electrolite77

I really want Gradius but not at the launch price. Will get that at some point.

Very interested in Shinobi but will wait for reviews.

Definitely getting Kirby. So many Switch games are improved on Switch 2 and this one looks like a really big graphical upgrade.

Blimey, that’s a substantial update. Game could feel quite different after this.

Switch 2 is landing very nicely in the UK

There’s loads of old PlayStation franchises I’d love to see on Switch 2. But given that Sony don’t release any of these games on their own system anymore, it seems unlikely.

The only exclusives of theirs that I’ve really enjoyed this gen have been the Astro games, Sackboy and Ratchet and Clank (and that isn’t even the best in its series). Sackboy was on PS4 so that’s an easy target for porting to Switch 2.

Master Chief Collection
Forza Horizon 5
Killer Instinct
Age of Empires
Gears of War Reloaded
Doom Dark Ages

Please

Great, looking forward to this. The first two are hugely improved on Switch 2 so hopefully this will look really good and handle really well.

Virtua Racing! Woo hoo!

(I didn’t know it had an issue but still, great 😂)

Well, yeah. Donkey Kong isn’t as big as Mario and there are less Switch 2 systems out there than there were Switch 1 systems when Odyssey came out. Yeah.

@neil9000

They’re better than digital in that they allow resale value. Not much use when it comes to annual sports games but still relevant. Either way my point is the mass market won’t care very much. It largely moved to digital a long time ago.

@BaldB3lper78

I guarantee most people don’t care about GKC. Don’t confuse a small number of repetitive complaints Online with the behaviour of the general public.

Very interested to see how the Switch 2 version turns out. The last couple of Switch 1 versions have been good but sounds like there’s a proper leap in store.

People getting upset and throwing around accusations of NL being paid to give 9 instead of 10 are very funny 😆

Looks great, won’t get it until the weekend but looking forward to it.

Less than 7 weeks in and Switch 2 already has 2 top quality exclusives. Some start.

@HammerKirby @topsekret

It’s all getting very complicated but there’s nothing stopping them tying that upgrade to owning a copy of the Switch 1 version. Nintendo did it with Zelda. Squeenix just looked at the options and settled on the least consumer friendly.

@topsekret

That’s a minor issue that I’m sure Nintendo will allow a workaround for and one that requires a bit of extrapolation anyway. There’s nothing to stop them releasing separate games, copying what WB did with Hogwarts or even (given these are pretty basic games) offer a free upgrade. Yes I know the latter is unlikely as it’s Squeenix but it’s an option.

@HammerKirby @topsekret

They could easily offer an upgrade path, GKC or not, using the digital store. Like everyone else. There wouldn’t be a physical upgrade path whether they put the full game on a physical cartridge or not. I’m talking about what other companies have done with so many games where they offer a digital upgrade that aligns with an existing digital or physical version e.g. BOTW/TOTK, Uncharted 4, Ghost of Tsushima, Kirby and the Forgotten Land etc

For all the whining about GKC from some on here, it’s stuff like this that annoys me.

@Xansies

They’re very few and far between. They just aren’t financially viable. Even Survival Kids is an unusual case from Unity themselves.

You can see the downgrade just from one small still frame. I’d dread to think how it would run on Switch 1 given the game seems to have the odd difficulty running on Switch 2 which we’ve already seen is significantly more powerful

Hopefully so. I hardly use my PS5 and Series X since Switch 2 came out, hopefully I can ditch them if Switch 2 gets enough support.

@Waluigi451

If you’re talking third parties, yes. They aren’t a thing anymore apart from the very unusual situations where the platform holder pays for one. They’ve been extremely rare for years.

Very unusual to have a Direct in July, the last one was a partner showcase in 2020. But makes total sense with not wanting to take any attention away from Donkey Kong.

Depends how bad they are. Sounds like an issue with developer ability/familiarity with the Voxel tech. Slight drops won’t affect gameplay but if the game suddenly starts dropping half its frames that’s going to be juddery and unpleasant. That said, I still loved TOTK on Switch 1 and the Switch 2 update has highlighted what a mess that was, so hopefully it’ll be ok.

@Shmoo @AndrosEGD

You could just not read it. Or learn to do what I do-find their stuff interesting without it ever affecting whether I play something or not. It’s not difficult.

So basically it could be tweaked for further improvements but it’s perfectly playable as is. Certainly tallies with my experience. I run my real GC through a Franemeister as I don’t have space for a CRT and the Switch 2 seems a very very similar experience.

