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Thank goodness. Maybe the underperformance of all this game key launch titles hit home.

Now if they’ll do a Yakuza 0 re-release as an actual game card, the world will heal.

Well no wonder NL’s review said they couldn’t try out Gameshare!

@DaGoldenBoo RIP AND TEAR UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE!!!

…wait, wrong franchise.

1/10 too much banana. Literally unplayable.

Can’t wait to get my copy and amiibo tomorrow!

I just want a Shadow Labrynth review, dangit! I already know Bananza will be good!

I’ll try it for free. But I sincerely doubt I’d ever pay money for robot wheelchair basketball.

Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, who knows?

@CalibanKenobi That definitely sounds like a hardware issue to me. Mine has been flawless and read every single card without issue, S1 or S2.

You might want to reach out to Nintendo!

@CalibanKenobi What card reader issue is this? I’ve experienced no issues with either my game cart or sdcard slot on my S2, curious what you’re referring to.

@SirLink Whatever faith I have in Nintendo would have gone up in smoke, I tell you that!

I’ve seen the Xbox physical disc of this on clearance for $10 round my area, and I admire the intestinal fortitude that the publisher has for charging $50 for this port!

That said, doesn’t look bad. I presume the physical version will be a key card, as is sadly usual.

Edit: confirmed, key card. Game will be around 40 GB download.

@Thomystic Reusing assets can be a very good thing.

Case in point: Yakuza/Like a Dragon games. A main game comes out, then a side game like Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii comes out and runs like a madman.

I’m glad I got my physical copy the day after my S2 was bought. It’s nice being able to pop the card into my S1 and S2 and continue playing in either, since both versions use the same save file!

Solid 8 for me. Not perfect but fun.

Still wish Bananza had been THE launch title, but the first new console Mario Kart game since the freaking Wii U was also worth it!

@JohnnyMind I will say that I was ambivalent about getting the Pro Controller 2, since my orginal works beautifully.

Very glad I did. It feels better in my hands, and the headphone jack is a blessing!

@Olliemar28 All good, that’s a huge turn off for me on any third party controllers for sure. Appreciate the info!

@SirLink Figures. Makes sense but still disappointing.

I assume rumble isn’t supported? I saw no mention of it either way at all.

I think time is already telling. Out of the three S2 owners I know personally (four, including myself) all of us are avoiding key cards like the plague.

Purely anecdotal, but I know I’d have bought Yakuza 0 at the least if it wasn’t this abomination of a format.

It’s a dang good game. I look forward to revisiting it when the Switch 2 update hits!

Sigh.

Guess I’ll hold onto my PS1 disc for the foreseeable. Such a shame that a great game got this treatment.

I have to admit, this game definitely interests me.

I’m glad this team is doing well! They deserve it.

Now bring on some XC Switch 2 performance patches!

@TheExile285 I hate Best Buy, but they sadly do remain the best option. Target never has in-store pickup preorders, and even though BB failed me with a couple of big releases (FF16 for one) they’ve been mostly okay recently.

Just wish they still sold blu-ray movies. Had SO many good deals through them.

@nhSnork I learned this by watching the Welcome Tour!

….on YouTube of course.

@RootsGenoa One more pointless thing to swap out, plus longer cables exist with as good as or better quality.

This is excellent news. I got it for Switch originally, got tired of the massive loading times and show performance. Ended up snagging for PS as well.

I’ll love playing this game at full performance on Switch, finally!

@Beczkast So I assume you’re in medical school at the moment?

@Orwellian87 Eh, this is like railing against the M.2 SSD requirement on the PS5 for PS5 native games. Access speed is a large bottleneck and should be reduced whenever possible. I’m happy they went with faster storage/game cards, even if it means my handy 1 TB microsd will stay in my OLED Switch for the foreseeable.

@KayFiOS By adding more internal storage. Which you can also do with the Switch 2.

Sony went non-proprietary SSD with M.2. MS went proprietary SSD with overpriced and slower expansion slot cards. Both generate heat that a portable system would have to deal with. Nintendo went non-proprietary with another microsd format that’s appreciably faster than it uses before and won’t generate the large heat amount that SSDs do. Production of said cards just needs to be ramped up, that’s all.

This isn’t Nintendo’s fault, and somehow saying that Nintendo doesn’t let you expand internal storage is very inaccurate.

My 512 GB Onn card bought from Walmart for a little over $60 will continue to be my gold standard for pricing.

Dang. Glad I still have the original PS1 disc. I’d rather dig my PS1/2/3 out of storage and fire up the orginal now.

Oh no, foliage was made by non-humans.

I’m sure that will destroy the authenticity of this game and make it literally unplayable.

Seeing all the reactions to this brings to mind that little meme where someone (me) is having fun playing whatever race comes up, intermission or not, and someone to the side is listing all the reasons MKW is horrible and screams “STOP HAVING FUN!!!!!!!”

The screen in the S2 is fine for my purposes.

But then again…I play in docked 99.9% of the time so my only real experience with the screen is taking it to work the week after launch and playing a couple MKW races with friends. The screen isn’t perfect, and with how much more powerful the rest of the unit is, I can sadly see Nintendo going with a cheaper display to balance the costs.

Sadly, this is why I don’t buy used Switch games. Too much risk of this.

