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Not meant as a big rant but Nintendo sometimes doesn't see what their audience wants/needs. Meant completely serious. It's my conviction that they live in their own bubble and sometimes forget to look outside.
This has Pros and Cons.
On the Pro side: If you don't look outside you're safe of being influenced by the vocal mayority and able to do your own thing.
On the Con-side stand things like Game Key Cards, Mouse Mode (it doesn't hurt, but seriously: WHO needs this?), the desaster with the Virtual Game Cards (we have three accounts and consoles in our household and it's pure chaos where everything was fine before), no OLED and... having no D-Pad.
I mean: No D-Pad. Who decides something like that? On top I think the D-Pad on the Pro Controller is nearly unusable. I'm not just talking. I tried it (playing mostly Turn Based Tactical Games). So games that want a proper D-Pad have to be played a) docked AND b) with a 8BitDo (fill in a different company if you want - but you're wrong then ) Pro1/2/+ Controller.

I only know Bomb Chicken from Nitrome. But this is so frickin' good that I'm excited what else they can do.

I don't care about the price. Really. I have them both on Wii, I have All-Stars and now I'll trouble-dip (pun intended). Why? Because I can and Nintendo deserves all my money for Galaxy 1 alone (I liked it more then 2 back in the days).
Galaxy 1 for me is simply one of the three best video games ever. And if you ask what the other 2 are? I can't tell. I just don't want to exaggerate.
Bringing those 2 in 4K and as a physical bundle is nothing less then a wet dream for me.

Gosh - is this ugly-looking!

@Medic_alert I wasn't 100% right. That's why I deleted my post. Even for Copyright you need a certain amount of "Schöpfungshöhe" (I really can't translate this - best is maybe "level of creativity" or, yeah "level of thought"). You'll have to rhyme the rhyme well. But you automatically have the copyright if this is fulfilled (which - in case - is very subjective, obviously).
A patent, on the other hand, must always be applied for.

In Germany something has to have a minimum level of creativity to be worth to GET a patent at all. The level of creativity refers to the degree of creative contribution that a work must have in order to enjoy copyright protection.
Pretty shure "summoning something" (e.g. a creature) in a videogame does not fulfill that minimum level of creativity.
My 1st thought when reading this article:
Shut up and go programming video games, Nintendo!

Bought the Ultimate 2 (Bluetooth) for the 1st time because I absolutely love the SN30 pro+ and Pro2 Controllers (not only for having the best D-Pads I've ever played with) and wanted to try something different.
Two things I didn't read in the article above:

• Reaching L1 and R1 Buttons are a bit of a mess for my fingers (well... might be just mine). Feeling they are a bit too high. This issue has to do with the form factor of the controller. Holding the Ultimate 2 comfy in my hands I have to stretch my index fingers a bit too much to reach the buttons.
• Don't know if it's an "Ultimate" thingy, but the batteries are not replaceable like with the SN30 pro+ and the Pro2. That's something I'd expect from a 3rd party controller (at this price range at least). I hope Pro3 has replaceable batteries (I already preordered it without looking at this issue).

@BlueBCA OK. That's a fair objection. I didn't know this but I believe it when you say it.

I can't feel all the hate Genki recieves here. They probably made a mistake. They settled with Nintendo now. Where's the problem?
They're still releasing premium 3rd party products for Switch (and more).

@Burning_Spear Moving Gems and time it needs to refill the board after a match or a cascade of matches. Just overall speed IN the game. Not loading times, performance hickups, something like this.
Bc. we talked about the game I played it again today for 2 hours or so. It's not horrible. It's just... when you come from Gems of War with 4 times speed setting it just doesn't feel like being the right tempo (just like GoW with 1x speed setting).
You might want to ignore my critics. It's a very subjective thing. It's a great game. But I will not double dip if I see in game videos they didn't improve the speed. In a game where you sink dozens of hours things like that cost a LOT of time.

@Rodimusprime13 Mig Switch already works with Switch 2. Not feature complete, but it works.

Popcorn time again! I like!

@PKDuckman Might be because Steve Fawkner is the man behind Puzzle Quest. The man that created the Warlords Series of games...

@Burning_Spear I'm not talking about performance. I'm talking about the speed the Gems drop. It's MUCH too slow (I mean: not only "just a bit") and you can't speed it up (like in Gems of War where you can set the speed up to x4 in the game options).
Puzzle Quest is a great game. The best 3-match game I have seen so far. I played it hundreds of hours on the DS. And the remake on Switch isn't worse then the original. It's just I can't play it because my brain is aching because of this "issue".
It would be sooo easy to patch, but I think they didn't.
Might be only me. For everyone interested there's a Demo for the game.
I wonder what the Devs do with the Immortal Edition for people that already have The Legend Returns. I mean... 4K graphics and 1 more class are hardly a sales pitch.

