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Seriously, what Switch games can be played with this, besides the Fortnite music game?

Huge congratulations Nintendo Life! I started taking a break from IGN and reading this site in the Wii era. My Nintendo Life profile just turned 16 years old in October, and I bet in those 16 years I might have skipped visiting the site daily less than a handful of times.

I love the news this site puts out, but I really appreciate the community. In general people posting are nice to each other and that was one of the things that kept me coming back.

Your entire team does a great job, and I really can't imagine a day without you. Here's looking forward to the next 20 years!

I can't believe I am going to pay for this, but yes I am. Great collection. I was part of the 1st console war generation. Me along with several kids in my neighborhood had the Atari VCS. I kid a few streets over had a Magnavox Odyssey 2 (I was glad I wasn't stuck with that). And a friend down the street had the Intellivision. I first upgraded my Atari with a Starpath Supercharger — pretty bad ass! But then I upgraded to the ColecoVision — my first favorite console!

Been waiting for this for a while. Loved the first game.

Good luck Zion! You are truly one of the reasons that Nintendolife is one of my favorite video game news spots. Always enjoyed your videos. I am sure you are going to be fantastic in your new endeavor.

For whoever is putting this together. As a digital marketer of over 35 years it seems like age above 45 should be broken down a bit more. There are more and more "experienced" gamers playing constantly and "45 and older" seems to overrepresent itself. My appeal to an advertiser at 56 is quite different than what it would have been in my late 40s.

Hot damn! Loved these games when they came out. Excited.

As someone who has now been coming to this channel on a daily basis for over 15 years now, I wish all the fine folks that make Nintendolife come to life a very Merry Christmas, and an amazing 2025!

My stats for the year so far...
Top games:
1. TOTK
2. Paper Mario: The Origami King - completed
3. Splatoon 3 — Single player story - completed
4. Mario & Luigi: Brothership (not in my year in review yet, but ton of hours already)

I played 52 games & 320 hours on Nintendo Switch this year!

Considering I also have a XBOX Series X I play on regularly, and my other hobby is cycling (137 hours this year). I think I'm a pretty committed Nintendo gamer.

I am 30 hours in to M&L Brothership. I think this is the first time in my 50+ years of playing games that I really have to comment on a game. I am having so much fun! This game is enjoyable the art style and graphics are fantastic. I have such little time each week to play games, but doing everything I can to find time to play.

Early this year I finally finished Paper Mario: The Origami King - Nintendo Switch. I played that on and off for the past couple of years and finally decided to just get it over with. I found that kind of okay. To me a solid 7.

Later this year I bought The Thousand Year Door. Really struggled to get into this and have not found it super enjoyable.

For some reason Brothership hit in a way that the two Paper Mario games just never did. Maybe its because I played this series on the GBA and DS. It is weird as I usually somewhat agree with IGN ratings but man, I couldn't disagree more on this one. I am not a huge fan of long games so and not a big RPG fan, so while I would have been fine if this game was over by now I haven't lost interest yet. I have not ran into any bugs or game slow downs. Been playing on the TV about 90% of the time. Ran fine on my OLED too.

Oh and also trying to play Epic Mickey Rebrushed on my Series X. But that game is not quite as much fun as I remembered.

@Teksette I had a friend down the street that owned an Intellivison and I would go over and play with him. Was impressed with the games he had. But I later got a Starpath Supercharger for my Atari and it wound up blowing those Intellivision games out of the water. Then when I got my ColecoVision (actually got 2 — first one broke right after the warranty expired) I never looked back. Arcade quality at home. My time was spent seeing how high of a score I could get on Donkey Kong. Soon after this I started dating and didn't keep up with gaming until after I was married. Next system was a N64. Still the ColecoVision is one of my favorite systems of all time.

I'm curious the age breakdown of your readers. Am I an outlier being in my mid-50s or are there still lots of us around that have been gaming since the days of Atari and ColecoVision?

@Teksetter The ColecoVision was just the best. It blew Atari and Intellivision out of the water when launched. I love it so much I found someone selling a poster sized original launch ad a couple of years ago and its framed on the wall of my office.

