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1. NieR: Automata
2. Persona 5
3. Nioh
4. What Remains of Edith Finch
5. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
6. Pyre
7. Yakuza 0
8. Uncharted Lost Legacy
9. Horizon Zero Dawn
10. Tekken 7

This is.. incredible!

Great work :) full of style and amazing editing. Bravo!

1. NieR Automata

2. Nioh

3. Tekken 7

currently playing Persona...

Jason represents everything about Giant Bomb: working nonstop and still be able to be humorous about stuff.

The Lord of the Rings: Critically and Commercially successful

Even the third movie of the Godfather Trilogy is crappy.

Cyberpunk 2077 (they said they are focusing on Gwent this year, still...)

TLOU 2 (highly unlikely, but that would mean an earlier release)

Bloodborne 2 (or another FROM game)

Sakaguchi and Levine new projects (I don't even know if Hironobu is working on something)

New refreshed takes on Assassin's Creed and Far Cry

Emma Stone

Fellowship is the emotional choice for me. But Return of the King is such a better movie. It does magnificently something that is very hard to pull off in trilogies: crescendo and amazing landing.

The relaunching of PS4 and Xbox One, with the Pro and Scorpio, as well as the extra presence of VR can be factors that hurt the Switch.

All of a sudden, people have high-end and new alternatives for their money.

But kidsmight help mitigate some of that effect. There are not a lot of alternatives for parents who refuse to buy a mobile or a tablet for their kids.

"The Switch is not competing in a vacuum"

In recent years, the prevalent mantra surrounding Nintendo Consoles is that they don't want to compete with Sony or Microsoft. Don't they? They don't want money?

They cared for competing in the NES and SNES eras.

And then people give the example of the Wii and the "blue ocean" marketing strategy. Well, I think the Wii is a successful exception on how to build a culture and business model of a console, and exceptions are exceptions for a reason. The low attach rate shows to me that people consumed the machine like one of those musical summer hits that breaks records. And the WiiU sales support that, just by comparing it to the poorly managed launch of the Xbox One. The lasting feel for the 360 helped mitigate that disaster a lot better than the lasting feel of the Wii helped the WiiU.

All in all, I don't buy that logic that Nintendo does not want to compete. They would love to have the numbers and the mind-share that Sony has now.

It's ok, for people that are dedicated gamers and play in more than one machine. But you should not build your culture and business model to target that "secondary" spot.

A lot of people don't either have the money or the time to play videogames in several machines.

I don't believe that Nintendo wants to be niche. They simply aren't doing a good job in convincing a lot of people that Nintendo products should be their primary source of entertainment. You should always aim for that. And they, still, have the brand to aim for that.

The Switch is an interesting concept. And, as I said before in this forum, I think this product is so different and compelling that word of mouth, social interaction, and youth zeitgeist can be more important predictors of its success than the typical cornerstones of this business: price, power and 3rd party support.

Yet, it wouldn't hurt for them to try a "Playstation 2" instead of a "Wii", once in a while: a strong price/performance ratio, the minimum non-gaming functionality, 3rd party support of the best selling AAA franchises and a 1st party catalogue that has aesthetic variety.

I think Blood and Wine (expansion) and Inside (indie) probably got enough attention, still, due to what's in parenthesis I think they need an extra push.

If you have already heard about those. I would recommend:

Abzû - very relaxing game and with so much quality in terms of visuals and audio.

Klaus - a very solid platformer with some tricks up its sleave.

The Banner Saga 2 - the best viking game on the market.

Stories, The Path of Destines - not spectacular, but has a very innovative take on re-playability.