I'm enjoying the Switch 2 so far, but some of the decisions have been puzzling and frustrating. Sometimes Nintendo feels like the modern day version of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. A bizarre, but magical place that goes by its own rules, and the main creator is a mysterious, creative genius (Miyamoto is the video game Wonka).
The problem I had with this Direct, which in my mind, goes down as one of the worst in recent history, is the timing of it. The Switch 2 just came out. People are clamoring for new games to buy for it. Most have Mario Kart World and people are starting to finish Donkey Kong Bananza, so what's next? This was the opportunity to give some release dates for things like Metroid Prime 4 and Kirby Air Riders. This was the time to start sharing some big time games coming to Switch 2, like Red Dead Redemption 2. This was the time to give people dates on Final Fantasy VII Remake and Elden Ring. Instead, we got Just Dance, a game that has been on every console for 20ish years now, and a long preview for a campfire cozy simulator.
I love the Switch 2 and I'm having fun with it, but the offerings are slim right now. Mario Kart World is fun, Donkey Kong Bananza was fantastic, and I'm enjoying Cyberpunk 2077 and Street Fighter 6, but there has to be more than that, especially for a brand new console. This direct would have been fine if this was year three, but releasing this when you haven't even been on the market for two months yet is tone deaf and concerning.
I'm so tired of this comparison. They aren' t the same thing and they are targeting very different audiences. The Switch 2 is a hybird CONSOLE, the Steam Deck is a handheld GAMING LAPTOP. Completely different device, completely different audience. The Switch 2 has tailor made software designed to play specifically for the platform. The Steam Deck plays PC games, but some do not run natively or you need to "tweak" the console in order for them to play proper. It's definitely not "plug and play" like the Switch 2. There is a reason the Steam Deck has sold around 4 million devices lifetime while the Switch 2 blew past that number in 3 weeks. They are again completely different devices.
I'm putting a ton of time into Cyberpunk on Switch 2. I absolutely love the game and I'm having so much fun with it. It performs very well and looks amazing. I don't have a gaming PC and don't ever plan on getting one, nor a Steam Deck. I have an Xbox Series S mainly for Game Pass and playing games like Red Dead Redemption 2 that skipped the OG Switch. My hope is more and more of these will be on Switch 2 and then maybe I can just retire the Series S altogether.
I never had the OLED, but the screen in comparison to the OG Switch is much improved. I've been very happy so far with the console and I'm playing a ton of Cyberpunk 2077 on it.
I'm not that surprised. The Switch might be the most popular console of all time. It has a good chance of overtaking PlayStation 2 as the best selling console of all time. Nintendo IPs have never been more popular. The Switch 2 is everything we loved about Switch 1, but better.
Expedition 33 is the best game I've played in years, maybe since Breath of the Wild or Elden Ring. If it comes to Switch 2, I will pick it up. I'm playing it currently on Game Pass, but it's worth buying to support the devs.
I'm old enough to remember when Bubsy was the whipping boy of the 16 bit era. A game that wanted so badly to be the next Mario or Sonic, and it just fell flat.
Some IPs and ideas are just meant to die. This is one of them.
The Switch launch lineup was pretty bad. Breath of the Wild released cross-gen (I got it on Wii U) and other than that, not much else, but BOTW was so big, that it almost didn't matter.
I love the variety of Switch titles that sound like they will be available at launch. I know some might be disappointed that no Mario or Zelda game is coming out along with the console, but Mario Kart is by far Nintendo's biggest IP, so that's going to be a huge game. And Donkey Kong might not be up on the same level as Mario and Zelda, but it's close.
The one game I'm truly disappointed about, and it's not a launch title but an announced title, is the Duskbloods. I thought it was going to be an awesome FromSoftware single player game exclusive for Switch 2, but it's just another multiplayer game I don't care about. If they end up including a single player campaign, I might end up getting it, but this was one of the biggest letdowns from initial excitement of the announcement to digging in deeper and finding out the truth I've ever remembered.
Just figure out a way for all the shovelware/trash games that are released daily to be filtered out so only first party/third party/solid indie titles show up unless we turn off the filters. Nothing more annoying than a bunch of garbage games hogging up the recently added section, while good titles get buried.
