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um, if they're aiming for 30 FPS "whenever possible" how often is it not possible and what are they aiming for then?

They need a Playhouse just to go over and explain the new title of Mario Wonder.🤪

I don't think it's fair to compare a Nintendo exclusive to all the miktiplat games but I do think it's fair to compare the 2 week old Nintendo exclusive Mario Tennis to the now 6 year old (as of next month, thank you COVID for the reminder) Animal Crossing NH, so tennis gas that going for it, number 7 to number 8 on the charts.

Seems really bad for Mario but good for AC, so maybe a wash for Nintendo's pocketbook. And maybe they are hoping tennis is number 8 in 6 years.

Corporate speak translation: we're going to do with every game whatever we can to squeeze the most money out of our customers.

Full stop. 🤑

I do wonder about the contract language? Is he still getting paid the same rate per game or is EA paying him less for less work? And if EA is paying him less this year, will they then they pay him nothing next year b/c the AI will be well trained enough by then to do it without him? EA can just call the announcer Muy Bueno (that's "very good" in Spanish not a typo of his name) like they changed the name of the game from FIFA to FC to get out if paying for it?

It's called a slippery slope for a reason, and we're only at the top. So yeah maybe it's all copesetic now, but this is EA we're talking about, we can all guess where it ends. Nowhere good.🤑

So if the $4.99 Switch 2 upgrade is 4k was the old Switch version 3.8k or 3.9k b/c I can barely tell the difference. And I did try.

To be fair I always thought a lot of those PS4 to PS5 upgrades always looked really similar as well, so maybe it's just my old eyes. Or my 10" iPad screen which I'm guessing is maybe 1080p? I really don't know.🤷‍♂️

Bonus points though for the middle of the video having an ad for the Figma AI make your own game creator. Just perfect.🤣

On the downside just finished playing this about a month a go.

On the upside saved $5.

@slowpoke_tail @LinktotheFuture Good news, finally convinced my fingers it's actually OK to just quickly tap the ZR & ZL buttons and not hold them down. Got to play 1 level each of 2 games today, Red Alarm and Wario, before I had enough. Will probably keep playing 1 or 2 levels of Wario per day.

@WhiteTrashGuy Maybe some day. Probably not more than the first 1 though.

I've only played 1 level each of pinball, Wario and Red Alarm (thought it was Alert) and they are different.

I suck at pinball so that was over way too fast. Barely better than the mini games in Infinity Nikki.

That spaceship game I couldn't really control the direction of my ship nor did I ever figure out how to shoot. I guess those could just be me issues.

Wario seemed like an actual 2D platformer, it was cute. Hiding that lock key was a tad annoying, also on me, but I could see myself enjoying the rest of it.

Overall I'll see how much more I do, it really just isn't very comfortable. All free for me so no harm done.

Can they 3D print me a pair of broader shoulders so I can comfortably hold that thing in front of me?😂

@WhiteTrashGuy My wife took my kid(s) to a neighbors birthday party and saw Despicable Me. No one felt like rewatching it w/ me so I never saw it, and hence none of the sequels. So more of it just sort of happened, I probably would have gladly watched it otherwise. The minion voices are a bit to Rabbids for me though.😂

@slowpoke_tail @LinktotheFuture

Thanks. I did use ZR + ZL to get to the "rewind" screen and saw a few spots on the bottom to get back to. I'll try a little more later to see if I can figure it out.

@Liam_Doolan Thanks, for all of that, makes sense. I've been playing Speedstorm pretty much every day since launch, minus a few months when they turned the game more into a trial and pay to win mess. I mean it's still a pay to win mess, the worst I've ever seen, but I'm still playing for free so why should I get so upset over it? It's still the best feeling racer I've ever played and it's help me quit Fortnite after 3+ years. Just sucks that they've gone so pay to win. Or just pay to play really.🤑

Hey @dartmonkey you guys got a tutorial on how to use app on Switch? I played a game of pinball for 18 seconds and scored like 188,000 and got the Game Over screen then tried every combination of buttons I could think of to try another of the 6 or 7 VR games but I couldn’t get anything to work besides the Home button, which made me take the Switch out of the Labo headset to hit the Close button and then I didn’t feel like putting it back in the Labo. 😝

@AussieMcBucket tomato tomatoe 😆

VR on the pinball game reminded me of those cheap plastic boxes I put on my phone a decade ago. Looked pretty good but Idon’t want to play it for long. On the bright side it’s a lot easier to set up than the PSVR headset, which I won’t hook back up after moving rooms b/c wires. Endless wires. I do wan to finish Astrobot Rescue Mission though, so it’ sa conundrum.

