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@Savage_Joe you are completely wrong, I have 47 Super Nintendo games right here next to me that I play regularly. I also have more than 50 NES games, more than 50 GameBoy games, and many other legacy games including Atari and Intellivision that work just fine TODAY in the original systems I have owned since the late 70s and beyond. You obviously are not old enough to have experienced the joys of legacy games, and you won’t in the future because digital games will have no access.

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. The past validates this point. Keep these physical games coming! I will always buy physical ones only!

This practice should mandate that cartridges sold after the patches & updates are out, should be updated themselves to INCLUDE all patches and updates ON the cartridge. I’ve actually seen some do this, but it’s not common.
As I always say, if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. Reasons like this article scream loud and clear why that is true.

Leaving Tomodachi Life off of this list is criminal.

I have only the basic NSO but received and completed the survey anyway. I told them I was satisfied with the basic service and never planning to get the expansion. I did have that expansion briefly awhile back, and hated it, and very rarely used it, found the tiny screen of the n64 (handheld mode) to be terribly disappointing and there were zero GBA games I liked. And certainly no need for the Genesis console since I own almost all of those on the Sega Genesis Classics cartridge. Nintendo was kind enough to refund me for the expansion and I’ve been happily using the cheap NSO service and enjoying the NES, GB, and SNES games with it.

@sixrings you’re right. The movie industry is on the brink of a total collapse. In fact, a record breaking strike happened due to the consequences of digital streaming and the epic profit losses incurred as a result.

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

Finally! I get my kleptomaniac mouse! 🐭

Psh, 25 years is nothing when you get to be my age. That being said, I loved that game on 64, but Mario Golf on GBA was much better! And so was the GameCube one! That’s my favorite!

What I wish for:
Tomodachi Life 2
Animal Crossing New Leaf Deluxe
Style Savvy 4 Styling Star HD
Dr Mario/Tetris Attack, Switch Version

What I will get: Zelda, Metroid, etc type games/DLC
Sigh 😔

I’d like to see a proper style savvy game and graphically enhanced remakes of harvest moon magical melody and grand bazaar!

Wasn’t there a review of the game here just yesterday? So, it’s not that crazy that others have played it too! Mine arrives here in a couple hours.

Finally! These are the Taito “milestones” I’ve been waiting for!

I didn’t want to buy this game because I thought it was a hot mess when I played it 20 years ago (yea I know that’s an unpopular opinion, I admit), but I got an offer to get it for 30% off at target plus my 5% off with their card, so I preordered it and that made it around $40. Thankfully no cancellation notice so far! And hopefully I’ll enjoy the game more this time around. Life is a lot different for me now than it was in 2004. That could make all the difference! Sometimes playing video games under bad circumstances can make us think negatively of a game that might actually be awesome.

UPDATE: I just got an email right after typing this, that my Paper Mario game just shipped! I’m stunned! It will be here several days before release. This must be why they are cancelling preorders but mine slipped through!

Fanning that kleptomania flame! lol. As for me, I just like having a cute mouse in a game! 😁

I remember the NES remix for 3ds, I was so excited to get that and then so utterly let down when I realized it was nothing but select bite size bits of games I loved. Never going down that road again. If it’s not full games, there’s just no point in getting it.

That’s good because if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. The past, even recent past will loudly validate that!

I used to love square enix. At one time it was only their RPGs that I would ever play. But anything they have put out in recent years has really been pretty lousy, and it’s always irritated me severely that the enhanced remake of Secret of Mana was never released on switch. And don’t EVEN get me started on the whole Kingdom Hearts disaster. They have no love for Nintendo gamers. So I moved on. There’s many other RPGs I enjoy more than square enix ones now. Just my personal thoughts.

I just keep wondering if during this in-between time they might release another version of switch, such as an LCD XL or something like they kept doing with DS and 3DS in their latter days.

@Joriss I have a laserdisc player and laserdiscs. The reason why they didn’t survive through the years like music CDs is because the process of making such a large disc created problems with sealing the media film inside the plastic, and air & humidity would get in and create “laser rot” which is what we called it in the 80s & 90s, and significantly compromise the video quality. To that end, video games on discs, while made better and not subject to “laser rot” can often find the game systems themselves break down due to constantly moving parts (particularly the laser arm that constantly moves back and forth to read the disc). In stark contrast, over the decades you will find that many systems made in the 80s, and their games, such as Atari, Intellivision, Nintendo, and many others still work today because of how they are made which is close to how switch games are made. So in the case of Nintendo switch games, they can potentially last “forever”, and the most likely barrier to playing them in the future would be the system fan or the screen on the switch not working. So physical media is always the way to go. Digital is a vapor. It’s here and gone. (3ds eShop, anyone?).