The problem with the existing version on Switch (which is a remake from the original version on DS) really is speed. Stones drop like in slow motion. Which might be the original speed like on DS but is completely out of time and kept me from playing it.
People interested: Don't trap in the Gems of War trap nowadays. I actively played this "Life Service Game" for 6 years or so actively. But it got worse and worse over the years and is dead now. It's very sad because the game was really great back in the days.

@Blast16 Ehmmm... there's only 1 Puzzle Quest on Switch so far. So a collection would be a little bit overdose.
"Anime Puzzle Quest" has nothing to do with the game in the article here.

Do we know if the physical version will be a GKC or really a physical release? I just stopped preordering because of being unsure about it.

I have a Logitech Wooden Stratocaster Guitar Controller from back in the Wii days and it's simply a fantastic piece of hardware.
I would absolutely buy this controller, too. But... if I only knew a game that I can play with this. Never heard of this Fortnite thingy mentioned above and it doesn't even has a review (on this site at least).

No Couch Coop no buy.

WOW! All that hype about a Controller that couldn't look cheaper...

Pretty beneficial release. For my pocket.
Nice to read that "Game-Key Card releases have gone down like a lead balloon in general".
Seems like the customers have spoken. I like it.

@AllBLK That doesn't make things better. (I know: you know. )

@darylb24 The thing is: I didn't even take a look at other consoles then Nintendo's in the past. Never. (I'm over 50 years old - so I would have had the time if I wanted to. )
I didn't expect that to happen. And it's not necessarily because I don't like the Switch 2 or because it's not very innovative. It's because Nintendo is changing. At this very moment. They transform from something special to something very normal.
People don't have to dislike this. But I do - from the bottom of my heart.

The fact that they (Nintendo) compare Game Key Cards with Digital Downloads and not with Physical tells me they do not understand anything about what's the point. They just understand "something's wrong".

33% price increase on games, no more Gold Points, no more vouchers, the abysmal Virtual Game Card System, the totally unnecessary Game Key Cards, using the same Drift Sticks with the new console knowing exactly the problems they have,...
This is no joke, no exaggeration: This is the 1st time of my life I think of buying a Playstation. This is not my Nintendo anymore where gamers always were 1st place.
I'm not angry. I'm sad.

Didn't know Romero was still doing games of relevance nowadays. I thought he had moved to the "milk gamers with bad mobile games" front years ago.

Where is Wii Sports?

I can ignore Game Key Cards completely (and I do) but what I can't ignore is the super annoying Virtual Game Card system Nintendo introduced. THIS is really punishing customers for no reason. I have Day 1 Switch 1, OLED Switch 1 and Day 1 Switch 2 and I'm using them all (my household at least) and this system is just a pain where the sun not shines.
This had to be said because nobody seems to complain but me. I call me a Nintendo fanboy since decades (yes - I'm a bit old) but the direction the company moves does worry me indeed. (Price bump of 33% (talking about games not hardware), Virtual Game Cards, Game Key Cards, back to LCD from OLED (display is OKisch but just compare with your OLED and everybody can see it can't keep up with it in the slightest),...)
I'd really like to see an article on this website that adresses all these issues (autoplaying the videos in the eShop - WTF!?!). I like my Switch 2 for the performance bumps of the games I already had. But not all is good in Nintendo Land. Not at all.
Game Key Cards are really the smallest problem of them all. Because they can (and should) just be ignored.

Fair enough move from Capcom for me. They call Game Key Cards after what they are. Digital downloads not physical Game Cards.

"The Will To Resist Is In Your Hands"
Words worth being the inscription on my gravestone. Very old gamer here, too.

@speed_loafer Thanx. I also just wanted to transfer the Virtual Game Cards. In fact, I even thought that this would be the main purpose of them when they introduced them, but...
Don't know about Wifi. But the downloads are way faster then before even the ones with cable.
And: I would have bet against it, but the shop is... fluid. No comparison to before! If someone could tell me now how to stop auto video-play in it...

Switch 2 is out of control. It really tries to download all my games.
1. Without me telling it to do so.
2. Without a real chance to stop it. (I could stop on a game-by-game basis but I cannot say: Stop this insanity!!!)
3. System memory isn't enough - by far.
I hoped I could use this day to clean up my overly big collection a bit. But the system doesn't want me to.
Sounds not to be a big thing. But it's a pain in the neck with 350+ games Switch 2 tries to download.
Does someone know how to stop this madness?

FFTA for me is the single best Turn Based Tactical game on any Nintendo system. Never thought this will happen because of Advance Wars sitting fat in the same corner.
This is very good news indeed! I was waiting so long for this!!!

@BansheeNorn I want to have your problems with mouse control. 95% I'm playing docked and with Pro Controller. Do I have to stand up and release the JoyCons just to play a Minigame?

Am I the only one thinking all the pictures and videos from MKW out there look a bit... foggy? Every time I look at it I want to clean my eyeglasses with a cleaning cloth.

