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Seems like an honest and isolated mistake to me. Someone just trying to make the day run smoother for everyone, but perhaps should have thought about it a bit more first.

@Zufolobelisk Oh give over! It's called a Pro controller purely as a marketing term to make you, me and everyone else feel a little bit special inside. The amount of people who actually Game as a profession is miniscule and not the reason, even in the slightest, as to why this exists!

A case for a controller is just plain stupid! This is the kind of face palm stuff people will look back on...

Are you a "real fan" if you wait 6 months after launch to buy it for half the price?

Genki deserve everything that's coming their way. They have nothing of their own, they just exist from feeding off other businesses success. Nothing new there, but the way they then undermine one of those businesses and treat them with such contempt. Scummy business practice and it will be the end of them.

Reputation is the key to a successful business. Genki's reputation is gone forever.

There's just too many great games to spend the best part of 20 hours on an average one. And that's before you factor in people's backlogs and retro games too!

Sorry but Ubisoft need to improve their games. They're stuck in the past and cut all the corners.

Well that sucks!

I'm fully digital on Switch and will be with Switch 2. I have no interest in collecting modern games because there's just too many anyway - and so much junk. I'll be cherry picking the best games so I may as well have the convenience.

Besides, I'm already collecting for.older systems... there's only so much money to go around and Nintendo's frankly mis-managament of the eShop is a big reason why I'm not spending there.

Also, I have the PlayStation Portal. Why am I going to spend full price for Switch 2 ports of old games that I can buy for a fraction of the price, with better performance and graphics on my Portal. It makes no sense. You can literally get a Portal for free by buying 6 old PS5 games instead of the same 6 at full price on Switch 2. Madness.

Switch 2 will be for the exclusives only. Whi h amusingly is the same position Nintendo have been in for decades....

I can't stand LEGO (which is just as well as I spend too much elsewhere!) but surely even the biggest LEGO fans must find these Animal Crossing sets very uninspiring.

Too little too late. The sorry state of the eShop is the reason I got heavily into Analogue Pocket these past 2 years. Easily a thousand pounds that didn't go to the eShop from me - and I know I'm not alone.

2021 I got stung so many times by utter rubbish on the eShop. I stopped shopping.

@LikelySatan I've seen a few responses mentioning Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong... this misses my point. Nintendo are the ones saying games can release in summer... and those are their games they are releasing!

My tumbleweed is in reference to the fact NO ONE ElSE releases a major game in the summer. Nintendo knows something that EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Sony, Microsoft don't? I highly doubt it.

Mario Kart World would sell more if it launched in November versus June.

Oh and sorry... it's a bit rich for Nintendo to even suggest this when they are literally bundling the game with the console. That's a tactic that screams "uh oh we're launching in summer". Or did I miss something?!

They blatantly missed their target release date which was obviously Q1! Switch was successful in Q1 - why would you not do the same again?! Who goes "nah, let's wait a few months for the sun to come out!" Bowser is spinning the PR machine lol

Yea... Just look at all those big games that launch in the summer... tumbleweed

This is driven by retail. Its like the final stand for games on shelves in shops before the whole thing goes fully digital.

It's an embarrassing approach to selling videogames in 2025 and shows just how desperate the bricks and mortar retailers are. It's time to pack up shop.

Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2

Nice guide NL and I'm very pleased that the link to pre-order the Gamecube controller works for everyone now - so I finally got mine ordered!

So many coffee table gaming books release! They do know that 1. A lot of people don't even have a coffee table anymore 2. The trend is actually to NOT have a house full of clutter 3. The target audience for this already has a dozen big Pokemon books that sit awkwardly on a shelf they don't fit on and 4. And perhaps most pertinent of all... why a book again?! Make an interactive digital experience using AR/VR instead. This sort of project is crying out for something interactive.

As I've said before, and I'm only half joking... I'm one coffee table book away from a divorce!!

This isn't good news...!

