PharoneTheGnome

@jco83 I 100% agree that Hogwarts Legacy is a missed game here. It was incredible and should have gotten recognition for all the hard work the team put in to it's development. A lot of hardworking designers, artists, and programmers didn't get the recognition they deserved for making that game, and that's just not right.

@westman98 Thank you for explaining that.

I'm not sure why an upgraded Switch (aka Switch 2) would have any incompatibility issues with previous Switch games. Almost feels like a reason to sell a Switch 2 version later on down the road as a Remake/Remaster. Just seems odd.

It should have been SwitchDS.

• NEW Dual Screen Clamshell
• Improved hardware
• Improved performance

Then it would have easily been worth $450.

This is what Nintendo should do. Allow you to mark your interest in buying one via the Nintendo Shop. As supplies become available, let people complete the purchase in the Nintendo Shop, and ship to them.

Sony had a system setup on their website for the PS5 where you went to their website and put in a request as interest to buy one. It put you in a pool, and as availability came available, you would get an email stating that you had X number of hours to login and make your purchase.

That's how I got my PS5 back when it was IMPOSSIBLE to buy one at stores. It took all of about two to three months, and then one day I got my email. I logged in, made my purchase, and it was shipped to me within a week. Easy... as click click click. No bots. No lines. No BS.

I get the excitement for a new Marko Kart game, but I'm no more excited for this one than the last one. It'll be great... just like the last one was great. Anymore than that just sounds like hype to me.

Hogwarts Legacy at #1. That's awesome. Such an amazingly fantastic game.

I played it on my PS5 and absolutely LOVED it.! I might pick it up again in physical form my Switch just to put on my shelf of games.

Glad to see such a great game getting the recognition it deserves.

@TheMisterManGuy There is a major difference in the amount of work that goes in to make a new GTA game than there is in making a new Mario Kart game.

If you can't see that, then what you are really saying is that you pay based on a brand name rather than the actual content of the game.

I tend to believe a game's worth is based on the game's content rather than just the game's name or who made it.

Honestly, governments should outlaw this behavior because they are selling you a product that they can take away from you at any time by shutting down the servers that supply the game download/install.

It's not right by any means. That is not buying a product. That is merely licensing the right to play a product for an undetermined time period.

I have a PS5, and it was worth every penny I paid for it.

I will not be buying a Switch 2 for two reasons.

1. No matter how you candy coat it, the cost does not match the performance of the machine. I've read all of the justifications for it in these comments, and I still just don't buy it. For $450 it should at the bare minimum be at or higher than the current PS5 and Xbox machine's performance. I don't care that I can carry the Switch 2 around. If I want to carry my PS5 around, I can literally buy the portable that connects to it.

2. The game prices are ludicrously over priced. $80 should be reserved for triple A titles that have a ton of expensive-to-create content in it, and quite frankly, I probably would expect to get a Limited or Collector's edition for that much money.

Normalizing $80 for platformer Nintendo games that literally are just slight variations on each generation is 100% unacceptable. No Pokemon, Mario, Zelda, or Kart game should cost more than $50. The average franchise Nintendo game is not a huge cost development effort.

There is no way you can compare the development cost of a game like Super Mario Bros Wonder to that of:
1. Cyberpunk 2077 at $174 million
2. Red Dead Redemption 2 at $540 million
3. Grand Theft Auto 5 at $265 million
4. Final Fantasy XV at $275 million
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at $250 million
6. Halo 4 at $100 million
7. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at $81 million
8. Star Wars: The Old Republic at over $200 million
9. Assasin's Creed: Unity at $137 million
10. Marvel's Spider-Man at $397 million

I guarantee you that the average Nintendo franchise game does not cost near as much to make.

Does that mean I didn't love Super Mario Bros Wonder? No. I thought it was a fantastic game. It still was not worth $80.

LOL your starting line up for the Switch 2 includes a lot of already available games on other consoles.. most of which are getting kinda old at this point.

Super Nintendo, Wii, and NES are clear winners over the Switch 2.

