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I played 3x this weekend solo only so I'm guessing I've already played the demo. 😂

Agree it looked horrible on Switch 2, reminded me of Skylanders Superchargers on the Wii. It didn't look all that great on PS5 either though. I mean sure it looked much better but it still didn't look good. Disney Speedstorm looks, and plays, way better. Too bad it's just a way to steal money from little kids now. The monetization of that game should be illegal. $50 & $60 racers!?!?🤬

I may play Sonic Racing some day, it was fun, but not $70 fun. 🤷‍♂️

@progx We already bought the Switch edition day 1, we're big Kirby fans, and I don't have too much of a problem w/ them charging $20 for the upgraded dlc, but it is a port, the base game is an upgrade, we've already played it so we know it exists, and that was years ago, so they shouldn't still be selling a years old game for $60 plus making you pay an extra $20 for the dlc whether you want it or not. It's just too much money.

And if it isn't too much money then why was everyone complaining about $80 for Mario Kart World, and why have most gamers been complaining about new games costing $70 for the past 5 years? 🤷‍♂️

@Jireland92 Ah, OK fair enough. HQ in, the show out. I think I could live w/ that, though I do enjoy the show. HQ probably gets her own Lego game before Peacemaker anyway.😂

@progx Sorry, I'm just not feeling good about the $80 for a port. Should be $70 for this "Complete Edition" and they can still charge $20 for the DLC. Sure,it means we'll have paid more than people who waited, but we got to play it years ago. Bad enough Switch 2 games are $80, years old Switch ports w/ some dlc shouldn't be. Should a new Kirby game in a few years be $90 or $100?🤑

@The_Nintendo_Pedant "remember when Nintendo made new games for their new consoles?"

You mean on the GameCube with the likes of Pikmin and Luigis Mansion? Some of the people on here weren't even born back then so you can't expect them to remember that.😉

So far our most played game on Switch 2 is XCX. Which we own on Wii U. And we skipped a lot of games on Switch b/c we already owned them, well their inferior versions, on Wii U. So I hear ha.

And while I'm here, $80 seems like way to much for a Kirby game. I'm OK w/ the $20 for the dlc, that's the going rate unfortunately, but everyone complained so much about $80 MKW and now we're just suddenly OK w/ it? That price looks ridiculous in the Target ad next to $40 GoW, $60 LSA and $70 MGS. 🤑 We bought the Switch version day 1 and we'll buy the dlc, when I get some eShop credit or it's on sale.🤷‍♂️

https://www.target.com/weekly-ad?promo=Target-20250824

I predicting we have a Christmas in December. About the same odds as a Direct in September.😄

We're currently dropping my kid off at college. We spent the entire someone watching them play XCX, well after we finished Clair Obscur, and they hit as far as finishing chapter 10 when we left, about 70 hours in.

So hopefully we get a proper Switch 2 updated version before they come home for Christmas to hopefully finish the last 3 chapters.

We already played the Wii U version, bought the collectors edition day 1, this is all about the new ending for us.

Oh they played the first 9 chapters on Switch before we got a Switch 2 ahead of chapter 10. Looks the same, but load times are much faster. We booted up the Wii U version. Looks mostly the same, but the font is so small. And the menus are a mess. Map always on the touchscreen Gamepad was great though.👍

@elpardo1984 Waiting on a Switch 2 port, and a heavily discounted sale of 50% or more. 3-5 hour games are the reason Apple Arcade exists.

@Simu001 3-5 hours is close enough thanks. I think I separate games by 5 or 10 our blocks anyway.

@Indielink Yeah dev kits would certainly help making Switch 2 versions of games. Thanks.👍

So how short is short? It's $24.99US but on sale for $19.99 until next Thursday 8/28.

Any word on a proper Switch 2 upgrade?

Thanks.

