JJtheTexan

The lore is that Nintendo gives absolutely no hoots about the lore for its Super Mario / Donkey Kong series.

I'm astonished how much better the final box art is. It's such a small change, but the adorable Pauline and her joyful expression just makes it so much more appealing to me. A-peel-ing. Ha ha.

Minecraft is among the best-selling third-party games on Nintendo Switch, and the NS2 has a mouse mode... surely a Minecraft upgrade for NS2 is coming.

@Iconoclysm "As confirmed by Digital Foundry, the system currently reserves 3 GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores for the OS, which will likely contribute to getting GameChat running without issues, although it's clear how the new feature could be rather demanding, as the system's SDK allows developers to test their games as if the feature is running without having an active session."

Source: Digital Foundry

It is my sincere hope that, at some point in the next year or two, Nintendo will allow developers to disable Game Chat and commit full system resources to their games instead of a superfluous technology that adds nothing to the vast majority of games other than a distraction.

The Spiny Shell is a useless item for mediocre-skill players like me, since I can only get it when I'm hopelessly toward the back of the pack and it does nothing at all to actually help advance the user's position. It's a griefer weapon for sore losers and I hate it with a passion

@Joekun 100% same experience here. Left stick on my launch day Pro Controller is completely unusable now, as it basically gives constant random direction inputs. Second controller is starting to show occasional signs of this as well. Every left-side Joy-Con I ever owned except the current ones (less than a year old) has drift, too.

Pro tip: don't buy Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour. Just watch a live-streamer play through it. You'll get all the content without paying for what should have been a pack-in title!

I first played The Witcher III on my Nintendo Switch. I couldn't put it down, and 150 or so hours later, I had completed everything in the package. I loved it so much, I bought it again (on sale) on my PS5 and once again completed it, though now in glorious 4K. Seeing and playing it the way it was meant to be shown made a huge difference, and Nintendo Switch 2 needs to get an enhanced version!

I saw this on the eShop today and I'm intrigued, but I really need to see a review before I can decide if I want to buy it.

@KociolekDoSyta same! Best racing game on the platform, hands-down.

@EarthboundBenjy no idea 😭

@EarthboundBenjy "Kirakira" (きらきら) means something like "sparkling" or "twinkle-twinkle" in Japanese. So it's "Sparkling Kids" or "Twinkle Kids" which makes sense given the series' Japanese name, Hoshi no Kirby (Kirby of the Stars).

@Supadav03 thanks! That's good to know, and kind of a shame. I understand a Nintendo-themed standalone park would probably not be sustainable, but I don't give a hoot about Harry Potter and the Minions make me want to commit violent acts lol

@8bitKirby Thanks. That's what I was afraid of. I really want to visit SNW, but I am a middle-aged guy with no kids and zero interest in the rest of the theme park. My S.O. doesn't like theme parks either, so dragging her out there and spending all that money to just hang out with a Mario mascot for a couple hours is probably not a good financial decision lol

@Supadav03 thank you! This is helpful

@Ziondood in your opinion, is Super Nintendo World worth the price of admission if you skip the rest of the Epic Universe park?

I have been wanting to check out one of the Super Nintendo World parks since the California one opened, but I have zero interest in the rest of the Universal theme parks. It doesn't seem like either one is stand-alone; I'd have to get a pass for the entire park and go to SNW from there. Not a great deal unless there's enough to keep me busy for 5 or 6 hours at SNW.

@Stwert no shame about that. I, too, HATE motion controls. I own both Super Mario Galaxy games, and I dragged myself through the first one on Wii. I did not like it very much, but I finished it because I was sure I must be missing something since everyone else said it was one of the all-time greatest games. I never bothered trying SMG2. If they ever release a controller-based port for Switch or NS2, maybe I'll give it a try.

There are some who say Ryo still wanders from town to town, forever asking everyone he meets:

"Do you know of a place where sailors hang out?"

The strongest testament to the quality of the Pokemon logo is that it has remained essentially unchanged for three decades. It's perfect.

I have given up hope of getting one on launch day. It is just not worth the hassle. Nintendo really let me down, but I can wait a few months (or whatever) if necessary. It still sucks, though.

@geiseldiesel we did and I totally forgot

@SBandy1 @OorWullie how did I forget this?!??! Thanks

The more I see of the new Donkey Kong design, the more I like it. Diddy looks good, too!

ULTRA COMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Here's hoping we get the original Killer Instinct for SNES, too!

I am absolutely still playing MK8 regularly! It looks like it will remain the best way to play classic Mario Kart for the foreseeable future.

@Axecon agreed. I still want it, because I'd love to play on an HD or 4K screen, but it's a shame they didn't include Bravely Second. By itself, it's not worth being a full-price game.

100%. I would LOVE to play this on NS2! I haven't bought it yet for anything else, so hopefully we get an announcement before too long.

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!