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I thinks Square-Enix’s thinking and Nintendo Life’s sub heading are toxic for the gaming industry.

The thought process should be that Square-Enix set out to make the best game possible knowing that such excellence would bring about enough sales to continue their desire to create more games of higher and higher excellence.

The deciding factor should not lay in the consumers banding together to “get it done” by throwing money towards SE. The deciding factor should be in SE mindset of excellence breeds success.

As for SE being unsure if strategy games sell, and that being a deciding factor on future strategy games. Over the last 8 years, the Switch has enjoyed high sales from SE own strategy games as well as Nintendo’s Mario & Rabbids and Fire Emblem games, and do forget all the other SRPG’s on Switch, which have done well enough.

The messaging from SE and NintendoLife sound destructive and encourage rewarding a games company before the game is even proven to be worthy of your money.

It’s the first $80 Nintendo Switch 2 game, MKW is free seeing as the pack-in with system is the only option at retailers for $500, and DKB is $70. At such a premium price, the game is too short and the graphics are near identical to the $60 Switch 1 game. If you haven’t played it already on Switch 1, this Switch 2 title only gives you 2.5hrs extra gameplay. I wouldn’t score it to high because it’s a poor value for the money.

Increase by 75% is not how numbers work. That would be a decrease. Did you mean to say 175%? I don’t know anyone who owns one and my 8 switch splatoon online friends don’t have one either.

I don’t expect a single one of those in poll. I don’t have any expectations for third parties. Have third parties become very excited by Switch 2? That’s what I curious to see.

Gearing up for Nintendo’s August 1st price and policy changes perhaps?

Who is Circanan? The numbers are an estimation but there is no traceable link back to this Circana and how they arrived at this number. Poor reporting by NL and whoever this Stephen Totilo is as well.

My opinion is that the all sales this past month primarily reflect purchases from super fans, but only those whom also have money to burn.

Who is this guy? He work for Nintendo? What does he get out of being right other than prolonging an illusion that he’s got something special.

As for a Nintendo Direct, I only care for Switch 1 games releases. Give me NSMB 2 3DS HD, NSMB DS HD, and Luigi’s Mansion 3DS HD.

I’m surprised by Pokémon’s gender leaning male.

@Dr_Awkward The thing is I’m assuming nothing. The language Square-Enix is using does not follow Nintendo’s official wording. Additionally, Nintendo’s conveyance of Game Key Cards and Switch 2 Editions (paid and unpaid) leaves a lot of questions.

Every publisher and Nintendo fan seemingly uses different terms, such as upgrade, update, patch, edition, key-card, paid - unpaid, boost, etc. I don’t know what Nintendo training or course many of you took, but I’m lost.

I pay attention to this stuff daily and I think the messaging is getting more convoluted each day.

@Dr_Awkward Because you cannot play the SW1 game on the SW2. Quote: Please buy your copy for whichever system you would like to play it on.

As I understand it, Switch 1 games when played on Switch 2 get an upgrade in performance, aka Switch Pro, possible better frame rate and the possibility of hitting the upper resolution of the dynamic resolution more consistently. This is an upgrade provided by the Switch 2 being more powerful.

If they are talking about Switch 2 Edition upgrades then they should call it by the official name: Switch 2 Edition upgrade.

But look at that quote. They ask you to carefully choose your system to play the game on. This looks to me that the SW1 version is not compatible at all on SW2. We do know that there are SW1 games that will not play on SW2, but those were released before the SW2 was even announced. This game has all the possibilities to be backwards compatible and even have a Switch 2 Edition Upgrade for separate purchase just like Nintendo has demonstrated with the Zelda’s, BOTW & TOTK.

This goes completely against Nintendo Backwards Compatibility system! Basically what this news means to me is, I will NOT be buying this game at launch for my Switch 1. Instead, I will maybe get this game after I buy a Switch 2 and the game has long been on sale, because I won’t be getting a Switch 2 until at least fall/winter 2026. I might even skip the entire trilogy as I really don’t like companies who play games with us. You know they are lying.