As for achievements, I'm indifferent on these. It's kind of fun to win a trophy, but at the same time it's not all that necessary for me to enjoy a game.
I'm going to be "that guy" and justify the reason for the price increase. I'm doing this purely from why I believe they are doing this, not that I agree that they should do this:
1. Mario Kart 8 was the best selling game for the Switch by a long shot. The thing about it is many people who bought the game in 2017 (or even 2014 if you were a Wii U owner) are still playing it to this day. If you bought it for $60, it has given you years of fun gameplay. That makes the $60 asking price almost a bargain. The game is over 10 years old if you count when it came out on Wii U, and it still sells like crazy and is still played by millions.
2. You can get the pack in version of the Switch 2, where the game "only" costs $50, which, in hindsight, is quite a deal.
3. Have you been the movies recently? Tickets are close to $15 now, plus snacks, which can run $20-$30, for a movie that is 2.5-3 hours, many times not worth the asking price, which often times you could just wait for it to come out on streaming. If you are a family of four, that could come out to $60-$150, depending on what you buy, for one night at the movies that will last 2.5-3 hours, vs a video game that will give you years of enjoyment.
My Genesis mini is sitting on my bookshelf. I doubt I'll ever turn it on again.
I have the Genesis collection on Switch before Sega's weird decision to delist games. Again, I played the games I want to play from this console, and I don't know if or when I'll play them again.
I don't know what Sega is doing. It seems like a bunch of haphazard Sonic releases, with teasers of reviving IPs with little evidence this will actually happen, with harebrained ideas like a subscription service, when people have subscription fatigue. Thank God Atlus seems to function without this dysfunction despite being owned by Sega.
Loved this game. One of my games of the year. It runs really well on the Switch, docked or undocked. It's worth much more than $15, but grab it for that price. Also, I don't get Ubisoft. Selling over a million units of a game should be considered successful, especially one that is likely a double A product with a lower marketing/promotion budget, but they call it "disappointing" and now likely will shelve the series for a while. Infuriating.
Sadly, Nintendo will probably be shut out this year at the Game Awards. The Family Award, which normally they have on lock down, will go to Astro Bot, and while Metroid Prime 4 is a darkhouse for the Most Anticipated Game, I think GTA VI will get it.
My only hope is they shadow drop Prime 2 and 3, alongside Twlight Princess/Wind Waker, and maybe Star Fox Zero, to hold us over until Switch 2 comes out.
I'm done with the rumors. Until Nintendo themselves comes out with something, I'm not believing it. Nobody really knows, except perhaps Nvidia and some of the bigger developers, what's going on at Nintendo. RGT 85, Spawnwave, all the other YouTubers who have no content right now and live and die off rumors, are just regurgitating what they see on Google. You can tell they are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for content with all their "look at how woke this is!" videos now. Until something comes out, I will continue playing my Switch, which has plenty of games on it I still need to play.
I bet this same person is glued to their phone all the time and tweets things or posts on Facebook. We all have hobbies, leave people alone and let them do what they want, as long as they aren't a threat to you or their own personal health.
Nintendo went through a phase, after the rating system for games got into place, where they distanced themselves from their "family friendly" persona. It was towards the end of the SNES lifespan (when more violent games like DOOM, Mortal Kombat II and Killer Instinct were coming on the console) and the beginning of the N64. It was a time in general in the mid 90s where "alternative" was the zeitgeist. I also think Nintendo did it to help with encroaching competition from Sega and Sony. By the end of the N64 and the beginning of the Gamecube, they were firmly back to their "family friendly" roots.
Tears of the Kingdom: 76 hours Persona 5 Royal: 24 hours Splatoon 3: 20 hours
Xbox Year in Review 2023:
Total time played: 156 hours Total games: 5 Total achievements: 77
Games played: Elden Ring, Psychonauts 2, Stray, Red Dead Redemption 2, Starfield
380 hours of total gaming on Switch and Xbox. Add in emulation on my computer and it's probably around 420 or so. In a way, I'm glad that number wasn't higher? Meant I was living a more balanced life? I don't know...
