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I searched for accessory compatibility on their website earlier today, actually. I'll have no money for any after the console itself, so I wanted to know if I could still use my pro controller for the time being. The sleep mode thing is weird but okay, I'll deal with it for now I guess. Also! The Switch 1 power adapter will still the charge Switch 2 one if you plug it in directly, but it can't be used to power the dock.

At first I like, yeah so what? But then I quickly remembered that that's the American price. 60 USD games are 80 CAD. So... This is gonna be like 100? Inflation, I guess?

Oh good, I legit said during the direct, "dude just make it free for expansion pack members wtf"

I registered for the invitation thing but I'm gonna try to get a preorder at a retailer next week so I can get it on launch day. I am not hopeful. So I'll likely be waiting until May for the invitations to go out, and I'm thinking that even meeting the eligibility criteria won't guarantee one. So we'll see 🤷‍♂️

The Mario Kart Bundle, which is what I'm gonna try to get, is $805 Canadian after that pesky 15% sales tax in my province. Yikes. But I prepared for this, I have a fat stack of cash from selling stuff.

30 hours in and just finished chapter 5. This game is massive and I'm having a great time with it. I will say, though, that it's so big that I might not actually finish it. The Lunar collection comes out in a few weeks and I am not confident in my ability to clear this before then.

Metroid and Pokémon were all that appealed to me

See I want to say Pokémon Scarlet and Violet but its problems aren't due to the Switch being unable to run it properly. It feels rushed, lacks polish, and it very poorly optimized for the hardware. The game itself needs to be built better.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 would be super dope to see get cranked up. And give me a 4K Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Increased horsepower might help the pop in, dropped frames, and slowdown in Animal Crossing: New Horizons as well. My island has a lot of stuff set up and it gets pretty laggy when I run through the more densely populated areas.

I was expecting preorders to drop shortly after the direct. I booked the day off in preparation for hunting one down, with my first stop being the Best Buy app.

I was working when the direct happened so I just watched the trailers of what I'm interested in during my lunch break. So basically just Pokémon and Metroid. Didn't miss a whole lot, it seems.

The C stands for

I kind of get it but not really. I'll definitely play around with it when the update drops. I have a Lite that I like to play every now and again but it mostly just sits in a drawer because the primary secondary thing is a pain to deal with.

Nice, installing this immediately and making it part of my daily commute ritual

I disagree, I think Mario Kart will shift even more units. It's Mario Kart, it's whole thing is broad appeal. It's like the broadest appeal ever.

Kirby Planet Robobot remaster pls

I've been waiting for this one to drop but a partial drop? Weird decision, man.

I dunno, man. We have countless committees at work and believe you me, nothing meaningful is ever accomplished on any of them. Except for like OHS evals

Since when does prick constitute swearing? It's no worse than crap 😒

I occasionally bounce off for a couple weeks, but I'm pretty consistent. I still play every day for the most part. Especially since I've started playing the stalk market and revamping my island with new areas and major layout changes. It still feels like the hot new thing to me! I am curious about what the next one will be like, but I imagine it's still a few years away. Which is totally fine, I have a ton to do already.

Pikachu knows how smart it isn't lmao

I haven't owned a third party controller since the N64 days. Always afraid that they won't live up to the quality of official hardware. This is a great review, though, so it's gotten me curious.

I bought Xenoblade then proceeded to use the points I earned to shave a couple bucks off Final Fantasy V. The program will be missed 🫡

I'd like important locations like Tin Tower and Spear Pillar, complete with legendaries.

While I do enjoy the odd Western developed game, from Rockstar for instance, my tastes definitely skew toward Japanese games. They just hit different, y'know? It's hard for me to put into words. JRPGs are my jam, homie.

Kit Ellis said he thinks that date is a bunch of baloney, especially that store opening malarkey. Yeah that makes sense, centre a worldwide product launch on the opening of a single store in a single city in a single country. Not even a single market, a single country within a single market. The US isn't the centre of the world. He used to work at Nintendo so I trust his opinion a bit more than some YouTube rando.

Every time this hall effect thing comes up, I can't help but think of the ICP magnet meme lol

That's fine, I sold some things specifically for my Switch 2 fund and I can cover that fully. If it's closer to the low end, I'll be able to get a game, too, without having to use anything from my bank account.

3 is a masterpiece, one of the greatest JRPGs I've ever played. 1 is also a fantastic game that I have a lot of affection for. 2 can rot in a ditch, I hated the gameplay and systems so much. I just watched the cutscenes on YouTube to give more context to 3. I played X very briefly on the Wii U but I fell off pretty quickly. Not because it wasn't a good game but because the Wii U wasn't exactly a pick up and play console with the load times and being tethered to a single room. I'm excited to give it a real go with this port.

Never any discounts in my area, so it'll be the eShop as usual for me

Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I still play it every day five years later.

