Whirlwound

If this is getting a second Direct, Prime 4 needs at least one and a Prime 2-3 shadow drop. Especially after waiting this long.

Closes two weeks before I’ll be in London.

Guess I’ll have to settle for Tokyo & Kyoto in January.

15/21. Not terrible considering I never even had an NES. I had a GB from 1991, but didn’t shift fully to Nintendo until I sold my C64 to get a SNES in ’93.

Wonder if there’s a version with the directionals on the right. I emulate a hell of a lot, and I got really good using the cursor keys - never got used to WASD.

Even back in the day on coin-ops I played cross-handed, going righty with the stick and lefty with the buttons. Just felt more natural to me, and I’m right handed.

Something I’ll actually own… versus a game key card.

Hmm. Tough one. 🙄

@andyg1412 I’ve preordered the R•Type Delta remake and Once Upon A Katamari as well. NS1, granted, but still. Holding off on Crossworlds to see how it rolls on the New Shiny.

@AstroTheGamosian Maybe have Steve craft a Sax-a-Boom? That was the last schtick of Black's I found funny, end even then Kyle saw and raised it.

Still waiting for the Goku whose hair turns octarine...

@AstroTheGamosian Hope not, for the cinema staffers' sake...

Nudge nudge?

Say no more.

[sigh]

Look, Jack. Dude. Just bury the hatchet with Kyle.

You got away with the Mario movie because nobody could wreck that money printer, but Borderlands and Minecraft were pish.

It wasn't until the character select screen on Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha that I realised that's how his name is actually pronounced. Not 'Zangeef' as it was always laid out for the previous 8 years or so, but 'Zang-E-F'.

Well it would have been Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 - but Jeff the Tax Dodger decided to nobble my order yesterday, and conveniently hiked the price up when I tried again. AND back down afterwards.

He’s never that strapped for three quid, is he…?

@StewdaMegaManNerd Wait ‘til he hears how Apple’s stuff jumped from 15 to 26.

You’ve been part of the second great triumvirate of gaming voices that I’ve had the honour to follow - the first being that nutty bunch of Rignall, Penn & Liddon in ZZAP!64 a whole - Christ on fire, 40 years ago now.

Whatever you get up to next, Zion, I wish you every success.

We need Rhythm Tengoku in there soon. Seriously. I’ve got the GBA cartridge and a translated version on my Miyoo Mini, and it still plays like a dream all these years later.

@BrewsterTea Let me know when there is a physical version to purchase.

Key card. So, no. I'm sure. Want to play it, no doubt. But I know what I don't want as well.

I mean it’s not like they could cram the main content into a true physical to take the edge off a download. Even if just the audio was downloaded if streaming it from a card is that much of a chew-on.

With a 1TB micro SD EX costing, let's not forget this, half as much again on the console itself (and just so you know, Autocorrect just tried to change ‘console’ to ‘cocaine’), a full download will be turning whatever storage we’ve got into a digital Midgar, its lump of stodge talking up nearly ⅓ of the internal.

Immediate vibes I’m getting here: Free to start? Ooo, that felt like a new egregious twist of the release type dagger. Roll 1d8+2 monetary damage right there. Straight off the bat, ≠ Free To Play, at least after a few go-rounds.

“He gives the kids free samples / because he knows full well / that today’s innocent faces / will be tomorrow’s clientele…” - - Tom Lehrer [1928-2025]

Season passes, intrusive banners, unskippable ads, microtransactions, pay-to-win content… yeah, how about Nope. They can take their digital powdered ha-a-pi-ness and shove it.

That strategy being what, exactly? “To be fair we’re not really all that fussed about selling as well as we could…”?

I hope Hades 2 and Crossworlds both kick RE9 up in the air. They’re both getting it right.

For a hot minute I thought you meant the CD-i editions.

@Ooyah Five.

Though recent output hasn't half been disappointing. When they said 2025 was going to be "full of surprises", I'm not sure that [checks notes] Steel Worker, Video Hustler and Scrambled Egg were what we had in mind...

@Dom_31 it’s not a selection of games, Dom, 14 is literally all there is. The other eight were Japanese exclusives that never made it west.

Ha! Crap, no.

Putting this in the Expansion half of NSO, so we’re already paying extra, and then more on top of that for the viewing accessory? And a pitiful roster of just 14 titles - not even the full 22 (!) - that’s just going to get in the way of other NSO systems getting new stuff?

Whatever you’re drinking, Nintendo, for crying out loud take more water with it.

Bold of you to assume we'll have the space to spare 👾🗝️🎴

I got more mileage (arf) out of the demo than the network test. Didn’t feel as chaotic or random.

Didn’t get as much from Team Sonic Racing as I did Transformed, so this looks like it might be a bit of a return to form.

I’ll take “Saw This S**t Coming” for £500 please, Alex…

I can hang on a week. Bloody have to, won’t I - it’s been a hella busy month. Halfway between paychecks, and with what’s coming out before the next one, I’m down to ~£70 for the next two weeks.

Good job it’s two paydays in October (lunar months), and almost all my Paypals clear by the 12th.

@WavyDolphin65 You forgot Persona & Vocaloid.

Wake me up when they bring in Aggretsuko.

And still no sign of R•Type Final 3 either...

I'd have been more impressed with a dock that handles both types of JoyCon connection, slide rail and magnetic. I mean, who the hell can afford that many JC2s right now?

Not being a Gears of War player (haven’t even fired up my 360 for years), my mind went the same place as KidSparta & WaveBoy: Wind Waker. Not exactly a bad thing.

