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Yeah I'd rather have this be optional. I don't know if I'm in the minority, but I'm really enjoying it as difficult as it is.

The way I'm seeing this is just that team cherry are super lucky, super talented and super deserving of all the accolades and money coming their way. They shouldn't be subject to what other developers think pricing should look like just because it makes them look bad. If anything, it should be a kick for them to re-evaluate the quality of their own output if it scares them.

And yeah, that's probably a tough pill for most, as getting to the level of team cherry with Hollow Knight is going to be insanely difficult, nigh on unfeasible for most.

That's not to say I don't see the argument the other way. It's similar to how companies like Ubisoft are seen devaluing games so quickly that it's warped public perception such that people won't pay full price for brand new releases.

I'm somewhat interested in getting this remake, but probably not for full price.
If they want me to pay that, make a new game and make it good. This kind of comment just makes me not want to support the business - spend money on this (IMO) lazy looking remake just to potentially have to spend more money for a new game?

If you just want to test the waters, and see if there is an appetite, I would have much preferred new content, even if it was a smaller project for half the price.

Hoping kirby tides me over for at least a week. But this is the real game I'm looking forward to now!

I dunno. 4 hours of content is not much, but at the same time, there is a very decent chance I'll actually enjoy those hours and end up completing it all. This would have been a no brainer at maybe half the price. It really should have been updated res/fps for free and only charging for the additional content (because honestly, the current strategy of sometimes charging for res and fps bumps is not clear).

I feel like at this price the only reason I might buy this is because I'm done with all my other switch 2 experiences. But it's the difference between being ecstatic about my purchase and being kinda ok with it.

It's obviously just a cash grab including all of these other characters, and honestly sounds like it lowers the overall quality of the game.
I'd much rather just a solid core set of Sonic characters. Dlc is fine, but only if they integrate properly (there is surely lots they can do with exclusively sonic ip)

And that unfortunately even goes as someone who would only pick the Sonic characters myself. It sounds rubbish if I'm in a race with loads of other characters that won't interact with mine to the same degree.

I can dream for a shadow drop right? That would be very special.

It looks great... But honestly they would have kept this one back for a couple more years if you ask me when Mario Kart World had been out for long enough. A smaller, very different game would have been perfect for this spot if you ask me.

I mean I'll still get it and likely love it...

Definitely got enjoyment out of the first game on the SNES when I was growing up. Never played the others, and I've not heard great things, so I'll probably pass

This was a good one, hoping for a double pack!

I don't understand why various publishers are offering upgrades on some games, but totally separate games on another. It's really off putting - I feel like I won't be buying any switch 1 games anymore until I find out the situation with switch 2 upgrades

I feel like it should be standard to provide upgrades if content is on switch 1 and 2. Make it paid for if you absolutely must, but this is going to put people off buying games. It's certainly putting me off.

More than ports please. I've played everything I want to play on other platforms, and I'm certainly not buying £50 versions of something I can get for a fraction of that with better performance on PC.

Maybe I'm just not the target audience for this since I've invested heavily in PC gaming... I might have to just stick to the exclusives

I used these fairly often but have slowed down recently. Think Mario and Luigi Brothership was the last one I got with one.
Will probably get a couple more for Metroid prime 4, but I don't know what other game I'll get with the spare. And I'm not sure buying more for undisclosed games in 2026 is a good idea... Maybe if some decent sounding switch games are announced for that period...

Around 10 hours for me. Admittedly this is really not the game I was hoping it would be. It's 'just' another Mario Kart, free roam could have been killer but they did nothing with it.

It's got to happen. The problem for me is that as is, it's going to slowly eat more and more space of mine over time, and there are certainly some games from this library I'd like to keep on my switch at all times. Many not so much. But am I eventually going to have to start uninstalling other games to allow this monster to keep growing, sometimes even when it's not going to benefit me? No, just make the app a small shell that gives me the ability to download only the games I want. Please Nintendo

Really it's down to prices for me. For games that have been out for years.

I've got MKW as it was bundled (and really the game I bought this machine for upfront, a long with first parties that come along eventually), then also Fast Fusion and Bravely default because they were both a fair bit cheaper (in the realms of about £10-£15 each once I'd paid).

Cyberpunk I'm sure is impressive, and I still need to actually play it. But with my PC outclassing my switch, and it costing about a third of the price, I'll just get it there. I also kind of want SF6 but again, it just feels so pricey.