It's really very simple honestly. Either people will buy the Switch 2 or they will not. No matter how much damage control anybody tries to do on this or spin it based on their views, consumers either buy it or don't.

If the consumers don't buy it, it will not be the first console to flop. Nintendo isn't even knew to having a failed console. If you remember correctly, the original Nintendo 3DS was by all counts a failed product. It sold so low that people that bought it early on were put in to an Ambassador program. I know because I was one. My 3DS had the Ambassador icon on the home screen.

Sega had a failed console release as well. They're failure was due to not marketing it at all.. just one day saying, "Surprise we got a new console!"

So, yeah it happens.

It will not be the end of the world if it fails. I hope it does not, but, for my money, I will not be paying $450 for a Nintendo console and $80+ dollars for Nintendo games to play on it.

I love Nintendo and I love all the games I bought for my 3DS and Switch. I just also know that the vast majority of those games are not triple A games worth more than $50. They're Nintendo games.

When I think of a $70 game, I think of something like Baulders Gate 3 that has enough development in it to warrant that kind of price. I would pay $70 for a God of War game, Witcher, Red Dead Redemption, or Baulders Gate kind of game.

Most Nintendo games just don't have the kind of depth of development to warrant more than $50, and some honestly shouldn't be more than $30.

Nintendo will keep charging outrageously and raising the bar as long as we, the consumers, keep paying it.

Nintendo 3DS XL is still the best handheld console ever made. Switch was good, but not better than the 3DS. Switch 2 doesn't interest me much at all.

Well no matter what happens, I'm going to keep an eye on what transpires and check back on the Switch 2 in a year from now.

Stay peaceful and happy everyone.

@mikejs78 Wouldn't that be dependent on the idea that no chip factories already exist in America? Even though most chip manufacturing has gone overseas over the past decade, they still do exist in America. America just isn't the big exporter of chips that it used to be before the big names moved their operations to countries with lower average wages and fewer regulations.

@hypercoyote true. I wonder though if the cost of setting up a factory would out weigh the cost of lost sales due to the terrifs. I honestly do not know.

@chardir Nintendo technically has a Nintendo of America corporation. Unless I am missing something here, Nintendo of America should be able to manufacture the cartridges to be sold in America in a factory in America and therefore have no terrifs applied to those games sold in America.

Somebody please let me know if I am understanding that incorrectly.

Well.... Honestly after seeing what they are going to charge for the new system AND the games (especially how much they are charging for DIGITAL versions which should be WAY cheaper due to NO MANUFACTURING COSTS), I've pretty much decided that I will be skipping the Switch 2 generation this year. I'll check back in 2026 to see if anything changes.

Until then, I have a massive back log of games on my STILL WORKING PERFECTLY Nintendo 3DS and my current generation Nintendo Switch. On top of that, I have more games to play on my XBox and Playstation consoles than I will have time to get to in my lifetime.

I just don't see a real reason why I should spend $80+ dollars on games for this new Switch generation.

Best of luck to those that go with the Switch 2. I hope you get your money's worth.

This looks fun. I will be picking it up and playing it for sure.

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This is quite the conundrum we have here with this quiet week in Nintendo news.

Looks like a lot of fun!

This is why I do not like digital games.

Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, and so many more... fast forward to the late 2010s and we have... Thimbleweed Park.

If you haven't played Thimbleweed Park and you are a fan of old Lucas Art point-n-click adventure games, then you're missing one of the greatest modern day versions of the genre.

I will be picking this one up too of course.

Always sad to see anyone lose their job.

I will play this for sure.

We want a fun game to play, so... FUN. We want fun. Yes. That will do it. Fun.

@SabreLevant right, but they could fix that by assigning a GUID to each chip during manufacturing. That way every single cartridge has a unique identifying ID that can be associated with an install. If someone tries to use that cartridge to install the game, it could deactivate anywhere else it is installed.

@SabreLevant There is NO REASON why they can't make it so you put the cartridge in to "install" the game, and then be able to take the cartridge out to store it on your shelf while still being able to play the game.

