The Nintendo Switch is a truly mighty console by now, one of the best-selling pieces of video game hardware ever and home to blockbusters like Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Mario Odyssey. But it wasn’t so long ago that accusations from a certain group of people (mostly a subset of hardcore Nintendo fans) accused the console of being nothing special – because half of its library was just ports from the underrated gem and poor meow meow of a console Wii U.
It’s an argument that did, even does, hold some water. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is often thought of as the Switch launch title, but it was originally developed for Wii U and came out simultaneously on it. The Switch’s best-selling game is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is an expanded port of one of the Wii U’s better games. A lot of games filling on the Switch’s release calendar in the earlier years were also ports, like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. The accusation even nibbled at the heels of games like Splatoon 2 or Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at first for seeming just like expanded ports of Wii U titles, even though anyone paying attention could tell they were seaworthy sequels.
"The Prague-based (Czech Republic) indie games publisher CINEMAX GAMES and indie games developer KO.DLL (Karel Matejka), today announced with great happinesss and thrill that their beautiful pixel-art platformer "BZZZT" is now available for the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo Eshop." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"Studio Cima, via Nintendo of America, is excited to show off an all new trailer announcing the release window for its upcoming story-driven action platformer, "The Perfect Pencil".
Dive into the innermost recesses of the human mind and navigate surreal worlds punctuated by bizarre personalities, intense boss battles and enigmatic secrets when- The Perfect Pencil launches Spring 2025 on Steam and Nintendo Switch." - Studio Cima.
The article discusses a claim by an intellectual property (IP) expert that Nintendo likely does not hold patents strong enough to prevent the game developer Pocketpair from creating Palworld, a game that some believe resembles Pokémon. The expert suggests that Nintendo's legal challenges against Palworld could amount to nothing more than corporate bullying, as the patents Nintendo might be relying on are not robust enough to stand up to legal scrutiny. The situation could be seen as an example of a large corporation trying to exert undue influence over a smaller competitor.
Crazy how far they are willing to go over nothing rather than tell Game Freak to get their shit together and sort the quality of the mainline games out.
Personally I'd drop the two game bullshit, make a full on complete game, and take their time making the best game they can without relying on a silly battle gimmick they'll ditch after one game. Gimmicks out of battle is what they should be focusing on, beauty contests, berry making, secret bases, the underground, Seasons, events during day / night and post game content like travelling to a new location or something.
That's the thing, this is why we're now seeing more serious competitors in the genre. Game Freak has just been coasting by, doing the bare minimum in innovation for the last 20+ years. They need to get with the times. Hire more devs, give more dev time to foster creativity, etc. But now that they can't get away with that bare minimum they're trying to sue their competitors out of existence. It's disgusting.
been saying this since sun and moon.
gamefreak just isnt used to, still isnt used to, the console market. they did well on the handheld space but as a complete 3d developer z they fail miserable
the last two pkmn gens look like gamecube games. not to mention the bugs at launch.
but uve seen the ridiculous anount of copies sold at launch too.
Realistically though palworld Pokemon with guns featured so many themes and concepts that Nintendont
There's no way they would make a game where you could use realistic weapons or have pals slaving away.
They're not the same genre at all they just feature similar characters
I pretty much agree, two editions of the same game shouldn't even been a thing at this point. The foundations are solid, but the lack of content and having a lived in world really let the latest games down.
Two editions worked way back in the day as a gimmick hey your mate has different Pokemon in blue than you have in red so trade them but nowadays it's pointless we don't have any of those limitations system links not really a thing anymore and two editions feels exploitive nowadays like they are targeting kids to double dip
why would they do that when the fanbase is still willing to buy whatever low-effort and low-cost crap they are churning out? they are out to make as much money as possible with as little investment as possible and say what you want but GF is excellent at that front mainly because the fanbase allows them to. Nintendo is saying nothing because they are making money.
The article is actually Gamesradar's. MSN just used their page like a URL shortened link.
It's straight up bullying with mooney and using the government laws as a tool to do so. They should be fined.
Switch 2 won't be able to fall back on this port milking to pad its library.
I bought a Wiiu because for some strange reason, Nintendo has not ported Wii Punch-Out to the Switch, yet all the other Punch-Out games are on the Switch.
❤️ Punch-Out.
No more ports please. Switch needs original games or sequels such as new Mario or Luigis Mansion or Kid Icarus etc.
The relied too heavily on ports this time around.
Besides their last Direct is a testament to that.
Amen to Star Fox Zero