This dude runs so we don't have to 🫡

Well... Red wears a baseball cap. Balls are thrown around. I can see it. So you whack a Poké ball out of the park, and you try to aim for a monster to catch it? Or you miss the swing and the pitcher's monster comes out of the ball for a battle? There's something there!

Definitely Donkey Kong 94 and Mario's Picross, I'm pretty happy they were added to NSO. Animal Crossing for sure, and maybe some shiny hunting in Pokémon Violet. I did the Skeledirge raid last night, which made me think of the other fire starters, so I'm gonna hunt for one I don't have a shiny of yet.

Yeah he implemented that 25% tariff on Canada, too. Which we responded with tariffs of our own, and a lot of businesses are refusing to stock American products outright. It's a bit of a mess. As long as it's just American game prices that are affected, I'm good. But we'll see.

They need to fix the loading and buffering issue. Playback frequently just stops with that loading symbol going. Sometimes it'll start up again, and it can be over a minute waiting, and other times I need to pause and play or drag the bar a bit to jostle it into playing again.

It's been a ride, that's for sure. The Switch came out the year I started with my current employer. Since then, I've gone back to school and obtained my full certification. It's seen me through the biggest career-focused part of my life so far and so I'm looking forward to seeing how the Switch 2 supports whatever the hell comes next.

I was in my late 20s when the Switch came out and now I'm in my mid 30s. It saw me through the establishment of my career. I'm making enough money now to comfortably afford the Switch 2 and so I wonder what life milestones it'll get me through. This is when things kinda slow down and get monotonous, right? It'll be the ultimate boredom killer!

Wolfe Glick has a theory where this will more or less become the platform for VGC moving forward. If that's the case, the selection isn't like super important. They really just need to focus on what's tournament legal for the time being. That's still a lot of Pokémon, though.

@AussieMcBucket Here's my logic with the starter selection:

Megas are back and I figure the starters will each get a new Mega Evolution.

The Kanto starters already have Megas, plus they were like secondary starters in XY.

Rowlet, Cyndaquil, and Oshawott were in the last one so they're out.

The Hoenn starters already have Megas. Out.

Kalos is being showcased and they want to distance this from the last Legends game, so the Sinnoh starters are out.

Snivy is eligible, maybe it came down to it and Tepig so they went with two Johto and one Unova, but it could have been the inverse?

Kalos starters are obviously out.

Litten and Popplio are eligible, as are the Galar starters? Maybe? Is Galar too recent? Are the other Alola starters too recent to warrant Megas? Surely they won't relegate new Megas to Gen 6 and prior. I dunno, I feel like they could have used one of these. Maybe Snivy, Litten, and Totodile. Keep Totodile, I want a badass regional and Mega Feraligatr.

Yeah Paldea is out, obviously.

So sad, my strategy is to avoid face cards altogether. I just won a run with the abandoned deck last night 😔

I read that as Super NES and thought it was Super Mario All-Stars 😔

I have a Lite that I could part with. I love the little thing but it's just a collectible for me. I have an OLED but it's a little banged up so I don't think I'd get much for it.

What I'll probably end up doing, though, is selling my PS5. I'd really rather not but honestly it's not my primary device. I hardly touch it outside of the odd exclusive that comes out once or twice a year. I have some significant and necessary expenses coming up so I gotta sell some stuff if I want the Switch 2.

After BDSP, I am done with the remakes. What I loved about the remakes prior to that is that they brought the older games up to the standards of the then-current generation. Same visual style, same mechanics, compatibility with its contemporaries, and all Pokémon available up to that point. Like the third version but just in a totally different region. But the Pokédex got too big so now each set of games has its own selection. So it's not like a remake can be based on the paired versions anymore. Which means that they have to be their own standalone thing now, and more mechanically faithful remakes seem to be the easier approach. There is the Let's Go route, but I consider those more spin-offs than remakes because of how wildly different they play. They don't modernize Yellow in the same way FRLG did with Red and Blue.

This is a dangerous game you're playing, Nintendo Life

I may be inclined to buy it at that price!

Horror games are 2spooky4me 🙈

I'm not expecting Legends, but who knows, it's been a literal year since the initial announcement. They have to have something, right? I'm just used to Pokémon Presents being largely uninteresting.

Those money grubbing landlubbers! I'd they're gonna just do a replacement on the next system, at least wait until we approach its release date. This is dumb.

Hey what's the big idea?? Those numbers add up to 101%! What is this, a Donkey Kong Country completionist run?

I'm pleased to see Wario Land 1 that high. But Wario Land 2 down that far??? I don't think so, man, that deserves the top spot. My order would be WL2, WL1, WL3, WL4, Shake It, and even though I've never played Wario World or the VB one, I'm certain they'd be better than Master of Disguise.