This isnt that likely of a scenario, because of the reasons I already stated, publishers have ZERO interest in actually forwarding the progress of game design and optimization. That requires talent, risk, and motivation. They are far happier to keep things exactly where they are, and use marketing to convince their brainwashed audience that crapping in their face is actually advancment, and anything else is backwards.

Oh sure most of them don't care about that. But some do. If you ever read those graphics white papers or whatever they're called, you do come across companies who innovated on the way to their goal. I believe realtime ambient occlusion was first used in Crysis, for example. I don't know if they entirely invented the algorithm or not but I think they were the first to get it working. 

I also read one on how Valve invented a particular kind of improved motion blur for Portal 2.

Hang on, what do you mean by that? How is upscaled 1080p real 1080p? Surely 900 upscaled to 1080 is inferior to just the game rendering to 1080? 

Wow it is £15. That's pretty awesome. I'll just wait for a few reviews to check it's not an absolute mess, then I'll definitely be getting this! 

Going for £15 on amazon!

I'd love to see some footage or screenshots of this if anyone's noticed any (the remaster)? If it's a remaster along the same lines as the 3DS Zeldas, id definitely be interested. I'm guessing it's probably more of a Vita style remaster though. Which probably means exactly the same game in a new resolution.

Isn't the soundtrack all kinda J-pop rubbish? 

I'm not seeing this on the UK amazon yet. Anyone?

On the US side I can't find it in search anymore however it's still in my wishlist and if I click that the listing shows up. Might just be off the grid so to speak until official info is updated.

Mmmmm yeah, info on the internet seems to find its way into the public somehow. Either way, I hope the prices being mentioned here are the final prices and not some placeholder. I'll almost definitely buy this if it comes at budget price. Assuming they've actually remastered it of course. A direct port, maybe not.

I want to but can't. I am not sure I can get Splatoon and XCX CD at the same time whatever the case XCX CD comes first. I wanna see peoples impressions first. Game sounds like a decent romp.

There'll probably be a big gap between those I'm guessing. Especially with Zelda being delayed. 

Haven't played a LEGO game since the original Star Wars ones. They any good nowadays? The only one that's really appealed has been City undercover. Although I avoided that cos of no off-tv play.

What exactly happened to Wonder Flick, Level 5? Haven't heard anything about that for about 2 years.

Oh bloody hell, I just spent half the week unlocking the damn thing. 

Works fine my end. Although having to unlock 200cc is a bit annoying. Maybe try deleted all of your system data for the game and start over?

Haha one game per month. Good old Nintendo.

I'm def getting Splatoon. Maybe Legend of Kay too actually, it's quite cheap.

It's pretty minor when compared to some of the lies we get about games pre-release. But it's still a lie. People can reasonably expect games shown on the Xbox channel are running on the Xbox. Plenty of people only game in a fairly casual way and really don't keep up to date with all of the info. They'll be coming from the position of just assuming what they see is genuine. I wouldn't care about the 900p to 1080p jump but the 30fps to 60fps is one I definitely care about.

Monolith IS Nintendo. As much as EAD. XC did not need to sell more than it did to be profitable.  Since Monolith is 1st party Nintendo will be smart with cash as always. Studio B in Kyoto doesMario Kart Zelda and other stuff like that they assist with. Like Retro and EAD and Intelligent Systems they ARE Nintendo.

Did they post the budget somewhere then? I had no idea how much they'd needed to sell to be profitable.

I wanna know just how profitable they are. It seems a bit worrying.

They made one of the biggest games of last gen and it sold under a million copies. They're making one of the biggest games so far of this gen and it probably won't sell much more than that (I'm guessing it'll sell about 1 mil)

Are they really efficient with their budgets or are Nintendo just covering them for the sake of having these big exciting projects?

Seems to take them a good 3-4 years on these types of games so hopefully they'll just continue the series.

So is this battle mode then?

Feels like we should've got some video footage of this game by now. He did say it was coming out before Zelda.

The 3DS is the better console in pretty much every way imo. I'd even say the lesser specs are maybe beneficial for a contemporary handheld. It just doesn't look like the whole portable Ps3 idea ever really worked out. I think it's tied to the gaming habits. Portables need to be shorter or segmented gaming experiences to entice people in who like game in short bursts. On the commute, on a break at work. Etc etc.

The idea that next Sony handheld, had the Vita been successful, would allow you to be playing something like Witcher 3, FF15, MGS5 type games seems just a misguided idea. Those games need long sessions of dedicated gaming.

I would suggest that's part of the reason the Vita hasn't really worked out as they hope. Though it is very good as an indie machine.