@capnbobamous Focusing all my positive energy towards a Metroid reveal!

@brannox We should end up with a Top 50, so maybe I'll reveal 2 per day until we reach the top 25, then do one a day.

There haven't been a lot of reviews yet, there's still still hope it could climb to 50-60!

A lot of people still haven't voted, please please try to get your list in soon! I'm moving the deadline to next week to give you one last chance.

I will end the votes on Sunday 16th.

The latest Nintendo financial results have arrived, a month later than usual, so note that most figures are from June 30th, not July.

Hardware sales
Software sales
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• Switch hardware sales have now reached 61.44 million units. That's 5.67 million sold in Q1!
• Total software sales are now at 406.67 million. That's 50.43 million sold in Q1. In other words, roughly one-eighth of the total software sales happened in the last 3 months...
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still holds the best-seller crown with 26.74 million, an additional 1.97 million in Q1. But for how long?
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons took second place and at this rate, could take the first spot before the year is over! It sold an additional 10.63 million in Q1, for a total of 22.4 million lifetime. A "lifetime" of about 3 months, insane performance!
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now 3rd with 19.99 million (+1.15 million in Q1).
• Fourth is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 18.60 million (+1.19 in Q1). As predicted, it overtook Mario.
• Another game that overtook Mario is Pokémon Sword and Shield with 18.22 million (+0.85 in Q1). It is now the third best-selling Pokémon game of all time, behind Red/Blue and Gold/Silver.
• So Super Mario Odyssey is now 6th with 18.06 million (+0.65 in Q1). At this pace, it will never catch up with the top 5 again.
• As for the few new games that came out this quarter, Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition sold 1.32 million, and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics sold 1.03 million. Not bad at all!
• Ring Fit Adventure sold an additional 1.17 million in Q1, for a total of 3.90 million, the covid effect!
• In terms of future releases, Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4 and Breath of the Wild 2 are still TBA, but Bravely Default II is still 2020. And well, Pikmin 3 Deluxe is slated for October 30th. I really hope they've got something more to announce soon.

I also gave it a shot yesterday, and overall it's very enjoyable! I seem to always make it to at least the third round so that feels good, unlike shooter battle royales where I can never get a single kill.

However, the connection issues ruined the fun for me, as I was disconnected several times in the middle of the action, and I even won the crown once only to lose connection while on the win screen, and for my win to not be recorded. That hurt. So I'll probably stay off until the weekend.

The controls are a bit underwhelming though, I get that you're not supposed to be as agile as Mario and clumsiness is part of the challenge, but sometimes your character trips and falls for seemingly no reason and it can be frustrating. I'm also not sure what the purpose of the "dive" move is, as it takes forever to get back up, and it doesn't seem useful in any situation (except maybe to push giant balls in some games). The grab move is also very weak and unresponsive, in the egg gathering minigame I couldn't seem to hold on to an egg for more than a few seconds, even though I never let go of the button. Almost thought my R2 button was busted.

I haven't received any new votes for quite a while now, so I'll send a reminder to the people who usually vote, and encourage you to cast your votes soon. I'll probably close the voting period this Sunday, unless someone has an objection.

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One of them placed it 4th, the other 15th, so we've got quite a spread :)

To me, it makes sense to bump everything up, because it's essentially asking what the ranking would be if that game didn't exist. Obviously all the games under it would stay in the same order, just one spot higher.

So the only tricky part is which HM to bump up. Either I arbitrarily pick the first one listed, or I just don't bump any, which means those two lists won't have a game in #15. It does break the rule since you're supposed to have a Top 15, so it's tricky to make an exception here: I don't want someone else to send me a Top 14 tomorrow and say it should count because of this...

The votes will still stay open for a while, I don't have an end date in mind but there's no rush, at least one more week, so hopefully they will come back and the situation will solve itself!

@shoulderguy I specifically highlighted it in my post to twist the knife a bit more!

FYI, I posted the list to the Community Showcase!