@spiderman0616

Exactly. Fair play to those who do repair their Controllers but the vast majority don’t bother and will probably sell the Controllers with the system when they trade up to the next generation.

@Zaruboggan

I struggled so hard to put a PS3 Controller back together I finished up sticking it on EBay for spares or repair 😆

I’m just getting numb to over the top clickbait headlines. Gaming YouTube is just screeching voices constantly trying to out-hysterical each other and get attention. They make a fair point but the presentation is woeful.

@TheBigK

I think the devs only really find out what the next hardware will be when the hardware design is really solidified. They may have been working on Switch 2 in the lab since late 2016 but there’s no point giving devs endless prototypes and development versions.

That seems pretty obvious. If this ran at all on Switch 1 it would be a mess.

It sounds from the interview as if very little actual development took place on Switch 1 and it never really got out of the planning stage before they knew about Switch 2.

@Shwing

It has when you combine the Lite, OLED and Switch

I don’t think this is a criticism. Miyamoto designing games with the consumer in mind is laudable and something that ends up producing art anyway. The distinction is Art is not necessarily designed with the end user in mind, it can be an entirely self-expressive endeavour. Miyamoto doesn’t design his games that way. Nothing wrong with that at all.

My word Mario football is awful. Completely unbalanced and scripted.

@sethfranum

Harry Potter on Switch 2 is inferior to the XSS version

I don’t know why you’re on about DF, my assessment of Switch 2 being between PS4 Pro and Series S is based on the evidence we have and the specs. It’s also a very pleasing outcome.

It isn’t near PS5/XSX though. Even the most optimistic analysis puts it near XSS.

@TenEighty

Switch 2 is a very good price for a portable/hybrid running between PS4 Pro and Series S level

Very pleased.

The hardware is lovely and mine works flawlessly.

Mario Kart World is brilliant fun, the Zelda upgrades are gorgeous, and I’ve played some of the very impressive Hogwarts and Cyberpunk ports. It’s also been fun trying out which games run better than on Switch 1 (all of them, basically). Donkey Kong is next month and Nintendo have plenty lined up. It’s been a very good launch.

Never touched third party docks for Switch 1 and certainly won’t be doing it for Switch 2 given the necessity of the fan for cooling

It would be nice, yes. Or the option to specify one region for download.

@Orwellian87

It’s not about thinking critically or what I want, I’m making the point that most people won’t care and they are here to stay.

I also strongly suspect eventually Switch 2 will be hacked and games will be preserved in the usual way, outside of the corporations themselves

@KevinP

Nintendo aren’t foaming at the mouth, they’ll just be calmly watching the sales figures and profit margins. The only foaming is from the terminally Online getting irrationally upset at others seeing GKCs as a decent alternative to all-digital.

GKC are here to stay. Third party share of the launch sales has been reported as double what it was on Switch 1. There’s no evidence yet of them hitting sales and the mass market will accept them quite willingly as an alternative to digital.

@mattitudemf @Medic_alert

That’s the thing. It’s possible to enjoy and appreciate the stuff DF does and also not care one bit when you’re actually playing the game.

@sethfranum

Funny, given that yet again they’re complimentary about Switch 2, as they were so often with Switch 1. If you actually paid attention….

Played the demo in handheld mode (which according to DF is above the PS4 version) and it looks glorious.

Another example of (sarcasm alert!) the evil DF crew being paid to badmouth Nintendo here

As is often the case, pretty positive stuff from DF. Out of the ones I’ve tried, Bowsers Fury is my favourite. It’s a huge improvement in handheld.

@WiltonRoots

Fingers crossed for that. This is one of those games where you can really feel how much effort and care the Devs put into it. I’d happily given them a few quid for an upgrade if they wanted to charge for a full 4K60 patch.

I’m definitely in the school that thinks the Cube controller a bit overrated (like the Console generally) and the even smaller school that thinks the N64 one a bit underrated (like the Console generally) but this is very welcome.

It’s a really nice modern take on the controller, but though the lack of a Select button is annoying. It works really well for GCN games of course but I used it last night for Grid Autosport and Mario Kart World and, yeah, might do the same in the future.

@sanderev

Yeah I’m being very optimistic but you never know. I’m curious to see what the release schedule looks like for the rest of the year and how reliant they’ll be on Metroid and Pokémon games which are also on Switch 1.

This whiffs of an attempt at creating a GAAS release. Doesn’t look very enticing to me at all.