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My biggest surprise is the relatively high score for Other M. Everybody seems to hate it. I had fun with it. The technical aspects were great and I liked a few plot points (especially the "big reveal" at the end). But overall the script was just very dumb. My biggest issue was the stupid reason why Samus can't use all her abilities from the start. "Your weapons are dangerous, you can only use them with my permission" just makes her look weak. "Oh, you just climbed through the inside of a volcano, maybe I should allow you to use the varia suit" was just silly. Just go with "Oh no! Suit malfunction" like every other Metroid game

I love Prime 4 so far, but your companions going "you have been wandering around for five minutes, why not try that door over there" is a bit annoying. I could also live without Miles briefing me on where to go at the beginning of an area. But to be fair, the ship's computer in Metroid Fusion does the same thing and that is probably my favorite game in the series

What's with all the misinformation in the comments!?

From the top:

If you buy the Switch 2 Edition (red box, red cartridge), it contains the Switch 2 Edition on the cartridge. You can also put it in a Switch 1 to play the Switch 1 version. I'm pretty sure it is a Switch 2 cartridge, as it has the additional pins on the back.

If you buy the Switch 1 version (clear box, grey cartridge) and put it in a Switch 2, the day one patch adds a menu entry telling you there is a paid update to the Switch 2 Edition.

@Giancarlothomaz The entire trilogy on Wii fits on a single DVD (so max. 8 GB, actual size is apparently 7.5 GB), why does the remaster for Prime 1 alone take almost the same amount of space? Doom 2016, which is probably comparable to Prime 4 in length and graphics quality, was 50 - 60 GB on PC and other consoles! The Switch version was smaller but also a noticeable downgrade in visual quality. Hi res textures, voice acting etc. need space.

@canaryfarmer @batmanbud2 do we know that Prime 4 takes place right after Prime 3?

@rallydefault I have connected my official dock to my PC monitor because it is in 4K and the TV isn't. It would still be nice to have a second one for the TV and third party docks are a lot cheaper.

I couldn't even buy an official dock if I wanted to. Amazon and Co. don't sell it and the official Nintendo Store for my country is always out of stock.

@EarthboundBenjy exactly what I was going to say

Did Meteoid Dread get a dedicated Direct? Did Nintendo hide that game out of embarrassment as well? Yes, we did have more information on Dread before launch, but the situation is different. Dread was the first 2D Metroid on a home console since Super Metroid and was made by a completely different developer.

We know what a Metroid Prime game made by Retro Studios will be like. It makes sense to tease the new stuff like the bike, the environments or the antagonist without spoiling too much, instead of giving in-depth information about the game.

@1UP-HUSKY I'm no expert, I have only played Pikmin 2 + 3 for a few hours each. As far as I know you find objects in the game that hint to a presence of humans in the world, but you never see any actual humans.

@larryisaman I would gladly pay full price for Hades 2, but it is only 30€

But I agree that getting the first one for less then 10€ to see if you like it is the best.option.

How can you watch a two minute trailer with 20 whole seconds of Samus riding a bike and come to the conclusion that "Metroid is now open world and it sucks"? Have you never played Halo? Or Half Life 2? Or ridden through Hyrule Fields on Epona in Ocarina of Time? Are those all open world games? What even is an open world game? Aren't Metroidvania games by definition kind of open as well?

The characters on the JP and US version are cute, but the backgrounds look a bit cheap.

I like the EU art, but it seems like they told the artist "it's a game about a farm and it is called Harvest Moon" and nothing else and didn't even show them screenshots of the game.

@Peteykins they haven't put in this much effort because they didn't have to. All previous instance of backwards compatibility were on the hardware level, which causes much less issues.

Wii: hardware was almost identical, I think they just reduced the clock speeds down to the Gamecube levels.

DS: contains the complete hardware of a GBA
3DS: contains the complete hardware of a DS (including the GBA parts)

WiiU: hardware is basically 3 Wiis glued together, it even boots into the Wii OS when runnig a Wii game

This meant they had almost no compatibility issues but it also meant that the games wouldn't benefit from the faster hardware.

The Switch 1 was the worst Wifi device I owned. While my phone, tablet, PC etc. have good reception in the entire house, the Switch started to struggle or completely lose connection as soon as I went to the sceond floor. I even set up another hotspot next to the TV because it was impossible to play online.

The Switch 2 is much better and pretty much in line with the other devices.

