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Mario Kart time!

Imagine after all this time they say the Direct was just an April Fool's prank all along

Hopefully it's cheap, but this is worth the cost no matter how high the price is. This will be so useful, can't wait to get my hands on one!

These look awesome! I won't be getting the Amazing Mirror ones since I don't have the expansion, but looking forward to getting the Adventure ones!

@bleeflooflah the folks at Nintendo Life put Mario in front of the picture themselves, not Nintendo. The official picture is seen below in the post on this page.

@Novamii Pikmin could really take advantage of a mouse since at it's root it's an RTS. I hope we get control options for the game, so you could use mouse controls or usual joy-stick controls.

Many Nintendo series could take advantage of mouse controls, like Pikmin (as you said), Mario Maker, WarioWare, and Metroid Prime. I bet they'll make a new game specifically for this feature as well.

This console looks really nice, neat new pictures of it! Definitely seems to imply mouse controls, if it wasn’t obvious enough already.

Yeah this platform is dead, no way they're continuing to use it anymore.

I don’t want any $70 Edition games, but I’d love free enhancements to make loading times for Animal Crossing New Horizons and Pikmin 4 shorter.

Also Scarlet and Violet need a Switch version first before we talk about Switch 2

Was this intentional to release a week after Sonic 4?

So they'll actually use this app for announcements, cool!

I don't think this picture was taken in Japan, maybe this app could come over to America soon? Nintendo didn't really seem to want to say anything about it when I asked them.

Cool to see Nintendo making more mobile apps, this one has a lot of potential and I hope they continue to expand on this! It's not really replacing their social media or switch news app, but this is definitely another good way to get Nintendo info!

Really hoping this is just an enhancement and I don't have to buy $70 games to play games I can already play through backwards compatibility.

The official page for the Digital game cards says something about ‘Switch 2 exclusive’ and ‘Switch 2 edition’ games, so that’s interesting

This was a bad presentation, but hey maybe it's just to make the Switch 2 Direct look even better by comparison!

I thought the whole purpose behind the Direct was to fill out the rest of the year with Switch titles, but we didn't get a single release date, and the 2 newly announced games were for 2026.

The news on Switch is really slow and always announces things by the time you've heard it from 50 other sources, so hopefully this time this app will actually be useful!

This doesn't have the same charm as the previous game, from what I've seen. People will try to defend it since it's the only entry we've got in so long, but I genuinely don't think this will be the same type of experience.

Personally I don't think this means anything, it's funny how much analysis is put into one little tweet by this guy lol

Robobot, a Pikmin spin-off, and maybe some Mario stuff would be really cool to see!

Robobot?

Can't wait for the rest of the tracks, weird they didn't have all right away. Very good music so far, look forward to putting these in my playlists!

I assume this is for the game's 3rd anniversary, really happy to see them acknowledge this game again! One of the few Nintendo games to stay at v1.0.0

@Thomystic What did Pyoro say? I heard Pyoro hinted at some Pokemon thing but I haven't seen anything about a potential Direct.

while I'd love to see it, I have my doubts because of another Direct next week.

If this is true, maybe it's finally time for Robobot?

I mean Switch 1 has to get games announced at some point, right? There's not any upcoming 1st party games with a release date so I'd imagine we'd hear something for Switch 1 soon. Maybe we'd also get a Metroid Prime 4 release date?

I'd guess it might get an upgrade with BC, but I'm sure Nintendo knows how well this series sells.

Remember this is a Japan product, where Metroid games struggle to be in top 10 best selling games in launch week. If anything, this would hurt Switch 2's early sales in Japan.

The true unveiling will blow everything else in the direct out of the water.

1. 3D Mario will most likely be there
2. Switch 2 specs will be there
3. If you're making up a rumor you would start spreading rumors of how people will react to it

Nintendo are constantly tweaking directs right down to the last minute

Not this big of a presentation, just trying to save reputation once the Direct airs

It'd also be nice to know who this person is, no reference to anything else this person 'leaked'

We just need free enhancements for Switch games on Switch 2, not this.

