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Well if they had just released The Sims on switch (and I mean a full game on a cartridge not a digital thing with 101 DLC options), then maybe they’d have some good revenue. Someday someone is bound to realize what I’ve been saying is true… if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future.

Absolutely NOTHING. If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. Physical games and systems last for decades. How do I know this? Because I still play the games I’ve owned all the way back to 1978 and every year since. Can you do this with digital? No. The end.

This was the worst Pokémon direct ever. Is this the future of Pokémon? All this mobile crap? And a game that’s at least a year away? I think the good Pokémon years are now in the past. They have become a poopshow and I’ve never been more disappointed. I guess it’s time to just move on, or go back and enjoy all their good old games, because I will never play the mobile junk. Never have, never will.

What I expect is more crappy mobile games because that’s what they seem to chuck out the most anymore. But what I WANT to see is a beautiful remake of HeartGold/SoulSilver, with significant enhancements to not only the appearance of the game, but the PokeWalker too which must be re-released with it! Actually this would be the perfect game to make as a “let’s go” version, if the PokeWalker is part of it. 🤔

This one was astoundingly boring to me. Not a single game I felt excited to see. Even fantasy life which I have some interest in, being 8 months away still… ugh. Just not happy at all with the showcase this time.

Tomodachi Life, Style Savvy, Pokemon Soul Silver/Heart Gold, Gardening Mama, Bookworm, The Price Is Right, Bejeweled… what ever happened to good casual games?!

I desperately hope they bring the PokeWalker back, and in a color device like a tamagotchi with more features! Not go cheap and do some dumb app on a phone or something! The biggest charm of HeartGold and SoulSilver is the Pokewalker!

Perhaps the rumored 8” LCD screen is a “Switch XL” of sorts and not actually a next generation system. 🤔

I absolutely love picross/Piczle lines games. It’s heartbreaking Rainy Frog won’t release these as physical copies in North America. Because of that, I won’t buy them due to me boycotting digital games due to Nintendo policies on requiring the internet to play them on non primary switches (such as my lite which is the one I travel with but don’t play most). I hope Rainy Frog will reconsider because I believe they would sell good here. Maybe make a compilation of them and add this one to it!

NA/EU because it very clearly communicates what the game actually is. Plus it just looks much better!

Mario vs DK but only physical, not download. 😁

A patch for a demo? lol …is that a first? 😆

Speaking of which, NintendoLife should do a feature on how many Switch games are remakes/rereleased versions from other systems. 🤔 That list is huge!

That’s the longest list of crappy games I’ve ever seen in one week. This stuff is what makes the eShop turn into an “App Store” and it devalues Nintendo. Long gone are the days of a nice selection of GOOD games that were on physical media only, that we could savor for years and years and without having to dig thru all the junk to find a gem.

I’m not sure why I never got the original way back when, but I got a 30% off deal for this new one when I preordered it back in October so I’m anxious to get it. I enjoyed the DS and 3ds games in this “series” too. Side note… since they are still bringing back a steady stream of oldies, why can’t we get some kind of Dr. Mario remake on the switch, and better yet, bundle it with a remake of Tetris Attack. I played that game like crazy in the 90s!

@LimitedTime me too. I’ve been playing animal crossing 20 years now and still love it, on all systems! (GameCube, ds, wii, 3ds, and switch!) 😀

Is this an indication of how long it would have taken the game to release if they’d finished it first? 🤔

Oop! At least we have animal crossing on the switch, the sims can’t compete with that! lol 😆

It would be cool, but most importantly just emphasizing on physical games being the rule, instead of digital. If this encourages physical game purchases, that would be a huge benefit. Plus they would look cute in a multi-game case. Not that there is much plastic to see on switch games, assuming they’d be about the same size on the new system.

I’m not reading all 127 comments before saying this but I don’t recall Pokémon ever complaining about Digimon, and that series, at least what I played of it, is as Pokémon-like as it gets 🤨 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2lkz6oS7w4

And in a few years we will hear the same news about the now 7 year old switch.

I don’t think that looks like a sequel, and I’m not impressed at all by how it looks. Honestly this one looks way better… and I’ve played it and find it to be rather enjoyable https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/pong-quest-switch/

It’s been 40 years since the last game crash. I’m tired of the few people who weren’t around to experience it then that will fight with me on this, but the crash is coming again because 1. Digital gaming is crushing the industry hard, and 2. A lot of people are too cheap to fully support game developers by purchasing physical video games and not pirating games. Which circles back to the digital games causing the crash. This industry does need a full reset, back to the glory days of the 90s where games were sold complete (not needing dozens of updates and patches), and we could walk into a store and look at games and purchase them, and come home with the excitement of unwrapping them and playing them for the first time, or a hundred times after that. Those games I bought in the 90s (and even the 80s!) I still enjoy playing now. Some of them are more than 45 years old. Those digital games people play now will likely not even make it into the next decade. Thus, we have nothing. Digital gaming is a vapor. Here today and gone tomorrow, and the entire industry is tanking with it.

Ubisoft needs to be comfortable with going out of business. I’m not participating in the game industry anymore if it’s all digital. No one will ever change my mind on that.

