MarsOne

I'm enjoying my Switch 2 but I'd much rather have spent $1000 bucks on launch day on a Nintendo home console that was faster than the PS5 instead (Switch 2 + 2 controllers + 1 game = $1000 for me after tax). Stick an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in a cheap box.

Now I need two consoles instead of one. Would rather I could play everything on just Nintendo.

@sethfranum come on, all PS5 models are PS5s.... of course you should combine them all

@tsim21

Well you are looking at Japan. In Europe the PS5 has been outselling the Switch for years (and most months).

If you want to play third party games, you can play your backlog of Switch 1 games on Switch 2.

I personally think backwards compatibility hurt 3rd party the most because we have so much we can play, we don't have to buy any games that aren't new and for the Switch 2 specifically.

@smoreon
Come on, this is like twitter picking, you can find any opinion. Generally the Gamecube version was considered the best, because Link was the coolest extra character.

Terrible 30 fps game.

At least you can run it at 40fps and speed up the walking and fighting too, with an emulator.

Really sad about this. Just like Pokemon again.

Best music of any game released in years! Same as the first one!

I'm really enjoying the demo! Game of the year contender if they get the story right. The PC version with max settings is a looker!

The only issue I have is I'm not a big fan of all the random encounters. I like exploring. In the first game you had to put the mage in your party and lower your encounter rate using his skill.

This feeds in to the go anywhere design. The reason battles are random, and the "flee" command annoyingly barely works, is because you can go anywhere at any time, and they don't want you avoiding battles and looting a high level area.

I would kind of prefer the next game showed the enemies on the map, and you could avoid random battles, and the "Flee" command would just work. Maybe just level gate people, if you are less than 10 levels away, you can't enter a new area. I don't know.

@Fragglez Yeah instead of giving you access to all the virtual console titles you've already purchased, now you can pay a subscription for the next 20 years to play them... Not happy myself.

Metroid Remastered is a better game than I expected, that's nice. Great controls, great visuals. Disappointed 2 and 3 are missing, but at least it is $40.

Really I'm just disappointed about the lack of new hardware. The RTX 4000 series has been out for 6 months and would it really hurt Nintendo to take the cheapest RTX 4000 card, the RTX 4050, and make a cheap $300 home console out of it?

16GB RAM/500GB Storage/RTX 4050 (cheapest one available) plus 8 cheap ARM cores. Cheap and almost 40 times, YES FOURTY TIMES more TFLOPS than the Switch.

A cheap 13 TFLOP video card from 2023. 3 years after the PS5 launched. That's all I want. I want to play my Nintendo games on the weakest modern video card you can buy for a PC. Make a console out of it. Like the Wii U but with a good controller.

@Fizza Actualy soul's type games are critical darlings that many of us think suck. They called Sekiro game of the year also.

I played Elden Ring for hours, then uninstalled. Piece of crap game on PC in particular.

Xenoblade 3 best RPG of the year.
Rabbids best strategy game.
Kirby best family game.
Bayonetta 3 best action game.
Tactics Ogre best remake.
Pokemon Scarlett is super fun. I'm playing multiplayer with my PC and my high school best friend. Multiplayer FINALLY.
My main disappointment this year was Triangle Strategy. God that was boring. 3 hours to start the game, I didn't even continue. I might try the game again with mods on PC that speed it to double speed. I liked Octopath Traveler so much so I'm hoping for Octopath Traveler 2 to be the best RPG next year.
Splatoon is the best multiplayer game for some. Not for me, but hey, I pretty much just play Overwatch.
Quite a year Nintendo.

@MontyCircus yeap! 4 wins for Nintendo! 2022 was a weak year but Nintendo had 6 great games out this year.

@Aezetz Elden Ring is a crappy game. I said it. Not for me. I'm glad the people that just play souls type games over and over liked it. More of the same for them.

Also so happy Kirby got an award. Incredible fun playing it with my niece and nephew.

@MarsOne play all 3 at 4k/60fps and enjoy them much more!

Proof that From Software just gets lucky. They released Sekiro and Elden Ring in the weakest 2 years of the last 10. Nothing to compete against Elden Ring this year except for two boring sequels.

