@rjejr You also need to fact check that the deal was to release all future Activision Blizzard content for Nintendo platforms, not just Call of Duty. That agreement was set for after the deal close, the deal didn't close until October 2023, so it hasn't even been 2 years yet.
@rjejr "Now where's CoD Microsoft? Click is ticking on that 10 year deal. But this is still a win."
Porting takes time. Each CoD has a 3-4 year development cycle. You can't just port CoD to a new platform after release cause by that point... We're already talking about the new CoD for next year. So you missed your marketing window. Switch development has to be plan at the very start of development, not mid cycle or close to the end of development. This year CoD was probably already in development before the ActviBlizz deal closed, or before that 10 years deal was announced
@eaglebob345 Probably to block any potential data mining or unwarranted footage from leaking that isn’t allowed to view yet. These events also tended to be attended by big fans which tend to be less critical of poor performance or quality for a game that still doesn’t release for another 2 months on top of a day 1 patch. Nintendo and the Pokémon company want to have control of how news released to the public… You can’t do by releasing a demo on the eshop.
@Zeebor15 I wouldn’t be surprised if it has something to do with Bandai wanting full control, and Aniplex being lmao NO. Sega only publishes the game World Wide, Aniplex is the JP publisher.
This is why I like to personality think of Odyssey and Bananza as fresh reboot/remake for both character. DK no longer Rare's DK anymore. For the last 30+ years, DK was defined by what Rare wanted for the character, not really Nintendo... This is the first time in a long that mainline DK game was actually made in house at Nintendo. They finally get to leave their own mark on the character they create for first time in years
@KayFiOS I'm guess that even tho the costumes are based of the OG power rangers. They are using the fact that the modern Power Ranger team usually primally consist of Red, Blue, and Yellow. With the rest of the color joining the team later on in the season for whatever series.
@Toastmaster You have a gaming PC, that can draw as much power as they want and is user swappable with the only limit being a user’s financial income. Tech like DLSS, FSR, TAA… etc has been very important to the success of modern day consoles especially low powered machines.
If you have to run a GPU at full power to hit a good native resolution for decent image quality… That leaves very little power for CPU tasks, and other task in the render budget. DLSS lower GPU consumption and render budget due lower native resolution. Leaving render budget for higher effects, textures, and other CPU tasks.
Yes, that doesn’t matter for PC cause you run your GPU at 400 watts and CPU at 200 watts.
EDIT: PS: No one care you have 2 gaming PC with Nvidia GPU… I’ve had 3 gaming Desktop with a 2080s, 3080ti, and 4090. And 2 gaming laptops with a 3060 and 3070ti
@Toastmaster “ Nintendo should have used a AMD APU instead of NVIDIA to get more CPU power to get a lot more third party support.”
An AMD APU would have not been worth the increase in heat, weight, energy consumption, and the loss of API support that Nvidia offers Nintendo on top of losing DLSS.
@Magician “ They do not appeal to folks who collect physical video games”
I would argue against that… As someone who like collecting physical video games, I very much enjoy the game key card. I enjoy the feeling slotting in and out a physical card. It nostalgic. I don’t care about the data on the card. More it doesn’t appeal to people who clinging to their ever diminishing fake sense of ownership of their media less than their need to collect physical media.
The Switch 2 was probably the easiest modern game console to get at launch. I was about to was pre order one twice before launch, and cancel… and then I was still able to order one on release day for pick at Costco.
@Not_Soos TBH… what female wants to play fat Italy plumber in red overalls. Of course females are going to prefer the twink elf boy over Mario. Lmao. 🤣
I need this to sell well so Nintendo see a reason to release more 3D Donkey Kong games... I can't go another 26 years without another 3D DK game. I'm not trying to be 50+ years old, and only gotten 3 3D DK in my lifetime while there be a gazillion 3D Marios
@kingbk “ There is a reason the Steam Deck has sold around 4 million devices lifetime while the Switch 2 blew past that number in 3 weeks.”