@PtM I don't hate him, as much as I find him overexposed and overrated. He uses video games as his "in" to Hollywood and celebrity worship culture. Early on, he seemed to truly enjoy video games (like when he did an interview with the Bioshock team), now it just seems like he wants to be one of the movers and shakers of Hollywood, and it comes off inauthentic and artificial. Plus I find 90% of the announcements at his events uninteresting and unappealing. Most of them are for Games as a Service trash or bad licensed properties. Most of the major developers keep the big games for their own events.
Geoff Keighley's a wanna be Hollywood dork who thinks celebrity worship is cool. The Game Awards are NOT replacing E3. Individual presentations by companies (Nintendo Direct, Sony State of Play, Xbox Showcase) are.
Events are expensive. It's much easier for Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft to record something from their own offices and beam it out to everyone via the Internet. As someone who used to go to many trade shows, the cold hard truth is most of them the ROI is minimal. Most people like to go because it gets them out of the office and they get free booze and food.
I love Tears of the Kingdom, but Baldur's Gate III was the better game. TOTK was awesome, but it wasn't the ground breaking revolution that BOTW was in 2017.
Nintendo still had a very good showing at the show with three games winning awards. Not too shabby.
The show has improved considerably from the early days (remember all the product placement of Cheetos and Mountain Dew many years ago when this was still on Spike TV?).
Having said that, I find absolutely nothing interesting or cool about Hollywood. Zip. Zero. Nada. Many gamers are not the same crowd that reads gossip rags about Taylor Swift or cares about this movie star or that movie star.
At the same time, video game companies like Nintendo and Sony are leaning more and more into Hollywood, likely to expand their audience reach beyond the usual gamer crowd. The Mario movie was immensely successful, as was The Last of Us TV show, so this is only going to continue.
It's fun to see premieres and it's fun to see games we care about get recognized, but 3+ hours of mostly fluff isn't must see TV for me.
And for the record, I'm glad it wasn't a soapbox for political views or labor practices.
I love BOTW and TOTK. They are easily my favorite Zelda games. Personally, I got very tired and bored of the Zelda formula by about Skyward Sword. It started becoming predictable. I'm glad they took chances with it and took it in a new direction.
Baldur's Gate III is probably the favorite, but still cool Nintendo had a few games in the finalists. Tears is excellent, but Baldur's Gate III is even better.
Make a deal with WB Games to allow the post split Atari arcade games on this collection. Marble Madness, Paperboy, Gauntlet, APB, Super Sprint, 720, Roadblasters. I would love to be able to play these on the Switch.
NO ONE wants Games as a Service. It's a dying model. Yes, Fortnite and Minecraft will continue to dominate, but for those two games, there are dozens that are DOA. I think Sony moving to this model away from their focus on quality first party titles is going to be a very bad move.
Warner Bros. doesn't seem to understand video games. They only care about Mortal Kombat and sometimes Batman. We still don't have a Williams/Midway/Atari Games compilation on the Switch. Come on, wake up and read the room.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is an all-time classic. It has given us close to ten years of solid gameplay. Thank you Nintendo for this amazing game. Now, time to start investing in Mario Kart 9 for the next gen console.
At first I thought Kit and Krysta's show post Nintendo Minute was a bit awkward, but they've gotten much better and now have a great show on YouTube. I like that they still do a lot of Nintendo stuff, but now are branching into PlayStation and Xbox as well. It's also nice they are no longer shackled to being Nintendo cheerleaders, so we hear more honest opinions from them. I wish them the best of luck.
That is why they are special. They are focused first and foremost on video games. Sony has TVs, cameras, a movie studio, and a number of other devices besides PlayStation. Windows will always be Microsoft's main bread and butter. If video games went away, these companies would survive, but if video games went away for Nintendo, they'd be a much, much smaller company once again focused on playing cards and toys.
Both Sony and Microsoft would give their first born to have a Shigeru Miyamoto on their staff. He is the Willy Wonka of video games and no designer even comes close.
