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@Poodlestargenerica I'm hoping and assuming the new console will use a nicer LCD than the Switch. My sort of higher end LCD tv looks closer to OLED than original Switch LCD. Still, OLED is awesome, so I'm also already looking forward to an OLED revision model of Switch 2!

I like OLED a lot, but my LCD TV looks really good. I think this isn't too big a deal. Of course my big question is what hz the screen is. It would be a huge bummer if my old mid-range phone has a higher refresh rate than the new Nintendo, especially since I almost never game on my phone and always want to game on console. Hopefully this reported LCD can do 120hz.

@sketchturner What about the music? I remember being amazed at all the unique tracks, and how catchy they were (in DK 94). I've enjoyed Donkey Kong 94 and this GBA game, but don't remember too much, which I guess is good since I'm definitely planning to get this new remake.

I hope there's no legal battle. Just make the best games you can and don't worry about imitators. All resources should go into making games better.
Having just played Palworld a little while I've got to say I don't think Nintendo has to worry about being outclassed in quality. I love that Palworld runs at 60 to 125fps on my laptop, but I've gotten so used to how Link holds his posture, how he moves, how nice all that is, and my character in Palworld looks and moves sorta badly. It makes it hard to get lost in the game, which happens every time I play BOTW or TOTK. I also like the way my character moves in Arceus, it's just not as nice as Link.

@Thirteen1355 Yeah, I guess I could. I still haven't ever emulated Wii U, 3DS, or Switch. I've got no problem with people doing what they want, it's just not for me (yet).

I got it today, but only downloaded it and haven't tried it yet. The IGN review was what convinced me to give it a go.
My first thought is that I wish I could get Nintendo games on PC so they could all run at higher than just 60fps, or 30fps, or 20 to 30 in Violet and Scarlet's case.

I would love to have a Konami Powerful Pro Baseball player in Smash. Could be really fun to play as, using a bat and everything. Unique too!

I also was playing this on my 3DS recently. Such a great shoot em up!

I ordered the physical edition so I can hopefully play Over Horizon on Switch sometime in 2025... Well, I hope the new system comes out by then and my old Switch cart will just work in it (without needing internet or updates or anything).

From my small, anecdotal perspective it seems like Prince of Persia isn't doing well. None of my rando Switch friends are playing it. Of course most of them came from posting their friend codes online to play Advance Wars 1 + 2, Rocket League, Switch Sports, and Mario Wonder. And I kept checking the best selling top 30 on the U.S. eshop and it wasn't on there, then finally got like number 20.
It's such a great game I'm hoping it does well. And it would be awesome if Nintendo contracted with this team to make a Zelda or Metroid or Kid Icarus or something game! Maybe one that runs at 120fps on Switch 2!

Also, this game looks and sounds great! Looking forward to trying it out.

@defrb Have you played Give Me Toilet Paper? It uses the joy con for analogue paddle-like controls and I love it. At max sensitivity it's fun and easy to play without cardboard, kleenex, or toilet paper! I wish arkanoid/beakout/pong type games would include this type of control method.
And I also wish for a nice, real, paddle controller like Atari 2600 had. There's Negcon or whatever on PS1, and I think DS got a paddle add on? Switch should get a paddle!

I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom like always, but just discovered new music/atmospheric music I've never heard in 400 hours of gameplay. In the depths at -0891, 0195, -0538 there is this cool sort of voice and maybe smooth synth music. It's probably part of something people know about, just not me. It also changed the graphics to a purplish hue. It's a small patch of purple or lavender ground near Gustofson mine (abandoned, of course). Anyways, TOTK is the absolute best! I've been flying this huge aircraft with 8 rails, a Zonai wing, and a bunch of fans to keep the wing from despawning. Also exploring Death Mountain, upgrading armor, catching horses, etc.
On Switch I've also been enjoying Onion Assault, Monster Truck Freestyle (looks like it would be shovelware, but is locked at 60fps and kinda fun to play around with), Garlic (so fun and challenging!), Bloopy and Droopy (great 60fps Gameboy type game with fun platforming), Prince of Persia the lost crown, and Infinite Golf 2.
On Deck I've been playing all the 90fps games I can. Ballistic NG, Cult of the Lamb, the Turnip robs a bank game that has trouble on Switch but is locked beautifully at 90fps on my Deck, and others.
I also just got a 180hz monitor, but don't think I've got it connecting perfectly yet. I've played Rocket League, Ballistic NG, and a bunch of other games at 180fps, but many games default to 144fps or 240fps, or seem to have frame pacing issues or something. It makes me wish I could pay Valve to set up my monitor since they do such an awesome job getting things smooth when they control the display! Oh, I loaded up Kingdom New Lands on my 90hz Deck and I swear Valve did something to make it run better. It isn't perfect, but really seems better than before.
Oh, and I wish everyone knew how cheap it is to get an awesome 180hz monitor. Great ones from AOC are only $100 (24 inch 1080p), or $30 more to get a larger 27 inch one. I need to hook up my Switch and Deck to it to see how they look. I also need to find the black frame insertion feature and overdrive feature in the menus (and those might be the same thing...)
EDIT: or POST Script!: Chesepuf on YouTube figured out the weird music in the Depths! It's the music when you are descending to the final Ganon fight, which is sorta nearby deep underground. So weird that there's this tiny patch of ground that plays that cool music!

