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@Zeebor15

Why 10-15 years? You can still redownload Wii games from 2006. The servers going down doesn’t mean you can’t play the game it just means you can’t redownload it.

@Suketoudara

Sadly yes this is what will happen if GKCs disappear. Digital only.

@Darth_Spriggan

Thanks, appreciate that

@Rainz

It’s really turning into a great year

Would have taken a punt on this if the GKC had been available in Europe. As it is I’ll wait for a deep sale on the digital or go back and play the original on GameCube.

@BBBBBBBBBBB

“ Without GKC, the Switch 2 would be 95% digital only games or code in a box. If we kill them then the next Nintendo console will be that way it not even fully digital with just a backwards compatible slot if we're lucky.”

Exactly right. But the GKC thing is an interesting case study in how Online hysteria grows and how people follow each other.

@HammerKirby

This is Intergrade, which is a PS5 game

That’s two developers who’ve ported current gen games cited this issue. Obviously it won’t have affected Cyberpunk as that was a PS4/XB1 that ran from mechanical Hard Drives.

It’s certainly helped me. I had it on Series X for years and hardly touched it. Since buying it for Switch 2 I’ve put hours in. Great game.

I’m not sure they were ever considered graphical showcases. Maybe a couple of the DS games had good 2D graphics but that’s about it.

Good to see more third party support. Yakuza 0 DC must have done alright which bodes well.

@Darth_Spriggan

My sons has a few versions of this and he pretty much entirely moved to the new one. He wants this for Christmas with his Switch 2 and I’m really hoping for a decent price on Black Friday. Especially with this being the Code in a Box hideousness.

@TerribleTerabytes

😂 I’m quite happy with whatever reflection I get from choosing to buy the best portable football game around with my own money. Much rather that than arrogantly judging others Online for how they spend their money. I can’t think of much worse than the reflection I’d get from being that guy.

@sixrings

No guarantee but the one case study we have-Switch was more expensive than PS4 for its first three years on the market-is pretty conclusive.

Back in the days when Gaming was exclusively on Console and PC there was an easily perceivable performance gap between handheld and tethered Gaming e.g. out a GBA next to a GameCube and most people could see a difference. Now Console gaming is a small and, at best, not growing part of the Gaming market. The many people who would think a Digital Foundry was a fashionable new bar and eatery rather than obsessive counting frames on Youtube won’t see much of a gap at all so won’t see any benefit is something that can only be used tied to a TV. Many of the generation that merrily pays more for IPads than they do TVs will find the tethered Console gamer preference for pixels over convenience little more than quaint.

Really looking forward to this. Getting good feedback elsewhere from anyone who isn’t bothered about the frame rate. Sports games are great portable time sinks.

@TerribleTerabytes

I’ll buy WHATEVER I WANT thanks

@sixrings

Portable systems have been selling in massive numbers for 37 years now. In Nintendos case outselling their equivalent home systems every single time. The demand for portability is well proven by now, regardless of what happens in your house.

I would have gone for his on Switch 2 if we’d got the GKC in Europe. As it is I’ll wait for a sale. Ah well.

Some very healthy percentages for SW Outlaws and Hogwarts there. Decent ports sell well.

Same should apply to WWE which is by all accounts a top port but it’s a Code in a Box so not as deserved.

@axelhander

I’m really not. Post 126 is questioning whether a lot of the people criticising the VB have ever really played it and touches on game preservation while actively avoiding the price debate. It’s very hard to see how a petulant “Leave the billionaire corporation alone, you guys” is related to that in any way.

@axelhander

I’m not clear how your post #129 relates to post #126

@7h0r

Somebody making a different decision to you on whether to spend their money on an entertainment product does not make them ’brainwashed’ and nor do they need to ‘get their heads checked.’ It’s an entirely subjective decision and you really need to grow into understanding that.

Great response to the first letter. It fascinates me that people are still trying to pretend there’s an objective way to analyse value.

I also have great interest in the Arcade Archives series. Even a round up of everything available with some short reviews?

No I don’t think so. I love that they’re doing it, it’s all very Nintendo, but the original device is awful and I can’t see this really being that much better.

Not a game that I’m interested in but excellent news for Nintendo. There will probably be a few on here not happy about it or who’ll pretend that it not graphically matching PS5 means it doesn’t count. But this is significant. Law of diminishing returns has caught up with Graphical power.

@Telcontyr

I’ll buy whatever I want thanks

@CupidStunt

They’ve always been a greedy corporation. If you ever thought different their marketing was working.

Don’t like the sound of this. If you charge premium prices you should at least be providing commensurate customer service. Seems everyone doing this now.

@PinderSchloss nailed it, sadly (albeit amusingly)

60 FPS would have been better but doesn’t look like a deal breaker from the video. My son wants it for Christmas so I’ll happily give it a play. Happy to sacrifice performance for portability when it comes to sport games.