@GuitarAnthony I would really love a solid ColecoVision compilation. Have the ColecoVision Flashback and a ton of excellent games were left off. Have a working original CV, but trying to connect to a modern TV for a bit of nostalgia is a pain.

This is on my list, but I am wondering the graphics are okay on this? Actually leaning towards getting this on my Series X. Or, it might just depend where it goes on sales. I had it on the Wii, but probably only played about a third.

I own a marketing agency and have been using AI for the past 2 years and it has made a dramatic difference in the quality of work myself and my team can put out. I would encourage them to leverage AI in ways not thought of.

Perhaps they could use it to find the very limits of their hardware, so that they could better optimize their code for it, leading to improved frame rates. Maybe it could lead to more optimized code for smoother gameplay or smaller file sizes.

A great use for it would be for project management, to better keep an entire team on task.

Treat it like a tool not as a replacement for human creativity, strategy, or talent.

@Tendogamerxxx All excellent points. Agreed. Treat it like the tool it is.

I have been waiting for this announcement since it was teased earlier this year. Really looking forward to this. I also hope the DLC packs are reasonably priced too though.

@Zeebor15 I thought that was kind of an odd announcement too. But, I love Metal Jesus and have subscribed to his channel for years. Still, surprising.

@Zeldinion Appreciate it. Scanned the article and just missed that.

What do these Amiibo provide in game? I don't care about having figurines. What do they add to Splatoon 3? Do they add anything to any other Nintendo games?

I still don't know what the amiibo do in the game? Does it give you something extra? Do only Splatoon amiibo work or do any of the other Nintendo amiibo? Other than to look at why would I want this.

For what it's worth, been binging my way through Splatoon 3's story mode for the past week and just got to level 5.

Bought Splatoon 3 last time it went on sale, a while back, but just opened it for the first time a week ago. Been cranking my way through the single player campaign. Have made it all the way to level 5. Hoping to complete it this week. I am enjoying the single player more in this game than in 1 or 2. Only got about halfway through the single player in 1 and 2. Also got the DLC for 2, but only a quarter of the way through it. Anyway as you can tell really like the single player in 3 and looking forward to checking out the multiplayer and the rest of the game in the coming weeks.

Many others have mentioned it, but Starlink: Battle for Atlas has been one of my favorite games on the Switch. I got into it about 6 months after it came out and picked up the digital edition. Waited for much of the DLC to become extremely discounted. Great game, and one of the DLC packs is a full on racing game, similar to that Star Wars racing game. I sunk a ridiculous number of hours into the game and think I last left off at about 2/3 of the way through. Keep meaning to go back, but have a giant backlog of games. Still super enjoyable. And, I did wind up mainly playing with the Starfox crew.

@Dang_69 Thank you. Some time when I have a bit more patience and between other games I'll go back and try to get past that area. I'd really like to finish the game off sometime.

I have this on the 3DS, but only remember playing maybe a third of it. Yeah, I'll double dip and get this. But first need to finish the one on the Switch. I'm stuck in a boss level — the one with the dinosaur. Played it a couple of times and just got frustrated with that boss and put it down.

NintendoLife, I love y'all, but seriously how can you forget Zen Star Wars Pinball. There are 19 excellent Star Wars pinball tables. That's how I started my day. Then I jumped over to Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga (on my XBox Series X, because you know).

I want a new De Blob game, and last I checked they hold the license.

Here is another thought. What if Microsoft really is about to roll out a XBox portable unit similar to the Switch or Steamdeck. What is the chance Nintendo wants their next system to adequately be able to fend it off and to be able to compete for the next 5-8 years. And, so such requires a beefier chipset from Nvidia - hence hardware delays. Just a crazy ass thought from some old guy who has been watching this play out since the 70s.

When our kids were little we used to watch this show. Most of the jokes were really for the parents. This looks like a fun trip.

It's a stupid trope that I have heard since a kid. I'm 54 and video gaming is my favorite hobby, but I'm also an endurance cyclist and run my own business. These are ignorant people. I'm also in Toastmasters and encountered a mother last night in my meeting who was shocked that I actually encouraged my 3 kids to play video games growing up. Really outdated thinking.