The ONE company I thought MAYBE, maybe would have acquired Nintendo was Disney. It would have fit in with their other line of IPs (Lucas, Marvel, Muppets, Pixar, etc.). It would have gotten them a foot into the video game industry, which is still fast growing, and help with the declines in the TV industry and film industry. Mario is about as big as Mickey Mouse, maybe bigger. The family friendly bent of Nintendo fits in with Disney's MO. I don't think it will happen now due to Disney struggling at the moment and Nintendo pretty entrenched with Universal Studios after the major success of the Mario movie and Nintendo World at the theme parks, but at one point, I thought a Disney acquisition wasn't out of the realm of possibility.
Nintendo IPs are the "crown jewels" of video games. In fact, I'd go so far as to say more kids know of Mario, Pokemon and Link than they do Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. This is why Nintendo is so protective of them.
Having a hybrid console with the exact same specs as a PS5 is likely impossible without huge price increases and significant cut in battery life. One with PS4 specs, plus the bonus of rendering to give PS5 like performance/graphics, could be a great compromise and allow for a lot of great games to come over to the console. All I honestly hope for now is backwards compatibility.
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Re: Developers Reportedly Still Struggling To Get Switch 2 Dev Kits
I'm enjoying the Switch 2 so far, but some of the decisions have been puzzling and frustrating. Sometimes Nintendo feels like the modern day version of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. A bizarre, but magical place that goes by its own rules, and the main creator is a mysterious, creative genius (Miyamoto is the video game Wonka).
Re: Round Up: Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 - Every Switch 1 & 2 Announcement & Trailer
Indiana Jones is awesome, but I have it on Game Pass and likely won't be picking it up for Switch 2. But it's cool that it's an option.
Re: Nintendo Showcases Every Partner Direct Switch 2 Game In New Infographic
The problem I had with this Direct, which in my mind, goes down as one of the worst in recent history, is the timing of it. The Switch 2 just came out. People are clamoring for new games to buy for it. Most have Mario Kart World and people are starting to finish Donkey Kong Bananza, so what's next? This was the opportunity to give some release dates for things like Metroid Prime 4 and Kirby Air Riders. This was the time to start sharing some big time games coming to Switch 2, like Red Dead Redemption 2. This was the time to give people dates on Final Fantasy VII Remake and Elden Ring. Instead, we got Just Dance, a game that has been on every console for 20ish years now, and a long preview for a campfire cozy simulator.
I love the Switch 2 and I'm having fun with it, but the offerings are slim right now. Mario Kart World is fun, Donkey Kong Bananza was fantastic, and I'm enjoying Cyberpunk 2077 and Street Fighter 6, but there has to be more than that, especially for a brand new console. This direct would have been fine if this was year three, but releasing this when you haven't even been on the market for two months yet is tone deaf and concerning.
Re: Video: Switch 2 Vs. Steam Deck System Face-Off, Digital Foundry Investigates
I'm so tired of this comparison. They aren' t the same thing and they are targeting very different audiences. The Switch 2 is a hybird CONSOLE, the Steam Deck is a handheld GAMING LAPTOP. Completely different device, completely different audience. The Switch 2 has tailor made software designed to play specifically for the platform. The Steam Deck plays PC games, but some do not run natively or you need to "tweak" the console in order for them to play proper. It's definitely not "plug and play" like the Switch 2. There is a reason the Steam Deck has sold around 4 million devices lifetime while the Switch 2 blew past that number in 3 weeks. They are again completely different devices.
Re: Video: Switch 2 And Steam Deck Face Off In Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmark Test
I'm putting a ton of time into Cyberpunk on Switch 2. I absolutely love the game and I'm having so much fun with it. It performs very well and looks amazing. I don't have a gaming PC and don't ever plan on getting one, nor a Steam Deck. I have an Xbox Series S mainly for Game Pass and playing games like Red Dead Redemption 2 that skipped the OG Switch. My hope is more and more of these will be on Switch 2 and then maybe I can just retire the Series S altogether.
