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The switch 2 is short on unique content right now. Do we REALLY need 2 kart racers?

Been trying to read review on my phone. Honestly NintendoLife, have you tried viewing any of your pages on a phone, I can’t scroll more than 2 lines of the review before an intrusive ad appears!

Makes me want to get an ad blocker purely for this site!

I have mario kart. Why would I get another kart racer on same platform in same year?

@Geit_de : do those textures make the game more fun? Or do you only like textures that digital foundry told you to like?

I’m genuinely fascinated

@Switching : personally I find it fascinating that people need to have digital foundry tell them whether or not a game looks good.

“I thought this game was fun, and I liked the visuals… but digital foundry zoomed into a pixel somewhere and proved me wrong. I now know I didn’t like the way it looked and I wasn’t having fun”

I don’t own a switch 2 (can’t justify it to myself for a single game I want to play on it). The reason Dk Bonanza doesn’t appeal to me is the visual style. Everything I’ve seen of it, the shiney plastic look doesn’t appeal. Call me a snob

@Wewewi : sega used to be the worst for it .. but obviously not any more

My money is on Mario maker 3d

@PharoneTheGnome : I agree with your other points.. until PS6 comes out

@PharoneTheGnome :

Is it a big upgrade? Or the switch pro which was due a few years back?

A machine which upgrades games you have

Grrr… this is gonna get people upset again isn’t it?

@jsty3105 : .. and everyone else responding

Sigh.. I’m not saying the launch line up is bad, or worse than other generations

I’m saying it’s impressive how well it’s selling despite the lack of decent titles… and how overpriced they are.

If the (insert console here) had similar launch line up, or worse, and still sold that many, I’d be saying the exact same thing

@Horstofthefuture agree. But compare to first few months of switch .. without the stupid prices

Sales figures have told Nintendo, consumers are willing and happy to pay prices!

@tourjeff : I repeat : I’m not slagging off machine or games. I’m just shocked it’s done so well with the games/price points

@Ultimapunch : I had a Wii U, GameCube, n64, etc.
but they sold relative to the lack of must have games.
I didn’t say it was bad, just think it’s impressive it’s done so well, even though the launch line up has (so far) sucked (notice you named two games which aren’t even out yet), and are stupidly priced
I’m impressed! I’m not being nasty towards it.
I will admit I wish it wasn’t this successful, as right now Nintendo are being rewarded for their greed - they only learn when people do opposite (see how they decreased price of 3ds, which turned that from failing machine to a big seller)

EDIT : should point out, price isn’t a problem for me. But I like my kids to buy their own games to learn value for money .. and I need them to gave someone to play with

@LazyDaisy : why does it matter?

Impressive considering the poor selection of launch titles, price and extortionate game prices

@axelhander : oh the “pirates would never play a game if they couldn’t get them free”” argument… but that argukent is out of the window when he’s selling pirated games! Thus showing they would pay for them! And yes, hes profiting .. so yes it is the same as your boss deciding to not pay you for your work, because they weren’t going to pay you anyway.

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@axelhander : so you think it’s okay for someone to take something Nintendo has spent millions making, and copy it, and sell it for a profit - after not doing anything towards said product?

Would you be ok going for work for a year, only for someone else to get paid for it? They didn’t steal anything from you after all..

I’ve played virtual boy (original), the red.. hurts.. if they don’t offer other colours, we’ll, it’s Nintendo, of course they won’t, half assed job - maximum price

Where’s option for “maybe, if they give option for something other than Red, and stop taking the P on the price? For example, let us download our own templates for cardboard, etc”

There aren’t lenses or mirrors, so why not just allow people the download/print and cut their own?

First ever console to fail twice!

I hope at the VERY LEAST. They come with option to play in colour other than red

Why didn’t they release these for 3ds? That would’ve made sense!

$99 to play a handful of awful games?

Why???

Even the cardboard is too expensive! Come on Nintendo, stop with the stupid prices!

For the price, I’d rather buy an old actual game boy and games

It’s just boring to look at

Whoever decided on art style needs a new job

@NintendoWife : it’s Nintendo, they’ll probably just release Mario Wonder 2.

@Kingy : I don’t think it’s hate. For me, I love Nintendo, but the launch titles haven’t really blown me away. Mario kart could’ve been, and should’ve been (considering price), much better as launch title

@GoldenSunRM : wow! I totally agree with you sir! I thought I was alone in this opinion

Of only the two half decent exclusive games available , they both get awards. Hardly a surprise.

Imho Mario kart world wouldn’t get a sniff of an award of there was actually anything else half decent out (I’m sure Kirby will surpass it)

@Grumblevolcano : fair point. Well that’d make Metroid the December game then. Never thought I’d see that, but seems most likely.

Still think there will be a direct with a big 2026 reveal though

@cagriggs : nah. Kirby is November, they won’t do two games in one month.

My money is on a new direct in next couple weeks, Metroid October, Kirby November, new game (possibly Mario) December… plus big game for 2026

Oh and strong language? Samus stubs her toe and says “gosh darn it”

It’s not a very rememberable name is it? I was just talking to a friend about it, and neither of us could think of what it was called

@Yosher : Mario in a wheelchair? Can’t see that going down well. If it were my game, I’d make some wheel based characters/aliens.

Heck, if my market were old enough, I’d license “chorlton and the wheelies”, lol. But only old people, like me, would get that reference

But having chorlton as ref, and the witch could come in to jeopardize play…. I think I’m onto a banger here!

Hope this means a new Mario game is coming which uses these

I would normally be interested. But when there’s only 3 first party must have games, do two of them need to be racers?

Yeah.. well.. I think I can hold off getting a switch 2 for a bit longer..,

How utterly depressing… what’s even more depressing are the sales figures, considering their prices!

@HeadPirate : Well yes. But it wont stop the Daily mail from setting up a story where they have their reporters kids have a group chat and then have someone appear naked on the 4th camera... Sort of thing the daily mail loves doing...

With regards to camera : I fully expect to see stories of “my child saw a naked person on their Nintendo - ban this filth” within a week of the switch 2 launching

@Spider-Kev : That's what I meant.
I dont play games on the move, and im worried about battery life on switch 2 for that purpose.
But I want to play nintendo games.
But I dont want to pay more than the price of a ps5.

Can they innovate by having a switch 2 light which is a standard console and not handheld for half the price?

I’d get me one of those

Realistic Murder and violence ok
Cartoon skin is evil
Americans are hilarious

I’ve gone from wanting the game, to thinking I can hold off getting the console as it died my look “that great” to me

It’s not a Mario odessey moment

I’m still not interested until they show me a decent single player campaign

@Kiyata : likes of game caused companies to go digital. Game would have second hand copies of brand new games available at launch, and would promote these over the new copies (more profitable as they don’t need to give developer/publisher a cut)

This forced the industry to move to digital to stop this practice. This practice was probably more hurtful financially than piracy - as pirates were unlikely to spend money

@Lofoten mp4 will be finished, they just want to stagger releases. Especially if they don’t have a big Xmas game

I have a pc and/or other consoles for playing 3rd party games - where they’ll look and play better
I have zero interest in hand held gaming, I just want to play first party Nintendo games

Looks like it should be a free pack in tech demo, rather than a full game.

@progx : I was having a discussion, sharing my thoughts, ideas, etc.

I wasn't asking for advice.

@BoostPower : Mario Forza Horizon