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It'd be nice if they can still work on giving Mario 64 a widescreen upgrade. It really stands out against the other two.

@marnelljm That's great - delighted you like it. Hopefully you don't begrudge my view though - since it's the unpopular one.

@riChchestM I disagree - this thing is £50 and screen tech has come on. I like my pixels sharp. Nintendo could have manufactured a 640x480 screen and got the sharpness up to 300dpi. Instead they used a cheap standard screen. Lazy.

@BTB20 Just trying to be fair and balance it - but the cons are pretty sever in my view - so on balance - it's crap. Anyway it's just a view - make your own mind up. I'm just trying to balance expectations and do believe Nintendo should have done more.

Ok I bought one. Here is my review: All that Glitters is not Nintendo:

Sorry to say but in my view It's kinda crap. I knew what I was buying and the limitations of such a device - but even in what it goes for - it's not great at it.

CONS:

• The screen. It's 'ok' but not really. It's not particularly sharp and is I'd guess a 320x240px screen. It's a 2.4inch screen so that makes about a 169ppi count. It's just kinda blurry pixels.
• No Stand (it's a clock and should have one!)
• No Headphone jack.
• The ergonomics. This thing is uncomfortable. I had nostalgia for these things but the single screen variant this is based on is damn uncomfortable (IMO) - sharp corners and a d-pad too low. This is from someone how can enjoy whole games on a Gameboy Micro.

PROS:

• Ultra Light
• Looks nice (except the 'ok' screen)
• good sleep and resume set-up
• USB-C
• d-pad is nice (except for being too low on device)
• clear sound from speakers.

Conclusion: Sending it back if I can. Better way's to play these games portably exist. A shame - collectors only, not great to actually game on. It doesn't seem the labour of love such a tribute should be - it's the bare minimum they could have do. To be honest the packaging is cooler than the contents. This a a 'Nintendo being lazy' product.

@Natsura Actually your style is the way to win this game. Mario 35 is not a race. You win by taking enough time to collect as many coins as possible (aim for at least 250) for the roulette item spins to save you in the late game. Mostly it's the ones who don't rush too much that win - it's about enduring. Watch a few Youtube tip video.

I think you'll like it when you know it's not really about going fast. I've won at least 6 times and I play it fairly occasionally. I hated Tetris 99 because (despite being quite good at Tetris) it felt too random, but I love Mario 35. Kinda gutted it'll go away.

kinda hoping they can hack that usb c port to take a headphone adapter - which it may do out-of-the-box (but I doubt it).

@gaga64 That's a Terry Pratchett reference right? - just about my favourite fiction writer. LOVE the guards sub-series.

Very surprised this doesn't have the classic G&W wire stand. It's a clock! it needed to stand.

Got mine arriving tomorrow - but the stand situation is a bit of a shame.

@TeamRocket47 That's the real three-way console war right there - and G&W will probably do respectable sales

@Shiryu I bet you just finished your milk before reaching the last cookie in the pack right? - that's my usual reaction

PS5 is simply too big. I want my consoles subtle and small.

'Handheld visuals are pretty blurred'

Ah well, forget it then. If you need to scale back the details fine - but I'm not buying blurry games anymore -especially on a game that relies on small details.

Happy Birthday! - enjoy the site very much - too much even

Kuru Kuru Kuruin, Spelunky HD or Wipeout Pulse.

Just vote with your wallets people.

I will play Control when it's dramatically on sale. Since this is running on a different machine it means they did no coding whatsoever for Switch so all we are paying for is cloud streaming and storage on a server somewhere.

There is no game that we will own - it's just a service and it's not worth £35. I'd pay say, £20 tops for the right to play a game I don't have a local copy of. It's basically long term rental - not £35 worth in my view.

If we think like this then native gaming isn't going anywhere on Switch and cloud gaming will become the great but secondary budget option that it should be. Pay them what they are asking and it'll be the end of coded efforts like Witcher 3, Vampyr, Doom Eternal etc...

If you want this new landscape to work out I say this – Do not pay full price for these cloud services on Switch.

Of course we'll all do what we want - and maybe many of you are not bothered about the somewhat compromised AAA ports disappearing – I get that, to a point – but that is my take on this new development to or beloved system.

@Fasolto Ah ha, wow I got that very wrong Thanks for pointing it out - we learn new things everyday.

I'll delete my comments - since it's complete misinformation.

I just hope it doesn't make too many dev from making native games/ports.

After-all the Switch is a portable console with the intention that you can game anywhere. Cloud gaming is anywhere there is a decent WIFI that you have permission to steam on.

It's not very flexible, which is what the Switch is meant to be.

Also - if anyone takes 'my game away' when the servers are taken offline or whatever – it's tantamount to stealing our games – something Apple and Android have been guilty of for years although I'm sure the small-print exempts them.

I got to say I've love it if this means I could play Start Wars: Fallen Order and the new Squadron game without buying an X-Box/PS5 - and on the go as high settings!

@KateGray

'What do forests and dogs have in common? Bark.'

I love the NL sub-title puns. Never top 'em coming - it's a NL tradition at this point.

... because Nintendo has a history of being one of the first to adopt cutting edge technology... not.

Nintendo are about new clever uses of existing technologies - right back to using LCD to create the Game & Watch handhelds.

Look what they just did with Mari Kart Live: clever use of existing technology.

Still, anything can happen these days - but I highly doubt this news. Even with the potential cost and battery savings I think Nintendo will let the technology 'play out' in the wild for a while.

I'll say this – I love my Switch Lite so much that it upsets me immensely that Nintendo didn't make docking an option through an option 'special' cable.

It didn't NEED to be 'dedicated for handheld play only'. It just seemed cruel not to make it optional to buy a 'dock' later.

