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@Reztobi the market itself has dramatically changed. Traditional gaming as it's called has been nosediving toward a crash for the last 2-3 years. It would take a successful Switch 2 to keep it alive since consoles and PC are suffering from AAA studios kind of putting out the same thing over and over again. Indie developers and other smaller studios are keeping things interesting, but there isn't anything break out. Aside from GTAVI, there isn't a whole lot of buzz around some of these newer games. Nintendo is in a good/bad spot, it's great for them but terrible if their competitors fall. The best thing is continuing to go down this road, but start to separate themselves away from consoles and PCs, go themselves in line with the smart device market instead. Once Apple enters the space with a M-powered Apple TV, it'll be lights out for Playstation, Xbox and PC. It'll be a bomb when Android gets there too.

I think my overall gaming hours are down this year. It’ll be the first year my Steam library will be Deck free thankfully. If GOG was monitoring that stuff, that would be the only place that saw a huge gain.

@Jack_Goetz it has the ability to play Switch games, plus Nintendo is sitting on so many completed projects. I think the Switch 2 will be fine. Also, the Wii U didn’t help the Switch all that much. Yes, those titles sold well, but the people who bought Switch units either dwarfed the Wii U or didn’t have one. Nintendo was able to retap the market of the casual gamer who just wants to play their games without hoops to jump through. Smartphones took that audience away, now Nintendo was able to join it.

If you’re hoping to play Zelda on your PC, you might want to look toward your Android or iOS devices before that’ll ever happen. Nintendo has hinted they’d move their business over to those devices if they should fail, which would take A LONG time.

It’ll be unlikely the Switch 2 will “fail,” in the traditional sense since I think those days are now gone. If Nintendo can position this similar to how smartphone manufacturers push out upgrades, it will sell very well. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo uses the term “devices” over “consoles” in the next generation as to create more separation between them and the traditional gaming market they helped to create. They can live on with the smart devices crowd, which has over 4 billion active users between Android and iOS.

@Bolt_Strike and mobile devices will always beat a PC. People will likely buy a Roku, Apple TV, Shield TV or any of those devices over plugging a PC into their TV. They’ll use their smartphone for majority of their use cases, especially places where people used to reach for a laptop or go to their desktop for.

They’re looking for those convenience boxes, but PC isn’t leading the way in that category with consumers. It’s Arm-powered devices, such as smartphones, tablets, smart devices and the Nintendo Switch. Handheld PCs aren’t going to beat Nintendo, nor will they beat Apple if they choose to leverage their ecosystem on its customers.

@SuntannedDuck2 PC gaming is suffering from a stale industry too. This isn’t an exclusive problem to consoles.

Steam and PC gaming stores have this problem too. I would imagine Nintendo has A LOT of these copycat requests in their inbox. They should have a team managing it.

@norwichred I guess you like to stay plugged into the wall. My Legion Go had better battery life than my old Steam Deck, but my Switch was still my go to device. Also, over 100-120 million active users playing and buying games can’t be wrong too. Nintendo is making lots of money of the Switch, so are the developers.

@Toastmaster you’re assuming every console gamer has a Steam account. I know plenty of console gamers who don’t have one at all.

And Nintendo Life outright refuses to cover how Apple is gearing up to get into the market. Especially when they release their first M-powered Apple TV.

Apple is the only threat to Nintendo. They’d likely place their games on their App Store and Google’s Play Store. Hate to break your heart, but if Nintendo left the hardware business it would murder traditional gaming and those customers will leave for their phones.

@Bolt_Strike not really, this still behaves like a PC and isn’t going to grab the Switch or smartphone audience. The next Switch will still have way better battery life than any handheld PC using X86 based APUs.

The NASCAR license transferred to iRacing after they acquired Motorsport Games. This affects ALL versions of the games they published, so other consoles and PC versions will be taken down from sale too.

NASCAR Heat wasn’t really the best way to experience the Motorsport, especially when Sierra/Papyrus had the license for many years with EA Sports. These games were in the shadow of the great ones.

However, I played NASCAR Heat 4 on my PC, it was fun to a point. Felt very arcade-ish. Plus, it had a cool season progression feature to start off in dirt tracks, then make your way through the various cup circuits. It was interesting and fun at times, but it wasn’t nearly up to the quality the old titles had.

