KevinP

I can't wait for the era of publishers and studios developing games for Switch 2 exclusively. I typically love seeing older consoles getting new content, but Nintendo Switch 2 could really use some great games that are tweaked specifically for that hardware.

I may cave and buy it as a game key card. If it was somehow (not sure how they'd do it) fully on card, it would be a no brainer and an easy buy. But with it being a GKC I'm unsure.

@tanaka2687 Lol. What a banger lineup......

@TerribleTerabytes I don't need attention. What I need, is to see society be reasonable when it comes to these massive corporations. It's rather presumptuous of you to think I'd see there was no problem had I paid for this, when so many who did pay for it see a problem. You'd do well to raise your eyebrows a bit and observe a larger world around you than what's right in front of your face. People in the world have opinions that are different from yours. My entire statement(s) were about the current state of Nintendo at large. You know that, you just don't like what I have to say so you're honing in on one aspect thinking you have an excellent point to make. I paid a lot of money for a Switch 2 thinking that we'd see some better games. I'm seeing a painfully obvious pattern that we're not getting what we all hoped for. Perhaps that's our fault for having unreasonable expectations, perhaps it's Nintendo's fault for not delivering. That's for us to decide in how we spend our money in the future.

@ButterySmooth30FPS It goes both ways. People come on here and demonize those who felt like it wasn't worth the upgrade fee. Then when those people get tired of being demonized, they in turn call out those who defend Nintendo like it's their grandmother.

@TerribleTerabytes I can have an opinion of the situation at large, just not the game specifically. The situation at large, is Nintendo putting themselves in a situation where people have paid A LOT of good money to enjoy their products, and they should deliver on that. If they don't, they are rightfully criticized. Consumers should be vocal when expectations are met, that's a healthy marketplace. What isn't healthy, are people who defend a billion dollar organization like it's their job when the company doesn't care about them at all.

@Whyarewestillhere It's not about that. And even if it was, it was their $5 and if they didn't get what they paid for, they deserve it back. What this is about, is people being sick to death of Nintendo nickel and diming everyone for everything and not delivering. Nintendo has begged for this type of attention so far this generation, and they're getting it good and hard.

@TerribleTerabytes Nintendo has done this to themselves. If a company wants to make everything they sell the highest possible price point and charge everyone for every tiny little thing, they're opening themselves to more scrutiny. People who paid a lot of money for the Switch 2 are sick to death of not only having to pay more money for some simple improvements that should just happen naturally on better hardware, but then to have the improvements not be much better, we're all sick of it.

I don't have an opinion on this game specifically, but Nintendo in general is going to start seeing a lot more of this. If they want us to pay the prices for perfect products, they have to deliver perfect products.

I used to be firmly against console mods and emulation, feeling it was stealing. However, this current Switch 2 generation has changed my mind. Now I completely understand it and encourage it. Nintendo has begged for this and now they're getting it good and hard.

Sheesh. What a start to this generation. The vast majority of games are either game key cards or anime style nonsense. The few games I was somewhat interested in, fall short. Metroid put too much behind a paywall of amiibo, and this game is too focused on multiplayer online play. Can't wait to see how Nintendo lets me down next.

Everyone enjoy your rental!

@AllBLK And unfortunately, consumers don't want to own anything either. They all prance to the store to buy the bullcrap codes in box or game key cards.

Where is everyone who always says Digital is fine because it'll outlive most of us?

@Josh2396 No kidding. If that direct is "eating good" I would lose a ton of weight.

It's interesting reading these comments. I really had no idea that even on this website, everyone would be so happy about what was announced. As a non-anime fan, this to me felt like adding another 20 of the exact same game to the already massive pile of these exact same games already on the Switch. I mean how much more of this art style do we need? I was really hoping for variety. PGA Tour is alright, Indiana Jones was my favorite announcement, and Resident Evil could be good. Aside from that, holy anime.

My dream would be: Red Dead Redemption 2, Halo, NHL 26.

I hope so bad Alana is wrong in every prediction. There's already way too many of those types of games.

@Eririichi Agreed. And that is completely their decision to make. I think if they make that decision, consumers don't need to try and stick up for them as if it's out of their control. Point being, tariffs, market conditions, shortages, etc could all be absorbed pretty easily if they actually wanted to. Especially considering they're not on board with digital sales of software which aren't impacted by much of those factors to begin with. It's completely fine with me if they want to make that call, but then it seems odd for some consumers to be annoyed with those who share their negative opinion of that decision.

