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My solution to the preorder chaos is to simply not care about having one Day One. I'll get one when I can walk into a store and grab it off the shelf without any fuss (or rather, the online equivilent of that scenario). Lord knows I have enough Switch 1 games to play still to tide me over in the meantime.

If I had a regular Switch OLED, I'd trade it in for a Switch 2 in a heartbeat. I don't need both. But mine's the limited edition Tears of the Kingdom version. I'm holding on to that til the day I die, even if I never touch it again.

FYI, there is also a 48” version of the LG B4, only available at Best Buy. It’s quite cheap for an OLED TV. I got mine on sale for $500. Absolutely fantastic TV, especially for the price.

I think somebody made a mistake and that message isn’t supposed to be there and these games absolutely will support cloud saves and, as usual, the internet is making a mountain out of a molehill.

Normally I would trade my Switch in for a Switch 2, but since I have the Zelda OLED one, I can’t bring myself to part with it.

He’s right. The Wii version was terrible.

Yeah, seems kinda pointless to me. This kind of excessive customization is stuff I associate with PC gaming and, like, esports stuff or whatever. It seems exhausting to me. It’s easier for me to get used to whatever the default button layout is than to expend mental energy thinking about what the “perfect” layout would be for me.

I was already a big Zelda fan because of the NES games, so my hype levels for A Link to the Past were off the charts. It absolutely lived up to my expectations, too. I don’t have any idea how many times I’ve played through ALttP at this point. Dozens, surely.

This sucks, but it’s not surprising. GameStop has treated Game Informer like crap for years. I’m sure that whatever GameStop suit wrote that announcement didn’t have a heavy heart in the slightest.

Square Enix has never heard of a trend that they don’t want to chase.

@ninfriendo_1973 Not to mention Trails of Cold Steel I & II

I’m not surprised at all. The fact that they didn’t announce an expansion pass or whatever before or alongside the game meant that I never expected DLC. TotK doesn’t need DLC anyway. It’s such a massive game that DLC would be overkill.

I don't think you can predict whether there will be a June Direct based on Nintendo dropping out of E3. Everyone dropped out of E3! And then it got cancelled altogether! It seems much more likely to me that Nintendo dropped out of E3 because they knew it was going to suck.

As for whether I think there will be a June Direct: I don't know, and I don't care! But I do think it's funny that June used to be the most predictable month for a Direct, and now it's the least.

@Travelguy38 Oh good, this is still happening. deep sigh Okay, so the comments on this article are from every version of this article that NintendoLife has ever done. They did the first version of this article right after FFVII came out and somehow didn't include it. So I commented on that fact, and then they added FFVII, but my comment is still there, so people tell me all the time a fact I already know, which is that FFVII is on this list.

Honestly, I always felt like Golf Story was kinda mid, so I think I’ll be passing on this one.

I beat the main quest, all of the side quests, finished all of the shrines, and did all of the DLC. I did not, however, find all of the Korok seeds, and I will not.

@Ogbert lol that’s funny because I literally had an eye exam less than a week ago. My eyes are fine.

Maybe it’s just cause I’m watching this video on my phone, but I honestly don’t see a difference between the two versions.

I haven’t played the full game yet, but I played the demo, and I swear this game was designed specifically for me. I’m very excited to play the full thing, but I gotta finish Persona 5 Royal and Bayonetta 3 first.

I’m surprised the docked resolution is so low. I’ve been playing it on my 4K tv and it looks nice and sharp to me.

I'm usually fine with games looking "bad" on Switch, but wow, this one looks REALLY bad.

I don’t understand comparing marketing for Pokémon games to marketing for any other Nintendo game. I mean, I guess I understand random people on Twitter not getting the distinction, but a writer at NintendoLife should know full well that Pokémon marketing is not handled by Nintendo.

I have a lot of nostalgia for the North American box, but come on. The Japanese version is obviously objectively better.

Good to hear this is still on track. I’ve been looking forward to it since it was announced. Hopefully their struggles are behind them and it will all be smooth sailing from here on out!

I bought one at launch, and it was still in decent shape up until a few months ago, when I bought an OLED and sold my original. I’m pretty sure it belongs to a little kid now, so who knows if it even works anymore?

The important thing is that you saved Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the greatest video game of all time. The fact that so many of my other favorite games ended up in the bin shall be passed over.

@Desa Oh man, same. I thought 50 million lifetime sales was optimistic. Oh, how wrong I was!

What!?

What!?

What is even going on!?

I wasn’t overly tempted to get these cloud versions anyway, but at those prices? Come on. Hard pass. Especially since I just bought all three games on Xbox for less than $45.

