Max_the_German

120 fps in portable mode is wild, loving it!

BotW looks like played on an emulator with mods. Great!

The bigger news in this podcast:

Baldur‘s Gate 3 in the show, releasing in the launch window

Monolith are geniuses. Too bad their prime genre is not my cup of tea.

Astral Chain is a very good pick (I didn’t think of)! Higher res, 60 fps, and some fancy ray tracing effects. Would be great!

For connecting Bluetooth headphones, as easy as that.

I‘m not sure if I will buy it or not. For that little MK I play from time to time, MK8 is still good enough. If they include a new and interesting single player career mode though…

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Deluxe
The port nobody asked for.

Wario World HD
The big surprise!

Donkey‘s still rolling!

I had cartridges where Nintendo didn’t grant me the gold points:

One cartridge was several years old when used for the first time.

The other cartridge „wasn’t meant to be used“ in my country…

Switch Lite is the most comfortable handheld I’ve ever used in my life, from its grip and its weight. Also, the screen is fine, the battery life is good. It’s all so snappy and reduced to what is really needed.

I think that in hindsight, people will hold it in high regard and recommend it as one of the best ways to play indie classics like Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight, Cuphead and Hades.

I‘m pretty sure that I had a German copy with the #1 design! But maybe it was just the cartridge. Can someone here clarify this?

Who would buy a Switch for Xenoblade? This game is for JRPG fans, and there are probably almost none left in Japan without a Switch.

@squidduforeal The Wifi 6 support is the much bigger news for me. Unfortunately, Wifi 6E is unlikely, and so we‘ll have to stick to congested 5 GHz (and even more congested 2.4 GHz), instead of using the new 6 GHz band, which is especially useful in Europe.

If the Switch 2 becomes the huge success Nintendo and analysts anticipate, with 6 million units in 2025, Capcom will OF COURSE port MH Wilds to Switch 2. Capcom knows how to make money!

This trailer looks so much Switch 1 like, I can’t say how these people could think of being captured on Switch 2.

Many people obviously still have no idea how much better Switch 2 games will look like. Just check out this video, I think it gives you a pretty reasonable idea of what to expect for Switch 2, based on a graphics card which was configured with leaked Switch 2 specifications in 2023 and „confirmed“ by new leaks in 2025:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czUipNJ_Qqs

Looks a „bit“ better than this Pokemon footage, right?

@splinters No, that isn’t true. You can publish a new idea without claiming a patent, and then everyone can use it for free. Some companies do that intentionally when they invent something and regard it not valuable enough for them to do the costly process of getting the patents in all important countries, so that competitors can’t claim a similar patent which could harm the first inventors. IBM used their IBM Journal of Research and Development for it.

The spicy aspect here is: This reddit post could render Nintendo‘s patent invalid! Seriously.

We will see notable Switch 1 sales for Christmas 2025, with cheap Switch Lite bundles for kids.

Main question for me is: Which games will these bundles include? With releases of MK9 and a new 3D Mario assumed 2025, I don’t believe in MK8 and Odyssey bundles. Maybe Mario Wonder + Jamboree?

Edit: Jamboree is a bad fit for a Switch Lite…

@Axecon This is exactly what I thought! An adapter which connects the USB port of Switch 1 with the upper USB port of Switch 2, so you have one (too?) big portable system with two screens. Perfect for all DS and 3DS games!

@PessitheMystic Usually they use terms like „incredibly …“ and „highly anticipated“, much like Tom Cook says „awesome“ in every second sentence when talking about new Apple products. In comparison, „perfect fit for Switch“ is almost refreshing.

Same as with the Gold points: I find it better when Nintendo increase the average profit with these measures instead of raising the standard price to 70 $.

Sony and Microsoft decided to rise the standard price from 60 $ to 70 $ to compensate the inflation and exploded development costs. Assuming that Nintendo don’t want to follow this price increase (or only partially), killing the 5 % discount seems to me to be the better option.

If you ask the people if they want VC back, they say yes. Now you ask them if they are willing to pay 8 dollars for a single SNES game, and they say no.

I think Nintendo should not deminish the value of their cold classics, and I think Big N would agree. So, there is no chance for a VC which is attractive for both the customers and Nintendo.

Unfortunately, the right answer for me can only be „Original emulated“, because 20 fps are hard to swallow these days.

@FreasurePlanten Of course not, I just wanted to find out how quick somebody finds out that my post was a joke 😬

I‘m playing Helldivers 2 on PS5 right now, great game!

Switch 1 will remain the target platform for 2D Indies for the next 2 to 3 years.