Because the Switch 2 isn’t just limited to one store front? Because the Switch 2 is available in vastly more countries than the Steam Deck? It took almost a year for the Steam deck to be available in Japan while the Switch 2 was available there day 1. Valve has artificially limited the success of the Steam deck cause they don’t need big sales report to shareholders like Nintendo.
@VoidofLight So, now your backtrack, and changing it to " after the games went global". What a joke... Just admit your wrong, you can't predict what a billion company is going to do, and move on.
@VoidofLight “ If one thing hasn’t changed at all about this series, it’s that gamefreak always aims for a game a year- and aims for that game to release in the holiday season to maximize profits. ”
Granted, both the original diamond and pearl and black and white saw Q1-Q3 released instead of Q4 outside of Japan.
Yeah... Even tho I'm probably gonna pick this up day 1. This is probably gonna turn out to be a "wait for a couple of performance patches" release just like Breath of Wild. Everything is pointing to this running like dog water on release day.
@The_Nintend_Pedant “ Steam deck owner I know is emulating thousands of games, every platform, running cracked PC software, everything he can dream up which is far more ambitious than my use case, and his steam account is just fine and they certainly havent BRICKED his console.”
You are talking about the company who literally put Yuzu in official promo images for the steam deck. They only care making about sure you aren’t cheating, committing fraud, or hurting someone. Other then that, they don’t care what you do on or with your steam deck… a Steam Deck isn’t a console, it a PC anyway, and it approached with that mentality.
“When you play a game, you have feelings similar to those when you watch a movie or read a book. Are movies or books just products?“
If we’re going to use that logic then games, books, music, and movies are just products to me while cars are art…
You can’t use the whole feel different emotionally, attachment… bleh… bleh… bleh. Cause a lot of people view video games as just something you buy, you use and you throw away which why there is such a big used game market.
You can come in my place and rob me of all my video games, but good luck prying my car keys from my cold dead hands.
I mean… that quote coming from a Nintendo employee isn’t that surprising. They’ve done pump out how many Mario games now? I don’t care if one is a tiny bit more shiny or a tiny bit more fancy. They just launch a new console, and what did we get? Not a new IP that for damn sure. We got a new Mario kart. Why? Cause they are trying to sell a product, they are trying make money, they aren’t trying to take home bafta, DICE, game of year, or golden joystick. Art don’t make you money, product does.
Sony makes Art. That why we have to wait 10 years for 1 game. Nintendo makes Products. That why Nintendo had released something like 119 games on the switch… This is why Nintendo has a dominant lead in the console publishing segment bring $5.9 billion in 2021.
@blaisedinsd Switch 2 games card and main console itself aren’t region, with the exception of a cheaper, Japan-only model… That can only play Japanese games.
@Austrian You probably shouldn’t be citing outdated information from 2013? Especially when multiple reports over the last couple years about poor working conditions have come out about Nintendo.
Maybe it all sunny shine and rainbows at Nintendo of Japan, but they still have an office in America.
And so much has come out about the working conditions that even Reggie Fils-Aimé weighed in on the Nintendo worker exploitation quoting ‘This Isn’t The Nintendo I Left’
@Alienfanatic " I'd rather focus on how you almost never hear about mass layoffs at Nintendo or, for that matter, Sony."
Cause when you hear about layoff from Nintendo it from the teams that no one generally cares about or... it contractors. So most people go 'Meh' and every one moves on about their day.
I would also look up how many people Sony has laid off.
Last year SIE cut 8% of their workforce. Which meant closing Studio London, and reductions in Firesprite studio. They closed Firewalk Studios, cut 17% total workforce of Bungie. This year saw lay off at Visual Arts group, PS Studios Malaysia, and Bend Studio of 30%. Which is very bad considering that Bend is located in the middle of Oregon, there isn't exactly a lot of tech work in Bend, Oregon unlike when you get laid off in Seattle or California. They also closed Neon Koi.
That just Sony lay off in SIE... That not counting Movie studio, Tech, mobile... lays offs.
