Very excited for this one now, tbh unexpectedly so! I’ve been playing the original Switch Sports today out of anticipation, and even though it feels like a shell of a game, the Joy-Con motion controls (especially in tennis and bowling) feel much better than I remember them feeling, and the individual sports themselves feel good to play.

In particular with Switch Sports Resort, I’m excited for Island Crown, achievements, and the customization options, as well as the inevitable Poofesure videos that I’ll very greatly enjoy in all likelihood.

@VoidofLight enough with the witch hunts for any and all AI use! It seems like the lot of you in the incredibly vocal minority would rather see the industry burn than embrace new technology, and that’s honestly kind of sad.

Very excited that this game is finally coming to consoles! I still need to convince my friends to play it though…

@Anti-Matter have you played this one? Maybe you’d like it.

I enjoyed this a bit on Apple Arcade, but Fortune’s Weave took me away from it.

@Anti-Matter completely off topic but I quite like your new pfp there bud!

I also came here for the comments, and I was not disappointed. Yes, I was concerned by the original statement of “AI-generation” but I also saw how it most likely meant era.

That being said, the AI witch-hunts are getting so tiring, especially since it is not even proven whether the technologies will work once the VC money runs out and we’re all paying the actual price of what these technologies cost.

As I’ve stated before, if not here then definitely elsewhere, there is a huge difference between ML (machine learning), LLMs (large language models), and generative AI (creative output like photos, music, and videos), and the extreme nuance that is being lost here by bundling all of this indiscriminately under an AI umbrella is damaging to society in so many ways, as seen here in this very comment section.

@DankPeezy They already tried it with the seasonal model of Splatoon 3, and having a limited-time battle pass-style catalog, and even though I was very excited for that at launch, four years on it’s very tiring and led to so much FOMO and burnout for me and so many of my friends.

That being said, I am aware that my friends and I (as part of the grassroots competitive scene with 1500+ hours each in the game at minimum) aren’t really representative of the majority of the playerbase.

Furthermore, I just don’t think Nintendo’s pipeline of content is really enough for a seasonal model or a live service model. In my opinion at least, even though Splatoon 3 is the better feeling and better playing game, the delivery of content for the game (maps, weapons, gear, et cetera) was not near as well-handled.

Piling my voice onto the clickbait pile. NL, you’re better than this. Don’t stoop to this level, please.

@Splash_Woman yeah, we need some representation on the northeast and/or mid-Atlantic!

@Friendly Even just between uploading screenshots and clips from switch 2 and checking maps, battle records, replays, and weapon data in SplatNet 3, I use it almost every day, many times multiple times per day.

4/12. Geez, I guess I really wasn’t paying attention this month.

Went to a midnight launch last year on June 5th, so I’m all set until my battery inevitably gives way in 4-5 years like happened with my original launch-day Switch.

What a terrible time to release a product like this. Unfortunately I’m basically out of space on my 512GB card, so hopefully it will be discounted eventually (probably only in my dreams).

And for everyone who is having sticker shock at the price of this, it’s due to the ongoing memory and chip shortage/crisis. Everything has gotten more expensive, and is expected to continue to get more expensive into at least 2027 or 2028. It’s the same reason the Switch 2 is $50 more expensive than when it launched, and the reason Xboxes, PlayStations, and PCs are astronomically expensive now, especially compared to 3-5 years ago.

Interesting that this happened right after Pikachu visited Apple Park…

I’m fatigued at this point from this one guy being the face of every gaming event. I really miss when it was one week and all the companies would do their thing.

Why are we asking this question from a LEAK?! They’ve not even been confirmed to be real…

Furthermore, why are we promoting leakers like this? It’s this very kind of thing that ruined the big moment of the Ocarina of Time remake reveal back in June, and these types are still being rewarded with impressions for what reason? And at what cost?

There’s probably something I’m missing or not understanding, but why would it be technically challenging to bring the game to switch 2? Like, what is the big issue?

