I'll wait for the Ocarina of Time remake.

The leaks have been coming out for months now and say it is supposedly coming out this fall. The upcoming Legend of Zelda film sets seem to be based on Ocarina of Time, recent merchandise (LEGO sets, etc.) are based on Ocarina of Time to enhance marketing, etc.

Nintendo just dropped the official Starfox 64 remake news yesterday, so this rumor is likely pretty legitimate.

I don't play games much anymore, but that's something I will absolutely revisit due to nostalgia.

Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia.

I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. Incidentally they will be also easier to AI generate, as part of their existing data set. It truly is the end game for our stale and uninspired culture.

I missed Breath of the Wild, I’ll play it on the Switch 4 remake in a couple of years.

/rant

The announced StarFox 64 remake is, on a very strict count, the second time they have remade StarFox 64.

If you count StarFox Zero, which is kind of a remake but also not, we are on our third remake of StarFox 64. A game, mind you, which was kind of a remake of the original StarFox on Super Nintendo.

> Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia.

The thing is, though—Ocarina of Time is a good game. It was a good game almost 30 years ago when it first came out, and it's still a good game today. But there are generations of gamers who never played it. So why not spend some money to polish it up for modern audiences, and release it for newer consoles?

> I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again

How many years ago? because movies have been remade since the beginning of motion pictures - the great train Robbery was in the early 1900s.

I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP

Remakes have been around since the early days of games too, particularly if you consider ports remakes. The Sega ages series of games were remakes of old games to the PS2.

> I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again.

OOT is a 28 year old game whose last remake is 15 years old. Not everyone is going to play every remake, but everyone will have their favorites. That's why the remake market works.

And they charge a lot for them, too. The Luigi's Mansion 2 remake is too expensive for a graphical upgrade of a 3DS game.

How many times are they gonna remake starfox 64 (which is basically a remake of the first starfox with bits from the then unreleased 2)

I know it's stupid and phschological, but there's a line in my head on what the absolute maximum I'd pay for the nsw2 once the right game comes out. That line is $450.

At $500, I will think twice about just buying nsw1 games, moving to thr steam deck, or digging out old consoles (which is fun too!)

I'm really having a hard time (stupid, I know) giving my kid a $500 toy. Somehow I'm ok with a $300 toy (nsw1) or even a $400 toy (old smartphone).

Same. My wallet can survive the price increase, but it's waiting for Mario to personally justify it

It's relatively mild for EU and US, but for JP it's a 20% increase. Finally going to get one after the announcement.

They showed some good will towards protecting the local market against blatant currency manipulation but it is an important market for them and at this point it doesn't look like the JCB is going to react. They just "intervened" the Gopher back to what it was a few weeks ago.

I have the originals of both, the screen is much better on the switch 2. Don't have any other similar devices or the OLED version.

In the Switch 2 Welcome Tour app they even have demos to highlight the improvement in the screen quality compared to the switch

Yes, there is no OLED version like they later released for the original Switch.

OLED is probably better overall but it can be harder to use in bright sunshine and you have the risk of burn-in if you accidentally leave the screen turned on for hours or something.

I have the switch 2 and an OLED steam deck and it's not even close - the switch 2 screen is just not very good. To a point where if you have grey on grey movement you can see visible smearing like it's some old LCD from 20 years ago. When an OLED version comes out I'll definitely upgrade(so I guess the joke is on me, because I'll end up buying the same console twice just to have the screen that it should have had from the beginning)

Really? They released a second generation with screen being worse than installed in the first generation (even non-oled version)?

We have two switches in our family, both first gen, one usual and one oled. Standalone, usual screen is bearable, compared to oled it is quite bad, but if the new screen is even worse?? I can’t find any explanation for this except of greediness from Nintendo

The Switch 2 screen is way better than Switch 1 non-OLED.

So, they are not soo greedy, but greedy enough to not make it an OLED and later add a separate pricier OLED version.

Based on their switch 1 track record, a new mario will run at 5fps on native nintendo hardware on the final boss (eg, bowsers fury)

For adults, sure. For kids saving for the console it may be problematic.