Ravenmaster

LOL they've been on for days. I pre-ordered mine last week

LOL he looks like Severus Snape XD

I'd totally play that

If you're turning Bioshock into a cute puzzle platformer, you missed entire point of Bioshock.

Fall damage doesn't exist in ToTK if you upgrade the Wingsuit to 2 stars.

This is pointless. To repair any weapon all you have to do is teleport to death mountain and drop your damaged weapon in front of an Octorok. Step back a bit, the Octorok will pop up, suck your weapon up then spit it back out. When you pick it back up again, it will be fully repaired.

What a clown. Hasn't he heard of Pre-ordering?

@NinChocolate A 4K UHD conversion would beat it

Best Direct we've had in years! So many good games and features shown off. All those glue eating muppets who said we don't need Switch 2 and we don't need good graphics can kiss it! Now we're getting BOTH baby! Hell yeah

I expect it not to suck. We've had a whole heap of mid Directs over the last 6 months. This one's gotta be a banger coz it's the one that has to inspire pre-orders. It better freakin have Zelda WW or TP HD remasters

Remember when Nintendo released the new Mario movie then around 6 months later they released Mario Bros. Wonder? If the same is going to be true with the Zelda movie, then we'll likely see the next big Zelda game in the 3rd quarter of 2027.

@Erigen Crisp Rat XD

This was the only game in the entire Direct worth playing for me. Hope it gets some eye candy texture upgrades for the Switch 2 version.

A Switch 1 Direct kinda seems redundant when they're showing off the Switch 2 in 7 days

The 3DS versions looks better but the N64 version played better. The Zora mask worked way better on the N64.

@floxi A poor man's refresh that costs around 50% more money than it should

I hope Nintendo commission Playtonic Games to make the next Donkey Kong Country title. Most of their staff are ex Rare devs

@LavaTwilight considering that Switch 2 Direct showcasing doesn't end until June. We're probably looking at a July/August actual release date

It does look a bit odd. They should have went with the version they used in the Mario bros animated movie

A lot of people are hoping that backwards compatibility on the Switch 2 means that they can play their Switch 1 games at 60fps instead of 30fps.

If this isn't the case then Nintendo will have made a huge mistake. Fingers crossed they get it right.

Leakers didn't damage the reveal, Nintendo did. By not showing launch titles to get hyped over. Coz lets face it, we all knew Switch 2's hardware wasn't going to be anything special. It was the games most people were excited for. Had they shown off some more Metroid Prime 4 footage or a 4K Twilight Princess or Wind Waker remake, I think the crowds would have went wild.

As it happens, the reveal was pretty 'meh' as a result. Hopefully the April showcase will unf*** the situation

I'm fine with them just showing off the hardware. It needs to happen, it's long overdue.

Software Directs will come later and i'm ok with that.

Seems everybody but Nintendo is revealing the Switch 2 XD

Bruh I don't even use the Joycons 95% of the time. Pro Controller all the way!

Looks slightly better than the original joycon design. I still probably won't use them 90% of the time though. Just like with my current Switch, I'll be playing with the Pro Controller on Switch 2.

And why not? It's fun part play

@Toastmaster "Switch is idiot proof" Except for the constant joycon drift issues that were so bad Nintendo had to offer free repairs instead of facing a mass recall and fixing the problem XD

@nukatha I'm pretty sure I saw it win on the original N64 version back in the day. It wasn't aware it was a rare thing. It never really mattered to me XD

@Toastmaster "My Legion GO Handheld supports external RTX 4090...
PC handhelds are designed for PC Gamers and not Nintendo gamers"

Horse**** XD

@Toastmaster I can tell you're not a system builder otherwise you'd know of thin and light gaming laptops that easily house a rtx 4060 in a very thin chassis. They use vapour chambers and small fans to stay cool while under load. Such a GPU could fit in a dock. In fact external GPU's have been a thing for years now. Nintendo could do it as an add-on for more horsepower when playing at home in docked mode.

@Toastmaster You can get an RTX 4060 Ti for £275. It really doesn't cost that much and its low wattage so wouldn't overheat easily. Add it to the other components and you have yourself a very capable hybrid console for around £500. considering most people pay £600-£1000 for a smart phone these days, it's not a big ask.

