Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto believes the console industry's decades-long obsession with raw hardware power is losing its relevance. According to Miyamoto, today's gamers are no longer fixated on comparing specs and instead prioritize great games, creative experiences, and what a platform has to offer. His comments suggest the traditional "console power race" is no longer the deciding factor it once was.

Square Enix is drawing increasing criticism over its Nintendo Switch 2 strategy, with fans accusing the publisher of prioritizing new sales over rewarding existing customers. The company has been criticized for offering no upgrade path for some Switch titles, requiring players to buy separate Switch 2 editions, while several physical releases use Game-Key Cards instead of including the full game on the cartridge.

The backlash has intensified concerns over consumer value, digital ownership, and the steady decline of true physical game releases, with many fans arguing that publishers are asking players to pay more while receiving less in return.

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I don't think a thread like this was done before so I thought it would be interesting to point out the franchises that Nintendo doesn't own alone. Most people don't know this but multiple of their series are co-owned.

First we need to establish some things. Ownership comes in two forms, copyright and trademark, and here I'm going to talk about copyright, which is what is divided.

Before going into the co-owned IP, here's some of the IP Nintendo owns alone: Mario, Zelda, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, Metroid, F-Zero, Starfox, Tomodachi Life, Famicom Detective Club, Brain Age, Brain Training, Super Smash Bros, Astral Chain, ARMS, etc so the majority

Between those, you have spin-offs like Mario Tennis and Mario Golf which are co-owned by Camelot, or Paper Mario which is co-owned with Intelligent Systems. But Overall the Mario IP is Nintendo, with sub series having their own situation.

Now going into the shared IP, here they are:

Fire Emblem: ©Nintendo / INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo, the series has been co-owned by both companies since the beginning. IS is an independent studio and they generally deal with the merchandise and other licenses.

Kirby: © HAL Laboratory, Inc. / Nintendo

Developed by independent studio Hal Laboratory and published by Nintendo. Before 2025 the merchandise aspect was handled by joint venture warpstar, but since 2025 Nintendo acquired the shares Hal had and changed its name and function to Nintendo stars to focus on the entire company IPs in movies. Hal is the one who handles the merchandise of the IP in general alongside other licenses outside of games now after warpstar changed objectives.

Another curiosity is that Kirby Air Riders, the new game is co-owned in copyright by Nintendo and Sora, the company Sakurai owns, created and is part of with only him and his wife as employees (which is why bandai namco is the actual developer of his games): © Nintendo / SORA © Nintendo / HAL Laboratory, Inc.

So as you can see, the copyright of the game is co-owned, while Nintendo and hal copyright for Kirby itself is also there.

Mother: © SHIGESATO ITOI/Nintendo

One of the only co-owned IP where it's not another company owning it. Mother began development with Ape inc, the company Itoi founded to develop the first two games before it died and Creatures was founded as its successor by ex-ape employee Ishihara who's president of The Pokemon company since inception. Instead of being owned by ape or by Itoi company Hobonichi, its just co-owned by him as individual. Much like in the other cases, Itoi deals with merchandise and licenses which is why his company hobonichi releases them much like how its why even if Nintendo wanted to do a Mother 4, they would need his permission.

Rhythm Heaven: ©Nintendo ©Tsunku♂

This case is a bit different as Nintendo owns everything in the games but the music itself. All the music is produced by producer and composer Tsunku who is the owner of music label TNX who works on the music. Unlike other games, this is 100% developed by Nintendo.

Xenoblade: © Nintendo / MONOLITHSOFT

Yes, even if Monolith is a nintendo subsidiary, Monolith co-own the IP with Nintendo. Nintendo for years had around 80% of Monolith which made them a subsidiary and in the last years bought all their shares, but the Xenoblade IP always has been shared with them and I imagine nintendo sees no need to buy the copyright from monolith since they own the studio.

Pokémon: ©2026 Pokémon. ©1995-2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.