This was free for me. Can’t complain for free I guess. Would like to be able to play more than 1 game though.

Thanks for writing this all up. I'm really not that interested but since the Labo headset has just been sitting there on my end table for years and we just happened to have signed up for NO+ might as well try it out. We'll at least Wario World anyway, that will probably be enough of thus nonsense.😂

@Liam_Doolan Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you mention Disney Dreamlight Valley and Gear Club Racing in this article about a Game loft racing game, but you didn't mention Gamelofts other mobile racing game already on Switch 2, Disney Speedstorm?

I've been playing Speedstorm since launch, on PS5, but I've been meaning to give it a go on Switch 2. Reading all the other comments about Switch 2 games not having cross play means it won't matter though.

These screenshots look fairly meh so I'll just keep playing way over monetized Speedstorm.🤑

@Thomystic That was my reaction as well. I only even read the article b/c I figured it had to be Kate. 👍

Torrent is my favorite horse in any game even if it isn't technically a horse. I mean I always thought it was before reading this article but I guess I was wrong.

My mea culpa out of the way Torrent is the best. You sum on it and you're on it. It can double jump like nobody's business and it usually won't jump off a cliff it can't survive. My favorite part of Elden Ring. I probably wouldn't have put about 200 hours into the game if it weren't for Torrent to the rescue.

Roach was just a hilarious broken mess who would break in all kinds of ridiculous ways.😂

@Joekun Laughs in Lightyear. 😂

Budget. $200 million
Box office $226.4 million[2][3]

A billion $ is a billion $. 🤷‍♂️

Mario is a movie about a wall-jumping plumber fighting a giant fire breathing turtle. You can't get Casablanca out of that. But you can not be Lightyear. 😎

I wasn't thrilled about Illumination either, I've never watched anything Despicable Me related, but the Mario movie was fine. Even with Chris Pratt and Jack Black, neither of which I would have chosen, it was fine. It wasn't Borderlands or Monster Hunter unwatchable. It was a video game intro cut scene, no more, no less. Could have been so much worse. I haven't even watched Minecraft yet.😝

This is the first I can recall reading Various Day life. Haven't played any of the others. If only Squenix had some other titles on Switch 2 like, oh I don't know, FF7 Remake and Rebirth maybe.

A Switch 2 update for DQ11 would be nice, maybe get it closer to the last PS5 version?

Was surprised by the ad in the game last night, didn't think Pokémon would go that big. Big night for Lady Gaga as well as she got Jibblypuff and Bad Bunny.

Can't believe it's been 10 years already since the last big anniversary, I really like that logo Pic w/ all the Pokémon. 30 years is impressive for staying so pop culturally relevant. They outlived Ash.

Orbital is the one must play for me, Granblue Fantasy looks good as well and I feel good about it's big update probably being it's last big thing. Pragmata releasing on Switch 2 is a big deal but I'm still not sure it's for me.

I was surprised how many Switch 2 games were are on. I don't think all the people disappointed with the Direct appreciate how many next Gen games there are in it's first year. Go look at the Xbox Series X/S, I don't think it had any exclusives at all for a year or 2 or 3 that weren't also on Xboxen 1. And the PS5 had mostly dual releases with PS4 for it's first couple of years as well.

So if you owned a Switch and recently bought a Switch 2 there are at least 2 dozen games you can only play on your new console. That's fairly impressive in this video game environment where generations don't seem to matter anymore.

