BenAV

This non-story is just another example of people online trying to find literally anything they can to complain about. I don't think all of this doom and gloom is going to count for much come launch day and there's a shiny new Mario Kart game to play (at least for those that managed to get a preorder in before it sell out).

I know some people will be disappointed by the lack of achievements but I actually kinda prefer it that way. I just want to play a game because it's fun to play and then stop when it stops being fun to play. Obviously I could always just ignore them (as I do on Steam) but I still prefer to not have them there at all.

As for no eShop music, that's also preferred for me. A lot of the time I'm browsing the eShop while watching a video or something so it just saves me the trouble of turning down the volume.

If developers even are allowed to assign commands specifically to them, I can't see that happening often. The Joy-Con don't have back buttons so it'd make it hard to play those games in handheld mode plus most third party games are multi-platform games that need to keep other controllers in mind as well.

I do love the back buttons though as long as they're nice and easy to press. I use an Xbox Elite controller for PC with two paddles attached that I permanently keep assigned to L3 and R3 as I hate using the sticks as buttons.

@Dazman People on the Internet just love complaining more than anything else. The high-ish prices have given them an easy target but if it's not that then they'll always just find something else.

I'm very interested in trying Metroid with it. Even with the smaller Switch Joy-Con, I actually don't find it uncomfortable to hold like that.

Pretty happy with the value of the expansion pass these days. Mine family pass is actually expired at the moment because I wasn't playing my Switch anyway and most friends in my group haven't been paying but I plan to get all that sorted and renew it before Switch 2 launch.

@Johnny44 The US stream froze up completely in the middle and had audio sync issues. UK stream was fine.

It looked kinda fun based on the Treehouse but my main concern would be about just how much more there is to it than what we've seen.

@KociolekDoSyta Is it really even necessary to have every single game installed at all times though? I never bothered upgrading from a 400GB card on my Switch and instead just got into the habit of archiving games if I'm not going to be playing them any time in the near future.

I was pretty impressed by how everything looked in the Treehouse stream on my new 85" TV. I love handheld gaming, used my Switch in handheld 99% of the time and was fully prepared to do the same with Switch 2 but I might actually be tempted to use docked mode a bit more this time around if first party games are going to be looking that nice.

I'm getting very hyped for this game. It's looking like such a fun time.

Between NSO vouchers for first party games and the gold coin difference between digital and physical it was essentially already cheaper to buy digitally on the Switch if you weren't buying physical games under retail price.

It's more expensive than I'd like but going by everything I've seen from the console and games so far, I'm still easily going to get my money's worth.

Games keep getting more expensive in general but rather than skipping games that I really want because they're a little on the pricy side, I'll just try to cut back on buying games that I might never get around to playing instead. A lot of wasted money in my backlog.

If I like the mouse mode I think I'll just try to get a second dock set up on my desk and I'll mostly just play there for those games.

I'm very interested to try out the mouse controls. Love mouse for aiming but prefer stick to keyboard for movement so it's potentially the best of both worlds if it's comfortable and works well. Happy to fall back on gyro if I don't like it though.

@Ooyah Haha whoops, predictive text things. I'm less for the expensive part.

I wasn't exactly sure what I felt about it when we saw him in the original Mario Kart teaser but the DK trailer 100% sold me. He's so expressive now and I'm all for it.

Interesting that the Switch 2 versions are the same price as Mario Kart in the US. In Australia they're at the same price point as DK, which is still a lot but a little more palatable.

Games have already been creeping up in price too much for my liking in general TBH. I'm obviously not a fan but I don't think it's specifically a Nintendo problem.

I'm not interested in paying for this but I also don't think it's really worth throwing a fit over. Happy to just ignore it and get stuck into Mario Kart.

Some Australian retailers have already started putting pre-orders up so grabbed the Mario Kart bundle and Pro Controller rather than waiting for Nintendo. Nice to just get it out of the way and not worry about it as I really didn't want to miss out at launch.

I'm happy with the console and the first party games we did see but I was hoping to see a few more than that to be honest. It was very third party focused which I don't particularly care about as I can play most of those games elsewhere. Looking forward to playing Mario Kart at launch though (assuming I can get a pre-order in) and I've been wanting a new Kirby Air Ride game for like ever so that was pretty hype.

