@LastFootnote I think ultimately you’re right - consumer demands can sway supposed inevitabilities. But let’s be polite - we can disagree about what is inevitable without tossing unfounded allegations around.
I will press for physical game releases (ie protecting the concept of property in the digital age, remembering that property is one of the fundamental rights that a government must protect per John Locke and the US founding fathers to prevent tyranny) till the day I die.
@Discostew I think we’re talking past each other a bit. I didn't say Switch 2 has a fixed GPU block or separate VRAM. Both Steam Deck and Switch 2 use unified/shared memory. So this statement, “Every RAM location is available to the CPU and GPU. That is not the case with PCs, including the Steam Deck,” is factually incorrect. Valve’s own docs describe Steam Deck as having 16 GB of unified memory, with the GPU able to access up to 8 GB depending on workload. Steam Deck is not like a desktop PC with separate system RAM and discrete GPU VRAM.
Being a console gives Switch 2 optimization advantages, absolutely. But my point is about practical memory budget and streaming pressure. Switch 2 has a 12 GB unified pool versus Steam Deck’s 16 GB. OS differences and optimization matter, but developers still have to budget memory across graphics, game logic, and streaming/cache needs. Unified memory doesn’t mean unlimited memory.
And that’s where the game-card bus speed question matters. If an asset is already resident in RAM, great. If it isn’t, storage transfer speed determines how fast it can arrive. That’s the narrow point I’m making about physical cards vs internal storage.
On Outlaws, yes, the comment came from Snowdrop’s audio architect, but the statement was specifically about open-world disk streaming, not audio. So I wouldn’t treat it as definitive proof for every game, but it is at least real developer-side evidence that card bandwidth can matter for this kind of port.
@Discostew I agree Switch 2 optimization and hardware decompression matter, but I’m making a narrower point about the physical game-card bus. Capacity isn’t the same as streamability. Star Wars Outlaws is a good example: a Snowdrop dev said the Switch 2 game cards weren’t fast enough for the open-world disk streaming target, so they used a Game-Key Card to require an install to faster internal storage. Again, the NS2 reads 2.1 GB/s internal, ~800 MB/s via microSD Express, and ~400 MB/s via game cartridge.
Also, your claims about the Steam Deck's memory vs Switch 2 memory is inaccurate. Steam Deck does use unified/shared LPDDR5 memory. Just like on the Switch 2, the OS/driver can reserve/allocate part of that pool for the GPU, but physically on both devices it is still one shared memory pool. And the Switch 2 has 12GB, the Steam Deck has 16GB, so yes, that's consistently going to be less for the Switch 2 in practice.
@Discostew remember that while the Steam Deck (which has been said, hardly runs the game) has definitely slower microSD load times, it also has a larger unified memory pool (16 GB vs. the Switch 2's 12 GB), so games can generally keep more textures and assets loaded in memory instead of constantly reloading them. That's the key bottleneck on a massive open world game like Crimson Desert (which would be so amazing to play on the Switch 2)
The Switch 2 likely has only around 5–6 GB available for graphics after system allocations, so it'll be constantly removing and reloading assets. So that's where fast storage is essential. A Switch 2 game that's swapping 2 GB of assets every few seconds can do it in 1 second from internal memory or 5 seconds if it's pulling from the physical cartridge. That will certainly affect performance. The Steam Deck may only be swapping a few hundred megabytes because it can cache much more.
To be sure, in this market I don’t expect a Switch 2 Pro with more RAM since it would cost $800+. But a quiet Switch 2 V2 with improved cartridge read bandwidth seems plausible, like the original Switch battery-life revision. It would be huge for physical games which I totally support.
I think we have to be realistic. It won't fit onto a game card. If they manage to get it to work, it'll be a digital only release or game key and run well enough at 30fps. If it's making the PS5/Xbox series x huff and puff then they'll need everything the Switch 2 can give it (including the internal memory speed of 2.1GB/s vs 400 MB/s for a game card)
@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 😅
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!
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.
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.
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.
@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?
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!
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/
This. Was incredible. The dedication, the obstacles overcome, and the epic demise. And beautifully well-timed humor in the telling. Thanks for sharing, Kate
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Re: Switch 2 Surpasses 23 Million Units As Nintendo Claims Sales Remain "Solid"
Switch 2 will outsell Xbox Series S/X before the end of it's second year...
Re: Opinion: Nintendo Gains A Rep Boost As Sony & Microsoft Lay Waste To The Industry
@LastFootnote I think ultimately you’re right - consumer demands can sway supposed inevitabilities. But let’s be polite - we can disagree about what is inevitable without tossing unfounded allegations around.
I will press for physical game releases (ie protecting the concept of property in the digital age, remembering that property is one of the fundamental rights that a government must protect per John Locke and the US founding fathers to prevent tyranny) till the day I die.