This is a very fun game, glad that they added it to NSO. I’m going with Europe for this one for sure.

I’ll be playing Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, specifically the DLCs for that game. I didn’t want to buy an Ubisoft product but this was an actually good product and it was 75% off so I went for it.

Hope this means GameCube NSO, many of my favorite games of all time are from GCN so this would be a great addition!

$400 or more is very broad, very easy prediction since it encompasses pretty much all likely scenarios.

@JimNorman The video show spoilers for Mario & Luigi: Brothership, maybe have a spoiler tag for those who haven’t beaten it?

This is awesome, love to see even side games get recognition. This is better than most of Nintendo’s Mar10 Day celebrations this year!

@HeadPirate Pokemon has previously and intentionally released unfinished games, and it doesn't seem to affect sales at all, so it'd be a good strategy to do another unfinished game to get sales, and that gives more time to work on other projects (Gen 10). Bad publicity is still publicity, and Pokemon takes advantage of that.

Switch can run the likes of Mario Odyssey, BotW (both of which released about 8 years ago), and Pikmin 4, so this isn't the Switch's problem, it's TPC.

Idk why people were saying this could be a major cross gen title. If Switch 2's power is a big deal, they're not doing pokemon so early.

My theory is they have this game run so bad it makes Switch 2 look even better than it is.

@Duncanballs I think IGN has some sort of connection to NL so it’s probably being posted on all of their websites.

I think both websites should close their comment sections, we know how people can be when it comes to heated topics like this

Computer games have already done this, but Switch 2 has a cartridge slot so we shouldn’t have to worry for Nintendo for the next 6-7 years.

Again, NintendoLife should report on things but have their comments closed. I never really believe these ‘analyst’ articles, we already went through this before.

As long as we get a promising look at the next 3D Mario I'm good

Nice to see even newer Mario games on sale.

Gen 2 is one of the best, but did we really need two starters from it in this game? Now across both Legends games, Gen 2 has been represented with all three starters, with no support of Gen 1, 3, 4, or 6.

Hopefully this doesn't become a trend. Once NSO one day does shut down, I'm worried I won't have my progress for it anymore, and this isn't reassuring.

@Novamii Yeah I've seen some of the ending, probably one of the best Pokemon endings (love the credits song as well). For sure my favorite part of the game I've seen (aside from Geodude). Some of the glitches actually seem kinda fun to do, those things would be the biggest reasons for me to play the game!

Yeah I’m not really a fan of the style, I was hoping for a more unique take since Arceus had its own.

I haven’t beaten a Pokemon game on Switch, and I don’t think this’ll be one either.

It was a typical Pokemon Presents. Maybe next year we'll get Pokemon on NSO!

Certainly interesting to not choose Piplup or Snivy for the theme of Kalos.

This game doesn't look exactly finished but what were you expecting with Legends Arceus AND Scarlet/Violet both being released a couple years ago, and this was likely a project worked on alongside Gen 10 so it wasn't TPC's focus. Hopefully it'll be a $50 game but since it's Pokemon it's sure to be $60.

The only good thing about the Pokemon Presents is that this pretty much confirms Gen 10 will not be this year so maybe it won't be completely unfinished this time.

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of hope is probably top 15 Switch games, it is very fun and in my opinion it perfected the battle engine. It's too bad Ubisoft owns the Rabbids IP, I would love another game in the series without Ubisoft making it.

@Liam_Doolan Does this affect the development team for Cars 3 for Switch?

I mean it seems like Nintendo has more teams making their games than ever, so I think they can keep up with this for the most part.

Is this the smallest update so far? Nice to have this OST, but would've been better if we also got Super Mario Bros. 3 with it.

Hopes: Pokemon Yellow/Red/Blue on NSO

Expectations: mobile games and Z-A first look/release date

I very much doubt I'd trade mine in, but Switch 2 seemingly will just do everything a Switch does + more.

Honestly, transfer might not be necessary with digital games, you can probably just redownload them with the linked Nintendo account. I'm sure there will be some sort of transfer system for easier way to transfer all data, but Nintendo accounts could potentially make this a lot easier.