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@Cia Best take. Agreed. If the game is really good, I'm happy. It could've starred the cow as far as I'm concerned.

1 second of gameplay

Parappa is one of the best gaming memories of my life.
The rhythm gaming and the paper characters and the awesome songs and lines were so fresh and all things I've never seen before.

@HingryHuppo I think you're using the word 'scarcity' to imply brand recognition, utility, desirability, "people liking a certain type of game"... I understand you but it's just confusing to discuss this way.
Scarcity, in the economic sense - and you mentioned economics - it is not.

A potato is scarce. You need to grow it. You need land, water, work to grow every single one.
A mobile phone is scarce, there's work again, and rare metals that need to be mined from the earth for every single one.

Mario Kart World, once developed, is not scarce. It's just a 20GB (or whatever) file sent over the internet with close to 0 costs. Nintendo could pretty easily have one Mario Kart World sent to every single inhabitant of the earth. The product is not scarce.

You know why it works with your 2nd hand game examples? Their value goes up exactly because they BECOME scarce. They were not scarce before, but once they are out of print, not made anymore, they then BECOME scarce and that's why their price can now move freely according to laws of demand and supply. Before that they didn't apply. At least not the supply side.

EDIT: I'm being a bit of an economics or semantics nazi. And I don't like it actually. I just don't like the usage of the word, but I understand your point: the Nintendo experiences are unique and people love them - so they can get away with charging a lot for them.

@HingryHuppo scarcity VS desirability makes no sense when it comes to games. You are talking about a basic microeconomics model where there are many sellers selling an identical product, and many buyers. Then the equilibrium is found between supply and demand.

This is a situation where there is only one seller, with unlimited supply of the product, and that seller would not change the price no matter what. It is not connected to scarcity in this situation . In microeconomics this is called perfect elasticity of supply.

@480frames-please I dunno man, I was hoping that you'd stop and smell the roses once technology reached your goalpost. But you're already in the next goalpost!! Is this a metaphor for all humanity and how we never let ourselves enjoy things?

I hear you though, you do sound happy. I thought before that you were always complaining about games never reaching your lofty expectations from them, but now you sound like someone who is just very excited about the future.

Excuse me for thinking about you so much, stranger from the Nintendo site whom I only know by their username.

Where is that guy, 120FPSplease? This is your moment!

I don't see how anyone could say that Switch 2 has the best lineup ever, unless they are a die-hard Mario Kart fan. That's just crazy. It's literally only Mario Kart + "welcome tour" + a bunch of things we already played.

EDIT: OK and Fast Fusion - which I would like to play tbh.

The new DK, gameplay-wise, looks like something we never really played before.

It's a 3D platformer with maps that have full verticality, mainly verticality that goes DOWN not up, and you can reach your goals by going through the environment in any way you like.

Since Red Faction released in 2001 we didn't get many destructible environment games, and as far as I know never a platformer.

DK is something truly fresh. My guess is that Nintendo EPD were testing new central gameplay mechanics (like planets in Galaxy or the capture mechanic in Odyssey) for the new Mario game, and when they saw that this destruction gameplay was fun they realized it better suits a Donkey Kong as a character than Mario.

@-wc- The mouse feature is not a Homer-Simpson-car-feature. It's useful, a lot of people want it, even if they're not the majority. It is good for RTS games, for Mario Maker, for FPS games. It's useful for Metroid! It's not for you - fine. But it's so far from being a useless feature or just a gimmick.

Lots of non-enthusiasts for mousey here. I'm excited for it. I did start my gaming life on a PC, and I still am unable/unwilling to play an FPS with analog sticks. I hate it. So Wii pointer was perfect for me, and I'm loving this mouse idea too. I hope it'll be comfortable, and yes, a shell seems necessary.

Did anyone else notice that this looked like a mobile game at times? That train for example... Why is that?

I'd give it a 6. As a whole it was entertaining. But I'm not excited for much, def not excited enough to get day 1.

I'm most excited for Metroid with 120FPS 4K and mouse controls!

DK will probably be great, but I was disappointed it wasn't the new 3D Mario game.

The paid manual game is just insane.

Silksong is exciting but I'm sure it would be on other consoles too.

Overall... A little bit meh.

Oh nooooo. I guess it's bad news and good news too. But it means it'll be a long time before we play a new game from them 😔 Towerfall and Celeste are both some of my favorite games.