I went elsewhere. Nintendo store have messed up launch day delivery for me before, getting it 2 days later(!) so no thanks. I've got 1 with EE and 1 with Argos.

NL are docked points for not mentioning the fact Super Monkey Ball was easily one of the biggest highlights of the GameCube launch.

Switch 2 is looking good. I'd like to know when MP4 is launching... and I'd like the reassurance that we will be getting a new Mario at Christmas.

It's not even remotely the same thing.

@psyraven76 Nice one!

EE is now out of stock. Argos is still available.

@RupeeClock Nice one!

Yes, I did the same with the Nintendo store and I also want the Gamecube controller!

Argos has stock live roght now too.

Argos and EE

EE have stock live right now for pre-order BUT you have to pay in full up front.

You get what you vote for people!

Literally everything in the world from milk to jaffa cakes costs more today than it did when Switch launched. And we're not even talking about a BIT more... everything costs significantly more.

Plus... in many cases you get less too. I pay more for Jaffa Cakes and they give me 10 instead of 12.

I'm sorry, but can people quit the moaning about videogame prices going up? Everything costs more! Staff wages. Rent. Utility bills. Software licenses. Computers. Storage. Literally everything... so yes. Videogames SHOULD cost more too. Anyone suggesting otherwise is either 8 years old with no understanding or living under a rock.

That's before you even consider the value proposition! Look at the cost of Mario Kart 64 back in the 90s and the content that was available versus Mario Kart World today!

This is just like a variant of the multiple Cup race you can do in Double Dash...

I'm nit really sure why they're bothering with a Mario Kart direct! I'd rather NOT know anything else about the game at this point.

I think it looks fine. It does the job of ensuring people don't pick up the wrong game.

The Zelda updates annoyed me a lot. I don't mind the cost for an upgrade... I mind the fact it's 2025.

I'm not going back to BotW in 2025 to use a smart phone app as a map. This should have been done AT THE TIME or certainly with TOTK launch?!

If someone could explain why Nintendo couldn't add mobile phone app as a map before Switch 2?!

Talk about late to the party!

Also, stop faffing about with this nonsense and just release Twilight Princess on Switch...

Annoys me when irritating mistakes like this are made as it means someone is in a job where they don't 100% understand what they do.

When you consider there are literally thousands of people that would love to do this job and have 100% understanding... it annoys me!

And it's not just some mistake... they are 2 entirely different Yoshi games. The marketing manager/ product manager is clearly not right for the job if they cannot tell the difference.

It's why games marketing is so different to any other industry. You can't teach it. You either get games... or you do not. This person clearly does not... so they should go get another job and let someone else that would love this job properly do it instead.

I just don't have the patience for Hitman... it bores the socks off me. I really, really, really hope their Bond game isn't just a reskin of Hitman... yhat would suck.

Lovely keyart, although perhaps a bit too busy...!

I've not been blown away by this so far... looking forward to learning more in a couple of weeks. I really hope there's some missions and nice unlockables to reward exploration.

Donkey Kong saved the day today!

I already bought a Portal to play this and Rebirth.

It was way, way, way too samey... and where the heck are all the games Nintendo? What have you been doing these past 4 years?!

Donkey Kong saved the bloody day there. Was a disaster until then!

Genki can sod off to be honest with you. I'm not buying a single thing from them.

Imagine running a business that is solely reliant on another business' product and then treating that business with zero respect - revealing information and speaking out of turn.

Doesn't sit right with me. Genki do not deserve our money. Shop elsewhere.

If they put Chadley in the FF9 Remake I am going to scream!

It's depressing how badly Square messed up the FF7 remake. I'm actually really optimistic, given how long this project has been rumoured, that they might just be doing FF9 Remake PROPERLY and with some PASSION!

Metroid will be next week I think. This smells a lot more like a port would be announced this way... Twilight Princess feels about right.