For me the game key card argument doesn't really come into it. Sure it would be nicer to have the whole game on the cart, but I don't really care. The main factor for me buying physical is usually that I might want to sell it down the line, and they've resolved that for me.

Yep, I'm sold. Gonna pre-order now!

Screen protectors people, really. That paranoid feeling of ruining the screen just diminishes once you have one on. And if you get a decent quality one, I find i actually prefer using it to not having one on in a lot of cases!

I'm enjoying the game a lot. I played the first two chapters years ago on 3ds so I can barely remember it. Though it probably helps that I got it for less than £10 (after mucking about with some Argos vouchers).

Certainly wish the visuals were upgraded more though. Does feel like I'm playing a 3ds game, just in hd to be frank.

I don't know how to feel. I want to be optimistic that this is going to be great (it looks like it could well be). But after MKW's lackluster direct, for a game that supposedly is worth more than this, I'm not feeling highly confident. That launched, and yeah, it was basically what was in the direct. Though Nintendo is pretty random with their pricing sometimes.

That said, it would be nice if they dedicate a minute or so to Mario Kart World - There's obviously a gap in costumes for DK and it would at least give us an indication that actually they are planning to improve that game over time. I want to love MKW but it feels like it's missing so many small things currently.

DK absolutely deserves a proper 3D outing again. I'd be happy basically with DK Odyssey

Wow those are some whoppers. I'll stick largely to first party games I think and carry on getting third parties on PC

Well I was planning on being mostly digital anyway so not a problem for me. I'm more worried about the negative effect this will have on the industry at large, and we're going to get companies blaming 'poor sales of game carts on switch 2' as a reason to stop releasing further games. There seem to be a lot of people unhappy with this

There's no way. I can't see this being true, unless they've somehow messed up so bad that Switch 2 edition saves are for some reason incompatible with Switch 1 versions (that would super suck). This just flies in the face of the digital game cartridge thing - one step forward, and one major step back if I can't just continue on either of my switch console generations.

And then DK not supporting it makes even less sense. Come on Nintendo. Don't let this be true

My take is that there just isn't a solution that makes everyone happy. If we're not realistically going to see smaller games that fit on cheap versions of the cards too often then you're only choices are to either fork out for a larger capacity cartridge, or do something like this. And I don't personally care for paying over and over again for that storage space, so this (key cards) or just fully digital seem the way to go for me.

Yeah yeah, twenty or thirty years from now I might not have access to some of this stuff. But I'll have moved on largely at that point.

I'm glad I'm not getting hung up on having to have a physical collection of games (mixed digital and physical for me since the 3DS) as this would probably upset me more. I usually buy physical if I know I'll resell later, so this still works ok for me (in fact it's better if it means I can do this with more games). And with internet speeds becoming faster (and hopefully the switch 2 hardware being able to keep up) swapping downloads on the system should become a much smaller issue for a lot of people.

@Olmectron
I worded my first comment poorly - I meant I don't see why bravely default couldn't just be a Switch 1 game that got a resolution/FPS bump on Switch 2 (other than to try to drive adoption for the new console)

I thought the same with bravely default, that these games don't really feel like we need switch 2 editions... I expect we'll maybe see resolution bumps and possibly better performance (even if it just means a cooler running system with longer battery life).

I'm pretty sure any existing gold points in your accounts will not expire on this date, that's not changing. It's just the date you can earn them from what I understand, so don't feel like you have to rush to use them before this date (they still have the year long expiry)

I do want a switch 2 but I feel like they should continue supporting switch 1 throughout the switch 2 lifetime. There are still loads of games coming out all over that you'd figure should run fine on switch 1 hardware - why exclude that part of the market? Reserve switch 2 exclusivity for games that won't run on switch 1 hardware at an acceptable level.

Of course I only want that future in the idealistic version of this timeline where switch 1 titles will scale to switch 2 hardware.

Love this series. Not played one I've not enjoyed at least a bit yet, and I've done most of the more recent ones. Symphonia. Vesperia. Xillia. Berseria. Abyss. Zestiria. Arise.

Got no reason to believe I won't enjoy this too. When I get around to it eventually!

I've really enjoyed it since launch, but like others I'm feeling like there isn't enough to this game. Perhaps there doesn't have to be, and I should just enjoy it for what it is, but I'm thinking this new booster will really only boost my interest for a week or two

DK64 2 is coming when...?