@SabreLevant No. But, thank you for asking.

@SabreLevant One physical and one digital. Yes. Yes I am.

It's a life sim... there is no end.

Surely I am not the only one that likes to own every major console each generation and playing them all. I see each console as having its strengths and weaknesses. Where one is weak, another is strong. You don't have to have one console that rules them all.

What the industry SHOULD do is include a one time use code in every physical copy of the game. That way, you can have the PHYSICAL copy of the game (to put on the shelf) as well as having the game downloaded to your console to run anytime, anywhere with out having to put the cartridge in.

I love collecting physical copies AND I love the convenience of purchasing digital copies. That means that I end up buying games I like twice. It's very expensive, and it means I end up buying half as many games each year since I am buying them twice for each title.

Make better games that are actually fun to play. If you can't do that, then get out of the business. It's that simple.

Nintendo ABANDONED all of us. We bought their products, and they gave us the big middle finger by shutting down necessary components for our purchased hardware.

Quite frankly, Nintendo does not deserve to have any say so in what we do with hardware that WE paid for and THEY abandoned.

I am tired of companies selling products and then choosing to abandon it later. I think when a company abandons a product line, they should give up all rights to it. It should become the rights of the people that PAID for their products. Either that, or give us a full refund for all hardware and software purchased for it with interest to cover inflation.

Stop selling us products and then ripping it out from under us later!

Good day sir.!

@GrailUK my thoughts exactly. Of course the person getting paid for voice acting of the character would LOVE TO SEE that same character in more games. hahaha.!

Somebody wanted to show off and dropped $1500 to do it. Sadly they got the attention they wanted by articles like this being made. Yay to him on doing something that literally anybody can do if they want to waste enough money on a game. What an accomplishment... whew... I am in awe of your ability to hit the purchase button repeatedly. lol

I just don't enjoy the open-world versions of Nintendo games nearly as much as I do the way they were traditionally made. Its the same reason I don't like Breath of the Wild nearly as much as the old Zeldas. The new Super Mario Bros Wonder was my favorite SMB game released on the Switch so far because I just can't get in to open-world games.

I love point and click adventures! Will be getting this one for sure.

@Arehexes fan made items is a far stretch from a company made game that is being sold for money. I think you might be using what is called hyperbolic comparison to make an analysis that isn't even close.

@UmbreonsPapa ah ok that makes more sense.

Regardless of what patent they use to go after them, I can't understand how anyone doesn't see that Palworld is a ripoff of the Pokemon franchise.

Like Palworld or not, how can anyone think this wouldn't have ended up in court?

@Serpenterror With over 34 million Switch units sold (across all versions), who exactly is rushing to buy another one this holiday season? Pretty much anybody who plays games has a Switch at this point.

Super Mario Party Jamboree just came out and has 366,484 total sales while The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has been out for a good while now and has 294,371 total sales. This does not bode well for the new Zelda game. If it doesn't get some traction soon... will there be another one?

I think the thing that blows my mind the most is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still racking in the sales as old as it is at this point. Totally amazing.

Looking forward to checking it out!

Its all fun and games right up until they pull the plug on the servers. Ask the PS Vita, Gamecube, and 3DS crowd about that.

Physical media is the ONLY way to actually own games and not just rent them.

@Ralizah Agreed. I love my PS5. I'd never buy that new one with the ridiculous price tag, but the original PS5 is great.

Isn't it weird how Hogwarts Legacy is sitting at 4 while the brand new Zelda game has fallen to 6 already. The media is going to have to put together a second round of propaganda to remind everyone that Hogwarts Legacy is a bad game despite people loving it.

Us stupid gamers spending our money on what we actually enjoy playing. What is wrong with us! Hahaha.

Kinda reminds me of how I've found, throughout the five decades I have been alive, that when the critics say a movie sucks, it ends up being a movie I enjoy. Critics... so helpful in life aren't they, always telling us what to like and not like.

What the what.... what