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@AmplifyMJ Yep. When I'm loving a game then a DF article pops up moaning about how many pixels and frames, it's all a bit of a downer for me

@AverageGamer Fair assumptions based on rumour...

...have...have you heard yourself...?

@Dunkin It's not about being a certain type of fan lol. More a certain type of person. I am just disinterested in this sort of thing as much as they are about Nintendo.

Digital Foundry are hardly fans of the Switch. They sound positively miserable when talking about it (and the condescending chuckles at their design philosophy is unbearable.) Why report them like we should be listening? I mean, the Switch 2 is better than what they speculated and still they patronise it. Remember when they thought Tears of the Kingdom was running on Switch 2? Absolutely zero appreciation.

My shard has been hooked in to my Switch since day one lol. Cyberpunk is preem, chooms!

@Reztobi I have done for decades. Everyone just seems really slow on the uptake.

Jeez! They set their expectations to record breaking levels as it was! Incredible.

@TruestoryYep Then they must think MK World and Switch 2 is the best thing ever! So maybe you are right!

PlayStation is on life support! And I can’t believe Japan is sleeping on Cynerpunk.

Could not disagree more about Zelda notes!

Dying Light became my favourite Zombie video game. I would love a Switch 2 upgrade / version

Glad I picked this up while it was on sale. It's reeeally good.
(/jk for those that need it.)

Means nothing to me lol.

We need a Direct for the next Mario Kart. Why stop at 2 versions?

Cyberpunk complete on shard edition deserves its glory!

So don’t buy from eBay. That’ll show the scalpers

The screen is better than what they were speculating it was going to be. These grown men are sucking the joy out of gaming and make it far more serious than it actually is lol. Sad.

I don't get how anyone can expect anything from Nintendo. Just enjoy how prolific they are. I get it, folk (especially Youtubers chasing clout) really want to try to 'get' Nintendo and predict what makes 'perfect sense' for them, but that building of artists think waaay more intelligently than "we need to make a 3D Mario game."

I want a 3D Mario game as much as the next guy, but instead of thinking it needs to be a launch title to rake in those sales (perfect sense) I'm happy to wait till they have a new idea that suits him. I mean, they have said time and time again, they come up with a game idea then decide which ip suits best.

Absolutely. Love the system. But come on third party publishers, you are letting us all down (and as a result your bottom line.)

If they want to conquer Nintendo fans, they need to appreciate the fans and give them what they want. They conquered the SNES pretty much. It's doable. But we love games to the point of wanting to hold them, not use them and have nothing to show for it.
(And yes I get it, I'm old school and the Switch is so popular it's going to have more nodern mainstream players who don't seem to think like that. But they will never match Nintendo on their own system again until they start following their example of physical media.)
It's easy for a CEO to think in terms of cost cutting rather than maximising sales. Diffcult decisions my a$$. They need firing.

I’m in the Uk. People I work with are struggling to get hold of one. It’s a case of them dropping on! Honestly incredible how folk don’t get commerce and come up with horseshit to justify their denial. Devs struggle with Switch 2? Tell that to projected. If you can’t see Switch is in line for continuing Switch success then just keep quiet and play more games lol. Nintendo are the most popular I can ever recall! (And that’s a long time ahem)

@Anti-Matter That's called a 2 horse race. Now granted, that second horse must have been shot in the paddocks.

You see what happens when you don’t make a sequel that’s more of the same but ‘better’. 2 Mario karts in most charts is a credit to their game design.

We aren’t made of money and I certainly don’t buy pieces of plastic with nothing in them!

I'm not holding my breath for anything Switch 2 related outside of a Switch 2 upgrade for a game or two. Nintendo like to announce things themselves and Capcom usually focus on the Playstation crowd.

When Pauline started singing the original DK theme tune, I don't think I have ever been hit with a more beautiful wave of nostalgia. Honestly, what a Direct. Oh and the calypso style remix of the hammer music from the original arcade sounded ace!

Can't wait to play this. Love the challenge levels. Everything looks lovely!

