Topic: Nintendo Switch 2

@Matt_Barber Same. I get keeping live-service or multiplayer games you dip in and out of, but why keep random single-player games installed when you're not even actively playing them?

I feel like I can go a good, long while on the Switch 2's onboard memory with this approach. At least until Micro SD Express prices drop.

@JaxonH The game has the same problem that DD2 did: it's a big, open game built with an engine that doesn't seem to be designed to facilitate such game design.

Wilds has a lot of issues, tbh. Even on high-end hardware, it's not a particularly attractive game, and it seemingly chugs on even higher mid-range cards at lower resolutions. The lack of an endgame hook/challenge isn't that different from World/Rise were before their expansions, but it certainly doesn't help either. It rode in on a tidal wave of hype and goodwill from previous MH titles and totally squandered it. And because of RE Engine's apparent issues with games like this, who can even tell if Capcom can optimize it enough to address the title's omnipresent performance issues.

I'll play Stories 3 and dig into World/Iceborne and wait to hear what the Portable team has cooking, because it's almost certain to be better than this.

I could never get into the monster hunter games sadly. I think the earliest game I played was on the PSP if my memory serves me right and didn't enjoy it. I've tried some of the later games but not for me. I love the world's the game developers create just don't enjoy the gameplay mechanics of the game. It's a game series I want to enjoy but can't.

Same - I really want it to click for me, and I keep trying, but it never does.

Oh damn, resident evil fan got great pack xD

I want to see some creative uses of it given it's effectively turning the second console into the equivalent of a Wii U Gamepad. So far it has just been for regular multiplayer stuff

Nintendo Land can finally be ported to the Switch.

I'm not holding my breath, mind you.

@skywake
I don't see how any other use could be practical.

Nobody's going to have 2 NSW2 consoles in their lap playing a game. Multi-player is the sole purpose of Gameshare. I'd love to be proven wrong but I can't fathom any other reasonable use for it that people would actually care about.

Going on a road trip and thought about bringing my Switch 2. It's a bit of a longer one, so I reckon I'll need a charger. I have the official Switch 1 car charger, but I'm not sure if it's fine to use with the Switch 2. I assume it'll be fine, but I don't want to somehow cause damage to it. It's 5V/3A voltage, so if anything, I'm guessing it'll just charge slowly/not at all while gaming. If y'all know anything about it, I'd love to know!

@HyruleWanderer
Its power delivery so you cant charge it wrong, really. It'll be fine.

I do recommend the Genki portable magnetic battery with a $10 AZOZ A/B magnetic ring adhered to the back from Amazon. Super lightweight, magnetically snaps on the back of the NSW2, gets you 5 or 6 hours playtime while still keeping total weight under that of the original Steamdeck out of the box.

Charger works too though.

ACNH S2E shadow dropped. Kind of surprising that this is a shadow drop announcement, I mean it is a S2E but the game sold phenomenally well on Switch 1, this feels like kind of a big deal.

Also seems to be signaling the next AC game is pretty far away. It's getting content updates and collabs with Zelda, Splatoon, and LEGO, so they clearly want AC fans to be playing this game for another year or more. So I guess that's another big new game we can cross off the list of happening anytime soon. Shame, we really do need to see more big, new games on Switch 2 but this looks to be another game that comes out God knows when. But at least for me, I'm not an AC fan so it doesn't bother me as much (I'm more concerned about when games like the new 3D Mario, Luigi's Mansion 4, and Metroid 6 are coming out).

Interesting that they have 3 life sims in the first half of 2026. Not really my thing, so I think I'll be relying on 3rd party releases (and Prime 4) until Raiders and Fortune's Weave. That's fine though, RE Requiem and Monster Hunter Stories 3 look excellent.

I honestly didn't even have ACNH on my radar of Switch 1 games that could get a S2E. Live service/evergreen titles like AC aren't really as suitable for a port because the progress and updates are better tied to the system they release on. If you want new content for an entry on a new system it's probably better to simply release a new game for it because if you release a port and then a new entry later, then you have a conflict because you won't have time to play both and one has to be abandoned. This has me concerned for the timing and support for the next AC. It's obviously not happening anytime soon, but could we not even get an AC game this gen? You would think that would be a slam dunk but if ACNH is simply being recycled and enough people stick with it, could we see a MK8D scenario? The lack of new entries and overabundance of ports is concerning.

I believe Luigi's Mansion on GameCube - Nintendo Classics, is the first time we've seen a feature straight-up removed. The Pikmin Movie from the original Luigi's Mansion was seemingly taken out of the game completely.

Didn’t buy New Horizons back in the day (crazy, I know), so this is looking like a no brainer purchase to see what all the fuss is about.

I think this could even be their “new” Animal Crossing if it sells insanely well (which I think it will).

Remember, you don't want a new Animal Crossing. It's a harbinger of a global pandemic.

Just like Advance Wars is a harbinger of geopolitical conflicts.