Re: Feature: 22 Games With 'Secret' Performance Bumps You Should Revisit On Switch 2
Link's Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom are both super smooth and much more playable. No more weird stutters and shakes.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (28th June)
Cyberpunk 2077. It's easily the best game on Switch 2 right now. Sorry Mario Kart World.
Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"
I never had the OLED, but the screen in comparison to the OG Switch is much improved. I've been very happy so far with the console and I'm playing a ton of Cyberpunk 2077 on it.
Re: Splatoon 3's Summer Nights Event Returns Next Month With A New Splatfest & Free Items
Been playing Splatoon 3 again on Switch 2. It's revitalized my love of this game. So buttery smooth, colorful and fun!
Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Direct: Every Announcement - How Would You Rate It?
Loved it. Really cool that Pauline is given a role in this game. Beautiful graphics. Looks like a ton of fun.
Re: Switch 2 Is Officially The "Fastest-Selling Nintendo Hardware" Ever In The US
I'm not that surprised. The Switch might be the most popular console of all time. It has a good chance of overtaking PlayStation 2 as the best selling console of all time. Nintendo IPs have never been more popular. The Switch 2 is everything we loved about Switch 1, but better.
Re: Review: Mario Kart World (Switch 2) - The Perfect Introduction To A New Console Generation
Great game. Lots of fun, very colorful, amazing music. The open world mode is weird and not sure about it, but knockout mode is so exciting.
Re: UK Charts: Minecraft Makes Gains, But Clair Obscur Reigns Supreme
Expedition 33 is the best game I've played in years, maybe since Breath of the Wild or Elden Ring. If it comes to Switch 2, I will pick it up. I'm playing it currently on Game Pass, but it's worth buying to support the devs.
Re: Full Game List Revealed For Atari's Upcoming Bubsy Collection
I'm old enough to remember when Bubsy was the whipping boy of the 16 bit era. A game that wanted so badly to be the next Mario or Sonic, and it just fell flat.
Some IPs and ideas are just meant to die. This is one of them.
Re: Talking Point: Does Switch 2 Have Nintendo's Best Launch Line-Up Ever?
The Switch launch lineup was pretty bad. Breath of the Wild released cross-gen (I got it on Wii U) and other than that, not much else, but BOTW was so big, that it almost didn't matter.
I love the variety of Switch titles that sound like they will be available at launch. I know some might be disappointed that no Mario or Zelda game is coming out along with the console, but Mario Kart is by far Nintendo's biggest IP, so that's going to be a huge game. And Donkey Kong might not be up on the same level as Mario and Zelda, but it's close.
The one game I'm truly disappointed about, and it's not a launch title but an announced title, is the Duskbloods. I thought it was going to be an awesome FromSoftware single player game exclusive for Switch 2, but it's just another multiplayer game I don't care about. If they end up including a single player campaign, I might end up getting it, but this was one of the biggest letdowns from initial excitement of the announcement to digging in deeper and finding out the truth I've ever remembered.
Re: The Switch 2 Won't Have Achievements Or eShop Music
Just figure out a way for all the shovelware/trash games that are released daily to be filtered out so only first party/third party/solid indie titles show up unless we turn off the filters. Nothing more annoying than a bunch of garbage games hogging up the recently added section, while good titles get buried.
As for achievements, I'm indifferent on these. It's kind of fun to win a trophy, but at the same time it's not all that necessary for me to enjoy a game.
Re: Nintendo Comments On Mario Kart World's Controversial Price
I'm going to be "that guy" and justify the reason for the price increase. I'm doing this purely from why I believe they are doing this, not that I agree that they should do this:
1. Mario Kart 8 was the best selling game for the Switch by a long shot. The thing about it is many people who bought the game in 2017 (or even 2014 if you were a Wii U owner) are still playing it to this day. If you bought it for $60, it has given you years of fun gameplay. That makes the $60 asking price almost a bargain. The game is over 10 years old if you count when it came out on Wii U, and it still sells like crazy and is still played by millions.
2. You can get the pack in version of the Switch 2, where the game "only" costs $50, which, in hindsight, is quite a deal.
