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Japanese and European sell the large roster of playable characters better in addition to showing more artistic effort.

I'll be on leave part of next week for Switch 2 so I'm assured to be at home with nothing else to do when it arrives.

I won't get Mario Kart World till the week after though, Amazon won't be delivering mine on launch day (unless they revise that estimate) and Cyberpunk I'm getting from Japan (it's cheaper!!) so I won't be getting it for a couple more weeks after launch at least.

EDIT: So I guess my launch day plans may include ACA Ridge Racer and Fast Fusion, along with an assortment of Switch 1 games, freely updated for Switch 2 or not, to see how BackCompat behaves.

Aren't they just youtube videos anyway hat you can already watch outside the app or am I missing something?

EDIT: Ok i guess they were not huh, I learned something.

The way I see it, they won't talk of improved performance in patch notes when he original already targeted 60 but fell short.

But the simple fact that whatever game it is runs in some sort of "Switch 2 mode" should give it the extra performance it needs to hit 60 more consistently, even if they multiply the pixel count by say 4.

Numbers seem to indicate so far that the raw graphical rendering power of the system is like 6 times that of switch 1 or thereabouts (the 10x number put forward by Nvidia is likely only in cases where DLSS is used to reach the end result, so you'd effectively not be rendering exactly 10 times the graphical load, but DLSS would help you achieve a visual result akin to what you'd get with a GPU 10x that of Switch 1 without DLSS, without the need to actually be 10x as powerful, if that makes sense).

So even if you take say a 720p60 game and make it 1440p60 (4 times the amount of pixels), there should be performance left on the table to help it hit that 60FPS better if it didn't on Switch 1.

We won't know until we actually get the system in our hands but hey, not long to wait now right?

I bought Survival Kids (or I believe it was named Stranded Kids in Europe?) back then but only completed it a few years ago. It was good fun!

And it probably won't come full on the cartridge either if previous Borderlands releases on Switch are anything to go by (I'm looking at you Borderlands Legendary Collection).

And this is coming from the people to whom we owe this:

Let it never be forgotten...

I have to know how the upgrade will work for physical Switch 1 games. Will the game have to install from the cartridge to the SD express or internal memory for it to work? Or will you have to contend with simply slower load times if you upgrade the game running off a Switch 1 cart as opposed to if you bought the upgrade already on a Switch 2 card?? Or will the "upgrade" be the full Switch 2 game downloaded to your system while the Switch 1 card you physically own acts as "game key" card instead???

I own a Microsoft branded Razer Kishi for my android phone. Love playing minecraft on the go with it.

@Sylamp I don't see why they'd need to ask the question if they were not looking to make some money out of it. They're asking fans, so people who already own the game. These people don't work for free and would not ask fans "oh do you want us to this thing for free for you guys?". There's no Nintendo policy to force them to do so apparently, but if it's not gonna cost you anything, why do you have to ask if you should do it, just do it!

And by the way PS5 upgrades of PS4 games were not always free. Some were, others were like $10. XBox Series S/X was kind of the exception where I think most if not all the games that got a series S/X upgrade from XBox One were free.

If it's already 60FPS, on this kind of game especially do we really need it? I mean it would be a nice thing to have for the fans but... to ask them to cash out for it? I'm not so certain.

Catching up on some of my oldest backlog entries: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Bought about 15 years ago)

You just made me feel very old indeed, as I reviewed this back in 2014. Where has my youth gone :'( ?

If Switch 1 gets a full physical release in any territory, I'll get that over a code in a box or game key cart for Switch 2.

@Wakkawipeout You could totally tell you were in the right spot from the sound being different from every other "notch" you'd feel in the HD rumble.

How am I going to pick locks in Skyrim while putting the JoyCon to my ear now :'( ?

@Mushvision I figure I'll just get one when my internal storage starts feeling too cramped. I buy physical anyway unless it's a game I absolutely have to get and which I know I'll have an absolute blast with.

By that time, I hope prices will have gone down a bit.

@Mushvision Same. the 1TB is out of stock absolutely everywhere I looked and I just don't trust those AliExpress listings, too tempting but also seems too cheap to be true.

EDIT: I take that back I found them in one place in stock in my own country but... €359.95 is just too expensive for that thing when MSRP elsewhere is supposed to be $199 or £199 (though I guess you have to remember US prices are BEFORE taxes, which is always misleading to the rest of the world).

"Fixed an issue where the destination marker for Material Tracking and Squad Tasks would not be displayed."

i did notice that, glad this should be fixed now.

Everything went smoothly for me, got the link, and didn't have to wait more than 30 seconds to be let in (the MyNintendo Store for my country in Belgium is probably not as crowded though mind you owing to us being a much smaller country). I even had to go back and put in a second order an hour later for the Gamecube controller and the Pro controller cause I forgot the first time around lol.