All these Cupheads, Hollowknights, Celests, Animal Wells, Balatros … will also release on Switch 1 in great form.

That will be a big part of its legacy!

Mobile is the Blue Ocean of today. And while Karen played a bit Game Boy as a child, she is now bored with her live, playing random mobile games on the sofa while watching random Netflix shows. Give her good mobile games from Nintendo, and she might get interested in Nintendo games again and buy a Switch Lite with Animal Crossing!

Donkey, keep on rolling!

@Lord I think it’s more like „Demo because of poor reviews (with unnecessary comparisons with Tropical Freeze) vs. game’s true quality“

I‘m loving the game so far, half way through the lava world, never played the game before. I like it even more than Tropical Freeze, because I find it more of a challenge (or I‘m just older now).

I tell you the secret advantage of the 3DS and all Nintendo handhelds: Monsters in your Pocket.

„Beating“ the PS2 sales numbers is totally unnecessary, and I think the business people at Nintendo think the same.

Seriously, it will just be a button for connecting with Bluetooth headphones, with C for Connection.

The Bluetooth support of Switch 1 was added later and is quite poor (high latency, Bluetooth controller restrictions). These days, everyone has Bluetooth headphones and wants to use them also for gaming. Quick and easy switching the connection from phone to Switch 2 would be great!

I think it won’t be the swan song! There are still too many hardware sales for Switch 1, and there will be for the whole year 2025 and beginning of 2026, assuming that Switch Lite bundles will be much more affordable Christmas/birthday gifts for 8-year-old kids getting their first console.

There are still great Kirby and Yoshi games available for Switch ports, New Super Mario Bros Wii, F-Zero GX, Super Paper Mario, Wario World. Rumours say that a Metroid Dread successor is in the works at MercurySteam, plus all the other rumoured games (Fire Emblem etc.).

I don’t need Mario Kart 9.

MK8 DX is great and just enough for me. When the kids of my friends want to play some MK, with MK8 DX we have so much fun! Maybe I lack fantasy, but for what I want to play a MK game, it couldn’t be better.

Sorry, Nintendo!

I‘m surprised by this lack of QA. With sufficient testing, this problem would have easily been identified in advance.

On the other hand, the track record of Forever Entertainment is not flawless. Where is the good old „Seal of Quality“?

Many sidequests in The Witcher 3 are better than most of the other quests in video game history.

The Japanese gamers obviously haven’t watched Alex Olney‘s review on DKCR HD.

@Olmectron I know, PS4 releases will remain a thing, because it is technically very similar to PS5 (especially SDK-wise), and the power is sufficient for many games. From what I’ve seen in videos, CoD Black Ops 6 runs good and PS4 and great on PS4 Pro.

From the games on this list, maybe half of them will also come to Switch 2, or even more.

@Olmectron It could run on PS4, but not on a quality level many gamers today would accept.

@Varkster Fair point, and it is clear that comparisons for the CPU performance are not appropriate in the moment, mainly due to architectural differences. But it’s also clear that the CPU performance will be comparable poor due to power constraints for portable play! We are lucky that the PS4 and Xbox One CPUs were quite poor as well, but it is not unrealistic that even they are significantly more performant.

And the CPU performance determines the ability for ports from PS4/PS5.

Yes, but only if it runs at 60 fps while retaining the visual style of the game, which I doubt because there are no plans revealed for a PS4 release. Wicked seems to be a really tough action game, and I don’t want to struggle just because of a poor framerate.

@CJD87 @AlanaHagues @MADLUDWIG11 They say that the „Family Matters“ quest is a main quest, not a side quest:

https://www.ign.com/wikis/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/Family_Matters

@CJD87 The Bloody Baron is great and so prominent in the game that I wouldn’t consider it a side quest, regardless you can finish the game without touching it. Maybe one day CDPR will reveal the percentage of players who finished this quest during their first run.

Why do you take the price into account?

The price can change, while the game remains as it is (later patches here not assumed). If somebody reads these comments in a couple of years, they will be very irritated.

It‘s like you‘d read comments from 1996 about DKC3 like

„Bad game, because Nintendo wants full price, but it’s only a 2D game, and nobody wants to pay full price in this new era of 3D gaming.“ Totally out of place for somebody who wants to play DKC3 today via NSO, because the game was and is great, regardless of contemporary feelings.

I‘ve bought it now for the first time, and it is great. Graphics are not as shiny as of Tropical Freeze, but gameplay is top notch. And I find it harder than TF, which I appreciate (or my reflexes were just better back than when I played TF).

These are well spent 55 EUR for me!