Nintoz

I know Nintendo likes to protect their IP but this is a bit much

It would be so cool if he returned to do Metroid 6

Looks like I have a letter of apology to write to the Penguin community about their Switch 2 delivery...

I'll be very interested to see what DK Bananza's sales numbers look like in the coming months

Bit upset that Persona 3: Reload's a game-key.
I was really holding out hope on that one given how Sonic Racing Crossworlds isn't.

Been meaning to try Pac-Man World on Switch so it's nice to see the second one getting the same treatement.
Surprised we didn't get any update on Elden Ring or FFVII Remake though!

If I had a nickel every time Nintendo announced a Partner Showcase while I was in Lakeland, I'd have two nickels!
Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
EDIT: For clarity I'm talking about the UK kitchenware store, not the Florida city

Looking forward to seeing what everyone has to offer.

Damn! Didn't expect to see Jamboree TV so high up

...Uhm...what a messy pup!..😳

I think when it comes to the discourse, particularly around the pricing, one thing that gets always gets whipped out is:
"You're ruining it for the rest of us by investing in £75/$80 games"

Did you seriously not think game prices weren't going to increase with the next generation, now granted, us Nintendo fans have had it quite nice with pretty much solid £50/$60 max for quite a while so some shock is valid.
But this was going to happen regardless of Nintendo's decisions, they're just the first to put their console with these structures in place.

A similar case could be made for the game key cards, while I don't like them at least we have a cartridge slot! I'll be interested to see whether the equivalent for PS/Xbox will make the cut for their next-gen systems

You had to be lightning quick with the sign-up process last time although admittedly, I was trying to get off a train the moment sign-ups opened.
Will give it another go though but won't get my hopes up ahaha!

They perfected Wii Play by having staff members get abducted by UFOs during their lunch breaks.

Thank the cartridge gods!!
Such a shame we're in this situation but you gotta celebrate the wins right?

He's finally back, and about time too

I'll try it but if anything it'll just make me think:
"Ok, I've had enough of that now!" Ahaha

Did they really seperate the four raceway tracks😭

In Nate we trust!

@KritterXD That's what I was thinking!

I think it's a little too early to judge whether these slight performance drops will compromise the enjoyment of the game but I highly doubt it

Bayonetta Origins and Splatoon 3 for me!

Hope my fellow Brits are coping with the heat ok ☀️

Unfortunately I wasn't in the Nintendo-fan ecosystem when Iwata was president but from reading 'his' book (Ask Iwata) as well as consuming other bits of information about his life and legacy I have to say, what an astounding impact this man made.

There too much to mention in one go, but I will highlight how he encouraged Sakurai to keep going with his Smash Bros. prototype even when it was initially rejected by Nintendo. In fact, the friendship between was something quite special, I highly reccomend Sakurai's video on it.

I love how they went marching to Miyamoto and Koizumi just to find out DK is big 😂

Anyone who has played Mario Kart World knows how beautiful that game is visually, watching gameplay on a phone doesn't do it justice.

I'd imagine Bananza will also look gorgeous regardless of it being started on Switch 1.

Interesting, this probably implies Koizumi has been producing a 3D Mario alongside supervising with Bananza?

Of course this is one man's opinion, a senior figure most definitely but shouldn't be taken as the Nintendo gospel.

Look around EPD and all its managers: Aonuma, Tezuka, Koizumi, Yabuki etc. I would be very surprised if they all shared the same sentiment.

I've uninstalled Mario Kart Tour but I really enjoyed this track, and hoped it would make it to Wave 6 of the Booster Course Pass.

To be fair though, if it was a toss-up between this and Piranha Plant Cove... I'd probably still go for the latter with it being the most thematically different (we already had Piranha Plant Pipeway after all!)

DK64 and Super Smash Bros. are the two I've been requesting for years at this point!