Good to know "best gameplay" doesn't get you "best game" on a console, so we can all just point and mock laughingly ha ha. 😂

@Jireland92 Well adult stuff may be baked into Harleys DNA but that hasn't stopped Lego from putting her in 5 previous Lego games. And she has a couple of block sets as well. They wouldn't have to follow the show entirely, they could follow the movie too.😁

https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Harley_Quinn_(LEGO_Video_Games)

@Slideaway1983 I think I did understand all of that and you do make some good points. The first part is a more cohesive experience and it does feel like it's own game. Until the end when it kind of feels like a prolouge. And part 2 is an open world collectathon that feels like like it just stops halfway thru the story, b/c it does. I preferred the 100 full blown JRPG half a story to the linear prologue but as you say personal taste.

There are pros and cons to buying it day 1, I was just giving the people unfamiliar with it something to think about. I mean I haven't even played either of them, what do I know.😂

60 seconds to go with 188,000 waiting. 👍

Edit: Beginning shortly, 234k waiting.😱

I haven't played FF7R but I watched my kid play Remake on PS4 then watched my other kid play Integrade on PS5 before the first kid played Rebirth. So I've spent a lot of time looking at this game. And it really isn't all that visually impressive until the final boss fight. So Switch 2 shouldn't really have a problem with it.

Ff7 Rebirth is an entirely different thing though. It's a massive world filled with tons of stuff. So before purchasing FF7R you might want to ask yourself, am I OK waiting for the 2nd part of the trilogy, which may take awhile, or maybe not even arrive at all, or be a "cloud" version?

I think it's worth playing ahead of Rebirth, but not stand alone.

Oh, and if you need more incentive to wait, Squenix gave FF7R Inetergrade FOR FREE to anyone who pre-ordered Rebirth on PS5. Not saying that will happen on Switch 2, probably not, but maybe they'll toss it in fir an extra $10 or $20.

I'd at least wait for the still unnamed FF7 Part 3 official announcement to see if it's day and date on Switch 2. Though I suppose knowing Squenix if enough of you don't give them your money now they'll use that as an excuse not to give you the rest.😝

@AverageGamer Or 2027-2028. Or 2028-2029. Whole thing seems a bit of a sham to me. 🤷‍♂️

@TheExile285 Graphics first, gameplay second. Devs probably figure it's easier to upgrade performance later than graphics. And with seemingly every game getting updates these dates no reason to wait to release it.

Elden Ring has performance issues? Shocker.

Oh wait, it always has.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/02/playing-elden-rings-ps4-version-on-ps5-might-be-your-best-bet-for-a-stable-framerate

@Nintendoid720 I've read about the button swapping but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet. Maybe after the summer is over and I start playing it more. Thanks for the reminder. Pretty weird though that Nintendo can make a system wide button swap mode but they can't add it in MKW, but they did in DKB. But I'll try.😁

@AverageGamer So how long do you think is legally reasonable? 2 more years? 5 more years? 15 more years on the Switch 4?

A deal without a start date isn't a deal, it's a worthless piece of paper.🤷‍♂️

@Vyacheslav333 I have to think there's something going on with Hoyoverse at this point for none of its games to be on Switch 2. The Switch may just have been too much work.

And as much as Switch fans seem to like farm sims Infinity Nikki is doing a big Stardew Valley crossover in a couple of weeks. I'm pretty sure people would play IN on Switch 2.

Early days yet I suppose, but it's noticeable.

NINTENDO GAVE OPTIONS!?!?!?!?

I'm shocked. Can I please make B the jump button in MKW? And R the gas. And A Items. And L drift. Besides those changes the MKW button mappings are just lovely. 😂

Haven't started DKB yet but I'm thinking I will be changing B to jump, yes. Thanks Nintendo. For the Option, not moving jump to something else. Though if A is jump and B dig I can probably live with that. Knowing Nintendo down on the D-padbus probably jump. Or L. 😂

I only started playing MKW a few weeks ago when we got our Switch 2 and I agree w/ the negativity here, though I mostly have my own reasons.

