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Nintendo’s “hey guys in 4 months we’ll raise the price by $100” looks so tame compared to this immediate, carpet-pull hike of $240-$300.

gulp

@Thomystic whoaaaa I had never heard of this game but am so glad you told me about it. Will be checking it out for sure!!

DK 64 is so fun on multiplayer!!

@gcunit fortune and glory indeed! I love to see these miracle ports come out on Switch 2.

And beating Xbox Series S is glorious. I had one those and enjoyed it - but that little box cranked out some serious fan noise and heated up like crazy. I love that that level of graphics tech (and more) now fits gently in my hands - with a gorgeous eight inch screen - on the switch 2

@gcunit fortune and glory indeed! I love to see these miracle ports come out on Switch 2.

And beating Xbox Series S is glorious. I had one those and enjoyed it - but that little box cranked out some serious fan noise and heats up like crazy. I love that that level of graphics tech (and more) now fits gently in my hands - plus a gorgeous eight inch screen - on the switch 2

@Misima nailed it right there. A multiplayer Star Fox with steezy Arwing move combinations and a few subtle (but not overpowered) character-based special weapons/move upgrades would be soooooo awesome and would likely sell like crazy.

Follow the EA battlefront series example and they wouldn’t even need a single player mode until the second one 😅

WOW! What a wondrous and dynamic piece. Such brilliant music only raises my expectations for the game it will be accompanying…

🙏🏼🙏🏼

That video does a lot to make me excited + nostalgic, it’s a gorgeous remake and the OG was one of my favorites.

Random Notes:
(1) the added option of gunner and pilot looks fun.
(2) Fox looks a little off but Falco looks fantastic
(3) I hope this very safe move by Nintendo preps their game design team to make a future, BOTW-level Star Fox game - they need to revisit what made this game great, refine the character models a bit more, and figure out a bold new step that gamers will love. New Star Fox by 2028/2029? I hope so

As probably the lone game key card indifferent Switch 2 user on this site (👻) I will be sad to have to decide between a resellable (which is a big plus) version with 50-100% slower load times of an already massive game and a non-resellable e-store version that will make the most of that 2,100 MB/sec data transfer rate for internal files.

I said it: for a game this massive and platform-stretching, I would have preferred a game key card 👽

Given the quality of the Switch 2 version of Pragmata vis a vis the Xbox series S version I’m really surprised they’re asking for more time on this…c’mon guys just cap the fps at 30 or 40 and leverage that DLSS to the hilt. You’ve got a whole month till May 27 - get a move on will ya?

@Misima I 100% hear you. Cinematic frame rates FEEL better than 60fps+, which is a level above which everything looks like a cheap daytime drama. I also hate motion smoothing mode on 4k tvs, it looks terrible and weird. While I can see why gamers who are tracking fast moving objects want that 120 fps experience, when I'm playing a game that is cinematic and beautiful like BoTW or ToTK, I never feel any improvement over 60fps, and 30fps suits me just fine

Love to see graphics on Series S looking distinctly worse than Switch 2. They'll probably listen and add an optional fps cap for docked mode (hopefully 40fps) and handheld (30fps). Personally, I don't mind fps variance when I can get above 35fps most of the time, I'd prefer that over a cap. Altogether, pretty happy with the results!

Jedi survivor would be great! And Indiana Jones!

Just wait a few months and they’ll realize they need most of the QA staff back…

…to debug their AI

Yeah, definitely better to just wait for the Switch 2 version. I don’t know why they didn’t release them both right away!

Honestly, NintendoLife has such an amazing staff. I can’t be the only one who enjoys logging on here to see what our “friends” (literally all of you, including Zion) have been posting since I last looked. This team makes being a Nintendo fan an even bigger bundle of joy..

@Wewewi that makes sense. But what about the Switch 2’s own screen used in handheld - does it support up to 120hz? If so then it could be a hand-held only setting.

Goodness, if 60fps was in the ballpark, why drop ALL the way down to 30fps??

I agree with @Max_the_German, 40fps looks much much better than 30fps and it should be the Switch 2 standard for all but the most intensive games. I'm pretty confident the boost from 30fps (pretty much the standard on Switch 1) would satisfy most people.

Goodness me, I can hardly express how exciting it would be to play 1080 Avalanche, Sonic Adventure 2, Rogue Squadron II, and Double Dash again.

So. Much. Nostalgia. I couldn’t get enough of those games as a teenager.

A more fully fledged version of Sonic Frontiers would be nice - with the pop-in problem fixed along the way

Honestly looks pretty intriguing to me. It’s channeling that Dinosaur-crazed little kid in me who grew up playing Dino-Park Tycoon on school computers in the 90’s.

From the trailer it actually looks quite fun! Especially the mix of sailing up top and diving for treasure down below.

