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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?!
This looked like a rushed AI created “teaser” or better yet appeaser to combat the nonstop rumors and reveals. As I said before this obsession is just awful. Doesn’t anyone do anything else besides think of this system? I was honestly very disappointed with the “official” reveal because it lacks any explanation, technical specifications, or software info besides Mario Kart which I’m very much “over” because they’ve been advertising and selling that game in every which way possible nonstop for years. Even this past holiday was all about Mario Kart. I would be much more excited if this reveal specifically stated screen size, hardware power, and at least 1-2 NEW games. New as in totally new, not sequels. Or perhaps even if it was a sequel, how about Animal Crossing? People have been desperate for a new version of that, or even a remastered version of New Leaf.
The biggest problem is actually all the websites that devote all their attention to leaks and rumors of a system that’s never been formally announced. It is an unhealthy obsession that is contagious and causes readers as well as more websites to do the same. There’s so much stuff we already have that is always overlooked. Hundreds of games that never get a review or even a mention, for instance. Because everyone is obsessed with the one mystery thing they don’t have. Doesn’t anyone see how wrong that is? Nintendo should be doing something like releasing more games or the new system, absolutely, but is that the only thing that matters in the world? Do gamers play other games or systems? I know I sure do. And I honestly get so tired of the switch 2 obsession. I’d love to see other things get some attention for once!
The idiocy in this is that Nintendo continually shuts down and/or discontinues products and services that people are still actively using or interested in buying. And then they have the audacity to police it after the fact. Why not just keep these things going so people can enjoy them. Most notably the 3DS systems, games, and online services. This would all still be profitable today had it not been shut down. Nintendo is a company that makes no sense a lot of the time. And so here we are 8 years into the Switch life and barely a trickle of games coming, and zero announcement on the successor either. And no way to enjoy all the features of the previous systems while we wait. Gamers will still game regardless of what Nintendo says. If they don’t have things to entertain us we find other stuff to do. Things like finding ways to play their older stuff or perhaps just moving on to competing systems. Loyalty and patience can only stretch so far!
This should have been called Donkey Kong Country Boomerang. It just keeps returning! I got this for free on 3DS from Nintendo as a parting gift from the end of their much better rewards program they had back then.
Hardware is a paperweight without software, there’s no point whatsoever in buying it with nothing to play on it. They need to announce at least 2 different games with the system reveal or the response will be a yawn of boredom. 🥱
Definitely getting the 4k physical copy of Hello Kitty Island Adventures on Switch 2 this spring. Not wasting my time/money with the digital only version on the original Switch.
Nintendo is snoozing with Snorlax. In the meantime, game sites that have nothing new to report could maybe fill this emptiness with doing reviews on vast numbers of games they missed over the years! Or maybe do highlight features on fun games over the last several years. Or even make strategy guides for games that are more complex. It’s never good to just focus on one thing. That system will come out eventually. Let’s do other things while we wait!
It’s kinda funny that NintendoLife has done dozens (or hundreds?) of articles about the Switch 2… it’s basically been a never ending flood of “reveals”. So there’s nothing left for Nintendo to announce now except the date and any launch day games. Oddly, Nintendo has been sound asleep for nearly a year. Did they forget to set their Alarmo?
Ridiculous. All Nintendo has to do to stop this nonsense is have the label “cut out” on the front and back of the game cases to show the actual game cartridge inside, fully visible from the front and back.
The Nintendo branded (SanDisk) memory cards have an actual warranty by Nintendo printed on the package. So “cute design” or not, I’d rather have a guarantee to at least get my money back if my data is lost/corrupted.
The thing that amazes me is that there are still humans that don’t own Mario Kart 8 at this point lol. Vast numbers of them based on how many copies of this are still selling! I mean it’s cool, that’s a great game. It’s just so old, it baffles the mind that it’s still near or at the top every month!
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Re: Nintendo Announces 'Virtual Game Cards' For Switch, Unlocking Digital Lending
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.
Re: Plants vs. Zombies Looks Set To Be Revived And 'Reloaded' On Switch
@joey302 I know! That makes no sense! I LOVE that game! I have it on DS & GBA, so why would they skip the switch!
Re: PSA: Nintendo Reminds Us It's Winding Down Gold Points Next Week
A great reminder to stick with buying only physical games 😁
Re: Talking Point: What's Your Dream Pokémon LEGO Set?