Mario Odyssey and Celeste (for me personally) are missing here.

RE4 on Wii was one of my favorite gaming experiences.
RE4 remake with pointer/mouse controls on Switch 2 please

That is not breaking the silence.

@mlt M I'm hoping they'll surprise us with the usage of it in some clever little way that we're not expecting.

@mlt I thought the laser was meant as a wiimote pointer again, but the position of it on the joy-con seems weird and unergonomic for that.

The video on Genki's website is cool though.

@Olliemar28 I don't know, I feel like timing and rhythm of revealing things matter. The OG Switch did the announcement thing really well, got us really excited, and then rode that wave quickly into a launch.

They will ride an announcement quickly into a launch this time too. But the excitement for the reveal part is just not really there.

If they really impress with the games and with the new mouse/IR feature the excitement comes right back for me.

But if they don't then I might wait and not get it day 1. I feel like this would have been different if the announcement timing thing and building hype would have been managed differently.

@FarewellToGibdos Arco is the game that is known for being unknown.
It's so weird.
So if it were known, would it be more known or less-known?

@Lofoten I thought about that too, I'm guessing both joy-cons will have the laser so that two player games where both players have the mouse-like control will be possible.

@Lord my #1 feature that I want from Switch 2 is an IR pointer. Praying. Nintendo, please make console FPSes great again.

@speedracer216 I only played Undertale, but to my understanding every chapter of Deltarune is about the length of the whole Undertale game.

I don't like it, it's too cringe and sounds like an edutainment song.

@dil_power ah, I understand. Thought you were talking about the characters but you were talking about the world. You're right, I noticed that it looks very high-res in some scenes, but didn't think about it too much. It is a difference.

@dil_power that's the HD-2D style (see Octopath Traveler)

@Freek Thanks to you and Chichicurri for talking about it - I just noticed Sanabi too.
How does this game from last year have 27 THOUSAND steam reviews and I never even heard about it??

@Nintendoslaysps5 or because it's cheaper

@Ralizah I agree with your take on TOTK except for the story.
I thought the story was brilliant and weaved well into the game.
That was a major improvement over BOTW in my opinion. Other areas, not so much.

Wondering if I should play Bo or Nine Sols. Two new beautiful meyroidvanias that seem similar in some ways.
Would be happy for some input if anyone's played both.

My backlog is on PC, almost no backlog on Switch (I do want to buy and play TTYD at some point).
I got so much out of the Switch, but it's not getting much love anymore these days.

@dew12333 fair enough.
I didn't play it at the time because I didn't have a GameCube. I just REALLY wanted it.

@dew12333 but ED was very highly regarded when it came out too, I don't think it's a case of embellishing it because it's old.

@T317 Yeah the HD-2D style is pretty, but the games end up looking pretty much the same.

@PokemonDMG it's insane.

@voidemissary but we will get a bunch of great RPG farming games!

I'm hoping for a game that rhymes with Ping Pong.

@Tayrailbridge I like both of them a lot, they are not very similar.
Wildfrost is hard and less casual, even though it has this cutesy presentation, and requires a lot of attention. Good game.

Also: Silksong please

Wind waker HD wind waker HD wind waker HD

@PikminMarioKirby Hogwarts Legacy Is super boring imo. Sure the world Is beautiful and impressive, but all the talk and the hand-holding and the content gatekeeping...

Interesting the variety of game experiences on show in the comments:

#1 never heard of it.
#2 didn't buy it because it was missing something he deemed important.
#3 bought it but returned because of a thing that they deemed important.
#4 loved the first one but doesn't want to play the next one.
#5 loved the first one and wants to play the next one.

So many different interactions and responses to the same thing. Humans are interesting

I'm curious. Love the art style too.

Guys don't judge this game too early. Yeah the trailer's not great, but many people say this game does 3D Sonic better than Sonic. Check out some speedrun gameplay videos on Youtube, they look insane. I hope the Switch port will be good.

@iconmaster I like that change, it's funny

Woah, he buffed everything.

@chiptoon I don't think it's that simple. If it was only ports connected to nothing then sure, a swivel seems pretty trivial. But these ports are connected to passageways for data and electricity, which don't spin themselves.

Heavy inspiration from The Touryst, I imagine.