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I was disappointed there was nothing on mainline Pokemon Game Boy games being added to NSO, although I've seen people suggesting they might add some of them for Pokemon's 30th anniversary next year which would make sense

this will set you back $499.99, putting it in line with the Mario Kart World bundle that was available at launch.

Does this mean the non bundled version will be $80 like Mario Kart World? 👀

@ShieldHero @Greatluigi @Mana_Knight The base game ISN'T free on mobile... you have to pay for the Basic Pack that comes with the Switch version. The mobile version is only "free to start" It's basically a demo.

@RupeeClock I mean you make Pokemon Plush with it and the puzzles seem to based around their powers, you could say the same about any branded puzzle game really? Like a lot of the the Mario, Yoshi and Kirby ones of the past or Pokemon Puzzle League.

@Pillowpants They should and let us use songs from it on the menu and eShop

No Bomb Rush Cyberfunk £17.99 (-50%) or Shin Chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation £16.99(-50%)?

Latter is the lowest it's ever been priced at!

Song of the Year: https://m.nintendo.com/shared/en-GB/GB/tracks/1a6554b6-b771-4c44-9c0e-c3de0fc8ef38

The Golf "music" is hilarious, go and have a listen.

Does anyone know if Bowser Jr have a different choice actor too? He sounds so different to me.

I can't listen to the Donkey Kong theme without expecting the Donkey Kong Country intro beats to kick in!

It's funny DKC portrayed the original Donkey Kong as so ancient with Cranky and his Gramophone. Date wise it was equivalent to a game from 2011 today!

A brand new survey of 180,000 players aged 15-69 years old in Japan has been conducted by GEM Partners, and there are some interesting stats on gender and age splits across multiple Nintendo franchises.

Isn't only surveying 15 year old's upwards going to massively skewer the results when it comes to age? Here's Nintendo's own data of Switch players age's from 2021 FYI:

@Jack_Goetz Did you need a Japanese Switch account to buy that and show it have English language options?

I want the Kart on the right in Mario Kart World. It would look great driving around on Koopa Beach in!

@Duncanballs Isn't the Saturn notoriously difficult to emulate? That would be cool though! As someone who went from Mega Drive to Dreamcast in terms of SEGA consoles I'd love to play all those hidden gems properly.

@TKundNobody Yep and they sampler the audio of the go karts and put it in the game!

@Baker1000 No it doesn't. The handling is more loose, closer to Mario Kart Double Dash. I found it jarring how stiff Mario Kart 8 felt in comparison when I went back to it. World feels a lot more fluid and natural IMO.

And the charge jump isn't at all useless, you can ride up the walls with it and access railings to grind on? Have you played Mario Kart World?

@Cheez I stopped watching Nintendo's game-specific Directs as they tend to spoil way too much in them for my liking. Unless it's a game I'm on the fence about the initial trailer is enough information for me. I enjoy my games so much more when I go in largely blind.

@OorWullie

Thundercats would be amazing. I'd love a Galaxy High game too, but probably too obscure as most people don't seem to remember this show.

@Ogbert

Oooh very excited! I loved Danger Mouse growing up but re-watching the originals was a bit shocking, quite a lot of problematic stuff.

Is that the episode where they portrayed Chinese people as rats with goofy teeth and stereotypical Chinese "comedy" accents? :-/

As an aside I LOVE that Nintendo Today ONLY sends you random push notifications if it's a big story. I think this is the only app I know that uses this feature well. Pretty smart from Nintendo as it ensures people won't switch them off from beyond spammed and is the real draw of the app for them now I'd say. They can instantly reach everyone's phones with end big announcements even if they're not checking the app daily.

Someone should help Miyamoto sign up to social media sites so he doesn't have to keep writing "this is Miyamoto" each time he posts

God I hate the voice acting and music in this game so much. Sagat with that gruff American truck driver sounding voice like almost all the other guys in it that doesn't suit him. Why not use someone from Thailand who can speak English but still has a Thai accent for the voice?

I probably will buy SF6 eventually regardless as I still enjoy the gameplay but the whole aesphetic has become charmless and westernised since SF4 and this one is the peak. Will instantly be changing all the bad voice to Japanese and using the music packs where I can (shame you can't change the god awful character select tune)

Anyway, rant over!