This reminded me that a new game came out on the eshop recently, Moon Lander. I'm really curious how good it is. Have to go search for a video on youtube...
This looks nice. I didn't know how much I like lunar Landing until Timespmitters 2 had such an excellent mini game along with racing and the best version of snake I've ever played.
Can't wait to try this new lander in a few months.

Love the music and gameplay in this add on. It's fun stuff! I do hope the next Nintendo console can play light stuff like this at 120fps like PS5 and Series X and S!

Nice info, but I'm left with my always biggest question of frame rate. Will these be locked at 60fps on Switch. Will they be available on Deck without Deneuvo (and without any stupid online requirement like Tony Hawk) and be locked at 90fps? My inquiring mind wants to know! : )

Coin rush is not good, but at some of these games are...

Light It Up is really good. A few of the other are too. I love these free game things!

@intergalacticNikolai It would be so awesome! Super Famicom Wars alone would make this absolutely incredible.

And the number 1 game I'd like to get on Switch is Wipeout 64. Then lower down the list would be the San Fransisco Rush games (all 3 please!), Robotron 64, and Top Gear Rally. I like a lot of the ones in this article too though!

Games like Turok 1 through 3, Episode 1 Racer, and Doom 64 look so amazing running at 60fps that I'd honestly rather not have any more games on my expansion pack online app. Just bring them all to the eshop locked at 60fps and I'll buy them all! Seriously, N64 games are sweet to play at a nice frame rate. I mainly stick to Pilotwings 64, Pokémon Puzzle League, and Dr Mario 64 on expansion pass.

I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom like always. Around 400 hours in and I'm still excited to play it! I'm also playing Trees and Tents, which I love, but still think Kakurasu World is better. I've also really been into Light It Up, which will be free as part of the qubic games giveaway thing this month. It's an awesome relaxing and fun platformer with great music, sound effects, 60fps graphics, and just well done platforming that is kind of like short puzzle after short puzzle. Recommended!
Also playing Dodonpachi DOJ, Advance Wars, Alien Death Mob (great arcade game!), Rocket League, The Spy Who Shot Me, and Chico and the Magic Orchards dx. I've also been enjoying Robo Quest on Deck. Robo Quest feels like a 1st person Ratchet and Clank, which is awesome. Oh, and it runs at 144fps when I play it on laptop, and 90fps on OLED Deck (I really like those high frame rates!!).

Thanks for the review. I noticed this one in the eshop and watched a YouTube video of gameplay on Switch. I didn't know it only runs at 30fps. Sounds like a shoot em up I can do without.

I'm starting to think Parodius will be the final release for Switch, if any of the old Parodius games ever make it to Switch at all...
These are great games though. I love Felix on NES, and want to play Rocket Knight.

And for free, everyone should try it!

I really like Light It Up. Been playing it the past couple days. It has really pleasing audio design, graphics, and gameplay. I got the DLC too, and it has a nice challenge right from the first level. Great little game!

The Witch 144. Nintendo Witch 144. Because it uses magic to lock every game released for it at 144fps!

@larryisaman Thanks for posting that. I was thinking about how much I'd like to play this at 90fps on Deck, but now I'll carefully research the frame rate before buying this game for any platform.

If we get more stuff like New Pokémon Snap and Metroid 5, then I'm excited for this!

I like thinking of the waiting room in Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind. There'd be all these gamers with their cartridges and consoles in boxes, waiting solemnly to have their mind cleared for another first time with their favorites. But they'd have to have someone convince them to try the games, otherwise they'd just forget and never play them again!