Personally I'm a PC player, and I hate the Switch hardware. Even so my favorite games of the year are Kirby (awesome!) Xenoblade 3 and Pokemon Scarlet (which I play multiplayer on my PC with my friend). PC really sucked this year.

2023 is the banger. Starfield would have crushed Elden Ring.

What I'd like Nintendo to do is release two new products. A Switch 2 with the Nano 8GB. And a home console AGX with 32GB memory version, for an extra $100.

$300 for the Switch 2, and $400 for the Nintendo home console (no screen) with 32GB of memory and AGX. Texture packs and resolution improvements.

nVidia announced many Orin products this week.

They have a super cheap Orin Nano 4GB that they could actually just use to replace the Switch. 512 CUDA cores.

They have a double memory and speed Orin Nano 8GB with 1024 cores which is the most likely product for a next Switch.

And then all the ORIN NX products that were previously announced are not needed by Nintendo unless you want a 16GB version of the Nano to compete with the Steam Deck.. So you'd have to jump up to the AGX if Nintendo wanted to spend big. Not gonna happen. That would be the 2000 core product with 32GB of memory.

There’s no shortage of parts required to make a switch 2 or switch pro. They could reuse almost all the same parts that the switch oled uses. We just want a CPU an GPU that 10 times faster. There’s no shortage of that they are tiny chips and Nintendo is not ordering a very large volume of them compared to the size of the Sony and Microsoft chips or the volume of the apple chips. Nintendo can launch a new console whenever they want.

@TheGameSquid Octopath had an incredible battle system, and incredible music, and incredible art. First of its kind. Padding and story let it down, that's all.

There is only one battle in the first 2 hours of the game. That is too heavy on cinematics, even for me. Kind of tired already and barely started.

@Johnny44 I love the Series S, would make a perfect system for Nintendo. $300 and 10x powerful versus Switch.

I want to play Nintendo games at 1080p/60fps, with PS4 level quality. That's all I'm asking for, 10 years after the PS4 released. I hope this releases this fall with Xenoblade and Zelda! I've stopped playing Nintendo until then. I just prefer the new PS5 and Xbox and PC much more, can't go back to horrible performance anymore.

Give me a home console that plays the same games as the Switch if necessary. Nintendo knows a lot of fans are unhappy with the poor performance.

@FroZtedFlakerZz Those are fighting words. Odyssey is a better game. I said it. That's how I feel

@Arawn93 And Square Enix actually publishes more games than Activision. They just don't make as much money as Candy Crush, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft. SE being bought by Sony would suck for everyone. I'm not concerned about Activision being bought, they don't have a lot of titles and they need a shake up.

@Maplemiles Actually the Switch is still mostly a Japanese device. The total sales in North America are not unprecedented for a portable device from Nintendo. Sony and Microsoft are sharing the much larger pie, the home console and PC market. More than twice as large as the portable gaming market. Since Apple is mobile focused and more related to portable gaming, it still mostly makes sense for Apple to want to buy Nintendo than any other company. Still true, we've been talking about it for almost 10 years now.

@PushMyGran1986

Nintendo is actually the smallest of the 3 companies. "King" Nintendo?

@Link1309 Honestly Arcane is the best show on Netflix this year. Really the only problem I had with it was Jinx and her motivations (they did a great job with the main bad guy). I hate the "joker" style crazy character. Hope they focus on someone besides Jinx for the next show. The fight scenes with Vi were incredible. I loved everything 100 percent except for the Jinx stuff, except the crazy stuff makes perfect sense when you get to the final ending of the season which I won't ruin, where it falls into place.

@Kulhy The show doesn't even really start until episode 4. Weird to stop at episode 3, right before it skips ahead to "present day".

@Gwynbleidd I know, this game is a ridiculously good deal at its lower price. The best RPG I've played this year, and I've never played LoL.

this is the first hard boss in the game, like really hard... ouch

Copyright laws should be changed to only grant copyright for 10 years. Problem solved. If you don't make anything new of value, you can't continue profiting off of history and people's childhoods. The products are already off the market and are no longer sold, no copyright allowed.

This is also in the context of paying $10 more for the Switch version than the Wii version, and not getting what we should get for that money. Remastering, or actual work. I just feel punished for liking Nintendo games at this point. Like a bad drug habit I need to break.