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.
Re: Plants vs. Zombies Looks Set To Be Revived And 'Reloaded' On Switch
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.
Re: Sakurai Says Japanese Developers Should Avoid Trying To Appeal To Western Tastes
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.
Re: Nintendo Music Drops Three More Albums, Here's Every Song Included
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
Re: Star Wars: Hunters Servers To Close Later This Year
Hmm as it proves to be time and time again, if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. 🔌🎮
Re: Switch 2 Predicted To Cost "$400 Or More"
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.
Re: Niantic Sells Pokémon GO And Entire Gaming Division For $3.5 Billion
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.
Re: Gallery: Harvest Moon's New "Cozy" Switch Bundle Shares First Screenshots Ahead Of June Launch
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 🤔
Re: Analyst Fears U.S. Tariffs Could Spell Disaster For Physical Games
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.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Announces Removal Of Super Famicom Title
If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. 🔌🎮
Re: Talking Point: Can Nintendo Keep Up The One-Game-A-Month Release Pace On Switch 2?
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
Re: How Would You Rate The Pokémon Presents Showcase For February 2025?
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.
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 Doesn't Need To Worry About Steam Deck Sales
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.
Re: Stunning New Physical Edition Of Stardew Valley Is Now Available At Fangamer
For everyone curious about what version is on this, it’s 1.5.
Re: "They Stole The Whole Game" - Horror Indie Dev Fights The eShop Scam Blatantly Ripping Their Work
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.
Re: GameStop Discontinues Pokémon Trading Card Game Pre-Orders
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.
Re: Poll: Which Pokémon Game Really Deserves A Remake Next?
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.
Re: Talking Point: The 3DS Library Is Ripe For Switch 2, But Is NSO The Way To Go?
Remasters, remakes, physical copies ONLY. Start with Tomodachi Life, Animal Crossing New Leaf, and Style Savvy Styling Star.
Re: Talking Point: Should We Actually Get Excited For Pokémon Day This Year?
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.
Re: Tetris Forever Is Getting Its Own Collectable Handheld Console
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.
Re: Opinion: Scrapping Gold Points Makes Sense For Nintendo, But It's A Bitter Pill For Loyal Fans
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! 😀
Re: Alarmo Now Available To Everyone On The My Nintendo Store (US)
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.
Re: Hideki Kamiya Wants Nintendo To Reboot Virtual Console For Switch 2
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.
Re: Switch 2 Units Are Reportedly Selling For $40,000 On The Chinese Black Market
Might be a good time to change this website name from NintendoLife to NintendoRumours, just a thought. 😂🤨
Re: Switch 2 Patent Suggests You Can Flip The Console Upside Down
Honestly I’d rather this flipped OPEN to reveal a second screen like a DS instead of flip upside down!
Re: Nintendo President Reiterates Switch Online Will "Continue To Be Available" For Switch 2
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.
Re: Opinion: Miiverse Was Fine, But Does Anybody Really Want It Back In 2025?
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?!
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Switch)
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.
Re: Japan's Switch eShop Will Soon No Longer Accept Overseas Payment Methods
Maybe they should stop releasing so many games for Japan only!
Re: US Physical Game Spending Continued To Decline Last Year, Now Sits At Half 2021's Numbers
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!
Re: EA's Share Price Plummets After Reports Of Disappointing Financial Performance
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).
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Feel About 24 Racers In Mario Kart 9?
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.
Re: Video: We've Spotted Some Secrets In The Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal Trailer
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?!
Re: Poll: So, What Did You Think Of The Switch 2 Reveal?
This looked like a rushed AI created “teaser” or better yet appeaser to combat the nonstop rumors and reveals. As I said before this obsession is just awful. Doesn’t anyone do anything else besides think of this system? I was honestly very disappointed with the “official” reveal because it lacks any explanation, technical specifications, or software info besides Mario Kart which I’m very much “over” because they’ve been advertising and selling that game in every which way possible nonstop for years. Even this past holiday was all about Mario Kart. I would be much more excited if this reveal specifically stated screen size, hardware power, and at least 1-2 NEW games. New as in totally new, not sequels. Or perhaps even if it was a sequel, how about Animal Crossing? People have been desperate for a new version of that, or even a remastered version of New Leaf.