I voted 10 which is crazy for me b/c I usually hate all of these things and am bored out of my mind. I don’t even watch the games award anymore b/c it’s so boring. So you can only imagine my surprise when I enjoyed most of it. And the most was good enough for me to give it a 10, Isuppose in part b/c I have such low expectations going in.

Orbital was a great opening, always on the lookout for more couch co-op games. Then they lost me for a bit as I thought “Why not just call this an indie Direct all of these look like indie games.” Then they started showing stuff like FF7 Rebirth, Resident Evil, and all of the Bethesda games, and I as thoroughly impressed.
Will I play most of these games? Probably not. And the ones I do will probably be on PS5 b/c why wouldn’t I? But it was an entertaining 30 minutes for a partner direct. I don’t think there was a single farm sim. Can you imagine that, a Direct w/o numerous farm sims? It boggles the ind. Disney Dream Valley is close, but it’s more a Disney thing than a farming thing to me.

Not sure what you were all expecting. Clair Obscur is made by a really small team, give them time, and the console is stil less than a year old. I was expecting Duskblood, so that was a bummer, but I didn’t really miss it during the show.

I’ve accepted GKC after some initial repulsion as making due with a bad situation but a code in a box is utter trash, borderline lying to the consumer.

I’m ok w/ a code on a card, lots of people get store gift cards and sore credit add may want to pay in cash, so a little piece of plastic w/ a code can workout for some people, but the box does seem both misleading and a waste.

@Gamer83 We really dont double dip. Not even Wii Ugames, which we own dozens of, but on Switch, where we only own like 1 dozen games b/c we already owned them all of Wii U. Oh wait, we did double dip on XCX b/c we all wanted to see the new ending as the original game had a big cliff hanging ending. Didn’t really help though.

The money I save from not double dipping means I get to buy both Sony and Nintnedo consoles, even bought an Xbox 1 nice one for like 3 games - Rare Repaly, Gears of War trilogy, and Sunset Overdirve - (technically I suppose that’s like a dozen games) so I suppose I see Nintnedo as the first party console, everything else on PS5. And as expensive as Switch 2 is, and 4k TVs are, might as well pony up for a PS5 if you want to play all the games they showed today. Probably why so many people already own both.

@Friendly Can you fit all 3 FF7 games along with several other probably large Game Key Card 3rd party games onto a 256GB SD MicroExpress card ? If you’re like a lot of people deleteing stuff then it’s probably enough space along w/ the intenral 256GB. But if you read enough of these comments you’ll see people routinely, as in more than I would have thought, paying like $200 for a 1TB card. For $200 for memory, plus how much better the games will look and play on a big screen 4k tv, plus the savings you’ll probably get on Sony sales vs Nintendo sales, then I think you do reach a point where gamers should be thinking about it yeah. I probably should have mentioned the $200 1TB SD card price in my original post though. I’ve seen 512GB cards for $150, even then I’d think about it.

So no, maybe not a PS5 instead of a $40 card, but a PS5 instead of a $200 card for the same amount of storage, cheaper games, and better looking, better running, games. Then I think it’s worth a thought. Not a PS5 Pro though, those are insanely expensive and no disc drive.

With the cost of SD Express memory cards needed for people who want to play a bunch of the 3rd party ports in today's Direct, the really big AAA ones that you just know will be GKC, like this, and probably the big Bethesda games, and the RE games, may I suggest buying a PS5 instead. Well if you're playing on a 4k TV, if you're mostly handheld Switch 2 it is.

I know PS5 has storage limitations as well, Sony even dropped 1 model from 1TB down to 800GB b/c greed, but PS still has better sales, after 5 or 6 games you'll probably break even, and the games will look and play better on your big screen 4k TV. It's probably worth a thought.

If you only want 1 or 2 AAA ports I wouldn't do it either, but 5 or 6 just in this Direct alone? Maybe it's worth it. 🤷‍♂️ Granbkue Fantasy Relink was on PS+ already.

On topic: This game, to me, was so much better than Remake. Like, in my head they aren't even comparable. Part 1 is a small mission based dungeon crawler, part 2 is a full blown open world JRPG. Queens blood alone, and the Gilgamesh quest, have almost as much going on. There is some overly annoying padding, but it just adds to the charm of the JRPG genre.

