of media, we don’t even know how long they’re set to last for, we only find out once some of them start to fail. Cartridges are generally better than discs, but beyond that we truly have no idea how long Switch cartridges should be expected to last.

And what does the next paragraph say after that?