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I would bet Most of these updates are more about sharing data with Nintendo so they get detail info from active sytems, purchases, physical games, and game progress! And most importantly updating the annoying game virtual cards!!!!!! These updates are the most annoying thing ever, popping up all the time to force everyone to update and you can’t turn it off!

Portable ps5 games with comparable graphics?! No way! First, if they wanted to make it with physical games, then it will fail because most ps5 games have crazy file sizes, that wouldn’t fit 30-60gb, so most likely it will be digital only, which already fails compared to Switch. Secondly, lets compare the exclusives for Switch vs PS5?! There is hardly any catalog except for a few games that would draw me to go back, unlike the ps2/4 did.

Its so annoying that Nintendo released so many trailers in throats year, and keeps repeating just 2025, while Kirby Air Riders got one direct and announcement right away! That’s ridiculous!

@Orwellian87 I am double down with you, along with Sin and Punishment 1&2 and Star Fox! I wanna own these games, and hate that these titles are locked behind a service that will be gone one day!

@VoidofLight maybe you should stop defending and learn to listen because you respond without considering the validity of these comments. Those are not attacks but real impressions. I have been gaming since the NES and when people compare those to ps2/GC-look at games from that era that are far deeper, have actually amazing stories and gameplay. Take FFX for example or Kingdom Hearts, or MGS3, or Metroid Prime- these games felt so next gen that they are fun even today. Looking at Pokemon today, those games have been repeating the same formula for 20 years longer than they should with Zero Game innovation. If you have been playing games for only a few years, then this might feel ok for you. I am judging this as a long term fan and this franchise deserves far FAR better! I would rather play all those ps2 games than the newest game from a beloved franchise from my childhood- isn’t that really sad?!

This literally looks like a GameCube game. Look at the rigid animations, characters behaving like robots, and the gameplay has zero innovation beside the the moves jumping on a dial and the trainer can run during fight where the opponent ther Pokemon can attack the player, and don’t even mention the mega evolutions that look like being designed by a 5 year old! Both Absol and Dragonite just grow extra wings?!!!!! Beside the second has wings growing from his head? Did they master the art of butchering the designs and making the main pokemon as uncool as possible? This should be a 15,- usd game packaged among the indie thrash on the e-shop that should be listed at the bottom because each trailer makes me more and more uninterested! Gamefreak should be all fired! Their skills are locked 20 years in the past! Look at what Xenoblade achieved just between X2 and X3, then look at gamefreak from Black 2 to ZA?!!!! This is so embarrassing to even look at! Its like they hire elementary school kids to make the games! Poor Mr IWATA would cry from shame seeing their work! GAME FREAK should walk the road of Shame like Cersei in Game of Thrones!!!

How can you skip Metal Gear Solid Delta? I’d rather have that than Death Stranding.

@somnambulance lol like Arceus was a good game to begin with. This game would need to release with no glitches, have excellent post game content without the Constant need for second parallel release, have a decent story, not the abysmal annoying toddler stuff, work on animation and characters, push pokemon that have interesting designs, not release boring AI generated designs(at least it looks that way), it should include a great level design, be balanced and not rely on silly gimmicks that make the player super OP, and they should listen to players! Which Game Freak doesn’t do! I think there is a very low probability they would put any deep effort into their games. It seems like with the loss of Mr. IWATA, they have lost all creativity and development skills to make a solid AAA game. As things are now, there games float in the C tier category unfortunately, and that comes from someone who grew up with PKmn Gold and played almost all their games. They peaked with Platinum and Black 2, and then it all went down! Can’t believe Nintendo doesn’t put some skilled developers into gamefreak as partial shareholders, because GF butchers the series!

What has been an attempt to catch the hardcore players? Since Black 2 the games are going downwards with quality! Black 2 was the last great game. Sun and Moon orUSUM added some challenge, but since SS-adding one silly gimmick, BDSP was a cheap effort and they showed how much they care about loyal players by degrading a belowed game. Arceus was a C tier game, that felt like from a GameCube era but some new mechanics were fun, but it was still an undercooked, unpolished game. Now ZA most likely might be an ok game, but seeing how lazy gamefreak is, I have lost all hopes they might ever release a great Pkmn game again.

Without the original soundtrack its a pass:( that’s really disappointing because the OST was the very best!!!

One of the games I was really hyped for!!! It needs as much support as it can get! “N64 fanbase ASSEMBLE” !!!!! (With the voice of Ron Burgundy).

@karatekid1612 @karatekid1612 I think the development team made some huge oversights. Why can’t player select anything they want?! And why in VS you can only choose Normal or Frantic items when in MK8D you could choose any items you want?! That made huge difference to us! How can a new game give you degraded options?! Such oversights can’t be ignored mainly for a racing game that got priced 80,- USD!!!! If this was50,- game, I would say ok, but being priced higher than ZeldaTOTK is really ridiculous! If games were priced according to the level of polish, content, then MKW should be 50,- Zelda 70,- and Pokémon 15-20,- for the cheap bucketload of &@€! they release! No game is worth 80,-. Designers use generic AI tools to make games, most studios dont even develop their own engine- cutting Down dev time cost, so games don’t get more expensive, only corporations more greedy thinking they can get away with it.