All of DF’s critiques are quite valid. Absolutely not game breaking, and none of them detract from my own personal experience, especially the sceeen. (especially since I play docked 99.9% of the time)

People take even the slightest criticism of their favorite thing as a blood vendetta these days. The S2 ain’t perfect by any means, but I still love mine.

“I don’t understand why people don’t like game key cards!”

Then you either a) don’t actually understand the concept, b) understand the concept but don’t like anyone badmouthing [insert company here] or c) have no problem likely losing access to that game in the future. Or d) You’re trolling.

@Eririichi In fairness, Sony wasn’t cutting off access to existing purchase redownloads for PS3/PSP/Vita. Just the actual storefronts themselves for new purchases. That PS3/Vita storefront closure is what was stopped, but even if it had gone through people would still have been able to redownload games and DLCs they’ve already claimed.

So ex-PR flacks assert a thing while never having actually been developers.

Okeydoke. Totally believable and reputable.

“BuT ItS jUsT a PoRtAbLe PS4!1!!1!1!1 iTll fAiL CoMpLeTelY!1!1!1!”

I love my PS5, but PS plus Switch 2 is now the best gaming combo, replacing PS and Switch 1.

@Polvasti Well that’s good! I’m leery of dropping money on it in the eShop (since I CAN’T on the S2, I’d have to use the web!) until it’s confirmed fixed by Squeenix or Nintendo. It’s mostly a triple-dip situation anyway, since I have the PS disc and digitally on XBox already.

Nier Automata is still incompatible, according to the S2 store. Same with Chrono Cross.

Dangit.

@Medic_alert You’re not wrong. It’s just that Rune Factory games are far more niche than others. So even with all things being equal it isn’t going to sell as much as others. As much as you and I might hate that. :/

@Gryffin my perspective? It’s digital-only with extra steps. Still eats your internal storage, has no actual game on the card, and whenever Nintendo shuts down those download servers (a time likely far in the future, for sure, but it will happen) that “game card” will only be good for curiosities/display and nothing more.

If that’s the case, might as well buy the digital version directly and save the hassle of swapping cards. Embrace non-ownership! But I guess all of us who got Switch 2s know we don’t really own the console anyway…

I bought Cyberpunk and RF: Guardians of Azuma at launch.

Why? Because they were actually game cards and not game KEY cards.

I’d have picked up Yakuza 0 as well, but I’ll just wait for a digital sale. No reason to get it “physically.”

@Medic_alert They got a physical sale from me and I’m enjoying the game more than I thought I would! They deserve to sell a lot of copies.

@Gamer83 You may not want to hear it, but that’s exactly why I haven’t bought Yakuza 0 on Switch 2. Most PS games are absolutely on the disc, with only small bug fix patches needing download. Every other Yakuza/Like a Dragon game on PS, for example…

PlayStation seems to be the only holdout on having the games ON the disc, with certain publishers being the exceptions. totally doesn’t look at MS, Ubisoft, EA, etc

@The_Nintend_Pedant Anything is removable, for a given definition of “removed”

@ear_wig I console myself by knowing it’s the film that got scratched. My screen itself is just fine, and if I want to risk removing it down the road, I can. Thank goodness I’m a mostly-docked player, otherwise it might bother me a lot more!

@Joeynator3000 I have no idea what I did! Two previous Switches before this, ZERO scratches. The S2? Scratched within a few days.

I treat my electronics well, make sure to never have anything close to hitting the screen other than my fingers, but this time around…

My OG Switch was completely scratch free when I sold it to a friend last year and got an OLED. Never had a screen protector on it.

My OLED is still scratch free to this day. Never had a screen protector on it.

My Switch 2 somehow got two scratches in the middle of the screen within the first three days. It never left my home and I was insanely careful docking it.

Ah, well. The streak had to end sometime.

I’ve triple-and-a-half dipped on this, with physical PS4 discs (bought for around ten bucks when the game was utterly broken, expecting the free PS5 update), PS5 Ultimate digitally, Series X Ultimate physically and now Switch Ultimate physically.

They took a train wreck and got it into an amazingly well done state. Happy to support this game. Also happy cross-saves are supported.

My wisdom in keeping my OLED Switch has borne out for now.

Do not get me wrong. I love my Switch 2 and you can pry it out of my cold dead hands. But it’s never bad to have a device with a better battery (even if it’s due to being less powerful, and not an actually BETTER battery) as a backup!

@AstroTheGamosian Thankfully I have enough PTO at a company that encourages you to take it that I could manage a couple days off. But I respect your stance for sure! Just saying that opportunities existed and still do as Target/BB are still getting stock ever few days. Best of luck to you!

@AstroTheGamosian I’ve had three Switch 2s in my possession since launch. One from being in line at Best Buy, one from a Target preorder I wasn’t able to cancel (immediately returned it to my local Target minutes after it was delivered!) and one via a GameStop reservation I made in-store for a friend the day after preorders went live. They got theirs release day after I ran it over to them.

There were MANY opportunities this time around and Nintendo flooded us with consoles in most areas of the US. Heck, GameStop had extras the night before release one could have reserved as well, if there was one nearby.

I will say also that I NEVER heard from Nintendo on the whole buying interest thing. Radio silence. Glad I didn’t put all my hopes in that. Or any.