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I love to see the wide variety of games listed when people are asked what they are playing. It’s a stark contrast against the small handful of games ever featured here on NintendoLife in articles and reviews.

What the hell

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future.

Nintendo would absolutely do it. Money is all they care about now.

I am pretty sure that supply will greatly outnumber demand and I will enjoy seeing scalpers scramble desperately to get their money back, even if it means taking a loss. They ruin so many things for people who just legitimately want to have something, they deserve to lose some money themselves.

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future.

This will be the point where I stop buying any games at all. My backlog will sustain me and I’m fine with that.

No animal crossing? Why bother!

I didn’t like it at all and neither did the other ladies I watched it with. Sorely disappointed that there’s no animal crossing game and no girly games either. None of us are buying the system.

This is a day late April fools day joke. Except it’s a disturbing reality. Remember when the 3ds came out it was packed with several games or applications included that showed off what the system could do. And here we are in the new era of Nintendo that is driven by greed instead of making gamers happy.

Unless Nintendo has a very weak lineup of games at launch I’d be kind of surprised if they steal their own thunder by launching GameCube games on NSO at the same time. Personally I’d rather see remakes or just re-releases of my favorites like Animal Crossing, Mario golf…. Actually that’s all I can think of because the other games have already been brought to switch.

The C is for connect. It’s the modern version of street pass where you can just press C to connect with friends and strangers for in-game perks on your new Switch, and also play the new version of StreetPass Mii Plaza. And to connect with others at the dog park when you’re taking your new Switch 2 Nintendogs for a walk. 😆
Seriously though, let’s bring back a modern Street Pass feature where you can just “Connect” (or as it was “pass”) friends and strangers but now just do it from your own friends list and people you may encounter online such as a lobby dedicated for “meeting” other gamers, safely.

I’m definitely more excited for this than switch 2. I’ve yet to see anything about the switch 2 that makes me want to get it. Throw in a new animal crossing game at launch, though, and I will swiftly change my mind.

This was always my favorite, I’ve been saying for years they should bring it to the switch. I never understood why this one got so little love. It’s a wonderful game that gives a lot more to do than just farming, while still keeping the farming aspect front and center. The original was very well made and I hope the new one only improves upon that.

Feels like they are still tightening the noose of digital gaming, and DRM. I’m convinced all the more to stick with 100% physical games. Always mine, online or offline, to play how and when and where I want.

@joey302 I know! That makes no sense! I LOVE that game! I have it on DS & GBA, so why would they skip the switch!

A great reminder to stick with buying only physical games 😁

Okay this is some weird news. I’ve been buying the Mega Pokémon sets, including the Pokémon center which is large and amazing. And so are these Mega brand sets going to coexist with Lego releases or is Mattel dropping this line? Strange. My favorite Mega Pokémon sets are the super rare Pokémon Scene sets, of which they made 3 and they all link together. They are small diorama style sets (like the Lego postcard series), and very hard to find. This is something I’d like to see continued with Lego. I also have the Mega Pokédex which has interchangeable lenticular cards of different Pokémon. That’s a pretty cool set, it even lights up and opens and closes. They also have a large and very detailed Pokémon stadium I never bought yet. I’m guessing maybe these sets are only available in America? Amazon still has these available at good prices for anyone interested.

PopCap games was always my favorite, I have every game they released on DS (Bookworm, Peggle, Bejeweled 3 & Twist, PvZ, etc), and always hoped they’d release these games anew on switch. But since they never did, I got a steam deck on a crazy low price clearance offer last year and put all of the PopCap games on it which is nice, due to the bigger (than switch) screen.

In some cases I agree. So bring us Tomodachi Life for the switch. That had a LOT of Japanese flavor but was incredibly fun. I’ve been playing my 3DS one this past week and it’s every bit as fun now as it was 10+ years ago. But a modernized version would be wonderful too.

