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On this schedule of uploads the 7th game will be on Friday, the 31st of August. That's the first day of PAX which the collection is also confirmed to show up at. They'll definitely give us the date then.

I feel like Marvel/Disney probably has an insane grip on the marketing, from announcing this at a Nintendo Direct instead of EVO a month later, to not giving a release date at EVO, or the excessive trailers. Still, they are building hype from me as this was one of my most wanted ports to the Switch (I mean, since then I just put these games on my Steam Deck Oled but I'm still gonna double dip on Switch and Steam).

Betting a KOF collection, definitely the first ten, maybe throw in XI or even XII at that point. Could also just be XI, or the XIII Rollback update on PC.

Not betting on a new game with DLC for XV still on the way but hey it would be cool.

Preordered day 1, haven't touched the demo yet just because I've been busy but at this point I might as well wait.

Man a Nintendo social media would be so cool, too bad they haven't tried it before...

@ninfriendo_1973 there isn't any but there's also practically no info on the console in general, we don't even know for sure if it's a handheld.

I think it should at least come close to the Steam Deck as the mere performance of it alone has made me abandon my Switch except for exclusives.

I paid $700 for my Steam Deck OLED 1 TB (after tax) and an extra $80 for a dock. It is absolutely worth every penny.

If the Switch 2 can rival the Steam Deck's power, comes with an oled screen, has backwards compatibility, and releases with some first party bangers I'm absolutely in at any "reasonable" price.

Besides, I guarantee that every single one of y'all here owns at least 5 full-priced first party games on your Switch; that's $300 right there (even if you got them all on sale for $40 that's still $200). I would rather put that money towards a much better, more capable console than a handful of games.

Insane prices for micro sds, my Walmart put the 512 gb Nintendo ones on sale for $30 and I got one for my steam deck oled and another for my switch oled

Very much looking forward to this game and especially these little demos. Got my physical copy coming in day 1.

Now Nintendo give us an English physical release of the remakes or at the very least an eshop sale

I'll still definitely be watching for a SF6 Terry trailer or the MVC collection but it just seems like it might be pretty boring

The amount of Dreamcast stuff is really weird, would be fitting for a Sonic Adventure remake or something but that kinda stuff would be like, I don't know, if 3D World + Bowser's Fury had a collectors set with GameCube stuff because Bowser Jr. debuted in Sunshine. The Dreamcast case also reminds me of those fake games you can buy for the system that are just emulated.

@SillyG exactly, now I'm not interested in Sonic much but whenever I buy games I'm much more inclined to spend an extra $30 for a steelbook, soundtrack and an art book. Not $250 for a whole box of "stuff."

Very interesting that Marvel vs Capcom Infinite is on here, and next to Spider-Man 2 and TTYD no less.

If the list included Steam that might make more sense considering the modding scene for the game is exploding, but maybe the interest in the series has been revived thanks to the collection and people just wanna play the most recent entry.

UMVC3 is MUCH better though.

@Jackomorgan I was gonna say, if there's just more games playable it might not mean much (I mean, how did it NOT get announced at Evo???) but then it said there'd be "discussion" on it and I feel like that has to be it. Already have my Switch preorder in as well as Steam.

@SillyG I agree, weighing is something I don't have much of a problem with. I went to Galaxy's Edge and weighed the red Kyber crystals in my hand trying to feel this difference for a black kyber crystal, which were inserted into red cases at about 1/25-1/100 odds and included a tiny slip of paper as a sort of certification slip.

I bought three and ended up with a black, and the other two reds used the thick molds so they were definitely heavier. But that's something that anyone can do, especially kids. Bringing third party tools into the mix feels scummy.

I went to Walmart a few months ago and there was this man using what looked like a bomb to scan/weigh packs of Disney trading cards. He was telling the people working there he was "just checking something."

I walked up to him and told him that wasn't cool and that kids buying these booster packs or whatever they are won't get any rare cards and he told me it's "not my problem" and I was pretty shocked.

It's insane what greed does to people, glad I dipped out of the trading card scene years ago.

That's interesting but man, why not make the two games cross over? Unless they do and that's the "exclusive content" for grabbing both.

Maybe like a Zelda Oracle thing where you get a secret code after beating one to change the story in the other. Also locking not only playable characters, but characters with "their own story" to preorders is an odd choice, though it'll surely be available within a few months of release.

Ok so we are definitely getting a release date soon.

On their Twitter they were sort of "counting down" until something by posting 3-4 tweets on each game, and after they hit the Punisher they uploaded the video on Cota.