Metroid would be high up. It was amazing exploring that underworld in the 1980s!
Also I'd love to forget BOTW and TOTK, then play TOTK first, then remember both so I could compare the 2 games!

@DwaynesGames Dodo Peak is a fun Q Bert style game available on Switch. I waited forever for it to go on sale. It's good, I recommend it!

This game is good. It isn't categorized on steam, so I got it on Switch. It runs basically locked at 60fps and is fun. I like the dialogue, music, graphics, and the fact that tons of objects and people react to being shot (you know how many games have uninteractive elements). Get it on Switch! It's a fun and humorous Goldeye-alike.

This looks like a good game. It has a good review from someone on YouTube who loves Goldeneye. It also appears to run at 60fps on Switch, which makes me wonder if it'll run at 90 on OLED Deck (very likely, if it works with steam deck...). I might have to pick this one up.

@LastFootnote Yeah it's sad that any emulator runs it locked at 60fps, but this deluxe release introduces stutters and bad frame rates or bad camera queueing that makes it look choppy. If that's what you're talking about...

I'm always wanting to play Tears of the Kingdom. These days I'm building extremely low energy drain big wheel copters. Using a cart, 2 big wheels, a wagon wheel, steering stick, and a propeller from Gimimik Shrine (far Eastern shrine in the land swirl) I built a copter that flew me up to 1300 elevation using just two batteries (2 each of the 3 unit batteries). I also added 2 elevator rails to the edge of 1 big wheel to make it look like a crazy copter. Pretty funny looking and fun to mess with! I was trying to copy what I'd seen in a YouTube video and was surprised it worked even thought I changed things. Mine is pretty difficult to fly!
I'm also playing Wipeout Pure and Battle Garegga via emulation on OLED Steam Deck. Also still playing many Switch games: Switch Sports, F zero 99, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, Fitness Boxing, Ring Fit Adventure, Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou reincarnation, BOTW, Mario Maker 2, Advance Wars 1+2, Zero Fire M2 ShoTrigGers release, Rocket League, What The Golf?, Knights of the Rogue Dungeon (big improvement on Q-bert!), and Another Code demo (don't know why I like this game so much).
Also recently watched 2 awesome movies. The Boy and The Heron is my favorite Miyazaki film now. And The Bank of Dave is a wonderful film that I think shows the way forward out of our current morass. Lovely pictures!

I like these games, the old one, this one, and the DS remakes, but yeah, passes make games feel junky, trashy. If the game came with all these songs, and added more for free in the year or two after release, it would communicate quality and respect for the consumer. Not this way, please.

This is great news, and the game sounds really fun! Now I just have to find out if it will be on Steam, where I'd assume it could run locked at 90fps on OLED Deck. Sounds like a great release for Switch in January though!

@WiltonRoots I haven't counted or listed them recently, but don't both series x and ps5 have more games that run at 120fps than at 30fps? Not counting ones that have a 30fps mode and a 60fps mode, but counting ones that have a 60 and 120fps mode.
Anyways, I just really hope Switch 2 supports high frame rates since there are tons of lighter games that could be programmed to run at 90 or 120 or 144fps.

@Ironcore yes!

I've typed it like 17 times, but number one for me is having Variable Refresh Rate. It could be huge in terms of helping games appear smooth even when they aren't processing or drawing new frames at steady rates. I really want variable refresh rate on every screen small and large (TVs and monitors). Next is high frame rates. Please at least give us at least 90hz on the portable screen and support for 120 or 144hz in docked mode! I know not all games would support those nice smooth frame rates, but at least allow it to be possible for developers who care about smoothness! Along those lines I'd also be fine with resolutions going down. Maybe 640p in handheld and stay at 1080p in docked. I just want smoothness and don't give a rip about high resolutions!! 4k looks like blurry trash to me at 30 or 40fps! I like OLED screens, but don't care if an LCD is used as long as it doesn't have blurry motion smeariness. High frame rates powerfully convey quality and beauty in games, and that's what I'm always wanting from any game (I'm really excited about these 480hz monitors being announced!).
The only other thing I'll mention is fast downloading and loading. My OLED Steam Deck can download huge games astonishingly quickly! I love it. And my 2 year old laptop can load almost any game very quickly, and I love that too.
So, basically, please give me lower resolutions and higher frame rates! Thank you : )

Looks good! I'm looking forward to playing this one.

