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I wish the conversation was less about which Switch 1 games are compatible with Switch 2 and more about which Switch 1 games perform better on Switch 2, (specifically without the “Switch 2 Version” branding). I own both, but with S2 memory cards currently selling at a comparatively significant premium, I only want to transfer over the S1 games that will show tangible improvement to the experience.

I really enjoyed the demo, but it was pretty limited. I need to read/see a bit more about how the rest of the game plays before I commit my $70.

Back in the day, I had a 7800, and the only system-specific games I had for it were Pole Position II, Ms. Pac-Man, and Choplifter. I really hoped one of these would have made its way to Atari 50 at some point, but alas. I have a lot of nostalgia for 2600 Pac-Man so this dlc is worth it to me.

Thought the game looked promising in the direct, but this news pretty much kills it. I might get it digitally if it gets glowing reviews, but also I won't spend more than $30 on any single game from from the eshop, so it would also have to get a significant discount.

I'm trying to wait for a significant sale on sd-ex cards before migrating my Switch library to Switch 2. Even then, I'm content to keep most of my games on cheaper storage unless they saw a significant improvement on S2.

Not every cartoon character needs to have visible irises, and those irises don’t always have to be blue. Genetically, blue eyes are actually pretty rare!

I bought Age of Calamity 2-3 years ago when GameStop screwed up and listed the digital deluxe version with all DLC for $16. They fixed it within an hour of Wario64 promoting it on socials, and I was shocked I was able to complete the transaction and not have it reversed. This kind of game isn’t exactly my bag but if that happens again with Imprisonment I’ll definitely pick it up!

I don't have S2 and am not in a rush to get one, so no use getting excited about a game I likely won't be able to play for at least a year or two. The first two NES Ninja Gaiden games hold a lot of nostalgia for me, and I have hopes Ragebound can live up to that legacy.

When my the fan on my OG Switch stopped working, I did the repair myself and then had the opposite problem of the fan running constantly and noisily. So I bought a Splatoon 3 OLED, but kept the original as a spare. I’d thought about taking it to GameStop for the trade-in but that fan issue is probably going to sink its value. And I’m not parting with my OLED.

It’s a really fun idea, but I wish they hadn’t felt the need to explain it by having Rudd explicitly name check the 1991 ad.

There’ve been many times when my gold point balance, combined with a sale, led me to finally buy a game or piece of DLC that otherwise would have been left to languish in my wishlist. Even games I hadn’t previously considered have been downloaded on a whim because it was either practically or actually free thanks to gold points.

I hope something replaces it on the new console. Not only is it a good incentive program, it’s part of the (ahem) Nintendo Lifestyle and feeling of community that you don’t feel as much with Sony or MS.

I’ll admit I was taken a little aback by the change, but ultimately I like it. He’s finally as physically imposing as Mario’s original nemesis should be. And the update is a better a fit for their shared universe, while still honoring Rare’s iconic design. But as iconic as that 1994 look is, it’s past time it evolved beyond its pre-Toy Story origins.

Some Star Wars games re-releases I’d actually be interested in (instead of more of this janky prequel era crud):

-Rogue Squadron 2
-80s Star Wars & Empire vector games
-90’s Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
-Shadows of the Empire
-Super Star Wars/Empire/Jedi
-X-Wing/Tie Fighter games for PC
-Empire Strikes Back for Atari 2600
-The Famicom Star Wars game where Vader turns into a scorpion
-The other Rogue Squadron games, I guess

The choice/idol pairings made this very difficult for me. Off the Hook’s my favorite idol group by far, but the present is equally by far the least interesting concept to hang Splatoon 4 around, no matter how one interprets it. The prospect of exploring the time period of the first Great Turf War is the most appealing to me, but there’s no guarantee that’s where the developers would go, and the Squid Sisters just aren’t as exciting as the others these days.

So Team Future is my compromise pick. They’re not my fave but I dig Deep Cut and think it would be fitting for them to win out in the game they ostensibly headline. And the future suggests something different which I do feel Splatoon needs. Lastly, although ink shouldn’t and doesn’t normally play a part in my splatfest decision making, I do think the lime green is the most eye catching.

