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I'm getting back into Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to finally finish the main story before getting into Super Mario RPG.



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Wman1996 said:
Pemalite said:

Just a quick one... The SNES classic turned 6 just a few days ago.

6.

And for some reason, Nintendo won't make

An Game Boy/Game Boy Color Classic

An Nintendo 64 Classic

An Game Boy Advance Classic

All of those things would print money.

Shoot, a GameCube Classic would print a lot of money. The problem is that the games are hundreds of megabytes and some up to 1.5 GB. Nintendo would probably have to put in at least 32 GB of flash memory. 8 GB wouldn't cut it at all. 

And a Wii Classic would run into similar problems, in addition to the Wii Remote being costlier than Nintendo would want to deal with. 

Sadly we are in the era of subscriptions... Nintendo wouldn't want to cannibalize it's Nintendo Switch Online service.

Also, Nintendo 64 is actually fairly hard to emulate accurately and quickly... And doing that on low-end ARM chips is extremely difficult... You are actually better emulating Nintendo 64 Virtual Console games in the Gamecube/Wii emulator "Dolphin" than running Project 64 or Mupen.

Storage isn't much of an issue these days either... NAND has never been cheaper, you can buy a 512GB SSD for about $25 USD these days, 128GB SSD for about $12 USD.

What Nintendo would ideally be better off doing is taking the Switch, throwing away the display, battery, joycons, dock and all the other little "extras" and offering a Switch TV-only online device that offers you these "classic" titles all in one place via the Switch online subscription.

Then again, Nintendo might close down the Switch online service in a few years anyway if the WiiU and 3DS are any example leaving such a device as a useless brick...



--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--

CaptainExplosion said:

I'm getting back into Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to finally finish the main story before getting into Super Mario RPG.

My favorite Xenoblade game. I've only played a few hours of Future Connected because Tears of the Kingdom and PlayStation games have taken my attention away from Xenoblade. 

I barely played Super Mario RPG on the Wii VC, and I do plan on picking up the remake at some point. 



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 48 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima

I was curious if having a PS5 now would make Switch look terrible to me, but honestly, so far no; I'm able to play Hogwarts Legacy and Diablo 4 on PS5 alongside Trine 5 and FIST: Forged In Shadow Torch on Switch without the latter's graphics bothering me.

I guess my brain just compartmentalizes them a bit, like I know when I fire up a Switch that I'm playing on a nearly 7 year old mobile device so my brain has appropriate expectations.



curl-6 said:

I was curious if having a PS5 now would make Switch look terrible to me, but honestly, so far no; I'm able to play Hogwarts Legacy and Diablo 4 on PS5 alongside Trine 5 and FIST: Forged In Shadow Torch on Switch without the latter's graphics bothering me.

I guess my brain just compartmentalizes them a bit, like I know when I fire up a Switch that I'm playing on a nearly 7 year old mobile device so my brain has appropriate expectations.

Sometimes I wonder how old you really are. As if you've had never fired up a 20-year-old console to play some games on it.



Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.

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I get a significant majority of readily available retail Switch titles, physically. But I know I wanted Super Mario Bros. Wonder on launch day, and I figured the Switch Game Vouchers aren't a bad investment.
My second title will most likely be one of the following:
Link's Awakening
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Super Mario RPG
Another Code: Recollection
Princess Peach: Showtime



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 48 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima

SUPER HYPED!

Cant wait for next Friday 😁

Lets go!!!!!!!!!!!!




Seems like Red Dead Redemption and the DLC are all on a 16GB cart. I figured they would use a 4 or 8GB one and have you download the rest. Thanks Take-Two



KLXVER said:

Seems like Red Dead Redemption and the DLC are all on a 16GB cart. I figured they would use a 4 or 8GB one and have you download the rest. Thanks Take-Two

Frankly, at this point, 16GB cart must much cheaper than they were in 2017 so I guess they didn't much of a disavantage using that format.



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After a long silence, it looks like Hogwarts Legacy on Switch still lives; preorders opened on the eshop today and we have our first screens: will be interesting to see how it runs as it's the most demanding game yet brought to the platform, with performance challenges even on Xbox Series X.