Ravenmaster

If he never touched the surface, how the hell did he fight Ganondorf below Hyrule Castle to complete the game? The depths are technically a surface area i.e. not in the Sky but on the ground.

What the Direct will include:-
1) One minute of Mario Bros Wonder footage.
2) 39 minutes of weeby indie games you'll probably never play

What the Direct will not include:-
1) A Switch 2 announcement
2) Twilight Princess HD for Switch
3) Wind Waker HD for Switch
4) Metroid Prime 4 footage
5) A new F-Zero game
6) A new Donkey Kong game
7) Totk DLC
8) A Kid Icarus sequel

There wouldn’t be any need to re-release BotW on Switch 2 because all they’d need to do is up the resolution in the setting and turn on anti-aliasing. Maybe up the textures in settings too. We know it’s already possible thanks to CEMU. I’ve seen an entry level PC with RTX 3060ti run the game in 4K 60fps with much greater graphical clarity. Switch 2 is rumoured to be using an Ampere SoC (30 series) so that would match up.

Makes sense. TotK was all the extra BotW DLC ideas rolled up into one full game.

I do feel like the Ancient Hero from the mural could have been elaborated on though. Surely there's a DLC story in that. Or even of Zelda's time spent in the Distant Past. We could have played as her in a DLC chapter.

Guess the Zelda team has finished with TotK and is brainstorming for the next title in the franchise. Switch 2 will need a brand new Zelda game I suppose.

Toshihiro Nagoshi: I would love to work on F-Zero again

Nintendo Execs: THERE SHALL BE ONLY MARIO KART! NO OTHER RACING GAMES ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST!

I find it difficult to call any Switch games visually beautiful. The aged hardware is holding the artists back so much. Totk is probably the best looking game on the console but it could look so much better if the hardware could handle textures, anti-aliasing, shading, lighting better. I've seen BotW running in 4K on PC (emulator) and it is truly glorious. I just wish Nintendo would catch up so their games finally reach their full potential visually. And not just that - if they had better hardware behind them all the games would run at better frame rates instead of being stuck at sub 30fps. Nintendo's artists have done wonders to make BotW and Totk look as good as they do. But now i've seen them running at 4K 60fps with better textures, I want it to happen officially and legally. Switch 2 can't come fast enough.

Totk is definitely my favourite game of 2023

Wouldn't we all

Nah. RDR needs to not look like a$$ and Switch can't make that happen with its aged hardware. I'd totally buy it on PC though.

Definitely wouldn't trade my TotK Switch for that

Nothing of any real value then...

@Ooccoo_Jr Glitches like this are for the lols after you've already beaten the game at least once, fairly.

If you look at the pattern, previous Nintendo consoles have had 6 year cycles and stopped being supported during the 7th. I think we'll get a Switch 2 announcement after April 2024 and a release for the new console later that year. Hopefully with NoS, we'll be able to take our retro games across to the next console. Nintendo sort of hinted earlier this year that such a feat would be easier to pull off now that their subscription service is in place. It would also be super cool if the next console was fully backwards compatible with current Switch games.

The best remakes for the Switch are Twilight Princess HD and Wind Waker HD. Oh wait...

This doesn't directly compete with Playstation or Xbox. It's low powered hybrid console that oddly has some of the best games out of all 3 consoles. That said, the Switch 2 (which may release in 2024) will most likely hardware that can compete with Sony and Microsoft's current consoles.

I used to like the motion controls in Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword and the Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Wii. But having tried motion controls in Skyward Sword HD and Metroid Prime HD on the Switch, I quickly grew to dislike them. The Switch's joycons are a lot less accurate compared to the Wii-mote. I found myself turning motion controls off in both those games eventually because I got sick of the gyro constantly de-calibrating itself. I honestly didn't think they'd be moving backwards with the newer tech with regards to aiming accuracy, balance etc.

I want to believe we'll see some really cool stuff like TP/WW HD, Switch 2 console announcement, Metroid Prime 4 footage, new Donkey Kong game, new F-Zero game, new Mario game. But i'm certain all we'll get is 30 minutes of Pikmin 4 + 10 minutes of weeb indie crap that nobody asked for.

Kind of irrelevant now that you can unlock all the special items amiibos drop by simply finding them in chests

I'm on my 2nd playthrough now. I'm enjoying the game a little bit more the second time around because I know how the building mechanics work and I remembered where the best armours were, so it feels less of a grind

@larryisaman Mainly people who haven't played the game

Some parts of BotW were too empty, some parts of TotK were too cluttered. It's 6 and two 3's. In the next Zelda game (probably in 5 years or so) Nintendo would do well to find a happy middle ground. I really love both games but I found some parts of TotK unecessarily irritating.

