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Looks very pretty, but I wish they would do something with the textures of the Pokemon. They look so plastic now that the environments are so HD.

@NatiaAdamo A Miinaissance, surely?

I hope you can buy a new Switch 2 with these colours by the time I splash out on one because I don’t really care for the red and blue choices. Too neutral.

Im glad theyve added another possible theme to Nintendo Today because I felt like there weren’t very many before. Hopefully thisnsignals good things for the tomodachi franchise in coming times — a Mii renaissance perhaps??

If you squint a bit it even looks like Chrono Trigger, complete with the frog guy.

Oops! Well, it's nice to know that they think so hard about balancing decisions.

Watch out, Code Vein II dude! It's Bowser with a red shell!

That's cool. Haven't encountered any bugs myself, apart from the usual connection problems...

Apart from being personally glad that they're doing this, I figured that this was their plan from the start. The Switch 2 isn't a new direction for Nintendo; it's effectively just a Switch Pro which has exclusive games. Consequently, for most people, the upgrade path will be slow and only make sense after enough good exclusive stuff is released, or they feel rich enough to splash out on a new console with fancy features. The fact that they're still releasing Switch games into this year suggests that to me.
Mind you, my only real previous experience with a console generational shift like this was the Wii U, and they stopped making games for that very very quickly for very clear reasons.

@westman98 oh, that's true. I wish they would share more details about Raiders already though if it's supposed to be releasing this year

Surprised that Splatoon Raiders hasn't even got a release year yet. What if it doesn't even come out in 2026? It could be another "we announced a game way too early, oops" moment.

I'm glad that ConcernedApe isn't too concerned, despite fan, ah, concerns.

@JumpingJackson not on topic, but what is your profile picture of? it looks very familiar to me but I can't place it

They haven't made Mouse Mode work properly yet, then? That's disappointing.

Controls feel better suited to a mouse and keyboard? It's just like miiverse as I remember it then, haha!

That "don't mess with girl game players" is awesome!

I can't believe Team Zombie won because I lost like three-quarters of all the games I played. Just goes to show that my gameplay is a drop in the ocean.

Did they fix the mouse mode problem Felix talked about yet?? That seems pretty core to me.

This guy is so based. Other Nintendo managers should learn by his example! We'd all be much better off.

I don't think Nintendo should be allowed to sue anyone who copies their ideas (so long as they aren't trying to mislead people into buying knockoffs instead of the proper Nintendo games; that's a different ball game), but I do think they should be allowed to gently slap them with a wet cloth for being so unoriginal.

These results are based on people's self-reported buying habits, which I suspect aren't very accurate. I just said that I buy on average two games a year, but I've already bought three this year, plus been gifted one, and bought one as a gift for someone else.

Also, it's called "Sora". Isn't that the name of the protagonist of Kingdom Hearts? What a mistake! /j

@JohnnyC I agree, the “dream sequence” Ganondorf scene is the most memorable

As usual I think the real problem here is anti-customer copyright law. When you buy a digital copy of a game, you should be entitled to access it forever, not just granted a licence to whatever the copyright holder has decided "the game" constitutes at the present moment. Then it would really be a digital copy.

Is anyone else getting an old video with 10-years-younger Alex on this? Wii U era baby! I was a teenager!

I think it's worth remembering that Silksong, while a massive deal in the hardcore gaming community, is not a big release for non-hardcore gamers. It has had little marketing and most ordinary people won't have heard of it and frankly wouldn't be interested even if they knew exactly what it is, since what it is is an excellent game in a niche genre which requires both a high skill level and a great interest in video games as a medium to appreciate. I don't think it's fair to compare Silksong on a level with blockbuster games which will have a much broader appeal.

@Rentaro that's very helpful, thank you

I'm impressed that you can make a Switch game card not fit and then break it so easily! I would've though they'd make it out of something sturdier...

Does this imply that, in Brazil, they have separate ratings for "10 and up" and "12 and up"? That seems pretty strange to me as someone who lives in the UK (where it goes straight from PG to 12 for films and from 7 to 12 for games).

@AlonditeFE huh, yeah, i suppose that it might be mostly men and boys who observe that stigma. id never thought of that before

Just based on the posts I see in the lobby in Splatoon 3, I find it hard to believe that only 35% of Splatoon players are female.

I really hope this playtest turns out to be something super cool like a Nintendo MMORPG or live multiplayer in the non-combat sections of Splatoon (can you imagine Splatsville with actual players wandering around and using the shops like it was Club Penguin? I'd lose my mind)

@wanderwonder I discovered that while looking this up too! Some other fun ones are "Koopa City" for Neo Bowser City and "Wario's Galleon" for Wario's Shipyard.

Got really confused at first and thought this was about Piranha Plant Pipeway from MK7... they could have done with giving it a more different name!

Man, why do "mature" games aimed at adult audiences always have such a focus on dark colours? I'd probably play more of them if they had a more distinct look from one another.

Calling two characters "Elnina" and "Lanino" is genius, especially if they're the weather-themed ones pictured. I've never played a Toby Fox game but I can see why they're so beloved.

His comments about the account make me think Nintendo want you to think of Nintendo as a service rather than a series of separated products, which is certainly interesting. That would also align with the general direction of Nintendo Switch Online as a sort of “Nintendo Prime” gating access to many different services.

Don't have the game yet but I'm a big fan of this. The Mario universe does have enough characters already, and keeping it to just Mario characters help keep a sense of consistency to the worldbuilding.

This is going to sound extremely paranoid, but I can’t help but suspect that stories like these are just marketing to help sell more units… “even thieves want one!”

Why on earth didn’t they stick a settings menu in there which is accessible from the main menu, or even ask the player the first time the game is booted up? Seems like an obvious thing to me. I guess they think young children are their main audience, which makes sense.

@Ulysses on the up side, I think Hugh Grant as Ganondorf would be extremely amusing

I’m glad he’s having a good time—woah! Where’d all this negative sentiment come from? Apparently I haven’t been keeping my fingers on the pulse of public opinion about Mario voice acting. I actually like Afghani’s voices better…

That’s pretty awful. My programmer’s mind is already wondering what the bug is which allowed that to happen. Must be pretty persnickety.

I think in Mario Kart DS, which was my first, the minimum requirement to access the next GP is to gold trophy the previous one, regardless of the number of stars you get, and I've basically continued to pretend I'm playing Mario Kart DS ever since.

One of the replies on BlueSky indicates that there is a Gamecube startup easter egg. Apparently you have to hold the left analogue stick in any direction during the app's bootup

@TownDarling Thank you for this comment because I couldn't understand why this was an accessibility feature until you said that.

Wild to me that this is the biggest issue with OG Switch and they haven't thrown everything at the problem to fix it. Well, I can only hope they've tested it and the issue isn't persisting.

The prospect of seeing what the new Switch looks like in real life did not get me to watch the unboxing, but the prospect of seeing Alex lick an unbearably bitter substance on purpose and then look disgusted did.

@Princess_Lilly Haha, RIPE with great stories! Because it's a farming sim! cough

@Dan420 Thanks for correcting my maths. Well, that's still not too bad.