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Game key card complaints are a storm in a teacup. Outside of I think a single game, none have crashed in price

Looking forward to this release. I'm just not looking forward to hearing / seeing unreasonable complaints from those who believe ports should launch at bargain basement prices or the lowest historical price on other platforms.

@Expa0 "...Nintendo patching the random selection allowing you to actually race the proper tracks..."

This didn't happen. They made random actually random. It certainly wasn't a patch to remove the option of 3 lap tracks

@Misima I watched every episode including the side story episodes. Claiming propaganda is nonsensical

@topsekret I'd wager we wouldn't have this game without it being on game key card. or it might be digital only.

@LucasOfTheShire Just checked the controls - yep - all the usual commands are still there and still accessed pretty much the same way (though I did need to change the button assignment away from Zr for the Dash action!) I never played eFootball much so am not familiar with those but I'm still tuned to PES controls

@KBuckley27 Lower sales with lower to no profits seems to be more acceptable than higher sales and higher losses per sale

Businesses are seemingly only pro consumer when they give free stuff or at cut down prices

@KBuckley27 weird choice to make that statement about your perceived lack of games in this article about a different topic

@LucasOfTheShire I had completely forgotten about the double team pressure option! Haven't tried to see if it still applies in this release. I know the single pressure button is still there and is one of the first things covered in the tutorial. And like PES, it's something to use carefully at higher difficulty settings otherwise they just run past you

@Username_1 Actually, I remembered now that I also needed to set the difficulty in PES to the highest settings anyway so I should've done so here too. Been too long since there was anywhere near a decent PES experience! I do greatly miss the Wii version as that was special - you can set your team to play like prime Barcelona or like total football Netherlands

@LucasOfTheShire this feels like old PES. Need to play on at least hard difficulty though. In my hour's play so far it's been very comforting to play and it's great to see players raise their hands for the pass, make runs into the box and even check their runs when they're about to be offside

I'm chuffed to bits that I can use Adriano and Bergkamp in the same team. A hammer and an artist 🤣

@Fiskern you can't really compare it with FIFA. Different gameplay priorities. I can't get into FIFA at all but I immediately know what to do with e football. Lots of match videos I've seen of FIFA seem to focus on dribbling a lot. PES, and to a large extent, e football, seems to focus more on passing movements

@Fiskern throughout the decades, PES has always played differently compared to FIFA. Purists of one were always unlikely to like the other

@StewdaMegaManNerd being slightly pedantic and being insulting are two vastly different things. I was referring to the former and am a bit surprised that the latter was brought up. Unless these games have already been released on the Switch 2, they are new rather than not new.

If they've already been released on the Switch 2 then yeah, calling them new would be an error and they should be called 'not new games you might have missed on the Switch 2'

@Lone_Beagle because that would be a snarky low-level try-hard-to-be-edgy headline unbefitting of a site like this.

@StewdaMegaManNerd calling them not new is a bit pedantic

@D-Star92 thanks a lot!

Got marvel cosmic invasion and theaterythym final bar line from Boomerang rental and recently picked up Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic - had oddly never played it when the OG version came out despite me loving these types of games. Got my birthday happening tomorrow so will definitely enjoy my gaming time this weekend

@Yoshi3 I'm surprised you're doubling down on something that's clearly not a problem for almost every Switch 2 owner.

I never claimed 100%. That would have been a demonstrably false claim from me because there's always a small percentage of production failures in every single thing ever produced. Your claim that the Switch 2 joycons are terrible and don't work from the get go is wildly over the top though.

Edit: Intriguing you claimed 2 ppl experiencing Switch 2 stick drift in this comment section when only Moldypasta has mentioned anything of the sort and took great pains to say it only happened "VERY OCCASIONALLY" - you seem to have gone looking for anything that could qualify as a problem.

Come to think of it, why should I care if you launch legal action against Nintendo for the Switch 2 joycons. It's your money to do as you will anyway. It's a pity the only person benefitting from that action would be whichever lawyer you pay to take the case.

