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@Nintoz my favorite part was where he just says flat out city trial is the mode everyone loved and was waiting for.

Sakurai is a man who clearly deeply understands his own audience.

He knows exactly what people wanted most with this game.

@Coolmusic yeah. Kirby air ride was never a lore game.

I mean you have dynablade just showing up randomly in city trial.

This is a game that puts fun before lore. If they give a reason for the copy ability it probably won't matter past this game.

@YunoboCo you can almost certainly do an online lobby with 16. 8 player limit was just for purely local multiplayer.

@Erigen ah I see. Still that just shows how strong the sports market is.

It doesn't have to be a popular sport. Just being a big budget sports game is enough for sports fans to jump on it.

@Erigen remember there is a significant number of sports fans who ONLY play those sports titles.

So there is essentially an entire customer base just for those games. That's why they make money despite no one online ever calling them good games.

@Greatluigi now? Well now that the distraction is over I can resume my plans to destroy all country music.

@Anti-Matter just to be clear though. The best part of Kirby Air Ride wasn't even the racing mode.

So I wouldn't completely dismiss this game. I'm not a big racing fan either, but I loved City Trial in Kirby air ride.

I understand your low hype. But just keep an eye out tomorrow.

@Lylat I would honestly recommend Kirby and the forgotten lands (which is getting a switch 2 edition + dlc).

I'm also a fan of Kirby air ride and I hope we all enjoy it. I just wouldn't really consider it a FIRST Kirby game.

Loved tales of xillia and I actually never played both story paths. I just played one and moved on.

So I can get the remaster and have an excuse to finally play the other story. Only downside is I won't start with a bunch of stuff already unlocked like if I had done NG+

Just give me a MegaMan legends collection and I'll be happy.

Neat. At least Nintendo is making an effort to keep.the game interesting in their own way.

I'm not especially interested, but I'm sure plenty will be.

@BenAV same. I have no issue with the wheelchair concept itself unlike some that try to drag controversy into it.

But even putting that aside everything about the game looks like a tech demo for the mouse feature.

It's really weird because it feels so lacking in aesthetics compared to Nintendo's other offerings.

Really makes me wonder if this was a tech demo that they just decided to give a little polish and sell as a game.

Really id rather they made ARMs 2 with mouse controls as an option instead. That IP deserves a second chance.

It's good to see one of the most pro consumer game companies doing well.

Don't get me wrong. I know Nintendo aren't saints, nor are they my friends. They are a business and I am a customer.

But compared to the liked of Ubisoft telling us to get used to not owning our games or Microsoft destroying countless game studios by buying them only to rip them apart ... I'll take Nintendo.
After all, in an age people constantly complain about games releasing unfinished, Nintendo rarely does that. It's rare a Nintendo game gets anything aside from a few minor tweaks and expansions after release. Even Pokemon SV still WORKED and could still be played to completion, it certainly had performance issues but it still releaseed in a better state than some other infamous game launches.

So again, I'm not being a blind fanboy or simping for a company. I know they aren't perfect and make mistakes.

But they are still a good company overall, so I'm happy to see them doing well. Especially because them doing well means they can afford to make more games I might want to play.

@Geit_de that wasn't the issue in the slightest.

The case is relatively light weight and the magnets are more than strong enough for it.

The problem was entirely that the gap between the joycons and main console turned out to be part of a flexible mechanism to maintain magnetic lock.

The Killswitch joycon covers got in the way of this. For some this wasn't a big issue and only slightly weakened the magnets. But if the grips were even slightly defective they could break the connection almost completely.

The joylocks use a more complicated manufacturing method but in exchange they get around the issue entirely.

New art is better anyway so I guess it's a win win overall.

Although it's because of crap like this that apparently Pokemon has actually decided against certain designs for Pokemon simply because fan artists already did them.

Meaning they could just use the design we all clearly want, but because some fan artist might actually pick a fight over it they don't. Which is dumb and they should be able to just use whatever is best.

