Nintendo General - Based on the SouljaGame's Biggest Third-Party Publisher - Games

Even as someone who is all-in invested in tech, I haven't gamed on my smartphone in like six years. Phone games as a market is just so bloated right now, a billion games competing for micro-transaction table scraps after the already-established global top 20 take their 80% cut. There's no focus on the average person anymore, it feels like they're all built from the ground up to try and lure in the ballers who drop thousands on their games per month. I personally think the bubble is just about to burst, looking at current trends like the high-end smartphone market stalling, increasing wage disparity in the first world, and a bunch of F2P companies having to merge to survive. The market isn't going to go away, it's just going to become a lot less lucrative than it has been, unless your game has a REALLY predatory monetization model.

The News Super Mario series just has 0 aspirations. Like the games taken individually are perfectly competent, but there's really no reason to own more than one IMO. They're more interchangeable than CoD games. People compare 3D Land/World to the New Super Mario series a lot, but the biggest difference between the two is that 3D World actually felt like it was trying to improve upon it's predecessor.

Most phone games can't provide the same depth as a console or PC game. They're generally just shallow ways for their developers to make money. I'd rather have a third-party Nintendo develop games for the PlayStation, Xbox, and PC than a Nintendo that only makes games for smartphones. Although, again, that doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon.

I think Nintendo is just throwing out a long-term theoretical that has a bunch of words in it that make smartphone-obsessed investors happy. "Yeah maybe if the console market goes balls-up we'll make lots of dough for our investors with mobile phone games". It's not as reassuring as "consoles or death" but Nintendo isn't just going to dump their lucrative console business to chase a fleeting and unreliable market.

Well, that's not true, I've seen plenty of attempts at phone games that try to emulate the depth of a console game, it's just, they don't sell or make nearly as much money as """F2P""" Microtransaction filled messes, it's far easier to focus on where the money is coming from. The market for phones is completely different to the market for consoles/PC games as well, unfortunately, said market could have shaped it into the "killer" that a lot of people in the past hyped it up to be, but the market shaped it into the mess we see today instead.

Yeah, I feel people are taking this a bit too literal and are assuming that they're gonna just start killing off console development all together right now.

There are some F2P mobile games I played long ago that I really enjoyed, way back when I had just got a brand new iPhone 4. They were fun, they felt fair, spending on them wasn't just a means to progress. All of them are gone now, swallowed up by the tide of pay-to-win PVP titles that have overrun the marketplace, expecting you to spend either hundreds of dollars or thousands of hours just to compete. And you know what? Most of those games still aren't doing great. They're cannibalizing eachother, desperately clawing for the few new customers they manage to get to offset their growing churn, and it gets worse every month, leading to their practices getting more and more sinister. There are some that have tried to teach children how to use their parents' credit cards for fuck's sake. That is not okay. It's this market, this rampantly incestuous and desperate mobile games market, that I don't want to see Nintendo have to compete in. They can't win. If they want to actually compete, they risk losing every ounce of goodwill anyone has ever had for them. Either they lose the market, or they lose THEIR market. Back then though, in the time I mentioned at the start of my post? Heck yeah, I would've LOVED mobile Nintendo games back then. I just know they would've done that model right, and been able to succeed with it too. Now though, in the present day... No. I see precisely zero chance of it working out for them long term.

The one thing I would allow Nintendo to put on phones is a Game & Watch anthology. They were cellphone games before cellphones became the staple they are, it's a no brainer but they just like to make more from gacha games and the like.

randomizer for OoT, windwaker, lttp, smb3 and smw are really fun to play and see strategy i need to use.

What about this: G&W Complete Collection for iOS and Android, has four or five games unlocked from the start, and the rest can be unlocked either by beating certain high score targets or remixed objectives in the games you already have, or by just buying them for a dollar a pop if there's a specific one you want. You can also unlock the GB versions of certain ones, if they're more your thing. There are a grand total of 60 G&W titles released over the series' lifetime, so if you combine them with the GB remixes and other remakes, that's a whole lot of content behind such a simple concept.

So aside from the graphics, is Superstar Saga 3DS a good remake? Is it still challenging compare to the original? Compare to New Super Mario Bros, 3D World is much more challenging. Also having all the characters have their SMB2 ability was great too!

This might be a reference to Paper Mario

Is the best buy brand Switch Dock good? Is has good reviews but I thought I heard it wasn't good fpr the Switch for.some reason

Don't get any third-party Switch dock. At. All. Due to how the USB-C works on the Switch, for some reason, third-party accessories tends to brick the console, and Nintendo won't replace it if that happens.

The best buy dock is unique in that it has no reported switch brickings.

DO NOT BUY THIRD PARTY DOCKS, DOCK EXTENSION CABLES, OR WALL POWER SUPPLIES FOR THE SWITCH - YOU RISK PERMANENTLY DAMAGING YOUR SYSTEM The Switch asks for and draws some really strange numbers when it comes to power draw, they don't align with any USB standard out there, and accessory makers have yet to reproduce its needs without Nintendo's help. Plugging it into a laptop or desktop's USB-C port to charge may still be safe, since it passes through a regulator on your motherboard, and some battery packs are reasonably safe as well, but anything else still holds an inherent risk.

The bricking wasn't fixed, people just figured out what was making it happen. If you use a dock with third-party internals it could very well still fuck up your system. Stick to official Nintendo docks for all of your docking needs.

Ha alrighty then I guess better safe than sorry.

as in, a dock that only outputs video without charging? i don't think anything like that exists, the switch iirc draws more power while docked so it needs power.

Ah yeah you're probably right. Why Switch accessories have to be so expensive idk

I'd like to mention that non-dock chargers SHOULD be fine- I've only been using my old Google Pixel plug to charge the system since 2017 and I've had no problems. I believe the problem only happens with third party docks due to the system taking more power during that action than it would on a regular charger, so it should be fine otherwise.

Because Nintendo took a page from Apple's book.

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I'm looking into getting a gba sp headphone adapter, but I'm unsure if just any adapter on the net will do. Should I be looking to get one made by Nintendo or does it not matter?

Has anyone sent in a Switch for repairs once the warranty has expired? I'm thinking that I'll have to bite the bullet and do so but don't know what it'll cost.

I've heard (not confirmed) they'll usually do joycon repairs for free for stuff like stick drifting and such. You might be good if it's a defect not caused by drops or damaged you caused. i'd suggest calling beforehand though

Port ahoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX50ZAjlskU

Nice! It's a fantastic game if you like DnD-esque RPGs. I loved it on PC. It's not super long either bc it's meant to be replayed thru NG+ to get certain items and equipment.

I wish Dragon's Dogma would get the sequel it really needs to polish the mechanics but I know that'll probably never happen especially since Monster Hunter finally got a foothold in the west. Oh well, time to buy the game for the fourth time.

There is DD Online but... It's Japanese only. I think there was a patch for Eng but that's where the series stopped.