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I’m not sure I’m going to get it because the reviews for this are mixed but I’m very happy that these type of big budget 3rd party major franchises are being released on my beloved Switch.

I’ve been hearing about Wylde Flowers. Is that any good?

Love the mechanics of this even though I'm not a fan of the graphical style. Love seeing a 2D platformer priced affordably, am I pointing the finger at Super Mario wonder? LOL

October is ridiculous. I think it might be the best month for games in the history of the Switch with insane 3rd party support. So far we've got coming in October the physical of Red Dead Redemption, Batman Trilogy, Metal Gear Collection, Borderlands 3, Super Mario Wonder, Sonic Superstars, Detective Pikachu as well as some smaller but great games like Wild Card Football, Disgaea 7, Hot Wheels 2 and heaps more. There's no relief in November cos that's stacked too. My poor wallet.

Why do they purchase them to shut them down months later. I don’t get it

@Friscobay Nailed it, best comment so far

I doubt I’ll pay $60 for a 2D platformer. Back in 1995 I would’ve paid full price though. I’m curious to see if a 2D platformer is Nintendo Direct worthy. Who knows maybe it is special enough to change my mind.

It looks amazing. I’m tempted to get the wireless one.

@Stamina_Wheel Thanks for the heads up. I will wait patiently for the physical in October

You’ll need a 10 TB micro-sd card for this title. The devs haven’t heard of the word “compression”.

Seriously the 2nd half of this year is ridiculously stacked, more stacked than at anytime in the history of the Switch IMO. So much 3rd party support i.e. Batman, Red Dead, Persona, Level 5 games, then you’ve got Mario RPG & Wonder and sooo much more. My wife will be looking at the bank statement and asking me questions for sure. LOL

@Cashews Yeh & Nintendo Life don't mention it in their NBA2K reviews, like the size doesn't matter & we've got infinite space. Yet for myself it's critical in my buying decision. It's 3 times the size of Tears of the Kingdom & it's just a basketball game LMAO. I guess the term "compression" is a foreign concept to the devs.

Waiting for Wild Card Football. If I wanted a game like this I’d still be playing 4th & Inches on the Commodore 64. 1987 it aint.

After the poor framerate & performance of Scarlet/Violet I actually don't even care if they don't announce a new game. My excitement for Pokemon is definitely dying with every disappointing release. If Game Freak continue in this trajectory they'll end up destroying the IP in much the same way that Sega have destroyed Sonic for me. I used to love Sonic & now like most people I hardly care when a new Sonic game comes out because you can't trust the quality. Game Freak need to lift their game.

@Reptilio You’re on point. $60 for a 2D sidescrolling platformer might’ve moved units in 1993 but 30 years later in 2023 not so much. The game will probably sell well but it’s unlikely to get people to buy a Switch imo.

Some of these sales figures have not been updated since 2021? Nintendo don’t release digital sales figures so what are they hiding? The first thing that comes to my mind is questions around tax but as I have no idea I’d love to know what everyone else thinks is the reason Nintendo don’t report digital sales. Also why isn’t this discussed?

I don’t understand why Nintendo put effort into an event which takes a few hours. Time/cost vs reward doesn’t add up. Add more permanent content instead would be preferable

@Thexare I know right. Going by the comments some people enjoyed this article. It didn’t resonate with me at all.

Fingers crossed. GTAIV would be nice too. But don't give it to Grove Street to do the port.

I voted for 1080 however I would’ve voted for DK if it wasn’t specified as Donkey Kong Country only which is the 2D instalment. I want a new 3D DK in a similar vein to DK64 the most

You’ll complete the game in half the time with the aid of those 2 dazzlefruit. Try and resist such a generous offer.

I’ll probably just stick with my $6 preowned physical copy of FIFA19. It doesn’t seem to look any better than that from the trailer

This showcase is great if it was 1997.

