4172

Simon Belmont coming to Smash. The hype is real.

4173

I think you’re burying the lead: Alolan Exeggutor is coming as a Pokemon item in the game! (Look it up.)

Also, Dark Samus!

4174

I didn’t realise Baby Driver was a Nintendo property.

4175

I wish I could get excited about Smash Bros. I feel like I have a defective gamer gene.

4176

Whaaaattttt?!

Metroid Prime is my second favorite game of all time, hell yes.

4177

Right there with you. Of course I’ll probably be dumb, pick this one up and try to force myself to like it again.

4178

I’m sorry that you can’t get into the game or the series. Because personally, I’m just excited that you can now choose which songs get played with what frequency for each of the over 100 stages in the game! The game includes over 900 songs! You can use it as a portable music player if you want!

Okay I’ll stop now.

4179

Yeah, I’ve played plenty of them but they’ve never excited me in the same way as they do everyone else.

4180

Why don’t we have likes on this forum again? Even five a year would be enough.

4181

Yeah that made me laugh too!

4182

This is a great insight into the game and Sakurai’s place in making it. Well worth a read.

4183

Sakurai buys games digitally. Because he’s a gd genius. Take some notes, Dave.

4184

Only because he’s out of space! I’m not out of space yet. :)

4185

Hope it’s okay to put this here. I don’t know if it needs its own thread.

4186

I don’t know thst it would need its own thread since it would fit nicely into any of the tons of piracy threads we have in the archive.

4187

We’ll be able to backup saves in September!*

*Provided we pay. :(

4188

Don’t you have to pay for cloud saves with the other consoles too?

4189

I think so, but what’s galling here is that there is no alternative on the Switch—there’s no way to back up saves at all right now.

On the other consoles you can still backup saves to USB sticks or whatever for free. It’s frustrating that Nintendo still doesn’t have that option, and that their answer is cloud saves that are only available if you pay.

4190

Yeah that sucks I guess. I suppose they won’t be adding alternative save backups now! Though at least the online charge is quite low. Even so, I’m not yet tempted to pay it…

I did see the hacked/homebrew Switches have a save game manager built in so it’s certainly not unfeasible. More likely concerns around hacking/cheating and save game editing.

4191

Also note that cloud saving is only available for compatible games, so hope your favorite non Nintendo games get a patch, I guess.