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I feel like mobile may've been a safety net for the big N in case Switch failed. But now that it's succeeded, maybe it's time to stop? Flops like Pocket Camp are probably doing a pretty poor job at bringing people to buy the mainline hardware.

True, I was pretty excited for Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem. Both are pretty good games. But then I got the Switch and couldn't care less for mobile titles.

Wow, this gotta be good, especially if the localisation's done by the same people that did BotW or Splatoon 2. Those localisations KICKED ASS in Russian.

Man, Nintendo still sure knows how to disappoint. I thought Miitomo would be a first step to a better Mii future, integrated into Switch, Nintendo accounts and mobile apps. Plus games like Tomodachi Life for the Switch. Yet here we are...

Personally, I feel that abandoning "casual" Miis for the sake of "hardcore gamer Nintendo franchises" (Splatoon, Smash, Zelda, etc.) is just as stupid as PS4/XBone/PC gamers preferring "mature" titles to "childish" Nintendo games. Gotta learn to see past the presentation! Wii Music, Wii Party, Tomodachi Life were all amazing games. Hell, Wii Party in one of the best selling Wii games.

I would love to be proven wrong and see some Mii love at E3 this year.

"silliness that follows in the footsteps of Wii Music and 1-2-Switch."

Man, I'm in desperate need of Switch Music. I've had unbelievable amounts of fun with Wii Music being a "night cap" after a night of beer & gaming. It may be hard to appreciate at first glance, but the effortless nature of choosing a song and just waving your arms around to make some silly music shows the real genius of the game.

(It also helps when most of your friends know how to play real music, so the silly game aspect just adds to the fun.)

Gotta love those Japanese naming conventions!

This game seems to be called "True Digital Love (What Do You Want?) ～Eri Kitami～"

Nintendo just can't stop with all the lovely cardboard, can they?

@shani @Maxz Man, I want to live the dream and play the Switch on a train, but alas, my commute is a just a 5-7 min bus ride to work.

A sequel? I would welcome it with open arms!

(Damn, the puns were probably the best part of the ARMS discussion here on NL.)

@wiggleronacid Yeah, Doom on PC is like 78GB vs. 22.4GB on the Switch (with multiplayer downloaded). Considering GTA V would probably have to get its textures compressed and what not, it seems entirely plausible from the space needed point of view.

Lucky you, English speakers! Russian Siri says that she can't help me with "mass of hit of sakura"

Yeah, it's really weird they're going with the big X.0 numbers. All this fabulous stability could've easily fit into 1.5 to date. Then 2.0 would be a major thing with folders and themes and onlines, oh my.

Big numbers help build hype, but it seems like the N doesn't quite get it. A few years from now we'll be on v 27.0 and it won't mean a thing, unfortunately.

Edit: Just tried out the update and it doesn't seem to matter whether you have FB and Twitter linked to you Nintendo ID, it just asks to link it on Switch again? Weird. Super Mario Run worked great there, why not Switch?

Finally some info on this! Absolutely worth an import.

Oh my, Nuclear Throne would be amazing on Switch!

@sauce Oh, okay, didn't know that, haha. You can see that Smash is probably the only Ninty franchise that's largely passed me by because for some reason my friends were not that into it.

Let's hope it's a new one then!

Finally, Wii Sports for the Switch.

(No sarcasm! Love it!)

This is DEFINITELY Smash 4.

I haven't played the Wii U one, so I didn't know it was known as "Smash 4", and even so I read the burning cross (and later a thin crossed line in the title) during the Direct as a part of number 4 (the intersection of the lines in 4 makes a cross).

Having never played Wii U, this is gonna be a blast, especially with inklings added.

@SmaggTheSmug "Turn it up! Bring the noise!"

@MoonKnight7 Okay, for anyone still interested, it's a sculpture in the Vigeland Park. It's a huge park in Oslo with LOTS of bizarre sculptures of naked men, women and children made by sculptor Gustav Vigeland around 1930s.

Gotta see it if you visit Oslo. It's amazing, funny, creepy and awesome at the same time.

Man, the piano blows my mind. Sampling waveforms! Cutting out rhythm patterns out of cardboard! Directing with a baton! It's like they built a full-feaured synth... with a cardboard controller to boot!

Maybe those who don't make music can't really appreciate how full-featured and fun the piano looks to be. This alone is worth the price of Labo. Wow.

@brunojenso Couldn't have said it better, mate. I've got a 2011 MBP as well, and since I've come to terms that I need a much better laptop to play the game, I was hoping maybe I'd be able to play it on Switch when I get one. Alas!

I get it that the dev is free to choose any platform they support or don't support, but man, they listed Wii U and Mac as viable platforms during Kickstarter, didn't they? Now one is nowhere to be seen and the second one is basically unplayable. That's not the way to treat your fanbase.

Still, since they've made some money on this game, maybe they'll turn around and hire some third party to optimise and port it to the Switch? (Or, you know, find a publisher?) The sales on the Switch would undoubtedly cover all possible expenses.

Man, I hope this doesn't mean that Miis are forgotten and done with.

Wii Party was the most fun I had with not-so-gamer friends. I hope we get something similar on the Switch.

This is amazing and I need it now! Japan, metal, manga and drums! What could be a better combo?!

Those who think it's cheap gameplay, have you watched the video until 10 minute mark? The controls look unbelievably responsive and the guy just ROCKS.

Love the idea! It actually is Wii 2.0, but in a good way. The same way Wii gave physicality to your actions by tracking controllers, Labo gives physicality to actual objects you play with!

Gotta see how it fares (and how much it costs), but the musical tinkerer in me can't be but adored by that piano!

