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Well, I'll still be using Toad no matter how many characters are added lol

Amazon usually listed games fro Switch 1 a little cheaper in the UK, so hopefully we'll see them bring it down to £60-65 for Mario Kart.

Well the difference isn't night and day. MK8 still looks very very good. Wish they'd use the same track for comparison, if indeed there are tracks from MK8 in this. Also wish they'd put the old on the left, new on the right in these comparisons. Because that just makes more sense imo.

@chardir yet. Once the free online access trial ends in March I suspect we'll see an increase announced.

There's the confirmation that the game boxes are massive. Why have they made them bigger and not smaller? Didn't need to change them at all, but if they wanted to differentiate them from Switch 1 on store shelves, shorter, more square, would've been better. Not wider, and if the leak was accurate a few months back, taller as well. Dumb.

So it should. We should also get Welcome Tour as part of the subscription too. They'll probably announce that after backlash. I can see there being a price rise next year after the free online access ends though, sadly.

Square is still gonna put a 3DS remaster, Bravely Default, on a key-card

Digital Foundry full of praise for once, what a time

Make America Wait Again

It's an outrageous jump in price from last gen. They made all the justifications possible for just slapping an extra tenner on the price of TOTK. This is mental. It's 90 Euros in mainland Europe. I remember the days when GBA games were £30 max and GameCube £40. Some GBA games were even £20...hell some Switch games were only £30.

This is a worrying trend, because you know all big franchise games like Mario and Zelda will cost the same. Worried to see how much the upgraded patches cost. Couple this with the fact they're charging for Welcome Tour, and the Joy-Con Grip that comes with the console doesn't include the extra buttons underneath, and images show a version WITH those buttons so it's another thing you need to pay for...it's frankly disgusting given the current state of the cost of living.

@NeonPizza yeah, I'm reaaaaally not a techie, mate. This is all lost on me. I just play games, to be perfectly honest.

@anoyonmus wow, this is a sister site to NL? It sounds like it's written by a Twitter account, really informal moping there. Do all their articles read like they were written by a petulant teenager?

This is the biggest surprise for me. Expected we'd get a port in like 10 years the same way we're getting ports of PS3 games now. Excited to get to play it not long after it's "new" since I don't own anything other than a Switch. Hope the last part comes out on Switch 2 at the same time.

It really could've been better. Few first party games announced, left out some of the finer details about the console and conveniently left out the key detail of the console price and the outrageous cost of physical games, and no word on the paid upgrade versions. Also, I'm 99% sure we're in for a bump up in NSO subscription price, which they also conveniently didn't mention (if it happens)

@Kloppo yes, this was already announced in the teaser.

There's still so much they didn't show us like what the UI looks like, whether or not sharing photos from your console to post online is easier than the convoluted system we have now, showing us the new look Joy-Con cradle. No other colour alternatives is disappointing too.

Also, Mario Kart physical being £75. 75 British Pound Sterling, what the hell is that about Nintendo???

This being paid is just really really bizarre. It's a glorified information pack and demo. The same way they should've included 1-2 Switch as a built in game. Imagine Wii Sports wasn't free with the system, would it have been anywhere near as widely played and popular? Not at all. This should at the very very least be free to NSO subscribers. Shocking.

Knock-out racing. They'll do anything but give us a new F-Zero

People will moan so much about no OLED. Honestly I never upgraded my old one, never had an OLED TV, so I won't miss it.

They'll do anything to avoid giving us that WW/TP HD port...

Really thought this was gonna be Mario Odyssey 2 so slightly disappointed but still looks cool

Literally the day of the Direct when we know the pricing and release date. It’s not really a surprise is it?

I think it’s obvious they’re announcing this now because they intend to unveil a Switch 2 model that is digital only along side one that excepts cartridges. So they can offer a cheaper model, for one. I don’t believe the fear mongers saying this means the card slot will except Switch 1 only and there won’t be physical Switch 2 games.

No reveals, it'll just be saying farewell to the console. An obituary. A Swituary.

Really don't know what they could possibly show off that will release in the few months before Switch 2. Surely Metroid Prime 4 will be a cross-gen release so holding it for the Switch 2 Direct would make more sense?

No idea why they'd split first party and third party release windows...surely a good mixture of both is better for gamers. Roll on next week when all these rumours are done once and for all.

If anything it'll just be a farewell tribute or something like that...

Sometimes when no one asks for something, don't bother surprising them

From now on I'm going to say "I'm going in for a quickie" whenever I start a fight with a weak monster

@Patendo British here, Bristolian in fact. So we don't pronounce words like a lot of the country. Never ever heard anyone say Chasm with the H left in. Also annoyed me he kept skipping over certain parts of words "grudo" instead of Gerudo, and "Tears o'Kingdom" instead of Tears of the Kingdom...

Really really cool, just a shame they're just big cubes and not more bespoke to match the design of the consoles. They aren't really practical to use on your every day keys if you carry them in your pocket. I'd pick Gamecube, then GBA if I could.

I think it's fairly obvious at this point we haven't seen much more of it because it's going to be the big launch title for Switch 2, with a dual release on Switch 1 too. It would be a missed opportunity to release it just on Switch 1 when it's about to be an obsolete console, and they's only end up giving it a Switch 2 release 6 months later anyway. I'll even go as far to say it will be the very first thing they open the Nintendo Direct with.

It's about time the battle system was overhauled entirely, but they won't touch it because the competitive scene relies on the tried and tested format. Which other RPG series has so rigidly kept to the same battle system with each entry? Probably only Dragon Quest.

I mean did anyone actually play or want to play it...?

(I know that's not the point but)

Hopefully the full remastered soundtrack is released on CD quickly. It took until the trilogy boxset to get the remastered XC1 soundtrack on CD

Why is the rest obscured?

I mean, does anyone abide by the age rating for real? It's an online purchase after all lol

They're bound to have something new lined up, the timing of this is very telling. But I'm sure it'll be exclusive to NSO subscribers, to give you more incentive to sign up.

Ngl that artwork looks like a straight rip off lmao

This sort of shovelware plagued the Wii shop. I can't believe they didn't up their standards for what they allow on the Switch store but I guess money is money

That's a disgrace. They sell boxed games bigger than that and don't slap on an oversized charge. They may as well just bump up the price on the store front, at least they'd be up front about ripping customers off to make extra profit.

It's about time! Now we just need the 2nd one

We're looking at less than £350 imo

Yeah this is why working within the gaming industry might sound like a dream job, but when you can't enjoy it as a hobby because it's your job it really doesn't sound appealing to me.

Damn, your MUM was playing Secret of Mana? My mum wouldn't even know what a SNES is.

That is absolutely horrible timing for anyone outside Japan/Oceania. I suppose it's not so bad on the west coast of US where you can wake up early. Ugh why can't they do this on a weekend? Looks like I'll probably be taking time off work to watch...

Rated A for Awesome

That's just odd. They should either be the same size, or cut in half to be square. That's the perfect size for the case, like CD case size and thickness. Going bigger is strange. Hopefully this is wrong.

@MrCarlos46 unless the tickets are only accessible through the webpage and you have to be logged into the account to have it on your phone, having them linked to certain accounts will be pointless. If they just send you an email near the date with a code to scan, anyone can use it. They can't prove it's not linked to your account.

@GrailUK why would he? He's going to be invited to an exclusive behind closed doors hands on event probably held the day after they air the Direct. And then his own console weeks before launch to try out. All of the games media industry have no need to attend these events, they'll have their own. And yes, he was selfish in applying for one, knowing full well he'll get invited out to Tokyo to see it anyway.