@Luigia Dang, did the Sony announcement move the Overton Window that quickly?

As much as I love Splatoon, I have a feeling this game just isn’t for me. I had no idea what kind of game this even was until I saw Destiny or Borderlands mentioned as being similar. If it were possible to use a game voucher on it I might give it a shot, but seeing as those have been discontinued, I have to be much more selective with the games I buy and play, unfortunately.

It’s probably helping them to reduce component costs in line with the increase in RAM and SSD prices.

I have a 512GB SD Express Card if I remember correctly, and it’s already basically full after a year, so I really need to get a 1TB card, but they’re too expensive for me to afford right now.

It’s $10-$15 too expensive for where I would consider picking it up as someone who had a passing interest in Star Fox 64 3D but never actually played it or bought it.

6/12. Mostly haven’t touched anything beyond Splatoon 3 and Tomodachi Life in the last month, though.

@HotGoomba I had to do a double-take when I read your comment. Well played.

@CaleBoi25 Well hey there, CaleyBoy! I should dm you lol, we haven’t talked in so long!

Friendly reunions aside, I was pleasantly surprised at the completion of the soundtrack in Nintendo Music tonight. Three Wishes makes me cry as ever, No Quarters gets me hyped up and pumped, and the Grand Festival ambiance reminds me of what an amazing experience that was. I do wish the concert versions of the idol’s songs used in at the festival grounds were present though.

Have a great SpringFest everyone!

At that point just make it another $499 bundle where the game is included for “free”.

I’m super excited to make more Miis for my family, friends, and other important figures in my life! Something about the Mii Maker in Tomodachi Life is so much more engaging and purposeful than the system one. My only concern is creating Miis inside of Tomodachi Life that are then trapped inside Tomodachi Life…

@TripleJump The guy above me?

@ROMhaiku All I’ll say is there’s a reason that so many Nintendo fans were hoping for this series to return, and there’s also a reason many of us got hooked on the 3DS game.

It seems like you’ve found the reason, and I’m so glad you have!

@Dev-N The three-Mii limit sucks, but iirc the 3DS demo had that same limit, too. So strange to see the game introduce Miis like it’s 2006 again, though. Hope you enjoy the demo friend!

Very sad to hear there’s no way to import Miis besides local wireless. Between that, and the Mii Maker being buried in Switch settings, only time will tell how much I’ll get out of this.

I am very thankful they released a demo at least. Hopefully data will transfer from the demo to the full version?

I really hope there will be previews and reviews that dive into what’s changed and expanded in this game compared to the 3DS one. I get that Nintendo really seems to want a fresh start, but it would still be great to hear what I can expect as someone who put many hours into the 3DS game ages ago.

I’m a bit worried to be honest that it won’t have the same staying power for me as the 3DS one did, just because the form factor and my use of the hardware is so much different.

Fourthing the surprise about the comments being left open.

@BaldB3lper78 One of the ways I’ve come to love to think about this administration is that it’s just a content farm in service of a brand. It’s very obvious that the POTUS and checks and balances and such should not be run like that, but it’s seemingly the reality of what’s happening anyway. And, at least in the online space, it all seems to be unifying us Americans against Trump and the government he’s attempting to craft, which is somewhat fascinating to live though.

Speaking of Breath of the Wild, I just finished obtaining all of the captured memories from the base game last night, and I’ve been thinking, why does Zelda have the accent she does in the game? Is her VA from somewhere in Europe? Or is there some lore reason for it?

Genuinely super curious, if someone here has the answer?

LeafGreen was my very first Pokemon game, back at some point between 2004 and 2009. I’m not so sure about getting this, however.

Is it just me or did the game kind of show up out of nowhere and have no real promotion with it? Maybe it’s just that it’s not for me. Speaking of that, am I the only one who gets uneasy when hearing the “Fever “ subtitle? It makes me think of getting sick and feeling unwell rather than a game mechanic 😭

Maaaaaaaan, this game was such a core part of my adolescence! I got the notification, started flipping through the tracks, and it all just came flooding back to me.

