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Also considerably cheaper.

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I'd only consider a remote play device that works as well at the Wii U gamepad and streams my PC as well. Sony's got some heavy lifting to do to sell me on this thing.

If we're not limited by current gen it could be anything. But since I brought up indies, here's a few of my favorites over the years:

Why limit yourself only to newest games being the “best of the best?” The fact that we have so many high scoring remakes this year suggests that old games are often designed better. They’re less focused on being GaaS and don’t rely as much on skill trees for progression. There’s also plenty of indies that don’t push current hardware that are worth your time. Go play Hades if you haven’t.

Humble Choice is pretty great this month. Wasn’t expecting Life is Strange 2 and Rollerdrome (so soon) and that will probably get me to buy it.

' Could apply to storefronts as well. I always wondered why it was more expensive than other Microsoft 1st party games of that era. It's $8 currently. $7 if you own ReCore and Sunset Overdrive on Steam. Worth it?

Speaking of poisoned wells, I bet Konami is so bitter about Kojima that they would rather avoid Jeff entirely.

Best Buy has a buy one get one 15% off on eShop cards. Brings Zelda down to $65. Or just use the deal on the voucher. You have to pick up the gift cards in person, oddly enough - you can’t buy two of the same card digitally in one checkout.

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If this game is their Mario Galaxy 2 to Mario Galaxy 1, I'd be cool with it. I think BoTW's world was interesting to explore, but the quality of the enviornmental puzzles could have been improved. Korok seeds did most of the lifting. I'd love to see enough interesting and unique ideas fill it to where they're no longer nessicary.

I need to get around to it someday. Minish Cap and Oracle of Ages are the only the only mainline Zelda games I haven't finished. Actually, I guess not Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks either. But those games kind of suck.

We weren't getting much shitty off-screen footage anyways towards E3's end, because - Most games didn't have playable demos, especially AAA budget ones. - The few that did opted for behind closed floor presentations, or would take it to IGN/Gamespot/Nintendo/etc's stages instead where direct feed was captured. I really miss having a bunch of impressions of games hit all at once. Maybe that's not the best thing for the industry, but as a consumer, I like it a lot better than trailers that don't go deep into what the game is like to play. Last year, the closest we got to E3's showfloor proper was Sonic Frontiers and SF6 playable at Keighly's event. Fingers crossed that he's able to expand on that.

April games announced. Icewind Dale and Grime are the highlights for me.

Took a chance on a Fanatical Bundle, specifically the Discovery one for $5. There's this pretty competent DK Returns clone in there. Maybe not quite on the level of Yooka & the Impossible Lair? But they get the controls very right. It's like the Kirby of these games, easy mode. But still very fun. @stepee There's a 3D platformer Smurf's game by the same developer as well.

Some pretty standard faire indie stuff from Epic this week that's been given away elsewhere before. But next week is Dying Light!

Looking forward to Keigh3.

I’ll be buying a 3 month plan closer to release, so I can get this game and Pikmkn 4 for a bit cheaper. Just got to hope Pikmin doesn’t get delayed.

As opposed to Microsoft buying Western studios of all sizes, like Bethesda, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, and keeping their future games off Sony consoles. That's a lot more than game-by-game exclusivity contracts, timed or otherwise. (Which Microsoft is no stranger to themselves) If this was Nintendo complaining, that’d be a bit easier to sympathize with. Granted, they did pay for Monster Hunter exclusivity on the 3DS. They’d still be hypocrites for that. But Microsoft....? It's the bully complaining about being hit back by a weaker punch. They have the weight to throw around, and they’re using it.

Age of Calamity already did this. Its nothing special. Basically the same plot as Link to the Past. A wizard seeks to revive Ganon’s power and control it. No idea what became of him in BotW proper though.

No, it’s not. But such is competition and business when so much capital gets thrown around.

I’d add that really I don’t like contracts for games like FFXVI. But if Microsoft wants to complain, they should go buy SquareEnix from under Sony’s nose like they bought Bethesda. These are the new terms of engagement. We enjoyed a really great decade plus of smaller stakes competitive moves, for the consumer end at least, but times are changing.

The writing was on the wall when the CMA folded. Japan wasn’t stopping anyone. The idea of making exclusivity contracts illegal is really, really dumb. Not only does that sound draconian to enforce, but it’d have repercussions for 3rd parties working on 1st party IP, and also could kill a franchise like Bayonetta. We’d naturally see more acquisitions and studio/IP buyouts take its place. (As we have anyways post Bethesda buyout) There’s evidently no stopping that method of paying for exclusivity. It’s the same effect, only with more permanence, and sucking harder for gamers on the other side of the fence. There’s no good reason that the console manufacturers shouldn’t be able to contract out, only swallow up whole. If the latter is fair game, so is the former.