Re: Konami Confirms Its New Castlevania Game Will Launch This October On Switch
Simultaneous releases on all major game systems including Switch 2…
You love to see it
Re: Jurassic World Evolution 2: Complete Edition Revealed For Switch 2, Launches End Of July
If Steam is any guide, we’ll all be waiting for the inevitable eShop sale when the price will drop to $14.99
Re: Crimson Desert Dev Working On Getting Switch 2 Version Up And Running
@Discostew I think we’re talking past each other a bit. I didn't say Switch 2 has a fixed GPU block or separate VRAM. Both Steam Deck and Switch 2 use unified/shared memory. So this statement, “Every RAM location is available to the CPU and GPU. That is not the case with PCs, including the Steam Deck,” is factually incorrect. Valve’s own docs describe Steam Deck as having 16 GB of unified memory, with the GPU able to access up to 8 GB depending on workload. Steam Deck is not like a desktop PC with separate system RAM and discrete GPU VRAM.
Being a console gives Switch 2 optimization advantages, absolutely. But my point is about practical memory budget and streaming pressure. Switch 2 has a 12 GB unified pool versus Steam Deck’s 16 GB. OS differences and optimization matter, but developers still have to budget memory across graphics, game logic, and streaming/cache needs. Unified memory doesn’t mean unlimited memory.
And that’s where the game-card bus speed question matters. If an asset is already resident in RAM, great. If it isn’t, storage transfer speed determines how fast it can arrive. That’s the narrow point I’m making about physical cards vs internal storage.
On Outlaws, yes, the comment came from Snowdrop’s audio architect, but the statement was specifically about open-world disk streaming, not audio. So I wouldn’t treat it as definitive proof for every game, but it is at least real developer-side evidence that card bandwidth can matter for this kind of port.
Re: Crimson Desert Dev Working On Getting Switch 2 Version Up And Running
@Discostew I agree Switch 2 optimization and hardware decompression matter, but I’m making a narrower point about the physical game-card bus. Capacity isn’t the same as streamability. Star Wars Outlaws is a good example: a Snowdrop dev said the Switch 2 game cards weren’t fast enough for the open-world disk streaming target, so they used a Game-Key Card to require an install to faster internal storage. Again, the NS2 reads 2.1 GB/s internal, ~800 MB/s via microSD Express, and ~400 MB/s via game cartridge.
Also, your claims about the Steam Deck's memory vs Switch 2 memory is inaccurate. Steam Deck does use unified/shared LPDDR5 memory. Just like on the Switch 2, the OS/driver can reserve/allocate part of that pool for the GPU, but physically on both devices it is still one shared memory pool. And the Switch 2 has 12GB, the Steam Deck has 16GB, so yes, that's consistently going to be less for the Switch 2 in practice.
Re: The Crew Motorfest Arriving On Switch 2 This October
Typo: The original game came out in 2023. The NS2 version will come out October 8th **2026
Re: Crimson Desert Dev Working On Getting Switch 2 Version Up And Running
@Discostew remember that while the Steam Deck (which has been said, hardly runs the game) has definitely slower microSD load times, it also has a larger unified memory pool (16 GB vs. the Switch 2's 12 GB), so games can generally keep more textures and assets loaded in memory instead of constantly reloading them. That's the key bottleneck on a massive open world game like Crimson Desert (which would be so amazing to play on the Switch 2)
The Switch 2 likely has only around 5–6 GB available for graphics after system allocations, so it'll be constantly removing and reloading assets. So that's where fast storage is essential. A Switch 2 game that's swapping 2 GB of assets every few seconds can do it in 1 second from internal memory or 5 seconds if it's pulling from the physical cartridge. That will certainly affect performance. The Steam Deck may only be swapping a few hundred megabytes because it can cache much more.
To be sure, in this market I don’t expect a Switch 2 Pro with more RAM since it would cost $800+. But a quiet Switch 2 V2 with improved cartridge read bandwidth seems plausible, like the original Switch battery-life revision. It would be huge for physical games which I totally support.
Re: Crimson Desert Dev Working On Getting Switch 2 Version Up And Running
I think we have to be realistic. It won't fit onto a game card. If they manage to get it to work, it'll be a digital only release or game key and run well enough at 30fps. If it's making the PS5/Xbox series x huff and puff then they'll need everything the Switch 2 can give it (including the internal memory speed of 2.1GB/s vs 400 MB/s for a game card)
Re: Valve Follows Switch 2, PS5 & Xbox With Major Steam Deck Price Hike
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
Re: Opinion: Replaying Star Fox 64 Convinced Me A Switch 2 Remake Is A Good Idea
@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!!
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's N64 Library With Another Game Next Week
DK 64 is so fun on multiplayer!!