The only 3rd party games that would get me to buy Switch 2 tomorrow would be Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeros and Phantom Pain, as well as Death Stranding 1 (and 2 later of course).

I want these games portable more than any Nintendo game they can come up with. I looove MGSV

Looking at that Japanese articles comments, a lot of those commenters had moved over to eshop download purchases halfway through the Switch lifecycle and don’t give a care for the key card. They say it is pointless, just but the DL version.

Good on iFixit! Talking about the potentiometer based sticks, people who say the new Switch 2 and Pro Controller sticks feel so much smoother and premium are probably responding to new stiff springs. I put new TMR Hall Effect sticks in my Switch Lite and they feel just a bit stiffer. So I wonder if Nintendo’s new sticks are really better or if it’s just placebo.

Familiar faces? Why not show their faces?

Rake to the face on a weekly basis. They could have avoided so much by being more transparent and talkative about things and not exaggerating the lcd, hdr capabilities.

What was changed for Switch 1? That’s what I have and I did get an update for both of these games just now, on the Switch 1.

With the Switch 2 having a pixel response time of 33ms this means that 120fps and even 60fps are just about meaningless.

For 60fps you want a pixel response time of 16.666ms. 1000ms divided by 60fps = 16.666ms. If you have 33ms pixel response time, this means that your screen pixels are only updating every 2 frames. 16.666 times 2 = 33.333. You may as well be playing at 30fps because that is what 33.33ms pixel response times give you, even if the Switch 2 is producing 60fps, that smeary screen is only displaying 30fps. 1000ms divided by 33.333 = 30fps.

What about 120fps? 1000ms in a second divided by 120fps from the gpu = you would need a screen that can update its pixels once every 8.333ms.

Considering that the Switch 2’s screen is so slow, the screen becomes a bottle neck and prevents the hardware from actually presenting its 60 and 120fps capabilities.

For those who don’t notice, I wonder if they will begin to notice with side scrollers, vertical scrolling text, and especially when Metroid Prime 4 releases. First person view ports expose slow screens pretty well.

And what about the HDR, 420 nits is barely bright enough to make a noticeable, more like unnoticeable, difference from a good LCD panel without HDR.

And the magnet scheme is simply a scheme, magnets are poor at sheer and leverage resistance. The whole Dbrand thing revealed that even the official, original, Switch 2 joycons are not that sturdy because holding the thing with one hand puts leverage and sheer forces on the magnets.

Sorry to those who bought model one. I’ll wait for OLED or fixed joycons on a Lite model.

@sethfranum Google Capcom, Pragmata and look at the pictures. Very similar.

Does anyone else see the similarity between Pauline hanging off DK’s right shoulder and that upcoming game from Capcom, Pragmata, where a little girl, Diana hangs off the right shoulder of a heavily armored soldier?

That video is too high resolution and too clear for 2002 and the type of video encoding we had at the time. I’m suspect of it.

Snoop Dogg as Link and Martha Stewart as Zelda. Gordon Ramsey as Gannon. Conan O'Brien as Tingle.

Maybe it’s to prevent nerve damage. I work with tools that can vibrate very strongly and it can cause your fingers phantom vibration for long afterwards. That’s a sign of a potential problem. I had a friend who back in the PS2 days was developing hand and wrist pain due to controller vibration because he was playing obsessively.

I hear that a lot of people play in handheld with the brightness between 75-100%. Is this true? Is this a necessary requirement of HDR? I don’t have Switch 2, I comfortably play my Switch Lite at 25% brightness. I can’t imagine turning the brightness any higher than 50% as that honestly begins to hurts my eyes.

Switch 2 drains at about 46% per hour while Switch drains at about 20% per hour, even on demanding games with wifi communication.

Now that the super fans are out of the way, will it continue to sell is the real question.

@Octane Ah I see. That is such a shame. Something needs to change, I personally think that Pokémon can’t keep lagging behind other Nintendo games graphically, it’s just disappointing to see.

