Jayenkai

My heart sinks when I read this sort of stuff, and the past few days has been nothing short of horrific, with SO many more than just Romero's team getting disbanded. It's shocking what Microsoft have done to the industry as a whole.
D'you remember when Microsoft announced the Xbox, all those years ago, and there was a general consensus of "Microsoft doing games...? Nah!!"
But they proved us wrong, and Xbox 1 (the first one 1, not the second one 1) and 360 really were cracking systems with some amazing games.

I don't want to blame the entire shambles on their console naming scheme, but .. .. I also kinda do!

Labo 2, Labo-babies

Is this possibly a "playing handheld whilst plugged in using a high powered charger" issue, because even my iPad gets super toasty like that. If you can use a lower than usual charger, like your old Switch 1 adapter, maybe see how it does with that. The charge might not hold for "hours and hours" but should at least cope with the amount of time you're likely to play for.

Can we have Richard Jacques back, please?

... and get out of the car, Sonic!!!

Gosh, so many letters on that. Each one being modelled at the perfect ratio and scale to look extreme and amazing from every angle.
Such high quality workmanship.
And the weight.. Wow. Look at the weight of it.
So glorious.
What do we reckon, £8000?

@KoopaTheGamer SmileBASIC FTW!!!

@The_Nintend_Pedant Yeah, you should only have to "tutorial" once. If you find your game needs more than one tutorial.. .. Maybe fix your game?

I do love me some PuyoPuyoTetris. As does my mother. I've bought PS3, PS4, Switch and Steam editions of both PuyoTetris 1 and 2 ..
I don't think I can honestly bring myself to pay for it again.
... And adding a Mouse mode certainly isn't going to make me do so.

I've been sucked back into the worlds of No Man's Sky, and can't escape. Send help.

Good lord, that's a tongue twister..

I do worry that this particular app is going to grow at an alarming rate. Hopefully they see the sense to allow individual game download/deletion, or it's going to get rather silly.

@The_Nintend_Pedant .. so, the two player mode from the Amiga, where you could hook two mouses up to play..
.. if only we had a modern day system that supported two mouses..

Worms World Party on GBA... Is that the one where, upon first play, and my worm fell through the floor.. so I complained on their forum, only to have someone ask me if I knew how hard it was to write games, (.. me?!!) and I replied with "It shouldn't be hard to not make characters fall through the floor, especially when one of the goals of the game is to try to not land in the water."
... And then got banned from their forum..

... is it that one?

WAN Show's gonna be fun, this week, huh...?

On the one hand, evil, rawr, etc.
But on the other hand. .. Have you guys ever read the blurb at the bottom of any of their emails? I kinda think this might just be their sense of humour being taken out of context.
Any "you're holding it wrong" comments were probably accompanied by "but we'll give you a refund if it matters that much" kind of snarky comment. I'd imagine..
I dunno. Having read a number of the email blurbs, I can imagine that being the case.

@The_Nintend_Pedant You know what truly baffles me about MKW..? Why is there not a "draw a track, from an overhead view, using the Mouse function" thing...?

@The_Nintend_Pedant Always! But expect "one guy pumping out weekly games on his own" levels of quality I try to keep things fun to play.. That's the best I can do. ( https://AGameAWeek.com if that isn't too spammy for the comments)

@MamaSymphonia I kinda agree.. Like "screensaver" (nngh) But there were lots of people talking about giving other companies the compression, and such, and that's where I draw the line!!!
There's no clickable "magic me mini" button. It's hard work and effort that keeps the games small.

I pump out AGameAWeek on my own. Fairly sure Nintendo have more than a couple of folk working on games.

"Compression" this, "Compression" that.
Some people are obsessed with methods they're used to, instead of thinking ever so slightly outside of the box.

How about.. "Low res textures that get upscaled by the Nvidia AI tech, whilst they're being loaded into memory." and "Shaders are doing a lot of the work on DK, look at his actual texture" and "layers of textures create multiple forms of the same texture in different looking styles", and a myriad of other wonderful methods to keep the overall amount of data to a minimum.

Why must it always be about compression?!

Cool that this is a thing.
... didn't I joke about this a week or so ago?

(Update : Yep https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/06/fear-not-using-gameshare-between-switch-1-and-2-looks-super-simple#comment8667707 )

You do the Shake n’ Vac and put the freshness back.
Do the Shake n’ Vac and put the freshness back.
When your carpet smells fresh, your room does too.
Every time you vacuum, remember what to do.
Do the Shake n’ Vac and put the freshness back.

Cool.
Now can we have an option in the game to turn the bloomin' music OFF, so I can actually play it, with sounds, but without having to hear the stupid music on a continual loop?

