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@Axecon I wouldn’t like to believe it, but Nintendo always had a hard time marketing direct successors to any of their concepts, either home or handheld systems (except the SNES). They are too conservative

I knew Earthbound 64 HD, Duke Silknukem Songever and Baldur’s Gate 9 were supposed to appear during the Direct!

Any device would go bananas at extreme temperatures (maybe except the og Gameboy, that thing was made during the Cold War, so it could withstand a nuclear blast, I hope)

I never imagined that the Hobbit lifesim on Switch would be actually worse than the SNES game

Cronos and Borderlands? NAAAH, give me Chillin’ By The Fire by Oink Games, that’s the real showstopper of the Direct! 🥴

Would have hurt Squeenix to also release an Octopath 1&2 free upgrade for Switch 2?

Last time I got excited for a Partner Showcase, we’ve been bombarded with animu-chan farming rpgs no one cared of.
I don’t have high hopes for this one…

@ShieldHero Same here, tho it is such a shame for those who expected this to be one of Nintendo’s rare M-rated games, with high use of profanity, gratuitous violence and drugs 😔

Joke aside, I am excited as well for the game! I only hope Age of Calamity will also get a 60fps patch for Switch 2

Watch out, our favorite uncle working at Nintendo has just spoken the Gospel!
Leakers are very obnoxious

@PikaPhantom It’s so Randy to falsely advertise something (like using a different build) and prank every one interested in the game on launch, remember the Alien:Colonial Marines controversy

@AndreyBoarao Nintendo always treats its users as technically-illiterate babies. I was shocked when Switch 2 got unveiled that some technical details were presented after all (stuff like resolution, refresh rate, ray-tracing)…

@Jayenkai Yes, at 720p30fps as Goddess Hylia intended (with dips in the Korok Forest)

I knew that Switch 2 is a beast of a hardware compared to the predecessor, but I’d never believe that I’d get to play a 4K slideshow on it!
If the author is reading this comm, please do not fix the mistake as it’s too funny to read 🤣🤣👌🏻

Those who desperately want a Sonic Adventure remaster forget that the game would play like crap nowadays. I loved the game 20 years ago and it was my very first gaming experience with Sonic, which went perfect with the Sonic X cartoon which was airing back then.
However, I recently replayed it via Steam and it felt way clunkier than I remember. I didn’t have the same fun I did when I was a kid. Thus, I think Sega would be better if they would work on improving modern Sonic titles.
P.S.: I wouldn’t mind an official Sonic Xtreme revival project tho!

Hopefully 2K will not repeat the disaster which was WWE 2K18 on OG Switch, the first truly awful big-name port on that console

A remake or remaster of the original Chicken Run game would be great! I played it on PS1 many years ago, it basically was a kid-friendly Metal Gear clone with the charm of the movie kept intact.

@Medic_alert I think there are more people like us that think the GC pad is way overrated. The only thing I like about the controller is the shape of the analog triggers, it feels satisfying to press them. Otherwise, the whole design gives a Fisher-Price feel to it : the buttons, the form of the controller, the awfully small D-Pad and the C-stick. If it had a dumb smiley-face on it, it sure wouldn't have looked different from a babies' toy.
I even tried to play Smash Bros with it and I still don't understand how it's supposed to feel better than a Switch Pro controller... Heck, I find using an N64 pad way more fun for Smash!
Moreover, playing many third-party games on GC using that pad feels off, compared to using a DualShock on PS2 which has better placement of buttons, decently-sized sticks and a good D-Pad.

I blame it on cringe millenial/zoomer nostalgia really.

