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@Wewewi Doom Eternal exists for Switch 1, and still played and sold well. And that sucker was reduced in res far more than THIS likely will be.

It’s genuinely a good game. If the Series S version wasn’t horrible (and it wasn’t) then this won’t be either.

@Jamie64326 …agree to disagree on that. I’ve held my nose and given them money under protest before.

@Jamie64326 My interest waned the moment I saw LRG involvement, but I hope for an actual general physical release even so.

I think we all know this will be a game key card, assuming it even gets a physical edition.

That said, I enjoyed this on Series X. Hope it runs well on the S2!

Well, at least we can be somewhat sure the full game will be on the card since it’s a Switch 1 release. That’s a good thing!

@MegaChem Anecdotally, I bought it based on seeing some of the gameplay and because it was a fully physical Switch 2 game.

So they made at least one sale based on me buying it. I wouldn’t have bought it at release (or at all, physically) if it was a game key card.

@Ravenmaster Nintendo themselves have said that the dock fans are ONLY for cooling the dock. The console takes care of its own cooling. They even cover this in the Welcome Tour (which I watched on YouTube instead of buying, of course.)

Its to reduce the heat the dock itself generates.

FYI, for your blurb about the Nintendo made dock: the fan in the S2 dock is to keep the DOCK itself cool. It doesn’t cool down the S2, its own cooling system does that.

Robots in wheelchairs playing basketball was an intensely dumb idea. Especially when the robots all have legs and weren’t integrated into the chairs as part of the design.

After playing the jam this weekend, this remains my opinion and the horrible controls did nothing to change my mind. They were clunky and uninspiring even as a tech demo.

This is $20 I’ll put towards my Kirby S2 upgrade instead.

At least it didn’t come as a complete shock. They saw it coming.

Picked the game up on Woot for about $20 less than retail, and holding onto it till the upgrade releases. First time playing it. Fired it up to check out the tutorial stage and to see how it runs, so I can compare after upgrade.

@Spider-Kev Ah, gotcha. Glad I haven’t snagged D2 for Switch then! And I didn’t even notice that I wasn’t online with D3, I’ll have to check that tonight. Thanks!

@Spider-Kev Diablo 2 and 3 are broken on Switch 2? What happens? I could have sworn I played some D3 on S2 and didn’t have any issues.

Sure would be nice if Nintendo would bother updating the compatability lists on their own website.

@Teksette Funny, the same thing happens with physical games, too…

@mattitudemf Techbically very few really REQUIRE it. If I had an offline PS5, 99% of the disc games out there would play just fine. There might be bugs but they’d play.

The only exceptions are recent MS-published and Ubisoft games, and of course games that require you to be online.

Obviously this is a distinction that doesn’t make us disagree on the common point of “dear god, just put the game on the freaking disc/card!”

@KayFiOS They won’t. They won’t do anything to make people less interested in these games during the presentation. Gotta do the legwork ourselves!

@Suketoudara Ahh. That makes sense. Love those regional differences!

@ShieldHero This is the way.

Persona 5 Royal is ALL on the cart and has no patches currently. I can attest to that at least.

@kmtrain83 I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

@PikminMarioKirby I have bad news for you, at least for the Switch 2 version…

@mattitudemf People keep using that excuse to justify stuff like this. Not every game has a day 1 patch. Not every game is unplayable without an update.

I miss the days when a game actually ships COMPLETED.

The game keys are especially egregious since space is far more limited on the S2. On a PS5 or Series S/X you can always offload a game to an external hard drive or something.

@ShieldHero It is a key card, at least according to the Japanese Atlus site.

@MeerkatSimples Seems like everyone is doubling down on them.

This is just making me buy the PS version of all these released games. At least the actual game is (usually)on the disc and it isn’t a glorified download voucher.

stares at all the key-card releases

Well, it was nice to be excited about my Switch 2 for a while, anyway. Wanted to triple-dip on P3R but that isn’t happening now.

Key card release, at least in Japan.

Well, it was nice to want to buy this game again for a little while.

@jojobar Why would you NOT want more hours of Yakuza/Like a Dragon joy?

