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His design and moves are so awesome in TOTK it was criminal to underutilize him. Demon King? Secret Stone?

@ParrakerriRush I can no longer hear or read the word “stone” because my brain automatically goes Secret Stone? Demon King? 🤣

I’m honestly tired of leaks, I’d have loved to be surprised with an official announcement in a Direct, rather than now watching that Direct with the expectation of it showing up.

Yes but it would 100% have leaked anyway so it’s fine.

Really excited to play Ocarina of Time again with modern graphics and controls.

However I must say, the rest of this year’s lineup is looking a bit weak at least for my own liking, pretty much I’m only interested in this remake and Splatoon Raiders, hoping June’s Direct reveals more surprises…

@Pillowpants I don’t think so, they having more cash flow doesn’t mean they can start loosing significant money on every hardware sale, Nintendo is even more exposed than Sony as they don’t have a manufacturing division and part of their business is profiting from every console sold.

Many forget that Switch 1 already went up and in the last financial report they did warn a price increase for Switch 2 might be necessary if the RAM situation doesn’t improve.

Why are some people cheering on this because Sony will sell less consoles? Are you really that naive?

Nintendo will HAVE to raise prices, the VRAM situation is just out of control, if even Sony who has more of a reputation of being a hardware manufacturer is being forced to raise prices it’s inevitable that Nintendo does the same thing eventually.

@Krlozgod No, Digital was $70 and it went down to $60 while physical remained at $70.

All $20 upgrades have felt like a scam tbh, attempting to sell this game again for $80 is just laughable.

Saw the headline and immediately assumed physical price was going up and digital stayed the same, glad to see it was the other way around.

Lol people already assuming lots of things and some even are celebrating that ‘Nintendo is doomed’ all while every single article for Takashi Mochisuki has been denied by Nintendo shortly after, guy literally lives off farming hate and spreading lies…

I tried out the update and even got the DLC when it launched but I can’t shake the feeling that I’m done with the game after 6 years and 300+ hours. It’s definitely time for a new one in 2026-2027.

2 movie Directs before a proper Direct 😭

My DS Lite is long gone, it got traded for a DSi, then a DSi XL, 3DS, 3DS XL, New 3DS, iPod Touch (my bad), New 3DS XL in red and finally a New 3DS XL on blue/galaxy style that I still keep and treasure to this day.

This is the 40th anniversary celebration y’all

Looks great, but $20 for the upgrade might be a bit too much.

Btw, seems they actually fixed the Joy-Cons, it’s been more than 6 months and there’s not a single widespread report of Joy-Con drift, and you know the media (currently monetizing on Nintendo’s hate) would post it in a heartbeat.

Sometimes I wish Nintendo takes storytelling and the timelines they set up themselves a bit more seriously…

And this is why I’m gonna avoid buying third-party games on Switch 2, storage is an issue as it’s still more expensive to buy a 1 TB microSD Express card than a 1 TB SSD.

Looks gorgeous already, and again, I’m optimistic in this being a good movie and something worth of the franchise, that won’t stop some people being obnoxiously miserable…

I’m optimistic, the director is a great one, casting seems well done, scenery and costumes from this little sneak peek already looks on point, if they can nail the story and soundtrack I’d be served.

Nice, I just did my first “purchase” on the Nintendo Store app lol

This kinda makes me wish they made another 3D Mario instead of DK Bananza, and I liked it but nowhere near any Mario game, is just felt more of a collectaton instead of a platformer most of the time.

Waiting to play this and then my first replay of TOTK!

If I can say it in two words it’d be: 🚩

Yeah, for me it was an immediate red flag…

The price is egregious but I would be lying if I said I’m not excited to replay this masterpiece.

Overall 7/10, it’s baffling how Mario Kart World wasn’t even mentioned for an update or expansion while DK Bananza got an expensive DLC for one bonus level just weeks after release and Pokémon got another DLC before even releasing the game, egregiously selling cut content from the base game separately.