Switch 2 continues to sell very well, perplexing Internet doom warriors everywhere.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant

I was on here back when it was the VC Archive in 2007 and among all the complaints about the speed of releases there were supporters of a subscription service. I always thought they should offer the option of buying games individually alongside the subscription but I assume revenues are better from NSO than VC. The subscription model has always found its supporters.

https://www.vg247.com/our-dreams-for-virtual-console-on-nintendo-switch

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/03/03/the-nintendo-switchs-virtual-console-should-be-a-subscription-service/

https://thewiiu.com/topic/16460-wii-u-virtual-console-subscription-service/

https://www.nintendojo.com/features/editorials/how-nintendo-switch-can-improve-virtual-console

https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-nintendo-switch-virtual-console-subcription-service

@The_Nintendo_Pedant

Inventory management has always been their thing. There’s probably a support group for Managers of retail chains in the 80s and early 90s suffering from PTSD. I wish they’d make more SNES ones but the rest of their NSO controllers have been sat in stock on the UK website for months now.

@MyMemory

It says “ They already did that and everyone balked at the prices and wanted the netflix of retro video games instead. The audience of people who would throw even a few bucks for roms a la carte has surely only shrunk further since then.”

It wasn’t agreeing with you

@sixrings

When did ‘this site’ (actually a disparate collection of writers and hundreds of different people offering opinions) tell you that? Either way it’s similar to Xbox Series and PS5 launches. I got a XSX on launch day and great as it is, it had literally nothing that wouldn’t have played on my XB1. PS5 had Astros Playroom and a Souls remake then 3 exclusives in 2021 and 2 in 2022 (one being a remake). PS4 and XB1 didn’t even have BC and still launched with largely higher resolution PS3/360 games. Switch 2 is at least on par with all of them.

@OrtadragoonX

Definitely agree on the GameCube comparison. I loved the GC launch period, I bought one on UK launch in May 2002, but it was definitely similar in how it stayed clear of A tier franchises. Melee did really well but Smash wasn’t actually a huge franchise coming off the back of the N64. Switch 2 at least has Mario kart but there’s a definite parallel between Luigi’s Mansion and DK Bananza.

I was discussing the Dreamcast launch with someone on here the other day and said how to me it’s slightly misleading. The Western launch looks brilliant but the system had actually had nearly 10 months to build up that library.

Good games! Klonoa is a great platformer.

@MyMemory

If you’re replying to post #37 there you may want to read it again.

@AllBLK

Some people will, some will get good value from this.

@PharoneTheGnome

“The same way that every add on to Super Smash Brothers was free”

Is this some really clever sarcasm?

Thanks for the review. Really enjoying the main game but you’ve helped me decide this isn’t for me. Especially that last bullet point.

@sixrings

“Anyways everyone can make their own decisions”

You got it right just there there. You actually illustrate how subjective it all is.

I have no interest in what value is attached to the GOW, Mass Effect or Tony Hawk packs are as I don’t want to play them. They could be the greatest remasters ever, they have zero value to me. The Crash remasters are of such high value to me I have them on PlayStation and Switch. Buying it twice would have seemed like lunacy to some but I find value in the portable option. You are totally entitled to think differently on all of this.

Halo is a great collection and I’ve got hours out of it. However to me it is irrelevant to whether I want to buy Mario Galaxy or anything else. So is my perception of how much work has gone into them. Whether I purchase something is entirely down to whether I think I will get value of it. Nothing else.

In the case of Galaxy I want them on Switch because being able to play them without waggling a Wiimote is-to me-an absolute joy. I was just going to get the digital but then I caught the physical option from a UK retailer at £43. With already having Mario 64 in various places and Sunshine on a modded GameCube I got for Christmas last year I’ll probably sell my physical copy of Mario 3D All Stars. See how subjective each decision is?

You and everyone else will have a totally different mental flowchart to follow. As a side issue, that’s the same with my friends who buy massively expensive sports cars/watches/trainers/handbags/collectors figures that I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole.

If you choose not to buy it I 100% support you. It would be extremely arrogant of me to judge you for that decision (not saying you’ve judged anyone else BTW, that’s an issue with others) and attempting to apply any other criteria to how you spend your money would be an exercise in total futility for me. I can’t think of a bigger waste of my time.

@NotASockPuppet

Eh? What image?

@NotASockPuppet

Not playing Devils Advocate. Just marvelling that in the year of our lord 2025, I’m still having to explain subjectivity to people who wrongly overstate the significance of their own opinion. And that I can find a form of words that avoids getting wildly offensive or resorting to violent graphic imagery as I almost roll my eyes out of my head.

@sixrings

I don’t have to, or need to, use anything such thing. I don’t know what the ‘average Joes finances’ are nor do I have to care, and I won’t be basing my purchasing decision on anything other than whether I want to buy it or not. You use your criteria for assessing value and others will do the same. It’s a subjective individual decision and that’s all it can ever be.

@NotASockPuppet

You’re still not getting it. It’s not for you to decide. ‘Frivolous’ isn’t a label you get to attach. You have absolutely no say.

Superb advert.

Need to see that Switch 2 version though. Hopefully this is more like the brilliant All Stars Racing Transformed than the underwhelming Team Sonic Racing.

@Willo567

“The idea that Nintendo has suddenly gotten greedy because Iwata and Reggie are gone is just non-sense. Nintendo has never been anyone's friend, even when Iwata was around”

Thank you! Glad someone else remembers the reality.

@NotASockPuppet

I won’t cry. I’ll vote with my wallet, and either buy it or not. Same as others. What I won’t do is accuse others of ‘inane purchasing/blind consumerism’ or ‘delusion coping’ for deciding what to do with their money. That would be really silly.