I just hope the new system has variable refresh rate and also supports higher frame rates like 90fps, 120fps, or higher. I'd be happy to wait 2 or 3 years if that's what it takes for Nintendo to get that done. Hopefully it's 2024 though, and includes those things. Oh, and I'm not honestly happy to wait! I've already bought an OLED Steam Deck and happily skip 30fps game releases on Switch in favor of awesomely smooth 90fps experiences on OLED Deck. But Nintendo makes like 90% of my favorite games, so I'm still gaming on my Switch all the time. And I love exercise games and weird stuff. Keep the Ring Fit Adventures and Labo cardboard games coming!

I agree with Yoshi Tails, best year for Switch. But I also feel like it's been the best year for videogames ever. Tears of the Kingdom is enough for me for that to be true, but just look at all the other awesome stuff that's come out. Advance Wars, Metroid, Pikmin, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, F zero 99, Warioware Move It!, Dodonpachi DOJ, and many other releases are amazing.
For me the greatest moment was the discovery of the elevator railing. Seeing the clip on YouTube when the discoverer broke it off and it went up and then slowly fell to the ground really inspired me. I love how light it is, it's wind resistance, it's just an amazing block to build with. And I wouldn't give a darn about it if Hyrule wasn't so incredible to explore and play in. I even use elevator railings in caves. Plus there are probably at least 30 moments where my mind was blown or I was astonished at how beautiful or mysterious the game felt to play. Riding a Zonai wing for the first time and immediately understanding how to steer it, diving into places far below (many times at different places and to different depths!), riding a simple hot air balloon and knowing that someday I'd be flying all over the place with great control, exploring land glyphs, walking on a freaking dragon!, there's so much incredible stuff packed in those Kingdom Tears!

Super excited to play this. Hopefully it runs at 60fps on Switch and 90fps on OLED Deck. It looks really fun and sounds like it's going to sound awesome.
Side note: I wish Sonic games had an option to skip water levels. Running out of oxygen isn't fun. And I wish Sonic Superstars (and Monkey Ball Banana Blitz) had an option to skip boss fights! Or they could figure out how to make better water levels and boss fights (like Mario Wonder, in my opinion)
Edit: well, OK, some boss fights aren't amazing in Mario Wonder, but I still appreciate how they don't damage my enjoyment of the game (or stop me from playing the game)

I'd love to see wipEout, Wipeout XL, Wipeout 3, Wipeout 64, wipeout fusion, (all Wipeouts!), Jumping Flash! Jumping Flash 2, all the random Jumping Flash crap collections(!), Symphony of the Night, Einhander, R Type Delta, Tekken 1 2 and 3, Gradius 5, Aquanaut's Holiday (and sequel!), Ridge Racer 1 Revolution type 4 5 Rave Racer etc, Silent Hill 1 and 2, R type Final, Downhill Domination, Hot Shots Golf (all of them!), all the Playstation Parodius games, and about 50 other games come to Switch and Super Switch 2.

@N-MCMXCIX Reading your post made me realize how much I would LOVE a Saturn switch online app. If it could have Battle Garegga, Sexy Parodius, Saturn Bomberman, Nights, Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally, and about 10 other awesome shoot em ups it would be perfect.

I've been playing Wipeout Omega Collection (best racing game ever), Rocket League on my nephew's PS4 with off brand controllers, Worms WMD, N++, Videoball, Party Golf, and other stuff on his PS4. I'm feeling homesick for Tears of the Kingdom! Like Lookout Landing is my home and I need to hear my national anthem, lol.
Even though Switch and OLED Deck are my favorite systems I never take them farther than a charging station. I travel light!

I miss Tears of the Kingdom. I'm visiting family and friends and have been playing Wipeout Omega Collection, but miss Addison, Tulin, Purah, and the Depths, overworld, caves, and sky. TOTK is completely incredible.

Yeah, for me Tears of the Kingdom is number 1. Then below that I've really enjoyed Advance Wars 1+2, BOTW, Pikmin 4, Kirby return to dreamland dx, Metroid Prime remastered, Warioware Move It (and Get It Together since I've mostly played it in 2023), Rocket League, Mario Wonder, Mario RPG, Zerofire and Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou, Switch Sports (still played a lot of it in 2023), and probably Doom 1993 and Quake because they keep releasing level packs that are like whole extra games.