I like the games, Mario Galaxy, Metroid and Hades II are my standouts but greed at Nintendo is worst than ever (btw you can’t use vouchers on MP4 or Mario Galaxy).

And I will just watch all cutscenes on YouTube, played through Age of Calamity and it’s definitely not my type of game as I really struggled to finish it, but cutscenes and soundtrack were even better than BOTW’s.

Announcing a DLC for an unreleased game always leaves a bad impression, we all know it’s cut content from the base game being sold separately…

This is way too overpriced even tho these are my favorite games of all time, between this and showing more paid DLCs than new games I’m really not liking how greedy Nintendo is starting this generation.

Btw what a 🚩 that Mario Kart World isn’t even mentioned for an update or DLC.

I have a feeling there’s no 40th anniversary “celebration” at all.

Any gaming media outlet outside of IGN is excellent news, they were allowed to own way too much.

Honestly, I don’t expect absolutely nothing, remember how Nintendo “celebrated” Zelda’s 35th anniversary…

$399 for the Switch 1 OLED is just WILD, and it’s just a matter of time for the Switch 2 to go up in the Americas, what really, really sucks is that Canadians and Latin Americans are also paying for what the people in the US elected…

As I said earlier, it’s easily the most underwhelming Direct since 2015 specially in the context of a brand new console that launched less than 2 months ago, plus the game-key card issue continues to grow making it very clear this is how 90% of physical third-party games will be handled.

With all this game-key card BS and storage being insanely expensive I will be buying even less third-party games than with the Switch 1 and I only got around 15 of non-Nintendo games since 2017…

Worst Direct I’ve seen since 2015 ngl…

@MrCarlos46 They have never ever done a Direct after September, if we don’t get a general Direct on September we won’t get it until February/June of next year…

I guess there really is nothing first-party for this year aside from Metroid Prime 4 and Pokémon Legends….

With all these game-key cards and storage currently being this expensive I think I’ll just avoid third-party games altogether on Switch 2 same as I did with the Switch.

It’s great the Switch 2 is getting third-parties almost at launch and that the console is able to run them at all but with these limitations it really doesn’t make sense to buy the SW2 version if you have any other console or PC.

Can it improve gameplay by adding Galaxy 2 pretty please?

@Willo567 It could be awful, it could be near perfect, we don’t know yet but the fact we’re having this discussion at all is because they’re literally warning that performance may drop, even if it only drops 1 FPS it’s still such a baffling warning to have for the second big exclusive for a brand new console, that’s my whole point.

If Sony or Microsoft dared to say this about ANY of their first-party games they’d be roasted to hell but here half of the fanbase is willing to excuse it.

@Willo567 Never said “horrible unplayable performance” to begin with and of course I’ll save my final judgment after playing it next week as I already have it preordered and paid for, I just find it baffling to be warned that the second big game for a brand new console already has performance issues.

@N00BiSH I agree that this launch has been scrutinized by the smallest and most insignificant things, but you don’t really see an issue with a first-party game already having performance issues a month after launch? Depends on how bad it runs it might be concerning for future games since this was supposed to be a Switch 1 development that moved over to SW2.

This is bothering me way more than it should, the team hasn’t shipped a game in 8 years, development started on Switch 1 and moved to Switch 2 and despite all that they actively warn you performance isn’t great? Then delay the game until it’s ready…

Also, it’s only been one month since the console launch and first-party games are already struggling with performance? This isn’t a good look at all.

So if a Pro Controller fails you’re better off just buying a new one and spending $85 again… yikes.

Yup 13/13. I seriously love this game and the first one as no other, my favorite games of all time.

If I find some game I want to try out at $20-30 with still the possibility of resell it unlike a digital game sure I’d buy one.

At full price never, ever.

I’m already reading lots of people outright blaming Nintendo for this, completely ignoring the fact that the president of the US enacted a trade war against the rest of the world…