@Morph Trouble is there are hardly any 1080p TV's on the market these days. 95% of TV's 42" and above are 4K. It's been this way since 2019. Nintendo needs hardware that can keep up with current gen TV's, not last gen 1080p from 2006. Putting a 1080p image on a 4K screen stretches the picture and causes pixelation. It's unnecessary this late into the 4K era.

@GamingFan4Lyf They're succeeding purely because their games are good. But at the same time those games could look and play much better at higher res and smoother frame rates if they'd get back into using good hardware

@Toastmaster Thing is, they CAN have both good hardware and great games. But they choose not to. I would happily pay an extra 100 bucks on top of MSRP if it meant they'd put enough horsepower in the Switch 2 to run 4K at 60fps natively. Even a RTX 3060Ti can run BotW at 4K 60fps and those are cheap as chips now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXR5tTpqx4&t=308s

@mikegamer DLSS is how u get high resolution on crappy aged hardware.

The SoC the Switch 2 is using is based on Nvidia Ampere (30 series GPU technology). It came out in 2020 so its about to be outdated by 2 generations when Nvidia launches their new 50 series cards at the end of this month. Nintendo always cutting costs and making do nowadays. It's sad coz they used to have the latest and greatest tech in their machines. NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube - all right up there with the competition in terms of hardware capability. Then ever since the Wii came out they've always been an entire generation behind the competition with regards to horsepower. I miss the days when Nintendo had both great games AND great hardware. It's like they're allergic to doing both now

@Bluelink45 The difference between DLSS and Native has become almost imperceivable now. DLSS version 1.0 was pretty crappy but version 2.0 onwards is almost perfect. It would take an extremely keen eye to notice the difference between DLSS 3.7 and Native now.

Nintendo has quite a bit of competition now in the handheld market. The Switch 2 cannot afford to be underwhelming otherwise we'll get a Wii U repeat scenario

@Dee123 Nah, Nintendo Switch 2 is a meme at this point. It's almost taken them as long as it took Gearbox to release Duke Nukem Forever. And we all know how that turned out. It was out of fashion upon release

@VoidofLight Hype building for Nintendo

Honestly they should have just included an expansion slot for a small form factor M.2 NVME SSD. Even cheap and cheerful 3rd Gen PCI-E is way faster than Micro SD

Nintendo should absolutely commission Playtonic to make the next DKC game. Many of their staff were original Rareware members

I think we'll see Metroid Prime 2: Echoes HD remaster fairly soon. But Metroid Prime 3: Corruption HD remaster will most likely release 9-12 months after

30 years later and its still one of the best platformers ever made. Loved the DK Country OG trilogy

That's cool and all but the announcement we all want to hear about is the Switch 2. Come on Nintendo!

Well now we have inexpensive entry GPU's that support DLSS so i'm that's one improvement that wouldn't cost much more to make. Plus they're low wattage too so easy on the battery life.

Even a last gen RTX 3060Ti can run BotW at 4K 60fps. Using a custom SoC i'd say Nintendo and Nvidia could make a 4K capable console for around $400-500. Which is a lot cheaper than most people pay for a mobile phone these days

emulation isn't illegal if you already own a copy of the original games. All you're doing is playing them on a more capable platform such as a gaming PC that can handle high res textures, anti-aliasing, HDR colours and better frame rates. If Nintendo could provide hardware that did all that then there would be no need to emulate. Also if they released Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD on the Switch there would be no reason to emulate those either. Emulation happens due to Nintendo's shortcomings.

@GrailUK Yeah but when their hardware is sub-par then people are gonna emulate their games and run them on better hardware. That's my point.

@GrailUK If Switch 2 doesn't deliver, there's gonna be a whole bunch of tech geniuses working on new emulators. Nintendo need to step up their game and bring some decent hardware this time around. They can't afford to mess up with so many more handhelds on the market now

Well now i'm giving you 2 reasons for emulators. And they both stem from Nintendo's shortcomings. Also, emulation is technically not illegal in many countries so long as you own the original version of the games.