@mikegamer pull this crap? Nintendo published the console version of the game, but Square Enix wants it on other platforms. It has to be delisted for the change of publisher. Once the change is completed, it will return to the eShop with SE as the main publisher and Nintendo's name off of it.

If the Switch manages to get over 160 million, then Sony will claim it is 165 million now!

I guess more people want to preserve Mario Odyssey… even though you can still buy a Switch

The rest of the industry is down too. Console gaming has gone flat due to content not being very engaging. Nintendo has made some excellent games, but they’ve had some duds too.

PS5 did surpass the NES back in October, but it took almost four years to get there.

I think there’s serious gamer fatigue in the market. Hope GTA6 will make things interesting for PS5/XSX crowd. The Switch 2 will do well, but if the rest of the industry goes flat and it’ll have an uphill climb ahead of it. It’ll be like the NES days.

It’s a pretty fun game. Looks great on an OLED model.

@MjJmediablogger yeah, it’s going very well for the PS5 and Series X. Even those handheld PCs are starting to see competition from those Android handsets because of better battery life.

If the next Switch keeps the same form factor, it will still sell well. Nintendo found that most consumers who play games these days seem to care about power and ingenuity. They just want engaging games to play, not interactive movies.

@N00BiSH @anti-matter they tried doing a Star Fox game away from the normal formula, it’s called Star Fox Adventures. It didn’t do very well on the GameCube.

I can’t see Nintendo using Ratchet & Clank style gameplay for Star Fox. In fact, I highly doubt Nintendo wouldn’t want to lift anything from a Sony IP either since they’re still a bit brisk toward them compared to Microsoft.

@solarwolf07 didn’t I just say NSO? I am wondering if they’re going to offer a subscription to those who don’t have it. I have it already chief

Wow. That was quick. Wonder how often we'll see new tracks released?

I'm still wondering if they're going to offer this service as a subscription to those who don't have NSO.

Since Nintendo now has a music streaming app, I would imagine the did the bare minimum to get it out the door. Likely, to make sure it works for the Switch Online customers first before mass deployment.

As others mentioned, it's Japanese culture, but I hope when they make changes it will include crediting some of the people who worked on it.

@fenlix good for you, but the majority of the Switch customer base doesn't care for it. They want to turn it on and play. Not play around with a handheld PC or SBC handheld and having to manage the software themselves.

Thought Nintendo acquired Ryujinx as part of the agreement (of course, it was never really explained)? I mean, anything related to the creator's portion of the software.

Pretty sure the legal ninjas will be lying in the wait.

Beyond thrilled this is coming to the Switch. It will be day one for me. Just give me the special edition.

@mariomaster96 I'm guessing Nintendo might take a different approach in getting people to buy or upgrade to the next Switch. It might be an approach that Microsoft has with Xbox Series that your games will perform and look better on the next hybrid model. There will be exclusive titles, but I don't think Xenoblade Chronicles X would've been a big mover as an exclusive.

Regardless of the reviews, it will sell to any fans of the series on the Switch or reach new ones.

@Serpenterror must be Dimps for full ownership of the IP. Or Sony’s publishing rights might have lapsed. The server shut down back in late 2021, so that could be when the rights to Sony might have ended?

Either way, the game is coming to Switch, PS4 and PS5 via Bandai Namco.

Really wish they’d put out the original Resident Evil 2 and 3 titles on the Switch. I’d play the remakes, but I don’t want cloud versions.

@Maulbert no. I’m not. It still takes work to rework these games from the ground up. I don’t know anything about programming and design, but this belief these games are remade need to be $20 is a matter of perspective. To me, $60 is a bit much for this game, but I had no hand in the complete redesign of it.

@Ruler-Of-All-Evil @Maulbert look up flyers from the 1990s and see how much video games cost then. The PlayStation brought some stability in price, but it wasn't until the PS2/GC/Xbox era that we saw a universal pricing structure. Otherwise, especially in the NES/SNES/MS/Genesis days, it was the wild west for prices. There were some N64 games that came out for $70 brand new. Wouldn't be surprised if the original DQ3 released at $50-60 or more dollars when it came out as Dragon Warrior III.

@Jayenkai ask the company who is publishing why it isn’t on NSO. Nintendo has zero control over these titles.

I believe one of them is coming to NSO later this year. One of the NES titles in the collection?