@MSaturn clearly it's because this is specifically refering to using the joycon mouse sensor to track the gear crank.

THey aren't patenting cranks in general obviously.

In any case this could mean we'll start seeing new kinds of accessories that are more functional and not just useless plastic that makes the joycon kind of look like other stuff for the sake of "immersion".

If I had little kids I would probably get this. It looks adorable.

It was pretty decent for an indie direct. Not any earth shaking announcements. But some good stuff.

Honestly just the fact people weren't coming in assuming their dreams would come true probably helped it's perception compared to the partner direct.

This one seemed interesting

Hope we get a new copy ability or two at least.

But overall excited to play this.

@Jack_Goetz on what basis aside from you just deciding it?

No one is realistically expecting anything major from an indie show cases within three months from the switch 2 release.

Nothing is riding on this. It would be a great surprise if they announced something big, but realistically at best we'll get a silksong release date. It's supposed to have a playable demo at the next con so it should be getting close.

Listen ... It's fine to anticipate. But you can't shove un realistic expectations on people. You need to give devs time to actually put stuff together for the switch 2.

Looking at past consoles the switch 2's launch line up is pretty decent. DK Bananza even proved to be more of a hit than anyone expected.

@Jeff2sayshi it's possible some indie devs that had capped performance on switch might just release a switch 2 edition with those caps off.

But aside from that no indie studio will have a switch 2 game out until at least next year unless Nintendo gave any early kits.

@Jack_Goetz not really. People acting like the last direct was some disaster are forgetting all of the already announce games like prime 4, than bloodborn like game, and a few others that weren't for me so I forget their names.

Point is While not overflowing with new content the switch 2 is having a decent early launch. Games take time guys and most devs haven't had switch 2 devkits for even 6 months.

You can't expect everything to just be instantly announced.
@McMongoose OR ... Maybe just have realistic expectations instead of acting like every showcase within 3 months of release needs to be legendary.

People need to just calm down and give devs sometime to cook. We have a handful of good announcements across all of the directs. Maybe they weren't all for you but that's to be expected.

@Morph doubtful. While people were underwhelmed. People still overall reacted positively to many of the game announcements themselves.

They certainly couldn't put an entire showcase together in a week. I think they just hid it to last minute to give it more impact.

Or if anything they didn't mention it until now to avoid excessive anticipation.

Indie show cases can be amazing or boring. Depends on if any indie gems are in the works or not.

Not every indie game is groundbreaking.

So for this I say keep expectations within reason, but feel free to hope for something good.

The map was great. I used it to also help find some of the get away NPCs since they are shown on the map. especially helpful if I needed to heal up.and didn't want to teleport back to where I had been.

Interesting. This game did mildly catch my eye, I'll probably get this.

@LazyDaisy Listen I know you just want to imagine your favorite games getting new entries and stuff.

But realistically it's going to be hard to to make a new smash bros.

They can't really outdo ultimate in terms of scale.

So while. You may reject a deluxe version, that's the more realistic option. Maybe with a couple new fighters squeezed in. It's the only real way to go further in terms of scale.

Of course the other option is to go in reverse and return to the scale of the first smash bros and go for a reinvention of the base gameplay instead.

This way they could reduce scale without looking inferior to Ultimate. This will be riskier but would allow actual room for growth.

Which of these two options Nintendo takes is unknown and the fact this is a complicated decision means we might be waiting longer than you think for a new smash bros. Yes ultimate was a system seller, but that doesn't mean just making a new entry is that easy.

Indo hope to see something eventually. But do be ready to wait a while. Forcing a new game too early will just blow up in their faces.

It's really baffling that Nintendo gift wraps a way to advance from switch 1 to switch 2 without being needlessly greedy and these company go "yeah but ... What if we just ignored that and over charged anyway?"

@Waxifari IMO its much simpler than that. Nintendo isn't playing 4D chess here. This is just the consequence of them being so right lipped on the console and so stingy with dev kits prior to release.