3. Have you been the movies recently? Tickets are close to $15 now, plus snacks, which can run $20-$30, for a movie that is 2.5-3 hours, many times not worth the asking price, which often times you could just wait for it to come out on streaming. If you are a family of four, that could come out to $60-$150, depending on what you buy, for one night at the movies that will last 2.5-3 hours, vs a video game that will give you years of enjoyment.
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct?
I was happy. Lots of great games. The system looks like a great upgrade. Gamecube games. I'll give it a 9 out of 10.
Re: Don't Expect Any More Miniature Consoles From Sega
My Genesis mini is sitting on my bookshelf. I doubt I'll ever turn it on again.
I have the Genesis collection on Switch before Sega's weird decision to delist games. Again, I played the games I want to play from this console, and I don't know if or when I'll play them again.
I don't know what Sega is doing. It seems like a bunch of haphazard Sonic releases, with teasers of reviving IPs with little evidence this will actually happen, with harebrained ideas like a subscription service, when people have subscription fatigue. Thank God Atlus seems to function without this dysfunction despite being owned by Sega.
Re: PSA: Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Is On Sale For Just $15 (US)
Loved this game. One of my games of the year. It runs really well on the Switch, docked or undocked. It's worth much more than $15, but grab it for that price. Also, I don't get Ubisoft. Selling over a million units of a game should be considered successful, especially one that is likely a double A product with a lower marketing/promotion budget, but they call it "disappointing" and now likely will shelve the series for a while. Infuriating.
Re: Poll: It's Almost Time For The Game Awards, But Are You Expecting Much Switch News?
Sadly, Nintendo will probably be shut out this year at the Game Awards. The Family Award, which normally they have on lock down, will go to Astro Bot, and while Metroid Prime 4 is a darkhouse for the Most Anticipated Game, I think GTA VI will get it.
My only hope is they shadow drop Prime 2 and 3, alongside Twlight Princess/Wind Waker, and maybe Star Fox Zero, to hold us over until Switch 2 comes out.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's SNES Library With Four More Titles
Eh, it's fine. I think outside of Chrono Trigger I have all the SNES games I want now, either on SNES Switch Online or compilations.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (14th September)
Switch:
Prince of Persia: Lost Crown
Batman: Arkham City
Xbox:
Starfield
Red Dead Redemption 2
Re: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Launches On Switch In July
No Rad Racer or Tetris? More of the same ol' very played out NES titles? No thanks.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th May)
Persona 5 Royal. It's pretty much all I've been playing for over a month now. One of my favorite games of all time and it fits the Switch perfectly.
Re: Rumour: 'Switch 2' Will Reportedly Feature Magnetic Joy-Cons
I'm done with the rumors. Until Nintendo themselves comes out with something, I'm not believing it. Nobody really knows, except perhaps Nvidia and some of the bigger developers, what's going on at Nintendo. RGT 85, Spawnwave, all the other YouTubers who have no content right now and live and die off rumors, are just regurgitating what they see on Google. You can tell they are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for content with all their "look at how woke this is!" videos now. Until something comes out, I will continue playing my Switch, which has plenty of games on it I still need to play.
Re: Soapbox: "Go Outside, Get Some Fresh Air" - Why Won't Outmoded Gamer Stereotypes Die?
@JHDK So what should adults do instead? Get drunk? Binge Netflix? Post on social media? Are those less embarrassing than video games?
Re: Soapbox: "Go Outside, Get Some Fresh Air" - Why Won't Outmoded Gamer Stereotypes Die?
@JHDK Wrong. More adults are now playing video games than ever before.
Re: Soapbox: "Go Outside, Get Some Fresh Air" - Why Won't Outmoded Gamer Stereotypes Die?
I bet this same person is glued to their phone all the time and tweets things or posts on Facebook. We all have hobbies, leave people alone and let them do what they want, as long as they aren't a threat to you or their own personal health.
Re: Soapbox: 1080° Snowboarding Is The Coolest Nintendo Ever Got
Nintendo went through a phase, after the rating system for games got into place, where they distanced themselves from their "family friendly" persona. It was towards the end of the SNES lifespan (when more violent games like DOOM, Mortal Kombat II and Killer Instinct were coming on the console) and the beginning of the N64. It was a time in general in the mid 90s where "alternative" was the zeitgeist. I also think Nintendo did it to help with encroaching competition from Sega and Sony. By the end of the N64 and the beginning of the Gamecube, they were firmly back to their "family friendly" roots.