GameStop wouldn’t be trying so hard to survive in this modern gaming climate if everyone hadn’t pushed so hard for digital games. A tangible store can’t be profitable in an intangible business. It’s finally starting to be realized, however, that many gamers are being left in the cold as they find out they never actually bought their digital games and instead bought a ticket to play them temporarily (aka rental). Gamers, please purchase physical games, let’s help the industry survive all around, including our game stores!

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Yep ridiculous names… but then so is Wii, and Wii U which sounds like the noise you make when you smell something bad! 🫢

The NA one very accurately communicates what the game is to me, and I love this game. I still play it regularly after 20+ years!

Wouldn’t it be great if we all just said no to digital and they HAD to make physical copies in order to sell their games? Why does anyone really waste money on these digital rentals anyway? And the argument that they are better for bug fixes, etc is ridiculous… that’s just giving a pass for the lazy game developers that don’t put out finished/polished games like they used to.

@LinktotheFuture that would be a dream come true!

I wish activision would take a look at the success Atari is having with not only bringing back these classics but also making them new. There’s so many classic activision games that we’ve never seen on switch. And the same can be said of Intellivision games too! Sorely missed!

I love this game, I have it on a cartridge. But I hate rentals, subscription services, pay to play, digital downloads, etc. If it’s not mine forever, I’m not interested in it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s a good thing I bought a ton of physical games in November and December. Not only because I’m 100% done with ever buying download (aka rental) games on switch, but it gives me plenty to do until my next game purchase which will be the Mario game in February. This list above is awful. At least to me. None of those are games I would play. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Best gaming moments, hours, days, weeks, and months for me in 2023 was Pretty Princess Magical Garden Island. No one here even knows it exists and yet it’s such a beautiful, addictive, well polished, cute and fun game…. and I also greatly enjoyed Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures this fall. While that’s not as deep, it’s still so fun and cute! Why doesn’t anyone running this site like girly games? 🤨

Tomodachi Life and Style Savvy belong on this list. As well as Tamagotchi Connection Corner Shop.

@Not_Soos you are an amazing uncle. Don’t let these toxic fools ever even come close to making you believe anything less. Your nephew is blessed to have you in his life. If the people giving you trouble on here had even half a brain they would see that you’re the kind of person this world desperately needs more of. You keep on being that little boy’s much needed light. I think what you’re doing is awesome! ❤️

And one day the same will be true of switch games, but even worse, if you play switch games on anything other than your primary system, you will be locked out of doing that too. Buy physical games! This digital stuff is a gaming dictatorship. It’s better to retain our gaming freedom and play our own physical games with no restrictions. Maybe they won’t play with friends online someday but at least we can still play the games alone or with friends locally!

I have this game on my actual n64, and it’s awful. I hate the isometric view, bad graphics, bad gameplay, etc. Even decades ago I was thoroughly unimpressed with it. And what is it with the n64 games on switch looking so horrible? My n64 connected to the tv has never looked even close to that awful. I cancelled my plus membership, I couldn’t deal with those games looking so bad.

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So you omitted Pretty Princess Magical Garden Island and Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures because you think it’s “shovelware”? Actually I’m starting to think this website is shovelware. 🤔

They could have saved themselves a lot of embarrassment by just releasing a proper finished game from the beginning. We would have been happier waiting for that then getting this jumbled mess with all of its half baked updates.

Mine was animal crossing and pretty Princess magical garden island. And grow - song of the evertree in a somewhat distant 3rd place.

I dropped my plus membership and have zero regrets. It was an epic waste of money.

You left out Pui Pui Molcar 🤨

Nobody Mario’s like Martinet! That being said, another iconic voice (at least to me) is Cooking Mama! What ever happened to her? “Don’t worry, mama will help you!”, and then the girl who does the Kirby voice too… she gets too little recognition… and Kirby deserves more voice work in the games, or even a movie! (Don’t say a Kirby movie would suck) 😂

I got 6 out of 15 which were all guesses because I played this about two hours, 25 years ago, and hated the game and never looked back 😂

I’m honestly baffled by all the love for thousand year door. Has time made people forget all the flaws and difficulties that game had? Or have most people not played it all the way through? 🤔

Nearing 4 years on animal crossing being out, and this game, while awesome, still lacks so much that was in new leaf… perhaps it’s time for a sequel, or a re-release of new leaf, on switch 🤔

Odd they would do that, but I have both this game and the newer one so it’s not a big deal. I love these, they are so fun! It’s pretty dumb that a lot of the content that’s on the first game is behind a paywall on the second game. Maybe that’s why they are removing the first one. 🤔

Fashion Dreamer, but it’s not nearly as good as I’d hoped. And Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures because it’s much better than I’d hoped! 😁

Many of those tracks in the list are needed, but I would have also liked to see modernized versions of some old and new ones for instance a new animal crossing track with scenes from New Horizons, and a Mario track with scenes from Wonder, and maybe even some crazy tracks based on Wario stuff.

@Divide_and_Wander I’m an oldie like you and love the classic “bite size games” of that era. The Atari 50 collection is nice but I personally enjoyed the previous Atari collection on Switch more than this 50 set. I also wish they’d bring an Activision Classics out for Switch. The last one published on a Nintendo system, if I recall correctly, was on the GameBoy Advance, so that’s about 20 years old now!