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@Stormcloudlive I bought my Switch 2 mostly for the reason of playing my huge backlog of Switch 1 games. Honestly there's a lot about the Switch 2 I don't like, but it's a perfect "Switch Pro"...

Monster Hunter Stories 2 is actually worth the effort of playing it now. On switch 2 I'm pretty smooth

Has this gone on sale yet? Waiting for a sale of $20, and I'm all in.

Finally got into text adventures on the switch within the last month, so this might be coming at the right time.

@JohnnyMind Same here, says it shipped from overseas like 4 or 5 days ago, so it might be pretty close. I picked it up when it was $50, but it looks like the next day they raised it to $60, so even with that I got a decent deal.

VF is one of the best fighting games out there, vastly underrated.

"It makes you use motion controls", I mostly played it with a controller. I tried the motion controls and they were pretty cool, just not my thing.

Honestly, I'm not trying to be a grammar cop. For the last couple of years I've noted that so many of the articles here are just plain poor quality in their editing. This one for example:
"In other Street Fighter 6 news, the for this game are now on sale. ". I know it's a very small thing, but isn't that what copy editors are for?

@FormerGameAddict
100% this. My Switch 2 will be used for:
1. making my current switch 1 library better
2. the few franchises I have to have... ie. FE, MH, Xenoblade
3. anything else that's really cheap but really good

It seems the switch 1 will be my last generation of mass collecting based on what I've seen of the switch 2 so far.

@speed_loafer Yes, I'm one of them. I love DK, I don't think this game looks very good. It looks like a lot of flying particles and cheap throw away levels made to just smash smash smash and then smash some more.... Just watching someone else play it, I got tired of seeing the 6,oooth piece of gold being picked up. Honestly, I was really looking forward to it, but after seeing it I was less than impressed. Ahh well, I'm sure it has its audience.

Way back when, I used to buy Sony consoles and then Sony came up with the wonderful idea of charging a ***** ton for the console and saying consumers would pay the price no matter what it was because it was a playstation. They'd mow lawns, or get a second job if needed... Yeah, the PS2 was exactly the last Sony console I've paid for since.

@Pirate1 Company of Heroes needs mouse support.

@SillyG If this happened I would be beyond ecstatic, but I don't think it will. I have the 3 main Taito and the 6 NEOGEO (2 on order) as well as probably 20 other old timey compilations. It's mostly all I care to collect anymore.

@killercereal I guess so, but I find that those people are a decent representation of the overall attitude that people either have now or will once it sinks in or the experience it first hand. Personally I know a total of 4 people including myself who intended or were looking forward to the Switch 2's release. Of those 4 people, I'm the only one still intending to buy one at release.

@Duncanballs I hear you, I've gone past that point myself. I think it's because after so long people were hoping Nintendo really wowed them. With all the missteps and changes I think they done a lot of damage toward the good will they built up in the Switch 1's lifetime. To me it's just what it is, but I also have to be honest and say that I'm far from impressed with what they have done.

@Duncanballs In my opinion, that's not really fair to say because it's the whole point that we should be a generation past the Switch 1. It's like saying if this was an Atari 2600 list people would be losing their minds with excitement. Yes, I suppose they would.

I love DK, but the more I see the game I can't help but see a lot of ugly cheap looking levels with particles flying everywhere to cover that fact up. Maybe it's just me, but once you really note that most of the game is just stuff flying at you or explosions of particles, it just becomes much less appealing.

Looking at this list, I'm much less excited than I was. I'm getting a Switch 2 basically for whatever it can do to make my switch 1 games feel like they finally got the switch pro. I'm sure over the course of the 2's lifetime there will be a handful of games, but I'm pretty sure the Switch 1 is the end of my game collections.

@obijuankanoobie Exactly what I was thinking. I was more excited before I saw the list because I assumed I probably missed some good stuff. Looking at that list gave me a bid yawn, as the best stuff that I'm looking forward to looks to be Switch 1 hang overs.

Loved the first one, just deciding on whether to picks up the import or wait out a US physical release.

@NintonicGamer I think there are a lot of people who are not willing to pay $80 for the new Mario Kart.

@axelhander what if I wore my akajo windbreaker to the ceremony?

@axelhander I don't understand the reference here? I know what an ACA Joe Windbreaker is but I don't know how that ties to NEOGEO?

I guess I'm in the vast minority here, but I love these collections. While I own I think 8 systems for NEOGEO games, and about 20 digital on Switch. I still want this collection as a whole as it's NEOGEO/Switch which is the perfect modern day combination to me. Already have the first 4 and will be buying them until they stop putting them out.

After collecting roughly 400 switch games, I'm going into the next generation with these rules:
1. Only buy physical: if it's $60 or under, or a top tier game I plan to get at least 40 to 50 hours out of.
2. Only buy Key Card if it's one of a handful of games, and it's only available on key card, and it's $60 or under
3. Limit physical/KC game purchases to 20 or less games for the switch 2 generation.
4. Digital games if they are $20 or less. Prefer $10 or less as I did in the switch 1 generation.

