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@AussieMcBucket

The HDR sounds really good. Glad to see Nintendo/Retro nailing it.

@OmnitronVariant

1) Games don’t have to be exclusive to look good

2) There’s more than 3

About what I expected. Been on the fence about this but the reviews are selling it to me.

@Ganon821

That’s the same Nintendo that delayed the entire N64 to allow Miyamoto time to finish Mario 64

Not my thing but it looks good, and nice to see that extra development time being put to good use

Black Friday price cuts helping increase the Switch 2 shares of FC/Hogwarts/Cyberpunk sales is good to see.

Kirby was never going to do all that well. It’s a spin off and one that looks like an acquired (chaotic, motion sickness inducing) taste. I also think they’d have been better to drop the price a bit given that.

The other thing to bear in mind is sales of everything at this time of year are high. Landing outside the top ten in late November doesn’t mean the same as it does in February.

@romando

There isn’t much ‘room to improve’ without a higher selling price, which would be commercial lunacy.

A second very impressive port from Ubi Soft.

Didn’t see that coming.

This is as weird as when Bethesda were third party kings in the first few months and (apt comparison noted) squashed Doom 2016 into a Switch 1.

It’s a struggle now between the urge to support them and the wait for the inevitable price drops because they broke their own business model.

@Bobobiwan

That’s a great price 🙂

@BaldB3lper78

I think it’s disappointing in some ways, the port itself on S2 seems to have been phoned in, but also playing it in handheld at 60FPS is tremendous fun.

@AverageGamer

Oh give it a rest. People can spend their money however they want and it’s nothing to do with you or anyone else.

I can’t believe after however many years of Digital Foundry we’ve still got people complaining that a site solely set up to minutely analyse technical details is minutely analysing technical details. If you’re not interested in what they have to say, don’t read the article.

@ShadLink

It’s not a review it’s a technical analysis

That’s a nice update!

@Dang_69

Unless the game is 3 hours long in total what we’ve seen is literally “a tiny portion of the game”

@Dang_69

It’s a tiny portion of the game

Some of the hissy fitting going on over this when nobody has played more than an hour or so of the game is amazing

Don’t like the original, the Demo struck me as an improvement but nothing I want to spend £50 on. Also started to get a bit of motion sickness. So it’s a pass from me. Hope those who get it enjoy it.

@jfp

Thanks, I’ll have a watch

So am I right in thinking that the S2 version is basically the PS3 version running at a higher Res and frame rate?

Played it on PS4 and it’s a really excellent game. Might give it another go if we get a proper Switch 2 version.

Very welcome addition to the library though.

@NintendoWife

How everyone perceives value is different and subjective. If you think something is worth the asking price but they don’t they aren’t going to buy it.

@Aswannsong

I read that whole screed in the voice of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.

How do you know any of the people complaining about MP4 are fans of Marvel films?

I haven’t but only one of mine is connected via Ethernet.

I bet it’s an issue with the Switch 2 more than the dock. My Series X needed resetting a couple of times when I changed between signals last year and I’ve a Sky TV Puck that froze constantly when trying to Switch between Ethernet and WiFi.

Still got it in my mind there might be a bit of a bait and Switch going on where a noisy NPC is used in the early stages for tutorials but then disappears to make the isolation more jarring

Pokemon games are very rarely technically impressive, so no surprise there. Doesn’t mean they can’t be fun, but they never seem to be graphically exciting.

Doesn’t sound great but I’ll wait until I see more. The companion character may just be some kind of tutorial section.

FYI Currently £17.99 on Loaded (formerly CDKeys) in the UK

@Max_the_German

There isn’t a Switch 2 physical at all. On Switch 1 there’s a code in a box and more expensive physical. Neither will have the S2 update on, that will have to be downloaded.

@Tainaru

You’re thinking of Code in a Box games, not GKC

Awful.

Those were dark times for Nintendo.

Very satisfied, haven’t run into any issues since Grid Autosport got fixed. There’s still more to do though, such as allowing Switch 1 games to run their docked profile on an undocked Switch 2. I know that would mean more testing but worth giving devs the option. I’d like to see more actual Switch 2 updates especially from third parties but I guess that’s a different thing and will hopefully come as the system continues to sell like mad.

Not something I’m going to be buying but that’s a lot earlier than I expected. Very close behind Mario Tennis.

@Hank_Scorpio

I don’t believe that last sentence is correct. It suggests you’re a person of excellent judgement.

I love this game.

Bit meaningless without actual figures. Getting top 5 in November may well mean more weekly sales than being Number 1 in August, for example.

Given that it's a spinoff, is on Switch 2 only and it's behind the two big football games which are on multiple formats, Pokemon which is on Switch 1 and MKW which is bundled with Switch 2, that's a good result.

