The Nintendo Switch

Review embargo lifted and Metacritic appears to have crashed

i see eurogamer rated it 'essential' but i'm trying to stay away from specifics - knowing that you get to see mario's nipples in this one is already too much of a spoiler for me

just gonna share one tidbit u get to fuck mario

wow the switch really is the best console of all time huh

it's a-me, mari-ohhhhhhhhhh

each "star" is actually a previously unreleased "jfk file"

anyone else sufficiently grumpy to be not anticipating mario?

affirmative

mario is the cure for grumpiness. you are too hungry to eat.

I've been reading a few reviews and this singlehandedly makes me want to get back into gaming

tombot why do u hate fun

i just said goodbye to $413.81. see you soon Mario!

prostrate yourself before the Super Mario

I've known in my heart for twenty years that Nintendo is the best, I'm glad they're having their apotheosis.

they're having a hell of a year after the doldrums of the Wii u era

lil preview

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNE8RtBUQAEYxnG.jpg

hell yeah

👀 pic.twitter.com/kXDWlYo8f3

— chris person (dead) (@Papapishu) October 26, 2017

lmao the sound effects, perfect

a new era of videogames has arrived

it's becoming ever-clearer to me that super mario odyssey will be the most powerfully erotic mario game in history

mario is a millennial confirmed

mario is thicc and bi

Otm Nintendo is extremely horny now

this holiday season, your kid is going to make mario's ass bounce up and down on a frog tongue, in perpetuity, and there's nothing you can do to stop it

here cums dat boi

and there it is

"your kid is going to make mario's ass bounce up and down on a frog tongue, in perpetuity, and there's nothing you can do to stop it"

new board description

dying.

I've been following this Switch stuff very casually, but boy does it make me want to shell out and buy a new Nintendo system for the first time in a long time.

dude Zelda alone!!!

shd not leave zelda alone thats how she keeps getting captured

A little scared that the games, let alone the system, cost so much. But if I focus on just two or three games that should last me a while. Mario kart, Zelda, Mario...

interesting how major titles have cost $60 since the 90s despite 2 decades of inflation and like a tenfold increase in content/playtime

yeah, I have no idea, I'm old. I haven't really bought games since the original Nintendo.

Earthbound on SNES released at $80 apparently which was one of the reasons why it bombed stateside. I learned this recently

A look at the versatility of Mario's movement in this one

#Movement #SuperMarioOdyssey #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/H0CoDPYSDG

— Dalagonash (@Dalagonash) October 26, 2017

so many ways to get from frog face A to frog face B

polymariophous perversity

mario developers brought in Shigeru Miyamoto to test out their open world and he simply sat on frogs' faces for hours

lol

yeah i remember even SNES-era games - like all the Square games and the Street Fighter titles easily going around ~$80 at release, which would be way more now.
but it probably cost a lot money per-unit to manufacture cartridges vs. blu-rays. the Switch has a bit of an excuse with using cartridges again

Earthbound on SNES released at $80 apparently which was one of the reasons why it bombed stateside. I learned this recently

― ciderpress

i was at a panel last weekend hosted by the lost levels guy where he talked about earthbound bombing. a lot of it was down to people thinking the graphics were bad. (remember "dragon's lair" cost 50 cents a play and it wasn't for the incredible gameplay)

and yeah the price point of games being fixed at $60 in perpetuity has led to a lot of... creative workarounds. day 1 dlc and loot crates and so forth.

i was at a panel last weekend hosted by the lost levels guy where he talked about earthbound bombing. a lot of it was down to people thinking the graphics were bad.

the marketing was also completely inept. one full-page ad showed no gameplay and said "This game stinks".

i remember the days of $60 SNES games well. nowadays those games would be $100. and yeah i recall more rare things like FF6 went for $80, that is $130 in 2017 dollars! it is funny how much of video game culture is fuming at the mouth about microtransactions and loot crates and evil companies. imo we are in a golden age of value

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yeah the related bigger reason for earthbound bombing was it took them a year to localise it so it came out after FF6 and around the same time as Chrono trigger rather than preceding them

to be real, Earthbound did, graphically, look like complete garbage compared to FF4, FF6, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, et al. that's difficult - the sound and music, while quirky and charming, were not inviting. the dragon quest-style difficulty and battling were quickly going out of style even by then. marketing was bad, but let's not pretend the game isn't pretty alien-ating

Earthbound clearly bombed because people were turned off that there was a character named Poo

I mean

That's fucking disgusting

In Nintendo-News but not Switch-related, I successfully hacked my SNES Mini a few days ago and uploaded.. everything

I played one level of Space Megaforce and my boyfriend flipped the fuck out and said "I'm never leaving the house again"

How did you hack it?

A program called Hakchi, which I ran using a virtual version of Windows on my Mac, it took an evening to figure it out but I got it working