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@ViewtifulCool I think it's cause everywhere tends to bundle Mario Kart 8 with new Switches in the UK

@HammerGalladeBro You're right, although I don't think Ubisoft had many big games on Nintendo platforms prior to N64? I know they had another couple of N64 3D platformers Buck Bumble and Rocket: Robot on Wheels. Haven't played either so not sure how they compare to these two.

@Mattock1987 There's loads of Treasure games on NSO which hopefully bodes well for Mischief Makers and WARIO WORLD on GameCube!

Still hoping for Konami to put this legendary game on it too 🙏🏻

Nice, both new to me but I know Rayman 2 is very well regarded!

Though I don't know why they make us wait a week for N64 and GameCube games but release the other consoles games at the same time as the announcements? Ah well, it's kind of an incentive to work on my NSO backlog!

As an aside I brought this recently and really love it. Was surprised to find the NSO app treats it exactly like the official N64 controller Full button mapping and even changes the interface sound effects like the official one!

I really struggle to go back to the official one ergonomically after using every controller that came after it. Find it very uncomfortable.

Good to see Metroid doing well after Kirby Air Riders missed the top 10 and vanished from the top 40 and wow, 83% of sales are Switch 2 version!

I want Welcome Tour added for my relaxation playlist. Love the remix of the 3DS Camera theme from the Camera area

https://youtu.be/_DedqanuEk8?si=Su8n2w7mOAN4XBrW

@OmnitronVariant Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza couldn't be done on Switch 1 though. The developers spoke about this in the Ask The Developers interviews. That's why they got moved to Switch 2 early in development

I'm unwell so just playing chilled games this weekend, mostly Kirby and The Crystal Shards on NSO and 51 Worldwide Games. Might try to get into Chibi Robo too.

I am very happy with it, enjoying Nintendo taking risks with their franchises and leading with some more niche ones, even if it makes their games more polarising. I'll always take polarising Nintendo over safe Nintendo, their games lately really reminds me of GameCube era (probably my favourite) but with better sales and more support.

Never thought I'd get a Nintendo console with a new Metroid Prime, new Kirby Air Riders and 3D Donkey Kong in the first six months (made by their best people, the 3D Mario team, Sakurai and Retro Studios!) and I have over 150 hours in Mario Kart World, mostly in Free Roam. Probably my favourite since Mario Kart DS.

Also very happy with how much better Switch 1 games run on it, often without even a patch. Add to it NSO and all the retro games plus countless indie games that go on sale for cheap and I'm overwhelmed with things to play on it.

My dislike is the size and weight of it plus battery life, so I mostly play docked. But the combination of Switch 2 + Switch Lite is amazing 👌🏻 Nintendo definitely needs a Switch 2 Lite

@LikelySatan I found this game way too hard for me compared to Cadence of Hyrule. Shame as the music is amazing.

@KimBread Yeah I always hated forced waggle. It was a pain in Donkey Kong Country Returns Wii too. Annoyingly Kirby Air Riders has brought it back, they should definitely let people map the spin attack to a button.

@Jayenkai I always consider indie games on the eShop to be the equivalent of the old cassettes you could take a gamble on, especially when they're only £3 or less on the eShop 😃

Two of the best I discovered randomly were Urban Flow and Conduct Together... They cost 89p (!) each and I played the latter for 20 hours! Perfect touch screen games for the Switch Lite in particular

@Perryg92 It isn't :-/ Unless it was done in error and they've put up a proper Switch 2 demo now

@PixelTavern You can get a Metroid Prime 4 pin on My Nintendo Rewards in UK now too

When you click on Switch 2 edition in the eShop it says there's a demo but it's just the Switch 1 demo annoyingly.

Not sure if that's a good idea on SEGA's part as someone who's never played the Switch 1 demo would probably just think that's the Switch 2 demo as that's what's implied on eShop.

@stuie1234 Yeah Knockout Tour single player is weird. So many times I barely see anyone through the whole thing before they suddenly all show up again on the final course.

@WheresWaveRace Yeah I'm happy for them to get there QoL changes done before any DLC.