Hopefully they're not too far away

It's a beautiful system, whenever I walk past it I can't help but admire it for a few seconds. Or, if I feel so inclined, snap one of the joy-cons off and on.

I think what I enjoy most about it (from a physical hardware perspective) is how it feels more like a single unit rather than a tablet with two somewhat fiddly grips attached to it. Maybe the colouring helps but it feels much more like a piece of tech than a toy if that makes sense.

Immaturity at its finest.

Honestly a better way of sending a message is to just not play the VS. mode online and let Nintendo watch the numbers fall.

Mario Kart World

The more I play it, the more I love it. Such a beautiful game!

It should really be 2 courses and 1 route to pick from.
I know the routes are one of the selling points of the game but in this instance people are picking VS. Race not Knockout Tour and so are clearly after a more traditional Mario Kart experience.
There are quite a few routes that I like but I think it's a massive oversight that you can't pick a room for one or the other.

Of course we've seen with games like Super Mario Party Jamboree that having too many online filters can ruin matchmaking but honestly the player base of Mario Kart would handle another one just fine.

I've been remaining optimistic for this game and while I was initially pleased with the £16.99 price, it does place a question mark over the amount of content and replayability the game has.

I'll probably end up spending that money on Kirby instead

@DwaynesGames It's not!
Get ready for **deep breath** Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star Crossed World 😜

Oh! Genuinely thought this was going to be a retail release but no! I guess I just missed that information.

Ok then, I'll be interested to see how it's priced...

The next Animal Crossing I think will benefit greatly from the GameChat feature.
It would be like Wii Speak all over again!

Another thought is whether they could pull off something a bit like Project Milo from E3 2009 with the Kinect and have your villagers respond to things you might say (within certain limits of course) and generate responses based off key words.

Misread this as 'BIG' cartridges XD

Yeah damn right they're banning big cartridges, how would they fit into the system?! Ahahaha

Me and the boys vibin' to Nine Men's Morris

While I think he does a decent job as Mario, his Waluigi is brilliant!

@Michael0916 Fair point, forgot about mirror mode tbh.
Gotta get on that.

I do think some people forget that simply driving around wherever you want is really appealing to a good number of people.

I showed the free roam mode to my mum the other day, and she had a lovely time just driving round and taking in the sights. Couldn't give a hoot about any sort of 'mission' to complete.

But for me, while I do like it and think the missions, coins and panels themselves are fine, it's the incentive to do them that's the problem. Stickers...really??

I go through them all, get any trophy type, then go through them again and see if I can improve.
Much less tedious than grinding on the same one over and over, for me at least.

9/10

Could just use a few QoL improvements particuarly with VS Mode and Online but otherwise an amazing labour of love

Pfft, where's my Cadbury Diglett fudge!!

Some QoL improvements especially with the online modes would boost this to a 10/10.
Still an incredible game!

Oh, also, I wonder if this is being developed in-house?

A Splatoon spin-off was bound to come sooner or later.
I always imagined what a Splatoon 2D platformer for the 3DS would look like but then again god forbid we need another one of those.

Excited to see what it has to offer, no date though strangely

That's my birthday ahaha!

It did make me chuckle when it said: "You can even attatch the controllers back-to-front, or upside-down! ...But please don't do this"

Miyamoto: "Who's 'Mario'?? Anyway have you seen my new Pikmin toothbrush!"

Just found out there's a setting which only turns on HDR for compatible games instead of forcing it on at all times.
I don't know how much this improves the battery but it might be worth a test!

Mario Kart World and BOTW Switch 2 Edition!!

Battery life feels alright to me but this is coming from someone who stuck by their 2017 Switch all this time.

I'd say the two things I love most about it is the weight of it (still pretty light) and the quality of the screen. I'm sure OLED would have been lovely but this is still really nice.

As for Switch 1 games that haven't been upgraded, I've only tried Mario Wonder and it look a bit better than I was expecting but obviously it's a little blurry especially when you've just hopped off Mario Kart World!