@ShieldHero Understandable! I grew up when the NES was top of the line gaming tech, so I haven’t had to worry about that for a long time. Or at all, really!

When you’re able to, though…wow, are you in for a treat.

@DTfearTheBEARD I suggest moving Metaphor further up your backlog list if you can. I thoroughly loved my time with that on PS, and I’ve been considering a new game plus for a bit!

@ShieldHero Well…sadly I have some bad news for you there. P3 and P5 tackle some VERY mature themes and there are a few f-bombs. 5 more than 3 but 3 still has heavy heavy themes.

They ain’t sweetness and light, that’s for sure. They LOOK sweetness and light at times, but they definitely are not.

It isn’t crudeness for the sake of crudeness. There is a reason for it all, and it isn’t gratuitous. If you can handle mature reading material, I can’t imagine you couldn’t handle this.

Think more Stephen King than GTA.

@ShieldHero Persona is turn-based. Very stylish, very elemental vulnerability based.

Think of it as a combo of a Dragon Quest style JRPG, a school life simulator, and a Pokemon style persona collecting game.

And P3 and 5 have two of the best dang game soundtracks in history. You will want to crank the volume UP.

@Switching Maybe. I know I’m loving it on PS for sure.

The best console combo right now is a PS5 and Switch 2, as far as I’m concerned. And I say this also owning a Series X.

Switch 2 owners should pray for a Forza Horizon 5 release. That and 4 were the only reasons I kept my Series X last year, and I am NOT a racing guy!

I have mild interest. I enjoyed it on iPad way back when.

@ShieldHero P3-5 are well worth your time. I’d put Persona 5 Royal in my personal top 10 of all time, in my 40+ years of gaming!

@Switching Well, I wouldn’t go that far…PS still has Clair Obscur and Switch 2 doesn’t.

Yet.

@deecas I have it on disc for PS5 and Series X (technically XBox one, but smart delivery, bleh) and if they can release (admittedly lower res) P5 on a real game card then by gum they can release P3R on card as well!

@Jeronan Same. I’d have loved a P5 upgrade, paid or otherwise.

Physical version.

Please god let it not be a key card. If it’s an honest to god game on card release I’ll triple dip on this sucker.

For anyone seeing this article, as of June 19th the eShop shows the issues were resolved with an update.

Key card.

Not complete.

@Orpheus79V Good gods. Thanks for the info!

What is the download size, out of curiosity?

That’s a funny way to say, “cheaper for us to make.”

Sometimes you feel a little down about your life.

Then you read an article like this and think, “You know, my life is pretty good.”

Picked up Outlaws on Series X disc (which is a joke, since it still requires internet and a download to install) for like $20 a few months back.

It…isn’t fantastic. Blame can be spread around on this one, Disney for being bleh and Ubisoft for making a very Ubisoft game.

I may go back to it someday if I get bored, but I definitely wouldn’t get it on S2 unless you can get a discount.

@nocdaes I don’t disagree it’s overpriced. But again…if you’re a Nintendo-only gamer, one’s options for playing a seven year old PS4 game are rather limited.

@Medic_alert Freedom doesn’t hinder, but to each their own!

@nocdaes Because people like portability, and it’s just possible they don’t have a gaming PC or other consoles?

Just a guess.

@Medic_alert Yup!

You could always just have a self-imposed “I will only destroy what I have to” and then you’d have what you want.

Or just enjoy getting what you get and don’t feel somehow let down by not getting there in a way the devs thought you would.

@Medic_alert There are still puzzles that require more than brute-force.

Plus this lets you discover hints in new ways the devs might not have thought of! Play it your way, it’s an open world game! You can always just…not randomly smash all over. It’s an option, not a requirement.

I…really want that Atari 2600.

The most fun I’ve had with a Nintendo game since…well, since Mario Odyssey, really.

I’ll go off onto random exploration tangents (read: smash random things because money smash is fun) and then realize, “oh yeah, I should probably do that story thing!” and get back on track an hour later.

Best Hulk game I’ve ever played.

This is what I was waiting for.

I just wish Bananza and this didn’t release in the same week! Glad to see this isn’t a buggy mess, the total lack of reviews ANYWHERE this close to release was starting to worry me.