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If Katamari was a Switch 2 title I would have scooped it up immediately. Instead I'm going to wait and see, hopefully they at least have it improved on Switch 2...

@moodymcsorley Aweome! Glad they fixed it! Thanks!

I wonder if this means the demo version played on a S1 will work with a S2 host now. Gameshare is a nice substitution, but the original option is way better, even moreso if you're playing folks that speak different languages.

I'm not really having space issues on my Switch 2, I haven't even felt the need for a micro sd yet, so I'm not super concerned with space at this time. But ya I guess I'm not going to play Wind Waker any time soon, so why carry it around? I don't carry around all my physical cards, or keep all my digital games downloaded, either.

I loved Animaniacs but this game looks awful. It's basically a themed up point and click adventure that lets you jump.

Several N64 games also do this. Banjo Tooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark off the top of my head, but there's probably more.

Need an upgrade path.

Ok but can we get the original on the NES app please?

I'll continue like I always do, money talks, wherever I find the sales.

That being said, I also sell games when I'm done with them and you can still do that with key cards, so I'm not opposed to it.

I want Bravely Default.

@GravyThief They rebranded and reissued it for Switch as well, targeting Smash Ultimate, but it's the exact same product but I think just has the Nintendo logo on the top. I'd imagine that's still around.

There's also used and third party markets around.

I kept my Wii U one though and used it for Smash Ultimate and Mario Sunshine.

Wow, all these people in this comment page taking multiple pre-orders. Hope Nintendo can keep up with both scalpers and you jerks taking up multiple so others can get some.

They really need to expand the expansion pass DLC selection.
Splatoon 2 has been obsolete for quite some time.
Mario Kart 8's is really going to be at some point w/ World coming out.
Animal Crossing I guess for the dozen folks that still play it.

Need more! This is dumb!

Who else here is old enough to remember when we called these types of games "clones" or "knock-offs" and laughed at them. Now they're "inspired by" and praised for reusing other developer's ideas.

Anyone else remember the announcement of the NU64? How amazing that was because it was a surprise? We can't have those anymore apparently.

Not so much for them getting the style, but I would like to see them release versions of older RPGs that never made their way outside Japan, such as Live A Live's situation. I'm not a huge emulator player, and it was nice to get this game. It was new to me. I'd absolutely pick up other classics that I never was able to play before, especially when it never was released.

Tetrisphere or GTFO.

I already have Tetris for NES and GB via the NSO apps.

I'm old enough to remember when a game was "inspired by" another game, we called it a knockoff. How verbiage has spun along with the times.

That's because everyone already has it. It has been in so many bundles. And it isn't a game with any replayability.

I really wish Nintendo would enable Super Game Boy functionality on the Game Boy games that support it.

The game is good, but this is basically a QoL update. Improved graphics, a new collectible, a few new potions, and a map. Nice but not worth a rebuy and replay. If someone coming in fresh, it might be worth it, though.

On Switch, I own physical for most games for a couple reasons:
A) storage limitations - unlike other platforms I don't have to worry about installs, minus patches DLC.
B) I can pop them in my kids' Switch Lites and they can play, even if no Internet is available, which is frequently the case as we travel a lot.

I heavy discount will get me digital anyway, especially if my kids wont ever play it. But it sure isn't the norm. On the other hand my kids both love Lego Worlds, so instead of buying one or two copies for $30 a piece, I just bought digitally it on both their accounts for $6 each on sale.

On PS5 I just follow the sales. Sometimes digital is cheaper (or free with Plus Essential), sometimes physical is.

@SwitchForce I have plenty of PlayStation 4/5 discs, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Other consoles do not require digital only.

@Dragonslacker1 I absolutely do. Don't need to take up precious storage space (unlike PlayStation and Xbox, they actually run off the game and don't install... usually), I can look for more deals and sell them when I'm done, and I can share them with my kids who each have their own Lite. I have some digital but mostly small indie ones or something I got on sale but those are the minority.

@BigBluePanda The GBA versions included both a password system and a transfer system, the later needing 2 GBAs and a link cable. If you had a link cable and access to a second GBA (or a GBPlayer), either you owned or through borrowing, you would just transfer. If not, you'd use the lengthy password system.

This sounds like it is somehow emulating transfer ability, but of course password is also built in.

The way Kameo was spelled, it got me excited to see how the character Kameo from Kameo: Elements of Power would be implemented and then got disappointed.

Remember when Rare was a top line developer making hit after hit?

Before they were bought by Microsoft?

They pretty much just had Rare finish the games they were working on, but putting them on the original Xbox, and then that was it.

Nope.
I buy mostly physical for 3 reasons:

• low amount of internal storage space and only being able to expand via a microSD.
• I can resell games I'm done with and on the rare occasion I've bought a used game as well, especially when the digital version never goes on sale.
• Most importantly: we are a 2 Switch household, will probably be 3 at some point when my other kid gets a bit older. Physical games allow the game to be played on multiple Switches, and since we play primarily not at home, going online isn't always convenient.