I want to be able to chain combos. Jungle Beat (the best DK game and if you disagree you were playing it wrong!) was at its best when you worked out how to clear a level without touching the ground. I really hope it captures that buzz in some way.

No discerning Nintendo fan puts MKDD in second place lol. We were begging for a 'normal' MK back in the day lol. To be honest, the write up of it doean't convince anyone it's deserving of it's place when you yourselves mistake it's main unique game idea as...a gimmick.
And World was done dirty. Even with a more positive write up. Weird.

I play through 50cc then 100cc and get three stars on every GP (I mean, on first attempt usually, it's not hard.) before even seeing 150cc. It's a ritual because after that...let the chaos begin. You never go back lol. (Unless someone has bever played it.) And besides, I'm old school. That kind of thing adds longevity to your game. If you fast track through anything, no game is worth buying day one.

@Ploppy You'll go blind!

I think the more friends you have with one, the more essential it becomes. Give it an 8 lol.

I used to love Rockford and Thing on a Spring fighting over the margins in ZZap64 magazine

Welcome to Nintendoland.
Population: Nintendo

Dying Light and Dragon's Dogma both seem to run at a stable frame rate. (I'm no Digital Foundary mind lol)

@8bit-Man Fair enough. I don’t condone a mob mentality 😀

@8bit-Man it’s not a witch hunt reminding someone that if they don’t have something nice to say don’t say anything.

@8bit-Man we are all aware of his opinion and if you fall for a guy on a Nintendo site liking kiddy games but playing a ps5 (talk about stereotyping Nintendo is for kids) then that’s on you. It’s insessant.

@Anti-Matter Fella, you started that wall of text basically saying anyone on a Nintendo centric site is defending Nintendo. That betrays your mindset off the bat. If everyone is defending then you are positioning your objective opinion as an attack lol. I’m happy you enjoy your PS5. I get we are a lovely community here better than most but come on. You are in the wrong room lol.

@sethfranum Careful, he'll play the victim instead of reading the room.

@DTfearTheBEARD I have a Switch 2. I think the console is lovely and way better than I expected. But, I am about the games not the hardware. Mario Kart is everything I wanted it to be. You check out any MK9 prediction forum and I was wanting more platforming (I mean, it's a Mario game!) Cyberpunk is just brilliant. I don't like first person shooters and I'm hooked in! (Love how some quests have foreshadowing to some of the moral choices you have to make later. Really intelligent) Aand Breath of the Wild is lush (still) Absoultely chill game. Should keep me going for a while

@Paraka I'm not sure that's correct. Wii was fully backwards compatible with Gamecube. WiiU could play Wii games. I'll not even mention their handhelds. So the narrative that Nintendo doesn't do bc is a bit disingenuous. It maybe has sometimes felt a bit clunky because home console form factors tended to change lol. Still, I am blown away with how good it is (better than I thought it was going to be if I'm honest) and super excited to see what Nintendo craft over the next 8 years.

@DTfearTheBEARD If I had loads of disposable income, I'd have a Steam Deck too lol.

Someone remind me how many units Steam Deck has sold in it's lifetime? Maybe they'll shut up too.

People complaining that Switch 2 isn't different enough;
1) Don't appreciate how good a concept Switch was and are probably still in denial of how successful it was. It was so good they are still riding that train.
2) Don't know exactly what they actually wanted it to be lol.

It's an opinion that really takes Nintendo's creativity for granted and trivialised to the point of it ignoring all the little touches they've added to Switch 2. Infuriating. Especially since the console they probably prefer hasn't really evolved since it's first iteration lol.

@Anti-Matter We get it, you love your PS5. Jeez, it's getting tiring now.

@Spaceman44 well I was talking about launch but your post is meaningless without giving those reasons 😀

It’s looking like the Switch is going to sell twice as many units as the PS5 which is amazing!

'A little bit better.'???

It's LOADS better! How it feels, how it looks, how it plays are all a leap forward. Next gen Nintendo is always the most exciting but the console can happily dip it's toes into whatever everyone else is doing at the moment.

Have I managed to miss the review??