The FGC?
missingno
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Versus an increasingly crowded market of new fighting games.
I would argue that what counts as a "big game" really just comes down to how much Nintendo invests in it. In terms of budget, Sakurai gets a blank check to do whatever he wants, this will be a much bigger game than the original. In terms of marketing, this was a Direct-closer. Nintendo will make consumers care about this game.
Keep in mind that's all relative to the Gamecube, Air Ride was one of the platform's more successful titles. But more importantly it also went on to become a cult hit long after its release, one that Kirby fans have been clamoring for a sequel to for a very long time.
The fact that Masahiro Sakurai himself is directing the sequel, after not having been involved with Kirby since the original Air Ride, is kind of a big deal. And I fully expect marketing to play up his star power and promote the fact that this is A Masahiro Sakurai Game. Anything Sakurai's name is attached to is automatically going to be big.
There's a reason Nintendo saved this one for the end of the Direct with a cinematic teaser trailer. We'll see more closer to release, but there is no doubt that they are going to market this game very hard as a flagship title, much more heavily than they marketed the original.
Why do you not count Kirby Air Riders? Some of us have been waiting 22 years for this sequel, it's a very big deal.
Reddit's enshittification has been steadily getting worse for years. I moderated a large sub that took part in the blackout protests over the API changes, until the admins threatened us into reopening the sub. That was the point at which I decided I was completely done with this garbage fire of a website.
We're in an era where every large social media platform is becoming increasingly awful, and all of this can be attributed to corporate ownership of those platforms. I believe that the only way forward is federated platforms that no one CEO can control, putting power back into the hands of communities. The Fediverse is the only capitalism-proof solution to everything wrong with the internet today.
Looks like the updater is Windows-only, and does not work in Wine. Is there another way to just flash the firmware file from Linux?
It's kind of terrible as an actual controller, but lowkey a fantastic fidget toy.
I bought it for the novelty and it was worth it.
Is it truly too much to ask you to just... not post misinformation? Is that so hard? Do you really have to act like this?
I've had non-Hall Effect controllers for as long as I've been gaming, which is to say since the N64, and JoyCon 1s are the only ones I've ever had problems with. This is brand new tech, we've lived without it before. Sure, it would be nice to have, but I feel like people are just hastily jumping to the assumption that these controllers will be just as brittle as JoyCon 1s were. That is an assumption we do not know.
I just don't think the complaints about Nintendo are half as bad as some of the abuses coming out of the rest of the industry. Nintendo treats their workers well, they don't exploit addicts with gambling-based business models, they sell complete products on day 1 rather than rushing out unfinished disasters. And yes, I like their games, I like them a lot more than pretty much anything else coming out of the mainstream AAA space.
No corporation is perfect, and there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but they really could be so much worse and I just don't get how the level of vitriol directed towards Nintendo is only directed towards Nintendo and not anyone else.
Most of all though, I'm just tired of whenever the circlejerk turns from "I personally don't like Nintendo" to "I will actively insult anyone else who has the nerve to like something I don't like, how dare they." I'm tired of being talked down to for the unforgivable sin of liking something. Can we at least fucking stop with that shit? Please?