Fortunately all the friends I'm likely to gift games to are in my family group anyway.

This must surely break all records for people queuing outside an Argos...

@Bunkerneath This is just an update, not a remaster. It's an £8 DLC.

This is way more interesting than all of yesterday's Zelda stuff

"finally getting a free content update"

This isn't the first content update.

I was kind of interested in the pro controller, but it's not worth jumping through hoops for.

The comparison to ARMS is night and day. ARMS is Ninty's best new IP in the last ten years, it's still being played in my house. Drag x Drive is just dull.

This is a nice step but the only thing they've actually changed in the design is tri-wing screws to Phillips screws. Hopefully for future devices they'll actually design them with battery replacement in mind, but I suspect we will still have these convoluted processes.

So it used to be 1.99 delivery for platinum points rewards, now it's 4.99 even if you are an NSO subscriber

Why make a demo that most people can't/won't play?

Can't believe they dropped Frisbee Dog!

@rjejr I have pretty much the same thoughts. I really like Splatoon so it does look fun, but at the same time they are really failing to show anything significantly new here.

I always think I'll replay games, but with more new high quality games than I'll ever have time to play the old ones just don't really get a look in.

@the_beaver Well, Splatoon 3 has exploration single-player and Salmon Run. Raiders appears to be Salmon Run gameplay with progressive exploration. Nintendo often don't include everything in the trailers so I'm happy to wait and see.

So it looks like it's single-player Salmon Run. Hopefully there's a lot more to it than shown in the trailer. I would have preferred something more like the original single-player campaign.

@canaryfarmer I realise you're using hyperbole, but typical resolution in 1998 was just 240p

Nintendo maybe should have kept it hidden, but I strongly disagree with the idea that NintendoLife should have hidden it. Anything that's officially announced is no longer a spoiler, and keeping it hidden just loses them traffic to other video game sites.

Doesn't it need some information in it to be considered an infographic?

Those are some dull looking amiibo. I'm not sure RE lead characters are quite the right style for amiibo

Poll needs an option "I'll wait for the reviews"

They could fix this instantly with reversible covers. They're literally printing both sides anyway, just put a clean cover on the other side.

I don't see any reason why that text needs to be on the front, it's obvious what it is. If it's a game key card or a code in box then sure put that on the front, but this text could be on the back and no one would care.

Wonder was loads of fun but they'll have to include a lot of content to make me buy a £20 DLC.

@Mathieu_B Silksong saves work between both editions so I don't expect Hollow Knight saves to be any different.

So a bunch of visual upgrades that you'd only notice by comparing the versions side by side and have no gameplay benefits.

@dew12333 It's a huge game made by a tiny team, it seems reasonable to me that when they release to 3M+ new players they would find some previously undetected bugs.

These are only the same kind of glitches that games pre-internet would never have fixed.

Did Nintendo specifically state open world? Or is everyone just making assumptions based on that trailer? It doesn't look all that open to me. The bridge collapse in particular looks like traditional Metroid gating.

Pretty sure the labo VR goggles will work too

Loved Metroid Dread, not sure about Prime. Arguably all the Prime games are "open world" so this one is a wait and see.

Is it common to have no pre-order for games these days? I hope nintendo remember to pre-scale the servers...

@Smithicus Yeah, it's really generous. I don't think anyone expected them to do it.

@Smithicus Hollow Knight's kickstarter had a stretch goal for Hornet as a playable character. Instead of adding Hornet to the original they made an entire new game, Silksong. But because Team Cherry are honourable they are giving all kickstarter backers Silksong for free (as if it were just Hollow Knight DLC).

"the story behind why Silksong took seven years to make"

1 year to make the game and 6 years to make the documentary?

@AussieMcBucket Nintendo UK always streams Directs with subtitles, only Nintendo US has dubbing.

This looks like a terrible dock. Requires the cables to be connected for stability? Looks like a recipe for damaged cables, or worse damaging the Switch's usb-c port.

"Can We Stop Comparing Donkey Kong Bananza's Tactile Thrills To Odyssey Now?"

I knew this title was going to be ironic.

Is 6 years a new record between demos?

NL should just stop giving review scores. Everyone is discussing the number and not the review, and it happens every time.

@Athropos @Bunkerneath It's not actually a dock, just a GC controller adaptor

I was so underwhelmed by this as a launch title, and I've totally gone 360 and preordered. I haven't decided yet if that was good or bad marketing on Nintendo's part

Having a Wii U game as the best thing on Switch 2 is pretty terrible.

The trailer just makes the controls look so unpleasant. Like I need to play with arms outstretched over a desk! I think the idea is that you can use the joycon mouse mode pretty much anywhere and the movement required will be much smaller, but this trailer does such a bad job of showing that!

This feels a lot like they are going for a Rocket League style game. They are going to have to do a lot more work to sell the gameplay though.

So this is going to be the major first party release for August? Or there's something else?

The best-value game on Switch 2 just got better!

I think we don't yet know if the price increase will have an impact. The console price was around the expected level, and early adopters were always likely to suck up a price rise. We already have some initial comments that third parties are disappointed with sales, which is probably largely a pricing issue. MKW was bundled so DK Bananza will be the first test of whether people are ready for a £20 jump in the price of a major Nintendo title.

Why would you tell someone you're not going to credit them? That would be like admitting you should have credited them.

It's pretty obviously a copy-paste error. The whole station is Switch 2 ads and some of the others have the same "out now" label. It just accidentally got copied to this one.

I don't get why people think she doesn't look 13. This is a cartoon character so she obviously doesn't have realistic human proportions. 13 years old is very much a child, a typical 13 year old does not look like an adult (or even what we might normally imagine as a teenager).

It's crazy how bad the official cameras are.

@RiccyBobby Lots of webcams do work, but some don't. You'd have to do some searching to find out if the specific model you want is going to work.