@Duncanballs I agree with your point about the priorities

@Jumwa As usual, people are missing the point entirely. Companies don't have to make record profits on every single console, software, amiibo, and wall adapter they sell. That's where the criticism comes in. Nintendo feels like they have to squeeze every last red cent out of the pocket of their customers in every interaction. The tariffs aren't making digital sales of Tomodachi Life cost as much as it does when it's clearly a $40 game at most. Few would be critical of these companies if they weren't already trying to take advantage of every single thing they could, and they sure don't need the consumers asking for more as they get bent over a barrel. We can voice frustrations, and Nintendo can plug their ears with their trillions of dollars of cash.

I'm thrilled that it's a partner showcase. Nintendo hasn't shown me that they can do anything with the Switch 2 like I hoped. If we could get some awesome 3rd party support going, it might salvage 2026 for this console. If Nintendo could release anything other than life sim garbage and JRPG's, I'd want a full blown Nintendo Direct for 1st party content, but they can't seem to do it lately. And if they do, the release dates are always absurdly distant.

@VoidofLight I recommend being rather cautious with basing your opinion of the price on what Nintendo MIGHT add to it or reveal later. We all fell for that bill of goods with Mario Kart World and look where we ended up. This game shouldn't exceed a $40 price point.

It's truly one of the dumbest looking games I've ever seen. I bought the Switch 2 last year anxious and excited to play things like RDR2, Halo Master Chief Collection, a new 3D Mario, stable 60+fps on most games, and to see what Nintendo does with the Switch 2 hardware.

All we're getting is games designed on Switch 1 that are "compatible" with Switch 2, nonsense like Tomadachi Life, and Beach Hole Digging Simulator. The last thing I need in my life is to see if Amber can win over Hugh Morris.

I'm so relieved this stupid game will be compatible with Switch 2. I was afraid their flagship console that will have been out for 10 months when this game is available wasn't going to be capable of running it.

Nintendo is going for the Guinness Book of Records for the most iterations of the same games available on the same console.

I know many don't feel this way, but I'm getting increasingly annoyed at the 2026 gaming outlook with each passing week. So if there is a direct, hopefully it's decent and not just a load of crap like they have been.

You sold me on RDR2 and NHL 27. I'd LOVE both of those to come to Switch 2. Halo Master Chief Collection would be fun as well.

Great, now Hasbro games will double in price

I enjoyed ACNH enough that it was worth it to me to spend the $5 to be able to play the absolute best and most complete version of the game. However, I really don't see the point of the $5 upgrade. The 3.0.0 update was good enough and I didn't notice a difference in the visuals like I thought I would.

This game is a 9.5/10. It can't be a 10 due to the limitations with other players advancing the progress of the island. I began playing this with my daughters, but then I got them their own Switch and copy of the game. So their houses are taking up space on my island. I'm hoping Resetti can take care of that now with the new updates.

@TerribleTerabytes True if that were the parameters of our conversation, but you said games hadn't been $50 since the Wii U era and I needed to get a grip. So I was pointing out that I've bought a few games at launch for less than that.

Either way, we're getting into the woods. The main thing here is that we disagree on game pricing which is totally fine. It's just odd in my opinion to defend their pricing structure on a story about how their stock is dropping. From my perspective, dropping stock prices isn't the goal here, so I'd begin looking at ways to turn that around. In my opinion, one way to do that would be to actually introduce variable pricing like they said they were going to, rather than just releasing remakes and re-releases of old games at top dollar.

@Solid_Python Consider it whatever you want, you know the nuance of the conversation is if a game justifies the price. I'm obviously not interested in paying $80 for Drag X Drive but I'd pay $80 for Red Dead Redemption 2 on cart. You can't ignore the obvious and then accuse someone of engaging in a bad faith argument.

No one can stop you from defending Nintendo like you work for them. I'm sorry that today is the first day you realized that not everyone will accept everything Nintendo does without pushback, but you must understand that people see things differently.

@TerribleTerabytes What do you expect it to be? This is a comment board on the internet, I don't pretend to speak for the entire industry. I think you and I both know many, many consumers would agree with me that a game like Kirby Air Riders could and probably should be at a different price point from Grand Theft Auto 6. The only reason I mention the $50 in the first place, is because Nintendo executives themselves came out and mentioned variable pricing. In fact, I just bought Silksong not long ago for $19.99 when it first came out. So I think I have a grip, it may be you who is lacking a grip of reality here. And even if you just want to talk 1st party games, I bought Metroid Prime Remastered at launch for $40. It may have been a remaster, but at that point we're just splitting hairs just to argue. The point being, don't flaunt the idea of variable pricing if you are just going to sell everything at $70.