They had their reasons for doing that. But as a result, most third parties only even had the chance to work on switch 2 games a couple months ago ... That's it. Nintendo's first part output is pretty solid and the console is selling well so third party support will come.

They need time to actually do it.

People really acting like this direct needed to be something.

DK Bonanza has turned out better than anyone imagined. Were getting prime 4 later. Plus even if it wasn't in this direct silksong is coming.

Plus there is that bloodborn like game ... This was just a small direct to announce some stuff coming out soon and a couple new announcements coming out relatively soon.

Plus most third parties didn't get advanced dev kits. So it should be obvious that most third parties won't have much to show yet aside from. Some that did probably just took their switch 1 builds and tweeked it last minute.

I'm not saying this direct was amazing btw. But it really feels like people were expecting E3 levels of hype when this was probably only ever meant to be a minor update.

Everyone calling this a poor showcase just put way too much expectations on it.

It was average with a few decent announcements and a pretty even spread of genera.

So overall it may not excite many but it probably got most people interested in at least something.

@Serpenterror some are saying this might basically be a console adaptation of the mobile game to basically bring it's story to console players.

Which would explain the inclusion of a custom protagonist.

This caught my eye. I'll need to see more but I'm keeping an eye on this one.

@ShieldHero the direct was a pretty even spread overall. A few good ports here, a couple decent looking new games there.

It wasn't the most amazing direct ever but there is probably at least one thing for just about everyone in that direct.

@Jedrus_Lilac shouldn't those all have digital releases as well?

I know the desire for physical, but you could just do digital for now.

@RupeeClock the thing is Nintendo kept the switch 2 under pretty heavy lock and key so not a lot of third parties got dev kits before launch.

So it's not surprising that most third party switch 2 support is mostly ports.

That being said not only has the switch 2 sold.well. but it's status as an updated switch above all else means more stuff will come out as developers take advantage of the better hardware instead of settling for compromise to get some games on switch.

Honestly... Personally I wish they had just made some new boards IMO. Maybe expand co-op party size so you could do the 16 player mode with gaming groups you're part of.

But on the other hand I think what a lot of criticism is missing is jamboree TV wasn't made for us. Looking at the reveal trailer my first thought was "this kinda looks like those Japanese game shows I've seen clips of".

So I think the reason the new mode looks so unappealing to a lot of us is it's tapping into Japanese culture and nostalgia. It doesn't work as well if you didn't grow up with those shows.

@Hwatt that's fair. One thing to keep in mind though is just because Nintendo is doing well doesn't mean they can afford to take big losses. With games costing so much to make they pretty much need to keep doing well to survive.

It's certainly fair to be critical. But I just want to emphasize against the idea that any big company, Nintendo or otherwise. Can afford to be careless.
I don't think that's what you meant, but I just wanted to say it because I do see plenty of people go so far as to act like any company they see as big enough has infinite money.

This is clearly designed with kids in mind. Which is fine honestly. I just have no interest.

That wasn't even the right shade of yellow. Now even close.

I also think this was just for attention because
1. If he cared that much he'd get the color right.
2. Am I seeing that right? Did he spray paint the pins? Even if it fit you can't play it like that. Wouldn't you protect the pins?
3. How do you even get it that stuck? Even if the spray paint made it fit worse you'd have to ignore it clearly not fitting and trying to hammer it in any way.

This story just feels off.

The fact it's so soon after launch as well as the fact DK is only just getting limelight after almost 2 decades of relative obscurity are definitely the main reasons.

But I feel word of mouth is going to get most Nintendo fans to get it eventually and when they do DKs status will grow into a more console moving name.

They should probably also do more collab efforts. Like Bananza DLC for MKW or a new Mario vs DK title.

I'm not a DK fan but I adore Bananza. So there is absolutely potential to build DK up and boost sales down the line.

Honestly the switch 2 discourse has been amazing in outing all of the worthless grifter YouTubers not worth giving the time of day.