@Yoshi3 Then there's no point commenting about all that in this guide focused on the Switch 2 joycons. The Switch 2 Joycons worked immediately out of the box and continue to do so with no issues for pretty much every Switch 2 owner.

@disappointedMii and the logic holds up for the Switch TV. The Switch Lite was also clearly positioned for a more casual audience. There are no casual audiences that would get a Switch TV over a Switch Lite. A Switch TV is a pretty useless product that offers more problems to solve - particularly, "It's a home console but not a return to dedicated home consoles for Nintendo".

@Yoshi3 The joycons worked from the get go and still work. The sticks used are just fine.

I cannot see a Switch 2 TV only version being viable or even worth the R&D or the inevitable headache of clarifying that it wouldn't mean a home-only Switch 3 that competes in power with the PS6. Things cost money, time, and production capacity to make. If they won't even do different colour options yet they're not going to spend even more money on an option that'll almost inevitably reduce their global production capability.

@Yoshi3 We're not - it's been almost a year now. Those 'poor quality sticks' are holding up just fine.

And people were seemingly genuinely convinced there were no other games coming in 2026 on the Switch 2 (Just because no announcements were made until now)

@spiderman0616 my theory is that those claiming corporate greed want all video game companies to operate like charities.

I also think none of them realise that profits are reinvested into research and development of new products and services. And profits are also essential to having a healthy amount of reserves for the tough times.

Maybe they want Nintendo to operate like a wholesaler - low value low margin products but high volume. Like become a video game industry version of Costco

This headline is only going to reinforce the mistaken belief that Nintendo raised psychical prices instead of lowering digital prices like they did and said they did.

@progx it's was definitely a /s comment 😬 You need to look a bit further up to see the context that led to @maxz comment

@serrafemme people have only ever owned the licences for entertainment software on the medium they were stored on 😊. Things were the same in the 80s

@the_beaver as much as it might be tempting to think that way, it's usually quite inaccurate to think that way.

@WiltonRoots It's between 2 to 4am in Indonesia right now dependng on which part!

@StorminNorman That's definitely possible! Could've set up a notification ping for Bluey games too

@WiltonRoots Give it time - it's not dawn yet in Indonesia

@inenai "Am I just not the target? " yeah, probably not

@Grumblevolcano I will always vividly remember the reactions from Nintendo doing that. Everyone and their dog proclaimed that Nintendo was dead and this was another nail in their coffin.

Edit: As in pulling out of E3 to do their own Nintendo Direct.

@StarCollector sadly, leaks have meant that they've been much much much more careful about Directs now. Blame the leakers for that

@Ryu_Niiyama Nintendo's movie strategy, which I think they've covered in investor briefings, isn't about preparing a pivot away from video games. Aussie already covered the main points in the reply though so I don't need to add more other Nintendo seeing movies as a gateway to showcasing their IPs and redirecting people back to Nintendo games.

@hammers1man those were really poor examples. You've helped established that Nintendo eshop games on sale can be cheaper than pc store games on sale (or very close to the price).

Super Mario Wonder Switch 2 version is £55 in most retail shops. You're REALLY cherry picking examples considering you can't play mario wonder on the PC.

Ultimately, the price differences are close enough not to be particularly material. Eshop games on sale are priced extremely competitively and can sometimes be cheaper than sales on pc storefronts.

" I am not talking about sales but prices you can pick now" Ok - Mixtape is £14.39 now on Steam and £14.39 on the eshop.

TMNT Splintered Fate is £2.49 on the eshop now and £23.99 on Steam and £5.99 on Humble (so eShop is the cheapest place to get this game right now)

Mortal Kombat 1 is £6.99 on the eShop and £11.99 on the Humble and £8.99 on Steam (so the eShop is the cheapest place to get this game right now)

Really, your statement doesn;t make much sense.

@hammers1man I'm not joking. Street fighter 6 has been £17.49 on the eshop fairly regularly this year (cheaper than the Humble Store then!). Cyberpunk has been £34.49 just last month. It gets even cheaper if you switch regions and buy elsewhere and also can get cheaper on key selling sites.