The first one was a joke. The second one has happened more than once, and that means it's not a coincidence.

Advance Wars is cursed man.

We got Animal Crossing 3 years into the NSW1 lifespan. If that holds true for NSW2 we won't see a new entry until mid to late 2028. Which is a long ways off. Makes sense to plug the interim gap with a NSW2 version and update.

I'm going to assume Splatoon Raiders is from the core Splatoon/AC team. If it releases next year, that would give them a couple years to get the next AC ready. Question is, are they also working on Splatoon 4? I feel like they probably are. It's too successful to be ignored. And we haven't seen any NSW2 version of Splatoon 3... not yet anyways.

NH coming in the Switch's 4th year is the exception, not the rule actually (and even then, remember that NH was delayed into the 4th year, it was intended for the 3rd year). In every other instance (besides the weirdness behind the first entry) AC lands on new hardware in the 2nd or 3rd year actually. So 2026/2027 would be more in line with AC's release patterns. If that would be the case, there'd be no need to have a filler game. And again, considering the evergreen, live service nature of AC, I'm even questioning 2027/2028 for the new game. Why put out a new AC a year or two later if players are playing NH S2E for a few years and they can just update that? We may be looking more at late in the gen (or potentially early next gen if things go REALLY wrong, but I don't expect that to happen) for the new entry and that feels way too late.

It's my understanding that the Splatoon and AC teams have split and can work on the two IPs simultaneously instead of needing to trade off (and if not they should because BOTH of these IPs are high selling and neither should be ignored, they can't afford to trade off like that). Splatoon 4 is definitely an inevitability, but I suspect it's not in development until Raiders is finished. I think they've seen the fatigue with main series Splatoon and how samey they all feel and working on Raiders might be a way to shake things up and make Splatoon interesting again. Trading off between Raiders and main series entries would help keep the games from feeling like an indistinguishable blur.

As for 3 S2E, I suspect if that was going to happen, we'd have it by now. Again, this is another evergreen live service game so that would be a good way to keep main series fans occupied for the first few years of Switch 2 while they work on 4. Instead it seems like they want Raiders to fill that role. I suspect by the time 4 runs its course it'll be close to if not at the end of the Switch 2 generation and then it'll be time to talk about Splatoon 5 on Switch 3 or whatever the Switch 2's successor is.

The Wii U was a thing that existed, GameShare is literally that but in software. Nothing stopping a developer from doing something more asymmetrical with their multiplayer modes or building a single player TV mode around using a secondary Switch as a controller

But yeah, to this point it has mostly just been the kind of thing you could otherwise do with a split screen multiplayer mode. Clubhouse games being the closest thing to take some advantage of the options it opens up

I think they're just going down the list of best sellers and making sure they have an answer for it on Switch 2. Whether that's a free update, new release or Switch 2 Edition. Animal Crossing kinda stood out as one of the games that was left out. It makes sense they do something here

Still don't have anything for Smash Bros though, that's the main other one missing here. Also I guess Switch Sports although I question how much they still care about that game.....

Except another $450 to buy another one. "Just buy another Switch and use Gameshare" is not a feasible solution to the dual screen problem in this economy.

This, I can see being a worthwhile use of Gameshare. Split screen multiplayer has a lot of issues with screen peeking and having to divide up the screen real estate making it more difficult to see, moving away from split screen is probably for the best. This is actually one thing I imagined as a selling point for detachable screens, so that different players aren't basically looking at the same screen when playing against each other.

Did you even read the rest of my post? There's a larger point I'm making here than just "AC is a weird choice", I went into detail about WHY it's a weird choice and why it was probably better to go the new game route instead of S2E.

Also we're seeing far too many IPs opt for S2Es and not enough opting for new release. The lack of new games has been a concerning narrative for the Switch 2 as a whole, and now we have another major IP crossed off the list of potential new games we could be getting in the near future. So what are we going to have in terms of exclusives before like, 2028? It does not seem to be much. Looking like no 3D Zelda, no Animal Crossing, no Splatoon 4, and as I've said before and will say below, I expect no Smash either. What is even left after that? Gen 10 Pokemon, Luigi's Mansion 4, and maybe 3D Mario if we're lucky. That would be a pretty miserable lineup after 3 years on the market.

I've said it a zillion times, I'm fully expecting an Ultimate S2E announcement relatively soon. Smash seems like a good candidate for more of a MK8D sort of strategy. I don't think Smash 6 is coming anytime soon because they want to take their time coming up with some kind of bold new direction for the series. If they just put out a samey feeling Smash 6 it's just going to feel like Ultimate but less characters, and that's going to be a hard sell, I think they're going to want 6 to feel superior to Ultimate in some other aspect since it couldn't beat Ultimate on its character roster. That's probably going to take a lot of time to figure out, so I suspect Smash 6 is coming no earlier than the latter half of the generation. So I see Ultimate S2E with even MORE fighters being the only feasible option for a Smash release anytime soon.