Honestly, this is the criteria I'm going to try and hold myself to so that I can enjoy the next gen while not rewarding Nintendo too much for their greed.

Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm more offended or amused that any company thinks this is a good idea or even just ok. Can't wait to get my switch 2, to play my switch 1 games.

If I have to pay for and provide the storage can you at least reduce the price on the games. Seems like devs are getting the best of both worlds on this deal.

@Kwyjibo_Kitsune I'm not talking about the software lock, I'm referring to the second paragraph and running at set frame rate by brute force as well as high end of dynamic resolution as you mentioned. I've followed along pretty well and almost no one discusses this, and the truth is that the switch has a lot of games that would benefit from this immensely.

The number one thing I want to know about the switch 2, is it going to make my library of roughly 400 Switch games play any better? I'm not paying more than $70 for any game unless it's on my very small list of must haves, so I mostly just want the Switch 2 if it will smooth out framerates for my existing game collection.

At one time my interest was as high as you could go, and I planned to buy two at launch with no questions asked. Now I'm actually considering not buying one at all and having the switch be possibly my last Nintendo console. Nintendo is gonna Nintendo, as time goes by it seems like they just might be doing it without me. Honestly, this has been a colossal failure of a launch so far.

@LikelySatan Looks like it would be a blast.

Not sure the comparison does much good without all the screens on. Beyond that what's the purpose of comparing to something like a clam shell GBA?

Being someone I would consider on the higher end of collectors, roughly 400 games and seven switches. Yes the magic has seemed to fade due to recent events. I’m pretty sure that at this point all that has happened has made me decide that while I’m still most likely to buy a switch two, I’m no longer going to be a collector this generation and will instead use the switch two for whatever non paid enhancements it will give to my current library plus the occasional game. Number one, I’m a physical collector because it’s my hobby to collect, and if Nintendo is going to distance themselves away from true physical collections that’s not good for me. number two it does seem that greed is sneaking in even more for Nintendo and this seems like as good time to start weening myself off the collectors mentality. Nintendos going to do what they feel is right for them, and I of course will do the same for me. I waited for years as has a lot of people to finally get the next switch, it’s kinda sad that it went down like it has.

@GOmar not familiar with that controller, but comparing it to the Nintendo pro controller it’s it's roughly the same size but a little lighter. My wife just got one for herself and likes it.

Just got the dark blue one in the mail yesterday. I like the feel in hand more than I like my pro controller. 8bitdo makes some nice controllers and fightsticks, and I’m a sucker for them, so I keep buying.

For those that may not be aware, you can buy 4 Neo Geo compilations which come 10 to a cartridge over on Play Asia. Personally, I prefer physical so these are great in my opinion.

Loved the first one. Really looking forward to diving in to this one when it gets here.

@RedWolf
Yes play Asia gets it in tomorrow.

Bought the digital version of Ender Lilies on a whim...It hit the right cords so I ended up looking to play-asia for a physical copy of both that and Ender Magnolia. Just counting down the days until they arrive at my doorstep.

I have a Steamdeck with around 400 games, I find I use it very rarely. I do play my switch at least 3 times a week though including some family time games.

I'm pretty sure one of the big reasons for the decline in physical sales is that stores don't have the physical product to sell anymore. I've gone to a Best Buy and seen a total of like 8 Xbox games on the shelves, I've gone to Target and saw 5 of the same. This goes for PS as well, although it's slightly larger. Over the last few years I've switched to almost exclusively buying physical switch games, but even that's getting harder to do. This leaves Amazon usually and now more than ever Play-Asia. So it's ironic they talk about declining sales when they don't sell the product on the shelves. Once physical is gone I'm no longer a collector and will most likely be a handful of games type of gamer.

Company of heroes

Gave it a four. If they had announced and shown it before the internet did it for them I would have given it a six. If they would have shown at least three games for twenty to thirty seconds each I probably would have did a seven.

@ozwally Thanks for the good news. I'm still waiting on a my order. It was set to be shipped by Jan 1st and then it moved to Jan 18th, so we'll see if they actually ship out or not.

.Got the physical edition on preorder a couple weeks back.

@ozwally I’m 90% sure it will. DLC is usually the thing you can have issues with.

These pre-orders didn't just go live as I pre-ordered around a week ago. Placed two orders Ender Lilies SNK sel. 1&2 and wizardry and an order with SNK Sel. Vol 3&4 with Freedom Wars Remastered. As stated above on both orders I got the 3 for $100 deal which is why I actually added in Wizardry to qualify on the first order. Can't go wrong with SNK games.

Have the physical on pre-order for about a week now with Ender Lilies and the first two NeoGeo Selections. I'm sure I'll be picking this up for the US in digital as well.

Physical release date?

Sadly mine is across the country, now with a big "shipment delayed" from Best Buy. All of yesterday it had the "arriving today", even though when you went in you could see it was actually set to arrive on 11/26.... I love modern day conveniences like having items shipped to you instead of just walking into a store on launch day. Took a nice 4 day week-end with thoughts of enjoying this game.