@SirLink I do not agree with your comment. Your wildly speculative assertions on the motivation of the company illustrate that you are letting your emotions inhibit your ability to think clearly. Calm down.

I'm not bummed about Link and others being absent, but what in the heck is this new hate I'm hearing for the Koopalings? My go to was always Toad, and then it was always Shy Guy, and eventually it was Lemmy. I miss him and would them all to return.

And yeah, so many Mario adjacent characters to explore like Luigi's Mansion, Donkey Kong Country, etc.

@Cakefish oh now that's surprising! It looks like I have to wait another week to see it poof 😂

Wow, I can't believe how far behind Xbox are these days. Old-Switch actually seem to sell big third party releases at much higher rate than on Xbox???

@Dev-N You can organize them by character by pressing Y? I think. I forgot which button.
Idk why they're "organized" how they are right off the bat, but maybe it's unlock order? I should check that when I start my own save.

Great warrior Mouse Work, shine forth! Achieve what has been withheld.

@Ikswoltok nonsense. If you really want to punish pirates, you just ban their accounts while demanding that whoever makes a Nintendo account add their data (or their parents' data in case of minors) together with traceable payment methods. Once they identify you, you can't escape, until you do an identify theft which would definitely attract all the attention of the authorities.
Banning a console only punishes 2nd hand buyers. But maybe that's what they are really interested in at Nintendo, since in their mind 2nd hand buyers should buy new products instead.

In the old days something like this would have stayed in the game forever and become a legendary glitch. These days we can expect it to be patched out in a couple of weeks.

@Moridin The games are ranked by the user's rating on NL.

looking back, this is probably the worst review I've encountered on this site. there's no accounting for taste... but there's also no effort to account for the problems this game actually has in this embarrassingly glowing review.

@Solid_Python Also something I was concerned about but I have noticed Nintendo lately has been announcing ports in their directs shortly after they are originally announced. I don’t feel like going back and finding examples but I know it’s happened😂

Why are people getting so upset at the "broken" part? It's not that serious. In essence, yes it is broken in a way.

A very funny thing to get upset about imho.

@JohnnyMind nintendo shouldn't do either

Great work on Nintendo's part! Now people are effectively forced to buy new!

I’m also having mixed feelings on the new roster? The mainline characters are great as always, and I love all of their different outfits. It’ll take some time for some of these new characters to grow on me though?? I’m not sure?? but I guess the biggest complaint I have is how the character select screen is laid out? Yes you can sort to have all of your characters with their outfits in a column, but I’d much rather have the outfits on a second separate screen after you pick your initial character? It just seems a bit cluttered and messy for me as it is now, but I’m also getting used to it.

@Red_Silurian 4 year old Forza Horizon 5 easily had for £22-£25 on Steam. Ported to Ps5, costs £55 brand new

@jojobar

thats a good point i hadnt considered 👍

incidentally, all I want in the world is an affordable "console" without handheld capability, OR an actual pocketable reliable handheld with HDMI out.

you know, the normal stuff. 👍

I guess I need to git gud because I can't do that. Lol

“Debates will rage forever about whether 2 or 3 is best — it changes depending on the day, but we tend toward the former.”

If it’s the former rather than the latter, then why didn’t you guys pick S2 for the number one spot? Lol.

@RasandeRose I will also point out that you are wrong, the Ally and Ally X do not support HDR gaming with their screens. Windows 11 even tells you that the display does not support HDR for gaming or desktop or apps. So if there is no option in Windows to turn on HDR for desktop, apps and games so you are certainly not playing games in any form of even basic bare minimum HDR like the Switch 2 screen has.
I think where you are confused is that the Ally screen supports HDR for streaming video but so does my portable 15 inch 144hz monitor that I use when traveling. But like the Ally that was never advertised as a HDR screen.

That is quite amusing

@Fleischyy
Reasonable?
Why would anyone spend $130 to then copy the games that he already owns on physical cart onto another physical cart?
It's a waste of money.

Wouldn't it be funny if there was a lawsuit and then the sales numbers of the "MigThief" and the "MigDumper" were made public?
I wonder how much worse the "MigDumper" sold. My guess is 1-2% at max compared to the "MigThief". Realistically probably even far less, maybe 0.1%

Reminder that this kind of crap destroyed the PSP, and was also horrible on the Nintendo DS. On the DS I remember buying that GTA game for almost next to nothing and it was a few weeks after release. I wondered what the hell happened. Sales numbers were horrible, similar to the 2nd PSP GTA game, but even way worse than that. GTA sell like hot cakes, so the correct explanation was thievery.

I'm so happy for the Switch 2. Wait until DK Bananza comes out. Heck yeah!

Sonic X Shadows is my favorite Sonic game. I loved the mix of old and new, 2D and 3D. It's amazing and I can't wait to play the Switch 2 version.

There are far more good Sonic games than we are lead to believe. I'd have SonicxShadow Generations a tad higher but that is all. Good list.

Wow. Everyone is so argumentative in here.
Remember "The higher, the fewer"

Yet another severely disappointing example of bad apples ruining the secondhand market. Almost zero trust anymore in buying any kind of tech secondhand.

@KoopaTheGamer Asus explained to the YouTuber The Phawx that VRR on an OLED uses 2.5 times more power than on an LCD VRR screen. It is more to do with the controller of the screen than the actual screen. Mini LED with VRR also uses too much power. So this is the main reason we don't have any OLED VRR handhelds yet, it is not about price as there would still be expensive PC handhelds with VRR OLED screens if this was the case.

