Ep 6 - Octopath Traveler, Letter Quest, Fortnite, Mario Kart Tour

What are you playing?
- Octopath Traveler
- Letter Quest
- Wolfenstien 2
- prediction: Mario Kart Tour is a Pokémon Go clone.
- Letter Quest Remastered

Weekly Discussion Topics:
- new Pokémon Let's Go details
Both will feature a variety of exclusive Pokémon which are unique to each game. In Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! Trainers will be able to capture Pokémon including Oddish, Sandshrew and Growlithe; while players of Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! will be able to capture Pokémon such as Bellsprout, Vulpix and Meowth
At the start of players’ adventures, they will receive their first partner Pokémon, either Pikachu or Eevee. Unlike regular Pokémon, their first partner Pokémon is not interested in evolving. You can pet, feed, and tickle, and dress up your pokemon.
You'll run into some familiar faces throughout Kanto, Professor Oak, Brock, Misty, Jessie and James.
- Fortnite gyro controls
- Warframe devs "We’re exploring all options for people to play on and with the Nintendo Switch.”
- smash amiibo:
"Ridley, Inkling and Wolf are coming to the Super Smash Bros. series of #amiibo! These amiibo will arrive 12/7 and will retail for $15.99.
Looking for an original Super Smash Bros. amiibo? Many of these will also be re-released starting later this year and will be $12.99"
- Nintendo has $4.36 billion in cash on-hand. 1 year ago they had $1.38 billion.
- A hacker has discovered that code exists in Animal Crossing for the Gamecube to be able to load NES roms into the game, and play them on your Gamecube. Did Nintendo have plans to make NES game distribution a reality in the GC era?
- AMA with Panic Button:
Nintendo is "incredibly supportive" and "listens to feedback"
Further visual and performance improvements for Wolfenstein: The New Colossus and DLC are Bethesda’s call.
It’s tough to compare the power of the Switch to other consoles because it’s “such a unique piece of hardware.”
The studio has “to do tech and design balancing and work to make things fun on TVs, on the go, with different controllers, giving you good battery life, and all of that.”
All of the studio’s Switch ports have taken less than a year to complete
“We’re not talking unannounced stuff or timing, but yes, it would make sense there is more coming from us (in Fall).”
"When we’re confronted with the choice of either reducing the quality of the game or having the user download the additional data, we tend to choose quality. That said, we’re always working on new ways to crunch as much as we can into as little space as possible."
- Nintendo Says "Look Forward" to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Updates!" - Possible Nintendo Switch Online incentives? More Labo support? MARIO ODDYSEY LEVEL?!?
- There is not only 1 Blockbuster left in the US, in Bend Oregon. the 2 Alaska Stores are now closed. Blockbuster had over 9000 locations at one point.


Nintendo Game Release Watch - 1 month out:
Out Now:
- Octopath Traveler
- Captain Toad (3DS also)
This Week:
- Pool Panic (July 19)
Later:
- Mega Man X Collection 1 + 2 (July 24)

CGF - June 28,29


Trivia Game:
- Guess how many games were released total in all regions for each Nintendo Home Console, starting with the NES.
- I'll subtract the difference between your answer and the correct answer to give you a score. At the end, I'll add up your score from each guess, and if it's under 1000, you win!


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