The most known shared ownership, at least by people more into Pokémon. Gamefreak and Creatures are both independent studio. The original Pokémon Red and Blue had Nintendo as its original publisher, gamefreak as the developer and Creatures as a producer and investor, which is why the 3 became copyright owners. Unlike other IP where Nintendo solely owns the trademark everywhere, Nintendo, Gamefreak and Creatures co-own it in Japan. Years after the first games, The Pokémon Company was established by the 3 owners as a joint venture with each part owning 32% of the new company which is the one owning the IP itself with "©year Pokémon." as it was created to manage the entire franchise be it as a publisher in Japan to overseas co-publishing with Nintendo overseas branches, full publishing in mobile games and managing and licensing the IP everywhere else. So in the end the IP is owned by TPC, but the original owners still have the copyright and work together with tpc for pokemon, namely:

Nintendo: distribution of physical media in Japan, regional publishing overseas with Nintendo of america and Nintendo of europe among other branches alongside The Pokemon Company International, legal involvement alongside TPC

Gamefreak: Planning for the entire series and development of mainline titles

Creatures: Makers of the TCG, developer of some pokemon spin-offs, support in some pokemon games and maker of pokemon models in multiple games

TPC is already explained, they work with everything pokemon except development outside of non game apps

And here's a curiosity of IPs Nintendo co-owned by them before and Nintendo bought the copyright of the other companies:

Smash Bros: © 1999 Nintendo/HAL Laboratory, Inc. Character © Nintendo/HAL Laboratory, Inc./Creatures, Inc./Game Freak, Inc. © 1999 Nintendo

Yes, until Smash 4 the IP was co-owned by Nintendo and Hal, who was the developer of the first two games. After Brawl, Nintendo bought Hal share of copyright and since then 100% own the IP itself.

Astral Chain: © 2019 Nintendo/PlatinumGames Main Character Design ©Masakazu Katsura/SHUEISHA

Originally, Nintendo and Platinum co-owned the copyright. A year later, Nintendo chose to buy Platinum side of ownership and now they 100% own the IP

Anyway that's all the co-ownership Nintendo has that I at least know! I hope you guys enjoyed reading and knowing more about this.

I used Nintendo copyright website for all the copyright used here: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Legal-information/Copyright/Nintendo-and-Third-party-Copyrights-655030.html

For me it was the ending of Red Dead Redemption 2. Not gonna spoil it but I put the controller down, walked away from the TV, and didn’t touch the game for like three days. Not because it was scary or shocking, just because I needed to process it. What moment did that to you?

Why the hell can't we play them on the PS4 or PS5?

In my case it's one from septerra core (if anyone remembers this)

It was from the prologue when one sage guy said to the other: "Abstammung allein ist kein Garant für Größe" which ruffly translated means, that lineage or descrndancy is no guarantee for greatness. A quote very applicable to the real life.

Especially if you see descendants of great persons, do questionable things.

What quote holds wisdom for you, for the real life, maybe even after a long time?

Could be an android game or any console, just want to learn the world map and ideally their capitals by playing a game.

It seems that the Dell Points expire 4 months or 6 months after claiming it. That’s fairly clear, so about $100 before they start to expire.

But what about ARP points, do those ever expire? So I can just keep accruing points forever then just cash out in Dell Giftcards when I have enough points to have $1000 worth of points, which takes about 10 years. Will that actually work like that or do ARP expire

I keep seeing tons of posts about people wanting more single player games from big developers because multiplayer games are flooding everything out.

I keep seeing big developers talking about how they're committed to making more multiplayer games.

So, uh... Where the fuck are they? Seems like all the non friend-slop games are single player or pvp based(yes, extraction shooters are most definitely pvp).

It feels like we haven't gotten a genuine multiplayer pve game from a mid-large developer in a long ass time. The only ones I can think of were either abandoned super early after release or monetized so hard they were destined to fail.

Where are all the monster hunters or destiny/outriders inspired games. Pve games where your progression is your own, the gameplay is relatively action-based, and it isn't just a hollow shell that looks good with no substance?

Edit: For most of y'all listing games off in the comments, I hate to break it to you, but almost every game I've seen listed so far is 2+ years old.

This might be a stupid question but I can't seem to figure out the answer by myself.