I also use the library across the street from my house sometimes to try games to see if I want to buy them.

Is there a list of Pokemon newly added to the game? I'd like to run it against my untransferred Pokemon list.

Home integration when?

I imported a 6 button controller from Japan but haven't signed up with the expansion service yet (great on PC Genesis collection via Steam though). Can I use the 6 button on the US NSO Genesis service?

Yes, and I brought the Wii Wheel over to Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, too. On Deluxe on Switch, I don't use the wheel as I didn't want to buy another one, but I do use tilt controls with a pro controller.

That might actually get me to buy it, albeit I'd wait to hold off on a sale.

I've been playing Sega Genesis Collection via Steam for over a month already with the NSO Genesis controller, though.

Maybe nostalgia has something to do with it but....

thanks I hate it.

Let's be fair at least. Nothing of value has been released in a long time. And anything you don't have, you still have ample warning to pick up. If you still don't have it by then, did you really want it?

They're still allowing redownloading of games you own. They're just closing the storefront.

While I haven't got around to Impossible Layer, the original game was pretty good. It was obviously a BK clone that couldn't match the original but I still had a good time, and it filled the void of the genre. (I played it years after Mario Odyssey).

I got the purple one on launch and used it till I replaced it with a launch Wii and used its BC. I loved how it was different than the normal boring black and stood out apart from my PS2 and XBox. I also had a purple GBA so they made a nice duo.

Other than the packed in controller, I also picked up the orange, black, and the half purple half transparent ones, and eventually a couple wavebirds.

I got rid of most of those over time, but now keep around the two Wavebirds, a white controller with the longer cord that I picked up in Japan, and then the one that came with SSB Wii U set with game and adapter which I still use on my Switch.

@samuelvictor I wonder if they will patch it. I remember at first, Sunshine didn't work properly with the GameCube controller but was later patched. Hopefully they do the same here.

Met Charles Martinet several years ago right before Odyssey came out at a meet and greet at Ramstein AB in Germany, he spent several hours signing things, taking pictures, and doing the voices for people and was energetic the whole time. Of course the store on base (AAFES) got a fresh batch of Switches back when they were still fairly hard to find, so I picked one up and got him to sign both that for me and the pipe base of my 8 bit Mario amiibo for my son, and a portrait they were handing out, got pictures. Was really cool. Dude has lots of energy, and really seems to love the job.

I have an OLED Vita so I know how great an OLED screen can be, but I held off because I rarely play Switch handheld.

Heck the few opportunities I've had lately to play handheld I've been more catching up on 3DS and Vita backlog.

I rarely play handhelds outside of traveling since I have a TV at home and don't take public transportation, and traveling hasnt happened much thanks to COVID. I've taken a couple family trips, sticking in high vaccine/low spread areas, but since I won't put my kids on airplanes until they're vaccinated I've only done road trips, and guess who drives.

No. I already own these on PS4, where I don't have to hope latency isn't too terrible.

Benefit of Switch is having portable options. This defeats that purpose, so another reason not to double (sigh...quadruple, as I had on PS2 and PS3, too) dip.

Sigh...unzips

I'll take 12

I had both a monitor attached to the top and battery pack connecting to the bottom, truly providing for some on the go play, which I did. Even played smash bros during downtime in High School this way.

Handheld? No. Portable...kind of.

"If you live in the US"

For most of the US =

"Ya, my dentist is a several hour flight away. But at least I can whoop him at SSBU to get that free cleaning."

A lot of hate on here, but I'm going to be the opposite.

I have never heard of these before, much less played them, but I like that. As much as I like to get familiar games, I also like trying out games I never played before. How many times am I going to play through SMW? It has been released countless times. Yet, these games I've never heard of is something different. I don't understand the crying, I feel like they're giving a good mix of mainstream games and largely unknown games.

@flibblesan Sure but generally people aren't just going to swing by osaka on a whim for a store for a bit cheaper prices. I guess if you were going there anyway....

Super Potato in person is super overpriced, can't imagine online ebay orders.

If anyone visits Akihabara looking for used games, I suggest shopping around, and the further you get away from the train station the cheaper stuff gets and quality goes up. At least for games themselves.

How ironic. By chance I have been playing the PS3 version with move & navi controllers recently, about 8 hours in. Seems fun so far.

I did play it on PS2 back when it came out but didn't get far, don't remember why, I think I just got side tracked with a bunch of other games.

@BlubberWhale You can do a lot of stuff w/ a pro controller. Not everything, but a lot.

I can't remember the last time I preordered a game (Kingdom Hearts 3...maybe).....but this will be my next for sure.