Pokemon has been cross gen a few times thanks to backwards compatibility. It's truly been cross gen if you count spin-offs like Mystery Dungeon. I'd still count BW2 as cross gen tho since while the 3DS was out, it stilled played DS games.
it will be a evolution of many concepts Nintendo added in her franchise( next Legend of Zelda, more interaction in the game, 3D Mario expand on the Bowser Fury formula)
Assassin's Creed isn't tanking. Origins sold 10+ million copies, Odyssey sold 10+ million copies, and Valhalla, their latest open world game, was their first game to make 1 billion dollars. These games get slammed by the gaming community but they review well enough - low 80s isn't a bad score. These games are huge successes and if ditching linear was truly the way forward, Assassin's Creed wouldn't be going back.
not everything need to be open world to be good, you can envolve futher this franchises in other ways.
Black and White 2 was "cross gen", a 3DS enhanced DS game. Even if those enhancements were very minor.
Please take these conversations elsewhere. I get that sometimes we go off-topic and I'm cool with that, but I missed actual hardware news which was covered in multiple posts, because of a multi-day conversation about Smash's roster, and a second thread about open world games.
I do think it's different this time. Developing for the previous and the next Nintendo system used to be much more of a reset (at least if you count handhelds). Now we're getting basically a much more powerful version of the previous one with feature upgrades (that no-one is forcing you to use), and the power leap is such that you get a nice boost even if you don't try.
GTA is a series that has always meant to be open world. Same with Zelda, even if technical limitations meant that it wasn't always fully seamless, Zelda games were always meant to be percieved as open world by the player, all the way back to the first game. Most games weren't designed with open world in mind. Open world is just not something you can apply to any game series, format, genre etc. For example Open world Mario would suck, because the Mario series wasn't designed with it in mind. Bowser's Fury wasn't particually interesting or impressive. They would have to make a game that didn't really play like any Mario game before it at all, like what Mario 64 did during the jump to 3D, rather than being a translation of the Mario gameplay to 3D they did something completely different. I don't know if Nintendo could pull that off again.
same
I must have missed it too, please, do tell.
Valve thinks it's better for developers to have fewer targets to hit. and with the way PC gaming is right now, they're not wrong. being able to focus proton development for one piece of hardware at a time makes things a lot easier
This is the kind of content I enjoy reading about, thank you for those posts.
Driver Development Kit, apparently.
DDK means driver development kit. It's a kind of SDK specifically for abstracting out OS details to aid in writing device drivers, and it would make sense for it to be bundled with a test board that allows exercising the hardware/peripherals the drivers are written for. This is just a guess as to what the "CARPA" really is, though.
Assassins Creed (And Ubisoft open worlds in general) are far and away one of the biggest examples of "Internet is not representive of real life"
You're 100% right, my bad. Do we have a thread for discussing future Nintendo software? I'll be honest I have no clue what the pinned thread about Mario Party Super Stars is about and I've looked through it several times. A thread to talk about the future software seems like it's needed now more than ever since it keeps flooding this thread.
I would make that, but I don't think I'd be good at managing it. I think it would be awesome though
Unless the topic doesn't fit, here's a thread oldpuck created
Mirage was originally DLC to Valhalla until they realised it could be its own game appealing to fans of the original trilogy.
I was curious about the sudden wave of Compile Heart announcements so I went ahead and read through the original Famitsu article and the reason for all the news is that Compile Heart is going through a bit of a restructure. Most importantly, they cite multiplatform development as one of their key focuses, primarily due to their desire to continue working on more niche titles and needing to have the combined sales from all platforms in order to turn a profit with those more niche titles.
They should do through the single market membership but I'm mostly in Donegal for the while and the Switches themselves came from Dublin!
I was working on a reply about why open world design is actually detrimental to many game genres even if done well, but this thread has already gone off-topic for a few pages.
Interesting. Could you use this to check if anything resembling 'Switch Pro' devkits was actually recalled?
He didn't post a leak, he posted a screenshot of a shipping/distributor page showing the letters T239. LiC is taking a look at what the other letters and numbers in this listing may mean.
Why this association l?
There are 6 listings between July 28, 2022 and May 30, 2023. I think it's likely that devkits were being produced since samples were available in early 2022, and this is just the first time one happened to be shipped this way and recorded as such. We don't know how early/rough devkits were at various stages in 2022, though.
I guess the discussion is so fragmented that I need to make a hub post of some sort.
If you knew what to search for, and you made certain assumptions that Nvidia also happened to ship such things to their office in India, I guess you could find it if it existed. But you can't prove a negative.
Must be one of those researched new technologies Furukawa was talking about some time back, can think of about a dozen scenarios that'd be useful for from quick navigation to hands-free controls, plus vocal-interactive gaming absolutely sounds like yet another Nintendo innovation nobody asked for but will probably love anyway
Nintendo’s version of Siri?
Sorry, I was free associating and didn't show my work.
Hey, apparently I need to start playing Smash...
What's the timeline from initial distribution to release people were saying again? Between 1.5 and 2 years?