Even though I love MKW and have put 150 hours into it (largely in Free Roam!) there was a lot of extremely basic options and QoL stuff missing at launch that reaked of them having to put it out when it wasn't quite done to meet the Switch 2 release.

I hope they add player flags back, loved seeing what countries everyone was from

VERY happy you can turn the music up, I've been wanting this since Mario Kart 8! I think this is the first time we've been able to adjust the music volume since Mario Kart 64?

Nobody loves this update as much as Dragoneel:

"Made it so the player will not hit Dragoneel when transformed into Bullet Bill"

@The_Nintendo_Expat I don't think they're not robots. The Ask The Developer interview implies they're people wearing protective body suits and helmets. They said they added these clothes putting adding in the quarter pipes around the edge of the court so they didn't injure themselves on it, lol

@SwitchplayerJohn Oh I hope so. I think I heard NSO sales are a bit down recently, so hopefully it'll spur them on to do some interesting stuff like this.

@Dr_Lugae @Waluigi451

Kirby and The Forgotten Land was "the biggest Kirby launch in UK history" so it's definitely not that Kirby as a character isn't popular here or a good fit: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-is-the-biggest-kirby-launch-in-uk-history-uk-boxed-charts

Nice, but it does annoy me a bit that Nintendo will give us themes for Nintendo Today, Tetris 99, even ALARMO, but won't do so for the Switch itself.

Like they had that beautiful Switch 2 setup music RIGHT THERE, but it just goes silent after you finish the setup They were so close! Put it on Nintendo Music please so I can add it to my relaxation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6AnEL89g1Q&t=56s

According to the Nintendo Today! app there'll also be an Ask The Developers interview for Drag x Drive released at 1pm today (UK time) @Liam_Doolan

Should actually be quite an interesting one. The game was made by a team of only 20 people, less than some Super Nintendo games!

I returned my copy. Too chaotic, out of control and overstimulating for me, even as someone who loved the original game :-/ It's kind of funny if you think about, given how chilled and breezy the Kirby platform games are.

Despite not liking it myself I think it'll be a shame if it flops outside Japan though as I don't want it to deter Nintendo bringing back more niche franchises.

That said, as I pointed out last week, almost 90% of the games sold in the UK are digital (source here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64187547) and it's number 2 on the eShop chart after Metroid Prime so we're not really getting the full picture from these charts each week.

There's practically zero dedicated physical game shops left in the UK since most GAME shops got consolidated into a few aisles of Sports Direct. The physical game market is kind of dead here.

Never played Battle Toads but just tried it and wow, some impressive graphics and effects for the NES! First level is very Golden Axe.

@batmanbud2 Do you (or anyone else) know why it wasn't released in Japan? Can't find much info online 🤔

Great news as we can now view the controls in the Japanese games to make it easier to know what's going on in some of them.

I heard they updated the CRT filter on the NES too. I'm a little scared to try it as I really like the existing filter. Then again the SNES filter update was improvement so we'll see🤞🏻

Didn't expect to find dubstep music in this game 😂 https://music.nintendo.com/shared/en-GB/GB/tracks/89dbfdb4-3e0c-4c1c-a596-865e151f8b94

@Sindayl I HOPE it's a fix to let those of us who can't currently see our 3DS history on the app be able to do so 🙏🏻 I only see Switch/Switch 2 games, even though my profile is linked to my old Network ID and I played it way before 2020.

@Willo567 If its any consolation almost 90% of UK games sales are digital. The physical games market is so small here that we have ZERO dedicated videogame franchise shops left. The last remaining one GAME has pretty much been consolidated into a few aisles in sports shops owned by the same company.

So I do wonder if we all put a bit too much weight on these charts which are likely about 10% of the overall game sales.

@KBuckley27 I don't get why a spin off should cost less than a mainline game?

A lot of people will just play through Mario and Kirby games once whereas their racing games have a lot more value for money thanks to the online play and in terms of Air Ride it has an insane amount of contents and unlockables offline too.

My hours played on Mario Kart World is more than double DK Bananza and I'm sure Air Ride will be too.

Budget games to me = Basic almost indie style games with very little content, eg Welcome Tour and Drag x Drive

@KBuckley27 $70 is a standard game price though? Don't know why it would be a budget release given the huge amount of content in it and that it's not a simple indie game. Feels like a premium product that will have a lot of longevity.