So for now I keep an old full Switch around for the 25% of the time I want to go docked. Nintendo wins then on selling me two Switches but loses from the point of view of making their users lose a bit more faith in them as a good and decent company.

If they sharpen up the handheld experience with a patch I buy.

That's the deal - but I hope they do because these types of games are right up my street.

And even the US inside art is the cover art repeated!

I don't much care about the box - but many many do, and it's sad to see any real effort in that department is becoming a rare thing.

Maybe these figures will convince Nintendo to complete the set with a port of Galaxy 2.

And maybe it'll inform them that Metroid Prime Trilogy HD will also sell like hot cakes since we clearly want the main 3D masterpieces of the past on the Switch.

Fast RMX deserves the vote for showing what the Switch could do with a quality dev team on the job.

The smoothness and visual quality of this game puts to shame some of the efforts on Switch 3 years later.

This told us the Switch can do it/anything at 1080p if programmed correctly.

@Chibi_Manny Not really - there isn't anything concrete to suggest they will for sure. This is Nintendo - they will do what they do - not necessarily what everyone thinks is likely or obvious - or even sensible. I'd say there is a very real possibility of them never selling these games on Switch after that date.

@BenAV @HorridCrow That's concerning. So is there reasons to replay - further difficulty setting, other stuff?

@Tasuki All them songs were released as standalone Queens songs right? I remember having Hammer to Fall and Princes of the Universe b-side picture disc/record and it was branded under the Kind of Magic tour imagery.

I think the product is not the main point here.

It's highlighting the question of why we're getting half of a physical product with the official release? Finding a tiny cart in a big, otherwise empty, plastic case is ridiculous - and the fact the cases are the size for a manual is cruelly rubbing salt in the wound. It's just another modern-company con – that and digital copies costing the same despite the lower overheads. Our favourite companies are taking us for a ride people, and we don't seem to be putting up much of a fight.

I don't know what we can do - but it isn't right.

@Antraxx777 Thats good – and I also can enjoy and play the game – I just would like to see it achieve it's full potential on Switch. Do you mostly play docked or undocked?

The dev team really need to carry on working on the handheld visuals.

Docked it looks great - but compare this game to DKC TF on handheld and it's has rather shockingly muddy visuals – blurry and with some very rough anti-aliasing. You may say that it's a much smaller team – but this very same team got the fully more demanding 3D original Yooka Laylee game looking amazing on handheld – so it's not a valid reason. The original Yooka Laylee looks sharper than Mario Oddysey does in parts! This game just wasn't given as much love/final touches when transitioning it to un-docked play – and it's such a shame - because the gameplay and visual style is amazing - top tier.

Please Playtonic – revisit it with a patch so both your games can look equally amazing on the Switch Lite too.

This is a good selection of good games. I love this genre. It's a bit different but if you have Star Fox on here, Panzer Dragoon needs a mention since they are both 3D rail shooters (mostly).

I still hope we get another Star Fox, or Zero's complex controls fixing for Switch.

Much as I admire Starlink, It's absolutely no substitute for a new Star Fox game because it doesn't control anything like a Star Fox game.

Star Fox is fun because you can not stop in mid-flight and turn around like a helicopter. It's the constant forward motion that makes the game exciting and give it the risk and reward of trying to shoot as much as possible before you either miss something or crash into it.

I wish Starlink had understood that. But hey, it's its own thing.

The Mike BithelI games I've played are excellent - and I love the art-style. Hopefully it'll make up for the slightly less-than-great Wick 3 movie.

Yay - another good looking 3D Platformer. I guess this is a modernised Medievil?

But can it power on the Switch?

11/15 - happy with that. To be honest even if you've played the game a lot some of these are pretty obscure knowledges - like how tall Steve is.

Keep the quiz's coming

Official Tetris - with dodgy crushed aspect ratio.

'Excellent combat with amazing dogfights'

Sold

6 out of 10 Not bad considering I've never finished a Kirby game.

Not a new game I've been hoping the Origins/Legends style of Rayman would go full 3D for years.

Not really interested - I'd have preferred more single play content. But I'm happy for others and will wait my turn.

Yes they have a problem with them - and it's wrong. 2 hours play time would be good. If there are a small number of games than can be played in a short time - like Untitled Goose - then more content is naturally encouraged for the Dev side.

@MidnightLaces Looking at the replies and likes - It seems people do thank goodness - but even if they didn't that's kind of the point - I was opposing the normal, but maybe not great view people have of animals. Anyway no problem - I was just picking up on a small thing in your comment that gave me food for thought – but it was a really little thing - I didn't mean it as an attack on you and it was just something that got me pondering. Your comment was fine.

I'd like a new 'full fat' model to be a bit lighter. For a handheld the original Switch isn't great for long handheld sessions.

@BionicDodo Cool - I'll investigate.

Much as I support lovingly-crafted printed art books, there should always be a PDF version available these days.

I get that it's not the same – but I and others genuinely don't have the space or lifestyle for large things anymore – but I would still love to peruse this on an iPad.

@elpardo1984 Agreed! – that's a very nice way of interpreting the score.

Although It'd be nice to have multiplayer - I kinda like it when a developer commits to making a very focused single-player only experience. Sometimes games dissipate themselves trying to do too much.

@electrolite77 Absolutely, people thinking they are above animals makes me laugh. The only way we might be superior in a way that actually means something, or leads to something good is our ability to increase our minds of compassion/empathy/care of others - particularly other creatures.

That and our ability for creative and artistic expression. Animals may have compassion - but they can't train in actively increasing it like we can - and that I personally think is our main saving grace (if we use it). Our intelligence doesn't naturally or necessarily lead to good things. Of all the planets 'consumers' we are the most deserving of the word.