I don't like the MK controls. I thought Sakari was making fun of them yesterday when he said "you don't have to hold down a button to go, you just go". I know MKW has that as an option but it feels like not playing. I would also like a jump button.

I do think it's unfair to compare it to MK8 DX. The DX is in that name b/c that game came out years after the base game on Wii U. And a lot of people complained about that game as well, mostly the lack of real battle arenas. So you'll have to wait for MKW DX on Switch 3 to make those comparisons.

I've been playing a lot of Disney Speedstorm since it released and driving in that game feels so much better. And it looks so much better as a PS5 game. Haven't tried it on Switch 2 yet but I want to to compare. The game is basically only a trial at this point, the matchmaking sucks, it's too pay to win, and it's a seriously over expensive Gatcha that probably should be illegal, going after little kids like that, it's atrocious. But the racing is smooth. It works like MK w/ an emphasis on drifting and items, but it works. I haven't spent a cent on it, there's enough free stuff to race an hour a day offline, and on without a paid subscription. It's fun racing. The devs dud a great job. Too bad the money managers completely greeded it to death. Alice in Wonderland track soon, then Winnie the Pooh. I suggest all the complainers check it out.

@Jireland92 Yes? I mean have you watched any of the Batman movies this game is based on? Joker kills a guy with a pencil through his eye. Bane kills just about everybody. Robert Pattison is really emo. 😂

And all of that is live action, fake blood. Cartoons are cartoons. Harley Quinn is a comedy. I think it's a better fit for Lego. And HQ is very colorful like Lego blocks. Did you watch the trailer for this? It's practically black & white. Minus the white. 😝

@AverageGamer Yes the deal only closed in 2023 but it was announced in 2022 so MS could have begun working on the game then. Or asking Activision too. What good is a 10 year deal if you never actually have to start it. How long do you give them before it becomes a legal issue? What if they just say - Sorry, we tried, but no go. Or what if they say - Sorry, but we lied b/c we wanted our purchase to go through? What's the point?🤷‍♂️

@xmkbest Kid Icarus Uprising is my favorite game I've never played. Both my kids played it and we talked about it all the time. I'm not a handheld gamer and I've been waiting ever since to be able to play it on a TV sfreen. Maybe some day. Or a sequel.

I think this will do well though. Plenty of other games to play for us.

Not too excited for any of these. Starting to think there's a Geoff K curse, the more he's involved the less I'm interested. When did he start being around? Made need to research that. Is it's his fault Sony went all in on live service GaaS? 😩

Anyway I voted for Indy on Switch 2 b/c I think it might be 1 of the few next gen games on Switch 2, giving hope going forward. OK sure MKW, DKB and Kirby Air Ride are all technically "next gen only" but none of them look like Indy. Now there may only be a handful of 3rd party next gen only games out there, MS kept X One alive for awhile, but it's still a win.

Best reveal of the day today for me was Danshattack but I suppose it isn't coming to Switch 2 if it isn't here. Too bad,looks fun, and Switch 2 can probably run it. Maybe it will get a late port.🤷‍♂️

@no_donatello I'm a big Uncharted fan, 2 is my favorite "interactive movie" as I called it at the time b/c it was just that good, and I like the new Tomb Raider trilogy more than most - never could deal with the original games tank controls - so I was the target audience for this, but I can't. It's not even just not liking it, it just doesn't play right for me. To be fair I don't have an Xbox so I never tried Indy but I don't need to. But I would, and will, if they ever add 3rd person. Could happen.🤷‍♂️

@AverageGamer "Each CoD has a 3-4 year development cycle."

