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@UltimateOtaku91 but Crisis Core Reunion is already on Switch lol Or do you mean a Switch 2 version?

@UltimateOtaku91 Hamaguchi said in the video that Switch 2 is powerful enough to run the whole FF7 Remake series, it's not gonna be on cloud.

@joeyflannel Nate the Hate already said that Rebirth is coming to Switch 2 next year, its not a 5 year exclusivity claw.

FF7 Rebirth advertisement for PS5 literally said that they have only 3 months of exclusivity, after that Square has free reign to do what they want.

I mean....yeah, duh? Why would you bring only the first one in a story focused trilogy, that would be kinda silly lol

Don't care if it's a key card, buying Day 1

Are we gonna make articles about games being key-cards all the time now whenever there is one? It's already getting tiring reading the comments on NL under every story, spiraling into endless moaning and whining about these things without any actual discussion of games at hand.

Yes we know some of you aint buying them, stunning and brave, good for you, don't need to announce it every time.

On the more positive side of this news: Switch 2 is getting the full gold edition with all DLC as it's base version for 60$ which is really nice and bafflingly isn't even mentioned in this very news article.

@Tott its a keycard and it was obvious it would be one. The game is "key-disc" on every other platform without any data on disc and its too big for cartridge anyways.

@The-Chosen-one it's a brand new Switch 2 exclusive version rebuilt with tons of changes, including going from 3 to 4 players online, who would it crossplay with? lol

Yeah I dont really care, I already buy mostly digital and if I see a key card for a good price? I'll grab it without a second thought.

You know on second thought, Switch 2 doesn't look that expensive anymore lmao

@Toastmaster yeah with framegen which is awful lmao

Don't let the Steam Deck dorks hear this, they might have a heart attack

@jojobar i'm in complete solidarity with physical gamers but i'm absolutely out when the conversation moves to "boycotting buying 3rd party games". I'm not missing out on new big games finally coming over to Nintendo console like Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy or Elden Ring over cartridges which I rarely buy anyways.

I completely get the issue but there's no easy solution to this as of now. The new cartridges are expensive to produce, if you want all these 3rd party games on cartridges NOW they would've either cost much more when people already constantly complain about Switch 2 prices or were digital only anyways. If Bravely Default was on a proper cartridge it wouldn't cost 40$, it would more than likely cost 60$. If Street Fighter 6 was on a proper cartridge it would've cost 70$-80$ on Switch 2 while being only 60$ on every other platform.

And if the games somehow don't sell because of this issue then 3rd parties would rather think "Nintendo gamers dont want 3rd party games" than "they dont like key cards, lets use proper carts".

This reminds me of Nintendo 64 where cartridges were extremely small compared to CDs and Nintendo missed out on a large majority of 3rd party games because of that, is that what physical gamers want? Because so far it sounds to me, hypothetically, if there was a way for Square to offer Final Fantasy 7 on Nintendo 64 back in the day and it wasnt on a "proper cartridge" would current Nintendo gamers just scoff at it and deny themselves access to a big new game? I personally find that baffling.

I think once the production starts fully rolling and proper cartridges and SD express cards are bought - the more they will get cheaper to produce and more sizes will become available. I don't think game key cards are the full physical future for Switch 2, they're just a band-aid on the current issue.

The amount of clueless fear mongering in this comment section is astounding.

"You wont have anything once they shut down the servers, if the game is delisted the cartridge is useless" you can still redownload everything you bought 20 years ago on your Wii. Same with Wii U, same with DSi, same with 3DS.

Also, the Eshop itself is unified now and the library moves forward with you like every other ecosystem now, why would it "go away"? Switch 1 eshop is moving forward with the Switch 2, you can buy and play Switch 1 software on next gen, I have digital Switch games that were delisted and I can redownload them no problem.

Also the conspiracies on here are hilarious "Nintendo is trying to kill physical media, what happened to them". Yes, that's why all their own games are fully on cart. 🙄

@Serpenterror bait used to be believable

Switch 2 really is the console of my dreams.

Extremely excited to finally play it on Switch 2!

And people call Nintendo anti-consumer, Sega easily takes that title for this launch without a question:

-All their NS2 launch games are just 50$ ancient ports
-All of them are on keycards
-No upgrade paths for Switch 1 owners
-Raidou on Switch 2 is the same resolution as Switch 1, literally no difference besides stable framerate.
-Still no clue what's "upgraded" about Sonic Generations or Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
-They offer free upgrade paths for Sonic and Raidou to Playstation owners but completely screw over Nintendo owners

What a joke.

I played the demo, I was hooked right away and it was absolutely fantastic. I'll try to get the game asap but i'm gathering money for Switch 2 launch atm >_<

@RupeeClock Nintendo made a version of this ad which is edited just like the original 1to1, check their latest tweet where they compare both of them and you'll see that version

This is awesome lmao

@larryisaman I think they wanna leave some reveals for the summer Direct and not just frontload everything all at once.

They already gave a release date for Outlaws on NS2 in September so i'm thinking announce Shadows in June and a holiday release in November-December.

This is music to my ears, this is exactly why I didn't pick it up anywhere else because I knew this was coming to Switch 2. Day 1 buy easily.