I'd love to love Switch 2 but I'm still not convinced.
Display back to stone age, no external storage available at launch (not in a size that's worth to talk about), a little bit of a disappointing startup lineup (there's nothing that really hypes me - I don't really need a new MK), same UI as Switch 1 which I don't like very much...
And mouse control as the only real innovation is... not enough.

You can sort screenshots now. But I bet you still can't organize your games in folders... And I bet the eShop is as unresponsible as the one we still have.
Well. The last 2 things are pure speculation - obviously.

Well... not something I WANT necessarily but I'll HAVE to stick with Switch 1 for some time for one simple reason:
My 1TB MicroSD card is almost full of games I haven't played until now. And there is still no 1TB MicroSD Ex card available in stores (in Germany at least). So... until there's a 2TB MicroSD Ex available (for the old games and some new ones) there's a lot of work to do for my OLED.

I'm very curious to see how games can be tranfered to Switch 2. It was a pain to transfer 300+ games from OG Switch to OLED model. Having to do it game by game... Hopefully there is a "multi select" option - something like that. You know what I mean. (no English native here)

I'm really a bit concerned about Nintendos new politics on pricing.
Beginning with the console price - which is semi OKisch but just a bit over the top considering Switch 2 is just "more of the same" but with a worse display. And JoyCon mouse controls are nothing I'm convinced of.
The new price tag for games is completely over the top if you ask me.
And now accessories with double the price of what they're worth...
All in all for me this will just end in buying lot less of... everything in comparison to Swich 1. I wouldn't be surprised if this price politics will end up in a smaller desaster for Nintendo.

HD 2D? I'm out. Lot of good games with this engine, but I don't understand how someone can voluntarily play a game with an engine that blurs two-thirds of the screen.

@Tandoori And you have the Data - I see. And you can't imagine the drift issue is more well known on JoyCon because it got it's name after the JoyCon or people do play more often in Handheld Mode and not docked? And when playing docked the players have a bunch of different Controllers to chose from - in comparison to the JoyCon.
"Pro Controller never had the issue" is plain wrong. Nothing true in there.
But I don't know. YOU seem to have all the data - not me.

@Tandoori 2 Pro Controllers with drift here plus another one of one of my friends. You should inform yourself better before you claim something.

@timp29 8BitDo already has wireless Switch1 Hall Effect Controllers in their product line. Wouldn't be surprised if they're Switch2 compatible.

If it's too expensive: Don't buy it and let the Publishers feel (y)our rage when they look in their purse. Simple as that. I can live without expensive games. But can publishers live without us?

I really don't care much of UBI behaviour.
Just a small note directly to the Editors of this website:
Could you please stop calling Game Cards a "physical release"? Game Cards have more to do with "code in a box" then with a physical release. So in order not to be constantly misled in the future please call it code in a box or find an own wording for it.

Even if I have to wait for probably 2 more years: Heroes of Might and Magic 8 please. Pretty much the last IP from UBI I'm interested in - since they broke Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle formula with it's successor.

Nintendo doesn't even care to tell me which personal data the App wants to suck out of my mobile/google accout. So this App is a big no-go for me.

Banner of the Maid.
Oaken.

As if "smoothness" ever was a problem of Switch Controllers. If you ask me - Switch Controllers had exactly 2 problems:
1. 1st and foremost (and obviously): Joy-Con Drift. And, yes, Pro Controllers also where doomed after around 2 years of using them. I own 2 Joy-Cons and 3 Pro Controllers with the issue.
2. D-Pad. Well... while Joy-Cons didn't have one - D-Pad on Pro Controllers where lot too stiff to use them in games that needed them or begged for using them. This got better with newer releases. Day 1 Pro Controller D-Pad was just awful while the D-Pads of the Pro Controllers I had to buy because the old ones had the drift issue where much better. But still no comparison to 8BitDo SN30 pro(+) Controller D-Pad (for example).
Well... I don't wonder much Nintendo doesn't care about the drift issue. They had their "solution" (send them in and they'll get repaired or replaced) which was fine for them. And they earned money from all that double- (triple-, quadruple-) dippers.
And they moved from being different to their customers (in comparison to their competitors) to "normal". They're the 1st calling a price of 80 bucks per game.
Unthinkable 15-20 years ago...

@Mirastrix said: "This is awesome. Now we don't have to rely on websites that post clickbait, opinionated trash, and unsubstantiated lies from "credible" sources for news!"

I looked at the app in Google Play store:
While on a website you can always decide by yourself if you want to click the bait... this is what the App is doing:

• looking at my calendar
• looking at my browser history
• looking at my personal data (like: name, email adress, telephone number, more,...

So Nintendolife seems a good deal to me compared to the App.
Just saying...

Not a big surprise on my side. That's part of the business model "you get what we want".
That's why I buy physical and that's why I don't pay for Switch Online+.