@Michael0916 no need to ask, you can do it yourself.

@Nintyname my guess is that we will get a Direct once the release hype around DK has died down, so end of July or early August.

@cylemmulo I think she will be a rock at the beginning of the game because the bad guys cursed her or something. And DK will find a way to break the curse fairly early in the game.

@HammerKirby Maybe Arcade Pauline is actually Bananza and Mario Odyssey Pauline's mom, too?

I don't know how many times I have heard "this twitter reveal/trailer/mini direct means we won't get a proper direct" and then Nintendo did one a week or two later anyway. But if we want to speculate, my personal opinion is that they want to focus their marketing on Donkey Kong right now so the next direct will be a week or two after its release.

@InfamousOrange mouse controls would give Switch 2 players an unfair advantage.

I used the YouTube App on the Switch a lot. It was just the best way to watch on my TV. The app on the TV has stopped working years ago.

The FireTV Stick I also have takes much longer to boot (I have the TV on a power strip with an on/off switch) and the app is a lot slower as well.

The Chromecast I use for other streaming services works better but requires my phone to use.

@Duncanballs it really reminds me of the early days of Steam, except we didn't even have something like Game Key Cards, it was just code in a box or nothing. If you were lucky the DVD at least contained most of the game, but often it only contained the installer for Steam.

Everybody hated it, cries for boycotts all around and look how that turned out. Now we have Lord Gaben, Patron Saint of the Indies, Savior of the PC master race

@Shiro28 That would actually be hilarious

"I'm angry with Nintendo because they try to kill physical games so I will buy a system where that was never an option in the first place instead. Made by the company that invented digital-only games."

@Andyliini Yup, I just preordered the Mario Kart Bundle at the German myNintendo Store.

@dystome I haven't used a Gamecube controller in a while but I'm pretty sure the right stick is a normal analog stick, it just looks a little different. They also added a ZL button as well as a home, C and screenshot buttons to the top of the controller. The start button can likely be used as a + button, so the only one I haven't seen is the - (select) button. It probably also doesn't have a gyro sensor.

@GinMiguel I didn't find anything official and just wanted a rough estimate to prove my point. The one I found is a bit sketchy as it claims 3 million sales on PS4, half a million on Steam and only 3300 on Switch. But I'm pretty sure that last number is just what they sold physically in Japan in the first week.

https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic

@Uncle_Franklin I'm not sure if they will get away with it but if they want to try, Mario Kart is their best option.

For me the higher prices aren't a deal breaker but I won't complain if they have to lower them because of poor sales, either

@Uncle_Franklin Good old supply and demand. As far as I could find out, Team Sonic Racing sold around 4 million copies. Even on the WiiU, Mario Kart 8 sold twice as much! The Switch version sold 60 million copies and most people still pay full price for it. If I was Nintendo and wanted to establish higher prices, I would probably try it first with a new Mario Kart as well.

@Uncle_Franklin On Android? I couldn't find it through the search in the Play Store as well. If you choose any of the other Nintendo apps and tap on the company name, it shows up in the list.

Did anybody else have this issue?

@Princess_Lilly it has always legal to use Nazi imagery for education and art in Germany. Art was defined very broadly so stuff like the Indiana Jones movies wasn't censored. The reason why videogames where handled differently was mostly because of Wolfenstein 3D. Back then videogames had a bad reputation to begin with, so a game full of Swastikas was an easy target and got banned by a court. Even back then some criticized the ruling but game publishers since then self-censored their games in fear of bad press. Only a few years ago an Indie developer making an educational game set in WW II had the balls to go to court against it and the judge agreed that it makes no sense to treat games differently than movies. Since then games like the modern Wolfenstein series have been released uncensored.

@Yoshi3 what are Nintendo's lawyers supposed to do about it? Let's assume person A already has a Switch 2, because they are a game developer and they give it to person B. If B leaks information about the Switch 2, Nintendo can sue A because of breaking an NDA, but they can't sue B as they have no business relations and the leak doesn't break any laws. The only thing they could try is take down posted images with a copyright claim, but as I understand it, the leaker only showed them to The Verge and hasn't made them public.

@TheExile285 Yeah, why would Nintendo ever reveal a new console in October

Very sad news. I always preferred Bayonetta's Japanese voice, even if the English voice is technically the "original" (AFAIK, the first release of Bayonetta 1 didn't have Japanese voice acting). The first Ghost in the Shell movie is iny top 10 favorite movies.

