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As someone who's played almost every 3D Zelda with a differently voiced Link and Zelda, I really don't see any issue here. New Mario generation, new voice. Martinet soundly wildly different from the N64 days to the Switch days, the kid has plenty of time to improve.

Glad he's getting to experience this! Can't wait to hear him in the next Smash.

I'm just happy being able to play through Three Houses without minute long loading times anymore. Same with New Horizons, both games seem to have cut loading screens in half!

Also this console has now sold more than 1/4 of all Wii U units. What a time to be alive.

@BinaryMessiah to be fair we're getting another first party game in a month, and the entire backlog of Switch games are now upgraded with faster load times and performance so it's a great time to try out titles you missed out on the OG Switch

Rainbow Road
DK Spaceport
Great ? Block Ruins (might be the favourite but Rainbow Road is so.good.)

Can't wait to finally replay this game as it was meant to

@John_Deacon will do! I like trying to have an optimistic attitude attitude towards life.

@John_Deacon we're not entitled. We're wondering why people are still complaining about this 3 years later when the horse was beaten to death after the first month. People complained, they likely weren't able to patch the game with the console power given to them (whether it was their code was bust, they had too many spawns which took up too many resources, who knows) and so now that they have the processing power, they're doing what they can.

They could've released nothing. Instead it's some sort of compensation, for free for the people who are getting a Switch 2. I don't see the issue of giving us something over nothing.

I will never defend the state the game released in because it was 100% incomplete and should not have released, but bro it's been 3 years if you don't want to play the game, don't play the game.

Easily the best story Pokemon games since Black/White 2 and now can replay it without it hopefully breaking. Hoping there's some overworld bugs fixed as well so a replay will be a smooth experience.

People commenting that you had to buy a whole new system to play it properly but if we're on NintendoLife we're all getting Switch 2's eventually anyway and it's a free patch so what's the issue here.

Still better than BDSP.

@Ralizah i think it's the torso.... she looks way too long/stretched out.

@HugoGED to be fair when you pick an art style that's ridiculously timeless and perfect for the genre it's hard to improve on it at face level. But when you look into polygon count and animation variety and the details on the tracks you start to notice how much better it looks, especially when we've only seen it through screenshots and Youtube compressed videos at this point. Can't wait!

@HugoGED simplistic doesn't mean bad. The game looks phenomenal. It's a cartoon racer, I don't know how they could improve on a whole ton more.

@sweetchuck a small minority on the internet doesn't really make much of a difference when it comes to Nintendo's decisions. The vast majority of people just want to turn the system on and click the game without even caring about the themes.

The only game I've wanted to replay is Colosseum so I'm already set. My only one "update" hope is that they change the physical/special split so some of the Pokemon are more usable but I'm not counting my breath (sorry Misdreavus and Feraligatr)

As someone who doesn't see the appeal of altering or modding games, I don't really see how Nintendo is in the wrong as all these commenters are saying

Say what you want about these games, the last hour or two in Area Zero with the story was worth it alone. Best story since the Black and White games (and S/M but they butchered Lusamine in USUM).

Visuals were obviously subpar but I'm not gonna blame Game Freak with their absymal time crunch nonsense the Pokemon games have to deal with, I'm just gonna hope they get more help next game maybe with Monolith Soft if they have the spare hands.

@StewdaMegaManNerd most of us will spend 3 seconds on the Home screen, I don't think I've ever cared about there being music or themes

Claude von Riegan jumping to the front of the line for my profile pics choice. (Also, copium hoping with Byleth, Edelgard, Claude and Dimitri that a Switch 2 edition is coming)

Manifesting Three Houses Switch 2 mode into the universe

Fire Emblem if it recaptures Three Houses magic (or if we get a Switch 2 edition), Smash Bros because duh, I'm interested to see how they'll take on Zelda going forward too.

(it's not Nintendo but I will be buying Octopath Traveler 3 the second it's announced)

@PharoneTheGnome what do you mean what happened to it? I've seen about a hundred comments online about waiting at Gamestop to go get it and nobody having issues pre-oredering one. It's just more convenient for 99% of people to do it from home, especially when it's during a work day.

Got it after trying for 2 hours after midnight (Walmart Canada went outta stock after 45 mins) and spent 3 hours of the work day trying Staples and Best Buy and finally snagged one!

Walmart Canada hasn't even had the "Pre-Order" button available for almost an hour now bruhhh tell me Canada didn't sell out in an hour.

Anyone else in Canada wanna have a "refresh the page 50 times" party til 2am?

@Ralizah popcorn is at the ready. People on gaming forums probably make up 1% of any game/systems population I don't know why they think things will fail and collapse because they have a couple hundred upvotes on Reddit

@stuie1234 let people do what they want with their money. If they like having physical and like collecting the boxes then just let them enjoy things.