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Verdict For Indiana Jones On 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 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
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Verdict For Indiana Jones On 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
Re: Opinion: Replaying Star Fox 64 Convinced Me A Switch 2 Remake Is A Good Idea
@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 😅
Re: Pokémon Winds & Waves' Main Theme Sounds Absolutely Gorgeous
WOW! What a wondrous and dynamic piece. Such brilliant music only raises my expectations for the game it will be accompanying…
🙏🏼🙏🏼
Re: Video: Here's How Star Fox On Switch 2 Compares To The N64 Original
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
Re: ICYMI: Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Estimated Switch 2 File Size Revealed
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 👽
Re: Video: 007 First Light's New Trailer Highlights Q Branch, Tactical Simulation Mode, Outfits And More
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?
Re: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Review Of Pragmata On Switch 2
@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
Re: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Review Of Pragmata On Switch 2
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!
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Direct February Partner Predictions - What Do You Want To See?
Jedi survivor would be great! And Indiana Jones!
Re: Square Enix Hit By Mass Layoffs As Part Of Global Restructuring
Just wait a few months and they’ll realize they need most of the QA staff back…
…to debug their AI
Re: Review: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Switch) - Cracking Karting, But Struggles To Keep Up On Switch
Yeah, definitely better to just wait for the Switch 2 version. I don’t know why they didn’t release them both right away!
Re: Video: After Six Wonderful Years, Zion Is Leaving Nintendo Life
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..
Re: Dynasty Warriors: Origins Will Run At A "Fixed" 30fps On Switch 2
@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.
Re: Dynasty Warriors: Origins Will Run At A "Fixed" 30fps On Switch 2
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.
Re: Feature: 27 GameCube Games We'd Love To See On Nintendo Switch 2 NSO
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.
Re: Talking Point: Which Switch Game Needs A 'Nintendo Switch 2 Edition' The Most?
A more fully fledged version of Sonic Frontiers would be nice - with the pop-in problem fixed along the way
Re: Animal Crossing Meets Dinosaurs In 'Amber Isle', Hatching On Switch This October
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.
Re: Minecraft Meets Sea Of Thieves In Swashbuckling Crafting Game 'Ylands'
From the trailer it actually looks quite fun! Especially the mix of sailing up top and diving for treasure down below.
Re: Talking Point: What Will The 'Switch 2' Actually Be Called?
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!!
Re: Nintendo Reportedly Briefed Activision On 'Switch 2' Back In 2022
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.
Re: Soapbox: All Fish Pokémon Are Bad, And There's A Good Reason Why
The idea of a water environment-focused pokemon game a solid one clap clap
Re: NYXI Reveals A GameCube-Inspired Switch Controller With No Drifting
It's a beauty!! I always loved the gamecube controllers more. And the fact that they can act as joy-cons...so nice
Re: Epic Games To Pay $540 Million Over Allegations Of Privacy Violations And Unwanted Charges
@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.
Re: Review: Sonic Frontiers - A Bold But Ultimately Failed Attempt At Something New
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
Re: Review: Sonic Frontiers - A Bold But Ultimately Failed Attempt At Something New
@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...
Re: Review: Sonic Frontiers - A Bold But Ultimately Failed Attempt At Something New
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
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of No Man's Sky On Switch
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!
Re: Random: Chris Pratt Is Mario In This Unreal Engine Super Mario Bros. Remake
Wowowow, Honest Trailers guy has some time on his hands!
Re: Community: Found A Great Switch Game We Didn't Review? We Want To Know
@PessitheMystic right you are! A bunch of the complaints in the review were addressed before I started playing. Thanks for the link!
Re: Community: Found A Great Switch Game We Didn't Review? We Want To Know
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/
Re: Review: Mario Party Superstars - A Party Most Hearty
Ah, I believe you mean "hard **not to argue..." (conclusion, first sentence)
Re: Switch Console Sales Hit 89 Million, Has Now Outsold PS3 And Xbox 360
@westman98 cheeeeers bro, a much better perspective than the press release gives. Clearly, the Switch is still at the top of its game.
Re: Gallery: Here's Another Look At Nintendo's Switch OLED Model "In The Wild"
As a big fan of hand-held mode, this looks BEAUTIFUL
Re: Hands On: We Created A GameCube Pad In Minecraft-Style Farm Sim 'Staxel'
This. Was incredible. The dedication, the obstacles overcome, and the epic demise. And beautifully well-timed humor in the telling. Thanks for sharing, Kate
Re: Random: Smooth McGroove Returns After Long Hiatus With An Acapella New Super Mario Bros. Cover
It's seriously beautiful though. And his facial expressions.
Re: Netflix's The Last Kids On Earth Is Getting A Family-Friendly Zombie Game On Switch
Look like it could be fun, if it gets its gameplay mechanics right. The animation and voice acting looks good.
Re: Velan Reveals An Early Prototype Of Its Mario Kart RC
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...