I don’t enjoy the music nearly as much as playing the actual games. Not that the music is bad, but it’s not platinum record material either lol

Hmm as it proves to be time and time again, if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. 🔌🎮

Another Mario Kart 🥱 or Metroid, or Pokémon are not enough to make me drop $400 on this. Give me a new Animal Crossing game at launch and I’ll buy it, day 1.

I’m actually horrified by this. Not only do I abhor mobile gaming, but to see the notation of who is behind these investments is extremely alarming. Do you know what they do with these profits?! This is an industry that needs to be squashed. It’s not at all for gamers. It’s for something incredibly sinister AND it’s hurting the actual game industry severely.

I would so very much rather see Harvest Moon Magical Melody or Grand Bazaar come to switch, but maybe those are under the “other” owners 🤔

Every single Nintendo switch, DS, and 3DS game I have ever bought says “Made in Japan” on the label. If people weren’t so obsessed with killing the game industry with buying digital games, they would actually have game boxes of their own to look at and clearly see they are made in Japan.

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. 🔌🎮

Just give me a new Animal Crossing, Tomodachi Life, and Style Savvy on switch 2 and I honestly won’t care if they release anything else lol

These presentations must be what inspired them to make Pokémon Sleep because they have become quite a snooze fest with all this mobile junk. I really miss the pre-mobile days of Pokémon. Sigh.

Being that the steam deck is literally a handheld computer that happens to play a variety of video games, it’s not really fair to compare that to the Nintendo Switch any more than it is to compare mobile games or smart phones with the switch. Or even iPads & other tablets. The hybrid aspect of the steam deck could make a fairly valid argument for comparison to some, but still the steam deck is a computer with a lot of functionality that goes far beyond gaming, whereas the switch is simply a game system. Period.

For everyone curious about what version is on this, it’s 1.5.

Another example of why “if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future”. Digital games are easy to copycat and put out, and there’s so little investment (if any!), compared to physical games. These copycat producers pocket the profits because people love digital games and buy this junk that’s generally not even refundable despite being a “fake”. If a company invests in actual game creation/innovation, and testing, fixing bugs, etc then puts it into physical distribution it’s usually a much better product. But people still chase the digital. The industry is heading for a collapse. I don’t care who wants to say negative things to me about this but it’s a fact. I have worked in the industry both as a programmer and a retailer, and I can see it’s in serious trouble.

Scalpers would have to find real jobs if supply actually met demand. This is a terrible situation because the blame belongs solely with the companies producing limited amounts of things that the public desperately wants and struggles to get.

Okay, instead of a remake, why not make a totally new game that’s like the old style games we loved? And incorporate something really fun with it like the Pokewalker accessory.
Also I’d like to see a retro style but totally new mystery dungeon game for switch. Or maybe even combine the two into one game, where you flip back and forth between those two game styles (traditional Pokémon, and mystery dungeon) within one game. What happened to innovation in our current game era? Let’s get creative and make fun games again that people love and can’t stop raving about.

Remasters, remakes, physical copies ONLY. Start with Tomodachi Life, Animal Crossing New Leaf, and Style Savvy Styling Star.

Their Pokémon presentations have gone painfully in the wrong direction. I know companies are making a fortune on mobile games somehow but that has become all they care about anymore, and most definitely is the case with Pokémon. Side note, Nintendo has jumped on that bandwagon too with things like Animal Crossing, which they put all kinds of unique and cool stuff into the mobile game but never in the console game. I wish these companies would just pour their effort into GOOD, well made console games like they used to and get away from the temporary cash cow that mobile gaming is. So yeah I’m not at all excited for any announcements they will make at Pokémon directs anymore. They just aren’t the same company I once loved.

I hope this little Tetris handheld doesn’t have a sideways mounted TFT LCD screen like so many of the cheap handhelds do. Those things are brutal on the eyes.

All the more reason to boycott digital gaming. Remember, digital games are only rentals. You play as long as they let you and only on their terms. If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future! Buy physical games only! They are always YOURS to play how and when you want! 😀

Still disturbing they waste time on making something like this when we are waiting for far more important things like Switch 2, Tomodachi Life, a new Animal Crossing game, etc. This is obviously not a popular product and it has such a tiny demographic.