Microsoft is a monolith of a company and probably employs close to 300K people full time and contractors across all teams. When they lay people off it shakes the industry. It news grabbing, it impactful, and it will affect a lot more families.
Nintendo at most probably employs like 10K, and Sony 200K across all teams. Microsoft laid of 9k people. They basically just laid off the entire staff of Nintendo... and that was only 4% of their workforce.
@GrailUK “ Remember when they thought Tears of the Kingdom was running on Switch 2?”
That was a fair assumptions… We were in the peak of Switch Pro/Switch 2 rumors. Given everything we’ve had learned so far… The Switch 2 was definitely in development and the game was probably a test bed for the system.
I mean… The only reason we gotten the Switch 2 when we did was cause Nintendo was purposefully delaying it.
@Anachronism “ think they just were not intended to be seen at higher resolutions and many of them end up looking worse for it.”
I think that depends on the game and whether or not the developers had the foresight for what games would look like running on better hardware.
There are a of HD games, mainly ones that was designed to end up on PC, that truly shine with higher resolution.
I don’t think when Nintendo was developing Super Mario 3D World or Super Mario deluxe they was planning on have it run at 4k. They probably were never planning on porting it from the WiiU. They would have stayed locked to it 720p resolution for all of time.
@DarkTron If anyone has ever followed dband. That definitely sounds like something dband would say…. It on par with the brand. We are talking about the company that wanted PlayStation to sue them. Lol
@Jeronan It neither LG or Samsung who supply the screens for the Switch 2… I think it Sharp and another company. Samsung is wanting to supply the panels when they do the OLED refresh but we’ll see.
@Exerion76 “ The Rog Ally screen, even the cheapest model (same price as the Switch2), has all that, AND sharp motion.”
Yeah, but the cheapest model Alley launched/MSRP at a $700 price tag. That not the same thing…. Just cause you can find them now for $450 doesn’t make them same price as the Switch 2
@Jprhino84 I think you're confusing image resolution with texture resolution. The actual image resolution of the game is fine. You need to go back and watch the video. Look at some of the texture on the rocks that Donkey Kong pulls from the ground.
@N00BiSH Not really... Nothing in the games screams large file size. The textures look low res, blurry, and simplistic. Models are low poly with some of the environment being pokemon levels of bad. There probably also aren't that many audio files which are compressed (RIP anyone with a HIFI system). Given that the Switch has extremely high-speed storage they are don't have to repeat textures which saves on space. Nintendo also develops only for one platform. They don't have to worry about how their game will work if they have to port to another platform.
At least for me, I didn’t buy a Switch 2 to play Switch 2 games… and I’m sure plenty of other feel the same way. I only bought one Switch 2 game, and that was bravely default. I did how ever go and pick up 5 Switch 1 games I didn’t own. I have 3 more Switch 1 arriving the mail this week. The next actual Switch 2 game I’ll play will probably be Donkey Kong.
My head cannon for all of this is that… With Mario Odyssey, Nintendo saw a chance to reinvent some of the characters aka Pauline and add New Donk City. They probably saw as a nice call back to the original arcade game. But!!!! With the success of the Mario movie. They saw a chance for an interconnected world and story. That why they bought the new Donky Kong design from the movie into the games. They are using this game as a chance to reboot Donkey Kong. Introduce a young Pauline who goes on to be the mayor of new Donk city. Who knows… The Mario movie may be the canon start to the Mario we see in odyssey. Diddy and Dixie is in the game cause they were also in the movie… None of the other Kong were, and that probably why don’t see them in this game
@Vapeguy Sony not saying anything. He doesn’t work for Sony anymore, and his last few years with Sony wasn’t in a prominent position. He was locked away in the basement somewhere…
@Zeebor15 They only own 35% shares. The founder is the majority holder. This is not like with Techland or Klei Entertainment where they are the majority holder.
No, you are confusing close partnership (Intelligent Systems) and shareholder agreements with ownership.