Re: Your 'Nintendo Switch Year In Review 2023' Stats Are Available Now
@Vyacheslav333 Yeah, that's one of those genres, alongside sports games, that the Switch doesn't do very well.
Re: Your 'Nintendo Switch Year In Review 2023' Stats Are Available Now
Switch Year in Review 2023:
Total games played: 54 Total hours played: 224
Top Three Most Played Games:
Tears of the Kingdom: 76 hours Persona 5 Royal: 24 hours Splatoon 3: 20 hours
Xbox Year in Review 2023:
Total time played: 156 hours Total games: 5 Total achievements: 77
Games played: Elden Ring, Psychonauts 2, Stray, Red Dead Redemption 2, Starfield
380 hours of total gaming on Switch and Xbox. Add in emulation on my computer and it's probably around 420 or so. In a way, I'm glad that number wasn't higher? Meant I was living a more balanced life? I don't know...
Re: E3 Has Been Cancelled, Permanently
@PtM I don't hate him, as much as I find him overexposed and overrated. He uses video games as his "in" to Hollywood and celebrity worship culture. Early on, he seemed to truly enjoy video games (like when he did an interview with the Bioshock team), now it just seems like he wants to be one of the movers and shakers of Hollywood, and it comes off inauthentic and artificial. Plus I find 90% of the announcements at his events uninteresting and unappealing. Most of them are for Games as a Service trash or bad licensed properties. Most of the major developers keep the big games for their own events.
Re: E3 Has Been Cancelled, Permanently
Geoff Keighley's a wanna be Hollywood dork who thinks celebrity worship is cool. The Game Awards are NOT replacing E3. Individual presentations by companies (Nintendo Direct, Sony State of Play, Xbox Showcase) are.
Re: E3 Has Been Cancelled, Permanently
Events are expensive. It's much easier for Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft to record something from their own offices and beam it out to everyone via the Internet. As someone who used to go to many trade shows, the cold hard truth is most of them the ROI is minimal. Most people like to go because it gets them out of the office and they get free booze and food.
Re: Soapbox: This Year, The Game Awards Failed The Industry
I love Tears of the Kingdom, but Baldur's Gate III was the better game. TOTK was awesome, but it wasn't the ground breaking revolution that BOTW was in 2017.
Nintendo still had a very good showing at the show with three games winning awards. Not too shabby.
Re: Soapbox: This Year, The Game Awards Failed The Industry
The show has improved considerably from the early days (remember all the product placement of Cheetos and Mountain Dew many years ago when this was still on Spike TV?).
Having said that, I find absolutely nothing interesting or cool about Hollywood. Zip. Zero. Nada. Many gamers are not the same crowd that reads gossip rags about Taylor Swift or cares about this movie star or that movie star.
At the same time, video game companies like Nintendo and Sony are leaning more and more into Hollywood, likely to expand their audience reach beyond the usual gamer crowd. The Mario movie was immensely successful, as was The Last of Us TV show, so this is only going to continue.
It's fun to see premieres and it's fun to see games we care about get recognized, but 3+ hours of mostly fluff isn't must see TV for me.
And for the record, I'm glad it wasn't a soapbox for political views or labor practices.
Re: Zelda Producer Responds To Fans Who Want A More "Traditional Linear" Adventure
I love BOTW and TOTK. They are easily my favorite Zelda games. Personally, I got very tired and bored of the Zelda formula by about Skyward Sword. It started becoming predictable. I'm glad they took chances with it and took it in a new direction.
Re: The Game Awards 2023: Where And When To Watch The Game Awards
Baldur's Gate III is probably the favorite, but still cool Nintendo had a few games in the finalists. Tears is excellent, but Baldur's Gate III is even better.