The tracks that brought back the most memories for me were: the HOME Menu theme, the Mii creator, the clothing and interior shops, the Mii News news flash, the amusement park, the musical setting in the concert hall, the save screen, the minigame music, wanting to be friends, confessing romantic feelings, and wanting to propose.

There’s still two days left to buy Game Vouchers before they’re discontinued, so that’s an option for anyone who thinks $60 is too much. (The vouchers expire a year after purchase). I know that’s the option I’ll be taking.

I really hope they still have mii sharing. That was one of the best parts of the original, since streamers would put the QR codes up and we could just add them easily, and there’s even websites that collect the QR codes to share.

The game absolutely did not need health bars, but they have the unintended side effect of making tracking easier in certain situations, which I will not complain about. And no, they cannot be disabled.

Honestly the changes that have had the most impacts for me are hitboxes and hurtboxes, as well as the nerfs to stealth jump. Super Jumping feels a lot more like it did in Splatoon 1 now, when stealth jump is being used, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. And the change to hitboxes has made it easier for me to play cb, so that’s really cool.

Good to see people in the comments actively go to church! Lovely to hear!

There’s supposed to be “between 3-16 inches" of snow this weekend, so we'll see how that goes too.

As for me, I won't be watching the direct because I'm trying to limit spoilers for the movie. I also didn't watch the first direct, or anything beyond the original reveal in the September Direct. Super Mario Galaxy (2 especially) is one of my favorite games of all time, and over the last year I was super nostalgic for it, so I'll probably end up in tears at some point during the movie. (During the first one it was the credits for me)

It is very interesting to see a Direct on a Sunday though...

Somewhat strange, looking back, that this review didn’t touch on the major goldmine that was the timing of this game’s release. For whatever it’s worth, for a short while in time, this game turned into the universal third space, that we all had the experience of playing asynchronously together, because there was nothing else to do.

I got 12/17. Struggled mostly with the deeper cuts (Metroid Prime 3, Zelda movie actor, Switch 2 editions released, the correct title for Jamboree Switch 2 edition, and the game which appeared in the switch 2 direct (I was accidentally thinking of the switch direct from the week prior))

I remembered the one about storage not from Welcome Tour, but from the direct)

I really wish these demos could also be put on the eShop!

Wow, lots of these tracks I don’t ever even remember hearing! Surprised they didn’t put Wii Fit U in there as well!

Side note: did anyone else have the experience of playing this game as kid and then developing body image issues later in life? I have no idea how I would ever process such a connection, but I saw it on a Reddit thread once and it really resonated with me (since I fall into both groups).

@Anti-Matter have you considered the purchase of a PS Portal, for the rare times that you want to play away from the television? It would allow you to play the games that you enjoy with the performance that you require, but still have the ability to be portable.

If I’m misunderstanding your comment, please let me know.

Perhaps it’s a difference in culture, but I really don’t understand why Miyamoto-san even answered the investor’s question. What good is there out of speculating on what someone who hasn’t been with Nintendo for a very long time would think about the Nintendo of today? Even here in this comments section, it seems to be causing more bickering and disagreement than discussion, and I just don’t see how it’s helpful or healthy for the Nintendo community.

Strange to release something like this so…randomly.

@HeadPirate Respectfully disagree on the snails being cosmetic. Those extra gear XP points go a LONG way over hundreds or thousands of hours of matches. Plus, unless you get lucky enough to have two star gear by default, you HAVE to use snails to unlock all three sub ability slots. Separately, one of my friends pointed out that being able to trade in ability chunks would also go a long way to helping the system.

At least bring the Master Chief Collection over to Switch 2! It’d be so nice to have Halo portably.

I wonder how long the decorations will be up at Nintendo NY? I’ll be back up there (in the city) exactly a week later, so it'd be a shame to miss the neatness by such a short amount of time.