Anyway it's number 1 on UK eShop. I hope it sells well over time through word of mouth as its a fantastic game and I want it to have an active online userbase. Also sends the message to Nintendo that it can be a good thing to bring back older franchises rather than relying too much on Zelda and Mario

I wonder how much the Metro 4/10 review that basically said it's a terrible game harmed it's reputation in the UK given the Metro newspaper is handed out free across the country :-/

It's currently number 1 on eShop here though

Nope, the GameCube original, New Leaf and New Horizons were much better games

@SillyG I wonder if they'd still remove it if his bikini was less skimpy 😆

@JohnnyMind People will make worse though, just as they did on Smash Bros where I've seen some stages that are much more NSFW. And then people wonder why we don't have Miiverse and many fun social features anymore...

The Metro reviewer kind of seems to have a grudge against Nintendo in general, going on an unprovoked and irrelevant rant about the lack of 3D Mario, Switch 2 releasing in summer (?!) moaning that the game's coming out at all and claiming it's more of a remake than a sequel which isn't even factually accurate.

I'm all for intelligent and well consisted critical reviews but frankly it reads like something from one of those slop anti Nintendo YouTube channels covered in hideous AI thumbnails with headlines like "NINTENDO IS FINISHED"

Then again, Metro isn't a games site but a free UK newspaper from the Daily Mail group so it kind of makes sense that they'd engage in attention seeking clickbait over thoughtful analysis.

@AstroTheGamosian Oh, I haven't watched any of those Disney live action remakes (they don't appeal) and didn't even know there was a Pinocchio one!

@PikaPhantom So the best Soundtrack award is sponsored by Spotify which might be why Mario Kart World was snubbed. And all the other nominated soundtracks are on there...

Perfect casting! Very glad Nintendo went with little known actors instead of more famous ones that might not look the part so well.

@PikaPhantom Totally agree on Mario Kart World's soundtrack snub and I'm so bored of Orchestral music in both games and films 🥱 It's way overdone as a genre/style and most of the time is incredibly samey

@DennyCrane Do you remember Digitiser and the news by Insincere Dave?

@UltimateOtaku91 Thank you

@Teksette @Elbitryq Brought this for £4.99 on eShop recently (its still on sale now) but the gameplay mechanics are kind of tedious, having played it after the Two Point games...

If you want to move a rollercoaster you have to close it, wait for all the people to get off it, delete it, then rebuild the entire things from scratch somewhere else, instead of just dragging the rollercoaster where I want them (like in Two Point and most modern sims)

You can't even drag and drop a tree if its in the wrong place, lol and there's no button to just delete it, you have to navigate through the menu to the "delete" section first which is kind of fiddly on the controller!

Also the music is weird, if only plays if you're extremely zoomed out, whereas if you're zoomed in you can hear the chatter of park goers, but there's a whole "dead space" when you're zoomed to the middle where it's just... silence.

And no touch screen controls is a shame too.

Definitely showing it's age so you might want to try it on eShop sale or PC first before buying the physical. It's worth £4.99 IMO, but not the price of the physical but just my opinion.

@SwitchplayerJohn There's a Spanish version too 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq61J9avqzA

@Untempered-Link

I like the "Games released today" bit they've added. Quite interesting and I sometimes check out the games on NSO after if they're available or read up on them online. Today's is Urban Champion (NES)

The Nintendo Power covers are a nice addition too.

@OorWullie The NSO app on the bottom left of Switch home screen is a bit like that, in so much as you can launch all the games for all systems from it. It also has screenshots and videos from of all the games unlike the individual NSO apps.

Annoyingly it does still exit into the individual app for the console when you quit the game though.

@MrCarlos46 Still Basic Black and White in UK weirdly

On the Switch 2 eShop settings you can now turn off the automatic video previews for every game when you're moving through them

I can't believe people are somehow complaining about the fact that we'll get extra information about the film and probably some bits from Miyamoto talking about it, instead of simply a trailer. :-/ You can just watch the trailer on it's own after if you prefer?