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Dang, misinterpreted the title, I was hoping it meant I could hide them from appearing on the eShop

I was going to preorder, and then my water heater broke, on the list of priorities hot water comes above the Switch 2 unfortunately.

I wish we could use the regular Switch controllers to wake the system though... not a big deal, but surely this is just a simple firmware update right?

The calendar in the app has these "Nintendo Switch 2 Experience" things in cities all around the world, the last one is the end of May, I'm speculating a launch in June then.

This has me pretty excited about the future potential of the digital game card concept. I've always thought that Nintendo or any other digital game store could use NFTs (I know, scary word) for the software licensing, this would make it so users could resell their digital games, or give them to other people, etc.

Someone should let him know he spelled the name of his game wrong then

@OctolingKing13 I can't believe how low EOW scored, the game is amazing, I'd have a hard time taking any reviewer seriously after giving it anything less than a 9/10. But maybe it's just my taste.

Still not a big fan of the methodology of these rankings, a publisher publishing a couple of "just okay" games shouldn't detract from them publishing great ones, especially if those "just okay" games were smaller one off or niche kind of games and the great games were hyped and highly anticipated.

I also still feel like many reviewers in the industry are more critical of anything Nintendo publishes because if they aren't they get accused of being biased in favor toward Nintendo. It's like the common belief is that the industry is too soft on Nintendo, so many reviewers over-correct in the other direction.

I'm not saying Nintendo had an amazing year or anything, but 22? Really?

I haven't had a single problem with the app so far, one thing I wish they would add is support for smart speakers and similar devices, would be nice to play it through my alexa.

I don't really care if they do or don't, but the thing is, games like Super Soccer are not worth $8 to anyone, why go through the effort for the 5 people who would buy it? Virtual console sucked, 99% of the people who are asking for it to return wouldn't buy more than like 5 games on it because it's too damn expensive and if you're already paying for NSO to play online and for cloud saves, you're actively discouraged from buying anything that's already available through there.

It was good, I'm most interested in Champions, though being cautiously optimistic, I also wonder what this could mean for the mainline games, time will tell.

It under-performed because fans are aware Ubisoft doesn't value their games. Why buy on launch when like clockwork the game will be 1/3 the price in less than a year?

All these crossovers with MTG is making the world of MTG a lot less interesting, which has been one of the strong points. Honestly feels like MTG might be heading into a death spiral.

I'm hoping they're just replacing it with something similar. Imo one of the best features of NSO is the vouchers. Expecting Switch 2 games to have a standard MSRP of $70, so maybe they'll just have "game tickets" or some other name for $120. Sucks for prices to go up, but it would be understandable.

It's disappointing for sure, and if they had a replacement, I feel like they would have said as such, even if it was vague. Still who knows, maybe instead of gold points and game vouchers they will just give a blanket 5% off eShop games to subscribers. One can dream right?

While I think it would be a fine idea if Nintendo wanted to sell the games individually, the NSO model is a far superior service to VC, VC was expensive as hell. What I do not want to see is a split system, all VC games should be available on NSO, no VC exclusives.

Had to stop and think for a lot of them, I love Majora's Mask, and have done a 100% run of it, but it has been a few years since the last I played it, still got 24/24 though.

Maybe I'm a little unclear on what "Family game" means, but isn't Astrobot a single player game? Not sure I'd consider a game without multiplayer to be a family game, maybe they mean kid friendly? Haven't played the Indiana Jones game, but Echoes of Wisdom is outstanding, best 2D Zelda since Minish Cap, maybe even since Link to the Past.... maybe of all time.

NSO itself is okay, not amazing, not bad, just okay. The value however is outstanding. The service costs peanuts and you get online play, cloud saves, emulators, and can buy game vouchers. The game vouchers by themselves pay for the cost of the basic NSO plan if you buy them once a year or more.

And it seems like not a popular opinion anymore, but I greatly prefer the emulator apps being part of NSO than having to pay $5 for every NES game, $8 for every SNES game, and $10 for every N64 game, have people forgotten how damn expensive virtual console's prices were?? Because they were expensive I only bought a handful of games I knew I'd like, with NSO since everything is included I've gotten to try out tons of games I wouldn't have bought at VC prices and had a lot of fun experiences-- and all for the cost of something I would have paid for anyway. I had maybe around 15-20 virtual console games on my Wii U costing somewhere around $150-$200 over the 5 year life of the Wii U, now I have a library of over 300 retro games and growing, costing around $230-$260 over the 8 year life of the Switch, most of which I would have paid anyway for the ability to play online and buy game vouchers.

The biggest improvement I want to see with NSO is for Nintendo to lean more into the "Expansion" aspect of it, give us more DLC as part of the service! IMO the expansion is still a good value, but not as good as the basic service.

I still say Nintendo should have a curating process. They can still have it so anyone can add stuff on the eshop, but in order for it to show up without users searching for it (ie show up on the front page) it should have to be selected by Nintendo.

