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@molkom I see no indication the reviewer was insisting on PS5-quality output. Plenty of ports to the Switch 2 are judged to skillfully cut so they still feel good. I'm reading this review as indicating a belief that the devs did not cut as well as they could.

Lots of the reviews on Metacritic are making the same complaints about the Switch 2 port, so I don't think this is some sort of unique pickiness.

I'm getting sick and tired of the "waaah reviewer actually did a review and pointed out problems" complaints. If you don't care about things like performance, then Use Your Brain and adjust your impression of the game accordingly.

There have been SoM reviews out there for ages, so especially in this case, it's important for a review to point out the differences among platforms.

I played NieR:Automata on Switch 1, which had terrible framerates in spots, and I still enjoyed it. And yet, I'm glad that reviewers pointed this out so I could decide.

I'm hoping Nintendo adds (back?) VRR support to their Switch 2 dock. Any commitment from Genki to support feature parity with the Switch 2 dock as it gets updated, or at least that feature?

hahahaha pins sold out already.

EDIT: Whoops, never mind, it came back (for now). Maybe parceling them out slowly to deal with the oncoming hordes

@Banjo- This is opinion that I'm not in the mood to debate online. But sure, it would be nice if this were free, and people should vote with their wallet if they object.

The objective fact, though, is that Nintendo is far from the only company that charges extra for making the game look a bit better.

I paid the $5, because I'm a sucker. I've left some other games un-upgraded, at least so far.

@Banjo- Sega and Atlus wave from the corner where you have to pay full price for the resolution upgrade.

The way I see it, AdHoc is at least somewhat to blame for not disclosing this ahead of time. The rest isn't known. Meanwhile, there are many other games I can play instead, since I was only being pulled in by the hype anyway.

Nintendo does get some blame here, but AdHoc Studio does look rather suspicious in this mess. Why stay silent about this until the last possible minute?

@Friendly 's (later) point that this might just be AdHoc only shipping one worldwide version to meet one region's rules does seem plausible in that context. (Though I then wonder what's up with PlayStation.)

Pikmin 2 doesn't make much sense to me (since it's still for sale), but a little incongruency makes the rumor more plausible.

For anyone who doesn't know, Tetris 99 and Tetris Effect (at least) have settings to make accidental diagonals harder with a D-pad. I forget what they are offhand, but they were kind of deep in the settings.

The settings helped for me playing on the Switch pro controller in both games. An 8BitDo (Pro+) was better still, though.

Still no Towerfall, waaah

A reason for physical game collectors to care might be if these are up to date with newer patches. I haven't dug in much, but FF7 might have a newer version out (1.0.3) than what is on the old cartridge (1.0.2_5).

If I get to use one of the US$50 Switch Game Vouchers for it, then I think I'll get the set. Otherwise I'll go through some of my backlog first (so maybe never).

So, this being a first-party Switch 1 game, that means we should be able to use one of those (still available) Switch Game Vouchers on it, right?

It'd be nice if the Switch 2 supported "installing" content off of the card onto internal storage to cover situations like this for people who want the game on the card they buy.

When a company doesn't offer an option to upgrade, I think the logical response is to avoid buying their games until you're going to get around to playing them, ideally at a deep discount. You get the best version of a game when you play it, and they don't profit extra off of overly greedy behavior.