I don't get why you're picking full price against a discounted price. If so, Street Fighter 6 is £34.99 on Steam And the same price on the eshop. Cyberpunk ultimate edition is £68.98 on Steam but £59.99 on the eshop.

I can probably find you thousands of games which are cheaper on discount versus full price so I'm thoroughly confused about your comparison. Are you suggesting games never go on sale on the eshop?

@hammers1man this assumption that pc games are always cheaper only holds true for Nintendo published games.

Some prices are the same and I think in some instances, the eshop price was lower. Even when the eshop price isn't the same or lower, the price difference is only like 50 pennies to a pound or two. (You'd probably be able to use the same figures in dollars).

The extra cost of the pc handheld isn't going to make that up without paying for hundreds of games.

And I tend to say that a big library is largely worthless if you can never enjoy them in your lifetime - I've personally set a rule for myself to buy only what I know I'll play immediately that same day, even if it's only for 10 minutes.

Edit: The biggest difference for me is the free games you can get on pc depending on what services you use.

@purple_shyguy pretty much every piece of media (written, physical, or digital) is only licensed for the medium it was distributed in/on.
Your statement is just one of millions of excuses to justify stealing.

@Pillowpants as mentioned above, Nintendo have clear incentives to drop the price once costs fall. It's completely against their own interests to maintain the new price as the status quo - they've projected losing a few million customers, partly as a result of the price increase

@8bit-Man user scores are a weird number that gets too easily affected by internet mob campaigns

@PinballBuzzbro It's impossible to determine if the same investors who requested or support a price increase are also the same ones who sold shared immediate after the announcement.

It might be fun to state the irony but there's no direct link in reality.

There'll be shareholders who disagree with the price increase and it seems more likely for them to be the ones who sold stock.

@Dman10 I'm happy to shake hands on that 🫲

@Dman10 Perhaps. I feel that you're misremembering the Switch 1 game announcement schedule to a certain extent. There's something about remembering the past where we tend to look on things a bit more favourably. I also remember complaints here about there not being enough announcements or that the announcements weren't big enough.

I do acknowledge there's been a bit of a gap for big Nintendo Directs though - they appear to have adjusted that comms approach to focus on a series of partner announcements and indie showcases and made more use of the Nintendo Today app. Maybe it's a bit of an experiment to see what lands well and reduces the impact of leaks.

@Cipher36 I personally don't see it happening - it immediately creates confusing messaging after about a decade of saying Play Anytime, Anywhere.

I believe it also invites media and YouTubers to post content about Nintendo 'going back to home consoles'.

What would be the message to sell this model? Play your Switch games at home for cheaper? but don't forget you can't bring this console anywhere, but it's also definitely not a home console - and so shouldn't be directly compared against the Xbox and PS? I think, that no matter what message gets put out for that, the negatives far outweigh the incremental sales they might get from this move. Also, what people say they will buy and what people actually do are very different things.

Edit: There's also an opportunity cost to allocating time and resources to design, produce, and market the new model. It'll take shelf space and marketing communications space and it'll take time to painfully convince people that this doesn't mark a return to making dedicated home consoles (though some definitely want that to happen). It'll take factory production line capacity (forget what the technical term would be) away from other things they could request to produce. I think Nintendo is better served using those resources for the eventual Switch 2 Lite. No doubt they've been planning how to expand the Switch 2 family in purposeful ways and the most logical moves in order of likelihood are for a Switch 2 v2.0 (gosh, what a name), Switch 2 Lite or a Switch 2 Pro.

@Dman10 They used the same announcement strategy for Switch 1 games though - with only a few exceptions, just like what they've done for the Switch 2 so far. And you've said they did a great job of keeping us gamers informed during the Switch 1 days. I think Reggie was right to say that whatever approach they take, fans will always want to hear a bit more.

@Dark-Luigi I was a little perplexed at the assertion of the Steam Deck always presenting a better playing experience for 3rd party games compared against Switch 2 when that's demonstrably untrue for several titles.