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@Suketoudara 1-2 Switch as a pack-in absolutely would have raised the console price by $50. I am glad they didn’t do that.

@chardir Same! 😊

I bought Welcome Tour. No regrets.

And no judgement of people who have decided against it or that have decided to wait.

I prefer Mario Kart World as the pack-in game.

@Ryu_Niiyama I smiled and gave people a thumbs up as they left GameStop with their Switch 2 (and I was wearing my red Switch hoodie). 😊

@Vyacheslav333 It is also part of the reason early home ports of Donkey Kong and Pac-Man were difficult to make. They needed to get a vertical screen squashed down for horizontal TVs.

@JohnnyMind I do not speak Japanese and looked this up one time out of curiosity. So I will defer to your knowledge. 😊

I prefer just saying vertical and horizontal, but Tate is here to stay.

@Teksette @Ryu_Niiyama @Vyacheslav333 I believe you are right. Yoko.

Just funny that we use one commonly for arcade and shooter fans — but not really the other one. 😊

Okay TATE fans, what is the Japanese word for horizontal mode (I know it, just quizzing you on trivia)?

Jokes on you, I’m into $10 tech demos and mini-game collections.

I am fine not 100% completing it (for the time being).

@Gohanjin I’m not a fan of the blur effect either. If it is a tilt shift effect, they should give the option to disable it.

Seems like it would be more effective for cut scenes or zoomed out shots. Things close to my character should not be blurred.

Preaching to the choir. We are the true believers.

@KidRyan I can’t see them ever making this free, unless they refund early adopters.

With the Switch, we haven’t seen permanent discounts of first party titles.

@jkirchgessner07 @Banjo- Or something more like Lego City Undercover.

I thought IGN was still a little skeptical of the open world mode.

Jokes on you, I’m into $10 tech demos!

I love the thumbnail photo! Nicely done! Alex has the perfect meh looking facial expression. 😂

@anzzjam Other than some Switch game enhancements, Mario Kart World and Welcome Tour are the only new first party games available at launch.

Donkey Kong Bananza is mid-July. So not too far out.

And you have GameCube games being added for the NSO expansion pass (at launch).

For people on a friends/family plan - you only need to buy one copy and share the virtual game cart (of course, you can only share when you are locally together).

There is already a pack-in game. The Mario Kart World bundle.

The $500 Mario Kart World bundle will be a much larger system seller than including Welcome Tour as a pack-in.

The Switch 2 hardware is more powerful than most of us expected. I don’t know if they are selling the console at a loss, but I bet they are not making much off the console. They probably don’t have the margins to even include a $10 game at launch (Holiday bundles are different).

Welcome Tour will not be the killer app that sells systems.

And yes, they could raise the console cost by $10, but this way the console is cheaper and people have a choice if they want to buy it or not.

Paying for a ‘tech demo’ is not the same thing as paying for a ‘game demo’.

Calling it a demo is too reductive.

@rockodoodle Agreed on both points. Nintendo Land is awesome. It was our go to party game for many years. 😊

Including Welcome Tour with NSO is a great idea. They could also allow it to be purchased for those that don’t want to subscribe (or that want to own it).

@Rooty @JohnnyMind Agreed!

If 1-2 Switch had been a pack-in title, the price of the Switch would have been $350, not $300. I am glad we were not forced to buy that game. I prefer having a choice.

Reggie pushed hard for Wii Sports to be included. In Japan, Wii Sports was not a pack-in title.

And Wii Sports was a special kind of magic. Nintendo Land and 1-2 Switch were not killer apps. I will buy Welcome Tour, but I doubt it will match the popularity of Wii Sports.

@Ganner Good to know. Thanks!

I’ve heard goods things about it, but sounds like a lot of people are sleeping on it.

I really like the fairy tale narrative so far. 😊

I forgot to put Bayonetta Origins. Just got it and have started playing it. 😊

I am excited!

However, I hope they change the virtual cartridges so that we can share games over WiFi with our friends. My kids and my brothers live in different cities.

I am considering going all digital, but that is my one hang up. I am not a collector, but I do like to share my games.

@adh56 I think when you get the 30 tickets, you will have the option to unlock it from the themes page.

It had been a long time, but it should be similar to how you unlock the built-in themes (which are 15 tickets each).

If you still can’t unlock it after 30 tickets, make sure you have the latest update installed.

Besides bundles, has Nintendo ever discounted the subscription? I got six months of HBO Max for cheap in a Black Friday sale.

@IronMan30 Agreed. And the family plan is nice. I pay the subscription and share it with several family members.

I can also understand, though, if someone decides to not subscribe or only subscribe for a short time.

It is a bit of a gaming paradox. I collect all of the themes, but only return to play Tetris 99 in order to collect the new theme. So I never play the collected themes, except for when I unlock them.

@Suketoudara Surely they will have Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Pokémon Z-A themes, right? 🤞

@RID1EY I think Special Theme 21 is Pokémon Legends: Arceus. It was a difficult theme to play. The blocks blended in with the background making the gaps difficult to see at a glance.

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Tetris_99

@HammerGalladeBro Kirby Fighters 2 is one of my favorites. I didn’t even play the game, but the blocks are easy to see with the background (and I like the music).

@Anti-Matter When they said it had missions, I thought of LEGO City Undercover. 😊

@Teksette Yars Rising was a lot of fun! 🙂💯

@batmanbud2 Not sure how much of it is true, but I heard that Love Hotels might not be so scandalous. In small homes with multi-generational families living together, a Love Hotel could be a way for a couple to get some privacy and alone time. 🙂

@Ryu_Niiyama @Markiemania95 You beat me to it! Just saw your comments. I had the same thought. The kart is getting the mushroom boosts. 🙂

I am pretty sure he is shoving mushrooms into the kart engine.

@Pillowpants Well said! 💯

@AnonyQ Totally! A lot of fun. 😊

The first three levels are the most difficult, because Pit is at his weakest. Once you hit that first fortress, you can grind a little bit and buy upgrades in the shop.

Reaper’s Theme is stress inducing! 😉

@jfp Thanks for helping me to understand the issue with the blur better. 🙂

And I agree, they probably won’t make it an option.

@jfp Fair point, but I still don’t think it looks good. They should add the option to toggle off the blur (if it isn’t already an option).

@sanderev The blur is only a stylistic choice due to a limitation of their tools and the hardware. More of a compromise than a purposeful decision.

I was hoping they could improve it for Echoes of Wisdom.

I have finished both games, but find it a little distracting.

I wonder if they can fix the blur on the edges of the screen for Link’s Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom.

A step closer to Mario Paint. 😉

I am still playing regularly, but I am sort of between games. One part busy and one part waiting for Switch 2. 😊

@graviton It might be that they remember the last interaction you had. Not sure.

When they have been on my family members islands and move back to my island they are like, “Hey, remember meeting on that other island.” And I am thinking, “Actually, I met you on my island first.”

@graviton And it sort of takes me out of the game when they move away, move back, and then don’t remember already knowing me from before.

Having a larger variety of villagers move in would help, not just the ones that I have interacted with on other islands (which are often ones that already started on my island).

That said, I can accept that the continuity is already broken when Teddy is on both my island and a family members island.