Happy Birthday NintendoLife. I've been a member since 2009, and visited the site often before I became a member. I love the community you have fostered here. This feels like the one place we can come and share our thoughts and for the most part they are positively appreciated.

And, kudos to your entire editorial team. For many years now I come to NL before going to IGN — more solid Nintendo news and more articles that Nintendo fans want to read. And huge shoutout for supporting us readers during the Wii U years!

Also a big shoutout to the video team. The entire team is fantastic, huge fan of Zion and Alex. And Felix seems to be a great recent addition. But that's enough waffling let's dive right in 😉.

All my best to your company and I hope we're all here in another 18 years!

Been enjoying Ruined King, another LOL story. Like that this has a similar art style. Looking forward to checking out.

@Teksetter ColecoVision Donkey Kong was an amazing game. I spent a ridiculous amount of time with it in my youth. Thought it was pretty fantastic that at the time, prior to the NES, the CV port was so much more impressive than the other console ports.

So nice I bought it twice. First on the Switch, and then for the improved graphics on the Series X. The graphics were actually fairly close between the two, but the Series X provided 60fps. I wound up buying all the DLC too long before the game wound up on Game Pass.

I am so looking forward to this game but going to save it as a Christmas present to myself. Wish a Switch 2 was out to play on, but until then will probably wind up getting it on the Series X again.

That is okay, most of all the games I am playing are on my Switch and I have a backlog that will last me many years.

That is awesome. Love that they are keeping him on staff.

@KevinP Don't compare it to Zelda and just view it as its own game and you will have an amazing time. Really fun game with great story and setting.

@Not_Soos After all the patches, it wound up looking really great on the Switch. That said, I'd still like to give it a try on my Series X.

That is annoying as I was really looking forward to the sequel. I absolutely loved this game! I tried playing BOTW twice and sunk 20 hours into it without hooking me. This game got me from the beginning. Loved its story, found it funny at times with some great twists. I'm not a huge fan of combat in games, but somehow the combat really hooked me. I loved the constant leveling up. Did not like the harder portal puzzles though.

Now, I did wind up getting back into BOTW and it hooked me and I sunk 160+ hours into it. But, Immortals Fenyx Rising was really great.

I played a good chunk of Unleashed on the Switch. Then I bought it on the XBox Series X for better graphics/framerate. Truth is I couldn't tell that much difference. I wound up buying all dlc and sinking more than 70 hours into it... only for it to come to GamePass just as I was about finished with it. Not a huge racing game fan, but this game just hit all the right buttons for me. Yes, I am looking forward to a sequel.

I bought 3 for my 3DS after the amazing reviews. This was, my first pocket monsters style game. Tried playing Pokemon Sun & Moon afterwards. Yo-Kai Watch 3 hooked me like Pokemon really couldn't. And, it has some of the best graphics the 3DS has put out. Also one of the largest-sized 3DS games too. I want them to bring 4 and maybe something new to the Switch.

I just want to know if my wolf amiibo from Wii U's Twilight Princess HD will still join me in my game when I scan him?

Tinykins is my game of the year. It hit at just the right time. Absolutely loved it.

My favorite game that I started this year. Actually played on Gamepass. Really fun, addicting, and the whole damn thing kept me happy the entire time. Great about the DLC, but I'm hoping that it sells enough to get a sequel.

I think it is pretty great they are taking this DLC and spreading it out the entire next year. Now when I finish playing the 1st game and it's DLC I bought I will still be hearing about why I should play the 2nd game.

Can you play single player or is it strictly multiplayer?

This is a great way to relive some nostalgia from my youth with better graphics. Looks like fun. Hope it is.

@Clyde_Radcliffe they never looked that good. It is a remake with improved stylized graphics.

Great game. Bought a couple of years ago, but only about 1/2 way through. Need to finish so I can play the Donkey Kong DLC I bought with it.

I was looking forward to a sequel, but I'm a bit leery of this one because of the more freeform movement. But, I'm sure it will be fine.

Dang, I haven't finished the TinTin game on the Wii!! I better get cracking. I am a huge comic strip fan. Sad this was never big stateside. But, really wish I could get some digital compilations. From what I have read I like the characters, and I loved that movie version from many years ago.