Not only is a QOL feature locked behind an amiibo, but good luck even buying one. You think it will be in stock? Nope.

Apple can easily build a very successful device. Gaming is a huge market, you don't have to knock out anyone else, you just expand it to your own customers.

Synergy is key here, Apple makes all the parts already. They can take a chip like the M1, and remove all the expensive parts, the NPU, the DSP, the modem. Voila, cheap, power efficient, and they even have plenty of room to expand the GPU performance until they hit the largest possible in a fanless device. It would be lighter and faster than the Switch, and that matters in a portable device.

They make the iPod Touch for $200. That's without the typical gaming subsidy of $100. So they have a $400 budget to work with. iPad Mini shrunk to 7" without a camera, with attached controllers ala Switch Lite, with optional dock accessory, USB-C to HDMI. SD Card slot. PS4 performance (the M1 is already PS4 performance, they could even beat the PS4 easily with a 3nm device). $300 retail price. 4x faster than the Switch and half the weight and fanless, don't underestimate how popular that would be. iOS compatible.

Apple could increase their total revenue by 25 billion and profit by 5 billion quite easily this way. It would give a huge boost to Apple Arcade, and that's where the real money is. Increases in iPhone, iPad and Mac sales. Imagine if those games led to 10 percent more Mac sales, the gaming device pays for itself even if it makes no money.

Not interested in ray tracing. There was a remake someone made in Unity Engine a few years ago that looked freaking amazing. That's what I want Nintendo to do.

Nintendo's not even wide screen, not 60 fps "celebration" was a crime.

@BulbasaurusRex

Completely remake the games with normal controls, not a big deal. That's what game developers are for. Tired of excuses for laziness. Every game that Nintendo releases that sells 16 million copies is a BILLION dollars in revenue for the company. Remake them all in Unreal 4 for all I care. A team of 20 people could completely remake all 3 games in Unreal in 2 years. They have all the art assets, the music, the designs, everything. Hire the company that made Samus Returns for 3DS.

Nintendo could make up to a billion dollars in revenue off of a Metroid Prime Trilogy collection. Pretty sure they can afford to hire 100 people, never mind 5.

@KoopaTheGamer YES

@RudeAnimat0r

yeap totally, Microsoft lowered their take to 12 percent because now they're so far behind in last place, their store is making no money at all

I'd pay Nintendo $200 million to get Mario Kart on the Epic store, no doubt, Nintendo's loss, an easy billion dollars is there for Nintendo's older games, of course they don't want prices to drop though, so no way Nintendo will do it

@GrailUK

it isn't a money grab, they are a store, stores buy products to sell... yikes you never make any sense anywhere on this forum

@AtlanteanMan And if Nintendo releases a new home console and has new next gen games, they can build up a library for the Switch 2's ports of those games. The same strategy

This list of top selling games illuminating. As a Wii U owner, only one, Mario Odyssey, is really new at all (not interested in Animal Crossing). I'm still waiting for the next Nintendo home console so we can get real next gen and different games. The Wii U had awesome games and the Switch is just a portable Wii U for the most part looking at the top sellers.

@F_T_Wolf Well Nintendo did a horrible job with Xenoblade Chronicles. A Wii game that is still low resolution and isn't at a higher frame rate either. It runs terribly on Switch. If it had been a 1080p/60 game on Switch I think it would have sold twice as many. Was one of my biggest disappointments and made me put the Switch away. Waiting for the Pro now.

Pretty neat. In case you've ever wondered how Piano is possible. Lots of practice, muscle development and memory, and technique development.

@Kalmaro Healthy living. Miyamoto looks like he exercises and eats carefully.

Release Halo Master Chief collection for Switch.

@NikHogan I'm only interested in an N64 classic if all the games have 1080p/60fps options. 3D games should be improved, not released as is. I think Nintendo stopped the minis because they finished the 2D consoles which were easy. They also probably needed the money before the Switch took off. A 1080p/60fps widescreen emulation of 15 n64 games would make a lot of sense, then bring that emulator to Switch afterwards. I'd pay $150 for it.

I have zero interest if they don't improve the games. n64 emulators on PC do.

@impurekind you don't even need to stream the game, you can outright PLAY the game in your browser, same as Breath of the Wild honestly, they are not demanding games