Well the deal was announced 3 years ago, so there's that. Maybe they should have made the deal - If you let us buy Activision then 10 years from now we'll put on CoD game on Switch 3. 😝

https://www.polygon.com/23497945/call-of-duty-nintendo-microsoft-10-year-deal-steam-activision-blizzard/

@gaga64 Maybe this will motivate you to play the games in your backlog while you wait a few months for this to go on sale. And then you can add it to your backlog. 😂

Not a fan of first person so I skipped it and will continue to skip it unless thry add in 3rd person view like Avatar is doing but this is still a nice big win for Switch 2. It's a "next gen only" game so that's something.

Now where's CoD Microsoft? Click is ticking on that 10 year deal. But this is still a win.

Hasn't Batman already had a couple of Lego games? They should have made a Lego game based on the Harley Quinn cartoon, it's hilarious. OK maybe not the most kid friendly at times but they could work some Lego magic w/ the characters and make it a family game.

Any chance Matt Berry is the HQ Bane? That would make me optimistic.

Edit: Nope, just looked it up, James Adomain. Oh well. Maybe Alan Tudyk will show up. Oh who am I kidding of course he will.😂

Just watched the trailer. Did they get Eric Cartman to voice Batman? Not a fan.😝

@xmkbest It looks to me, as someone who never played the original, that this is a sequel to the original, that came out 22 years and 4 console generations after the original, that is treating itself like a sequel from last gen 5 year ago. ie Sakurai just assumes this is another Smash or Mario Kart situation that we are all very familiar with so he's just explaining what's been added b/c everyone knows all the rest.

I know I won't be playing it. I was too old for the original, I'm ancient now. This looks like a game for ADHD competitive esport TikTok kids to go at it, not me. Nothing at all wrong with that. It will probably be a welcome relief to everyone underwhelmed by MKW, and maybe my kids will play it with their friends, but I'm out.

To attempt to answer your question - yes this seems to be the only battle hub world arena, at least that we've seen so far. I don't think it looks small for what they want it to be. It's not a sightseeing map, it's a battle arena w/ multiple pop up competitions and the entire thing only lasts 5 minutes.

Who knows, maybe if the game sells well he'll make dlc arenas?

I have to say, for the first 20 minutes I was bored out of mind and couldn't believe a sequel to a 22 year old game that was 4 generations of consoles ago just looked like a remaster of that game, but City Trial was something else. The ADHD of racing games in a 3D Smash. Quite impressive. More for the TikTok generation than this old man but I can see it becoming very big. Congrats.

I'm not buying a controller with the button faces in the wrong spot. OK maybe on clearance at Target for $9.98 b/c I'd be looking at the price and not notice the buttons.😂

Still good to see so many cheap options for little kids or imaginary friends and pets. Ya all know how weird some people can get. 5 years in and 3rd party PS5 controllers are still $60 or more, still don't understand that. Or $150 3rd, or 1st, party controllers .

Will be waiting for cheap Joy Mice for Mario Party Jamboree. As long as it takes, no rush.

There should have been a poll before the review poll.

Did you buy DXD?
Yes
No

If Yes, please complete our next poll. If No, please don't.

Anyone from outside the US planning to attend the Pokémon event in San Francisco in August 2026, you should probably watch some news before buying a plane ticket.

To quote Buffalo Springfield:

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

Oh, and don't forget the extra $250 visa integrity fee. 🤑

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-know-about-new-travel-fee-to-enter-the-us-.html

I hope you guys got paid well for this advertisement. 😎

I really wish Nintendo would make a dock like this that let's us see the screen while charging so we could use it as a nightstand clock, calendar, music player, whatever else you can think of. I can understand a little why they covered it up for the Switch, so people didn't think it was a Wii U 2nd screen situation, but after 8 years I think we've figured it out.

Our Switch 2 rarely leaves the dock, and I'm sure about $100 of the price is for screen I can't see, so let me use it. 🤑

Pikmin 5.
Luigis Mansion 4.
Paper Mario The Next Chapter

For launching new hardware recently Nintendo, 1 of tye biggest gaming devs in the world seems to have forgotten to make games for it. Or at least tell us about them.🤪

If you want to play most of the above games buy a PS5, you can probably find it easier and cheaper than a Switch 2, and the games will probably run and look better on it. What are we even doing here?