I didn't preorder Mario Kart World physical from them though. It's €20 cheaper from Amazon for the exact same thing (€69 vs €89)

If this was true then how are we getting faster load times in those Zelda games? The max read speeds on OG Switch cards should not allow for that... Unless those Switch 2 editions have to install to the internal memory of your Switch 2 (or SD express card I guess) but that would be pretty stupid doing that instead of selling the actual Switch 2 version already patched, on the card, surely?

I'll wait to hear about the technical differences I think, but bought mine not one month ago, I don't think I'll double dip. Heck i don't even know when I'll have the time to play the one I bought so, hard to justify for me

With the controllers on Switch 1 being "updateable" through the system OS I always wondered if it wouldn't be possible to add audio in/out capability to at least the pro controller's usb-c port. You could use a usb-c headset or a usb-c to 3.5mm jack adapter for that I guess?

But maybe the specs they used on the controller side wouldn't have allowed for that (like bluetooth radio bandwidth not being able to support that in addition to its basic controller functionality) or whatever circuitry they have in there not being tailored to decode/encode audio coming in and out over bluetooth to begin with.

If the Switch 2 dock has an ethernet port, i'm going wired when docked anyway.

My current launch period Switch 1 dock didn't have that and God is Internet or just the downloading of patches, software and updates slow on this thing, in addition to WiFi range being piss poor to begin with.

Could be wrong but I believe it's already confirmed that the Switch 2 will have the built in ethernet port in the dock, just like I think the Switch 1 OLED model dock has one already (don't have one but from memory I believe it does).

"SNES-based enhancements were possible originally through the Super Game Boy, although those are unsupported in the VC and NSO releases. These included an awesome border around the screen resembling an arcade cabinet, colour graphics, changing Pauline's digitised yelps to actual screams of "Help!", and even upgrading the credits music to SNES quality."

This! Fans can do it on PC with Higan, why can't Nintendo do it?

UGH! Limited Run again!!

I'm going through Kirby's Adventure Wii, aka Kirby's Return to Dreamland for the first time at the moment! (the OG, not the deluxe Switch rerelease)

To me the 3DS remake broke some things that were best left untouched. But it's the better looking version and still has some QOL improvements tat make it worth it. I wish w culdhave an HED version of that that simply fixes some of the 3DS changes back to what it originally was like.

Maybe the new PC decompilation project can do that. The OoT one did allow to play with the 3DS graphics (with mods), so I hope it will be the same for MM.

Wilds will prolly come to Switch 2, and by virtue of it being portable, will go on to sell millions in Japan alone.

The Japanese physical won't update to include English. Damn, i'm so disgusted by this. If you're gonna release these physically in the west, announce it sooner, I got the Japanese copy thinking it would never come to the west, it's been almost two years for crying out loud.

EDIT: I guess it comes out on the 7th huh, I'll check again on the update front at that time, but won't hold my breath.

Just beat Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake. I'm back to playing Minecraft now for the rest of the year until I get started on Hogwarts Legacy on PC next week.

proceeds to not include a link to the survey in the article...

I wanna yell at their face at Capcom for ***** us about their "commitment to physical releases" and yet again refusing to release this collection physically in all regions. Had to import again at a premium. You lied Capcom... shame on you!

As long as it is on Switch 2 and supports touch screen for the brush in portable mode, I'm happy.

Haven't really seen any advertisement that it exists to be honest.

Thinking back to DQXI S, Nintendo of Europe was behind them, publishing and advertising it. In this case it's a multiplatform release, so Nintendo isn't there helping things along, that could be "a" reason for it not to sell just as well...

Sony are like the marathon man in Ocarina of Time, always ahead by one, no matter what you do XD

I guess Alicia Vikander was not good enough huh

Cool news since I hadn't played my imported physical version yet.

For me it's the old man that you need to save by sucking up a ghost. You can permanently miss that and be locked out of completing the game 100% unless you know about it in advance and are extremely careful not to progress th story too far.

UGH! These people and their rules. It's BS! You voluntarily want people to NOT promote your game for you, what is wrong with you? If I gotta follow those rules or else my channel gets deleted or summat, you can bet I'm not gonna stream it!

I ordered the pins along with a few other things, since I had a whole bunch of silver coins that were about to expire (a Tears of the Kingdom glow in the dark keychain).

Those pins are probably going to end up on my backpack.

Same, waiting for my physical copy to land in the mail, but sad those updates won't be included, damn.

The input lag in Turok 2 is absolutely horrendous though

oh cool, i should give this a try!

So those discounts will be on Halloween then? Cause I still see RE4 Remake not discounted on Steam (and I've been waiting for decent discount to get it).

I don't think any Tetris game would be able to pull me away from Tetris Effect Connected now. But this is all cool I'm sure.

Finally building modern voice chat into the Switch OS Nintendo?

Awww 23/25, ah well. Been playing this for about a week, think I'll be done 100% with it sometime later today.

Well they just lost my purchase by going Limited Run Games, unless I can find it at a separate retailer down the road but I can't promise I'll still remember that this game exists by then (the Switch library is just too big, which is a good problem for Nintendo to have I'm sure).

Which means this Jabba, now in HD, I can't wait!

Seems already over to me