JJtheTexan

Ordinarily, I wouldn't care much. It's a feature I don't want, so I won't use it. No harm, right?

Except that the NS2 was engineered with this needless feature in mind, so a portion of its processing power - which, theoretically, could have been devoted to PLAYING VIDEO GAMES - will instead be unused and wasted on the 90% of use cases that don't involve video chat.

Mark my words: by early 2026, unsold stock of NS2 cameras will be in bargain bins worldwide.

@BeefSanta on the contrary, in a larger city - especially one with a proven history of game development - they would find more visitors, more donors, and more support overall. Very biased here, but a real example is the National Videogame Museum here in Dallas, which has one of the world's largest collections of game history and rare games / consoles. It's been operating for years.

I still have not received an invite. I guess I'm not going to

@Mach_Rider TIL! Thank you

The 16-bit Ecco games are great in concept, good musically, OK visually, and executed poorly. I hope a remake takes another crack at the level design, rather than just giving everything HD visuals.

I wonder why the developers don't consider the Dreamcast / PS2 game to be the "third" entry. Maybe they mean a third 2D game (also excluding Ecco Jr.)?

I'm just embarrassed for Nintendo Life getting caught up in this. Do better, folks.

Considering Genki will be forced to settle (I have no idea how they could prevail in court), that loss combined with the tariff situation could spell doom for the entire company. What a stupid stunt

I couldn't find them when I visited the Louvre in 2021. I don't know if they were all being serviced or something, but I definitely looked for them. Hopefully they end up being auctioned off to collectors or donated to museums, rather than being destroyed.

Fandom is the absolute scourge of game information online. These ghouls have bought up most of the major gaming wikis, SEO bludgeoned them to death, and crammed all of their entries with intrusive ads and auto-play video garbage. Its "reset" of Giant Bomb spells the end of that long-great website.

Fandom, Valnet, and all the rest of the gaming media destroyers can burn in heck for eternity.

I'm a collector, and I have more than 300 physical Switch games. Key cards have zero value to collectors like me. The whole point is the ability to own and play the game for as long as the game cartridge and console are viable. My NES games still work 40 years after I bought some of them. Key cards will be useless whenever the Nintendo Switch 2 eShop closes at some point in the next decade or two.

It was fine. My enthusiasm for Mario Kart World and the Nintendo Switch 2 has fallen off a cliff, because

• we still don't know when we can pre-order it here in the USA
• we still don't know what the console will actually cost for American buyers
• the $80 price tag for MKW is, so far, not even remotely close to justified

I don't pre-order many games, but I pre-ordered the physical edition of this five months ago. Can't wait, and glad to see it's shaping up to be great!

If we can't have cool custom themes or memorable background music, at least let the UI be fast and responsive, I guess.

The "instant input" argument falls apart when you consider the controller has GL and GR buttons that could do that very thing in place of analogue triggers. Every other major platform has analogue triggers for a reason. Nintendo is just being stubborn and trying to save a few bucks on its Pro Controllers (but not passing the savings along to consumers).

The DualSense has analogue triggers, a touch-pad, and better haptics, yet costs the same as a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. If Nintendo is saving anything in manufacturing costs, it's keeping that as profit.

I'm a collector, especially of Nintendo games. I won't be buying any games on "key card." If the option exists, I'll get them on disc for PS5 instead.

I don't like doing this. I have hundreds of Nintendo Switch games physically, and I really wanted to expand my library with NS2. It doesn't look like that will be happening. What a shame.

Scott the Woz losing his mind with rage right now

I only recently got Sonic X Shadow Generations for Nintendo Switch. I really hope an upgrade is an option! Paying full price for the game again is a nonstarter.

I really like haptic feedback in controllers, and I have since the first time I felt it playing Star Fox 64 with a Rumble Pak on my Nintendo 64.

I love HD Rumble in my Nintendo Switch, though I agree most games don't use it particularly well. (Golf Story may be the best example of some really unique HD Rumble.) On my PS5, so far Astro Bot and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered are the only games I've played that really make the most out of it.

I imagine HD Rumble 2 will have a similar fate: really, really great for a handful of games, mostly underused on others.

Regardless, I always appreciate it when any kind of force-feedback is included.

This was one of the bigger surprises of the Direct, to me. I was under the impression the first game did not sell very well.

What an odd accessory. I have my doubts that this will be a success, but who knows

I was one of those who wanted it called Super Nintendo Switch, but I think they made the right call. Nintendo Switch 2 is easier for consumers (especially non-gaming parents and grandparents) to understand, and NS2 is a little bit easier to say as a shorthand than NSS, I guess.

@johnvboy same here. I'm actually on my second one (Launch Day controller succumbed to stick drift years ago) and I really need a new one, but I figured I could hold out until the NS2. Glad I did!

Oof, I own a LOT of the games on the "compatibility problems" lists. At least it appears Nintendo is taking this issue seriously, but I suppose this is a good reason to keep my original Nintendo Switch systems.

I'll be getting this, though mostly for Salamander III. We already have the first three Gradius games available on Nintendo Switch, plus Life Force and Salamander... this collection feels woefully incomplete without Gradius IV and V, or even just the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games.