I call BS on this, sorry. I'm a huge Metroid fan, but I'm sorry to say that I have absolutely zero faith in Retro or Nintendo producing a Metroid game that gets anywhere near the potential - and is ultimately, and fully, the same Metroid game all over again.

If that blows everything else out of the water... then the Switch 2 mustn't have any big games in the reveal. And thus it is BS, because we already know Mario Kart 9 is 99.9% likely to feature.

Metroid Prime 4 making a bigger splash than Mario Kart 9? Everyone needs to calm down, take a deep breathe and accept, factually, this is never going to be true!

@MontyCircus Nah, I don't think that makes any sense at all. Brand new Mario and Mario Kart is how you get people to pick up a Switch 2.

Gamecube on NSO is about driving subscriptions. It doesn't matter if you're a Switch or Switch 2 subscriber. NSO will be universal - play any platform on any Switch.

Nintendo missed a trick waiting this long. I cancelled my NSO a while ago because I had better options to play those games. Gamecube, though? I don't have better options for Gamecube. They should have added it 12 months ago.

@Uncle_Franklin I'm not sure we'll ever see a new Smash game! What could they possibly add?!

OK apart from Waluigi...

This has nothing to do with Switch 2... Gamecube is being added to NSO. It will be available on Switch or Switch 2.

Biggest console launch ever is great for Nintendo, but just a word of caution that it isn't actually always that great for us. All those millions of machines just sat in warehouses for months on end combined with the rush to produce such a volume of them will mean a lot of defects - a lot as in a higher relative percentage than if it was a smaller launch.

Choose your vendor carefully I'd say.

August 1991 Super Mario Bros 3 and then April 1992 Super Mario World.

It's sad Nintendo don't release games at this sort of frequency more often. All the time that whistles past us all, waiting for a new 3D Mario to release. History suggests that it's actually nonsense that more games would mean lower quality. Nintendo need to spend some more money already and deliver the goods!

@tektite_captain There is absolutely no reason. Nintendo just didn't think about it.

To be fair, they probably are quite busy at this particular point in time...! However, I would argue their core online services (NSO, eShop and Website) are woefully under-resourced. Considering how successful Switch has been, it is difficult not to be disappointed by Nintendo's lack of commitment to making their online services better.

Another minor but relevant example is the fact you can only play Link's Awakening DX and not the original version. It's really frustrating that such little things don't get picked up because they simply don't have enough people to do a better job that this.

Another example is their email newsletter. It's nearly always "buy this now" with nothing interesting to say or share. No news. No insight. No analysis. Just the usual "Nintendo won't let its staff have any sort of opinion" and as a result the emails are bland are largely pointless. I already know that game is out this week...

And then the eShop. Nintendo being stubborn. Another one of their ugly attributes. They need to hire someone that is qualified in ecommerce because it is painfully clear that nobody working on the Nintendo eShop has a scopby-doo about it. Even hiring an intern to sift through the games would instantly improve it. The algorithms are all over the place. The quality has dropped off a cliff about 5 years ago (pandemic cannot be to blame surely). Hire someone that knows how to run an online store... an ex Amazon exec perhaps?! But Nintendo won't do that, will they? They don't like to be told. They just do what they want.

And to be fair... they get a LOT of things right. It's just frustrating to see a business that is not striving to be better. They literally just allow the eShop to wallow in mediocrity.

9/10?! It only loses a mark if your only way of ever playing it is through NSO.

This is a perfect game. Always has been and always will be. It's up there with Zelda Link's Awakening, Super Mario Land 2 and the original Pokemon games. The best of the Gameboy's best.

And the Gameboy has a ton of 9/10s too by the way. Donkey Kong 94 ain't one of them. It's a 10/10 all day long.

Metroid Prime 4
Mario Kart 9
Mario

And I'm happy with that.

I'm not sure why anyone would suggest Donkey Kong or Star Fox. Nintendo clearly do not care about either of those IP's.

More than a decade since a new game in either series, against a backdrop of 8 years of huge success with Switch, is unforgiveable.