@ROOCIS they're talking about games after Black Flag.

@-wc- the very article you and me are talking in lol

"Switch 2 version of Guardians of Azuma boasts higher resolution visuals and improved frame rates over the Switch 1 edition"

and

"The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is a red 64GB game card"

There are no red 64gb Switch 1 games.

@Jester676 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games are on the red cartridge as well and they don't have that notch, that's the difference between "NS2 Edition" cartridge and "NS2 Exclusive" cartridge.

@Jester676 it probably means that red cartridge games that are "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" games don't have that notch, while Switch 2 exclusive red cartridges do have it to prevent you from inserting it in Switch 1.

I kept wondering if the story of "Nintendo offers only 3 cartridge options now" was true because of Rune Factory. It's a AA title and they're using a full blown cartridge but as they just confirmed that they're using a 64gb cartridge just like Cyberpunk.

I guess it's true then, there's no size variety in Switch 2 cartridges(yet) like we had during the Switch 1 generation, publisher either buys a game key card, 8gb or 64gb cartridge. That explains a lot now.

@-wc- No.

@Anti-Matter "Switch 2 will be fallen even harder than Wii U"

Extremely childish analysis based on nothing but constant whining from terminally online gamers.

People outside of this enthusiast bubble don't care about 90% of things people are complaining about rn, if you really think Switch 2 is gonna do worse than Wii U then I have a bridge to sell to you.

This looks pretty sick, gonna keep my eye on it.

Why is there no mention of the release date in the article? Fellas, this very same press release announced that the game is coming to Switch 2 on September 4th.

This game looks awesome but can Koei Tecmo announce Black 2 and Ninja Gaiden 4 for Switch 2 already? It's dissapointing we're missing out on 2/3rds of the 'Year of the Ninja" on Nintendo platforms.

I wonder who that anon dev is, they sound really bitter lol

This company is so disingenuous it's insane lmao

Last ounce of hopium for themes? lol

As much as I dislike how boring the UI is now with Nintendo - the upside from it is that most of the 12gb of ram will be available for games/developers and a sizeable chunk of it won't be hogged up by the OS.

With something like PS5 it has 16gb of ram but 13.5gb of it is actually available for the games. Series S has 10gb and it goes down to 7.5gb for games.

@Grail_Quest the console is region locked only in Japan and by that it means that the console is Japanese language only and you can't change its eshop to anything but Japan.

All the future released games themselves in all regions including Japan will stay region free.

@Ulysses Furukawa and Doug Bowser really aren't doing a great job as new heads of the company so far. They've spent like 5 years worried about the smooth launch of the successor and held it hostage for an entire year because of that worry and now the whole kitchen's on fire.

Does Doug Bowser even exist? Why was there no comment given or any interview to any outlet at the Switch 2 experience? Why does he feel like such a passive head of the company? If it was Reggie he would be out there talking to the press on what's happening and why it's like this. The silence is what makes it extremely frustrating.

I ain't too thrilled about 80$ games being a thing and the whole conversation for the past few days really did put a grey cloud over something that was supposed to be a really hype week but i'm still really excited about the hardware.

I think the console is priced fairly for what it provides and it provides everything I could've ever asked for from a next-gen Nintendo hardware and then some. The games look awesome, the mouse mode is great from all the previews, 3rd parties are bringing their all and we're finally getting great looking versions of big games on a Nintendo console again.

Really hope everythings gonna be okay in the end with all the crap going on in the world rn, we can push through all this negativity and in a year all this will all be an afterthought. I would be devastated if we'd have another Wii U-like generation lol

@Anti-Matter no, its brand new

Demo for this game has been "coming soon" for like 2 months already, where the hell is it?

NateTheHate corroborated it so it's basically confirmed now. Expect a Direct announcement tweet either today or tomorrow.

I tried out the T1000 and he's really fun, if he is the last character for the game then at least it went out on a positive note.

Flark around and find out, you get what you deserve and playing a "dumb and innocent" victim afterwards doesn't make me like PocketPair more - it actually makes me actively dislike them even harder.

@sanderev it would be much more complicated for them to make a "Switch-mode" than Switch 1 games just running at higher Switch 2 clocks which would improve the performance.

@fenlix you can blame the developers so far when 90% of Switch 1 games reviewed now, from indies to big AAAs, are all having a stroke running on it's absolutely ancient chipset from 10 years ago.

I feel like for the past 12 months 9/10 times reviews I see and read on Nintendo Life are all about how bad the games run on Switch. Hell, even Nintendo games are now struggling on the thing, do I need to remind you about Echoes of Wisdom?

This is the hardware issue at this point, it's not an isolated case and we've got an overwhelming number of examples from this past year already.

@nhSnork yeah yeah yeah, we all know you have a backlog of 50'000 games and you don't care about the console already choking to death running those games, you say this all the time here, good for you.

I have a giant backlog and others like me would like to move on to something that doesn't have a stroke running anime and indie games at this point, if you're fine with your Switch 1 then just stay playing Switch 1, nobody is forcing you to upgrade.

Shame, this was a fun little game.

@Tetsuro why is it an automatic lock-in for PS but not Nintendo?

We really need that Switch 2 asap....