I'm looking forward to this. I used to love the tcg but stopped playing/collecting because it cost too much, so I'm hoping this can scratch that itch.

This game was awesome. Back in the day when Rare was making games on par with (and arguably better than) Nintendo itself.

I don't like that they are going after emulators, but I can see why they would want to.

I would guess that all this recent legal stuff coming from Nintendo might be to put them in 'better stead' for the launch of their new console. They are about to announce the switch 2, and probably don't like the idea of people emulating (and of course pirating) games from another generation. So this is probably to protect switch 2 from being so heavily pirated, by sowing fear in those who might try to make it possible.

Though I imagine switch emulation will return one day. I wouldn't be surprised to see Nintendo using it themselves on a future console.

Yeah, I'm feeling slightly more optimistic after reading this. I also had the idea that this would be a tacked on, shorter campaign, with them trying to say 'well you get all the original sonic generations levels too' as an excuse.

I'll withhold my judgement for now as I've not played the game through, but it feels like they may have had better public perception if they hadn't said they would be including the original game from the start. They should have sold this as entirely brand new, and then as an added bonus, the original game is just there at launch too (without mentioning this at all in the marketing). Would that have changed the end result of the game? Maybe not, but for sure my perception would have been different.

I'm enjoying the game, but it is disappointing to keep running into all the slowdowns. It's so jarring when it happens and it really is a shame. Hoping switch 2 just solves this and a number of older games

Never played pal world - I'm sure it's a great game in it's own right, and sounds different enough from Pokemon in terms of gameplay.
But I remember thinking that the similarities between the monster designs were too much to reasonably be passed off as 'just inspired by'. If I take any given song and pitch it down it showed it up by 10%, does that count as my own work, or is it just inspired by the original?

I have a small backlog on switch nowadays since I've shifted almost entirely to pc except for Nintendo exclusives really. And a lot of recent ones I'm putting off playing a bit, hoping that I can play through them on better hardware, hopefully worth more stable/higher frame rates or just better res.

Of course if switch 2 comes along without these kinds of enhancements, I've waited now for nothing!

Does Metroid prime really need tweaking? Isn't more of the same what we've been wanting/expecting? I'm fine with it - more Metroid prime is just what I wanted.

You'll never please everyone. There are loads of people who dislike the new direction of 3D Zelda.

Who knows if that was switch footage or not at this point. It looked beautiful either way. Did not expect this at all, not today.

2025 better get here quick!

Amazing. It feels like a dream that we're finally getting playable Zelda. And the fact that she plays so differently is very interesting. Can certainly see how this draws a lot of inspiration from BOTW and TOTK too. Yet this seems to be a more classic style experience?

And that art style... Not personally the biggest fan but can see how it suits this kind of game well

Scraping the barrel with this. Great game for those who missed it the first two times though.

TTYD deserves to be played. So much better than all the other Paper Mario games that came after it.

I don't care if we don't get a direct sequel, but I'm truly hoping for at least another game that feels like a spiritual successor.

Not sure how many people are aware, but Big Fables is the best paper Mario game we've had since TTYD, so I'd strongly recommend that to lovers of the original paper Mario games.

Guilty of having bought most of the switch Pokemon games. And I did enjoy shield. But I didn't like how limited let's go was. I've yet to finish new snap and arceus, but I did enjoy what I played of both. Got bored of shining pearl, and I haven't played Violet for more than twenty minutes because I couldn't get over the visual quality.

I might finally be ready to say that I'm past Pokemon, having played every mainline release since Red and Blue. But it seems that it'll do fine regardless, it still has such a huge player base, and I don't see that changing even if they tank the quality even further.

Bought it as soon as it was available. Honestly, not sure I would notice it was early access other than it saying it on the title screen. I'm very much playing this as if I've bought a fairly complete game that's getting dlc down the line.

And it's excellent. Can't wait for everyone else to get to play it!

Love the look of the game, but for far too much to play already. Will hopefully get around to playing it, but likely not for years at this point!

It's a decent enough series. I've gotten into it a few times, so it's good to see. Will hopefully get around to playing some of the newer entries/remakes eventually!

Would love a snes or eventually N64 remix. Almost like we get a bit in WarioWare titles... But maybe more fleshed out and serious. These nes titles seem a bit overdone to me now