For New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, if you have one of the SNES controllers (or something similar), that may help. I found it played a bit better than the Pro controller, for some reason. Probably my muscle memory from playing so much SNES back in the day! I thought New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe was really difficult to get through even though I played through and conquered the other Marios.

CoH is one of those games that isn’t quite a “recommended to everyone” game but it’s one that I think many will really like. It’s also only $15 right now, so not a huge investment if you don’t like it. Kinda weird there haven’t been many similar games made (I was aware of like 2).

Completed the Diablo 4 campaign. Loved the story (lots of good stories in the side quests too) and the ending cinematic was one of the best they’ve ever done. First play through was a chain lightning Sorcerer and now trying a werewolf Druid on Season 1. Have also played Necromancer and a little bit of Barbarian.

WoW’s community is kinda toxic sometimes in group stuff. Population wise, it still has plenty of people. The latest expansion, Dragonflight, is one of their best expansions. Having a lot of fun with it.

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes. Fun game, good port, and harder than I remembered.

Also putting more time in TOTK, Diablo 4, and WoW.

Looks radical!

I don’t see it happening as there are a bunch of issues.

*1. The smartphone market is pretty saturated, although Nintendo has the brand power to make a splash, it would need a differentiator. Biggest one would be game software, obviously.

*2. In order to make phone calls, it would need a cellular modem. They would have two options: add a modem and get it working with their favored chipset (like the Nvidia Tegra they’re using now) or switch to an all-in-one solution like the Snapdragon series used in existing Android phones. The first option is expensive, development intensive, and potentially more power consuming. The second would require switching to another chip which could break backwards compatibility and cause other issues (not necessarily anything impossible to overcome, though).

*3. They would need (or rather feel the need) to have it locked down so that only Nintendo-approved apps were available. People like having apps for all kinds of things and I think they aren’t wanting to police something the size of the App Store or Play Store. Piracy and emulation would be be concerns for them as well.

*4. Controls- touchscreen controls aren’t great, so they’d need to have physical buttons and sticks which add bulk. If the stick wasn’t compact enough (even a flat stick like the DS), it could get caught on pockets, clothing, bags, etc. and could wear out more often.

There are other details I hadn’t considered, I’m sure, but overall, I think it’s not a road Nintendo wants to go down.

Just an FYI, the Switch OS has some parts based on Android. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_software

Finally finished the demo and thought it was great. Pikmin was always a series that I wanted to like, but kept finding things that soured it for me. Think this will be the one I’ll pick up.

Heh, no worries. Kinda figured some wouldn’t get it, given it’s an older film. Not sure how the movie holds up after all these years but it was kinda interesting when it came out.

1. I didn’t have a valid point.
2. It was a joke based on the movie “Cocoon” starring Wilford Brimley (among others).
3. This does look like an interesting game, I will keep it in the radar.

Not sure why people are excited by this. I didn’t see a half-naked Wilford Brimley anywhere in the trailer. This will flop.