trying to justify thier games as AAA pricing. subtier console with subtier gaming. especially around pokemon games. gen 1-6 were good, but everything after that was just a disaster.

>As for a restoration of throw-to-release pals, there is a mod currently available along those lines, but it doesn’t work exactly as Palworld used to before last year’s patch (it doesn’t include the ball-throwing animation, rather summons the Pal where you're currently looking). Wouldn't surprise me if they're going full "avoid Nintendo issues" mode and make one mod for spawning, another for throwing and potentially even a third to make them work together.

I'm curious how close this guess is, based solely on the generations you mention as good; are you 28?

Make game open source What do now Nintendo?

Is Nintendo the new "N-word"?

The gulf between Nintendo’s legal/corporate office and the game designers/developers is staggering to me

Reporting for using the N slur ^(jk)^

It's sad but they've been like this since the get-go. They sued Galoob for the Game Genie (and lost), and they sued Blockbuster for copying manuals so that people could have the manual to review when they rented games (and won). Nintendo has always been excruciatingly aggressive about protecting and policing their copyrights and IP, even when they're dead wrong. This is not an attempt to justify what they're doing, just to point out that it's unfortunately nothing new.

It's finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won't be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there's no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won't brick my device if I hurt their feelings.

This is why more games should openly embrace modding. A "we're legally not allowed to do this gameplay mechanic" writeup and let the community unofficially provide it.

Yeah, post gen-6 is where i stopped. It felt like the games were really dumbed down, and they leaned way too hard into 3d graphics.

The same thing they've done with lots of emulators, tell whoever is hosting the source to cease and desist or face a lawsuit.

Once it's out in the wild there's not much they can do

"Fuck it, we're doing Pikachu."

Nintendo is why DRM is a thing. The NES CIC lockout chip avoided the 2600's shovelware problem... and created an abusive monopoly, that generation. Nintendo secretly had color screens developed for the upcoming Game Boy, switched to black & white, and left the screen manufacturer hung out to dry. Which is why the Game Gear and Lynx *coincidentally* have the same resolution. Nintendo was politely informed by SNK that they'd be making their own handheld. A year later the Game Boy Color dropped as a secret fuck-you to the Neo Geo Pocket. Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. *After* Sony's big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on.

We need distributed source control

*The monkey paw's finger curls...there was much rejoicing.* 

As someone who was 20 when Pocket Monsters came out in Japan and only played Red/Blue, which generation is 6?

Not sure if joke...

As in, distributed storage a la I2P or Freenet, so that there is no central company or person to send copyright threats to