@AllBLK It is not very neighborly to call the police on my neighbor for breaking into my house and making a sandwich. The people chanting "anti consumer" have got to be children. This move by Nintendo is the most logical and predictable thing a company can do. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have been doing this for years. But the sheep have been enraged by social media because stuff costs money. Yikes!

@SirLink This is not anti consumer, it is anti pirate. Pirates are not consumers. Pirates may consume, but not while they are pirating.

tHis GaMe iS BRoKeN! 😑
God, I hate seeing this arrogant sentence, everytime there is a glitch discovered in a game.

@Yoshi3
I personally like the games with huge world size to explore as long they are still for kids and have some activities to do when I play the game just for enjoy the random activities from wandering around, doing the available small activities like fishing or collecting fruits or diving under the sea, enjoy the scenery.
There are two different category of big world exploration games.
1. Free Roaming = Smaller size of Open world style games with limited area size to explore such as Super Mario Odyssey, Sly Cooper 2 / 3, Go Vacation, Paw Patrol World, etc.
2. Open World = Bigger and seamless size area to explore like LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER, Yonder The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, etc.
I will die in happiness to play new Animal Crossing with Free Roaming or Open World style for the world exploration + The SIMS style for designing the house and landscape.

quality > quantity.
human creativity > generative AI.

in the battle for the future of gaming, the people that know how to make games will win.

Now THATS What I Call a List of Sonic Games!

@PharoneTheGnome @Medic_alert I see what you mean. I always knew there was the "last chance" crowd but I guess there are far more of them than what I realized. Or far more casuals than expected. i guess the switch was mostly a fad.

@Bl4ckb100d the term bricking has seemingly lost all meaning thanks to sensationalist gaming media and online ppl happily regurgitating headlines without reading

@slytherin_real read through your posts and while I get that you're outraged about Nintendo seemingly punishing an innocent 2nd hand buyer, it feels you've completely missed the mark about whom to be outraged by. It's also incredibly surprising you're way angrier at Nintendo than you are the person who knowingly sold the console

@jojobar I think it is down to the individual, some notice it more than others. Tbh it is pointless that it is a HDR screen without local dimming , it should of just been a great SDR panel. I would of been happy with the same panel as the ROG Ally which is a really good 120hz SDR 1080p VRR screen.

@The_Nintend_Pedant
I think the reason for the bigger screen is just to fit the hardware in the case because smaller hardware means usually it costs more.

I hope for a lite at one point.

@Antraxx777 yes. At least this is what my wife's uncle tells me. He was an engineer at IBM. He just recently retired.

I have no issues with the screen so far. looks good enough for me. Maybe I'm just old and know how it was to play on a gameboy or I'm just thankful with the device itself.

the new characters are cool but i don't understand why they removed staples like the Koopalings & Kamek who appeared once and isn't playable again. DLC please!

The girl in this is Trans? I'm reading this is an article posted today that won't let you comment. This is news to me and I've beat the game 4 times now. Lol... I guess story in a video game is just pointless and this seems even more so nonsense. Why would that be a topic of a video game?!

@RasandeRose The Rog ally screen has a better response time and doesn't have that motion ghosting that the Switch 2 clearly has. The Switch 2 to me is comparable to those cheaper monitors with motion ghosting because of poor response times. The Ally's smaller screen gives it better pixel density so it also looks sharper than the Switch 2 screen and yes I prefer that 7 inch form factor. We obviously won't have OLED response rates on LCD but would of been nice to have had a better screen with less motion smearing. There are negatives to OLED also, 30hz capped 30ps I just can't played on an OLED, it's horrid. I stopped playing Breath of The Wild because of this. Crazy picking a game up 5 years later and tbh now it plays wonderfully on the Switch 2 docked on an OLED TV upscaled to 4K 60hz. For me it is probably gonna stay docked 90% of the time and my Ally X which has fantastic battery life is my traveling handheld.

@Yoshi3 Couldn't agree more. Heh, maybe I agree too much, with my fondness for arcade games dictating much of what's in my Switch library.

But in the end, whether or not a game can sustain an audience beyond the initial purchase comes down to game feel and fun mechanics, which Nintendo swears by. The Switch sold like hotcakes, and the Switch 2, despite my grave reservations about pricing, is off to a great start-- and neither of those are dependent purely on open-world Zelda sales. (Or open-world Mario Kart sales, but come on, it's a new Mario Kart either way!)

And Zelda already had a long history of strong mechanics to put into an open world. When will AAA publishers and developers take a freaking hint?

If everything is open-world just for the sake of being "SO F**KIN' BIG," that's a good way to collapse the industry. Not even AI will save you, because then the customers will notice the game sucks. 🙄

"bricking" a device mean to render it as useless as a brick. Blocking online access is not bricking.

Sonic CD isn’t even in the list… LOL

I played Sonic Frontier on Xbox One X and it was phenomenal with tons of great idea. One of my fav modern Sonic.

@HammerKirby
Except for Mario Kart 8 case since the crossover are from other Nintendo games that still on the similar age rating (Everyone to Teen) and the character choice are pretty good.

Depends on how it runs. Having a choice between S2 or Xbox would be good. I'd rather they focused on getting the FF7 Remake games running well.

And Kingdom Hearts. Please give us the whole series.