I'm not paying for a tutorial.

2025 until it's delayed at least.

That was a surprise. Looks great.

I love Kirby Air Ride so very excited to see it finally get a new entry. And also just nice to see Sakurai making something that isn't just more Smash Bros.

Interested in The Hundred Line, Fantasy Life and Rune Factory but I'll be getting all three on Steam rather than Switch. Been very slim pickings for first party games for a while now but that's going to change tomorrow.

@mariomaster96 They could potentially cram a fair bit more into that time too if they wanted with the pacing of a pre-recorded Direct generally being a bit better than a live presentation.

Around the length I was hoping to see. Should be a good number of reveals in the time. Pretty excited for it. Hopefully no attention seeking losers spoil anything in the next 24 hours.

Tomodachi Life is one 3DS game that just never appealed to me back then for whatever reason. Several years later and my tastes in games have changed a lot since then but yeah nah, still not interested in this one. Happy for those who wanted it though.

I feel like a lot of games and series start feeling very dumbed down and generic when they start focusing too much on appealing to the mainstream Western audience so this is an approach to development I can appreciate.

@Jade37 Yeah, that's been my biggest complaint as well. The alchemy is essentially the central mechanic to the whole series so it's a real shame to see it so neglected.

I bought the game on Steam at launch but I'm still only 14 or so hours in so far. Usually I'd be more or less finished an Atelier game by now but I've been struggling to get super into it. I feel like the series has started to lose its identity a bit in the pursuit of appealing to a more mainstream audience.

It seems pretty obvious that they'll give a price and release date in this Direct and then preorders will become available after that.

The AI: The Somnium Files spin-off definitely caught me by surprise. That along with Rhythm Heaven are the two I'm particularly keen for.

It was an extremely weak Direct but that's exactly what I wanted. I've been saying for a while now that I don't want to see any big new first party games on the Switch 1 anymore. Give me nothing but Switch 2 exclusives.

@IceClimbersMain I think that was always going to be the case with Nintendo putting most of their focus on the Switch 2.

This announcement was a very pleasant surprise. A bit bummed that it's not out till next year though.

As someone who already checks this site and other places for gaming news regularly, I don't see this really adding much for me. Could be a smart idea to get news out there to the more casual audience who don't typically pay much attention to gaming news though.

I was about to ditch my family account but having seconds thoughts now with the game lending thing.

The first Legends game was okay but I'm really not feeling this so far. I think the city setting really emphasises how bad the visuals look.

It probably won't top the sales of 8 Deluxe as that's setting the bar way too high but it'll almost certainly still be the Switch 2's best selling game over the course if its life.

Honestly pretty surprised about this one as I can't imagine what Direct-worthy announcements they could have up their sleeves for Switch at this point. Trust Nintendo to be anything but predictable.

Not super confident it's going to sell particularly well but I hope it does get enough support for them to continue making whatever they want to make in the future. I've been looking forward to this one and will be picking it up day one.

Been gaming a lot of PC lately but I still can't tell the difference between a game running at 60fps and a game running at 120+fps.

@Ralizah If there even are cross-gen games.

@SpaceboyScreams I wouldn't say they're similar at all really. I just didn't enjoy either game for different reasons.

I ended up giving the game a go a while back to see what all the fuss was about but I wasn't impressed. I've been as critical of recent Pokemon games as much as anyone but I don't think Palworld is really any better.

@UltimateOtaku91 I love the Atelier series but personally I disagree that it's been improving. I think the Ryza trilogy is much weaker than Arland, Dusk or Mysterious and so far I've got mixed opinions on Yumia. Sophie 2 was excellent though.

@John_Deacon Personally I'd actually be pretty disappointed if they came out and announced multiple first party games for the Switch and it'd largely detract from my excitement for Switch 2. I get that it's backwards compatible but all I want from Nintendo is as many new games as possible designed with the new system's hardware in mind.

Even back in February when there were a lot of rumours going around, I never bought into the idea that Nintendo would hold a general Direct focused on the Switch 1 at that point as I just can't see there being enough interesting games to announce to justify it, with all the big titles presumably being developed for Switch 2.

I wouldn't be so surprised if we got an Indie World even now though. Been a while since we've had one and I'm sure there's going to be a ton of indie games that continue to release on Switch long after Switch 2 launches.