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@Gryffin Why else would I own a Switch? I also have a PS5 and Series X. I play the games where it’s most convenient for me.

Portability only gets used (for me, anyway) when I go visit relatives and I bring it along. Even then, it usually stays in my luggage.

I love Mario Kart, Mario games in general since the NES days, etc.

If you’re putting any part of your finger between the switch 2 and joy-con when attaching it…you clearly don’t know what you’re doing.

@JokerCK Yes, and the series S is between the PS4 and PS5.

Tell me you didn’t actually read the article without telling me you didn’t actually read the article.

My option was “I don’t care” since I play my Switch and Switch 2 docked 99.9% of the time.

@Anti-Matter Okay. Your feelings are meaningless when talking about actual hard sales numbers, though. Doesn't matter what launch made you feel whatever.

Oh, the folks who couldn’t do the job they were supposed to and fix KOTOR 2 like they promised?

No thanks.

Skipping this, have a RDS Game Traveller on the way. Looks decent, though!

@mr12calvin To each their own. Mine was in the bundle so I definitely didn't spend $80.

And MKW was definitely a system seller for me, been wanting something different from MK8 for two console generations now.

“it's really not good, with Kiryu being particularly terrible”

This is why I can’t use Yakuza/LAD English dubs. The miscast of Kiryu is just egregious.

@Medic_alert Same, I popped the card in, launched, said YAY! and then updated it after…and watched what I expected to be a small update just keep on going.

@Medic_alert Its the patch. if you don't update the game, it plays the Switch 2 version directly from the card. If you update it, it installs a fair bit of data on the internal storage. I'm thinking it might be all the English voice acting as well, I don't THINK that's on the S2 cart natively. I started the unpatched version, and Japanese voiceover was there from the start. Then I updated and all of a sudden it was English voices. I may test this later to see if English voice is available without the patch.

So the Switch 2 has been out for…what, not even 48 hours now? No one got units ahead of time.

That’s a pretty quick turnaround time to completely review a full game and the DLC.

I see what you did with the score, btw!

@Jester676 Hey, remember when you were adamant that Switch 2 game cards just WOULD NOT WORK in a Switch 1?

Got this game last night. The Switch 2 red box that clearly states it works in both. Popped it in my OLED Switch. Runs fine. Popped it in the Switch 2. Switch 2 version runs fine from the game card.

Just wanted to let you know, so you can accept the truth!

In a world where Astro’s Playroom exists, this is a slap in the face.

@DTfearTheBEARD Id like to think I’ll be patient. The only reasons I upgraded were a) friend desired a Saitch and b) I wanted a newer version with improved battery. I don’t use my Switch in portable mode often, but when I do it has to last a while!

Now, unless it’s a Switch 2 native or patched game involved, my OLED Switch may remain my portable console and the 2 will stay happily ensconced in its cooling dock. Maybe. Perhaps!

Got my Switch at launch, then last year I sold it to a friend who wanted one and put the proceeds towards an OLED model.

Holding onto my OLED for the time being, even with my Switch 2 on order. Both for the backwards compatibility issues to be worked out, plus the OLED has a freaking 1 TB sdcard in it and the 2 is definitely not getting that level of storage for a bit!

@PALversusNTSC it uh…it doesn’t exceed max cartridge space. That is 64GB. MKW is 21.9. No exceeding happening.

@OorWullie For pure storage purposes I’d be 100% fine with it. Like I said, though, I don’t see Nintendo doing this anytime soon. But it would definitely be nice to have a 1 TB HD connected to my dock to juggle games!

This is coming from someone who has an 8 TB external hooked up to his PS5 and a 4 TB external to his Series X.

@OorWullie I sincerely doubt dock-based external storage will ever happen. Nintendo wouldn’t want to implement storage that can be left behind when the system is taken out of the dock, and it’s likely that transfer speeds wouldn’t be acceptable either. Similar to how the PS5 won’t let you play PS5 native games from an external device but only from built in/M.2 slot storage. Especially given the faster microsd required for this gen.

The answer from Nintendo will boil down to, “what, you can’t afford a bigger card? Get a second or third job, plebe!”

@Bigmanfan As a Yakuza fan who owns them all physically, even importing The Man Who Erased His Name, I will absolutely complain since this isn’t getting a real physical release.

There. Enjoy!

@KociolekDoSyta C64? Luxury. I was raised on the VIC 20 with a cassette drive!

This is not a joke, I might add. Still have that VIC 20 in storage!

“Nooooooo, boot spoilers!!!! Now I can’t boot my Switch 2 without feeling somehow cheated out of the experience!!!!”

• my impression of some people who actually exist, frighteningly.