My guess is we'll see a release date after the next 6 videos, but how often will they be uploaded? Even if it's once every three days, that puts us before the end of August.

My initial guess was a September release date but a release date a month ahead is pretty crazy, but then again Nintendo just ANNOUNCED a game with a physical release the next month (Emio).

Gamescom is in a week and it's confirmed Terry will be playable in SF6 there. That's pretty much confirmation that they're going to drop a gameplay trailer soon, and the characters themselves usually come out less than a month after, putting Terry at a mid September release.

Capcom's September is already looking pretty good for rereleases/remasters, with Ace Attorney on the 6th and Dead Rising on the 19th, so my guess is we see Terry release in late September.

That puts the MVC collection in either a pretty stacked month for Capcom, OR a wide open October. I doubt they'd release it any later than that, my guess is the 18th.

I might pick up Tempest 4000, I already have it on the Atari VCS but man it runs so poorly. Atari 50 is also well worth that price, also with the DLC in a few months it would probably save a few bucks vs getting the new $40 package. I'm going with the steelbook edition though.

I picked up a PSVR2 headset for $350 as my first virtual reality with the PC adapter so I've been playing Half Life Alyx and Five Nights at Freddy's Help Wanted. Very cool technology and I'm glad I waited.

On the Switch, I just got the Doom upgrade for free so I might mess around with that, still need to beat Mario RPG and TTYD, and I also picked up that Mushiemasha(???) arcade shoot em up that is getting delisted.

Went ahead and picked it up with gold points. I don't buy much software on the Switch anymore since I got my Steam Deck, but being able to prop up the Switch and play games vertically on such a nice oled screen makes it worth it to me.

These are good games but they are nowhere near worth the $90-$100 it comes out to be after shipping, heck I paid $50 for all of them on Steam and I almost wish I waited for it to drop further.

more than a YEAR?

@Ace-Lucario I am in the same boat, the only GBA game I own is Final Fantasy 6 that I play on a ds lite and I bought the Pixel Remasters on Steam for $50. I have a good couple of hours in the GBA one and I'll probably just continue through that version, it has some exclusive bosses that I'm looking forward to.

@Vyacheslav333 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the entire point of the NeoGeo AES/MVS is that it's the exact same game rom on the cartridge so the console versions were nearly always arcade prefect? It was the BIOS or something on the console that made the game a "console" version which usually just meant more customization from a menu vs dipswitches on an arcade cabinet.

Unless this game specifically had any major differences it's pretty much the arcade version, you might not be inserting a coin but the gameplay should be the exact same.

5/10 is pretty low for this. This is a pretty much perfect port with rollback, no emulation issues, all the secret characters and minibosses playable, training mode, an art gallery.

It might not be the best game but it's still very good and does a lot of really cool things gameplay wise. There are some crazy things you can do with Supers at Maximum level, and none of the characters are banned at a competitive level because it's all so broken and fun.

I would say it's a 7/10 at worst with an 8/10 or even a 9/10 if you are a fighting game guy. It does nothing wrong besides the original game not being the perfection that CVS2 is, but for a rerelease of this game it hits all the marks and then some.

Put all the updates and DLC on a single cart and I'd pay $60 for it, haven't played it before but heard it's fantastic.

It won't go down to $20 but at this point you can get any game you want for $40 within 2-3 months of release (the new Luigi's Mansion hit $45 on Woot with free Prime shipping) and there seems to be a sale every month so there's really no reason NOT to just permanently lower the price to $40 on some of these games.

Heck Mario Kart 8 Deluxe hit THIRTY at Walmart not too long ago iirc

I've got about $10 worth of gold points sitting around from digital code deals (400 points from Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity + Expansion Pass from Gamestop for $13 price glitch alone) and was heavily considering dumping them on this but now I'm glad I waited.

The only Nintendo Lego I've bought is the Mario 64 ? Block, got it on sale around $120 I think and that thing is so cool. Would love to see more worlds built in that micro-scale.

@EVIL-C Yes, but that's Pix'n Love for the EU (unless I'm missing something). There's a chance they just do a regular release for the US through Limited Run but if it's like the KOFXIII rerelease there'll probably be a small deluxe edition

Real shame it's Limited Run doing US distribution. Hopefully they don't release a cool collector's edition that tempts me to buy from them again

@Zeebor15 I'm a big fan of the NGPC, have a good couple of games for the system.

Off the top of my head, there's Faselei, which is currently $200+ for an English copy and I believe that's SNK first party.

Beyond that the games are either second/third party games or too reliant on Japanese to be enjoyed by an English speaker, but they did put that KOF board game in the 2nd collection so who knows.