@Harmonie I see what you’re saying, but I kinda feel like last year’s E3 disproves your point. Most of the presentations felt unnecessary, like the companies only made a presentation because they had to, because it was E3. Maybe if we don’t have a certain time of year when companies “have to” announce things, we’ll get better announcements, released when the companies have something to announce, not just because it’s E3 time.

Or maybe I’m just trying to look on the bright side. I’ve always loved E3, but it felt like a shadow of its former self even before the pandemic, and last year’s showing was, frankly, pathetic. I’d rather it die completely than limp along the way it has been.

@Harmonie True but 2020 was the beginning of the pandemic, and obviously Nintendo, for whatever reason, struggled more than most video game companies to adapt to the changed circumstances. At this point it seems like they’ve gotten more used to how things are, and I expect we’ll get a summer Direct this year, even if we won’t know ahead of time when it’s going to be.

Fine with me. The only good thing about E3 last year was the Nintendo Direct, and Nintendo can have a Direct whenever they feel like. They don’t need E3 for that.

Companies need to actually announce things. So many of the E3 shows last year were pointless. I remember Capcom’s show in particular was painful to watch. If you don’t have anything new to announce, don’t bother to have a show. Nintendo Directs are exciting because Nintendo uses them to announce a bunch of stuff, and somehow no other video game company (except maybe Xbox) has figured that out.

I’ll be honest, if I had seen those pictures out of context, I probably wouldn’t have realized that it’s supposed to be a GameCube.

@BoilerBroJoe I loved it too! I never understood why people complained about it. But I love NSO too. I guess I’m just easy to please.

@Bomberman64 Maybe people didn’t complain about the emulation of the SNES mini specifically, but I definitely saw plenty of complaints about it in general.

I don’t think there’s anything Nintendo could do with their legacy games that would satisfy “the internet” at this point. People complained about the Wii Virtual Console, they complained about the Wii U Virtual Console, they complain about NSO. Heck, I’m convinced if Nintendo just gave away every pre-Switch game they own for free, the internet would find a way to complain.

I'll be honest, I didn't pay much attention to the NX speculation. (I didn't even realize until a few years later that Nintendo had actually talked about NX themselves, and it wasn't just leakers and rumormongers who came up with that codename.) The Wii U was such a tremendous dud for me that I was totally "over" Nintendo by mid-2016, but that Switch reveal trailer changed my tune instantly. I was immediately smitten, and the Switch turned out to be the first console I ever preordered. Honestly, it's probably my favorite console ever, and I can't quite understand why people get so down on it. People just love to hate on popular things, I guess.

@Gryffin No suspend points.

I’m gonna upgrade, but only because I already promised my son I would before I knew the pricing. Oops. Oh well. He’s very excited to get 120 stars in Super Mario 64 again.

This was a fun trip down memory lane, especially cause I was definitely one who was skeptical about the Switch at first. I didn’t think it would fail, but I also didn’t think it had a chance of rivaling the Wii. I was personally excited for it, though, so excited, in fact, that it was the first console I ever preordered in 30+ years of gaming! And I still love it, so much so that the second console I ever preordered was a Switch OLED!

@Mando44646 What do you mean by “actively sabotage”? I have a Switch and a Switch Lite and I go between them regularly and the process is pretty seamless to me.

I actually appreciate that they don’t change things up much from game to game. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

This isn’t a distant memory for me. My son was playing the Wii just a couple of months ago and smashed the TV by flinging a Wii Remote at it. Fortunately, it was a TV that we were about to replace anyway, but I make sure he uses the wrist strap when he plays now.

Somebody probably already mentioned it (I dunno, I’m not reading through 135 comments to find out), but I can’t believe this article didn’t mention Sushi Strikers even once.

I hope it’s Super Nintendo Switch, but I would also accept Nintendo Switch Advance.

This is pretty obviously a fake controversy invented by the developer to get attention for this game, and considering how many comments I’ve seen on this article and on Twitter, I guess it worked.

I cannot imagine getting angry about this. Yeah, I wish it was consistent with the other icons, but this way, it stands out, and that’s the point. 95% of Switch owners don’t pore over system update notes, and wouldn’t notice a new button on their home screens if it looked exactly the same as the other buttons.

I’ll be honest, I don’t understand why everyone hates the title. Yeah, it’s not great. It kinda sounds like “Video Game: The Video Game!”, but Gods and Monsters is seriously the most generic name I’ve ever heard.

Anyway, that was a good review, and I was very excited for this game, and now I’m not sure if I want it after all. I knew it would be off-brand BotW, but it sounds like it’s even more so than I expected.

I remember playing this back in the day. I had the official strategy guide, and it said to do some sort of trick to get infinite money or something, and I couldn’t get it to work, so I just gave up on the game entirely.