@CinnamonRobin was about to say, wonder if this was part of their QOL project they were working on. If those projects are coming to life, then I wonder how this plays with the Switch family of devices.

Outside of our bubble, I guarantee the majority of the owners of this game couldn’t care any less. They wake up their Switch from sleep, then play the game.

For me, it’s a non-issue since it isn’t killing the game. I’ve played games where I’ve had to wait for patches, Cyberpunk 2077 comes to mind on my Xbox (yes, even on my Series X).

A friend of mine got it at launch, she's not very tech savvy, she's having a blast. Doesn't seem to notice the sluggish parts.

I'm enjoying it, I do notice when it chugs a bit, but it's a top down Zelda game. I really don't need precision speed. Granted, capping it a 30 would've been fine.

@LadyCharlie that’s your choice. I’ll choose to buy a Switch 2 to support Nintendo’s workers.

@Dr_Lugae when there’s money involved, it’s chum for the legal sharks. I agree.

@nessisonett not sure... Nintendo wouldn't go after them unless they knew they were going to win. Also, it's much quieter than how Yuzu went down. I don't blame Nintendo for going after an emulator of a product they're actively marketing and selling, but I'd like to know what got the creator of Ryujinx to decide to shut it down. Probably we'll never know.

@RupeeClock possibly. Not sure if they got caught with anything illegal where the agreement was they wouldn't go to trial.

The original comment said Nintendo sent an agreement to the creator. So, did they offer the creator of this emulator money for all the related assets? Judging from the comment, it doesn't sound like there were any threats; possibly financial motivation to abandon the project and give everything to Nintendo.

Agreement and lawsuit are not the same thing.

@RupeeClock certain consumers. The majority of Switch owners didn't seem to care about these issues. They had over 106 million active users last year on their platform, I'm sure the number was barely 1/64th of this total that cared about these issues (let alone the number of units sold). For example, all of my friends who own a Switch didn't care about getting better performance (or buying a complicated PC handheld) over just hoping in and playing the game.

I get it. You have a vision of how these games should perform. That's fine. However, the majority were happy playing on the Switch itself over a handheld PC. Not every gamer wants to play around and tinker with settings of a game before playing it.

@KidSparta Nintendo did play in the specs game with the N64 and GameCube. The storage mediums completely undercut those two powerful systems.

Atari caused the video game crash of the 1980s in the US. It almost made it impossible for Nintendo to come to market because of their s*** business practices (or lack-thereof). It was so bad that the NES was marketed as a toy rather than an electronic due to Atari burning retailers with their stock. The NES had no competition out in the US because it was deemed a failed market and almost seemed to be impossible. Nintendo did it. If it wasn’t for them, the industry would look very differently today (or might not exist as it does now).

As for the original Gameboy, it particularly ran unopposed until the early 1990s. It was unchallenged for about four years until the Game Gear made an attempt and failed. Nintendo knew for the handheld, it couldn’t marketed strictly to the same gamer market and had to be something more. Tetris was a purposeful choice for bundling with the system, later Brian Age and other titles for the DS would take it to the next level.

Much like Apple was to the birth of the modern personal computer, Nintendo was for the same for home video game systems. As with the Gameboy, DS, 3DS and now the Switch, Nintendo has forged its own path and found a way to thrive in the land of devices that people are willing to buy.

Nintendo Switch Shield TV device

@Ulysses the Steam Deck isn’t competition. The PC handheld market barely is a pebble in PC gaming. Nintendo considers mobile phones more competition than Steam.

Preordered it. Played X-Men Vs Street Fighter and Marvel Vs Capcom like crazy in the arcade when I was younger.

If MGSIV is part of the collection, it’s going to take time to port it over from the PS3. Even if they find the old Xbox 360 version that was never released, it still will take time.

I think Nintendo is quite aware of sticker shocking the customer. This is one thing I expect NOT to see from Nintendo is a $499 price on the evolutionary model. It’ll be between $299-399.

I’m wondering how much difference there is between the current and new one. Not all Arm-based packages can be compatible with one another, but I’m curious if there is a difference between Tegra chipsets, what changed?

Figured Nintendo would want backwards compatibility for the next Switch. This is where they can start forming the upgrade habit, this way they can create a “smartphone like” fever for the next upgrade in four years.

Yeah, Reggie is a big Nintendo gamer, doubtful he’ll sell these items. You’d have better luck asking his children when they’re willed to them.