I thought GameFreak lacked the knowledge to create modern looking games. It doesn’t make sense that many Nintendo games look modern but GF’s Nintendo games look many generations behind. And then this releases… hmmm.

The cost of Mario Kart World bundled will probably be the last game for SW2 that you can get for less than $70. Every game from now until end of time will cost more.

This weekend I’m playing Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, Xenoblade X DE, and Splatoon 3. I play on Switch Lite and I am still very impressed with the graphics, clarity and sharpness of these games. I’m going to continue enjoying what I currently have until a Switch 2 revision comes out. For what the SW2 currently offers at its price, not worth it.

I’ve had my Switch lite for 3 years, playing Splatoon 3 online, I get about 4 hours. Same with any other games. I actually time it, the battery drains at a rate of 20-25% per hour. If I ever see it move from that then I know my battery is degraded.

As for Switch 2, I’ll wait until a new revision with a more energy efficient SOC is released. I still can’t believe Nintendo went backwards and used a larger more energy inefficient 8nm SOC. Should have be 4nm at its largest, especially for the money they’re asking.

So it’s like I was saying a month ago, Switch 1 games with Switch 2 game upgrades will be used as keycards. The Switch 2, when playing upgraded SW1 games, won’t draw data from the cart, but from a whole digital download.

I wonder if this is how Switch 1 cart BOTW & TOTK, Kirby Forgotten Land will be as well?

Why not report that this update also applies to the original Switch console family. Or is NL trying to justify SW2 at every turn.

Most of all GameCube games had native wide screen. Zelda Ww & TP, SoulCalibur, FZero, the Metroid Primes, Eternal Darkness, these had 16:9 for sure, I had a TV before LCD, a Sony Wega, that has the feature and the games had the feature, as well as progressive scan. These NSO releases should be in wide screen.

@jesse_dylan I believe so as well. I think the editors of this website can’t put two and two together or purposefully refuse to do so as a means of spreading hysteria, thus driving more engagement, aka comments, than a truthful article would produce.

It sounds like Microsoft Game Assist is a technology that is used as a guide to help you through a game like a walkthrough. My guess is that it runs in the background or beside the game you’re playing. Maybe this is a feature Microsoft and Nintendo are bringing to Switch 2. And I can see the other games on this list coming to Switch 2. I myself did use Microsoft Copilot on my iPhone for help XB: Chronicles X DE when I began playing since I didn’t understand certain things about the game at first. The answers were actually really good.

I’ll be playing on my Switch 1, also checking videos as to whether a USA region Switch 2 can play Japanese region Switch 1 and 2 games, physical and digital? I am also practicing the art of enjoying what I already have.

The new case design, red color over done to extreme, and the key cards are all sickening, as is the drip feed of info from Nintendo. Had they revealed all of the drip feed news at once, a lot of the frustration and speculation would have not happened. I’m say, if they would have came out and said, Switch 1 games are emulated thus only select games will preform better on Switch 2, that would have been an honest thing to do.

I was expecting the switch 2 to increase resolution for all switch games and frame rate for uncapped games without need for special tweaks from Nintendo. Similar to how pc gaming is. I don’t know why people are ok with this drip feed of enhancements. Years and months ago we were all hoping for across the board improvements for just about any switch games you pop into the switch 2. Now we’re ok will 12.

I’m ghosting the Switch 2, to expensive, to many unanswered questions, and I have to many good games on Switch to play and enjoy without spending more on a new system.

Wow, Xenoblade X fell off the top 10 real fast.

What happened to Nintendo’s idea of using mature, affordable, withered technology? I doubt every Switch 2 game needs faster speeds, Maybe some smaller games like puyo puyo, Tetris, indies, could use Switch 1 carts.

No, I hate subscriptions. I feel pressured to be online gaming otherwise I’m wasting my money or my skills are dulling. Meanwhile I am also hating online because there are so many solo games calling me yet I cannot play them because then I would be wasting my online subscription.