Oh no, not the dreaded electromagnetic suction docking structure! Do you know how many stability updates they will have to do for that thing?! 🫣

My favorites are Side Pocket, Super Scrabble, Wordtris, and Boggle Plus. Also greatly enjoy Spot (7up), Tetris Attack, Tetris Blast, Pac-Man, Yoshi’s Cookie, Kirby Pinball, and so many more that no one likely remembers. Would love to see these on switch but since they probably will never show up, I got an analogue pocket to play them, and yay - no subscription required either!

Analogue Pocket because I just got a shiny new one yesterday and long live physical gaming! I’m happily digging thru my mountain of GB, GBC and GBA games to play on it all weekend! 😀

We never get a Nintendo Direct anymore, just these indie ones that keep getting worse and worse. The switch definitely appears to be at the end of its life cycle. When the 3ds was 7 years old as switch is now, it was 2018, and there were practically no games for the 3ds then, and the switch had already been out a year as well. I wonder why Nintendo has basically gone silent now. This isn’t typical Nintendo at all.

They need to stop wasting their efforts on making all this limited time junk. The game is such a mess it needs permanent additions, actually a total overhaul to be honest. Better yet, put that effort into bringing us a real Style Savvy game.

Looks like a crappy game to me so nope.

If you wait a little while, target will restock them at $4.99 each. Also eBay isn’t super expensive if you want one now. I love mine, it was free with a Lego purchase at a low threshold.

Hmm, digital gaming, pay as you go/cash grab (particularly mobile gaming), cheap & faulty programming (hello 200 updates after your games are released!), and even an aging Nintendo console (happy 7+ years, switch!), as well as many other factors… just crushing the game industry. It was thriving until all this digital crap started, and so many people want to ignore that fact. The industry is on the brink of total collapse. Check back with me on this in a couple years when the smoldering ashes of a once thriving industry are all that remain. It’s coming.

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. How can a physical store survive in a digital world? The big gaming crash 2.0 is coming soon!

First of all, I really love this game! It’s a lot of fun! That being said, after having played it for many hours, I think the European box clearly communicates what this game is about with literal art from the game in the foreground and background. So that’s my pick! Plus I think it is the cutest.

Animal crossing new horizons because it’s easy like Sunday morning.

I’m so tired of these same old games. Switch needs Tomodachi Life and Style Savvy. Period!

I’d rather just see enhanced remakes of the good old games, honestly.

This game is such a disappointment. All the characters you dress up (so far I’ve only encountered about 10 different ones after 15 hours of gameplay and most play areas unlocked), are so lifeless, like robots or AI, they have you dress them over and over again with the same requests, the same dialogue. Clothes in this game are boring, limited, uninspiring. Sorting is a nightmare. You have to scroll on and on just to find a simple pair of shoes. No dedicated pages to clothing types anymore like what was in Style Savvy. And they keep adding these limited time events, that helps nothing. Not everyone can play on their schedule. Just add stuff and let it be part of the game forever! There’s already so little even with all their patches, that this should have been a $20 game from day 1. I hope SynSophia will issue a humble apology to all of us who wasted $50 on this game. An apology made in the form of making Style Savvy Styling Star (3DS) available for switch as a physical game since it was never released in North America except on the eShop plus so many people missed out on that gem which was the best one they ever made. It’s sad they have fallen so far from that. These two are like night and day.

The leftover pieces are part of Lego’s long standing policy of including an extra one of each tiny piece due to them easily getting lost or stuck in a bag & thrown away accidentally. It saves money for the company to just include these in the sets for reasons like that instead of having to send one out individually for all the people that lose them.

The eShop has turned into an App Store or Google Play store. Hoards of junky worthless games and a few decent ones. This devalues the switch so much. Oh how I wish we could go back to all games being physical only. They had meaning then. They were almost always finished then too. No updates, patches, DLC, etc. And they last, unlike the eShop and all the digital junk, which will be cut off soon. Anyone remember the DS? 3DS? How’s that digital stuff working out on those now? 🤨

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.