@illmatic20xx Thet case is about the price of a switch 1 dock bought separately was. Blows my mind.

@spiderman0616 I am happy to be one of those you do not comprehend!

$89.99.

Dear god.

As someone else said, I’ll wait for the Amazon knockoffs to spring up. That price is ludicrous.

Oh yeah, this app exists. Forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me to delete it from my phone!

Movie bombs. Borderlands 3 is meh. The solution? Why, DOUBLE THE BUDGET FOR 4! Surely a lack of money thrown into the furnace was the source of all their ills!

I’m going to enjoy watching this game fail. I won’t even feel bad about it, even when I’m told to like when Suicide Squad and Veilguard tanked.

I think Dorkly had a rather…disturbing video on the effects of constant mushroom consumption on poor Mario…

Wow, a company doing physical releases right, what a novelty!

Thank Goodness You’re Here is fantastic and this is coming from a filthy American!

I’m sure a Switch 2 version would be a game key card release anyway, easily skippable.

The entire universe is cookies and I am here for it.

But can we remap the useless (to me, anyway) C button to something useful? (to me, anyway)

I would enjoy seeing this. The devs seem excellent, I’ve been playing it on PS5 and having a good time. I could be tempted to triple dip with a Switch 2 version (bought digitally on PS5 and was able to snag a physical XBox copy randomly at a local Gamestop!) to support these folks.

@N00BiSH Shhh, don’t throw facts in to mitigate the outrage! It’ll just confuse em!

@Serpenterror You can’t thibk of a reason to lock access to a portable device, game system or not, to yourself only? Seriously? Why would you NOT be able to lock it, is my question. The PS5 and XBox S/X have pin locks, and they’re not exactly what one would call easily portable.

It’s rather ridiculous that the OG Switch, a portable device, had no way to lock the device beyond parental controls.

Glad Nintendo finally did this, though a generation too late. Even the PS Vita had a passcode lock ability.

It seems like this review has a lot of story spoilers. Is that the case, or is this all surface stuff that really doesn’t reveal too much? Genuinely curious as I’m rather interested in this game.

@Splash_Woman Ah, good ol Rule 34!

When I saw that headline, I remembered that Marliece Andrada was in Gex 3 and I had a VERY different idea of what “blow-up doll” was going to mean.

Whew.

@Jedrus_Lilac Same. That and Twilight Princess are the main reasons I still have my Wii U in the first place!

“Here’s unchanged footage of the original version instead of the better Wii U version we’ll sell you again in a couple of years!”

@N00BiSH Challenge accepted: WWHD better!

@sanderev And since not everyone uses third party controllers, it’s still useful information.

Part of me was hoping they’d recast Kiryu’s English VA. I couldn’t take his voice in Infinite Wealth, just doesn’t fit the character at all.

That said, all you folks who get to play 0 for the first time will have a blast!

CDPR will get a third Cyberpunk purchase from me due to this.

No game key card for S2 will get a purchase from me new. Ever.

What a total and complete shock.

To no one.

The Switch 2 is looking worse and worse with all these game key card releases. At least Nintendo themselves aren’t pulling this crap. Definitely looking like it’s going to be first party releases only for the foreseeable, with my PS5 handlng all the third party stuff. Though I’ll probably triple-dip on Cyberpunk, at least they have the guts to put the game on the cart!

@Tott It was two blu-rays on the series X, and required an internet connection to install the first time.

I think it’ll probably be a key card release. Because Ubisoft.

@Zeldinion My point is that you said you saw nothing inflammatory. If anyone can look at that statement and say, “Yeah, that’s totally not inflammatory” then they’re already terminally online and there’s no hope.

The fact you said “maybe” also worries me…

So many people here are either deliberately misunderstanding what is meant by “political” or don’t care because their own particular stance is supported.

I don’t come to NL for scintillating political commentary. If that was here, I wouldn’t BE here. I come for gaming news. If something happens in real life that affects said gaming, cool. But I don’t need political slants on things coming from my gaming news site. Facts, sure. Those are awesome. Tarrifs impact game/hardware prices, good to know. Game delayed by war, understood.

Polygon couldn’t stop themselves from inserting political opinions into a lot of things, so I VERY rarely visited them. Kotaku…is Kotaku and enough said there. More power to you if you can take that site. Never interacted with Giant Bomb so I have no knowledge of anything happening there.

My gaming news is down to three sites now these days: Push Square, NL and Pure XBox. Mostly because of that very lack of extraneous stuff.

The only way I’ll get one of these is if I see one for dirt cheap used somewhere.

These faux game cards plus MS announcing those price increases today is really making me want to just make the PS5/Series X/Switch 2 my last console generation and focus on my backlog from now on. If I even keep my S2 preorder.