This game was the big reason for me grabbing a Switch 2 at launch. Massive Donkey Kong fan, my very first video game was Donkey Kong 64. Parents purchased it along with an the N64, Star Wars Ep1 Pod Racing, and another Racing game for my 4th birth in 2000. I remember my dad spending hours trying to get the N64 hooked up to the TV. Then spending hours on the phone with a Nintendo rep cause I wanted all the Plushies of the DK crew that was shown in the manual for the game.
It been far too long since we had a 3D Donkey Kong game. The announcement bought tears to my eyes which made it awkward to explain to my co-workers why I was crying in the office. XD
@Grumblevolcano TBH... I think this approach would be the best thing. There is no reason to have a direct right now. They just had a big direct in April. So a bunch of small directs, a Partner Showcase, Pokemon Presents in july, and a bunch of standalone announcements over the summer via social media makes sense. Then they do the next general Direct in September in time for the holiday planning to start.
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Re: Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Will Launch On Switch 2 In 2026
@rjejr You also need to fact check that the deal was to release all future Activision Blizzard content for Nintendo platforms, not just Call of Duty. That agreement was set for after the deal close, the deal didn't close until October 2023, so it hasn't even been 2 years yet.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.413969/gov.uscourts.cand.413969.306.0.pdf
Re: Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Will Launch On Switch 2 In 2026
@rjejr "Now where's CoD Microsoft? Click is ticking on that 10 year deal. But this is still a win."
Porting takes time. Each CoD has a 3-4 year development cycle. You can't just port CoD to a new platform after release cause by that point... We're already talking about the new CoD for next year. So you missed your marketing window. Switch development has to be plan at the very start of development, not mid cycle or close to the end of development. This year CoD was probably already in development before the ActviBlizz deal closed, or before that 10 years deal was announced
Re: Shin'en Announces 'The Touryst: Deluxe', Exclusive To Switch 2
Nice. I’ve been wanting to pick this. This will probably be a real treat to play on Switch 2.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Playable Switch 2 Demo Appearing At Upcoming Events
@eaglebob345 Probably to block any potential data mining or unwarranted footage from leaking that isn’t allowed to view yet. These events also tended to be attended by big fans which tend to be less critical of poor performance or quality for a game that still doesn’t release for another 2 months on top of a day 1 patch. Nintendo and the Pokémon company want to have control of how news released to the public… You can’t do by releasing a demo on the eshop.
Re: Japanese Charts: Sega's Latest 'Demon Slayer' Kicks Mario Kart World Into Second
@Zeebor15 I wouldn’t be surprised if it has something to do with Bandai wanting full control, and Aniplex being lmao NO. Sega only publishes the game World Wide, Aniplex is the JP publisher.
Re: Opinion: We Really Don't Need A Donkey Kong Timeline
This is why I like to personality think of Odyssey and Bananza as fresh reboot/remake for both character. DK no longer Rare's DK anymore. For the last 30+ years, DK was defined by what Rare wanted for the character, not really Nintendo... This is the first time in a long that mainline DK game was actually made in house at Nintendo. They finally get to leave their own mark on the character they create for first time in years
Re: This Fortnite 'Power Rangers' Trailer Is Absolutely Awesome
@KayFiOS I'm guess that even tho the costumes are based of the OG power rangers. They are using the fact that the modern Power Ranger team usually primally consist of Red, Blue, and Yellow. With the rest of the color joining the team later on in the season for whatever series.
Re: Yooka-Replaylee Is Now "Content Complete"
@KayFiOS "The Impossible Lair was a banger follow-up"
I wouldn't say banger... It got okay reviews, and it barely sold any copies, and could basically be found for free a couple months after it release.
Re: EA Doesn't Currently Have Plans To Bring Battlefield 6 To Switch 2
@Toastmaster You have a gaming PC, that can draw as much power as they want and is user swappable with the only limit being a user’s financial income. Tech like DLSS, FSR, TAA… etc has been very important to the success of modern day consoles especially low powered machines.