@FlyingDunsparce Deltarune was conceived from the very beginning to have 7 chapters, we will hopefully get all of the game by 2030

Idk what can I say about MKW…
I mean it looks fun, but not 90€ fun. I am an early Switch 2 adopter myself, but I chose to spend the money on Cyberpunk, as I never played it before and it justified its 70€ price tag, being very polished and has tons of stuff to do compared to Mario Kart.
I still don’t get it why Nintendo thought it would be worthwhile to introduce people to a more powerful Switch with Mario Kart, while OG Switch had BOTW on release day…
I am expecting to be blown away by Donkey Kong Bananza next month to be honest, as that game seems much more worthy to have been a launch title than MKW!
I will buy it eventually SH, until then I have MK8D to entertain my friends

@AmplifyMJ That is actually wholesome and great to hear tbh! I personally couldn’t digest HL on Switch, even after playing equally compromised ports like Outer Worlds. It just felt like too big of a downgrade to me.
After reading more of the other comms here, I understand there would be an upgrade path to the Switch 2 version. I believe that if your son likes the port on S1, he will be blown away by the quality on Switch 2 and have the same HL experience as players on other more powerful consoles 👍🏻
I managed to snag one the second day after release and so far I’m blown away by how Cyberpunk and Street Fighter 6 run on it, without much sweat at all!

I actually find it funny that Hogwarts Legacy sells the most on Switch 1. As someone who was very appreciative towards the impossible ports and enjoyed most of them during its lifetime, Hogwarts Legacy is one of those games that should have NEVER been released on OG Switch!
It’s so downgraded that I don’t understand how people can play that version…

We’ll probably get an announcement in November for COD 3 HD or World At War: Remastered. Or maybe they will port the DS Modern Warfare games, knowing how cheap Activision can be

@Suketoudara not too hard to figure that out, for couple reasons:
1. Mario Odyssey was made in-house, thus the dev team at Nintendo obviously had access to all of Switch’s documentation and the necessary budget to build an engine that makes great use of the hardware. Meanwhile, many of the “smaller” games were made by second-parties (like Super Princess Peach, Yoshi’s Crafted World or collab efforts like Link’s Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom), who maybe didn’t have as many resources as the teams from Nintendo to build a proprietary engine.
2. Many of Nintendo’s Switch games, especially those mentioned earlier, use Unreal Engine 4, as it is a faster and cheaper option nowadays to build games on largerly available, but unoptimized engines. UE4 has been a pain to run on Switch, which is why most games that used it on the platform either had bad resolution, unstable framerates, or both. Nintendo, unlike many 3rd party devs (worst offenders being Outer Worlds and the GTA “Definitive” Trilogy), managed to implement UE4 in their games quite nicely, taking into account how resource-hungry the engine is.

@sethfranum it’s Russia, I don’t think many people around the world are surprised that leaks are coming from the Motherland of piracy and bootlegging

I’m mad that there are no news for Alien:Isolation and Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath…
I hope that there won’t be any more games from my OG Switch library that would behave badly on Switch 2!

Nintendo literally advertised on Facebook 20 mins ago that Madden 26 will launch on Switch 2 as well and pre-orders will be available shortly…

@Bigmanfan never underestimate EA’s laziness when it comes to optimization

Even having PS4-quality on the palm of my hands is impressive, as I already have a base PS5 and don’t feel like it’s such a huge leap forward (graphically at least). If devs can leverage the extra power the S2 has compared to OG Switch, then it will be a blast! I still hope most of my S1 library will benefit from the power boost tho, hopefully the devs are hard at work on this one…

They could feel like velvet to the touch for all I care, I hope that I won’t get the drift a few months into use…
I am lucky that I have been using the Skyward Sword joycons ever since July 2021 and they never drifted. Before that I went through 3 pairs in just 2 years!

I was sad to see Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath on the list, hopefully the other Oddworld titles will work or be updated in time for S2’s launch…

I got used to this stuff when buying many third-party games on Switch (with the worst offenders being LA Noire and MGS Master Collection). I don’t get why people get so upset now when this has been the norm for 8 years. It’s not like you don’t have the option to move the downloaded data to an SD card or SSD/HDD before the servers would inevitably shut down. That’s what I did with my games 👍🏻

Although I was eligible, I didn't receive one. Nintendo probably doesn't bother with "filthy peasants" from Eastern Europe. Anyway, I managed to preorder one by sheer luck from a small local store (at the time of writing, the ONLY place in my country that takes preorders) as early as April 3rd, so I am secured. Hopefully it will arrive on launch day!