@chefgon You'll need two Mario Paint mouse mats for this! The Welcome Tour UFOs minjngames reminded me a lot of the Mario Paint fly swatting game, I liked them a lot and sokd me in the mouse controls.

I do worry this one will be too exhausting to control to be fun and would prefer it was Switch Sports Wheelchair Basketball with Miis than this dark aesphetic but I'll keep an open mind and very happy there'll be a demo to try it out for myself instead of spending money on something I may or may not enjoy.

@PikaPhantom How is an online game "20 minutes of content"? An online game by it's very nature is as long as you choose to play it for depending on how much you enjoy it when it's released and it isn't yet...

@ShieldHero @westman98 Wunderling DX on Switch is the game you want if you'd like a,l Goomba game! Has some pretty funny Mario references too so is very self aware about that. It's a really fun puzzle-platformer, one of my favourite indie games.

The Trigger Grip on this is amazing and makes playing Switch 2 so comfortable. Total game changer for me.

@N00BiSH @StuTwo Exactly. Star Fox Adventures (Dinosaur Planet) and Eternal Darkness also started as N64 games. This is perfectly normal.

@nusco @OorWullie

The original IGN article states: "developers are asked to contact Nintendo representatives if they intend to distribute an application “that does not include game elements.”

So seems like they might have considered the AAA Clock situation when writing these guidelines!

@Oldstalk Yeah, I'm thinking those two things may be linked and some of those hentai and AI junk peddlers won't be getting dev kits 🤞🏻 We'll see though

I'm glad, I hated having to shovel through so much endless crap on the eShop and it's embarrassing to see Hentai games constantly in the best sellers and frankly not appropriate considering kids use that store and don't need to learn that word.

I suspect this might be why Nintendo's been selective at handing out Switch 2 dev kits. They can keep that shovelware on Switch 1 so I can filter it out easily! Already the Switch 2 games are so much nicer to browse without all that junk. I would be happy with a more quality over quantity library.

@Alpha008 @Anachronism We probably won't get it for some time, they'll want people to be surprised by the songs they hear while playing, not have them spoiled by the app.

And probably not the whole soundtrack in one go, we still don't have the full soundtrack to Kirby and The Forgotten Land 😒

@xcape1587 @Anachronism @Stormcloudlive

Yeah when I had Xbox GamePass and PS Plus I became totally overwhelmed by the amount of games on them and ended up just not appreciating them so much or even completing anything because as soon as I got stuck I ended up just moving on to another game instead of persevering. I also could never decide what to play next.

Virtual Console was okay, but because I had to pay for each game I'd only ever buy games I had nostalgia for. I feel like NSO strikes a really nice balance between the two models as I just play each game as it comes along and I've discovered so many gems like all the Treasure Mega Drive titles and Survival Kids that I wouldn't have otherwise.

Yeah I don't own them, but I don't necessarily want to play them for the rest of my life and I don't believe Nintendo are going to shut down NSO anyway. This will be their strategy going forward. A “Netflix” for their classic games. And if they ever did in decades to come there would be other ways to play these games if I ever wanted to go back to something.

@ShieldHero @SillyG Didn't the THPS 1 and 2 remake have almost all the original songs though? Well certainly more than this time. Seems weird it would cost much more for these particular songs.

@WiltonRoots Yeah, exactly, same here

I don't pirate new games these days, but back when I was younger we used to be able to get a Nintendo DS cart with hundreds of games on it from a man called Dodgy Alan who had a little shop in a basement in London's China Town. Young'uns who only pirate digitally will never know the joy of getting your games from a Physical pirate!

Sakurai would make a great Iwata style president of Nintendo one day

@Anti-Matter To each their own and that's really cool it inspired you to make that board game for your students! Are you a school teacher then?

@Misima I wouldn't go that far personally, I'd say it's more that they've reverted back to Yamauchi era Nintendo. Iwata really opened up the company and they're sorely missing an Iwata, Reggie or even the likes of Kit and Krysta to be that link between Nintendo and it's fans.

I don't really like how Shuntaro Furukawa will only ever talk to investors and has never even appeared in a Nintendo Direct (not even the Switch 2 one!) but with that said it's a bit of a misconception that he isn't a gamer which is something I see a lot.

