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@Serena_ I get that, but what I'm saying is that the fact that those games are able to be verified for a less powerful system is evidence that those games are possible on Switch 2. It takes commitment and money to port the game, but, ideally, they would see a good return on that investment due to the large install base on the Switch.

However, I don't see a willingness to commit large amounts of money and resources to the Switch, and I think that's because Nintendo systems STILL have the reputation that the people who own them only buy Nintendo, despite the fact that many games, when actual effort is put into making or porting them, have sold incredibly well on Nintendo systems.

@Serena_ What games from a major publisher that were first released within the last year ALSO came to Switch 2? Sure, the Switch 2 has gotten great support from indie studios and small publishers, but what I wrote was about the MAJOR publishers.

We've gotten ports like Final Fantasy VII and Cyberpunk, but the Switch had ports it's first year too (Skyrim, Doom, Rayman) and it had some additional support like Sonic Mania and Mario+Rabbids. Plus those studios were still putting resources towards the 3DS at that time.

The Switch 2 is capable of playing a lot more modern, high profile games than the Switch was able to play at it's launch, and yet there are a ton of new releases in the past year that are Steam Deck verified (a system less powerful than the Switch 2) that haven't gotten Switch 2 releases.

Microsoft, EA, 2K, Ubisoft, Konami, etc. are still releasing most of their games for PS5/Xbox/PC. Some of those games have later gotten ports to Switch 2, but that's why I said Nintendo is an AFTERTHOUGHT when it comes to these companies. Capcom is the exception (and it looks like Square, hopefully, will be too).

@7GOD "Nothing really mature enough that will keep someone playing for months let alone weeks"

Mature enough? So games as a service are MATURE because you can play them for months?!

Those games are the OPPOSITE of mature. They are incredibly vapid. They offer repetitive action that is DESIGNED to be mindless, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely ISN'T "mature".

This was the final confirmation for me that this generation of Switch is going to remain business as usual when it comes to 3rd party support with Nintendo platforms remaining an afterthought.

It doesn't matter how many units Nintendo sells, they have never escaped the perception that Nintendo devices are for Nintendo games and third-party games don't sell on Nintendo platforms.

It's such a shame because I think the Switch 2 is far and away the best device to play portable games and it clearly can play many games that it isn't yet getting.

Only Capcom (and to a certain extent Square) have really put in the effort to try to capture the rather large and growing Nintendo user base.

The rest of the major publishers, it seems, are just going to do the usual of throwing some quick ports of games that have long been out on other platforms Nintendo's way and calling it a day.

Diana is just TOO, TOO adorable!

I've had the demo on my Steam Deck for awhile, but I've been waiting to try it on the Switch instead as that's where I will buy it. I'm going to give it a try later today.

@Nao120 "does this means that FF16 can run on Switch 2?"

Maybe not. Rebirth is verified on Steam Deck, but FF16 isn't. I'm assuming FF16 is more taxing based on that.

This looks like it will be really cool for those who are into co-op. It made me think of some great Portal 2 co-op puzzling.

I pretty much exclusively play single-player these day though.

Only 3 of those suggestions in that poll made it into the direct. And Rebirth was the only new announcement of the 3.

I know I'm being super negative, but I think this direct made it clear to me once again that, despite all the success of the Switch and having a more powerful system that can handle more modern games, NOTHING at all has changed as far as 3rd party support this generation. No matter how many devices they sell, Nintendo systems continue to be an afterthought for these companies, the same way they have always been since the Gamecube.

At least I appreciate Capcom for their effort to give us RE 9 and Pragmata at the same time as other platforms. And thanks to Square for more Paranormasight and for doing its best to catch up with more Final Fantasy VII.

@KevinP Why would those games existing on the Switch be something you hope doesn't happen? It's not a zero-sum game. Those games being ported doesn't mean you can't ALSO get the games YOU want.

There is an audience for those games. Just because that audience isn't you, doesn't mean they shouldn't exist.

