Ludendorkk
(he/him)
Former devs have admitted on the record that Vita's proprietary memory existed solely because Sony corporate had no faith in the Vita and demanded it as a way to offload cost on to the consumer
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The Nintendo Thread of Existential Doom
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- 2 nintendo 2 switch and so they were both switches bopitivity time drift-compatible haven't outsold the ps2? pathetic. is nintendo doomed? its a cereal wow new super nintendo switch 2 x turbo & knuckles nintendo nintendo cinematic universe nintendo direct-ly into my veins nintendo switch nintendoom play it loud snitches get switches switch switch it up switch port when? the doom is evergreen the splatoon 3 game for the nintendo switch system the switching hour
Former devs have admitted on the record that Vita's proprietary memory existed solely because Sony corporate had no faith in the Vita and demanded it as a way to offload cost on to the consumer
+1. The soundtrack is fantastic, and I think it might be mostly exclusive to free roam.
I feel like my notion is being misunderstood here.
Both Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2 use ancillary memory storage that differs from what came in the previous generation, with the leading factor ostensibly being that speed is the factor, in that newer titles need higher speeds than the older storage mediums can provide in order to run the new titles.
Where they differ is that while Xbox has the option of buying a proprietary storage device that provides the speed needed, you can also attach a different, more common and cheaper drive that you might have even used in that previous generation to store files and run older games on the new hardware, whereas with Nintendo, you only have the option to purchase the new storage medium in order to do anything beyond what the internal memory has.
What I am saying is not "Nintendo should allow you to attach an external hard drive to your Switch 2," but "Nintendo should allow your old microSD cards to be used on the Switch 2, not to run new games, but simply to potentially store new games as well as store/run the games you already have on there from the Switch 1.
Nintendo's may not be proprietary, but that aside, it's still a very similar situation with fewer options for the consumer than Xbox provides.
I don't know how much it influenced the decision, but it's also worth noting that the PSP had a ridiculous piracy problem, and a big factor in that was likely how effortless it was to swap a standard SD card in and out of a computer. Yes, piracy has been a problem for every console generation ever, but it looked like the OG Xbox and the PSP were two systems where even your grandma somehow had downloaded every ROM in existence. I always assumed Sony recognized this, and decided to make a proprietary format to make that kind of behavior slightly more difficult, and, if piracy was going to be a continuing thing at that level, at least they would be profiting from people wanting more space.
MIG?
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
It's that cartridge that lets you load cart images on an SD card you insert in it.
Just going to be blunt here. I know you can use a MIG with games you purchased yourself, but you still use an unapproved 3rd party accessories to a device at your own risk, especially when said accessory was purpose designed to circumvent security measures.
Just going to be blunt here. I know you can use a MIG with games you purchased yourself, but you still use an unapproved 3rd party accessories to a device at your own risk, especially when said accessory was purpose designed to circumvent security measures.
As an engineer, I'm amused by the cat-and-mouse game of Pirates Vs Corpos.
But if you know enough to know how to use a Piracy Device and still use it on your brand new system after weeks (years, really) of Discourse about how the Corpo will brick your system if you use a Piracy Device, you have bought your ticket and knew where your bus was going.
But if you know enough to know how to use a Piracy Device and still use it on your brand new system after weeks (years, really) of Discourse about how the Corpo will brick your system if you use a Piracy Device, you have bought your ticket and knew where your bus was going.
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
Wow, this a lot more of a tentpole Nintendo game than I was expecting.
It's interesting how this is an inversion of the original Donkey Kong --- instead of DK taking an unwilling Pauline up as high as he can get, he's taking a willing Pauline down as far as he can get.
Also it's really funny that we're getting Donkey Kong Racing as a minigame in this decades after the concept was originally canned.
Also it's really funny that we're getting Donkey Kong Racing as a minigame in this decades after the concept was originally canned.
The weird enigma of Pauline here honestly bugs me a bit, but everything else looks great.
Ludendorkk
(he/him)
Connecting your hacked device to an official server is real Fuck Around and Find Out shit
Have I got an article for you.
One thing that actually bugs me is how -- from the footage we saw yesterday -- it seems like only Pauline has voice acting, and everyone else with dialogue is stuck with just text and the occasional non-word vocalization. Why would you only do this for one character? That's a super weird production choice.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
Seth Rogen and that god awful cgi cartoon adaptation aside, Donkey Kong has never been particularly eloquent in the games.
He spoke dialogue in DKC3 which was always super distracting to me.
Yeah, yeah, heard it all before.
To be honest, this stuff is precisely a part of why I'm not the fan of Mario that I used to be, though in that case, it came down more to the genericization of everything from where it had been, along with their refusal to touch classic members of Mario's rogues gallery in places they'd fit just so we can fight Bowser for the 47 bajillionth time.
At least DK's stuff was straightforward. Inconsistent design-wise, but straightforward.
I'm probably not the guy to go round and round with on this -- I was a fact checker for the official Mario encyclopedia (my name is in the back on the English version), and one of my highest aspirations in life used to be writing a Mario comic and making everything make sense. I'm a lost cause.
And from that, I also know Nintendo is as willing to bend reality to suit their own narrative as they are their in-game stories, so it's a battle I'm not interested in waging. I already know who the winner will be.
I'm just going to take it like the Mario movie: Wait until I see it for myself, and hope that here -- as I was there -- that I'm pleasantly surprised.
Oh, and please don't take this as a blow-off. I'm just old and have more experience at this from varying angles than any sane person should.
Nobody's looking for a fight here! I love lore in games. I'm the guy who reads the Dark Souls item descriptions for the story. I meant that link in a light-hearted way, apologies if it came off as aggressive.
My issue isn't with DK himself (I actually would prefer him not to talk), it's the fact that they showed a bunch of other characters in the Direct who all spoke in full text boxes. If you're going to write a lot of dialogue for your game, it's just a bizarre decision to give one specific character a voice. Generally it's either everyone or no one, you know?
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Nah, you're good. Not trying to pick a fight or be defensive, I'm just saying that I've probably spent WAY more time thinking about this stuff than is healthy. XP
And nothing to show for it...
How about this: Once a Donkey Kong reaches a certain age, he becomes the next Cranky Kong; similar deal with Diddy, et al. So this is OG Donkey Kong's dad, who when reaching adulthood and assuming the mantle, sought out now adult Pauline due to his father's tales.