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The latest Nintendo Direct came and went with a bang yesterday, showing off plenty of footage for games we know about, footage for games we didn’t know about, and a fair few surprises that we’re still trying to wrap our heads around.

Below, we’ve put together a list of all the show’s highlights as well as the full show itself – ideal if you missed it the first time around.

Ready? Here’s everything that happened during the September 2021 Nintendo Direct:

Nintendo Direct September 2021 – The Full Presentation

One of the highlights of the latest Nintendo Direct was the announcement Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) games will be coming to the Switch Online service next month as an ‘Expansion Pack’ service.

This includes the addition of new (but old) controllers that are now wireless. There’s a Nintendo 64 controller and a three-button Sega Genesis controller. If you’re located in Japan though and happen to be an NSO member, it seems you’ll actually be able to get your hands on the six-button version of Sega’s wireless GamePad.

While obviously, it’s not the best news for Sega fans here in the west, it’s not all that surprising, either. When Sega released its Sega Mega Drive Mini locally in 2019, it did exactly the same thing – making the six-button gamepad exclusive to Japan.

The three-button Sega Genesis Wireless gamepad for Switch will set you back $49.99 / £39.99 / €49.99. You can learn more about the latest controller reveals for the Switch Online service in our previous post. The Switch Online service in Japan will also be getting some different game titles, like Custom Robo.

Weeks after Epic’s apparent “win” against Apple in the Epic Games v. Apple case, Apple issued a letter denying Epic’s request to have its developer license agreement reinstated until all legal options are exhausted. This effectively bans Fortnite and any other software from the game maker from returning to Apple’s App Store for years.

Epic was handed an initial victory when the US District Court for Northern California issued an injunction on September 10 ordering Apple to open up in-game payment options for all developers. At the time, the injunction was something of a moral victory for Epic—allowing the developer to keep its in-game payment systems in its free-to-play Fortnite intact while avoiding paying Apple a 30 percent fee that had previously covered all in-app transactions.

But now Epic has faced a significant reversal of fortune.

In a letter sent on September 21 to Epic’s legal counsel, Apple’s lawyers said the company refused to reinstate Epic’s account until the courts issue a final, non-appealable verdict. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney revealed Apple’s decision in series of tweets posted on September 22. Sweeney claims the appeals process for the case could take as long as five years.

Apple’s revocation of Epic’s developer license—required to develop and distribute games to the App Store—was “valid, lawful, and enforceable,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in her ruling. This leaves the decision whether to allow Epic back into the App Store up to Apple.

Apple’s legal team also cited Epic’s alleged “duplicitous” conduct. Apple is referring to the move that sparked the case—Epic adding code into iOS’s version of Fortnite that enable users to buy items directly from the company.

The letter pointed to a tweet Sweeney had posted earlier this month. In the tweet, Sweeney said he “wouldn’t trade an alternative payment system away to get Fortnite back on iOS.” Sweeney said his words were taken out of context.

What “statements” are we talking about here? All Apple cites is a quote they fabricated, claiming I said said Epic “[w]ouldn’t trade [an alternative payment system] away to get Fortnite back on iOS.”

What did I actually say?https://t.co/fedkyNm3RV

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 22, 2021

Sweeney tweeted an email he wrote to Apple’s legal counsel on September 16, stating that, while Epic was appealing the court’s decision, the developer had paid Apple the court-ordered $6 million in damages required by the September 10 ruling. He said that his company had disabled the server-side software required for in-game payments for players who still had Fortnite installed on their iOS devices. He also alleged that Apple lied about its intentions to work with Epic to bring the developer back to the App Store.

“Apple lied,” Sweeney said. “Apple spent a year telling the world, the court, and the press they’d ‘welcome Epic’s return to the App Store if they agree to play by the same rules as everyone else.’ Epic agreed, and now Apple has reneged in another abuse of its monopoly power over a billion users.”

While the September 10 ruling went in Apple’s favor, the company was not granted everything it sought in its legal defense. Judge Gonzalez Rogers gave Apple a victory in ruling it had not violated antitrust law, though the company lost the ability to prevent developers from including and advertising their own in-game app purchase payment systems. That ruling could lead to greater repercussions for Apple from other game makers or subscription service providers in the future.

Officially, running Windows 11 will require a newer PC that meets all of the operating system’s performance and security requirements. Unofficially, running Windows 11 without meeting those requirements will be possible, but we still don’t know much about the details—how difficult it will be to install Windows 11 on those machines, how frequently they will remind you that you’re running on unsupported hardware, and even whether they’ll receive normal Windows security updates.

The Verge has spotted an apparently new warning message in the Windows 11 Setup app that explicitly warns users of the dangers of installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware—you may run into “compatibility issues,” your PC “won’t be entitled to receive updates,” and that “damages to your PC due to lack of compatibility aren’t covered under the manufacturer warranty.” This is all stuff that we’ve heard from Microsoft before, but it’s the first time that this policy has appeared during the Windows 11 setup process rather than in media reports. Once you click through this foreboding warning message, the Windows 11 installation is apparently allowed to proceed.

I’ve tried and failed to recreate this screen on multiple unsupported Windows 10 systems of different vintages, both with builds downloaded through the Insider program and installs directly from a manually downloaded Windows 11 ISO file. I also haven’t seen any firsthand reports of it outside of the Verge report. This doesn’t mean it isn’t happening—Microsoft is always rolling out different updates to different groups of people at different times—just that I can only speculate as to when you will actually see this message and what it means.

My guess is that it is eventually intended to replace another screen currently shown when you attempt a manual install of Windows on an unsupported system, one that totally blocks the upgrade if you don’t meet Windows 11’s processor, TPM, or Secure Boot requirements. The only way to get around that screen and proceed with installation for current builds of Windows 11 is to implement some registry edits that disable the system checks. This new screen would keep the checks in place while allowing people to perform the kind of manual, officially unsupported installs that the company has begrudgingly decided to allow.

Officially supported or not, there are plenty of PCs released between 2015 and 2017 that should be able to run Windows 11 more-or-less as reliably as officially supported systems. The sixth- and seventh-generation Intel Core processors and first-generation AMD Ryzen processors still get modern driver updates from Intel and AMD, one of the key factors Microsoft cites when playing up Windows 11’s stability on newer computers. These PCs also remain perfectly capable of just about any modern PC workload short of high-end gaming or video editing, things that do actually benefit from newer CPUs and GPUs with more cores and higher clock speeds.

We’ll cover what it’s like to run Windows 11 on unsupported systems as part of our review coverage of the OS, so enthusiasts and testers at least have some idea of what they’re getting into. Windows 11 officially releases to the public on October 5. An updated version of Microsoft’s PC Health Check app that was recently released to the public can tell you more about whether your system meets the Windows 11 requirements and what (if anything) you can do to fix it.

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