I probably blocked over 25 channels by the time stuff calmed down. And it wasn't that I blocked the smallest negative opinion.

If it was just a mild take I'd block the specific video rather than the channel simply because I just wasn't interested in people fussing over rumors.

No the ones I blocked were the numerous channels trying to declare damn war on Nintendo. I wouldn't have cared so much if they didn't also ignore Microsoft and Sony doing stuff like raising prices.

But I was able to regain my sense of hype.once I shut that all down and just stopped engaging.

And now I'm enjoying the heck out of DK Bananza, seriously this game alone might be worth the switch 2. Or at least a good chunk of it.

@MrGawain they definitely made mistakes though.

Like the OG game had square hitboxes while the remakes use a pill. But the game wasn't made with that in mind so a lot of precise jumps are more punishing than they should be.

They also didn't do momentum correctly and this screws up a few levels.

@Nintendo_Thumb switch 1 cartridges might be cheaper than switch 2. But they still cost more than keycards.

From what I understand Nintendo views keycards as a way for digital games that can't afford physical releases a way to be displayed in stores.

Meaning offering switch 1 carts that they weren't using when releasing digital only switch 1 games won't have a point.

It's also possible they want to slow down switch 1 chip production and migrate fully to switch 2. Meaning the last thing they'd want is to commit to continuing switch 1 chip production.

There are a few other possible reasons I could think of but they are all more or less like this.

I do hope Nintendo sees the demand for physical and offers lower capacity chips later on. For that we need to CALMLY but firmly state what we want.

Meaning don't just scream hatred over keycarts. But specifically that we want games on carts. That's the only way to have any hope of discouraging keycarts.

@Misima sigh ... First of all Even if that was somehow Nintendo's goal. They'd need to actually put physical games as an option for that to work.

IDK what you think investors are but they aren't so braindead to not consider normal game cards separate from keycards.

Secondly .... And I've mentioned this before NINTENDO HAS STATED THEY AREN'T USING KEYCARDS THEMSELVES!

Now I certainly can't promise that won't ever change. But it likely won't, unless people stop buying physical, because since Nintendo produces those as well their sales are part of profits as well.

Besides the last thing Nintendo would EVER do is give up it's presence in retail stores. Having a dominant presence in stores is a big advantage for them. I don't think you understand stand how valuable that is.

If anything Nintendo would want to switch to key cards Rather than switch to digital only. Since they could save on chip cost while maintaining store presence. But at least for now they have very little reason to do that. As long as people still buy full game cards they'll keep selling them.

Listen it's fine to question corporate motives. But not EVERYTHING is some nefarious scheme to rip people off. It's also entirely possible a company just makes an honest mistake or such. You need to look at what they stand to gain or lose to help figure out which.

Rigging this survey gains them nothing useful. So while we don't know everything, we know there is very little chance of it being rigged.

So is this better, worse, or equal to an actual switch 2 pro controller?

@UmbreonsPapa one of Nintendo's flaws is they can be a bit slow when it comes to online support.

Perhaps partly due to traditional Japanese culture they still largely focus on local play, almost begrudgingly extending that to online at first.

They've gradually gotten better, with Mario kart world being especially built with strong online support and the virtual consoles slowly getting updates.

But they still seem slow to adapt to really building up their online stuff. The shop being a big example.

I hope that sexual content guidline just requires labeling and doesn't ban i

Not because I need porn games, but because such rules tend to get taken too far and even pretty mild stuff gets censored "just in case" and it can get obnoxious.

Just give a filter for adult content and the ability to filter it out.

@Misima except there is no reason to rig the poll. Nintendo isn't even using game keycards themselves so it's not like they need positive poll data for investors.

Nintendo loses nothing from people wanting physical games. So they gain nothing from rigging it.

Again you need to understand that Nintendos public stance is that these are meant to be companions to digital only games.

Thats almost definitely not what third parties intend. But this poll reflects Nintendo's intentions. We just need to make our desire for physical known.