Thats so weird! Why did they say the release will be "this summer" and then reveal the exact date just three weeks later?

@Radbot42 That's normal. Sometimes Mario looks to the left or right, like he does in the official character render in this article, but most of the time he looks cross-eyed. Just checked to make sure and examples are the 3D head when you start Mario 64 and the cover art for Super Mario World.

I got the PC version yesterday, because I want to play it in 4k/60fps and it has already crashed twice First when I tried to start it for the first time it just closed immediately again and second it crashed when going into a loading screen. Unlike the original version it does save automatically at least so I only lost five minutes of progress instead of having to restart the game from the beginning.

@Pikachupwnage
There are also a few unlicensed ones, I can think of "Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S" and "Murder by Numbers".

@LoroTalby to be honest, 3D games from that era didn't look good even back then. Every gamer I know made fun of Lara Croft's triangular boobs for example. But 3D graphics where new and exciting nonetheless.

The title of this article is a bit confusing, because it sounds like only the Switch version got delayed. The pointer controls worked well in the first game, both on the Wii and Switch, but I think I'll play it on PC with a mouse.

I completely missed that they announced this back in December. World of Goo is one of my favorite games, so I'm looking forward to it a lot. Not sure were I'm going to get it. The pointer controls worked pretty well on the Switch version of the first game, but I think I prefer using a mouse.

@DwaynesGames
"Console exclusive" just means it won't be available on Xbox and Playstation. It will be available on PC on day one.

Pretty good, several interesting games, not many must haves. The Rare games are a nice surprise, Snake Rattle n Roll is a personal favorite of mine.

But, but... World of Goo 2??!! Did we know that was coming? I'm very excited!

Man, there are just way too many games to play! I loved
Valiant Hearts, but didn't even know they made a sequel. I'm definately playing this when it comes to Switch.

I find all the complaints about too many articles about Palworld very funny. If you click on it and then complain about it in the comments, you tell Nintendolife "articles about Palworld create a lot of engagement, we should write more!". If you want them to go away, just ignore them!

I think the number of articles is justified. It doesn't happen often that an early access game by an unknown developer sells millions of copies in a week.

I don't know the original game on DS but I have played the demo. It's definitely not a 10/10 game. The graphics are nice enough but everything feels a bit outdated. The camera controls are stiff. The dialog scenes are slow paced and why do I have to "choose" the next dialog option if there is only one available? With the handful of puzzles that are in the demo I could tell that they were originally designed for the DS, but I think they adapted them well for the Switch controls.

The characters and story however were interesting enough that I will probably pick the game up when it comes out. For anyone who thinks about trying the demo it is just the beginning of the first game and you can transfer your save to the full version.

According to my Switch my most played "game" is YouTube, so definitely yes

I use streaming apps almost exclusively in docked mode. The Switch boots much faster and runs better than my FireTV stick. I also like using a controller better than the remote. For other streaming services not on the Switch I use a Chromecast. That works well, too, but it's the version without a remote so I need to use my phone which can be a bit annoying sometimes.

Not surprising. I'm pretty sure I have read somewhere that you can just download any game from the official eShop servers if you have the original Switch model with the unpatchable hardware exploit. Nintendo also probably uploads new games to the servers a few days in advance.

Looks like they sold the rights to Sky around here

Can't rent it on other platforms, either. I guess I have to wait a bit more before I can watch it.

I don't use Twitch but I use YouTube and Crunchyroll a lot on the Switch in docked mode. It starts faster than a FireTV stick and using the controller as a remote is more convenient than using my phone with a Chromecast.

I find it weird that we never got apps for all the other streaming services and I hope that changes for the Switch 2.

I love this game and support from the devs has been excellent! On PC they added new songs every few weeks since launch. I wonder how long they will keep it up, but it looks like it will continue for a while as they have mentioned that they want expand the story, too.

That's a shame! I really liked it and it is the only AAA Ubisoft game I have bought in the last decade. I always loved their smaller more creative games more (Rayman, Child of Light, Valiant Hearts etc.) and Fenyx Rising felt like those but with a big budget.

@KevinP You should play it for the tons of funny mythology in-jokes alone

Two interesting things I noticed.
1. She looks a bit younger than usual, but maybe that's just because of the art style.
2. She doesn't wear a crown.

So, Peach origin story?

@Link-Hero I hope so, but it wouldn't be the first time that trailer music doesn't even appear in the game.