I think it could be interesting to do a game that explores Ganondorf's backstory. Take Ganondorf from Ocarina of Time and make him much younger. You don't even necessarily need to make him evil, he could be the "hero" of his own story, and the story could pan out that leads him down an evil path in the future. In Wind Waker Ganondorf talks about coveting the wind (meaning life) of those in Hyrule as when the wind blew in the desert where his people are from it lead to death. I think you could make an interesting story by expanding on this idea of Ganondorf seeking a way to better the life of the Gerudo tribe and being rejected or even betrayed by those in Hyrule who wished to keep their distance, leading him to take less ethical approaches until he eventually is taken over by his desire for power.

NA all day, EU looks dumb with them grabbing onto pegs that are just floating there. It's not even the way it is in game, there are no other pegs to grab onto, how'd they get up there? Just looks sloppy imo.

I honestly would love a StarTropics comeback in any form, I think there's a lot of potential.

It will be done when it's done, looking forward to it, but they can take their time

Tbh I'd be surprised if Microsoft released a handheld that wasn't Windows based, seems more like competition for Steam Deck than for Switch.

A windows based handheld just makes more sense, the games are already made for it, that way they don't need to do a bunch of work (or make it stupid powerful and expensive) to make XSX games work on it.

Not that I really care, but this methodology is dumb. Number 2, 3, and 4 are publishers who only put out a handful of titles, but they all scored "good" (not even "great"), so they got top spots. Imo Nintendo should be higher than Capcom, Nintendo had both more "good" (16 vs 9) and "great" (4 vs 3) titles, but the average brought them down, meaning they would have won if they didn't release as many games, how does releasing fewer games make a publisher better?

Surely Ubisoft understands why nobody buys their games at full price right? ...right?

@Captain_Toad I recently upgraded my SD card from 256GB to 1TB, really nice not having to worry about storage, I have nearly all my games installed now and it's barely half full, I honestly can't imagine actually filling it up anytime soon.

Good for them, looking forward to their future projects. I assume Crash and Spryo still belong to Activision, maybe they can collab with them on more games from those series.

I'm already mostly digital, don't really need convincing, when I buy physical games it's because it's a good deal, otherwise I always prefer digital, it's so much more convenient. Physical games are basically just digital games on their own fancy SD card nowadays anyway, the vast majority of games have patches, updates, etc, that if I can't redownload digital games anymore, I'm sure I can't redownload patches either. Not that I'm worried about it, I can still redownload Wii games that I purchased, and I think it would be completely understandable by now if that was shut down, it's going to be a long while before I can't redownload Switch games, and by the time that happens I probably won't care anymore either and will have already backed everything up.

This looks amazing!

Seems promising that we'll see more Rare games on NSO, all welcome additions here, never heard of Snake Rattle n Roll, looks interesting.

Totk should have been GOTY, haven't played BG3, so maybe my opinion would change once I do, but looking at gameplay it looks good, but not really GOTY good imo.

It's cool, but not $379 cool.

Having read the original interview, I think the title here is misleading. Tremblay was saying for people who want to subscribe for services like this they need to be comfortable not owning the games on it, not that everyone needs to only play games on subscription and never buy them again.

Welp, guess we gotta take 'R' out of the alphabet now so nobody confuses it for Rockstar's logo.

I'm not expecting much, nor do I really care tbh, I know I'm going to buy an SD card either way.

Earthbound Amiibo Festival confirmed

@awp69 Always starts later than Europe, probably next week

Man I wish I had the gaming time other people do, I had 181 hours total this year, across all games on my Switch 😭

I'll give the demo a go, I've been keeping an eye on this game, I'm interested, but not convinced to buy it yet, maybe the demo will help convince me.

That's pretty cool, am I supposed to pretend running a game designed for a system with a 4MHz 8 bit CPU and 8KB of RAM on a modern PC at a higher frame rate is impressive though?

Not really a dig at the person who made it, just that 120+ fps should be a given.

@MSaturn Agreed, the sticking point on RT is super weird, I feel like it's highly likely they'll have a graphics option on PC to turn RT off, especially since a large percentage of the graphics cards Steam users are using still don't support RT.

1. I don't care if GTA VI comes to Switch 2 or not
2. Seems way premature to start making judgement calls on whether a game that hasn't come out and we know relatively little about will run on a system that hasn't been confirmed to exist that we know nothing about

There's been no reason for E3 to exist for several years now, so this is no surprise. Companies have found streaming pre-recorded presentations to be a more effective and less costly way to make announcements to consumers and industry insiders alike. Thanks for the memories E3!

@mlt No it's still the Deku Tree, the first line of dialog talking to another character is the Deku Tree talking to Navi.

Lizalfos debuted in Ocarina of Time, the question is incorrect. Zelda II had a similar enemy, but the game called them Geru

My favorite is Bowser's Inside Story, Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door and Super Paper Mario are definitely both up there for me too!