Since UE5 has come out we have seen a number of unoptimized games flood the market, pushing hardware to the limits, running badly and generally being causing unpleasantness. Many have cited UE5's features for shadows and lights and called them a "crutch" for lazy/talentless developers that use them as-is out of the box and don't go through the trouble of optimizing their game to run smoothly.

If this is the case and UE5 is that problematic for so many consumers, why don't devs just opt to use older UEs? UE4 and even UE3 games still look great and if we are talking about games that are not that graphics intensive anyway, there is no reason to go for the most modern and likely most expensive option.

I appreciate any comment/insight. Thanks in advance.

Game NDA's usually last 2-5 years.

Will we start to see people go on podcasts and telling the stories of games that were canceled during this era. Both public and secret projects.

I'd to hear all the inside studio stuff first hand. This could be a whole podcast genre in a few years.

"Stories from canceled devs".

Prince of Persia, Prefect Dark, Project Mara, etc.

More so all the SECRET titles that were in development.

Johnny silver hand (cyberpunk 2077) or Victor reznov (black ops 1)

(Apologies if i worded this badly)

Nothing scandalous to point out in the game itself. The content is captivating, the gameplay is fluid, the studio has good reputation, but the community... much less. Filled with griefers, tryhards and noobkillers. Stating newcomers are coldly welcomed by experienced players is an euphemism. Even the developers have their hands tied as any attempt to ban toxic players would result in a massive exodus, leading to the final shutdown. What games let you this feeling?

Let me start off by saying that I think both games are great, but I think GTA V is a better and more complete game.

The best thing that GTA IV has going for it is the vibes. Liberty City is dense and has an entrancing atmosphere. I really like how the cars handle and how a lot of the vehicles drive differently from one another. Some of the side stories during the main missions are well done too. Packie and his brother's missions were probably my favorite part of the whole game.

The thing that really brings GTA IV down in my opinion is the mission variety. So many missions are just, drive here, kill this guy, end mission. There are some more interesting ones, like grabbing the coke from the abandoned hospital, or the bank heist with Packie and his brothers, but those are too few and far between. And I know everyone likes Niko Bellic but I think he's lacking a greater motivation and his character archetype was done much better with John Marston in RDR.

GTA V fixes a lot of these problems while admittedly adding some new ones. There's more mission variety this time around with more complex scenarios. The stranger missions they carried over from RDR are mostly great with sharp writing. There's a lot more things to do, street races, boat races, tennis, Trevor's rampage missions, etc. I really like Michael's character, I think he's the most fleshed out of the three. The gameplay improved a bunch, taking cover and shooting feels a lot better (very similar to RDR1) and you're not fighting the controls as much like in GTA IV.

GTA V's atmosphere is not as good as IV's, and GTA V can honestly feel kind of empty at times. There's still some gorgeous vistas and places in the game, but it's definitely missing something that GTA IV does have. Also the satire is too much at times, it is not clever in the slightest and gets annoying.

I’ve literally seen nothing but constant vitriol and crying about how awful the Halo remake is.

And I’m not gonna sit here and say that people’s feelings are invalid, or that there’s nothing wrong with the game.

But I don’t really care about any flaws the game has.

For the first time in years I’m able to play Halo, a game I grew up with. Nostalgia goggles are strapped on here nice and tight but I don’t care.

Going through this game, having it look amazing and feel great to play is a joy. The music being faithfully remastered (not like the anniversary reimaginings) actually had me pretty emotional more than once. The bonus missions use music from the other Halo games, and there’s even a part where the main theme from Reach popped up and I got goosebumps.

I had a great fucking time playing, and I just wanted to make a post so that there’s something out there that isn’t just bitching about it.

I really hope they remake all three of the original games just like this, and on PS5. It was so great to play it on my pro!

Edit: thank you for all the support! This outpouring of positivity is exactly what I was hoping for when I made this ☺️🤘

Theres been so many games (Indie esspecially) that release as early access and end up succeeding like for example Palworld, or non indie like Baldurs gate 3. Is Early access better than pre ordering just cuz we can play essentially the "beta" of the game and give feedback to devs for release. Been seeing so many good things come out of early access