If you have to run a GPU at full power to hit a good native resolution for decent image quality… That leaves very little power for CPU tasks, and other task in the render budget. DLSS lower GPU consumption and render budget due lower native resolution. Leaving render budget for higher effects, textures, and other CPU tasks.
Yes, that doesn’t matter for PC cause you run your GPU at 400 watts and CPU at 200 watts.
EDIT: PS: No one care you have 2 gaming PC with Nvidia GPU… I’ve had 3 gaming Desktop with a 2080s, 3080ti, and 4090. And 2 gaming laptops with a 3060 and 3070ti
Re: EA Doesn't Currently Have Plans To Bring Battlefield 6 To Switch 2
@Toastmaster “ Nintendo should have used a AMD APU instead of NVIDIA to get more CPU power to get a lot more third party support.”
An AMD APU would have not been worth the increase in heat, weight, energy consumption, and the loss of API support that Nvidia offers Nintendo on top of losing DLSS.
Re: Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase Announced For Tomorrow, 31st July 2025
@Magician “ They do not appeal to folks who collect physical video games”
I would argue against that… As someone who like collecting physical video games, I very much enjoy the game key card. I enjoy the feeling slotting in and out a physical card. It nostalgic. I don’t care about the data on the card. More it doesn’t appeal to people who clinging to their ever diminishing fake sense of ownership of their media less than their need to collect physical media.
Re: Switch 2 Launch Helps Boost US Video Game Spending To Record June High
The Switch 2 was probably the easiest modern game console to get at launch. I was about to was pre order one twice before launch, and cancel… and then I was still able to order one on release day for pick at Costco.
Re: Gender Split & Average Ages Of Japanese Nintendo Players Revealed Via New Survey
@Not_Soos TBH… what female wants to play fat Italy plumber in red overalls. Of course females are going to prefer the twink elf boy over Mario. Lmao. 🤣
Re: UK Charts: Donkey Kong Bananza Is A Hit, But Sells Less Than Half Of Super Mario Odyssey
I need this to sell well so Nintendo see a reason to release more 3D Donkey Kong games... I can't go another 26 years without another 3D DK game. I'm not trying to be 50+ years old, and only gotten 3 3D DK in my lifetime while there be a gazillion 3D Marios
Re: Video: Switch 2 Vs. Steam Deck System Face-Off, Digital Foundry Investigates
@kingbk “ There is a reason the Steam Deck has sold around 4 million devices lifetime while the Switch 2 blew past that number in 3 weeks.”
Because the Switch 2 isn’t just limited to one store front? Because the Switch 2 is available in vastly more countries than the Steam Deck? It took almost a year for the Steam deck to be available in Japan while the Switch 2 was available there day 1. Valve has artificially limited the success of the Steam deck cause they don’t need big sales report to shareholders like Nintendo.
Re: Pokémon Is Teasing Something Ahead Of Next Week's Showcase
@VoidofLight So, now your backtrack, and changing it to " after the games went global". What a joke... Just admit your wrong, you can't predict what a billion company is going to do, and move on.
Re: Pokémon Is Teasing Something Ahead Of Next Week's Showcase
@VoidofLight “ If one thing hasn’t changed at all about this series, it’s that gamefreak always aims for a game a year- and aims for that game to release in the holiday season to maximize profits. ”
Granted, both the original diamond and pearl and black and white saw Q1-Q3 released instead of Q4 outside of Japan.
Re: Here's What Donkey Kong Bananza Looked Like On Switch 1
@the_beaver So Mario Kart World was $90?
Re: Here's What Donkey Kong Bananza Looked Like On Switch 1
@Oldstalk Shhhh.... also don't tell him that Donkey Kong Bananza isn't $80
Re: Here's What Donkey Kong Bananza Looked Like On Switch 1
Yeah... Even tho I'm probably gonna pick this up day 1. This is probably gonna turn out to be a "wait for a couple of performance patches" release just like Breath of Wild. Everything is pointing to this running like dog water on release day.
