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Not only the best MK game, but also the MK game with the best tracks. Those were the days.

A Nintendo that is trying to set a new high and expensive standard for pricing of console and games, is not going to produce paid DLC for one of their biggest game franchise? Sure...

This is such a non issue. There gonna be a select few people that actually wanted this to be optimal. Me personally, I don't care, there are so many things to be critical of Switch 2, and this is just trivial. Only thing I will say is that with the current price, I kind of wish they didn't do this whole Gamechat thing at all inc. the camera.

This is shocking and all, but that aside, is it even legal for them to do this? They are literally marketing and branding (Switch 2 logo on the cover) as a Switch 2 product, when in fact the content inside is actually for a entirely different product. Seems odd to me this would pass as legal, especially in some EU countries like Norway where marketing laws and such are really strict.

No. This looks as bland as it can get. I seriously can't believe this is what they came up with to showcase the mouse support.

@hiptanaka Didn't think of that, but I hope you're right or else that would be really disappointing.

I'm a bit worried about this actually. At first I wanted this, but now I realize that there's no vehicle customization (stat based at least) and I don't see any indication that the characters have anything special beside cosmetics, which makes me wonder if this will just be a really stripped down version of previous MK games except that it'll be "bigger".

The console price for me is fine, it's the software price that is laughable. I love that some people even seem to justify it by saying "inflation". But the fact is, we only see a adjustment in price when it is an increase and never a reduction, even when justified. When more and more games went digital, there definitely was a strong argument for a price reduction, but we never saw that, so clearly it's just pure greed and people should put pressure on it. Probably become the best argument for emulation, if this doesn't stop.

Yes it's too much, of course. That being said, it has nothing to do with it being Mario Kart. 80 for any game is just too much and definitely justifies emulation or piracy.

This should've been free. Hard pass.

Can't believe that this nonsense is still gonna be a "thing" for Switch 2. Physical with nothing on it is such a scummy practice. The moment this becomes the thing, that nothing is actually physical, I might as well just go for emulation and piracy.

I'll take it. But come on, this is basically Bloodborne 2, just call it that unless it would infringe some contract with Sony.

Does this give any credence to the rumor of May release? I don't understand why they would do treehouse so early if the rumored release of June was correct as it would all fall in line... interesting...

Kinda had me until I saw the name Navn Mann (Name Man).

Taking into consideration how long we've been waiting for this type of direct and the fact that this is the end of Switch 1, I think this was extremely poor. They should've at least had remasters of Zelda or something. Metroid Prime 4 looks great, but the presentation wasn't anywhere impressive even for Switch 1.

This news as most of the direct was extremely meh. Shocked that Nintendo didn't have something really interesting to show on this direct, except -obviously- for Metroid Prime 4.

@JSC016 Not really a leak. It's public information, just not announced by Nintendo.

Would rather just have RTS games be developed in a manner that would work well with a controller. The shape of a joy-con just doesn't really work that well unless there is an attachment that makes it more comfortable and practical as a mouse, but I strongly doubt it. Sounds to me like one of those old Nintendo gimmicks that just doesn't really work.

I guess most "gamers" don't want to actually own their product. Just wait until they actually realize this and the major uproar that will happen because some company decided to remove their Single Player game permanently.

Still a silly gimmick. There is no practical use for the magnet, you can achieve locking the joy cons just as easily and better without it. Lol.

New design looks really bad. However, don't really care unless they use it in a new 3D DK game.

If the rumors are true about the power of the machine, I won't care about the price. Most important thing for me was backwards compatibility.

Don't exactly lose excitement over it, but it definitely tempers it. Presentation and first impression is really important for marketing a product.

I have two different opinions on this.

On one hand, this is the internet and how it's always been and to expect anything different is just dumb. Nintendo should've predicted the leaks since they waited so long.

On the other hand, he's completely right, we have no right to leaks or to even know anything about the product before its announcement. And all it does is just take away their chance to actually showcase their creation, which understandably sucks for them and also is a really important moment for marketing and communication of the product.

Pretty meh of a reveal.

It'll be january 13th.

@EarthboundBenjy Playing through Pixel Remaster now for the first time and completed all of them except FF5 (at world 2), and I absolutely love them, and I would absolutely love this. However, this never tend to be the evolution of games, or any other media/product. FF17 will just be more bombastic and "high fidelity" in terms of graphics and action. Going back to pixels would be deemed as a downgrade unfortunately. :/

I played FF16, and I couldn't dislike it more, even if I tried.