Re: 'Atari 50' Is Getting More Games Via Free Updates, 12 Dropping Next Week
Make a deal with WB Games to allow the post split Atari arcade games on this collection. Marble Madness, Paperboy, Gauntlet, APB, Super Sprint, 720, Roadblasters. I would love to be able to play these on the Switch.
Re: Review: Irem Collection Volume 1 (Switch) - Three Great Games, But One Slim Package
Would have loved Kung-Fu Master and Metalstorm on this one.
Re: Warner Bros. Says It's Focused On Transforming Its "Biggest Franchises" Into Live Services
NO ONE wants Games as a Service. It's a dying model. Yes, Fortnite and Minecraft will continue to dominate, but for those two games, there are dozens that are DOA. I think Sony moving to this model away from their focus on quality first party titles is going to be a very bad move.
Warner Bros. doesn't seem to understand video games. They only care about Mortal Kombat and sometimes Batman. We still don't have a Williams/Midway/Atari Games compilation on the Switch. Come on, wake up and read the room.
Re: Review: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 6 - Takes The Chequered Flag With A Safe Final Lap
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is an all-time classic. It has given us close to ten years of solid gameplay. Thank you Nintendo for this amazing game. Now, time to start investing in Mario Kart 9 for the next gen console.
Re: Feature: What Video Game Consultants Actually Do, And Why ‘Kit & Krysta’ Are Doing It
At first I thought Kit and Krysta's show post Nintendo Minute was a bit awkward, but they've gotten much better and now have a great show on YouTube. I like that they still do a lot of Nintendo stuff, but now are branching into PlayStation and Xbox as well. It's also nice they are no longer shackled to being Nintendo cheerleaders, so we hear more honest opinions from them. I wish them the best of luck.
Re: Soapbox: Nintendo, "THE Prime Asset" In Xbox's Content Quest? It's Only Natural
Sony is an electronics company.
Microsoft is a software company.
Nintendo is a video game company.
That is why they are special. They are focused first and foremost on video games. Sony has TVs, cameras, a movie studio, and a number of other devices besides PlayStation. Windows will always be Microsoft's main bread and butter. If video games went away, these companies would survive, but if video games went away for Nintendo, they'd be a much, much smaller company once again focused on playing cards and toys.
Both Sony and Microsoft would give their first born to have a Shigeru Miyamoto on their staff. He is the Willy Wonka of video games and no designer even comes close.
Re: Soapbox: Nintendo, "THE Prime Asset" In Xbox's Content Quest? It's Only Natural
The ONE company I thought MAYBE, maybe would have acquired Nintendo was Disney. It would have fit in with their other line of IPs (Lucas, Marvel, Muppets, Pixar, etc.). It would have gotten them a foot into the video game industry, which is still fast growing, and help with the declines in the TV industry and film industry. Mario is about as big as Mickey Mouse, maybe bigger. The family friendly bent of Nintendo fits in with Disney's MO. I don't think it will happen now due to Disney struggling at the moment and Nintendo pretty entrenched with Universal Studios after the major success of the Mario movie and Nintendo World at the theme parks, but at one point, I thought a Disney acquisition wasn't out of the realm of possibility.
Re: Soapbox: Nintendo, "THE Prime Asset" In Xbox's Content Quest? It's Only Natural
Nintendo IPs are the "crown jewels" of video games. In fact, I'd go so far as to say more kids know of Mario, Pokemon and Link than they do Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. This is why Nintendo is so protective of them.
Re: Soapbox: Nintendo, "THE Prime Asset" In Xbox's Content Quest? It's Only Natural
How about Microsoft actually try to make some new games in their own studios instead of just buying other studios.
Re: Nintendo Reportedly Briefed Activision On 'Switch 2' Back In 2022
Having a hybrid console with the exact same specs as a PS5 is likely impossible without huge price increases and significant cut in battery life. One with PS4 specs, plus the bonus of rendering to give PS5 like performance/graphics, could be a great compromise and allow for a lot of great games to come over to the console. All I honestly hope for now is backwards compatibility.
Re: Nintendo Reportedly Briefed Activision On 'Switch 2' Back In 2022
@EaglyBird Take a deep breath. It's going to be ok.