No matter who wins, Grand Fest is going to be epic, and I’m so happy to experience it with all of you who’ve been playing this game over the last two years. Let’s all have fun!

I’ll take y’all’s word that Astrobot is a classic that gives the best 3D Marios a run for the money. Wake me up when Sony keeps it up over dozens of entries for multiple franchises to such a high quality for four decades.

I don’t vote Europe very often in these things, but Japan/US is giving me Ace Attorney energy, which is not what I come to Castlevania for.

These really are the only way to play World Championships enjoyably, so they really should be made available to the general public.

As someone who already has a NES pair, I’m hoping wider availability in Japan will lead to cheaper avenues for importing a Famicom set to the states.

DLC is the safest bet for the future, as beefing the title up would address its biggest criticism. Add more games, more challenges to the ones already here, & more game modes. I’d really like something like the skyscraper mode from Warioware with random challenges thrown at you. And my long shot, blue sky wish would be to recreate the original championship with a marathon, points based run of Super Mario, Rad Racer, and Tetris.

@Jireland92 I’ve never liked the name as it implies Castlevania added something essentially Castlevania-y to the Metroid formula moving forward that wasn’t already in Metroid (I don’t count the EXP-based leveling system, as this was not a hallmark of the Castlevania series at the time either, and chiefly associated with RPGs at the time) Konami took the Metroid gameplay and applied it to its pastiche horror world, and made some of the best games of all time, but people call Super Metroid a Metroidvania at this point and that’s just cracked.

If it were practical to order the Japanese release with Famicom controllers in the US, I’d order it today. Im very ehh on the mini game collection itself, and a useless piece of NES cart shaped plastic doesn’t sweeten the value proposition for me.

Seems this one’s closer for me than most. After the cartoony green Firebrand on Gargoyle’s Quest’s box, I always liked the more serious looking NA art here. Side by side with Japan’s though, I have to admit ours looks a little Halloween Adventure-y.

I admit up front the nostalgia I have for the NA box art, as this is the first game I got when I sold off my NES and entire library to buy the SNES. There’s still a VHS in my childhood home filled with all my crude animated shorts.
Thankfully I don’t have to confront my bias in this competition, however, as the Japan box is about as exciting as the instruction manual for a laser printer.

US looks like the terrible Saturday morning cartoon Bombernan that never happened. The Japan box is far too busy for me. Europe takes this one.

The NA box features one of the most iconic pieces of game related artwork of all time. But it’s from the NES Ninja Gaiden. I can’t reward rehashes in this hallowed competition.
Europe’s is lifted from the same NES box art, but with every edge that makes Ryu cool sanded thoroughly off. So while I’m not particularly impressed with Japan’s either, they win by default.

If it ever came down to the $20-25 dollar range I’d probably pick it up. But Nintendo would never discount it below $40, so my backlog will have to do without. I’m fine with this.

Lot of amateur psychologists in the comments, determining whose feelings and experiences are valid or invalid while displaying a complete lack of empathy. You love to see it…

I had enough fun with the demo, but my repeated experiences trying to get into DK94 tell me the gameplay would get increasingly frustrating and tiresome for me as the difficulty ramps up. This just isn’t really my genre.
Wish they had just remade DK94 at any rate, given its fan favorite status and Pauline rarely getting a spotlight. A remake could have even made her playable, which is long overdue.

It only needs to be enough for saves, a few games, updates, and other system minutiae… 128 seems reasonable to me. Twice the current Switch should scale up nicely with the assumed larger size games on the nextgen console.
Most of us are going to get external storage, and I’d rather shop around for it than pay Nintendo at a premium.

My ideal new Smash would pare down the roster to around 20-30. Mix of old and new fighters, all Nintendo. Rethink the characters’ move sets, maybe change up the core fighting mechanics. Then add some new options & really beef up the single player campaign. Make up the value loss of the smaller roster with more robust features and modes.