If you want games on a cheap(er) $250 Switch 2 Lite to just play portably let's wait until they announce that first. Otherwise, if you can afford the Switch 2 versions of 5 games on that list, you can probably afford PS5 and the games on that console as you'll be saving money b/c PS5 games actually go on sale.

Better yet, buy a PS5 and play Infinity Nikki andvtye Hoyoverse games for free. Think of all the money you'll save.😎

@The_Nintend_Pedant The Switch 2 is PS5 deja vu. PS5 had R&C and Switch 2 has DKB. PS5 had PS4 dual ports galore, Switch 2 has MP4 and I'm sure some others will follow once Nintendo has a Direct show up so we actually know about some more games.

1 big difference, it took a long time for PS5 to be on store shelves, I saw 5 or 6 Switch 2 in Target yesterday. So I don't think you're the only 1 bailing on Switch 2. I have 2 college age kids who will never move out b/c jobs are low paying but rent is sky high so our Switch 2 will get plenty of use, no regrets, but it's not exciting. Hopefully the next Direct has something. That Spkatoon solo game looks good.

Do you have a PS? I'm not a PC gamer, Sony is my 1, even if the PS5 is just the PS4 Pro Pro w/ not much to show for itself. Free to play games look nice on it. I'm probably done gaming after this gen. Hopefully my kids will get jobs and move out some day and I'll just retire with my backlog. Not sure I can afford a new console on Social Security anyway. I turned 60 last month, it makes you think.

@The_Nintend_Pedant Or equal amounts, in the case of Astrobot. Which I haven't played yet, but the first 2 were good.

I had a long conversation about Nintendo w/ my wife at dinner. Told her how GameCube was the best hardware of it's generation. How Starfox Adventures was 1 of the best looking video games for about a decade. Then the Wii was 1 1/2 GameCube duct taped together w/ motion controls. Then the Wii U was the Wii in wide-screen HD, then the Switch was the Wii U as a handheld, and now the Switch 2 is a Switch w/ 1080p and possibly some 4k. And if you look at games like Paper Mario, Smash and MK they still basically look like the same game since the GameCube. Nothing looks like an N64 games except N64 games, I'm not blind. But the main series games since Melee, Double Dash, TTYD and Twilight Princess really haven't changed all that much. Yeah WW was a GC game too and TP was on Wii but since TP on GC. Yes the games look better in HD on HD TVS but stylistically pretty much the same.

OK it was mostly me talking but my wife has thoughts, she bought me my PS1. 😂

So yeah, indies stepping up and stepping in. Drag X Drive not helping at the moment. Is GameCube also the birth of both Pikmin and Luigis Mansion? I know neither series is huge but I feel like they were both innovative. SPlatoon has that too on Wii U, and Sports on Wii, but it feels mostly samey. Which is the case for most of the industry I guess. I suppose I just want more. 🤷‍♂️

Thinking about picking up Might & Magic for $10, my wife wants to replay it she has it on her 3DS, and thinking about Penny Breakaway for $15. I'll ask the kids.

@The_Nintend_Pedant I think they're hoping to get a few ARMS sales for $42 from all the people talking about how much better that game seems than Drag X Drive. Only half joking. 🤑 If ever a game should be a $20 or even $30 Player's Choice Selects it's ARMS. (I know that's a week old comment but the article is on the front page again.)

Yeah not a fan of most if that. Hoping it works better as competitive racing music than track touring.

