Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

Maybe I'm missing something, but the X1 CPU seems remarkably different from the 2012 Tegras like we saw in the Nexus 7 tablet. Here's a comparison I found https://gadgetversus.com/processor/nvidia-tegra-3-t30l-vs-nv...

In what sense did the X1 cpu launch in 2012?

You sound like a 90's mom complaing about GTA's violence.

Gaming world full of actual gambling and even worse practices, and what what should we complain here about? A single payer game that can be offline only and never asks for a credit card has very minor random feature that looks like a gacha machine...

> Pokemon Masters

Mobile game. But please ignore every random mechanic in every game since gaming dawn that are no different.

> In the spirit of gambling, I bet you fifty bucks that the Nintendo theme park has gachapon machines with capsule toys in.

Missing the point. And I'm sure they do.

> Furthermore, you completely dismissed the rest of my comment and what I was responding to.

Pot calling the kettle black? your gacha comment and link did not even address the paraghrah which i quote:

> I am too. It's not a skinner box designed to extract the rest of their money from them. It's a complete, quality product. No subscription pass. No seasons. No loot boxes for money. No gambling mechanics designed to secretly back to real world money. They made a good choice.

but let's go back to your tech stuff.

I will state: I agree that game looks good. It has frame drops ocasinally in docked mode or just by using ultra hand. It is capped at 30fps

But it looks good.

No i am not one of those that think 30fps are enough for gaming, I have gaming PC , i have owned a low latency monitor for decades.

But this is a fucking switch, and this is a puzzle and exploration game. With the crazy phisics and amount of things (plus particles) that this game interacts with, the fact that it can run on 30fps is amazing by itself. Making this kind of game on this platform run better for sure it's very hard work, obviously it can always be better, just look at any demo scene stuff, but this is still a masterpiece, and there is no other game on the console which shares such good looks.

Would i prefer if it ran at 60fps? obviously. Would I want it to be uglier or have less features for that? No. The resources required to jump from 30 to 60 are big, i don't think it could have the same ambience on all those environments and all things happening around on a switch and keep a consistent 60fps.

So, yeah game looks good.

> You have got to be kidding.

Why? play the two games side by side - there is a truly enormous amount of gameplay and visual overlap.

> The ability to build machines by connecting basically anything to anything is a very impressive mechanic both from a gameplay perspective and from a technical perspective. The fact that they built this to run this nicely on an 8 year old tablet is frankly incredible.

Many reviews (and myself!) find this addition to be cool but shallow? Also, while cool, its not technically mega avant garde here- "Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts" attempted similar thing back in 2008.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo-Kazooie:_Nuts_%26_Bolts

> Even the little ability to jump through a ceiling to travel upwards to the nearest place to stand is incredible, considering you can do it anywhere that has a ceiling in range. That mechanic is honestly mind blowing from a technical perspective imo.

I found this to be the least impressive of all Link's new abilities personally, and fail to see it in terms of being some unreal technical breakthrough? It's literally just a jump through the surface directly above the player's head.

> Nintendo has done some sort of mass psychology that allows them to have sub 30fps with no complaints, I was born too early to see this reviewed in business schools, but we are starting to see a bit of the innerworkings of how Nintendo has created IP that is worshiped.

I don't think I've ever known the fps of any of the games I've played. I do remember having to zoom in on Doom II on some levels because my computer was very slow for that game, yet I still loved the game (of course, I did enjoy it better when I played at a friend's that had a better computer and a sound card, but that's another story).

I only care about the playing part of playing games. Like, when I played marbles (yeah, I've been around ...), while I did have a favorite marble or two, I only cared about playing.

I don't say this to discredit you, of course, just that I think by the time a game makes it so big as this one, it's because it's reaching ordinary people like me who couldn't care less about fps and just like the game if playing it lets them have a great time, so if there is any mass psychology involved, I suppose it's the mass psychology of coming up with a compelling game that people enjoy playing. Anyone who has that doesn't need to fool people into not noticing how low their fps rate is.

The latest Zelda games have all used motion controls, while not all contemporary consoles have the hardware for it. Sure, it could be argued that not everyone requires/enjoys motion controls, but Nintendo has never been the kind of company that designs gameplay experiences for the lowest common denominator.

Part of what makes Nintendo, Nintendo is that their games target their hardware, and vice versa (Their game roadmap influences hardware design).