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I think it helps that Nintendo's games tend to not have heaps of voice lines and textures that take up literal tens of gigabytes like some UE5 type games etc.

But yes still, impressive they keep sizes so compact.

Just please give us an actual release date soon. I'm amazed we haven't had any indication other than "2025", which don't get me wrong, is far better than nothing, but yeah.

@ATHFjman18 I mean, if it made some kids go outside and get some vitamin D, that ain't a bad thing

@joeyflannel Haha, very good point

I don't think I'd spend much time with it, but I love seeing people enjoy things at such a level of something that I myself may find mundane.

It reminds me of a video I saw on YouTube where one of the guys in charge of the art direction in the original Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was walking around a real life forest and admiring and getting inspiration from the colours of plants and moss. I don't think I've spent 10 minutes doing such a thing let alone over an hour that he probably was, but he was absolutely in his element and loving it. And I loved seeing that.

Just a perfect storm I'd say. Expensive console in the first place, limiting people's immediate outlay of cash for full priced games, game key cards, re-releases instead of much new... etc etc.

The situation will get better in time for the third parties I reckon, though I hope it includes a move away from key-cards. Or IMO key card games should be ever so slightly cheaper than the physical media.

Honestly still tossing up. Yes it looks superb. It's just at the current new game price points, I have to really weigh up if it's something I'm likely to sink lots of hours into.

I agree with the general sentiment about this DK, but nothing can top Samus for me. I just wish they would announce a release date

I see Nintendo really was holding a lot back, even in the play testings, cos this looks way better and more feature packed than I thought before.

I'm still just tossing up whether I actually want to dump over $100 AUD on it though, as good as it looks

@Zealv2 doubt it. There's literally hentai games in the eShop.

Just saw this video yesterday, was an instant subscribe for both informative content and unexpected deadpan hilarious jokes.

I always get a screen protector day one, even on used consoles/phones etc lol

@LazyDaisy Nintendo could break into a users home and kill their cat and/or dog and some fans would still defend the company first.

@Sambuc That's ludicrous, if you're just talking about end users. The prisons would be overflowing even more than they already are, including with little Timmy and his mother (being a bit facetious, but you get the point).

I want to give more love to SMK, but something about the graphics actually hurts my eyes even playing it on OG hardware and a CRT. At least, now as an adult, I don't remember it doing that as a kid.

A weird mix of Yakuza 0: Director's Cut, maybe some Split Fiction if I can pry my partner away from her otomes (on the Nintendo side of things), then otherwise on PC I've been replaying the Deus Ex games (currently on Human Revolution after clocking DX1 and DX2) and even playing a grand old oldie for the first time - Beneath a Steel Sky.

Not too sure yet what to think of this one. My worry is Nintendo doing a classic "look at this one cool new thing" and hyping it to oblivion that might get old a bit too quickly one playing it. It will be interesting to see some reviews.

But anyway my favourite DK titles are still the SNES Country series so far.

I already have the game on PC so have already enjoyed the game fairly cranked up and 60 FPS, so I probably won't double dip, but I have to say it's one of the best games I've ever played.

It helps I came to the game not long ago, after it's been patched and refined to high hell, so got to experience it at it's best unlike the early days.

Love my KK2 Pro controller, so hopefully it gets an update

So much for those boycotts...

I mean, it would be funny if Nintendo got sued over this, given how sue-happy they are

I replaced one of my OG Switch joycon sticks with one of GuliKit's hall effect replacements and it's been great ever since. Came as a pack of two so I still have the other one if the other joycon starts drifting.

Not sure how GuliKit solves the magnetic issue but I'm sure they will.

Ultimately I don't think it matters much. The important thing is it is a good step up from the Switch 1 (it had to be) and it has tech like DLSS as well. I think as devs get to know the Switch 2 more we'll be surprised what can be done on it. There were some miracles worked on the OG Switch, so it will be interesting to see what devs manage on the new one as years go by.

I'm not the biggest Mario Kart buff around (nothing against it, it's just something I purely play occasionally with my partner or friend and that's it) but even I was very impressed. It looks and plays beautifully.

English dub does have David Hayter, so that is one little feather in the cap

Yakuza 0: Director's Cut.

Never played a Yakuza game before, so seemed a pretty good place to start.

@DreadfulDragon Well sorry bud but people that are passionate about these things are not going to suddenly be made to shut up just because a random person is tired of seeing it in what is a discussion forum and puts down tens of paragraphs in response despite not caring supposedly. Reads like gatekeeping.

@Old-Red I'm with you. It may well be a losing battle, but just blindly accepting it is partly why it's been able to happen.

I've heard of people refusing to buy the game key card versions, and if enough of them do it to make even a small dent, maybe some more companies will be more like CD Projekt Red and insist on a proper cartridge for physical releases.

My KingKing 2 Pro worked without any issues if anyone has that controller.

I'll stick with my KingKong 2 Pro controller for now. Only negative I think is I won't be able to wake up the console with it AFAIK, but that's not a mega problem if I'm saving the money on a whole new controller.

@Res462 Nintendo fans don't strike me as violent mobs. Calm down, it'll be OK.

@Res462 think you're reading too much into it. Of course they mean customer backlash.

@Anti-Matter fully agree, but I do think it's a nice option for those that don't have the original games/hardware and just want to try some of the classics without jumping through any hoops.

I long for the day the corporate side of Nintendo would be as fun loving and creative as their game creation division.

I don't think it's ever been that way, but I can dream. As it stands they really are the worst kind of corporate monster.

And I'll just add: sure, they have all the right in the world to do what they have. But we the people that pay them money for their products have the right to sh*t on them for things we don't like.

@BirdoDidNothingWrong it's a difficult one for sure. I don't have an obvious fix either, but I think we as consumers at the very minimum need to demand these companies do better at providing long term access and usability for the product they purchased and reducing needless waste as well.

As I said, we've been somewhat fortunate with still having mostly physical copies of games still being a thing, but it's only a matter of time before that changes and kinda already is.

@BirdoDidNothingWrong it's more about longevity and preventing landfill. The only reason my 3DS is still the great device it is, is because of custom firmware and being able to do with it what I please. Sure the 3DS itself still has advantage of physical media, but when consoles eventually go fully online/digital only, one day those devices will be almost useless after their shelf life unless they can be modded and controlled.

Honestly people should be supportive of this if only to be in support of recycling and preventing needless e-waste, therefore the health of the planet.

The only thing more gross than Nintendo's legal aggression are some of people defending the billion dollar company like they are so hard done by.
If emulation and modding isn't your thing, well go on with life, you're not affected anyway, but modding and being able to have actual control of the hardware you buy is important so the rest of us will always advocate that. Otherwise these corpos do what they want and the consumer suffers.