It looks alright. Looks like Yoshi. Well done to the designers.

Looks good. Looks like Yoshi. What was required.

@Ultimapunch

Great post. The funniest bit for me is when they make out Nintendo amused to be all cute and cuddly and consumer friendly but have changed. You really have to ignore their history to think that. They’re the same as they ever were.

@Spamwich

Given that Yamauchi was driven by making money I feel confident he’d love what they’ve done with Switch Online.

Bricking Consoles is motivated by concerns over piracy. Yamauchi hated piracy. The industries first lock out chip, the NES10, was on his watch. Cartridges instead of discs in the N64 was Yamauchi.

Nintendo were the bully boys of the industry under Yamauchi. They were insanely litigious and found themselves facing Antitrust cases because of their behaviour.

They won’t get out of their current mess because they aren’t in one. They’re doing really well.

@Spider-Kev

Yamauchi was against DLC? When was this? He was for making money. Nintendos first remakes and remasters happened under his watch. Equally whatever Iwata said about DLC, microtransactions, F2start, Gatcha or whatever else they all happened under him. They were businessmen.

@Ralek85

It’s just simple numbers. For a third party game to be exclusive to Switch 2, Nintendo basically have to pay the third party in a way that would compensate them for the profits they would have made from porting to other platforms. For Nintendo they have to believe that money spent will be worth it in terms of hardware sales. It’s just really hard to justify. Hopefully Nintendo will continue to throw up a few Astral Chain, Bayonetta, Cadence of Hyrule, Duskbloods equivalent. However their first party games are their main profit driver so it will only ever be a small number.

I also don’t share your nostalgia for Wii U, I thought it was dreadful, but that’s another thing 😀

@the_beaver

I thought that. I’d be happy with a lower resolution in fact to get 60FPS in split screen.

1440p60 in Docked and 1080p60 in handheld is very nice on paper

@Ralek85

I think sadly the days of third party exclusives are pretty much gone. Unless Nintendo (or any other platform holder) are paying for them it’s really hard to make money just selling on one platform and ignoring all the others. Even Capcom couldn’t make it work with Monster Hunter Rise.

Yes it’s absolutely excellent. For a long time Nintendo fan it’s actually quite surprising. The first party slate is very solid and the upgrades to Nintendo games are great but I’m spending a lot of time on third party games.

Cyberpunk, Star Wars Outlaws, Hogwarts Legacy, FC 26, Fast Fusion, SF6 and No Man’s Sky are all quality while Madden is on my shopping list and Assassins Creed and Sonic Racing earmarked for the future. Keep them coming please!

It’s great to see such good third party support on a Nintendo system. I’ve already got Cyberpunk, FC 26, Hogwarts, Star Wars Outlaws and No Man’s Sky in my Switch 2 library and they’re all very good. It’s all positive and hopefully will lead to more.

@UltimateOtaku91

Yeah ‘TBC’ instead of ‘2026’ is a bit ominous

@Striker21

Nobody can predict what will happen in 10 years but current trends show absolutely nothing that suggest Nintendo need to follow Xbox, in fact exactly the opposite.

1. Nintendo make such a phenomenal amount of
Money from software sales and famously profit from hardware too the scale required to make that work as a subscription is going to be very hard to achieve.

2. Nintendos last demographic study showed 21% of their user base (and if their data is from Account ages that may be underrepresenting that age group) under 18. That’s plenty to build future nostalgia. On top of that, in the US at least, 43% of their users are aged 25-34 with an average age of 29.7 I.e.the demographic that’s having their own kids. Further, Parents play with their children on the Switch in 61% of US households. These are all very strong bonds being formed.

3. Mobile Phone gaming is of course huge, in fact I’m surprised how well Nintendo has withstood it. What may help them is the growing scepticism towards Mobile Phone use among children and Tweens. Schools are banning them and there are campaigns to make their use illegal for under-16s. I’m not sure the latter will happen but-as a parent of boys aged 8 and 11-there is great concern right now. Nintendo are selling a portable device that yeah, has Resident Evil and GTA and Assassins Creed but doesn’t have Roblox, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok or an easy way for strangers to talk/send pictures to kids. That’s not a bad sales pitch.

@LazyDaisy

They had two big first party exclusives in June/July, and have launched a couple of Eshop games. There’s now Pokemon with 3 more coming before the end of the year, 2 being Switch 2 exclusives. They’ve got 8 games announced for next year (including the Duskbloods) 6 of which are Switch 2 exclusives. So quantity of first party games isn’t an issue.

Apart from MKW there seems to be a focus on spin offs and B Tier franchises but that is actually starting to make sense. With sales momentum like this why not keep their biggest hitters back for 2027 and beyond?

Those are really good numbers for DK Bananza BTW