Re: PSA: You Might Want To Be Careful Buying Pre-Owned Switch 1 Games For Your Switch 2
@The_Nintend_Pedant “ Steam deck owner I know is emulating thousands of games, every platform, running cracked PC software, everything he can dream up which is far more ambitious than my use case, and his steam account is just fine and they certainly havent BRICKED his console.”
You are talking about the company who literally put Yuzu in official promo images for the steam deck. They only care making about sure you aren’t cheating, committing fraud, or hurting someone. Other then that, they don’t care what you do on or with your steam deck… a Steam Deck isn’t a console, it a PC anyway, and it approached with that mentality.
Re: Miyamoto Views Games As 'Products', Not 'Works Of Art', Says Ex-Nintendo Dev
@BlackenedHalo “ cars are product.”
Woah!!!!! Hold up now!!!!
“When you play a game, you have feelings similar to those when you watch a movie or read a book. Are movies or books just products?“
If we’re going to use that logic then games, books, music, and movies are just products to me while cars are art…
You can’t use the whole feel different emotionally, attachment… bleh… bleh… bleh. Cause a lot of people view video games as just something you buy, you use and you throw away which why there is such a big used game market.
You can come in my place and rob me of all my video games, but good luck prying my car keys from my cold dead hands.
Re: Miyamoto Views Games As 'Products', Not 'Works Of Art', Says Ex-Nintendo Dev
I mean… that quote coming from a Nintendo employee isn’t that surprising. They’ve done pump out how many Mario games now? I don’t care if one is a tiny bit more shiny or a tiny bit more fancy. They just launch a new console, and what did we get? Not a new IP that for damn sure. We got a new Mario kart. Why? Cause they are trying to sell a product, they are trying make money, they aren’t trying to take home bafta, DICE, game of year, or golden joystick. Art don’t make you money, product does.
Sony makes Art. That why we have to wait 10 years for 1 game. Nintendo makes Products. That why Nintendo had released something like 119 games on the switch… This is why Nintendo has a dominant lead in the console publishing segment bring $5.9 billion in 2021.
Re: Video: Switch 2 And Steam Deck Face Off In Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmark Test
@Truegamer79 "Just one letter shy of sounding like something dirty." Like Nintendo Switch is any better in that regards XD
Re: Fantasy Life i Switch 2 Physical Release And Photo Mode Update Announced
@blaisedinsd Switch 2 games card and main console itself aren’t region, with the exception of a cheaper, Japan-only model… That can only play Japanese games.
Re: "It's Heartbreaking" - The Pokémon Company Tech VP Joins Industry In Criticising Microsoft Layoffs
@Austrian You probably shouldn’t be citing outdated information from 2013? Especially when multiple reports over the last couple years about poor working conditions have come out about Nintendo.
Maybe it all sunny shine and rainbows at Nintendo of Japan, but they still have an office in America.
And so much has come out about the working conditions that even Reggie Fils-Aimé weighed in on the Nintendo worker exploitation quoting ‘This Isn’t The Nintendo I Left’
Re: "It's Heartbreaking" - The Pokémon Company Tech VP Joins Industry In Criticising Microsoft Layoffs
@Alienfanatic " I'd rather focus on how you almost never hear about mass layoffs at Nintendo or, for that matter, Sony."
Cause when you hear about layoff from Nintendo it from the teams that no one generally cares about or... it contractors. So most people go 'Meh' and every one moves on about their day.
I would also look up how many people Sony has laid off.
Last year SIE cut 8% of their workforce. Which meant closing Studio London, and reductions in Firesprite studio. They closed Firewalk Studios, cut 17% total workforce of Bungie. This year saw lay off at Visual Arts group, PS Studios Malaysia, and Bend Studio of 30%. Which is very bad considering that Bend is located in the middle of Oregon, there isn't exactly a lot of tech work in Bend, Oregon unlike when you get laid off in Seattle or California. They also closed Neon Koi.