Virtual console and NSO would be the same when it comes to Nintendo Switch because of DRM. Nothing digital is ever yours. You will always need online validation to play, even your primary system will require that from time to time. The only solution is to release these games in compilations on cartridges, like Sega did.

Might be a good time to change this website name from NintendoLife to NintendoRumours, just a thought. 😂🤨

Honestly I’d rather this flipped OPEN to reveal a second screen like a DS instead of flip upside down!

A giant problem with Nintendo is they don’t know how to do a one and done validation for your digital games. Take Apple for instance. You buy a digital game, download it to your iPhone and maybe two iPads. Apple validates it when you download it to your devices and you can use that forever, even offline, because it’s already been validated. But if you buy a digital game at Nintendo and play it on a second or third switch it has to validate it online every single time you play. Even if you open and close it three times in five minutes it still needs to validate it each time. That’s cheap and technologically backwards. Nintendo needs to move forward. Invest in things that make the gamer have a smoother and more enjoyable gameplay experience. Not everyone can be constantly connected to Wi-Fi. So with Nintendo games this is specifically and precisely why you need to purchase 100% physical games so they cannot dictate when or where you play. You deserve freedom. If you pay for a game you should be able to play it when and where you want regardless of being online.

Actually it was pretty fun. The stuff I posted on there was hilarious. Felt like a Nintendo Instagram without ads. But maybe Instagram is what squashed it. Or perhaps all the nearly scandalous pictures people posted. Honestly the one thing Nintendo needs to bring back from that era is StreetPass. And themes, colors, cute folders, music, etc for our Switch home page. It’s just horribly generic and ugly as it is. And we need game playtime records again too! Who else misses pulling up how many hours you spent on this game or that game? Yeah if you look on your main switch you get a general amount (played 10 hours or more, for example), but I like details. First played 2-7-25, game play 4 hours 52 minutes. Stuff like that. Nintendo keeps record but they only show us a bit at the end of the year. Why do they drop such useful things as they go forward?!

Animal crossing clone this is definitely NOT. There are a lot of very complex puzzles that will have you scratching your head, especially the haunted house which resembles Luigi’s Mansion 3 in a lot of ways. There’s a lot of complex overlapping quests all through the game too. Don’t let the cute appearance of this fool you! This is a game for all gamers. Unless you need something super easy like Animal Crossing. In other words, if you’re looking for a sandbox game, this isn’t it. Great game tho, and I’d rate it a 10.

Maybe they should stop releasing so many games for Japan only!

The decline is SOLELY due to lack of availability. The video game industry will have a full on crash if this problem continues. If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. Only the tangible will last!

The only good thing they have released in the last 20 years is the MySims series. And they own PopCap games but refuse to put them on Nintendo consoles after Nintendo DS, which is a major loss. (PopCap = Bejeweled, Bookworm, Zuma, Peggle, Plants vs Zombies, etc).

I’m the minority here because I’m honestly not excited at all about this potential Mario Kart 9 and especially 24 racers, but the thought dawned on me that it would be cool if Nintendo made an Animal Crossing Kart game with a vast number of characters from the game to race as or against, and cars made in themes that you find in the game, and allow you to customize them as such, and tracks based on all kinds of stuff, even wacky things like racing around inside massive “houses”, or across landscapes, islands, water, inside the museum, etc. And seasonal weather even affecting races (snow, wind, rain, etc). That would be a fun departure from Mario Kart. Also being a big fan of Mario Golf, it would be cool to see them use these ideas for golf courses too, and let you play as some of the many popular characters in animal crossing. Nintendo plays it way too safe anymore. Their games are becoming predictable and boring. I’d love to see them jump out of the same old stuff and do innovative and fun new things with games, and mix things up like they used to.

Meanwhile I’m over here trying to rationalize why people will buy a bunch of digital games and need a stack of micro SD cards to store them on. Why not just buy physical games?!