I don’t agree with the latter though; while MP4 is obviously going to be a different shrike of Space Pirates, sailing in the King of Red Lions is relaxing for me. It was back then too, when I wasn’t as decrepit as I am now - I often just played it to go smeg about on the water.

I enjoy watching speed runners, GDQ and the like, but I couldn’t do it myself. I like to taste the game I’m playing rather than chug it.

Fantastic! Can’t wait to play this on my Seg--oh…

Total number of Nintendo Switch 2 games, all forms, as of 14/9/25: 177.

True Physicals confirmed or already released in 2025: 10 (per NL themselves) with 4 coming. Fourteen total. Not even 10%.

The rest are eShop only, sitting so hard on the fence they've got spelks in their arse (read: don't want to tell us because they know we're not gonna like the answer), or are fully down with GKC.

If I'd known it was going to be like this, I would probably have held off.

I know gaming's very own answer to Geoff Castellucci, the formerly of-this-parish Jon Cartwright, wasn't keen on the power meter not functioning at 60fps. Makes him hook and slice more often.

Read: we couldn’t get Sakurai to shut the hell up, so screw it, might as well make use of it.

Metroid Prime 4 better be getting at least one Direct if this is getting two.

😃 SHIGS!
🥺 Not enough Shigs. Give him the hosting spot!

🤔 Some interesting new stuff…
😔 … but just some.

😍 A date for Metroid Prime 4! Finally!
🏍️ Wouldn’t have revealed the bike though. That’s a surprise spoiled. (@Thorgaer Be fair, dude, she’s had her DNA rewritten enough over the years, she’s earned it after that last crack…)
😞 …and no Prime 2/3 remasters. Shadow drops in the next two months are all we can hope for now.
📖 …but we’re getting an artbook in the run-up covering Prime 1-3? Serious mixed messages going on here…

🤩 Galaxy 1 & 2!…
🤑 … for how much?!

😈 Hades 2!…
👿 …with no word on an upgrade route.

🎾 Mario Tennis Fever!
🍓 …but I just got Aces…

🙂‍↔️ So many names missing that have been discussed in recent weeks… barely anything huge at all, certainly nothing really big that was new confirmed…

🧬 So much Resident Evil and still no Code Veronica…

🤡 Virtual Boy? Lol nope. I’d have gone with Game & Watch. The catalogue’s so tiny they could fart this out all in one go and be done with it. Now it’s just going to get in the way of releases on other NS Classics platforms. Rhythm Tengoku GBA? Doshin the Giant GC? Nope, you’ll have Nester’s Funky Bowling VB and you’ll jolly well like it Sonny Jim!

💫 A second Kirby Air Riders Direct? That’s just greedy, Sakurai-kun.

🗝️ Still ridiculously quiet on what’s going to be on Game Key Cards. This means the proportion is high, and they know we aren’t going to like just how high - especially for the really chonky titles.

🎩 And STILL no Layton. Don’t think he’s turning up this year now.

So yeah, very Monkey Paw-ish. A solid 5/7 - had I not just escaped work and been focused on tonight’s Dark Heresy shenanigans, I might have gone higher.

Guess I’ll have to buy the White Album again…

At least it's Best Route Possible - physical NS1 available (so you actually, y'know, own it) with a free update tor NS2.

And there'll be ways around the price stinging too much - potential offers, spread the cost on PayPal/Klarna etc.

Give Ozzy Man Reviews a nudge when it drops. That'd be a fun crossover for you guys.

(As long as he doesn't drop any 'Fark Me Dead's...)

Might not be a Cloud version, but I bet it'll be a Game Key Card.

Christ on Fire. A complete Game & Watch collection would have been a better call than this.

At least they should be done with updates for it in fairly short order - if there are any. I've seen complete ROM dumps that barely break the 80-megabyte mark - and they include PD demos. Just put it all up, find a pokey corner of a shelf somewhere, hide it and be done. Don't even put it in the expansion half.

“Thanks to our friends at Nintendo…”

Good to know someone’s getting devkits…

Waku Waku 8? Please?

Grid Beat, Ground Zero Hero and Basketball Classics might get a look, but the rest I dunno.

Not sure what I expected tbh. It’s kinda like hoping for a new NBA Jam out of them while wanting Thalamus Digital to finally do Creatures 3…

• NEEDS to be a date for MP4. HAS TO BE. They’re getting awful close to blowing that 2025 window.
• Something - ANYTHING - on the new Layton. Woefully thin gruel we’ve had there overall since the original trailer.
• A low percentage of Game Key Cards. (I know - who am I kidding. Almost everything third party over a certain size will be a GKC.)
• Unfortunately I do still suspect we’ll be getting left behind on a lot of big titles, and there’ll be a few sawn-off releases as well.

Over a quarter of my NS2’s onboard storage? For that?

Yep nope. They could put Shaq, Penny, Nick, 3-D and Grant (both Horace and Hill) in their prime on the Magic lineup and I wouldn’t.

What happened to 10x more powerful?

Remember how they were going to tackle all that HentAI slop and asset flip shovelware? Yeah, funny how that didn’t work out. The eshop is still riddled with it all, if anything worse than before.

There’s stuff I want to get, but with under four months to the Japan trip I’m trying to be good. The rest isn’t coming either because devkits are still throttled, or devs just don’t wanna write/port for it. I know for a fact the former applies to Pure Pool Pro not coming over.

That, and game key cards can go bite a fat one.

@ROMhaiku And it’s £16.75 on the eShop as well! Way to go Team Cherry!

Oh cool, I’ll just go back and play that rather than go with a Game Key Card for the new one. It’ll be one off the backlog.

Bundle it in with Rival Schools and Star Gladiator, seeing as they got skipped in the last Capcom Fighting Collection.