@karatekid1612 I think they’re development made some huge overnights. Why can’t player select anything they want?! And why in VS you can only choose Normal or Frantic items when in MK8D you could choose any items you want?! That made huge difference to us! How can a new game give you degraded options?! Such oversights can’t be ignored mainly for a racing game that got priced 80,- USD!!!! If this was50,- game, I would say ok, but being priced higher than ZeldaTOTK is really ridiculous! If games were priced according to the level of polish, content, then MKW should be 50,- Zelda 70,- and Pokémon 15-20,- for the cheap bucketload of &@€! they release!

@Anti-Matter omg what kind of opinion is this? It’s like saying some genres are not fit for certain TV’s lol. Final Fantasy started on Nintendo long before PlayStation, and for those who like the genre I don’t see a reason not having it on Switch!

@Max_the_German you are absolutely wrong! If Steam Deck which is clearly weaker than Switch 2 is compared to Series S and Switch 2 then compared to PS4, that is clear misinformation and bias. No more needed to be said!

My only issue with Fast series is that it’s more about hitting the right platforms and speeding than actually skillful riding on most tracks. Yes, there are tricky turns but I feel F Zero is still better in this regards since the player needed to sensitively tilt the analogue like in a real ship. This game looks great and the tracks are creative but the driving itself feel boring:/.

This game didn’t need any fix regarding the selection of echoes, people were just lazy! If you go to the menu, and press any number of echoes, those would be among the “last used” in the quick menu, so if those who had an issue played with the menu a bit, they would find out. It’s like bringing more food to obese people instead of teaching them to solve the issue. Don’t be lazy people and use your brains first! Players these days expect the games to be played automatically for them….

Where is Bayonetta 3! Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Dark Souls, Arkham Knight,l?!!!!! These games seriously need next gen upgrade asap!

Some of the games do not need an update as urgently!!!!! How about Bayonetta 3?!!!!!!! That’s one of the first party games that suffered super bad and Mario games were totally fine.

I hope it will feature great coop multiplayer like Perfect Dark!

Fast RMX was cool with some really great tracks but the gameplay felt flat. I feel this game doesn’t provide anything new gameplay wise except for some boost into the air, which doesn’t seem very interesting. The visuals are great but it lacks an essence and content.

@RasandeRose well said, can’t agree more!

With everyone having a smartphone these days, while Nintendo offering more features on phone apps, they should have integrated the chat into an app. Almost everyone today has a phone, tablet…, the game chat stealing resources that could go into higher frame rates, ray tracing, or better textures is mindblowing. This is the most useless feature that just drags the system down. I hope the devs will have a choice to opt out of the chat and use the resources for their own purposes.

I wish we could have a choice to buy the console without the Joycons and buy 3rd party controllers separately since I don’t trust the new joycons. I believe that if Nintendo would be confident enough in their new analogues, they would reflect it in their presentation, but they avoid it! Meaning, they can’t be 100% sure. It would also make more sense since most players have controllers from Switch 1, and having this option would reduce the base price drastically.

I am tired of devs relying on DLC to juice more out of the same game! If everything is on the cartridge day 1, then it’s a day 1 buy.

Thanks to such deep hearted passionate developers who do the best for their fans! Every developer should have the same standard and deliver final products on physical media with no patches, updates or dlc ever needed! I will buy their game for Switch 2 just for their passion! And of course it’s a great game! Hope they do the same for Switch with the next Witcher game!

@Znake Devs also don’t mention that game designers have far more advanced tools to make their job much easier. Before, each studio had to develop their own engine to run their game-this has been eliminated by most studios using the same engine(with a few exceptions), and during these phases games didn’t become cheaper!

Yeah sure, that’s why companies charge full 60,- USD price for 20 year old remasters.

Judging an interest based on his followers on Twitter is really silly! If you make a great game, people will buy it.

This is just to confuse people who care for physical and to make them buy these incomplete game releases. I would never buy anything like a game key card!!!!! It might not be bound to an account but still bound to a server! Once those servers are gone, so will the games! This is a riddiculous practice! Give customers a choice! Let us choose if we want to pay extra and have a full physical release the very least since the 64gb cards cost a bit more. I understand that some devs want more profit for themselves and key card is a cheap alternative, but their profit should not take priority over satisfied customer.

At least the collectors edition should have a physical release! This is just plain ridiculous. This makes me question if to even bother buying the Switch 2 if this will be done with many games probably.