@Sisilly_G The comment you made that you’re not excited about MK8D because although there’s heaps of tracks they basically play the same resonates with me. I couldn’t put my finger on why I don’t care about the new content until I read your comment

Please review this

I agree. It’s fine and enjoyable. I think it’s worth it because I have nostalgia for the originals. Much better than when it first launched. Complaints are minor now, at launch they were major.

Looking forward to this. I hope it’s feature rich with lots of different modes

I had alot of these & personally I loved DK64 more than the Banjo Kazooie games. SM64 was the best but DK64 a very close second.

Do you need more than 1 Nintendo Switch to do local co-op or is it couch co-op where u only need 1 switch and 1 copy of the game? For a game who’s strength is multiplayer it would be nice for this to be made clear in a review

With over 20 million sales at $60 per copy that’s over a billion dollars. No excuse for it to run so bad. Absolute disgrace Game Freak.

Stability updates are so 2022. This year is all about bad word updates.

@Itachi2099 Spot on comment. Well said sir

I’m actually ok with this especially after Metal Gear Solid situation. Also glad it’s not cloud. Seriously I would’ve paid full price for one game but we’re getting the whole trilogy

I’m going to get it but there was no real “wow” factor for me. Very modest upgrade IMO.

Looking forward to this. I doubt it will be a cloud version as they’re normally upfront about that. Probably the highlight of the show for me and a good move as PS5 will be releasing the new Superman at about this time

I just want MGS4. I will get this if there’s a physical otherwise I’ll pass

@SViper Level 5 are coming back with new Professor Layton and Fantasy Life in English for the Switch.

Persona 3 Reload baby. Yippee! Some Level-5 goodness won't go astray.

@Dm9982 Well said. Completely sick of the morons who hate on Switch & say to play games on another console. If they hate on Switch so much WTF are they even visiting this Nintendo dedicated website?

It’s probably hard to quantify but I’d be interested to know if this 21% increase is skewed towards growth mainly in shovelware or if we’ve seen an increase in game releases with the major publishers too.

I actually want Tactica more as I loved SMTDS2 so this will scratch that itch. We’ve already got mainline Persona games on Switch so that’s ok.

Pass for me, it's over 30GB which is twice the size of Tears Of The Kingdom. Even though I have a 1TB microSD card, space is too precious for me that I can't justify that amount of space for just a fighting game. If I was a fighting game fanboy the answer would probably be different though.

Lost Child is US$5 right now. Decent alternative to Etrian Odyssey, at this price it’s a no-brainer.

@Thief - You could well be right here. I reckons Tactics is about 90% chance that it's coming to Switch as it looks similar graphically to P5R & Strikers which run fine on Switch also it's a late 2023 release. P3RE I would guess to be a 50% chance, mainly because the 2024 release date, we could be transitioning to a new system. It does use Unreal engine though which is used for heaps of games on the Switch & graphically it looks like the Switch could run it which is why I think there's still a good chance we get this. Less likely than Tactics though. Edit: The update to this story with the P3RE Switch box art whilst not confirmed makes it much higher than 50% now. Yay!

The Pokemon Games are great but the best turn based RPG’s on the Switch that I’ve played is Octopath Traveler II & Dragon Quest XI.

I like the pricing but will definitely wait for reviews. This had been rumored for a while.

Atlus also released Persona 4 Golden a much more modern & bigger game for $20 so it’s bizarre that they would charge $40 for each of these. I will wait for a sale as I feel it’s a ripoff at this price

Is that all? LOL

@Ooyah I’m not sure. I feel like Mario Sports games are losing popularity because the quality isn’t as high anymore. If a TV series or movie franchise starts to disappoint people move on to something else. Pokemon need to deliver quality games that run well as fans will at some point stop handing over their hard earned $$ if they don’t. Pokemon are playing a stupid and risky game by serving up this rubbish. EVERYTHING has a tipping point.

2 weeks before TOTK came out. I picked ip BOTW because it was in my backlog. Well I bought TOTK and have played less than 1 hour because I can’t put BOTW down.