I did a deep dive on him once (as I was intrigued by how elusive he was) and found he grew up playing NES/SNES and it was his love of Super Mario Kart on the SNES it inspired him to want to work for Nintendo. Found some interviews where he was talking about his favourite games and he mentioned his favourite Switch game was Golf Story, a niche Australian indie game and that his favourite series growing up was Nobunaga's Ambition! He's actually into relatively obscure titles so definitely knows his gaming. Made me wonder if he was responsible for all those SNES Nobunaga games coming to NSO recently.

@Anti-Matter I don't know, there was A LOT of mediocre Nintendo games released in the Iwata era like Paper Mario Sticker Star, Mario Party 10 and Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival or stuff like Star Fox Zero and Kid Icarus Rising that had horrible controls. Personally quality control is much better these days with the odd exception, but I really miss the charm of the console user interfaces back in those days and the fun old style directs etc

@N00BiSH I removed, it was only the remaster on PlayStation he directed!

@Pearl-NX Agreed about Wario Land 4 and would include Wario Ware (GBA) too. These games are definitely art to me:

@The_Nintend_Pedant Ahh okay, can I ask what games you found particularly unrefined or less tasteful in their design?

You know, you reminded me of something. One of my favourite Nintendo games as a child was Pilotwings on the SNES which had a real classy vibe to it and I remember playing the N64 version for the first time and being so disappointed that they'd removed all the serious flight instructors (which had a simple anime type look to them) and added in a bunch of goofy, silly and frankly awful "comedy" characters.

The tonal shift really bothered me and made the game feel kind of tacky, even though it still played well. I really missed being earnestly told off by Tony, Shirley and the others. Couldn't stand all those clowns they added to 64.

@Mesozoic_Masquerade "There are some games that venture towards being more art than game, they are all indie titles"

Every game is a piece of art, it might not be good art but it's still art nonetheless. How can music, visual design and writing be art on its own but when put together it suddenly loses its value as art?

I wonder if young Miyamoto considered his first game Devil World to be art? A Christianity themed game where you fight off Satan using bibles and crucifix's doesn't strike me as the most commercially-minded game theme!

@SplatRay001 Exactly, I consider them to be both and just because Miyamoto feels like that it doesn't mean everyone working on the games does, not least the literal ARTISTS designing the visuals and music!

@The_Nintend_Pedant "...nah. no wonder Nintendo games have gotten progressively more artless over the years"

I would've agreed with you not too long ago but Mario Wonder, Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza feel like some of the most expressive and artistically beautiful games in years. Very glad the lifeless and plasticky era has come to an end.

Still not enough to make me want to play Mario Kart with a touch screen! So shame it never came to the Booster Pack. Actually they could've put it in World instead of bringing back Sky High Sundae so soon

@Devann These publishers get the point but are pretending the group is asking for something different 👎🏻 Snake tactic

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 and Donkey Kong Bananza for me. Maybe Mario Party Jamboree but I don't know, I need to research it further and see if has more single player (online or offline) content than Mario Party Superstars which I think it does as it has a Fall Guys like mode, right?

BTW Tony Hawk's is only £34.99 at Smyths online. It's a Code in a Box, but eh, that's still a great price for a new digital game anyway.

@ShieldHero "Nintendo of America's censorship of Japanese games that started last fall"

What games are you referring to? Think I missed this

@Cakefish I've gotta say though that I'm enjoying not seeing the Switch 2 section of the eShop full of shovelware like the Switch 1. I hope those kind of devs (not the quality Indies) continue to put their junk on Switch 1 so they can get maximum buck and so I can more easily filter them out.

Buying it was refreshingly easy, just going in my local currys and pre-ordering it. Nintendo UK did a good job. £34 for Mario Kart World with bundle was a nice price and it feels like a return to form for me (as someone who didn't like Mario Kart 7 and 8 as much as others did) so am very happy with it

And launch line-up was wide and varied with many AAA titles. People need to remember not everybody owns more than one console or plays games on their PC.

Going forward I'll be buying THPS 3 + 4 and Donkey Kong Bananza this month. GameCube games also pad out the first party games nicely for me as I haven't played them for 20+ years so it's really nice to revisit them.

Only thing I'm unhappy with is the battery life and IMO it's actually a bit big and heavy to take out with me often, so I hope they make a Switch 2 Lite later on.

Nintendo should never have let Rare go and have lost their franchises

Why couldn't their CEO's take pay cuts instead? That's what "evil" Nintendo have done before and their CEO's still earn a much smaller wage than other gaming mega corporations.