No full game on cartridge, NO PURCHASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such a poor article, mainly when you have actually played Tears of the Kingdom, and know there is an armor that negates fall damage no matter the height!

Where is Star Fox Zero or a new SF, OR new Sun and Punishment???? And New F Zero?!!!!!!

@Pillowpants it looks great, but the constant destruction seems to slow down the game pace and in the presentation there was ZERO platforming! Which makes me worried considering this should be mainly a platformer!

NOT these Devs!!!!! Spyro and Crash are ok, but they don’t reach the highs of Mario Odyssey for example. Nintendo would do better job at reviving Banjo!

I will never buy this! Full game on cartridge or no buy! Nintendo got really tricky with this! But still the game key is bound to a server, so once the license expires or server goes down, the game is gone!!!! Nintendo should only increase price for games that require more space on cartridge-that would be reasonable, but not this!!!!!!

@Residentsteven I totally agree with you. The game feels interesting but how long will the destruction feel fun? If it’s too much it just slows the pace and the game is supposed to be mainly a platformer, and while the trailer showed some 2D part very briefly, the entire Threehouse presentation had ZERO platforming!!!!! I worry this game might be fun to play once but may not have the replayability of Tropical Freeze or 3D World, even Odyssey!

@NielsNL yes it’s a more flexible download code not tied to an account but tied to servers. When these servers go down or the software disappears because of some licensing, your key card becomes a plastic waste! Support physical games!!!

I am surprised nobody ever mentions that this game has almost no platforming, which is the core of the experience, and this game should cover for 3D Mario. There were some sections in the trailer that seem to have some 2D gameplay parts but during Threehouse Preseentations they showed huge parts of the game and there was NO platforming at all!!!!!!! The destructible gimmick seems fun but that’s not gonna be fun for a long time! I hope there will be more challenge and platforming in the gameplay since the past DK titles even though 2D, those games had phenomenal platforming crafted to perfection so I hope I am not alone who feels that this game should have platforming.

Yes, Tarifs not impacting the co some prices because Nintendo wants to get our money back on the insane pricing of their games for 70-80,-USD!!!!!!

I believe the drift is a programmed defect!
When I calibrate the sticks, the cursor is rapidly in high frequency flying around the center. If it was a physical damage or overuse, the stick would either tend to go more to a particular direction but wouldn’t shake in multiple direction in such speed!
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s intentional programming so they just keep selling more controllers! I am disgusted because the only controllers that have zero drift are third party! All official Nintendo Pro Controllers I bought have a drift which started just weeks after a first use!!!!!! That’s intolerable!!!!!!

The only case where I would tolerate higher price is if the cartridge need far higher capacity to fit the whole game! Which isn’t the case of Mario Kart! For Elden Ring I would understand. Nintendo moved production out of China since the Tarif situation was expected, so do not bring politics Nintendo into the subject! And if PS5 sells first party games for 60-70 dollars and those games ha e development cycles of 6-7 years, then Nintendo has no reason to increase the price! This is just greed! Iwata is dearly missed, the new Nintendo president is just an economist that doesn’t understand games and just wants profits! Sad days Nintendo!

No full game on cartridge, NO BUY! Nintendo didn’t learn their lesson in the past 8years it seems!!!!!!

@BolkaRover good troll, please do not make invalid comments! Increasing a game price 20-30usd is not ok, and selling a physical game cartridge without the full game content is not ok. It’s a way to confuse people and making them feel like they buy physical. No! This is not OK! And if you are paid by Nintendo to paste optimistic comments here, your messages are completely out of place.

My hype went to Zero, after finding out games won’t be complete on cartridge for physical releases which should be a standard, and in combination with their price politics of 10-20,- USD higher prices for a game? Who will buy 80 digital and 90 physical?! That’s manipulation to force people into Fully Digital and corporately controlled game environment that takes our game ovnership rights away! I was really considering a day 1 purchase, and now feeling that I won’t want to spend this money over the next few years. This may force me to just skip this gen and assuming the following gen will be digital only ( end of quality gaming right there).

Big Fail Nintendo! Everyone I know hates those codes in boxes, and now they made it even more scammy but actually putting a card in the box which doesn’t still have the game!!!!!! This should not be allowed! Either release a full physical or only digital!

Please PLEASE Nintendo, give us also Star Fox Zero, F Zero GX, Viewtiful Joe, and Metroid Prime 2/3.

It’s so weird that there is a clear big interest in on rail shooters, yet Nintendo still won’t release Star Fox Zero, which was an excellent game, except for a few levels! It was done by Platinum and it’s such a highly polished game that I wish to play again! It’s much more fun than Panzer Dragoon! I have also bought many alternatives on Switch but they don’t compare. Hope this game will at least offer more deeper gameplay along with fun bosses and finding hidden branching paths!

Just give us at least a port of Zero, including a remaster of SF643D!

Then the movie along with a new game!

Thank you Nintendo.