@ibis_87 It's not a Mercedes Benz, but still outside Moscow and St. Petersburg in a smaller town like mine it's a month's salary for good 50% of the people. And 1/5th of the salary for one game. Ninty really needs to aim for lower prices. You've mentioned Steam; another great example may be Apple. Apple Music is 169 rubles, which is about 3 bucks compared to 10 in the USA. Those guys get regional approach.

I've got a stack of a hundred or more pirated PC games from late 90s-2000s, but can't remember the time I bought the last one. Starting with budget jewel cases in early aughts and then great digital deals, PC piracy is basically gone (at least among my friends). That shows there's a way if publishers are willing to work. Let's hope Nintendo works something out, I would love to see it succeed here in Russia.

Like many other here, I think Galaxy is the best Mario game ever. For all the nostalgia of SM64, Galaxy remains unbelievably cool. Plus, the gravity mechanic ties in with **every** aspect of the game, tying the game together amazingly well.

Didn't have a chance to play Galaxy 2 until recently, and I was amazed at how something that could be easily described as "just some more Galaxy levels" doesn't drop the bar one bit, at times surpassing the original with its wild imagination and never-ending surprises.

I don't own a Switch yet, so can't comment. But I believe you, NL, that it's good.

Worms and Overcooked get physical on a Switch?! Wow, talk about child-friendly, Nintendo!

That's a ten!

@BakaKnight It's actually Peach. The text in the lower left says "Inside the robot there's Peach".

And Peach says "Ma... Mario's..." and in the next panel screams "Ecchi!" (something like "you dirty..!" or "you little pervert!" though not that harsh) and smacks Mario so that he flies away.

They thought built-in NES Golf would be a good charm. Well, turns out it magically attracts tons golf games to the Switch.

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Among all the will it/won't it comments I'd just like to thank Alan for a great write-up. Really enjoyed the language in this one, as well as the points made.

Wow, actually amazed at the comment section!

I was gonna come and say something like "Please stop pandering to the commenters with those headlines, especially after this very site repeatedly called RE4 on Wii the best and ultimate control scheme. Why can't you remind people of that instead of repeating the tired old 'motion is waggle is bad' trope". But not all is lost, lots of love for motion controls in the comments!

Wow, the egos of the commenters are as big as their mommas!

Iwata Asks was so cool I still hope they bring it back in some form. You rarely find such insight into the development of non-major titles like Rhythm Heaven Fever – that one was very entertaining to read.

@titotito3399 King's Quest is not a Telltale game. Would love to have on the Switch as well, though!

These are amazing. The "what does this have to do with a kids game?!" comments are so similar to "what do Rabbids have to do with Mario?!" comments from after the announcement. But... BECAUSE RABBIDS.

And seriously, even if we treat it is a kids game rated 7+, didn't you play war, robbers and soldiers when you were 7?

Rhythm Heaven Fever was hands down one of the best games on the Wii. I hope they consider at least releasing the Megamix on Switch. A new entry would be a dream come true.

I wish they released a beefed-up version on Switch.

Partly because I still wish to see some prof that Miis are not completely abandoned on Switch. I love them. This with some local co-op (friends playing as themselves in battles!) would be a hoot. Or maybe even adding something like timer-based turns so that friends could all battle & help each other at the same time.

P.S. Fingers still crossed for a "Switch Party" game with Miis.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Nintendo would be wise to save extra consoles for Splatoon's launch. But that in no way proves the artificial demand theory. If they released those 75k into the wild the weeks before the Splatoon launch, they wouldn't have enough to satisfy demand around launch.

It's like, the fact I spend more money around Christmas doesn't mean I have it in abundance all the year round.

Wow, that's quite a resume he's got! Would be nice to see him stay at Nintendo. Seem's he's been searching for his place quite a bit.

1. Integrate it into the Switch OS.
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Nintendo, you can release whatever you want, but please don't make Switch lifecycle like iPad/iPhone. I want this thing to last for a few years, and absolutely don't have the money to buy another console.

I fear that if they release a Switch Pro, developers will quickly abandon the original one.

Haha, that boss in the factory ad was great. As far as I can tell, he says "Book a hotel for 29 august for two weeks. Then get DQ XI. And after that... no more orders". And he laughs like a madman.

Haven't actually played the first one, but the one thing I like better in the videos is paint. That paint sparkle seems a bit unnecessary. Really love the solid colours of the original.

I've seen a game use an ever so slightly modified screenshot of Heroes of Might and Magic III to promote itself on Instagram. Of course, the game itself looked completely different to Heroes.

That's Unreal Engine, I guess? Those rats are SO glossy.

First I wanted to write something along the lines of "Look, the more games and users the better. If someone buys a Switch to play this one, the user base grows, which is good for Nintendo and other publishers. Later they will probably buy other games."

And then I watched that trailer.

I think LEGO needs to do a Movies themed set and movie. So that TT Games could release a game based on a movie based on a game about movies.

Wow, what an amazing find. To be honest, I miss it a bit, those times when something could be lost and then found by someone. Now the Internet has memory of everything and nothing is rare.

Well, on the other hand if not for the Internet, we wouldn't have seen those anyway, so I guess cheers for progress after all. But what a time to be alive. Finding those hidden gems is so thrilling. There's just this small window of opportunity when the Internet exists and old film or VHS have not degraded completely that gives us precious moments like this one. Soon we'll have either everything preserved on the Internet or lost forever.

Day one purchase for me for sure. I've got it on PC, but my laptop struggles on some maps which is incredibly frustrating and leads to losing. Having smooth 720p performance would be a dream.

Oh, and I wonder about local multiplayer. Is there split screen on PS4/Xbone?