@Solid_Python I can see that, but a ton of what you said can easily be classified as that. For example, you act like it's mindblowing that someone would be willing to pay $80 for a full game on cartridge. Yet Nintendo happily charges $70 for a GKC. I think the vast majority of people on this comment board who value physical ownership would rather pay an extra $10 to own the game.

@TerribleTerabytes I disagree completely. In fact, I couldn't disagree more. I think $50-60 is the perfect price point for those games. That $70-80 range needs to be reserved for massive games like TOTK, BOTW, or GTA 5/6.

@Solid_Python I swear I work with you. I can't be sure, but I work with a guy who will lay himself down on a sword if it means his last action on this earth is defending Nintendo even though they don't know he exists.

@TerribleTerabytes I was actually fine with that price point for Tears of the Kingdom. Those games deserve it. Kirby Air Riders doesn't, nor does MK World. That's what most of my ire is rooted in.

@mctrials23 It's fine and even pretty awesome for a time. I loved seeing some of those older games being consolidated on the one platform. I'm definitely not wholly against it, but there has to be a point where they also sprinkle in something fresh and fun. Nintendo has been terrible with that recently. And if they even made dev kits more available with a variety of SD card sizes, 3rd party companies could've saved them on this but they couldn't even do that correctly.

@TerribleTerabytes Every industry is suffering from greedy investors. The reason I disbelieve the tariff thing, is because no one drops their prices when tariffs go away or are paused. Nintendo charged $70 for Tears of the Kingdom long before tariffs became everyone's favorite lightning rod. Blaming tariffs while also moving to an almost entirely digital footprint is bogus and dishonest. Greed and the drive for record profits on each and every transaction is the majority of the problem we face with prices. Tariffs are just a godsend for these people to blame so that they can shift the focus off themselves and we as consumers make it far too easy for them to get away with it.

@TerribleTerabytes How is Robot wrong? He or She is spot on. You can blame the tariffs or the economy or the wind or the sun being in your eyes. Regardless of what excuse Nintendo wants to use, they chose to price everything through the roof while riding record profits in the industry. They're a business and all they care about is money, but they should have enough sense to understand that money now doesn't guarantee money later if they choose to alienate everyone. Sometimes taking a bit lower profit margin on the front end is sound strategy for longer term health. They don't care, they just want it all and they want it now. Whether you're buying a Joycon or a wall charger. It's ridiculous.

All they have to do to go sky high again, is announce some good games with real release dates. They can only ride this "remastered" and "re-release" train for so long.

Nintendo overplayed their hand with all of their pricing at the beginning of this console cycle. They already attempted to bleed their entire fanbase dry, so raising the price of the Switch 2 now would be a horrendous move. Although they'd do it in a heartbeat if they felt the need.

Had they been reasonable with either giving dev kits and more SD card size options, OR if they made the pricing of GKC cheaper to reflect what you're actually getting, OR if they made lousy games that were re-made for the 11th time not cost a fortune, they might've bought themselves a small bit of grace to adjust the pricing on the console. It's hard to claim that they have no choice while they're also sitting atop record profit margins in the history of their company.

GameStop is only still around because we all wish they would be what we know they could be. I have started going to smaller, locally owned game stores in my area because I got tired of being lied to by GameStop.

When I buy a new game from my locally owned stores, it's new. When I buy a new game from GameStop, it's already got scratches on the disc or the cartridge connectors because it's been opened and heavily used but they're selling it as new. But they'll sit and tell me that it's new right to my face even as I show them the scratches and scuffs. I just get tired of feeling like I'm annoying them every time I go in, and I get tired of the management of GameStop making their employees hate their job because of all the nonsense that force upon them. It could be the coolest retail store in America if they'd get out of their own way.

I'm hoping they sell the green on it's own like they currently do with the original colors. That's the one I want.

I chuckled at Dbrand's email. But I actually prefer this new joycon look. It can look both classy, and also fun. The more subtle yet present colors are far better than the Switch 1's loud joycons in my mind.

2026 is currently looking pretty bleak for anyone who isn't into JRPGs or remakes.

I was pretty excited to try this game, and had it preordered. But if decently large elements of the game experience (such as music on certain levels) are locked behind the purchase of an Amiibo, I'm out. Nintendo has been in my life since the early 1990's as a young child but these types of tactics are just pushing me a bit too far over the last few years. I hope the game is great for those who love Metroid, though.

I love Farming Simulator. I've played it for many years, and the game always runs quite poorly. The developer is just no good at optimizing performance. When I saw this one was out on the Switch, I was about to go buy it until I saw it was a Game Key Card. No thanks.

@progx You don't say!? Grass tends to be green if it's rich in nitrogen and is watered well.

It's such a surprise that Nintendo sales aren't impressive!