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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Legends Z-A Mega Dimension DLC Opens December 10

« Last post by broodwars on November 06, 2025, 06:42:58 PM »

We know what this and the DK DLC are.  They were released so soon after the game's release that you know they were at worst almost finished when the base game launched.  A lot of DLC is just taking a chunk of the game out and charging extra for it.  But Nintendo can be a little more clever about this and not make it so obvious.  Have some patience and wait at least six months.  "We made some more content for that game you love" is such a better sell than "We held back on this to make you pay extra for it."

I wonder why Nintendo seems to have backed away from the "Expansion Pass" model, where they would dribble out minor additions over a course of time for the main game with a major expansion right at the end. Seemed to work out well for the Xenoblade games.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Legends Z-A Mega Dimension DLC Opens December 10

« Last post by broodwars on November 06, 2025, 02:07:27 PM »

I'm getting increasingly tired of Roguelike modes seemingly being Nintendo's go-to strategy for DLC. It's bad enough that those seem to be 90% of Indie games these days.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Legends Z-A Mega Dimension DLC Opens December 10

« Last post by Ian Sane on November 06, 2025, 12:21:45 PM »

Seems way too soon to release DLC.  A lot of the kids that make up the Pokemon target audience have probably not played the game yet because they're going to get it as a Christmas present.  Let them get it for Christmas, play for a few months, then time the DLC with when those kids are just starting to get bored with it but would be interested in new content to spice it back up.  Now I suppose Nintendo might be thinking that the idea is for the DLC to be the Christmas present.

We know what this and the DK DLC are.  They were released so soon after the game's release that you know they were at worst almost finished when the base game launched.  A lot of DLC is just taking a chunk of the game out and charging extra for it.  But Nintendo can be a little more clever about this and not make it so obvious.  Have some patience and wait at least six months.  "We made some more content for that game you love" is such a better sell than "We held back on this to make you pay extra for it."

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TalkBack / Re: Previously Japan Exclusive My Nintendo App Comes To West With Nintendo Store Branding

« Last post by broodwars on November 05, 2025, 07:02:21 PM »

That's intentional. Separate apps mean easier development, maintenance, and deployment. If everything was on a single app, code changes could break existing functionality in other parts of the app requiring a ton of regression testing before release. As separate individual apps, Nintendo can roll out bug fixes and improvements much faster.

TL;DR: You should want separate apps. If one app fails, it won’t take the other functionality down with it, and it's much easier to fix.

*shrugs*

I get what you're saying but my home screen has room for 1 app, and I prefer the convenience of doing everything I need to do in one app. It's frankly presumptuous for Nintendo to think it has a right to more than that space. Just saying, the PS App has its issues, but I can buy from PSN; manage my downloads; managed my screenshots and videos; and manage my online profile all in one place. Hell, when PS Stars was still active I could manage that there, too, and so long as PSN itself is operational it works just fine and has for years.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Results For Second Quarter Of 2025-26 Fiscal Year

« Last post by Kairon on November 05, 2025, 06:47:18 PM »

The fact that 1.8 million or so people bought Mario Kart World OUTSIDE the bundle for FULL MSRP is sort of crazy.

The fact that Nintendo is willing to take a swing and aim for 19 million pieces of Switch 2 hardware sold in its first fiscal year is CRAZY.

Also, I'm really happy if this news really disrupts all the videos that Youtube has been shoving in my face about Nintendoom negativity. I really don't want during this gen to have to navigate all the content creators trying to hawk for clout and views by spinning anti-Nintendo rhetoric just to elicit a response out of a social media algorithm. It really reminds me (in a bad way) of earlier console gens when the entire "gamer" discourse (print magazines, early internet... later internet...) seemed to decide that Nintendo was an okay target for group scorn because they were so different from what gaming culture said was the norm.

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TalkBack / Re: Previously Japan Exclusive My Nintendo App Comes To West With Nintendo Store Branding

« Last post by Adrock on November 05, 2025, 02:40:15 PM »

That's intentional. Separate apps mean easier development, maintenance, and deployment. If everything was on a single app, code changes could break existing functionality in other parts of the app requiring a ton of regression testing before release. As separate individual apps, Nintendo can roll out bug fixes and improvements much faster.

TL;DR: You should want separate apps. If one app fails, it won’t take the other functionality down with it, and it's much easier to fix.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Shifting Development Focus To Switch 2

« Last post by Ian Sane on November 05, 2025, 02:05:49 PM »

Pokemon Legends Z-A and Metroid Prime 4 are the two big new releases that are for both Switch 1 and 2 and they were announced as Switch 1 games well before the Switch 2 was revealed.  Development had already been done and they probably didn't want the PR hit from cancelling the Switch 1 versions.  So in that sense Nintendo has been quite good at making sure their new Switch 2 games are exclusive to the platform, far better than Sony or MS have done recently.

Third parties are different though.  I still expect a new third party game announcement to be on both platforms.  It's not universal but I figure those publishers want to cover their bases by not locking out the Switch 1 userbase for the time being.  But then maybe that will change if Nintendo's own efforts steers things more blatantly towards the Switch 2 than Sony and MS do.

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TalkBack / Re: Previously Japan Exclusive My Nintendo App Comes To West With Nintendo Store Branding

« Last post by broodwars on November 05, 2025, 08:42:52 AM »

Ok, Nintendo splitting up all these functions into separate apps is starting to get annoying. Is there a reason this couldn't have just been combined into 1 Switch App?

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« Last post by Stratos on November 05, 2025, 12:48:13 AM »

The trailer for S5 of Stranger Things dropped, and it looks like there is a military perimeter around Hawkins, so I wonder if folks are just not allowed to leave for some reason? Though the damage to the town is still there but it doesn't seem as bad as it was in the finale.

I'll watch it for completion and closure sake, but I really hope they implement some real costs and stakes. Max being in the state she is in may carry some of that price, but they could easily hand-wave it away somehow.

As for song choice, I loved what they did with Kate Bush, but agree they should have picked a different song for the finale. I liked how they used Separate Worlds in the penultimate episode, we should have gotten more songs instead of repeats.

It also felt weird to bring back Dr "Papa" like that. It would have been like Jurassic World 2 bringing back Hammond and pretending he never died. He was gone int he narrative, an bringing him back after a pretty clear death in S1 just felt jolting.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Shifting Development Focus To Switch 2

« Last post by broodwars on November 04, 2025, 11:09:03 PM »

It's a weird world we live in where a company can put out a new console but not shift its development focus TO that console until it's been out for 5 months already.

Oh well. Sony refused to commit to the PS5 for years after launch and Microsoft basically never did stop supporting the Xbone via the Series S, so that's an improvement here at least.