I actually think our dear friend here severely underrates the likelihood of a Super Switch. SNS isn't a bad acronym at all and "Super" is a strong way to differentiate the new console without being confusing like Wii U was. And I'd be willing to bet people would just call it the Super Switch (SS), and leave it at that. Can't wait for the announcement of the real thing, though!!

My guess is the Switch 2 will be more or less the power of the ROQ Ally, though probably a little lower-powered (say 85% the graphical power) to save on battery life (since the Ally only lasts an hour on graphics-heavy titles), and also lighter than the Ally (my guess is 450 grams). That puts it at better than the PS4, and due to faster memory and other cache and instructions-per-second improvements, will be as fast as the PS4 Pro without the brute force of that machine (similar to how the XBOX Series S is faster in practice than the Xbox One X, despite lower graphical power on paper). So you're looking at a GTX 1060 (Max-Q) in your hands, running at 1080p on a crisp OLED display (I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo just kept the Switch OLED's screen).

I also guess that the Switch 2 will do something / have a functional capability that nobody saw coming, and that will make it the talk of the town, because Nintendo is always throwing new ideas into the mix. And it won't be called Switch. Nintendo won't re-run Wii and Wii U.

The idea of a water environment-focused pokemon game a solid one clap clap

It's a beauty!! I always loved the gamecube controllers more. And the fact that they can act as joy-cons...so nice

@themightyant to the SEC, just like companies that pay bribery fines for violating the FCPA (Foreign Corruption Practices Act). This link shows how they put the proceeds of those fines in one of three places: https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/12/where-does-money-collected-from-corporate-fines-go/#:~:text=Over%20at%20the%20SEC%2C%20a,used%20to%20repay%20harmed%20investors.

Just going to drop in the link to the 8/10 review on the PushSquare sister site of NL.... https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/sonic-frontiers

@Mach_Rider truly! I mean, just look at these reviews (which are clearly real folks, not bots)

"KaiDaiSai - Nov 9, 2022
This game reminded me of why I love Sonic. While it’s not perfect with issues like pop-in and cyberspace controls, it manages to tell a really cool story with the open world and Super Sonic boss battles being some of the big highlights… Sonic is finally back"

Higoshi88 - Nov 9, 2022
"This is my first ever review of a video game on a website....Overall this is a step in the right direction and I would be lying to say Sonic in an open space isn't fun, It's EXTREMELY fun! Though not a perfect game, this formula with some revisions and add-ons could create an even better game!"

sonicpal - Nov 9, 2022
"I haven't had so much fun with a sonic game till now. They've got a winning formula and building upon it will bring sonic back to the top."

NL staff should really ask themselves why their review was so out of step...

I have to note the huuuuuuge contrast between this review's conclusion and the hordes of player reviews on Metacritic praising this game to death (average score: 9.0). Don't you think a second opinion is in order?

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/sonic-frontiers/user-reviews?page=1

I'm honestly just so impressed that Hello Games jerry-rigged a version of their MASSIVE and GRAPHICALLY INTENSIVE space explorer game onto the tiny Switch hardware. If it feels like it's been jerry-rigged, I'm totally okay with that! The NL review shows that the fun of the game isn't compromised, and the skittish graphics on the margins just shows how little they matter to the actual enjoyability of the gameplay!

Wowowow, Honest Trailers guy has some time on his hands!

@PessitheMystic right you are! A bunch of the complaints in the review were addressed before I started playing. Thanks for the link!

Nine Parchments! The game is such a chill experience in a group — I've stayed up till 3 am on multiple occasions playing its simple yet enjoyable game cycle. The unique combination of magical powers and upgrade possibilities make every group a new experience, which is lovely. And the voice acting is hilarious. Harry Potter-lite plus tons of monsters to blast with your magic--who could ask for more? https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/nine-parchments-switch/

Ah, I believe you mean "hard **not to argue..." (conclusion, first sentence)

@westman98 cheeeeers bro, a much better perspective than the press release gives. Clearly, the Switch is still at the top of its game.

As a big fan of hand-held mode, this looks BEAUTIFUL

This. Was incredible. The dedication, the obstacles overcome, and the epic demise. And beautifully well-timed humor in the telling. Thanks for sharing, Kate

It's seriously beautiful though. And his facial expressions.

Look like it could be fun, if it gets its gameplay mechanics right. The animation and voice acting looks good.

Have to say, the fact that the karts sport this much brilliant small-scale tech ups my interest in this unexpectedly hands-on new Mario Kart...

The concept and visuals look really intriguing. I hope they include the ability to design your own pirate captain + creature companion. Long John Silver just wouldn’t be the same without Captain Flint squawking on his shoulder. Or Barbossa and his monkey.