@The-Chosen-one It switches automatically. You have no control over it. It's their style.

No thanks. Geoff definitely have the enthusiasm, but the show is just so bad, really childish and cringe entertainment, one politically charged ad after the other, speeches that sound like pure PR vomit. No thanks. Will wait the day after for the trailers.

Wow. That reasoning is even worse than I thought it would be.

Great example of devs not seeing these things from the perspective of the gamer.

They should've focused on user friendliness, and just have other justifications for the gamer to experiment with the different echoes. But, that's not how most gamers will approach it. If you find one solution that works on several problems, you're just gonna stick to it.

With a mechanic like 'Echoes', it seems to me that they really want to make a sandbox game, but yet true to the typical aspects of a 2D Zelda game. Just pick one and stick to it, or at least adapt it better to the rest of the game. The game is really great in some ways, but get so boring after a while because it lean so heavily on 'Echoes'. Even reducing to 40-50 Echoes in the game would've made it a lot more interesting, and just focus more time on the rest of the gameplay experience.

Well... that Direct sucked. Lol.

Lol. Was already ready to say that they can't sue someone for streaming a game they received early. But holy *****, this guy really wanted to test Nintendo's limits. This is just downright stupid.

Don't care. They clearly are taking their time and it won't be announced this year. Moving along

Damn. This pretty much confirms we're not getting a direct any time soon. At this point we most likely won't hear anything until next year.

Haha, the irony! Guess emulation on PC isn't so awful after all, Nintendo.

Lol! Told ya! So glad I didn't fall for the whole "Skies of Arcadia" potential hype that everyone seemed to be gushing over.

Got to admit, didn't expect a 3 star though, ouch!

Circular menu would help, but just adding a Favorites/Customization function would be enough to fix a lot of the clutter. The biggest issue I have with the game so far is the terrible use of UI for Echoes. Can't believe they thought a straight line for the Echoes UI was a god idea when they implement approx. 100+ Echoes in the game.

So they changed sexes for diabetes types, that's funny.

That being said, it's trivial but I do think the creators should be free to do as they please, which they kind of are, they're censoring themselves to reach what they "think" is the masses.

Though we all know that if they kept it the way it should be, it wouldn't really hurt their sales as these types of people are in the minority, and creators should stop acting as if they're the majority and just do what they want to do, and stop enabling this senseless debate that hasn't gone anywhere for the last few years, but only empower really questionable people with no genuine intention.

Already made my mind that if it doesn't support BC then I just simply won't buy the console until at the end of its lifecycle when the prices are reduced or I can buy a cheap used one.

@Smackosynthesis Not if people start going against the ones behind AI and who actively enables its existence and use. Nothing is impossible.

@Pillowpants AI will definitely play a huge role, maybe even a critical one considering everyone has access to it. Even terrorist cells / groups have access to it. EVERYONE has access to it, so it definitely be a critical part of every war going forward. Not even sure if "better AI" will matter the same way as "better technology" which makes it even scarier. Also, imagine how AI can be used in countries like North Korea to survey the people, locate "escape routes" and such. It's terrible and everyone using AI is complicit in it.

There is a special hell for people who work and enable the use of AI.

It need to be stopped and so does the people behind it, either through regulation or by force from the people.

AI already was used to find recipes for biochemical weapons where the result was 40000+ recipes. Wake the fu** up people.

Don't care much about the specs. For me it all comes down to backwards compatibility, does it have it or not, if it does, then it's an instant purchase for me.

Saw Skies of Arcadia and got excited, now I am disappointed. Hard pass, I don't really care for something being inspired by something else when none of it really looks original or even innovative. Feels more like they are just 'inspired' to use it for marketing.

Just more proof that AI is absolute dogs*** and need to be avoided at all cost. Hopefully Nintendo just do what Nintendo does, sue them and win, which I would enjoy very much considering people working on / creating AI have no moral compass whatsoever and are just driven by profit regardless of the cost on society. Good riddance.

Does anyone actually play the cloud version of... any game on Switch?

Cowabunga! Excited for this. Hope it's good.

Uff, the whole "sandbox" approach to game design really doesn't work with the Zelda Aesthetic, I hope they can let this go soon and go back to a more traditional design.

Couldn't really care less, for a consumer this is pretty much a non-issue. Sure, leaks ruin surprises, if you happen to see and read them, but if journalists stopped writing about them, so that you would have to seek them out in various forums, then you'd easily avoid them anyway. Again, it's pretty trivial.
However, I totally understand Nintendo wanting to prevent them.