Spoiler alert - this is part 2 of 3, expect it to end, or not, as such.

So many games with so many names even after reading the article I'm not sure about this one. Looks good though.

Probably the game I'm most likely to purchase day 1 in this Direct. Hopefully it's closer to $30 than $60, looks like a $20 game to me but I'll pay $30 for the couch co-op.

I kept seeing people mentioning "Elliot" but I had no idea what it was. I'm not really a fan of HD-2D but this one looks interesting enough I'll keep an eye on it and read some reviews when the time comes. And play the demo in the meantime. A couple of those to try out now. It was a good day for that.

Glad so many comments picked up on "not officially supported". To me that just means they won't list it in the NO+ subscription info. If it wasn't going to work they could just say it won't work.

Anyway we'll all find out for ourselves soon enough.

I was really hoping they'd add a 3rd person mode b/c I just can't do first person view. I mean I suppose I can, but I really really really don't want to. Oh well.

The show is so good I'm almost tempted to play this.

Maybe they should have tried that with Destiny 2. 😂

Honestly I'm getting too old for this.😩

Surprising lack of Microsoft Xbox games on the list considering they're basically going 3rd party these days. There's several to choose from - CoD, South of Midnight, Indiana Jones, Stzrfield, Forza, Halo, GoW. Unless Nintendo Life knows something we don't. Or at least I don't. 🤷‍♂️

I chose Clair Obscur and FF7 Rebirth just for fun.

Dragon Quest 12 is due. Way over due, it was announced like 4 years ago.😩 DQ11 was a 3DS game, it's time to show the new one.

Still waiting on 10 years worth of Call of Duty. And considering everything Xbox these days is on Playstation maybe a couple of those.

And MLB The Show so Sony can get in on the 3rd party action as well. Though I'm not happy about Judge being on the cover again, but it's still a big game and should be in there.

Wasn't really all that interested but since we own a Labo VR headset and just signed up for a year of NO+ might as well try them out.

Though my Switch keeps locking up after 20 minutes and both my left Joycon drift a lot but I'll give it a go. Maybe my kid will let me borrow his.

But I doubt I'll play it for more than a few minutes anyway, I still haven't finished Astrobot Rescue Mission, 3D just really isn't for me. But I'll try every game just in case 1 clicks.

Nintendo sold a $100 NES Mini with like 20 games and a $100 SNES Mini with like 20 games and now they're selling a $100 VB with 0 games and no controllers but you can pay $50 every year to rent games on it.

Do you also need a Switch or Switch 2? Forgot about that cost compared to the Minis which were self contained consoles.

I suppose the Wii Balance Board cost $80 but I think that came with a game. This VB headset really should at least come with 1 month of NSO+ included.

@orbots No one will play offline with me, it's such a bummer. I did just figure out I can play the track configurations to figure them out, the new zzootopia track is kinda crazy.

The pay to play is rough though. I do think thry added level caps to the multiplayer to help balance things out a bit, which was nice, but some of the "sale" items are like $99 for 1 character. An entire game should only cost $60, how can 1 character cost $99?!?! So it's a great playing racing game, but I can't recommend it to anyone now. Back when each season cost 999 tokens it was a little fairer. Not now, it really is insane. Sad face emoji.😢

@romanista Did not know that about the IOC but it makes sense as every big organization these days just seems all about the money. Oh and corrupt.🤑

I bought a big 4 shelf unit to store them all on behind our TV. The VR kit was legit and I also enjoyed my time with the vehicle kit, both were fun games beyond building them. The variety pack games were really just tutorial type stuff. I bought the robot for my godson/nephew and I think he built it and played it but I honestly can't recall.

It's too bad they don't support them in newer games, like the steering wheel for Mario Kart World. VR should work for Virtual Boy but it's possible Nintendo planned to make those Switch 2 exclusive so no point?

I'm done buying physical stuff though. If it works I'll use it but otherwise I'll pass. I just can't wrap my head around spending $100 on a bit of plastic that requires a $50 a year subscription to use. That makes no sense. For $100 it should include 1 year of NO+.