@Waluigi451 Yeah, Persona 6 has got to be due soon, right? It feels like it has been an eternity since Persona 5. But I doubt that will be revealed in a Nintendo Direct. If it was, that would be a big deal, as Persona has always been Sony-focused at release.

But hopefully they announce the Persona 4 remake for Switch 2, but I think it's more likely they just focus on a Metaphor announcement.

Also, I'd love to see Alan Wake 2 get ported, but that can't even run on the Steam Deck and is allegedly poorly optimized for Series S, so if Remedy could get that running well on Switch 2, that would be an accomplishment.

I can't afford to double dip, but I'm hoping any of you who weren't able to play the excellent Metaphor and Clair Obscur will get the chance to do so!

Hopefully we get more announcements of games that are coming out day and date with other platforms in the future. Resident Evil 9 and Pragmata show it's possible!

@ArmenianJedi13 I take it you aren't a fan of any series that has more than 4 games in it, or else there must be "enough of those" games too.

Or are you are just wanting something that MANY other people like but you don't to not exist? If so, I'm so sorry that these games companies keep making games for other people and not just for you. That must be really hard for you.

@kmtrain83 I wouldn't say equally, because plot and characters are more important to me in a Fire Emblem game, but I definitely thought Engage has some great strategic combat and the Emblem Rings were awesome and added a lot to the game.

If only those character designs weren't so HORRENDOUS.

@Anti-Matter At 8:40 in the Direct it shows the clothing shop menu and it looked like you could buy outfits, but each part of the outfit (One outfit had a shirt, shorts, socks, and shoes) had the option to buy separately. With the hotdog costume, for example, it looked like you could buy the head part of the costume separately from the body part.

@PikminMarioKirby I guess we are agreeing then, just in a somewhat confrontational manner.

I don't care for the Dispatch "censorship", but it was a compromise the developers CHOSE to do to sell their game to the Nintendo audience.

But we all ALSO can choose not to play it on a Nintendo system and get the "uncensored" version elsewhere. (Except for me, because I blindly preordered the game because I'd rather play it on my Switch for comfort than on my Steam Deck, but that's a choice I made too, even if I regret it).

Nevertheless, I don't see a problem with NintendoLife moderators deciding that they and others in the community don't want to read some hateful thing that someone has to say.

And calling something "woke" (which is what started all this) IS hateful, considering the way that word is now being use to deride and mock people's identity and ideology.

@PikminMarioKirby They can, And they did. And now all those people are standing outside Nintendo's house yelling and picketing.

To take this stupid analogy even further, if people want to go on twitter and cry about NintendoLife's "censorship", they are welcome to do so. They can go be heard by anyone who wants to hear them. That's not censorship.

@SuperEndriu I misread what you wrote. Sorry about that. You were saying that the leftist reject anything that they don't perceive to be conforming to "the right one" (meaning the ideology of the left). Somehow I mixed that all up in my head and read that you were saying the left rejects people who had opinions that were "the right one." Your writing was clear, I just failed at reading.

Again, sorry for my lack of reading comprehension.

@PikminMarioKirby Demanding that someone leave your house because you don't want to hear what they are saying is not censoring someone.

The right to freedom of speech doesn't mean a right to be heard.

If your speech is disruptive, there is nothing wrong with others telling you to go exercise your freedom of speech elsewhere.

@MrBinks I'm...checks year and does math 44, but if something is fun and enjoyable, it doesn't matter that it ALSO can be enjoyed by children.

I personally love whimsy, which this game has, and is usually a part of content that is directed towards children. I don't know why so many people "grow out" of enjoying and then dismiss or try to shame whimsical content. THAT I think is ACTUALLY childish.

@SuperEndriu "different opinion than the right one". You might want to change the wording on that, unless you were TRYING to sound close-minded. The rest of your message makes it sound like you AREN'T trying to be close-minded, so I'm GUESSING you meant the opinion of those on the right.

"Leftist" is also somewhat of a pejorative term as well, so your language might be undercutting your intended message.

