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YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!

For a long time now finding a good source for aftermarket 3DS shells has been nothing but a pipe dream, so this announcement is a HUGE deal. Could lead to a lot of good things in the future.

@Ravenmaster Source?

@Johnny_Arthur a 7/10 remake of a 5.5/10 game doesn't inherently mean Mayles was wrong. If anything, I'd argue the lack of Gregg's involvement is a big part of why Yooka didn't do all too well to begin with.

@ckoerner they removed the Gulf War Game Boy? I wanna assume that they moved it to their Nintendo Museum only because the alternative(i.e. it's locked in storage forever now) would be a bit of a shame.

Not surprised, this is a common thing with puppets from my understanding.

Speaking of puppets, what happened to those Star Fox puppets they used to promote Zero?

@Drnsnsr "Am I a joke to you"

@Johnny_Arthur "What would Rare have done if they had stayed with Nintendo? What could they have achieved with the Wii and now with the Nintendo Switch 2?"

Probably some of the stuff they with Microsoft, sans maybe the Conker remake and Kinect Sports.

@Johnny_Arthur yeah, maybe, but not in the way you might've hoped

Y'know, a lot of people like to believe that if Rare stayed at Nintendo they've would've made a Banjo in the vein of the first two but I'm inclined to believe we would've gotten Nuts and Bolts anyway. The game everyone else wanted was never on the cards. Gregg Mayles, lead director and designer on all three Banjos even confirmed this himself not too long ago:

@AndyVGR

The International House of Mojo and DK Vine are great sites if you want your Lucasarts-adjacent and Donkey Kong related happenings.

Nexus, Nexus... wasn't that Google's old phone series?

@Dalamar I'm with you on wanting more Crash games but I wouldn't put down the idea of a Crash Bandicoot cartoon series or something.

Looks gaudy. And why would you wanna play Banjo-Kazooie with a D-pad? Evercade's continued existence/relevance keeps baffling me.

@KingMike oh no, the Midnight Purple 3DS did actually release, but only in the US so it's pretty rare.

looks nice but I wouldn't really say it's "Game & Watch-like" outside of the backgrounds.

@SlangWon Hi, I asked for this, thank you very much

The Chaotix are some of my favorite Sonic characters, I love their whole bumbling detective dynamic a lot and it was always a shame that none of the games ever did anything fun with that. This little radio play may not be the same as a proper game, but I'm still down to see(or hear, I suppose) a brand new adventure putting the focus on the Chaotix doing some actual detective work.

@slider1983 this you

@MARl0 I've been through these trenches long before boyo. I've seen things I can never unsee.

[thousand yard stare into the abyss]

(Thankfully though I'm happy to be proven wrong so far)

Can't wait for the comments to just be this

Oooh SEGA's legal team is going to have a FIELD DAY with this

_{(JOKE. Cannot stress this enough.)}

You misspelled "Amazing," Damien.

@Geostyle your "concern" reads more like pointless fearmongering.

@Geostyle @ROBLOGNICK yes yes we get it Nintendo has a strict legal team, you are both very creative.

I'd rather just stick with the clamshell approach. Way less fragile than foldable screens at the moment.

My kingdom for a new Space Harrier.

Please be Asterix
Please be Asterix
Please be Asterix
Please be Asterix

These handhelds keep getting clunkier and clunkier.

I would rather pay full price for Mario Kart World than fork over cash to LRG.

@SlangWon you have explained the process, but have shown no actual examples of content that is "good on a purely aesthetical level" other than a YouTuber who's too lazy to commission actual artists and film restorations that usually look pretty terrible when using AI.

Human grit > robot magic.

@SlangWon "There is lots of AI-enhanced or even AI-generated content that can be considered very good on a purely aesthetical level."

Name some, hot shot.

my confidence in this statement is about as high as my confidence in Kevin Afghani's skills as a Mario successor. In other words, not very much.

And people wonder why I hate the remake trend so much.

A tragic loss. Rest well, Master Ninja.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant I'd love to but the deck doesn't have a built-in trackball

They should make a new Ridge Racer game instead. Insane idea, I know.

@hisownsidekick "Yeah, I'm one of the weirdos who enjoys the effect and would want a FULL 3DS replacement for that amount of money."

ONE OF US
ONE OF US
ONE OF US

@slider1983 Not every game uses the crank.

@slider1983 still did a better job with them than Nintendo did

A real fake fan if I've ever seen one.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant

Anyways! I've never been big into Wipeout(a bit too fast for my liking), but if there's anything I can appreciate about it, it's the art direction. The Designers' Republic did some amazing work on that game; tickles the graphic design loving part of my brain something fierce.

@NoirConceit eh. Whatever. I'm not digging into this more. You do you.

@NoirConceit what are you even criticizing here? You just called a guy's work "trash" for no real reason other than "he worked at other companies" which is just something the article mentioned, it's not a feature that Elmore himself is touting as a key reason to listen to his 6-year old album. That's not criticism - that's just being a jerk.

@NoirConceit who hurt you

That is a lovely cover. I know people tend to shun minimalism these day but R4 is probably one of the biggest reasons I'm still for it - balancing simplicity and style in a way that still sticks with me all these years later.

@nuff64 compared to Namco Museum, Arcade Archives, the Mega Man and Castlevania collections, the TMNT Cowabunga Collection, Atari 50 and even the Crash and Spyro remakes, this is pretty pathetic by comparison.

Looks more fun than playing Rayman on GBC.

And another day goes by where I wish that Rayman was in better hands.

Still don't get the draw of this thing. Like, I get if you want a handheld that can play old games but I'm sure there are better options than this?