Super Metroid comes as close to a perfect game as you get, but the Meridia section that takes up much of the final third of the playthrough always grinds the excitement of progression to a halt for me when I get there.

The underwater parts hamper Samus’ speed and jumping abilities for too long until you find the Gravity Suit. Eventually you’re faced with a series of massive, largely featureless rooms within Planet Zebes’ least interesting “dirt and sand” biome. Many of the games cruelest traps and one-way passages are found here, resulting in tedious backtracking just to get back to where you were. Lastly, the eerie ambient tune that plays throughout Meridia, while appropriate in a “Aquatic Ambience” kind of way, wears out its welcome pretty quickly and threatens to put you to sleep while dealing with the areas numerous frustrations.

The two things I do like about Meridia are the unique way you first enter the area, and the first little narrative tease you get that the Space Pirates renewed experiments with the titular Metroids are well underway. Would that the rest of it be nearly as interesting.

I’m by no means a physical media fetishist, but damn it either do the thing or don’t.
If I’m buying physical, it’s usually because I’m sparing my Switch a AAA memory suck. It’s not because I enjoy locking the experience behind a plastic key I have to insert to play a game that partially or entirely lives on my system, and definitely not because I collect useless plastic junk to display on my bookshelf.

As long as they don’t come preinstalled, and it doesn’t overcomplicate the experience of turning on the system and getting into a game quickly, I’m fine with people who want the option of installing streaming apps on their Switch to have them. I have multiple TVs, a laptop and smartphone so I’m not really hurting for ways to watch Disney+, and have negative interest in Nintendo creating an “everything” device.

I’m not a fan of the black box series design in general. Meant to highlight the at the time rare feat of arcade accurate graphics, they quickly became dated as game designers’ ability to push the system’s limits grew by leaps and bounds. Ever in the late 80’s these looked like relics of a console with one foot still stuck in the Atari era.

The Classics box is an improvement, but I’m not a huge fan of the Kongs’ designs here. Also Mario whamming DK with the hammer not only is uncharacteristically aggressive of the hero, it’s impossible to pull off in the actual game.
The original cabinet artwork used on the Famicom release is truly iconic, pretty much the Amazing Fantasy #15 of the medium. Easy choice for me.

Just played the 2009 game on Switch, and it's just amazing how successful it is as a sequel to the originals compared to the misguided attempts to continue the franchise in film. It even managed to match the breezy, riffy humor that modern adaptations routinely fail to approximate.

That said, the age of the game is felt in its at-times cumbersome control scheme, and occasionally obtuse objectives. There were times when my Ghostbuster partner would repeat the same dialogue again and again indicating how to proceed, only for me having to look up a walkthrough anyway because the clue was too vague. Then there were the times the game glitched, preventing certain events from triggering and soft-locking the game, requiring a reset from the last checkpoint.

Is there a reason why the Wii/PS2 version of the game was ranked higher, like not having the problems described? Because the downgraded visuals were a HUGE turnoff for me back in the day.

This has the potential to be a line that taps into people’s imagination and creativity like the best classic Lego lines. The houses in Animal Crossing are modular, the landmarks are few, the characters and accessories nearly infinite. They could sell buckets of landscaping pieces and people would buy them to recreate their in game communities, where they could play out any scenario they could conceive of. People could devote tables or entire rooms to it.

Wave one includes hyper specific situations taking place on sparse patches of land that don’t really feel like pieces of a larger whole. The scale on Nook’s Cranny looks off. As a whole it’s disappointingly limited.

Hopefully later releases tap into the potential of the brand better, but there’s little beyond the animated ads to excite me so far.

Gee that 11% discount to give up all ownership is tempting, but no thanks.

Looking over the guesses in the comments and realizing like an epiphany that I’m over, disinterested, or just plain dislike 90% of gamer YouTube.

It’s pretty obvious to me we’re going to get standard village location sets with either an avatar character (with at least 2 hairstyles/outfits) or non-villager characters. Actual villagers will have to be blind bag because there’s hundreds of them and every one is someone’s favorite. I dislike blind bags on principle but also understand it’s the only way they’d sell me anything with Gladys’ adorable face on it.