@Zeebor15 Hahaha! My hope for Fire Emblem doesn't preclude my reverence for Bubsy.

I actually was a kid who owned Bubsy on the Sega Genesis and...liked it. I've never understood the hate for that game.

@Pak-Man I didn't even get that Hugh Morris was a pun until you pointed it out.

...I feel so stupid right now.

@Suketoudara Yep. There already was a comment here about the new president. As if we didn't know exactly what that was about.

People who come here to spam bigotry and then complain that they are being censored act like there is nowhere else they can go to spout hate. That's what Twitter is for!

@ThatOneLevel Damn. Forgot that we didn't see the concert hall. Writing songs was one of the best parts of the last game.

@ArthurFan1998 Yeah, I wonder if it will allow you to leave all the boxes for "attraction" unchecked. Would be cool.

[Edit: Saw that the Menu specifically said "or none", so more options for people. AWESOME!]

@Zeebor15 I could see Fire Emblem coming out in May. OR at least I am DREAMING that it comes out that soon!

@Haruki_NLI If you don't know Hugh Morris, I feel sorry for you...

(Just making sure you know I'm joking.)

@Sonicka People have repeatedly pointed out that the last entry sold over 6 million copies, How is that "niche"? Is Animal Crossing niche because it too is "quirky"?

You mention Metroid and I'm a huge Metroid fan, but we have to be realistic; a Metroid game has never sniffed the sale of what the last game in this series sold. Metroid just isn't the "bigger franchise" that you and I want it to be.

Can someone define for me what a souls-like game is now? I keep seeing this called a soulslike, but the combat I've seen is fast-paced with special attacks you choose through menus (kinda like FF VII Remake). I haven't even see one block or parry, staples of Souls games.

What about that combat system is comparable to a Souls game? Is 3rd person action RPG now just the "soulslike" genre?

Lion King Caineighis is my favorite track. Sometimes when I get to where it plays in the game, I just leave the game playing and let the song loop. It's so majestic!

There are several great songs on this soundtrack!

Yes! This is what I've been waiting for. Perhaps my favorite game of all time. My user name comes from this game. I've played it countless times and am ready to play it again.

I really don't understand the hate for the NPCs and Myles in particular. He is basically Otacon in MGS1. I actually found him somewhat endearing...if he could have just left me alone while I was roaming the desert, but the other Primes did this too if you had the hint system on (but making it optional was far better).

@Max_the_German Hey, Samus isn't a team leader, she's a bounty hunter who spends almost all her time alone in space or alone on alien planets, it's not her fault her vocal cords atrophied! Leave her alone!

Since we're only talking Nintendo systems and unfortunately Clair Obscur hasn't come to Switch 2, it's between Hundred Line and Metroid Prime 4 for me.

Metroid Prime 4 is definitely a more action focused entry in the series than any other of the games and the closest to an actual FPS the series has ever been which keeps it from being up there with the original Prime and Echoes for me, but it still has been a blast to play.

I really need to go back and play more of the endings of Hundred Line and actually get ANSWERS and a GOOD ending, but even without that it has amazingly fun SRPG mechanics and fun and memorable characters.

"the greatest SRPG ever made"

Booooo! As a big fan of the genre and a fan of Fire Emblem in particular, I definitely take issue with that statement. Final Fantasy Tactics cannot match the mechanics and beloved characters present in several of the Fire Emblem games.

I don't think Metacritic scores are the end all of rating games but I'm still going to use them to illustrate my point: Four Fire Emblem games are rated higher in both Critic and User scores than Final Fantasy Tactics.

@luke88 So you are saying a game can be great even though one aspect of it might be "unimpressive"? Hopefully that will be the case with MP4 as well.

@luke88 I have no problem imagining that since Ocarina of Time is still just as great of a game as it was 27 years ago, and a somewhat empty hub area of the game and an annoying side character do nothing to diminish it.

I didn't read that as saying "it's great, but.." He says it is certainly up there with the best Metroids. That implies that the other great Metroids are around the same quality: 9s. So, if that's what he believes, he is "beyond" help.