"I wish for a physical release of this upcoming game!"
(Limited Run announces it will release the game)
(Finger curls on monkey's paw)

Game Informer is back!
(cheers, applause, happy faces)

And it's supported by crypto bros!
(blank stares, murmuring, someone coughs)

Seems he deleted the tweets

I can't believe we're getting an Uncharted game on Nintendo Switch

You're just as likely to come up with the correct release date by consulting horoscopes and tea leaves. Sheesh!

By the looks of it, Atari is also using AI-generated art for its video thumbnails.

It was fine, but my primary and perhaps petty complaint was that it has no Star Wars music whatsoever! It's just crummy knock-off music. How can you have a Star Wars game without any of the incredible film soundtracks?

They were too cheap to pay for licensing the music. It was a big turnoff for me and reminded me that I'm not really a Star Wars fan anymore, anyway.

Nintendo: (produces diagram showing two rectangles and the word "Label")

Fan detectives: "IT MUST BE FOR A GAMECUBE CONTROLLER!"

This looks AWESOME

I'm waiting on a physical North American release announcement, otherwise I'd pre-order the other game

I. Literally. JUST. Finished. 100-percenting the game. AGAIN. With all the new Castlevania DLC. I have 500 hours in this game. I thought I was done.

I THOUGHT I WAS DONE

@TCKuma same, same, same. Sigh

I didn't think I would like Balatro. I saw the reviews, but still didn't think it was for me. I picked it up when it got a physical release. I put more than 100 hours into it. I can't help myself. It's fantastic. I'm so grateful it came to Nintendo Switch.

I really like both covers! I went with North America for nostalgia's sake.

I'm a little annoyed that a relatively unknown museum, in a small city with no meaningful connection to the history of video game development at all, would manage to declare itself the host of the "video game hall of fame" and everyone just... goes along with this.

No major video game developer has ever been based in Rochester. Video games were not invented in Rochester. No famous game creator is from Rochester. It's just a random museum that decided to host the hall of fame because its founder collected dolls or something.

Imagine if the Baseball Hall of Fame was in Saskatchewan, which has no professional baseball team and has nothing to do with baseball history... or if the Hollywood Walk of Fame was at a museum in Barbados. Same thing!

I realize I'm probably the only Old Man Yelling at Cloud about this topic, but I would be less irritated if the video game hall of fame was in a city worth visiting. Put it in New York City, or London, or, I don't know, San Jose or Kyoto - the two most-important cities in gaming history! Not Rochester, which I'm sure is a fine city for those who live and work there but is not a place for tourists and video game enthusiasts.

I couldn't be less interested, but if it makes Minecraft fans happy, great! I hope they enjoy it.

I made several purchases from Strictly Limited Games and was satisfied... until I hit the above-described delays with Steel Empire Chronicles, Eschatos, and Puzzle Bobble: Everybubble! I have already gone through the stages of grief: anger, bargaining, etc. and am now at acceptance. I don't expect to ever receive my purchases, and since I don't live in the EU, I don't really have any recourse that I know of.

I am deeply disappointed with Strictly Limited because of their ineptitude with communication. I could tolerate the two years (and counting) of delays on getting my games, but their total wall of silence about delays - and infuriating advertisements about newer games that are getting shipped - is beyond unacceptable. It sucks.

I won't buy another game from SLG, and I am mostly done with this "limited pre-order or FOMO" nonsense created by Limited Run. Most of these limited print games have been getting releases in Japan or even on Amazon after the fact, so I'll just take my chances with those. But I'm done with the boutique publishers. They've failed me too many times.

This looks FANTASTIC. I really hope to see it on Nintendo Switch 2!

I can't believe a group of second-graders drew this

/j

I'm a Tetris collector and very happy to have a physical option for Tetris Forever, but the price for the Collector's Edition with the handheld is a bit steep. Plus, it's just Famicom ROMs that are already available on the Nintendo Switch anyway...

Oh, wow! What a surprise and a delight. I'm glad Nintendo hasn't forgotten the excellent 3DS music. With any luck, they'll remember how great 3DS themes were too...

I used my Launch Day Nintendo Switch until last year. The primary reason I upgraded to the OLED model was the battery in my original Switch didn't really hold a charge anymore. I strongly prefer the OLED screen, but I guess I can live with an LED display on the Nintendo Switch 2.

Honestly I think this is more about Nintendo having an excuse to sell us a marginally-better and more expensive NS2 OLED in 2027 or so than about saving money on the launch model.

MiiVerse would only work if heavily moderated, as the author pointed out. Nintendo does not want to spend the resources on building and moderating its own private social network again, with perhaps 10 times more users than the original version, with no real return on that investment that I can think of.

I'm surprised the game made it to Switch at all. The lack of gyro support is disappointing, and the 30fps is what I would expect. I'm on the fence as to whether I'll go with Switch (my primary console) or PS5. I'll wait and see if it gets a physical release on either.

A lot of us will have to buy some sort of Nintendo-branded lap desk to use the mouse functionality in docked mode. Aside from that, I think this really could be the Switch 2's "killer app" in terms of unique features. I'm excited!

@Serpenterror that's what I thought. If the collection really is of the console versions, it's a hard pass for me. If it's the original arcade ROMs, easy purchase, especially for Night Strikers (which I think has never gotten an arcade-perfect console port).

I'm a big baseball fan and primarily play on my Switch, so yeah, I'll be getting it... but I really hope the game will have a Switch 2 performance enhancement patch.