I would absolutely LOVE a 3rd selection with some of the REALLY rare games. Faselei, Fantastic Dreams Cotton, Eternal Dungeons, maybe even translate SVC Card Fighters 2 or Biomotor 2. But that's probably not happening

We WILL be watching

I'm probably the only one out there with Crystalis as their favorite NES game lol

I'm not a big "oh every game should get DLC/massive updates" kinda guy (totk or Pikmin 4 doesn't need it) but this is really looking to be the kind of game to really benefit from a big update or two. It would piss some people off not including it in the cart, but add some new games, maybe even third party stuff like Mega Man or Castlevania. Maybe a mode or two extra as well, there's only so much you can squeeze out of 13 NES roms

I can see myself going ham and getting all the collectibles in a week or so, then leaving all the cool deluxe stuff on my shelf. What would make this game so much more worth it to me would be if the games were actually included.

It would be nice to be able to play NES games without connecting to the internet, but more than that, I really would want to try my hand at basic SMB speedrunning with an online leaderboard

So glad they finally fixed the color of Sonic's balls, I knew something was off.

Still so weird that they put him and all the other Sonics in as DLC when they've been in nearly every other game as unlockable characters

My money's on "mistake" but this is probably going to be on the Switch 2

I haven't played the first but I have a good couple of hours in 2 on PC and it's pretty good.

If the overarching story was just a little more exciting I'd probably play it more but I guess that might happen once I get all 8 of the party members

Theatrhythm Final Bar Line's DLC finally went on sale (I believe for the first time) so I'm revisiting that and maybe some Infinite Wealth or Octopath II on the PC/Steam Deck side

@Daniel36 So I found the interview I was thinking about, and while the showrunner didn't objectively say that it wasn't canon, he did say that the show does "exist" in the universe but they aren't involved with the movie in any way and they don't expect the movie to address anything that has happened in the show.

So who knows, I'll watch it regardless

I own like 5 or 6 copies of Persona 5 and haven't put more than an hour into it, I need to get on it sometime...

Semi-unrelated but I can't believe the new Karate Kid movie won't include the SIX SEASONS of Cobra Kai in its story as canon. CK is the best reboot of an 80s movie series I've ever seen and it's insane how they're just throwing out seven years' worth of characters and ongoing story development (the last part of the last season comes out within a few months of the next movie).

Back on this game, it looks not that bad, better than the Cobra Kai games (ironically) so I could see myself picking this up when it drops to the ~$10 range.

Watch the US get nothing, again

I would consider the Game Boy Color as its own handheld personally, had enough exclusive games.

Looking forward to whatever Nintendo decides to port these last few years, would kill for a first party GameCube/Wii dump at <$20 apiece. Really make the Switch the ultimate Nintendo console.

I am actually very much looking forward to what this could be, especially if it's being published (or even made internally) by Nintendo. A really dark horror IP would be interesting to see from Nintendo as I don't even really have anything that comes to mind when I think of horror from Sony or Microsoft.

With that being said, Emio for the next Smash??

@PikminMarioKirby It has a Japanese Nintendo sub-website, not sure if third party games get that treatment

Oh man please let this be a first party Nintendo thing I yearn for more mature games with Nintendo quality

@ekwcll that's... exactly what I'm saying lol. But yeah, the Switch I think is definitely the PS2 of this generation

I don't think it will ever beat the Switch, they're still going to be releasing games and producing the Switch even with the Switch 2 out, I think the Switch can hit the best selling console of all time.

I don't think that it's worthy of that title with how underpowered it is and how terrible the controllers are, but there is no denying that it singlehandedly revived the handheld gaming industry, has some incredible games, and inspired near-perfect devices like the Steam Deck (even if SNK did the docking handheld thing first).

I've been saying this for a while, but I bet we'll see a massive emphasis on "retro" titles and 3rd party games on the Switch 2. Instead of "the Nintendo Switch has games" I bet they'll say more of "your favorites on the go," because I've been playing more Nintendo games on my Deck than anything else.

I always wanted the Switch to be everything Nintendo on a portable device and they never leaned into it enough; now I play Mario Strikers Charged on a Steam Deck Oled. Maybe we'll see a New 3DS scenario where we get GameCube and other exclusive systems ported to the Switch 2.

But even with that, the Switch definitely appeals to the casual audience, almost as much as the Wii and I believe that is because it's a handheld. But if there's anything I know about parents and video games (and honestly most people in general) nobody's itching to replace the handheld they already have that works. And the Switch definitely works (Joycon aside).

This is "Extra Game Styles" all over again