NB: I don't think he actually believes the original Prime is a 9 and I don't actually think something is wrong with you if you don't think Prime 1 is above a 9 (well not completely anyway).

@MrStark If you look a that same Metacritic score you reference, 53 out of 69 reviews are 8 or above. 16 have been below 8. 15 gave it a 9 or above.

Why do you assume the negative 16 reviews are somehow more correct than the 15 who loved it? A game can be both loved and disliked at the same time. It's almost like people have differing opinions or something.

@PinderSchloss When I started reading this, I thought for sure it was going to be a 10.

"What Retro Studios has delivered might well be the studio’s finest work yet, and it’s certainly up there as one of the very best Metroid games of all time"

So it MIGHT be Retro's best work, but it's a 9?! I don't have a problem with whatever they score this game, but if you're going to write THAT it better be a 10 out of 10 game.

That sentence only makes sense if you consider the original Prime as less than a 9. And if that's your argument, I say good day to you, sir.

@BrokenCiv The problem is that maintaining an audience's attention has become a real challenge these days.

I watched one of the hands-on with MP4 where someone was playing it and reached a puzzle that gave a very distinct visual cue to hint to the player what they were supposed to do. The guy who was playing it got stuck and frustrated on this puzzle. In the voice-over for the video, recorded later, the guy admitted that he had been looking at his phone and had missed the visual cue.

So the challenge is keeping THOSE gamers, whose money is just as important to developers as ours, engaged so that they don't just quit the game in frustration (which people are far more apt to do these days), while also providing an adequate experience for those of us who don't want their hands held.

Granted, I haven't played the game myself, and maybe I'll think differently once I do, but after reading some of the most negative reviews: imagine giving Ocarina of Time a 6 because Navi is annoying and Hyrule Field is boring.

@swoose I'm curious about that "linear structure" criticism. Metroid Prime games have always been pretty linear (you have a concrete set of objectives that you do in order). You backtrack a lot to open up new areas or get hidden items within the areas you have already been in, but the path is still very linear.

@OmnitronVariant Hey, my opinion might be completely different once I play it myself. I was originally disappointed with Prime 3 when it was released, but have grown to appreciate it.

BUT, if in a few years if this game gets referred to as a "flawed gem" or "underappreciated" just remember that I told you so. Haha!

@The_Nintendo_Expat I'm exactly the same way. I prefer to read reviews. I would have missed it myself if not for someone else in the comments referencing it.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Alex gives a second opinion in the video. He disliked the NPCs far more than Ollie, but was still glowing about the game.

@OmnitronVariant Ok. I obviously disagree on the 7/10 thing and wrote a long-winded response about it, but it was ultimately pointless, so I edited out and will rather say: I understand where you're coming from.

But regardless, none of that has to do with my original point. Before Dragon's Dogma was released the entire narrative was about how Capcom, a Japanese company, was trying to make "a Skyrim". It was pilloried as derivative and depicted as an example of how Japanese developers didn't know how to make games for contemporary western audiences BEFORE it was even released. The entire Japanese games industry was being bashed at that time. This view was prevalent throughout the "games journalism" scene.

These journalist are often like kids on a playground, afraid to think something is "cool" that the other kids might think is "uncool". This is what is happening with MP4. And my original point was: Just wait. Because when the cool kids decide "Hey, MP4 actually WAS cool all along, they will all jump right onboard (just as they have with Dragon's Dogma) and call MP4 a "cult classic" and "underappreciated".

Sorry. I know that was STILL a lot of words.

@OmnitronVariant Oh, I agree with you. The story is completely convoluted and non-sensical, but you love the game, right? I'm guessing you would also give the game above the 6s and 7s that Dragon's Dogma was widely getting base on that excellent gameplay alone.

A poor story doesn't normally drop a game with great gameplay (like, say, Bayonetta) down 2 rating points, but Dragon's Dogma had a similar thing going as MP4 pre-release where every preview of it had an overwhelmingly negative tone.