@mackers84 @Pushsquare gave it an 8 of you really want to read an 8 review. They're pretty much the same beside the score though.

https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/dragon-quest-vii-reimagined

Maybe people are just done with Sonic Racing games? Not everyone obviously, 2 million people are still someone, but they stopped making Mario & Sonic Olympic games for a reason.

On the Switch side that demo was ugly, barely a Wii game, and Switch 2 had MKW. And Playstation just got Forza for the first time.

And Sonic games tend to drop to half price in like 6 months. And with the slow drip of content why pay full price at release?

I've been playing Disney Speedstorm for about 30 minutes a day for 2 years. It looks and controls way better than Sonic on PS5. It's a shame I can't recommend it b/c the pay to win is off the charts insane, but it's free for me being there since say 1, so I don't need Sonic right now.

Some day Speedstorm and Sonic support will end, then I'll pick up Crossworld's Complete for like $20.

Question - 4 player COUCH co-op on 1 screen w/ 1 copy of the game or ONLINE co-op requiring 4 systems and 4 copies of the game?

Also, why does the article say "you and 3 friends" andvtye features say "1-4 players" but the info box says"Players 3"?

Looks interesting, but I'm only interested in ouch co-op, not online.

I played Bug Fables for a couple hours after reading all the "it's Paper Mario" reviews and the game didn't really work for me, I had no fun at all. So I'll wait awhile on this one, at least until my 1 year of NSO+ expires in 11 months, there's a surprising amount of games on there I want to play. I only sighed up for my kids to play the 3 Mario Party games online with their friends.

Game selection aside, not really a whole lot to my tastes the next couple of months while we wait for Yoshi, I'm having a hard time getting past all for these $70 and $80 price tags, especially for games that look like they'd belong on the PS2 or 3DS. I'm just old I guess, everything after $49.99 just looks like a lot to me for anything other than top tier AAA games. But even those should probably still be $60. Looking at $80 for a couple of years old 2D Mario game hurts my brain.

I may play DQ7 some day, probably for like $20 on PS5, and maybe MHS3 for like $30 on sale some day. I want Yoshi day 1 but probably $70 for a 12 hour game is giving me pause there as well. 🤑

What is up with the design of this poll? Not a fan, not a fan at all. I kept clicking back and forth between Yoshi and Splatoon Raiders trying to get them both highlighted at the same time. And I feel like Duskbloods got shortchanged not being on the very short list.

Yoshi and Splatoon Raiders for me. Everything else I usually get on PS5. Would be nice for Switch 2 owners if FF 7 part 2 Rebirth makes it in 2026 though, great game.

Would also be great if we got a new Monolith JRPG for the holiday but that's probably asking for too much so maybe 2027.

@neogyo I always forget about Duskbloods b/c it ain't my thing but my kid is looking forward to it and would be happy just for a release date for that. I'd rather they close with something like that then an old port.

Who knows, whole show could just be Xbox games. CoD has to release eventually.

Port Showcase

I mean I'm all for 3rd party ports for people who don't own other consoles or gaming PCs but if Nintendo is putting out a Direct there should be an exclusive or 2, some simultaneous releases of new games and maybe something we know about but haven't seen yet like DQ 12, FF7 Part 3 or the next Elder scrolls.

So sure, ports are welcome, but a Partner showcase needs more than just old games.

For $140 they could skip the GKC and put the game on the SD card since it's going to be on there anyway.

Not interested in the 2 rumored games but I would play Sunshine again. Does the new $90 Switch 2 Pro controller have analog triggers? For $90 it should.

Edit: Just picked it up and tried it, triggers felt very digital. For $90 that’s criminal. Rest of the controller feels sweet but they sold the system with Mario Mart and couldn’t give us analog gas and drift? 😝

That’s, a whole lot, of pretty much everything. They should have called 1.3 the “gone gold” edition with all of that. Also very much “Smash on Wheels” with all those balance adjustments. I wonder if my kids will make use of the Gameshare and split screen? I’ll tell them about it later.