Max_the_German

30 fps is jarring at first AND permanently. I‘m a 60 fps snob now. My experience with TotK in 2023 was poor (on Switch 2 it’s so much better!), and maybe I will accept it for GTA6.

But I won’t play a game with 30 fps on Switch anymore if I can also play it with 60 fps on PlayStation.

A quick fix is fine. But this game released this year, and everyone expects the announcement of a graphical update. But I can understand Nintendo:

Similar to the Switch 1 and its Wii U ports, Nintendo wants to save the Switch 2 Editions to be released over a period of several years, to always have something to close gaps in its release schedule.

I can’t play every game at the same time, so I‘m okay with this.

And they refuse to release this game on Switch 2 as „Complete Edition“, with the DLC as integral part of the package. Instead of making this release a great triumph of their game, KT decided to be ungenerous. Nintendo did this with BotW Switch 2 Edition as well.

I hate this behaviour.

Let’s be honest: Everyone knows that the physical sales will hardly be affected by the decision for GKC.

The loud complaints here are the voices of a minority, and even some of them will eventually buy the games, digitally or with a GKC.

@UpsideDownRowlet

The cardboard VR glasses for VirtualBoy is very much the same as for Labo VR, but also supports Switch 2.

It needs more to get me amazed. And I‘m optimistic that MP4 will have it!

I voted for JP, and then I saw that the EU version has the Seal of Quality. Damn! How can I change my vote?

@topsekret

Yeah, it seems like the assumption nowadays is that only arguing and cheering were left in human communications, and I find it sad. If I want to feel miserable, I turn on Fox News and CNN for a couple of minutes. There are only extremes left, black and white, no shades of grey and temperance.

Thanks for appreciating my comment!

NL‘s reputation is high and obviously the result of 20 years of hard work. Congratulations!

This face-off was brutal! Some of the finest games of all time, and in the end, I had to decide between Breath of the Wild and Metroid Prime. Voting against Metroid Prime still hurts.

@topsekret

I didn’t want to argue, I just wanted to fall into line with you, and so I found it a nice idea to include you.

@topsekret @Nintoz

This 4 player mode is almost certainly CPU limited. They could reduce the resolution to 360p and still couldn’t achieve 60 fps.

I‘m disappointed that many games don’t properly use the capabilities of the graphics system. And no, I don’t talk about DLSS, I talk about 120 Hz and VRR in handheld mode. The CPU is performant enough to achieve 40 fps where PS4 runs a game with 30 fps. And even when these 40 fps are a bit shaky, VRR can smooth it out a bit or entirely. 30 and 40 fps are night and day!

And developers of multiplat games should design their games so that they run with 40 fps on Switch 2. The fact that Yooka-Replaylee is a 30 fps title on Switch 2 is just a shame.

Where is Super Mario Galaxy?

Nintendo Life commenters hate Game-Key Cards so much, they‘d rather don’t want these games ported to Switch 2 at all.

@Dee123

Switch Lite will have a few years left to shine. It is cheap, compact, lightweight and has a long battery life.

Based on the capabilities of Switch 2 and the slowed progress in silicon technology, it will be very hard or impossible to achieve similar features with a Switch 2 Lite.

While Nintendo could rerelease most of its Wii U catalogue on Switch 1, I guess we will see many rereleases of that games on Switch 2, with better performance and visuals and additional content.

Kirby is here one example, SMB Wonder another. Nintendo will milk this cow till the end.

RE8 is the last major non-remake release, and it still sells well:

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/10/monster-hunter-wilds-doing-so-badly-thats-its-been-outsold-by-mh-rise-devil-may-cry-5

As the face of RE8, Lady D is the natural choice!

@GgGames If it is bad value for you, just don’t buy it. Simple as that. People vote with their wallets, and they vote pro Mario Kart World, despite all the negative voices in the internet.

Let’s see it from that perspective:

The reason why Nintendo can get away with this is that its products are so good. That didn’t happen in the glorious Wii U days.

„Once Upon a Katamari“ twice for Switch seems incorrect.

95% of ACNH players will not miss 60 fps or even know what it is. THAT‘s why Nintendo doesn’t care.

A video with 30 fps is telling…

Now we just need a native version of Rise for Switch 2. It runs great on PS4 and could attract people who want to play MH on the go with nice visuals and smooth performance, like me.

