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@Mando44646 the standard sonic levels were great, the werehog levels……….not so great

Both garbage covers.

@traceman Super Formation Soccer/Super Soccer was developed by Human and was published by Nintendo at launch. Super Tennis was developed by Tose and published by Tonkin House in Japan and Nintendo everywhere else.

I’m unsure who owns the game rights of Super Tennis now, but it would be a big miss losing one of the very finest ever local 2 player 16 bit games.

Can we have the Japanese MD version too? Probably the rarest Japanese game for any system.

@Solid_Python the emulation comment was done in jest, however I’m interested to see the real world performance of the Switch 2. I’m sure it’ll outperform the SD in docked mode, however handheld mode may be a completely different matter.

@Solid_Python it won’t, it’ll probably be slightly less powerful than a steam deck.

I wonder if switch 2 emulators will eventually be running on steam deck?

Cue anti-matter in 3-2-1_____________

@Chlocean I think they were developed by Tose, not HAL. They are a great series though.

Mr Chin and Rollerball on the MSX were my introduction to HAL in the mid 80's.

Need to dig both of those out right now!

Never mind Switch 2. These should be stop gap releases for the Switch 1 this year for the existing userbase.

As someone with little knowledge of the series, can anyone tell me why does Tony Hawk appear to be a hologram when he crashes and falls off his skateboard in the remaster?

@Serpenterror of course it matters. If there is data corruption, partial or complete rom file deletion from the card there is no value and no collectibility. You cannot just reflash the game to a retail card.

This has been a problem with the 3DS and I was unsure if this was the case with Switch?

As far as the eshop is concerned, they removed the seal years and years ago. Maybe they could replace it with a shovelware guaranteed label?

Don't these switch cards use some type of flash based memory like the 3ds?

I'm sure they don't have the longevity of a good old fashioned cartridge.

This is everything that is wrong with the Switch.

@G_and_Thomas I was being ironic, but thank you for the clarification.

What happened to the Nintendo Seal of Quality?????

I’m split between 349 and 379 in the UK.

I have spoken to my 2 distributors in Japan and they have zero idea as to what the price will be and they would be the first to find out. The Costco palceholder is nothing more than that.

@tgp-87 definitely, along with Seaman, Fishing Frenzy and James Pond. If it isn’t fish related though it won’t play because there is no backwards codpatibility

@kupocake it sounds like a red herring to me

@Medic_alert Nintendo needs another global pandemic. It definitely didn’t hurt Switch 1 sales.

I still believe they will want to make a reasonable margin on every device sold. It isn’t cutting edge tech so they probably have room to achieve that.

@AlexOlney I’ve just popped into Costco Gateshead and they have a similar palceholder for the console plus a listing for a Param Super Deluxe God game

Any chance we can have sim city next?

@PALversusNTSC any sources?

I’m expecting a few more Switch titles to be released by Nintendo over the remainder of the year. They are still manufacturing the original system in multiple SKU’s with an ever growing new user base so more rereleases along the lines of Rhythm Heaven Megamix, Yoshi’s Wooly World and Mario Galaxy 2 could possibly happen.

EA should have taken note when they were releasing crummy fifa ports on the switch.

@Rhaoulos I did say almost. Lots of microsd hardware will not be able to access it's performance gains.

It's giving us SSD performance gains in a micro sd card. It's a big step up .

@sanderev its an SD Express card. It’s almost a new format.

Hand over the Rare back catalogue to playtonic and let them design new games with the IP.

The US box art is a later reprint. Could you not use the original?

Spent a good couple of hours playing through Magical Pop'n last night. It's a great little platformer. It's as rare as Rendering Ranger, but for me, a better game.

Dusting off the X68000.

I believe the reveal only happened now because of the massive number of leaks. Definitely a reactive reveal.

They cannot add more stability so they ain’t happy.

@RupeeClock Balan had a good CG intro. After that........errrrrrrrrm?

Hello and congratulations to the lovely Alex.

Let's dive right into things!

That's Gradius VI and Einhänder II as good as confirmed then!

This looks awful.

I’ll stick to the Dreamcast version.

Does anyone have any thoughts on post 32. The first image of a switch 2 actually powered on? I'm surprised nobody has commented on that.

@KBuckley27 nintendo always use the word "announcement" meaning reveal. Just look at the Directs.

First image of S2 powered up.

@WaveBoy how about S&P on PSVR2?

The Express SD card support has been mentioned in previous rumours, so this is (almost) confirmation of that.

This could give the Switch 2 similar benefits the PS5 enjoys. Decreased load times and increased Ingame performance.

@Lofoten great post.

Cannot wait for some native 4k fly swatting antics in Mario Paint 2025.

Where does the paperclip go on this switch without a rail? 🤭

Prefer the Sonic movies by some distance over the Mario Movie. If Jeff fowler and paramount handled Mario, It would be far more creative,

Mario felt undercooked, rushed, filled with cringeworthy pop culture references and purely aimed at young children. Illumination have made nothing more than a cash grab.

I hope you can mute the sound of those dialogue boxes popping up. Majorly annoying.

Also hoping for an option to remove the, ‘HD’ layer.