Tried my first 100cc today. Didn't think it'd be too drastic of a difference, but it kicked my motion sickness into gear after just a couple of races. 50cc I managed all 4 tracks of a Grand Prix in one go. Had to pause and come back about half an hour later in 100cc mode, but .. yeah, I think I could 100% the game. Eventually! Just.. one Grand Prix a day.

My day one Joycons eventually started to drift after about 5 years. My replacements lasted maybe about a year before the drift kicked in. I was quite miffed about that..

You guys are just seeing things that aren't there.
It's not about Link.
https://socoder.net/uploads/1/2025/24/sr_c_png.png

It's very obviously Platdude in the bottom left corner.
https://socoder.net/uploads/1/2025/24/sr_d_png.png

L-shaped USB connector?

@Banjo- .. I really do hope that's the case, but memories of Windows 8 and "Improving things with Metro, for Mobiles.." .. **shudder**

As someone who owns a ROGAlly, I have two things to say.

1. They'd better not "just" have Windows on that, because the second I switched it to SteamDeck, (last Monday!!) the whole system sprang to life, with extra features like the ability to actually USE the sleep mode, and the ability to have it sit in the corner at night, switched on, without the fan waking me up at 3 in the morning for apparently no reason.

and
2. RSI Cramps.. I'm not sure why, maybe the thickness? I haven't experienced it with Switch 1, or even Switch 2 yet, but .. AARGH!!!! It's BAD with the ROGAlly..

@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed What can I say. Writing a new game every single week sometimes requires you to have a little something to help decompress with..

... Even Coronation Street still has Tony Warren's name in the credits.

Now I just have to wait for the Royal Mail to deliver my Switch 2!
.. I'll be joining you all in 2027!

LOL @ GameBuilder
"As a result of improved processing speed, there may be some changes in behavior in games that were made previously on Nintendo Switch."
Time to learn how to deal with different frame rates, mini-devs
Coming soon : Multiple Screen Resolution handling!

@Skunkfish Yeah, £7.99's too high. Should've been a budget £1.99 title, and the cartridge comes in a proper cassette case

I wonder how this works.. Is it sharing a mini download like GameShare of old, or is it doing like a mini WiiU, and sharing a stream of a second screen that the system's running in the background....? Maybe a mix of both?

.. And if it is doing a stream, I wonder why we didn't get a "Stream to the Hub from the couch" feature..?

"Aaah, but if we cancel them now, then the customers have to re-order them once we've got the whole tariff price sorted, and then we don't have to offset any losses we'd make!"

Blimey, that's not a horrific price!
I'd be tempted if I knew anyone who played Chess..
I still have the Chess set I've had since childhood, and it's still pretty much unplayed. What a waste.

It's almost as if they coded this expecting the Switch Pro to turn up when it was supposed to...

Can't be as bad as Switch-1-2...

(**checks** It was called 1-2-Switch, apparently.. Shows how much I cared about that.. ..)

My ugly mug being on others players screens will be so off putting to them that I'm bound to win.
Bring it on!!!

SOOoo good to have an easy transfer mode. I used to be quite happy doing the "grab it from your own Twitter feed, later" thing, but.
...
ugh..

Who's using Shaders for fullscreen effects like that?
Nah, you'd just split the image up into RGB textures (three camera, same scene, different colour filter) and blend them together, slightly offset, onto a large sphere to give it curvature..
Add a fourth texture for scanlines and bob's your uncle.

**puts hand up**
Why does the CRT filter need a Switch2?

SmileBASIC is still on the "with incompatibilities" list, mostly due to it allowing ToyCon and IR support.
If you've coded without those, your games "should" be fine, I think.
.. that's gonna be one of the first things I try out, I reckon!

They're probably sick of YouTubers who capture the trailers and stick 'em on their own YouTube channels with their watermarks slapped across them, and ad-revenue being generated, which they're not getting any benefits from.
... I'd imagine.

It would be a bit weird if they didn't have a large direct around the date of the launch of their new console, wouldn't it?

Awww, and it looked so excitingly new. Now they've gone and "pac-man"d it all. Booo!!!

"I still haven't bothered to watch any of these Group..". (ishbotwaot)

"You will be responsible for ensuring the quality and content of gameplay animation assets align with the game's vision."
...
...? That's an odd job description?
If this were a Mario game, that'd kinda be the thing that Miyamoto does, right? Making sure that the vision is true to form?

Call me cynical, but I'm reading it as "We've got the AI to do most of it, we just need someone to check it looks passable before we hit the release button."

Can we have the WarioWare variant, too, with his bike?