To celebrate the launch of the main game, Sega could just launch the DLC on the same day, integrated into the main game, without extra costs. Crazy, I know…

@jojobar

I‘m working in R&D and not in engineering, so I don’t have your insight, and I totally believe in what you say. My impression about current AI progression is the same as yours, these models don’t seem to be the right basis to achieve AGI, if that is ever possible. But hey, usable LLMs are still less than 3 (!) years old, and there is so much time, technological and financial potential. Tell me one modern technology of the complexity of AI which was mature after 3 years. Between sending the first email in the world and finding „friends“ on Tinder with a swipe took much longer than 3 years.

In my profession, crawling through millions of scientific papers has never been this easy. Now you can find the hidden gems which never received the attention they deserve, just because the authors were not famous or the title was awkward. Students without much of coding experience can create stunning tools within a few days. AI is probably not that useful to make a good coder a very good one, but to make a bad coder a mediocre one, and in many cases that’s what is needed.

For game development, I think the big potential for AI is neither graphics nor world building, but helping to make a complex story or world system to make consistent. To make the story and interactions consistent in Baldur‘s Gate 3 was probably a painful task. AI will probably help you to manage this complexity. And AI could make NPC behaviour much more believable: In 20 years, people could look at Cyberpunk 2077 and wonder how we could enjoy this city with these dump puppets walking and sitting around.

Well, the first usable LLM was made public in November 2022, less than 3 years ago! This technology is still in its infancy and has several decades to become good, so don’t judge it based on today’s quality.

Many people around me start realising how useful it already can be to reduce annoying manual work and begin to adopt their workflow. As much as it is about technology, it’s about processes. Just give those people time to learn how to use AI for their own benefit.

@AccessibleDaydream

For playing MCC on the go, Xbox has you covered.

They must use an expensive 64 GB cartridge for a game with (presumably) a fraction of required space. And still a day-one patch is needed. What a tragedy.

Demon King, Secret Stone??

Using AI is okay for me, because I don’t expect anything else than kitsch. And kitsch is what 90% of new games out there are, and there are millions of people happy with them (I don’t play this sh*te).

But, please, don’t use the term „opening new creative frontiers“ in context of AI. That‘s a poor lie.

The attach rate of 25% for Z-A on Switch 2 is crazy.

Signs and wonders!

After these long shows, I‘ve got the feeling there are no secrets about this game anymore. If somebody tells you every detail of their life in the first three dates, in most cases you quickly loose interest in that person. Let’s see how this will turn out!

Space Marine II has WAY to higher CPU demands for Switch 2. A stable 30 fps is - based on the current code - just infeasible. This game runs so badly on PS5 and Xbox Series X, I wouldn’t touch it there.

Oh no, Ubi learnt from Sony! They are great in timing their Ubi-formula games, like Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West.

The moment I saw this abomination of Japanese cover, I knew that the NintendoLife community will let it win by a mile.

@MTMike87 Yet another Arlo video is in the making right now (I assume).

No, I played Galaxy 1 and 2 on Wii and was annoyed by the pointer controls in Galaxy 1 in 3D All-Stars. While pointer controls are not very important in Galaxy 1, they are crucial in Galaxy 2 for controlling Yoshi under time pressure, especially in the late- and post-game.

Because of that, I always found it reasonable to exclude Galaxy 2 from 3D All-Stars.

I want Ultra-First-Person aka PSVR2

Why this fixation on fixed framerates?

There is something called VRR. I know, this game is most likely CPU limited, which can create wild frametimes. But with a framerate limiter of 40 fps, the occurrence of wild frametimes could be reduced.

40 fps looks SO MUCH BETTER than 30 fps!

@yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo Your hair looks great.

Maybe I‘m wrong, but this looks like a framerate of more than 30 fps to me. Probably 40 fps or unlocked with VRR. Very nice surprise! But it doesn’t mean that the framerate holds up in more open and complex environments. We will see.

These poll results look a lot like wishful thinking to me.

The game ran with unlocked frame rate on Gamescom, according to reports, with values between 45 and 60 fps. Would still be much better than 30 fps imo, especially in handheld with VRR enabled.

30 fps is a bad joke. Don’t they play their own games?

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still fighting. I make the prediction that it’ll be regarded as the best MK entry ever, no superfluous open world, just 96 narrow tracks demanding great drifting skills. And the online scene will still be vivid in 10 years!

@Markiemania95 Yoshi‘s Island will always remain a Super Mario title for me, the pinnacle of platforming, one of the best games.

@Markiemania95 SMW2 is called Sūpā Mario: Yosshī Airando in Japanese. That’s not less Super Mario than Sūpā Mario Ran.

Super Mario World 2 not being on this list while Super Mario Run being is heartbreaking to me.

This is a long list of bugfixes. Did they need the feedback in gaming forums? Or was the game just unfinished on release?