Let's start this new year by checking where we are. Nintendo's stock has been dropping recently. The Switch 2 hasn't really been selling like it was anticipated. They bet on the wrong horse with the new console, changing their age-tested tactics of using mature and cheap technology rather than going for the horsepower under the hood. Everything is going up in price with tech, and will keep going up in price until it plateaus at some point in the future.

This year, I feel I did play a healthy amount of games. Some new, more older games again. Finding myself playing games outside my comfort zone more often than not though, so that's a good direction. Expanding my horizons a bit, but also focusing on certain series that are unfinished. Mainly some of the Super Robot Wars games that I'm missing, some elusive…

You know me, I see Capcom doing a new Mega Man title and I’m already there. So, we get a whole minute and a half trailer, most of which is fluff. A hall counting up to eleven and over, opening a sealed room where Capcom stashed the Blue Bomber in for their pony jar experiments. Then almost twenty seconds of beta footage with each scene having reference to past…

When a game a has troubled development cycle and stays in that dev hell for extended period, the end result is often a kind of polished turd. Either the dev team didn’t manage to overcome some obstacle, either in code or design, or something kept rebooting. Metroid Prime 4 is an early Switch game that got canned when Bandai Namco was developing it, but got a restart at Retro Studios, where very few who worked on the first games work anymore.

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With Rockstar and Grant Theft Auto 6 in the news for some unsavory reasons, I saw quite a lot of hubbubs about the success of the fifth game in the franchise and its comparative success compared to other games, and other forms entertainment. I’m slightly flabbergasted that someone would claim that GTA5 was the most successful form of entertainment, when people without much contact with the modern world knew about Michael Jackson.

Satya Nadella says Xbox isn't competing with other game consoles. He says Xbox is competing with TikTok. This is Nadella effectively admitting Xbox has lost its primary market and must find something else to compare themselves to in order not to look so bad in the eyes of the market, or investors. People thought the Activision Blizzard buyout would’ve changed gaming in a way that Xbox would get all these exclusives, concentrating large swaths of games to one or two platforms, or something along those lines.

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Microsoft has a history with buying gaming companies, having exceedingly large expectations of them, and then proceeding to cull them for not meeting those expectations. They ultimately call the shots what Xbox as a department does. People were calling buying Activision Blizzard deal of the century, something that would forever change gaming. What we got was the same as usual, just with bigger dollars in the play.

I dropped Street Fighter 6 some time ago when I was done with doing any dailies or weeklies in a game. It turned playing anything into a chore, into work that I needed to do at home. It kicked off a small avalanche, where I effectively quit all the other games that had the same, dull shit. However, I finished the World Tour well before that and had a few good match Online, where I realized how awful the World Tour is.

Doug Bowser, the president of Nintendo of America, is stepping down from his position on December 31st 2025. Unless the man has some underlaying health issues, then something is wrong within the company itself. Either something’s wrong within the company itself and Nintendo’s execs think they can fix it by replacing Bowser with Devon Pritchard, or they’ve been really unhappy how Bowser has been running the ship.

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