Looks like a clown, so he might actually pull it off!

Isn’t this supposed to be the big DK platformer that was in development for Switch for over 5 years, with rumors circulating left and right and then suddenly fizzled out? It is obvious this has Odyssey’s DNA all over it

@Spider-Kev CDPR said something about optional language packs that can be downloaded for free, kinda like the Polish pack for Witcher 3. I remember buying TW3 for Switch right around the time of release and being impressed that it didn't have a day-one patch, although I wish they had one, as the game looked like my Switch/TV was smeared with grease (there were no graphics toggles) and the neat touchscreen functionality was missing in the initial version.

@Jamie64326 same here, the only device that I own and has a 120hz display is an iPhone 15 Pro. As for TV, I don’t even own a 4K TV yet so everything related to Switch 2 is gravy to me

@Jamie64326 It is confirmed to have a performance mode for portable as well (720p 120fps)

@Banksie I think it will be something as stupid as including a redeem code for the NS2 version, the cart will be just the OG Switch version

Honestly I am not fond of Miis that much and I always felt like Tomodachi Life is just a weird and cringey “game”, barely a life-sim as some Stans tend to call it.
But if there are people excited for this, then who am I to judge? Nintendo has games for everyone!

The Trails of Legends:Heroes Towards the Horizon looks fun indeed

I think the C-button stands for Click and it makes the click sound from the OG Switch whenever you press it

I just noticed, I rewatched the Direct trailer on Switch (via News section) just now and it was capped at 30fps, while on Youtube and Nintendo Today! App it was 60fps. Could this be a hint at the performance differences between OG Switch and NS2?
I kinda thought yesterday that it looked a bit too good for it to maintain 60fps on Switch 1, looking a bit even more graphically complex than MP1 Remastered

I hope that awful AI voice from the trailer (OOP) won’t be heard a lot in the game!
It looks fun tho!

Why is everyone hoping this will be a cross-gen release? It’s more realistic to be a Switch 1 release that it will have some kind of enhancements when played on Switch 2. Kinda like Smart Delivery or FPS Boost on Xbox Series. Why would Nintendo bother releasing 2 different versions??

@Daniel36 I agree, even Ultra Switch would have worked better! As for Super, it would have been awkward to see SS plastered on every blog post

I have recently replayed the game on Mac and it's one of my favorite adventure games of all time, right next to LucasArts' best works! The game perfectly encapsulates the dread and philosophy of the novel it's based on, not to mention Harlan Ellison's VA for AM that enhances the horror vibes. This game is not for the faint of heart however, it is very easy to screw up something minor in any scenario and lead you to one of its many bad endings. Nightdive sure pulled a sneaky one re-releasing this gem in such distressing times that more and more resemble the plot of the novel/game!
I am curious how well will it be adapted to Switch (as it never had a console release, it almost had a PS1 port back in the day) and I pray that the touch controls from the iOS version will make a comeback...

This is the most beautiful and soul-reaching article I have read ever since I started browsing NintendoLife for news and opinions! I think many of us here who have joined the Switch family early on have gone through many experiences, good or bad, in the last 8 years. No matter what, the Switch was there for us, and I hope the successor will continue the legacy Nintendo is known for.
Chapeaux to you and I hope everything is alright in your life!

@cmlobue Thanks, I honestly forgot about that and it honestly felt a more logical crossover than the blockbusters

@Vivianeat I would have never thought Balatro would become the indie equivalent of Fortnite.
Now I’m waiting for the Skibidi Toilet and Among Us decks to appear in the next updates.

Jokes aside, the best crossovers for me are still in the PC release of Super Meat Boy