@Bigmanfan ...by using pirated software.

How dare the company release their games as intended and not optimized so that 0.01% of the fanbase is satisified.

The only games I really wanted were the 2 Pokemon games, Wind Waker, Luigi's Mansion and I wanted to try out Fire Emblem without selling both kidneys and well, those were confirmed quick. The only other "maybe" for me would be Smash but Melee is just so bare bones after Brawl and Ultimate came out so I guess I'll choose that.

@mlt I bought Engage immediately because I absolutely loved Three Houses. An hour into the game I was like "Oh.... this is.... different"

That being said, the pre-battle music is just great. Will listen to that on repeat for hours.

@Princess_Lilly yeah same leak, the leaker also got access to Game Freaks employee files

Is anyone actually working on the followup to Skyrim? I haven't heard about anything Elder Scrolls related that hasnt been a re-release or remaster in years

@Vyacheslav333 the person leaked personal employee information. They deserve to be caught and jailed

I don't have a top 50 but I'd say after 8 years my go to's would be:

1. Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
2. Fire Emblem Three Houses
3. Octopath Traveler 2
4. Super Smash Bros Ultimate
5. Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
6. Octopath Traveler
7. Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition
7. Animal Crossing New Horizons
8. Ring Fit Adventure
9. Pokemon Legends Arceus

Then I've got a bunch of games that I enjoyed but wouldn't call "favourites" like Pikmin 4, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pokemon Shield and Violet, Celeste, Xenoblade Chronicles 3...

Overall a great 8 years, can't wait to hopefully revisit these games with Switch 2 upgrades!

@Rainz honestly I don't spent a lot on entertainment other than video games, and with the Switch I got... about 1500 hours in Smash, 400 hours in Fire Emblem, probably 500 hours combined in the 2 Zeldas, 400 hours in the 2 Octopath Travelers.... so for cost/time value over 8 years, if I get similar time spent on Switch 2 I can see that being pretty cheap in the long term.

@Tdx first time seeing a new console generation?

Just checked and same day for Canada! 699.99 for the Mario Kart bundle is my budget for the year for entertainment though

Praying that we see Diddy Kong race onto the scene and then winks at the camera, and Timber, Pipsy and Tiptup drive out behind him.

I can dream.

@Citano I'll finally be able to keep replaying Fire Emblem Three Houses without 30 second wait times every other event

@Anti-Matter forget the 60fps, does it take less time to load is all I care about. I could write a college thesis in less time than it takes to load the game (especially when Turnip price farming...)

@Member_the_game Same here! I've accepted that the people upset are the vocal minority and I will enjoy the 100 hours I'll be playing this game for the next couple years to come.

@HRdepartment 80 dollars. 90 dollars is misinformation. But also as I've mentioned before - you're not paying 80 dollars to stare at the box. If you get 100 hours of playtime, you're paying 80 cents per hour. For cost per hour of entertainment, I cannot fathom how many people seem to think video game pricing is a ripoff regardless of it's a 10-20 dollar difference.

First Mario Kart I'll be getting day 1! Day can't come quicker (provided us Canadians can GET the console)

Come on Wario Stadium finally! That was one of my favourite tracks in N64 back in the day. Hope it uses a bunch of tight interlocking routes to keep the same appeal as the original.

@TheBigK I'm hoping so.... it would interfere with my looking down south while eating popcorn up here in Canada.

Now just release a similar upgrade for New Horizons and Fire Emblem Three Houses pleeeease. I have 400 hours in Three Houses and half of it was spent on loading screens.

@nocdaes Absolutely 100%. In Ontario here, I used to pay 3.79 for a bag of milk (yes, we have bags of milk in Ontario and other provinces, we're kooky like that) in college, yesterday i bought a bag for 6.29. The fact that people are moaning and complaining about a 10 or 20 dollar difference on a LIFETIME PRODUCT is just.. like come on. Everything is going up. You cannot expect that if Nintendo is paying more for parts for their systems that they will not need to charge more for their products. It's simple business. But the internet just sees dollar go up and loses it.

@BaldB3lper78 100%. Most people who aren't on reddit or a Nintendo specific website will not care about 10 or 20 bucks. The Switch 2 will do fine.

It's a new console for the first time in 8 years - if I'm worried about spending an extra 20 bucks on a game, I'll just order 3 less beers at a pub one month. Problem solved.

@Wordbonder because they likely have data suggesting that barely anybody used the feature, so why would they put resources towards it? I never once touched the themes on 3DS. Making a simplistic UI isn't a downgrade, it's a logical decision.

I'm convinced only 0.1% of people actually care about the home UI. You turn on the Switch, click a game, and go. What do you need fancy colours or music for on a screen you spend 3 seconds on?

@johnedwin You're right. It costs $734 here in Canada.