Jamie_R

720p in handheld mode and the full game on the card and I’m in.

A new Kirby game and an update on a sequel announced 5 years ago is the height of it. Hardly anything mind blowing but not a disaster either.

Yawn 🥱

The same old boring franchises getting rolled out time and time again.

Meanwhile Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding, Pilotwings, F-Zero and Excitebike haven’t had a new entry in years 😞

@Clarice This.

Complete waste of time making this mess. I'd buy it full price Day 1 if it was any good.

The quality of racing games on the Switch in general is shocking.

Bought Cruis’n Blast over the weekend. If you want fun arcade games buy it too. The Switch needs more of these types of games and not endless amounts of JRPGs and pixel platformers.

Yet another RPG - seriously, there isn't time for a normal person to play all the RPGs on the Switch. I'd prefer an action adventure, 3D platform (done right) or a new Sonic racing title.

Can we maybe have some new games, no? Is it really be too much to ask to get games built from the ground up on Switch?

Indies, remasters and RPGs.

A pretty dull line-up for September.

Cruisn’ Blast, which didn’t feature, is the best thing coming out in September.

Sounds like the game is unfinished then.

@sword_9mm I'm worried that half the game will be missing off the cart, it will be low-res in handheld mode, it won't have a time attack option, etc. All these things you wouldn't have had to worry about in previous generations.

@sketchturner That just shows where the racing genre has ended up in recent times - almost completely forgotten about. Really sad. All that was needed were some really good games. People love racers - look at the sales of Mario Kart! Why we haven't got a new Diddy Kong Racing, F-Zero, Wave Race and others is beyond me.

Would love to see a decent Jet Ski racer on Switch. So many JRPGs, indie roguelikes and pixel art platformers, and so few extreme sports titles with decent production values.

The name of this game is atrocious. Could you get any more generic?

Looks interesting if a little one-note.

Beats the never-ending flow of 2D pixel art platformers I guess.

The graphics are awful 😢

@Spagetti69 They give everything 8/10 🙄

@RichyM This whole ‘release broken game patch later’ culture is seriously eroding trust in developers. It almost feels like early adopters are getting punished.

8 out of 10? Reads more like a 6 😟

This is €21 on the eShop. I’d pay that (or even higher) for a physical copy if… it wasn’t in the shoddy state described in the review.

Either the developers are lazy or they didn’t have the resources available to optimise the game. Either way I’m not buying it.

60 stages sounds far too many. Less stages, better designed is preferable. Look at Sega Rally on the Saturn - four tracks only and each are perfection.

I'll reserve final judgement until I've played it through of course.

Yay. More 2D pixel-art Metroidvanias and Roguelikes - just what Switch needs 😐

Yay, just what we need - another JRPG 🙄

This looks a bit… weird 🤨

Racing games sell - let’s have some more!

Can't wait for this - exactly what switch needs. No high quality exclusive racers so far - this should be fun.

The low-detail indie ‘look’ is not for me, but it’s great to see more racing games on Switch all the same.

Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire is one of my favourite video games of all time. It’s hugely underrated but insanely addictive. You can play all afternoon or in short bursts. It’s a title I’ve long hoped for a follow-up to be released; to hear we nearly had a Dual Screen version saddens me. Perhaps some day the series will return…

This “release broken game, patch later” culture needs to end. Even worse are forced patches that make the game malfunction.

This is an excellent game and looks really good on Switch, especially in handheld mode, where so many games fail to impress these days. Highly recommended.

Sega Rally: Remake next!!

Absolutely baffled by this announcement 😐

The current Switch screen isn’t the problem with the system - it is its sluggish outdated CPU.

Prevarication 🙄

@Brownmonster I really like what you did with RR3 on Switch - it’s a fun game.

Whilst visually a bit sparse at times, and with unpredictable performance at times, it’s still one of the most enjoyable racing titles on Switch. Looking forward to the update you are eluding to.

With a bit more work and polish, and released physically, I’d happily buy it again.

An embarrassment of riches.

1080 Snowboarding though? 🤔 🏂

JRPGS have reached saturation point on Switch. This will likely struggle. Looks beautiful though.

We're surely near saturation point in Metroidvanias at this stage? Devs keep making these and just like the plastic guitar fad, 2D platform craze of the 16-bit era, grey/brown FPS boom in the 2000s, it will burn itself out and it'll be years before we see another.

Day 1

Can’t wait to play this title.

@The_New_Butler

Nintendo doesn’t want to court the people who made them what they are today. They’ll come back to us whenever sales are low on whatever their new hardware is or when Switch sakes decline. Then we’ll see all the hardcore franchises come out.

Just my take on it anyway.

@carlos82 Nintendo recycling content to save money and maximise profit. Very lazy, very greedy, and not good for their long term success.

I think you’re being a little generous in your summations. Look at that list of titles due out in 2021; all ports, remakes or safe sequels.

Where is the innovation? Arms was wildly innovative as was Splatoon when it came out. Kid Icarus Uprising was an immensely creative and novel update to a long dead franchise. Where are games like these?

Nintendo have gotten lazy. Arrogance breeds contempt. They are setting themselves up for a fall if they don’t begin to invest in new gaming franchises. Gimmick software like Labo doesn’t count. We need new mainstream software that genuinely surprises and delights us once again.

It was… okay. It could be a lot better. The amount of money Nintendo are making there’s really no logic in it investing to make more games and more long term profit.

All I see are reams of meaningless names.

Most of these games (but not all) will be low-production value efforts made for the dabblers and the curious that provide short term enjoyment at best. Eventually the indie scene will burn itself out due to saturation and lack of genuinely new, workable ideas.

In no rush for a new one having played the 3DS version relatively recently. What I would play and pay 50 quid for is a new racing game.

A new Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding or F-Zero and it would be the best E3 ever for me.

Was looking reasonable until they started farting out the power-ups 😾

@Mips

Sure did. Played it as a teenager in 1998 - a great year in gaming in general of course with classics like Banjo-Kazooie and Zelda: Ocarina of Time released on N64.

Whilst I have fond memories of Zelda and Banjo and will occasionally put them on for an hour to mess around in, I’ll still actually play 1080 for sheer enjoyment to this day. Some games have near infinite replayability and just never get old. I’m talking titles like Street Fighter II Turbo, Sega Rally Championship, Mario Tennis, Wave Race and so on; games that are easy to get back into and are always satisfying to play no matter how long you’ve had them, simply because they have that element of unpredictability and sheer fun.

What was achieved with 1080 on fairly rudimentary hardware is remarkable. There hasn’t been a game with such a realistic ‘feel’ in the snowboarding genre since. Astonishing game to this day.

My favourite video game of all time: 1080 Snowboarding 🏂

An absolute masterpiece. Control, level layout, art direction and playability on a different level. I even love the oddball music and weird unlockables. People are still playing it competitively to this day. How this was accomplished on N64 I will never know.

If it was to make a return it would be the best gaming news I could imagine. It would have to be realistic like the older game; I didn’t really like the more Arcade playing / American vibe of the follow-up as much as the first game, although that was still a fun title in its own right.

Nintendo has forgotten the people who made it the company it is today, but you never know!

The blurriness is strong with this one!

That title is so laughably generic. Game looks.... alright I suppose.

A new Kirby Air Ride would be interesting. 2Ds games are fine but I'd like to see something new personally.