Re: Nintendo Is "Very Upset" About The Switch 2 Leaks, It's Claimed
The biggest problem is actually all the websites that devote all their attention to leaks and rumors of a system that’s never been formally announced. It is an unhealthy obsession that is contagious and causes readers as well as more websites to do the same. There’s so much stuff we already have that is always overlooked. Hundreds of games that never get a review or even a mention, for instance. Because everyone is obsessed with the one mystery thing they don’t have. Doesn’t anyone see how wrong that is? Nintendo should be doing something like releasing more games or the new system, absolutely, but is that the only thing that matters in the world? Do gamers play other games or systems? I know I sure do. And I honestly get so tired of the switch 2 obsession. I’d love to see other things get some attention for once!
Re: Nintendo Asks Wii U Owners To Refrain From Using "Unauthorised" Online Services
The idiocy in this is that Nintendo continually shuts down and/or discontinues products and services that people are still actively using or interested in buying. And then they have the audacity to police it after the fact. Why not just keep these things going so people can enjoy them. Most notably the 3DS systems, games, and online services. This would all still be profitable today had it not been shut down. Nintendo is a company that makes no sense a lot of the time. And so here we are 8 years into the Switch life and barely a trickle of games coming, and zero announcement on the successor either. And no way to enjoy all the features of the previous systems while we wait. Gamers will still game regardless of what Nintendo says. If they don’t have things to entertain us we find other stuff to do. Things like finding ways to play their older stuff or perhaps just moving on to competing systems. Loyalty and patience can only stretch so far!
Re: Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Switch) - Aping A Retro Classic
This should have been called Donkey Kong Country Boomerang. It just keeps returning! I got this for free on 3DS from Nintendo as a parting gift from the end of their much better rewards program they had back then.
Re: Rumour: 'Switch 2' Will Reportedly Be Officially Revealed This Thursday
Hardware is a paperweight without software, there’s no point whatsoever in buying it with nothing to play on it. They need to announce at least 2 different games with the system reveal or the response will be a yawn of boredom. 🥱
Re: Genki Claims The 'Switch 2' Joy-Con Can Be Removed By 'Brute Force'
I really do NOT like the idea of using magnets for the joycons. This is a bad idea and seems like it will result in many problems for this new switch.
Re: 'Switch 2' Ergonomic Grip Case Surfaces On Amazon
All of the NDAs expired on 31 Dec and Nintendo must have decided it was worth the risk.
Re: Yes, We're Getting Closer To Pokémon Day
Ironically I’m diving into a brand new game of X/Y (specifically X) after a 10 year hiatus 😎
Re: Video: 15 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In January 2025
Definitely getting the 4k physical copy of Hello Kitty Island Adventures on Switch 2 this spring. Not wasting my time/money with the digital only version on the original Switch.
Re: Talking Point: Everyone Else Is Busy Revealing Switch 2 - What Gives, Nintendo?
Nintendo is snoozing with Snorlax. In the meantime, game sites that have nothing new to report could maybe fill this emptiness with doing reviews on vast numbers of games they missed over the years! Or maybe do highlight features on fun games over the last several years. Or even make strategy guides for games that are more complex. It’s never good to just focus on one thing. That system will come out eventually. Let’s do other things while we wait!
Re: Is This Our Best Look Yet At 'Switch 2'?
It’s kinda funny that NintendoLife has done dozens (or hundreds?) of articles about the Switch 2… it’s basically been a never ending flood of “reveals”. So there’s nothing left for Nintendo to announce now except the date and any launch day games. Oddly, Nintendo has been sound asleep for nearly a year. Did they forget to set their Alarmo?
Re: Random: Switch Players Report Game Cards Being Swapped Out For Googly Eyes
Ridiculous. All Nintendo has to do to stop this nonsense is have the label “cut out” on the front and back of the game cases to show the actual game cartridge inside, fully visible from the front and back.
Re: Samsung Reveals New Sonic-Themed MicroSD Cards
The Nintendo branded (SanDisk) memory cards have an actual warranty by Nintendo printed on the package. So “cute design” or not, I’d rather have a guarantee to at least get my money back if my data is lost/corrupted.
Re: UK Charts: Nintendo Switch Closes Out 2024 With The Old Favourites
The thing that amazes me is that there are still humans that don’t own Mario Kart 8 at this point lol. Vast numbers of them based on how many copies of this are still selling! I mean it’s cool, that’s a great game. It’s just so old, it baffles the mind that it’s still near or at the top every month!