I have at least 5 years of backlog to tide me over if they don’t want sell me a new system that I can migrate my library to. In this economy, game companies are going to have to emphasize value. Nintendo would omit backwards compatibility at their own peril.

A surprise Switch re-release would be epic and rightly celebrated. Positioning it as a next gen LAUNCH TITLE… it’d be appreciated, but we’re talking about a 10 year old remaster of a 20 year old game, it’s not going to be a system seller. Let’s get a grip here.

8th is my best so far. I’m too conservative with my boost energy, but I’m getting better!

Not something that I thought about at the time, but Mario looks pretty menacing in the NA cover. I’m hindsight, giant Mario is also not as iconic a power up as it might have seemed at the time. Like the cartridge inside, the Japanese box promises comforting old-fashioned 2D jumping around the Mushroom Kingdom, no more no less.

Even with everything else going on in Wonder, playable Daisy is the single most exciting thing for me, so I fully expect I'll be maining her.

It does look nice, and I’m naturally going to get it because every Mario game is worthwhile, but I wanted to know gameplay-wise what would differentiate Wonder from the NSMB series, and to that end I’m no clearer than I was upon the announcement. I’m glad the art style has more personality and that there are more playable characters. The “Bubble Bobble” power-up particularly tickled this old time gamer. But the wonder mechanic still seems too incidental and level specific to really claim that’s a fresh new direction for 2D Mario.

I’m going to vote against the apple-cheeked Mega Man every single time.

Edit: another commenter has pointed to my attention that the Western Blue Bomber has inappropriate pectoral muscles. To that I add that he’s also a robot who sweats and wears a cute little belt buckle with his initials on it!

Is “block-beige” another word for gold? Because that’s what the iconic western box art was.

I personally couldn’t wrap my head around the series until Link to the Past made exploring Hyrule a bit less obtuse, but I knew that cover, and the cutout revealing the gold cart inside, denoted that this was something special, more than just another game.

My cynical answer is that the Switch successor will have some dumb gimmick like a yo-yo peripheral that will be downplayed within a year but absolutely integral to the launch marketing, thus "Yo-Yo K.O." "Yo-Yoshi!" and "Walk the Dog Starring Toad".

Bowser's Fury was a proof of concept and Mario should launch Nintendo's next gen with the fulfillment of that promise. A true open world campaign with the scope of BOTW/TOTK

@RandomGamesAndStuff my feeling is the heat has to cool down somewhat on a franchise before Nintendo decides to revisit it, and MK8D has been fairly hot for the Switch's entire lifespan. It still sells very well. To the degree its light ever diminished, the booster pack has rejuvenated it.

Early Wii U adopters and Double Dash 2 dreamers won't be happy, but I think the more likely launch title is Mario Kart 8 Ultimate.

I bought both passes and was overall pretty underwhelmed with what we got. I'd hoped for a slate of characters that continued the SSB traditions of honoring Nintendo/gaming history and the chaos of having so many incongruous graphic and play styles being thrown at each other. Looking back at the full list in this article, less than half are what I would call inspired historical choices (Hero, Banjo, Steve, Sephiroph, Sora). Also, 2/3 of the DLC fighters are fairly normal-proportioned humans who with tweaks could feasibly fit into any other fighting game.

There are still characters out there I believe belong in Smash. Even though he'd be another human with a sword, Ryu from Ninja Gaiden should be in there to round out the trifecta of 3rd party NES-era platformers along with Mega Man and Simon. Including Waluigi would appease the fans and further legitimize a character who's largely been on the fringes for the last 25 years. Dixie Kong, Captain Toad, Crash Bandicoot, Phoenix Wright, Master Higgins, Samurai Goroh, the Star Tropics kid... there's a ton of potential fighters out there.

I'd be interested in a third wave, would probably buy it regardless of quality because my OCD would torment me for knowing there's a fillable hole in my roster. But I'd seriously hope Nintendo/Sakurai would approach such an expansion with a true "all killer, no filler" mindset.

Also they should bring back Poke Floats.