That just Sony lay off in SIE... That not counting Movie studio, Tech, mobile... lays offs.
Microsoft is a monolith of a company and probably employs close to 300K people full time and contractors across all teams. When they lay people off it shakes the industry. It news grabbing, it impactful, and it will affect a lot more families.
Nintendo at most probably employs like 10K, and Sony 200K across all teams. Microsoft laid of 9k people. They basically just laid off the entire staff of Nintendo... and that was only 4% of their workforce.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Tests Out Switch 2's Free Switch Game Upgrades
@GrailUK Do you know what assumptions means?
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Tests Out Switch 2's Free Switch Game Upgrades
@GrailUK “ Remember when they thought Tears of the Kingdom was running on Switch 2?”
That was a fair assumptions… We were in the peak of Switch Pro/Switch 2 rumors. Given everything we’ve had learned so far… The Switch 2 was definitely in development and the game was probably a test bed for the system.
I mean… The only reason we gotten the Switch 2 when we did was cause Nintendo was purposefully delaying it.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Tests Out Switch 2's Free Switch Game Upgrades
@Anachronism “ think they just were not intended to be seen at higher resolutions and many of them end up looking worse for it.”
I think that depends on the game and whether or not the developers had the foresight for what games would look like running on better hardware.
There are a of HD games, mainly ones that was designed to end up on PC, that truly shine with higher resolution.
I don’t think when Nintendo was developing Super Mario 3D World or Super Mario deluxe they was planning on have it run at 4k. They probably were never planning on porting it from the WiiU. They would have stayed locked to it 720p resolution for all of time.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Tests Out Switch 2's Free Switch Game Upgrades
@Cakefish Or any Nintendo review with John in it. The man loves and respects the love and care that goes into those games.
But I guess you can say that Nintendo hate from DF comes from Alex… The man seem to very dislike everything not Master Race PC 🤣
Re: Dbrand Admits Its Joy-Con Detachment Response Was "Spectacularly Terrible"
@DarkTron If anyone has ever followed dband. That definitely sounds like something dband would say…. It on par with the brand. We are talking about the company that wanted PlayStation to sue them. Lol
Re: A Nintendo Subsidiary Helped Out On The Development Of Death Stranding 2
@Samalik See… I can’t tell if this all made up or true cause there are some really messed up people and parent in this world.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
@Jeronan It neither LG or Samsung who supply the screens for the Switch 2… I think it Sharp and another company. Samsung is wanting to supply the panels when they do the OLED refresh but we’ll see.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
@Exerion76 “ The Rog Ally screen, even the cheapest model (same price as the Switch2), has all that, AND sharp motion.”
Yeah, but the cheapest model Alley launched/MSRP at a $700 price tag. That not the same thing…. Just cause you can find them now for $450 doesn’t make them same price as the Switch 2
Re: Nintendo Appears To Have Updated Donkey Kong Bananza's Switch 2 File Size
@Jprhino84 I think you're confusing image resolution with texture resolution. The actual image resolution of the game is fine. You need to go back and watch the video. Look at some of the texture on the rocks that Donkey Kong pulls from the ground.
Re: Switch 2 Has Already Overtaken The Combined Lifetime Sales Of The Entire Xbox Series Family And PS5 Pro In Japan
@Oldstalk Cause Microsoft is basically paying Altus to develop and release their games upfront for the xbox. So even if the game doesn't sell...
Re: Nintendo Appears To Have Updated Donkey Kong Bananza's Switch 2 File Size
@N00BiSH Not really... Nothing in the games screams large file size. The textures look low res, blurry, and simplistic. Models are low poly with some of the environment being pokemon levels of bad. There probably also aren't that many audio files which are compressed (RIP anyone with a HIFI system). Given that the Switch has extremely high-speed storage they are don't have to repeat textures which saves on space. Nintendo also develops only for one platform. They don't have to worry about how their game will work if they have to port to another platform.
But God damn do the game look good!
