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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by Adrock on Yesterday at 03:57:24 PM »

The discourse around Game Key Cards is so profoundly silly. At some point, people have to stop hiding behind ignorance (i.e. “[not] fully paying attention” or “kids who don’t know better”), and start doing the bare minimum to understand something.

This isn’t hidden among pages of legalese; it’s on the front of the box.



How much handholding does someone need before they take literally any responsibility for their actions? If they can’t be bothered to read one sentence, that’s on them.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by Ian Sane on March 13, 2026, 05:50:38 PM »

I'm going to guess that very few people who are actually aware of what a Game Key Card is wants them.  Buying the game digitally outright where you can literally get it within minutes of buying it, can bring it travelling with you without bringing a bunch of cards, can swap games without having to open the card slot and possibly take the Switch 2 out of the dock, and not have a physical package that actually contains nothing eating up space in your house all seems vastly more convenient.  I imagine the "well I can resell it" crowd is pretty small.  I figure most people have bought these things without fully paying attention to what they're getting and might not even have noticed its not the real deal if the first time they loaded it they were connected to the internet.

After Nintendo said they wouldn't release Game Key Cards for their own published titles they backed out on that and then picked a Pokemon game to be their first title.  That is pretty shrewd.  Pokemon is an ideal title for this because its target audience is kids who don't know better and relatives of kids that probably have no idea that the Switch 2 games on the store shelf actually have multiple variations of Game Key Cards, full physical games and Switch 1 games that update to Switch 2 games.

The game itself is a follow up to Dragon Quest Builders, which is awesome, so I don't doubt for a second that Pokopia is as good as the reviews suggest.  If I had a Switch 2 I would probably get it... as a download from the eShop.

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TalkBack / Re: The Donkey Kong Family Tree Explained

« Last post by caffeine on March 13, 2026, 03:32:36 PM »

I think the fossils are more Easter Eggs than anything to be taken too seriously. There's a fossil of Arcade DK somewhere and Cranky Kong is still alive.

Well, yeah, that's what I was referring to. (I was trying to avoid the spoiler, but oh well) The inclusion creates a sort of contradictory headache in the timeline, since Arcade DK can't be both a long dead litteral fossil and a living character that is only figuratively a "fossil".

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TalkBack / Re: The Donkey Kong Family Tree Explained

« Last post by Neon_Raven on March 13, 2026, 06:23:09 AM »

This is the content I’m here for.
Great job with a red string and cork board Justin.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by broodwars on March 11, 2026, 09:04:35 PM »

But I thought nobody wanted the game key cards.

Nobody with taste wants game key cards. 

Hey, if Pokemon fans want to hasten the death of actual game ownership, that's on them. Just don't come crying to the rest of us once stuff gets de-listed and services shut down.

As for the news itself, from all accounts this is the rare actual good Pokemon game these days, since it was made by someone other than Game Freak. We should always champion when a good game sells well. Doesn't interest me in the slightest, but good on them.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by pokepal148 on March 11, 2026, 08:48:58 PM »

But I thought nobody wanted the game key cards.

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TalkBack / Re: Critically Acclaimed Puzzle Game Blue Prince Unlocks Switch 2 Release Today

« Last post by Mop it up on March 11, 2026, 12:59:27 PM »

Nope. Which just goes to show I'd have no hope of getting through this game!

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TalkBack / Re: The Donkey Kong Family Tree Explained

« Last post by JusDBerube on March 10, 2026, 05:30:45 PM »

I think the fossils are more Easter Eggs than anything to be taken too seriously. There's a fossil of Arcade DK somewhere and Cranky Kong is still alive.

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TalkBack / Re: The Donkey Kong Family Tree Explained

« Last post by caffeine on March 10, 2026, 02:01:16 PM »

I feel like the inclusion of the fossils in Donkey Kong Bananza throws the DK lineage completely out of whack, particularly those fossils in Bananza's final level (Trying to be vague to avoid spoilers).

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TalkBack / Re: The Donkey Kong Family Tree Explained

« Last post by pokepal148 on March 10, 2026, 12:14:06 PM »

Is this DK Historia? Has the day finally come?