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No biggie.
It's only been 12½ years since V, we can wait a bit longer. ^^

Focusing on big hitters instead of discounted shovelware only "fixes" the eShop in that it fixes it in Nintendo's favor.
The Wii U eShop was notorious for always shoving Nintendo's own stawarts in your face, highlighting them before anything else.

Now, that said, Nintendo needed to do SOMETHING about the eShop being cluttered with dodgy little oddities, leading up to the Switch 2. Preparing big eShop releases for launch with the shop looking the way it did must have been disheartening.

I'm sure a custom tweaked version will run great!

I was, however, slightly amused that they showed of a scene in the Switch 2 trailer where a particular effect clearly WASN'T working. But let's see if they get it in order before release. :v

There are a handful of other objective downgrades to both the Switch 1 gamecards in general and now the game key cards for Switch 2, but sure, nice of them to stay on top of this one. ^_^;

Nintendo's peripheral prices are getting out of hand. :-/

@Hawkes142
For me, the cardboard was never the issue with LABO. The issue proved to be the elastic bands, which have all decayed and broken.

For me, it was 'Guess the Doodle!', the Pictionary-style game using the elephant mask. Just brilliant.

That was such a cool thing to pass around at a gathering, that only had to include those playing, and didn't steal attention from others by turning on a TV.

Drawing in 3D and having others guess your weird sculptures? Magic.

Well I do kind of agree with him.
Eight years later, we get almost no new ideas.
I hope they have something crazy lined up we haven't seen yet. :3

So he's saying they MIGHT be incorporating it, but that they won't ever just leave a job to be done by AI.

Seems like the right approach.
AI really isn't speeding up creative decision making, unless you want to just NOT make a decision. So it's debatable how much time it can really save teams.

Better not release it too close to launch anyway. :v
Wouldn't want to conpete too closely with Mario Kart.

On GameCube, as I remember it, DoubleDash, Air Ride, and F-ZeroGX all launched within the same half year, which can't have been good for sales.

Oh. Those strap bits still exist. I hope they aren't mandatory for the mouse functionality to work.

I played both FAST and FAST RMX, and have always been a huge Shin'en fan. Really looking forward to this!

II honestly don't think the Prime covers were ever much good, but this is straight up awful.

It was already bad with Switch Game Cards couldn't store your save games, but on Switch 2 they don't even store the game?

They already built a good GC emulator of their own for Mario All-Stars 3D, so this seems given.

What also seems given is that GC games will be for Expansion Pak users only.

Of course it isn't Switch 2 footage.
One thing is that anyone could see this, but it was also shown in a Direct specifically focused on games for the existing Switch.
Are DF trolling us with this?

The Switch 2 version is fully assumed to be on display later today.

Took me a moment to register that he was speaking Danish and I could understand it. ^^

Sippery slope with all the new facial features and ears.
I'm fearing the same will happen as with the Animal Crossing villager. :v

New Rhythm Heaven alone made this the best Direct in YEARS!

They've now spent six years making content for a game that was supposed to procedurally generate infinite content. 🙃

That looks great! :v
Fun mechanics and cute graphics.

Alright, now it's an actual contender for a proper modern alarm clock, so people won't need to still use their phone on the side.

Woah! That's some pretty heavy titles to arrive all at once. :v

I happen to own this on CD-ROM. :v

I look forward to toggling it off, or not playing the games using it.

I had to do a double take on this headline, since the western game studio named Monolith had to close just recently. ^^

Sorry to sound like this, but my answer will always be 'no' to whether I'm going to watch a Zelda movie.

Would the US finally have to pay as much for physical games as we do in Europe?

The only publisher in the top 22 I've bought anything from this past year is Devolver.

It's about double the pixels on screen in total, so yes, there's more detail to look at. But, it's still not a crazy jump. ^^

Very happy to hear this. The constant witty banter between Grant and Davide was, for me, the greatest thing about Mario + Rabbids, seeing as I never actually played the games. ^^

@X68000
Switch 2 is quite likely to perform better than the current Steam deck.

Steam Deck is a handheld PC. They never needed to worry about it.
If anything it helps confirm the form factor as attractive, even to fringe user groups.

I had to rewatch the sensational meme animation "Mouse Fan Club" because of this announcement. ^^

If we accept all the remakes and remasters as releases, then sure. They have a lot of teams and studios churning.

Good thing Nintendo renewed the trademark for the Seal of Quality! /sarcasm

In all seriousness, Nintendo were pretty forward about opening the floodgates for (potentially also) scams and trash quite early in the life of Switch eShop, when announcing they intended for a minimum of 20 games to release each week.

Here's hoping they require everyone to re-release, if they want to sell more copies on Switch 2, and dial up the scrutiny, now that they can easily afford to do so again.

This isn't really relevant in context with Palworld though. :v
What they asked from the Palworld creators turned out to be very reasonable, and more a matter of principle than any kind of take-down attempt.

Ah yes, being "accessed" and "acquired". Just the way your future customers like to think about themself and their relationship with you.
You coldhearted corporate creeps.

It's likely the Switch Lite will stay in circulation for a while, seeing as the Switch 2 likely won't have a similar discount edition within the first few years, if at all.

Yeah, we know this isn't for ladies to drink coffee with.

I'm in a state of continuous disbelief that anyone will actually ship with AI art of this quality on display.
The jigsaw puzzle games on Switch eShop with entirely AI generated images are the most awful trash I'm ever witness.

I'll be the first to admit I've bought fewer physical games for Switch than I did for Wii U.
Simply because there wasn't enough games coming out physical that I wanted. Not because I have any sort of preference for digital.

And that is certainly a trend I hope Switch 2 will change.

These guys used to make all the games I cared about.
But it's been fifteen years since I purchased anything bearing their logo.

New hardware is always a time of risk. Which, by nature, dents the share price.
Manufacturing investments, building a new base, advertisement, will people like it or not like it, so on so forth.

Have mercy on me, Team Cherry. I was late to the game and I have yet to beat The Radiance.

@thaimbomb
I do think mouse-functionality will be used A LOT though. Many many strategy games and management sims have released on Switch and enjoyed success there, but will just be much easier to control with a mouse.
Shooters are likely to support it as well.
Not to speak of adventure games of the point-n-click variety, that will benefit from this.

So I definitely welcome a mouse. It's just that... it's old news. And as you say, it requires a flat surface close to you, which is typically what consoles try to shy away from demanding.

Going to have to see all these new designs animated before I judge them. If it's fun, then it's fun.

Ruff and the Riverside looks positively bonkers!

Mouse functionality is good and all. But I'm not having another eight years without proper pen input or proper on-screen pointer functionality.
Switch has been such a huge step back in both of these departments.

Hadn't even heard of this! Looks grand! :v