Re: Reminder: You Can Use Non-Nintendo USB Cameras With Switch 2
@BaldB3lper78 You basically just plug in a type c to hdmi capture card in the switch and use a type c to hdmi cable to the capture card.
Re: Third-Party Launch Games On Switch 2 Reportedly Sold "Very Low Numbers"
At least for me, I didn’t buy a Switch 2 to play Switch 2 games… and I’m sure plenty of other feel the same way. I only bought one Switch 2 game, and that was bravely default. I did how ever go and pick up 5 Switch 1 games I didn’t own. I have 3 more Switch 1 arriving the mail this week. The next actual Switch 2 game I’ll play will probably be Donkey Kong.
Re: Pauline's Age In Donkey Kong Bananza Has Been Revealed
My head cannon for all of this is that… With Mario Odyssey, Nintendo saw a chance to reinvent some of the characters aka Pauline and add New Donk City. They probably saw as a nice call back to the original arcade game. But!!!! With the success of the Mario movie. They saw a chance for an interconnected world and story. That why they bought the new Donky Kong design from the movie into the games. They are using this game as a chance to reboot Donkey Kong. Introduce a young Pauline who goes on to be the mayor of new Donk city. Who knows… The Mario movie may be the canon start to the Mario we see in odyssey. Diddy and Dixie is in the game cause they were also in the movie… None of the other Kong were, and that probably why don’t see them in this game
Re: Shuhei Yoshida Says Sony Doesn't Really Consider Nintendo As Competition
@Vapeguy Sony not saying anything. He doesn’t work for Sony anymore, and his last few years with Sony wasn’t in a prominent position. He was locked away in the basement somewhere…
Re: PS5 Hit 'Stellar Blade' Is Reportedly In Consideration For The Switch 2
@Zeebor15 I guess that below $15 will still allow you to buy Fromsoftware games 🤷
Re: PS5 Hit 'Stellar Blade' Is Reportedly In Consideration For The Switch 2
@Zeebor15 They only own 35% shares. The founder is the majority holder. This is not like with Techland or Klei Entertainment where they are the majority holder.
No, you are confusing close partnership (Intelligent Systems) and shareholder agreements with ownership.
Re: PS5 Hit 'Stellar Blade' Is Reportedly In Consideration For The Switch 2
@Zeebor15 ….. They’re not a division of Tencent
Re: Review: Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster (Switch 2) - A Solid Refresh For A 3DS RPG Gem
@Vyacheslav333 You literally the just described 99% of exclusives…
Re: Review: Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster (Switch 2) - A Solid Refresh For A 3DS RPG Gem
@Jeronan There is no PC version. PC has only ever received Bravely Default 2. This the highest resolution version of this game released at this point.
Re: Switch 2's HDR Looking Washed Out On Your TV? Here's The Fix
@Polvasti All of his content basically contains jokes like that… been watching him for the last 5+ years
Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Direct Revealed For Wednesday, 18th June 2025
@LikelySatan Oof. I’m looking forward to it cause I actually like Pokémon, and think it looks interesting. 😥
Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Direct Revealed For Wednesday, 18th June 2025
This game was the big reason for me grabbing a Switch 2 at launch. Massive Donkey Kong fan, my very first video game was Donkey Kong 64. Parents purchased it along with an the N64, Star Wars Ep1 Pod Racing, and another Racing game for my 4th birth in 2000. I remember my dad spending hours trying to get the N64 hooked up to the TV. Then spending hours on the phone with a Nintendo rep cause I wanted all the Plushies of the DK crew that was shown in the manual for the game.
It been far too long since we had a 3D Donkey Kong game. The announcement bought tears to my eyes which made it awkward to explain to my co-workers why I was crying in the office. XD
@Grumblevolcano TBH... I think this approach would be the best thing. There is no reason to have a direct right now. They just had a big direct in April. So a bunch of small directs, a Partner Showcase, Pokemon Presents in july, and a bunch of standalone announcements over the summer via social media makes sense. Then they do the next general Direct in September in time for the holiday planning to start.