Didn't realize Switch 2 physical was 2026, that's a shame. I know Switch 2 will play the Switch version but there should be a very obvious graphical difference between the two. Maybe Switch version has a BF sale and I'll upgrade later.🤷‍♂️

I'm guessing the first "news" he shares is the game not releasing in 2025. 😝

I'm still not sure what the appeal of another racer is w/ MKW out there and Sonic releasing soon but a release date would be nice anyway. Same for MP4 which I probably won't play but it's different enough and I appreciate how many people have been waiting for it for a very long time. MP4 also feels like a very big dual release game so maybe we can finally see what Switch 2 can really do compared to Switch. Nintendo said the original Switch can't handle MKW or DKB so if Switch can handle MP4 I'm curious to see it compared to Switch 2.

And then maybe we can finally see some more new games b/c people spent over $400 on a new console and while we know about a bunch of games now it's very quiet after that. Way too quiet.

Nintendo fails their own "summer vacation event" by having it so late in summer a lot of kids will already be going back to school by then. I know it's a Saturday but it's late summer. I would have accepted "end of summer skills event". Anyway I'll be moving my kid into college that weekend so I'm out.

I also fail the skills event b/c I can't remember to keep pushing the A button to go and I keep trying to drift w/ L.

Oh, and the person above me just reminded me we don't have NO.😂

The "pretty mixed" reviews all seem to basically say the same thing and vary all the way down firm 5/10 to all the way up to 7/10. So basically more uniform than pretty mixed.

Just a reminder that Splatoon started out w/ "paint the floors" then added several fun modes that had some variety. Of course it also looks like Platoon, and sounds like Splatoon, and this has none of that, but maybe.

Though thinking about ARMS maybe not.🤷‍♂️

This could have been a free bundle w/ a pair of Joymouse for 2 player splitscreen. Or a minigame in the $10 tutorial. Or thry could have just bundled it w/ the Switch 2 w/o MKW and then talk about how it "sold" 15 million copies.

Agree with the above comments, it's not worth putting your $400 console in a 3rd party dock. It just isn't.

I watched a dock teardown video on YT where I learned the built in fan is for the dock motherboard, it's blocked from the Switch 2, so that wouldn't be a concern for me. Power supply would be though. I think the dock motherboard needs the fan b/c of the built in ethernet port being on it potentially making it hot.

Safe bet is to assume any account on Twitter is not legit, then work from there.😝

An $80 racing video game in 2025, made by a company that's been making video games for 40 years, and we can't swipe buttons in the settings. I feel like racing games for decades have had R for gas, not A, and a jump button would be great with all the walls and rails to jump on. And drifting, which is basically a break, should be Ltonatch R for gas. I really can't play it like this, such a disappointment.

@datamonkey I suppose stock articles could replace game articles the way reality shows replaced music videos on MTV since it seems to take like 5 years to release a new game in any series now.😂

My kid is looking to get a new headset w/ their $70 in Best Buy rewards from their laptop purchase on Friday, so I'll be following these comments to see all the better recommended ones. I bought them an Xbox banded set for Christmas but they said it's uncomfortable.

@datamonkey Good call on the stock split. Nintendo split 10-1 just 3 years ago in September 2022.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/nintendo-carries-out-10-for-1-stock-split-to-lure-new-investors.html

Here's the thing though. The 10-1 split made the stock price go from 60,000 to 6,000 YEN. And if you loom at the graph in the article it does look like the stick,price was 6,000 in October of 2022, but it was not 60,000 1 day before that. Which makes me think these financial companies that make these graphs must reconfigured them back through time to adjust to the current price, otherwise people will be wondering why the stock,price dropped 90% in 1 day. Which it did,Mon the say thru split it 10-1, but it isn't in the chart.

So the chart is probably historically accurate, and gamin websites probably shouldn't be covering stock prices.😂

Edit: Sorry for all the typos, not sure what's up with that.🤪

Edit 2: Looked up the Apple stock price, they split a few times, the last was 4-1 in 2020, the the chart does historically rewrite everything to reflect the current price. Seems very weird, but also seems the way it works. Kinda funny how Nintendo's share price was 60,000 3 years ago and now it's 40,000 but that old share price is just poof gone. 🤷‍♂️

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/AAPL/