For instance:-

1) Lizalfos only drop their tails for you to collect some of the time when you kill them. This makes grinding for set upgrades even more tedious than it was in BotW.

2) In Totk you have Satori trees to help you locate caves. But the beacons that show you where the caves are were all one colour. Doesn't matter if you've entered said cave or not, it will always show up under a pale green Satori beacon. It would be much more useful to players if beacons had 2 colours. One to show a cave's location and another colour to show that the player has entered that cave before. Several times i found myself heading towards a beacon that I thought was a new cave, only to realise it was one i'd already been in. And other times i'd ignore a beacon thinking i'd already been to that cave when really I hadn't.

3) Caves on the surface world in general - there were just too many of them.

In BotW we had Koroks, Shrines, Set ingredients to grind for.

In Totk we have Koroks, Shrines, Set ingredients, Bubble Gems, Chasm seeds, Hudson signs, Zonaite ore, Zonaite charges to grind for.

It felt like coming home… except for the part where Yiga Clan squatters were occupying the joint 😝

I remember getting my copy of Twilight Princess on the Wii, 5 days prior to launch. One thing I did was enjoy the game earlier than anyone else. One thing I didn't do was let everyone know about it... until now

Lmao! 150 bucks for a 1TB card. That's half the price of the console itself XD

Can the Switch run CoD and Crysis? Yes. Does it run at low frame rate? Yes. Does it look like low resolution ass when docked and connected to a 4K TV? Also yes. Which is why it wouldn't hurt to have a Switch 2 with better hardware inside.

Out in December lol

I wouldn't say that's a leak. All movies get released to physical media approximately 2-3 months after the box office release.

The current Switch may not die after TotK is released but in all honesty, it should. Nintendo would be much better off if they had a console that could do 4K 60fps with 2x anti-aliasing and is backwards compatible with current Switch cartridges. A modern SoC that supports DLSS could make that a reality. They need a console that can run at smooth frames rates when paired with a modern day 4K TV.

@Rika_Yoshitake I would love a Switch that could do 4K 60fps and supported HDR. It is possible since the next Nvidia chip that Nintendo uses will support DLSS

Nintendon't bother then

Would love if they made a Streets of Rage 5

LMFAO! We would anybody buy from them when you can get a digital copy that never goes out of stock for MSRP?

I'm pretty sure Nintendo will be selling this much cheaper on their own website at launch.

Wow wtf... why send death threats to Nintendo when there are companies like EA and Activision on the go? Dumb villain needs to learn to prioritise XD

After pikmin 4 they’ll probs stop making 1st party games for the Switch and leave indie devs to make games for the console in its last year of life, while Nintendo works on Switch 2 titles. I’m betting Metroid Prime 4 is being saved for a Switch 2 title

@sanderev Time to get your eyes examined

@sanderev Switch joycons are also smaller and more flimbsy compared to Xbox/PS and even the Switch Pro Controller sticks

Thing is though, Nintendo wouldn't need to have a free repair route for their joycons if they improved the design so that stick drift no longer occurrs. I've had every Nintendo home console to date as well as several handhelds and the Switch seems to be the only one with large numbers of stick drift. They're clearly doing something wrong in the engineering department.

I think it would be cool to play as Zelda for some parts of the game.

Well, if the big 3 ain't coming then there's absolutely no point in having the expo at all.

Finally she's useful XD

@Supermoose8645 I do enjoy those but they're not exactly canon to the story though.

All of them lol. Do a Zelda Timeline Marathon from start to finish

E3 announcement followed by a 2024 release. Metroid Prime 4 and a Mario game as launch titles

As PC gamer primarily, I prefer to purchase my games digitally. But that's because they're kept in my Steam library and every time I upgrade my PC I can still take my library over to the new hardware.

Unfortunately with Nintendo, they have a horrible habit of NOT letting you port your titles over to the next console. So many of my favourite Nintendo games are still trapped on useless relics like the Wii U. No Switch versions of Wind Waker HD or Twilight Princess HD. No Gamecube Mario Kart Double Dash or Eternal Darkness on my Switch. Nintendo are their own worst enemy in that respect because it drives fans to emulators.

The first 2 Zelda games I ever played were Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask but… chronologically, Skyward Sword is the first Zelda game in the time line.

Looks really cool but I already have a Switch OLED. My next upgrade will be the Switch's success (whatever they decide to name it). It's gotta be better hardware - not just cosmetic.

Sounds like they axed the Switch Pro to make way for a fully fledged Switch 2. I reckon it will come in 2024 once the current Switch has expended its final breathes.

Wind Waker HD needs to be ported to the Switch.

So basically the same as the amiibo version, minus the plastic pole up her butt.

Amiibo Urbosa for reference: https://i.imgur.com/SbFUGZn.jpg