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[crackdude]

It does indeed happen, but it's rare to see an entire team go off and start their own studio in the same mold as their previous one wouldn't you say?

No. That happens all the time.
Not only that, over the course of over 10 years about 80% of the people change anyway

[Tad]

Is it? Huh. Still, I'm looking forward to seeing what they do

[Team Andromeda]

It does indeed happen, but it's rare to see an entire team go off and start their own studio in the same mold as their previous one wouldn't you say?

Its not that Rare.  Land Ho were almost completely made up of ex CS team Sega staff when  they set up. Artoon other corp set up with mostly ex Sonic Team Sega staff (much like Prope)  and Genki were formed out of almost 100% Ex AM#2 staff

[Tad]

See above.

Nintendo are set to talk about the Switch soon. It'll be interesting to see if the rumours of beyond good and evil 2 are true.

[crackdude]

Nintendo are set to talk about the Switch soon. It'll be interesting to see if the rumours of beyond good and evil 2 are true.

Hard to be exited about a sequel to an ok 13 year old game on a tablet-grade powered Nintendo console..
I just want Nintendo to die already, so that their games are developed by better studios and come out on better platforms.

[Tad]

Well...that was poor as usual for Nintendo. Pass.

[Mengels7]

Well...that was poor as usual for Nintendo. Pass.

After the failure the Wii U was, I can't understand how they could fuck this launch up so badly and focus on such shitty gimmicks. "Okay THIS time we'll get all the Wii buyers back..."

[Tad]

Here's some pricing too:

USA: $299
Euro: €329
UK: £279

UK game prices already up:

Mario Kart £50
Zelda: £60

To put that in context, games rarely ever go past £40 here and if they do, it's only about £44.99 and not for very long as they don't shift off the shelves. Even with the drop in sterling, this goes way above that. As for the rest of Europe...jeez, Nintendo really don't like you. The bottom line is, it's just too expensive for what it is.

They've had the same words by publishers etc thrown behind it as usual, but nothing to actual back it up. Oh, and apparently the charge will last up to 6 hours as a handheld and only 2.5 for more taxing games like Zelda.

[CrazyT]

So i didnt watch the conference thankfully but im a bit shocked with how few games they showed. DOA if you ask me.

I will say this tho. The functionality of the joy cons is fucking amazing.

[crackdude]

Nintendo Switch off life support

[Team Andromeda]

Don't know what to laugh at the most.  The lame showing,  the insane pricing, the lack of games or Nintendo charging for online lol.  Game over Nintendo... At least Sega tried with the DC

[CrazyT]

Yup. Would be something if the mainstream picks this up. I think they dont have a chance at the serious gamer aka hardcore

[crackdude]

I drew the line when I saw Super Mario spin dashing around Station Square.

[CrazyT]

I drew the line when I saw Super Mario spin dashing around Station Square.

Man how do you do this.

But yeah sonic adventure 3 as i always imagined is finally a thing

[Tad]

Just wait though. Despite that, because it's Mario it'll get called a "innovation" to mix cartoon characters with realistic ones haha.

Got to admit though, I'm surprised with the lack of games on offer. Considering they've been quiet for so long, merged their handheld and console studios together and have Retro etc sitting in the wings, they've really done a poor job on that front. Hell, they already said Pikmin 4 was ready for the Wii u, but decided to put it on switch...so where was it?

They could have at least got a studio like Sumo Digital or high voltage etc to work on porting Wii u games across or something.