SwitchplayerJohn

If I was an EA investor I would be extremely concerned about the future of the company. Their core business is FIFA and Madden and those are in flux. Their shooters have all bombed and they didn't diversify by making more games. They have Respawn until they choke it to death like Bioware and Popcap and Maxis, etc.

EA may regret not investing onto the Switch given it is thr 5th best selling console of all time! Where is Classic Battlefront? Where are the Sims?

The Switch is the first Nintendo Console (not including wii u) since the N64 to not have a Sims game.

And yet these publishers keeping doing the same thing over and over chasing fads like NFT and loot boxes. They just want to be Sega and make gambling games.

Another Nintendo PR Rep sheds a tear!

@Darkstorm556 It is literally the same one. Maybe you can double leg it in the future...lol

@sanderev I unlocked something for my head and suddenly went from Mii to Sports Mates...lol

@FroZtedFlakerZz I have been slowly adding Mii's into the Switch and you can bet Matt is there.

I am not sure I even own a CD player? Oh wait this laptop has one.

I am surprised even with drift issues they aren't selling a joy-con with this.

@mrMike They can't even make enough N64 controllers, I hope this is all we see until Gamecube!

All I want is SNES Act Raiser, I would even pay extra.

I would be down for MK I bought it for the game gear back in the day.

If you have NSO you can download and play the whole game for 7 days for free.

I used to collect Lego and some minifigs would sell ridiculous. Out of print lego will send prices wild!

Wake up Nintendo of America and UK people would LOVE this!

Port star fox zero plz

Don't be dissing Kirby won a grammy!

Don't be fooled this is a high quality mobile game which is also coming to Switch. Same with Star Wars Hunters, that also is a high quality mobile game.

These will be free to play and have aggressive monetization practices.

Nintendo Japan did a thing like this for Switch Consoles.

With new processors from Nvidia and crazy AI tech I am sure the Switch 2 will be a 4K beast rivalling the PS4 Pro.

Without any inside knowledge whatsoever here is my theory.
Nintendo announced allot of stuff would come to NSO and it made it sound like an Xbox Live or PSN type service. Instead we got a half baked app experience which only allows for certain Nintendo only games to use voice chat. No party chat, no messaging and servers that barely work.

Remember they delayed NSO until fall of 2018. It was on the backdrop of their terrible online service they announced NES games would come to switch. These were pretty much all first party owned and were already emulated for the NES Classic.

The was never meant to be a proper service of NES games, just to shut up critics of the online paywall.

Then they knew they needed more so they did SNES games. But note no new features really.

Then Nintendo made the Expansion Pak again no third party N64 games and some expansions with it, but at a much higher price.

They have no intention in ever offering a proper gamepass style service with NSO. It is just a way to make extra revenue while they spend virtually nothing on it. They finally upgraded their early 2000's online infrastructure but where is the upgrades to the online service?

Nintendo this generations knows they struck gold with Switch. And rather then the expensive gimmicks like StreetPass, Miiverse and other stuff they used to do, they decided to just make money and not spend money. Nintendo is in a pure cash mode.

We of course buy it because they keep the family jewels locked away (Gamecube, GBA, etc) until they find the right moment to sell it to us again.

It is the same for the Mario Kart Booster Course Pass. All of the tracks are ripped straight out of Mario Kart Tour. So they are making money on the tracks twice! Even the original tracks and remakes are meant for MK Tour. This is how come they are willing to make so many tracks, MK Tour loot boxes are paying for it. The booster course pass is just extra revenue for Nintendo.

I gonna be honest, those commercials/adverts hit the feels like those McDonald's ads do in the UK. I think they are perfect for those casuals in Japan. Look how clubhouse games 51 worldwide classics are still being shown off. What a perfect showcase for a fun family device that little kids and parents can play or teens or 20 somethings.

It really is a super versatile little console!

I think it was IGN did an article about the negatives of working for Nintendo and lack of advancement opportunities was top of the list. So I think people want to go higher need to leave Nintendo.

Given that casuals are the likely audience for Mario Party do you think they would even know if there was DLC for this game? Wouldn't it make sense to just release a new game every year or so?