@johnedwin This is why I think Switch 2 might have needed a bit more unique hardware, or Nintendo will need to create extremely well crafted games to help people overlook the power differential from a PlayStation 6.

While I like fun hardware and unique hardware interaction, it really is about the games. The Switch 1 was so popular, getting so many games, especially 3rd party, entire series of remasters, that unless the Switch 2 releases some very compelling games, I won’t have any reason to upgrade from Switch 1. I have entire series remastered that I’ve never experienced to keep me occupied for the entire Switch 2 generation. I really wonder how many remasters or re-releases are left for Nintendo and 3rd parties when they all pretty much exhausted just about every series they have on the Switch 1. With that steam nearly dried up, and without the novelty of super unique hardware, Nintendo and 3rd parties will need to drastically increase their creativity for new games to make up for the low appeal of such similar hardware.

Should be on Switch 1.

IDK about other people experiences but all of my Nintendo Online friends are strangers. I don’t know a thing about them. I met them in Splatoon 3. They added me, I added them, based on how we played together, how we dressed, how we looked at each other, squid partied, who knows. But some of my friends (strangers), we have played together many times. We do not schedule, do not communicate in any way, but simply happen to play around the same time of the night.

So when this article suggests that contact with Switch 2 friends will be ok because we “know” our friends, I’m not sure about that.

Of my friends (strangers), I can tell you that what I know is what I can deduce from their name, profile picture, games they play, and how they behave in Splatoon. For example, my friend Frijoles, might be Hispanic, is a mother because she later changed her name to bri : ) and then to I Hate Kids followed by many hours put into fortnight before the profile name was changed back to bri : ) and Splatoon being played again.

I have another friend who I believe to be a man because he dresses like a man in Splatoon. We’ve played a lot together in the past, at night. Their name was 707 before recently changing it to My Left Nut. Hmmm, maybe this friend is a teenage boy who stays up late. I thought otherwise, but without communication, how was I to know who I’m playing with? I’m just making educated guesses. I mean, I have another “friend” named DREAMY, dressed like a girl, are they a girl, probably based on the other games they play, are they hyper active, maybe, based on how they behave in Splatoon, or maybe they are just good fun to play with. And when this person plays serious , they are good, I mean X rank good.

My point is, Switch 2 online will be an open window, perhaps a shock, a surprise. Will I speak their language? I have several friends with Japanese names as well from Splatoon.

My point is, articles like this one, assume that NSO is full of “real” friends. Friends currently talking on the Phone App or discord. I’m an example of the opposite. I believe that my experience is much more in-line with how Nintendo expects people to add friends based on who you play with, whether that be Splatoon online, Luigi’s Madison online, Smash online, etc.

Based on Switch 1’s online experience, how are us stranger-friends supposed to communicate with each other? How would we even share our actual contact details. We just have our player name, how we dress, what games we play and at what time of day/night we play.

NSO Switch 2 will be “interesting”.

Sus? The use of that word is buns.

I have a special edition Pokemon Sword and Shield Switch Lite that I’ve used since 2021. Last month I replaced the sticks with Hall Effect. I was able to carefully peel off the original red and blue joy stick tops and the black Hall Effect tops and then carefully fold the original tops onto the new sticks. I had to use small side cutters to remove internal nubs from the underside of original rubber tops. They look and perform perfect now.

If I were to trade in my system it would be on my terms on eBay for more money that GameStop is willing to give.

Additionally, we still don’t know how Switch 1 games will perform on a Switch 2. All we heard about was upgrades for a purchase for a few games. But what about the rest? Until I know for sure, I’m not interested in the Switch 2 or it’s games they have announced.

I have lots of games, 1st and 3rd party yet to play that I own. I will continue playing them on my Lite until Nintendo convinced me that the Switch 2 will improve handheld render resolution at the very least for non upgrade games.

When hearing about Bravely Default coming to Switch 2 I had hope that there would be a Switch 1 release as well. This news article brings more hope.