That way they see it on the shelf at Walmart.

They have some cheek doing these interviews giving how bad the development has gone.

"I'd still pick the SNES version if I could only have one F-Zero," -
Damien McFerran

Well if you own the NSO Expanion Pak you don't need to choose. You get both games for one price. Let's hope someday the Gamecube and Gameboy versions comes.

I was hoping to go to Florida next year as I never been to Disney World only Disneyland California. But now I am wondering if I should go to California, it will be my only chance to see Nintendo World.

Even without a shortage the Switch is quickly saturating the market and it's getting long in the tooth. The economy is going to hell in most western nations so spending on entertainment is going to go down.

Nintendo knows this and that is why they now have theme parks and feature films coming out. Also they are probably making far more revenue per switch then they were with say the Wii or DS in game attach and digital subscriptions.

My Lego Mario fund has dried up sadly. I bought the Airship which is fantastic. I was hoping for Peaches Castle and now we have it.

Give us chat and party chat voice options! I hope this update is to telegraph those updates in the future.

In Sword and Shield you just needed a quick ball and you can catch most things anyway.

This would be awesome if you could have other classic arcade games besides just pac-man

If you don't go online then nobody is going to see your icons anyway, so your not missing out.

Now in Europe they just tie you down and shoot you with hastily approved drugs.

It was missed opportunity to not have a Carby Amibo.

I think the Pokemon company are dumb as bricks. They put the dumb swirl mobile game on Switch and yet cannot put their widely successful card game which they actively spending money to develop on switch?

They may announce this later on but which genius is running their marketing and just ignores Nintendo.

Here is how I would do it. I would do it at the game awards and have Reggie come out on stage. People will assume it is related to something else and have him start talking and then some plant in the front row shouts, "hey reggie give us Mother 3." and then a pause, and he says, "ok".

Trailer plays, mic drops and the place goes wild.

People are still playing Black Ops 2 on Wii U.

Clearly someone at Activision got hit on the head, Cod used to be on anything from toasters to smart fridges every year. And then one day Nintendo makes a console that can run cod well with paid online and Activision says no???

@Bret Because it has Nintendo on the system publishers refuse to spend any money and instead squat and ***** on us.

Why isn't hearthstone on Switch? I mean does Blizzard not like money?

Sega bring back Phantasy Star Online C.A.R.D. from the Gamecube.

@Vincent294 The problem is as soon as the development is done there isn't a need for those people.

Look it is clear Rockstar has some Junior intern team somewhere that were probably given six months to knock out this quick port. And so they spent bare minimum on doing it and sold it for sixty bucks. Of course it did well!

drip drip...

hey reggie give us mother 3

I predict the next Nintendo console will ditch any physical media and be entirely downloadable. Or at least will have a cheaper model which is digital only.

I tried it on the Switch OLED docked. WiFi 5ghz close to the router. It ran absolutely fine. You can tell it is no 4k version but it is good looking still.

Personally I think cloud is a good idea for the Switch. As long as the publishers make sure the compacity is there. If you want games like Phantasy Star Online 2 on the Switch it would need something like cloud.

They had to go to make room for more Cat Mario Show.
Seriously it is an end of the era.

Someone needs to go back to 2013 and tell me "Yes Virginia there is a Santa Clause." "And Nintendo is outselling playstation and xbox!"

I cannot wait for Star Fox Warriors.

Xbox One launched with NO games for Kinect 2.0. Considering it was packed in the box Microsoft did almost nothing with the camera. Kinect Sports Rivals eventually launched but it was a whole new art style leaving behind the personality of the Avatars. But it makes sense as most of the features of the Xbox 360 were abandoned and Xbox One was fairly barebones at launch.

@gregmce Archon is my jam!

You do realise that the games shown at the reveal is all the N64 games we will get. This is no gamepass style service. This is a way to sell you a bunch of DLC and A few back catalog games most don't care about. They don't bother involving any 3rd party companies. Like with SNES where is the 3rd party games? It is pure profit for them where most companies would sell them as a collection for $40 a long time ago.