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I saw a bunch of Switch 2 in stock on the Target app yesterday. Just the stand alone, not the MKW bundle. If they can continue once a week stock replenishment that should help keep the scalpers at bay.m

Still hoping Target or Best Buy does a bundled discount with the game on release day since Nintendo actually has the amiibo ready on time and not like a year or 2 later.

Not saying Nintendo is bundling it, just a savings of like $5 if you buy both at the same time.

@marcjones182 Nintendo seems all about the money these days. Making it, not giving us a good value for it. Maybe b/c their President is a business guy. Did they ever bundle Joycon w/ anything? I want to say no.

I'm also kinda bummed no DK Bananza and amiibo bundle for like $80. They release on the same day.

@LastFootnote Well I can't imagine they just want you to jump into an ambidextrous mouse controlled game without some type of training tutorial similar to when you first boot up SPlatoon. Maybe see how many points you can score in 3 minutes like the Mii basketball game in Wii Sports Resort.

If they just expect people to jump online without any practice then no one should buy this game ever.

@NFrealinkling "two sets of the new joy cons which I’m not sure many people have"

Which is why I mentioned in the previous article a couple of hours ago they could have bundled it w/ the $95US Joycon pairs. Make it $99.99 and who knows maybe sell some more Joycon. I really wish they had a new name. Joycon 2?

I like to play demos of games but this one NEEDS a demo. For starters it's mandatory ambidextrous mouse control, which just saying it is hard enough for me, which then means it's tabletop or tv only, so no option for people who like to play handheld.

They don't need to release a demo today, but around a week before the game, early to mid August.

@beltmenot The best thing about that was how short it was.😂

"players use the mouse controls in both Joy-Con"

That reads like "Rub Your Tummy & Pat Your Head: The Video Game". Think I'll pass.

They should include the code in a $95 box of Joycon if it's going to be digital anyway. I miss getting games w/ my extra controllers. With Wiimotes we got Flingsmash, which my kids just replayed the other day. Wii Play Motion, which kind of seems the equivalent of this. Mario & Sonic at the Sotchi Olympics.

Welcome Tour should come with every single Joycon sold. 🤑

My guess is lots of people still games from libraries, this guy jyst got caught.

I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that thus guy hasn't done anything original.

After my library closed for a year to remodel they moved one of the video game sections to right bext to the front door, which is across the street from the 1,200 student middle school. They also started keeping the games in the cases rather than behind the checkout desk. I actually pointed out to the librarian what I thought of tye new setup but it's still like that a couple of years later. Don't know how many get stolen but a few certainly don't get returned. Though the Switch carts are tiny, a few probably legitimately get lost.

Glad they caught the guy, I'm happy my tax money goes towards letting working class kids try out more games. And me too. 😁

On the bright side, maybe he can get a sponsorship from a company making beer pong equipment? 😂

@larryisaman Thanks. If I have enough of these conversations with enough people it might finally make sense and sink in.

@larryisaman "To market voice chat as a big new feature"

OK I'm a little brain dead these days. Is Gamechat just voice chat b/c I associate it with camera and I associate the camera w/ video b/c it's a camera. I would associate voice chat w/ a mic on the Pro controller b/c I feel like it should be. I don't need a camera, no-one sees me and I really don't need to see anyone. But if Gamechat means voice chat well yeah.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think Nintendo is doing a good job of marketing all of this. I mean if we can voice chat w/o a camera but they want people to buy a camera sure be misleading, but I'm confused.

Voice chat- mic on controller
Video chat - camera
Gameshare- share the game
Gamechat - ???

I was in Target today, didn't even think of looking to see if they had a Switch 2 setup. Maybe next time. Thanks.

Kinda crazy how this game almost feels dropped on us with so much content while people are waiting years for Metroid Prime 4 and a decade for Silksong.

I'm not watching the video b/c I'm afraid of how many banana puns there will be.😂

@JimNorman Hey thanks. Sometimes my reading comprehension isn't the best.🤪 Does seem weird anyway Nintendo would even bothering promoting that this is Gameshare capable considering how little player 2 gets to do, and even less so on Switch w/o the mouse pointing. I did watch the Vid again last night and realized player 2 can play as Pauline w/o using the mouse, I misunderstood the first time I watched the Direct and thought mouse mode was required for Pauline, so that's on me. Thanks again.👍

@SillyG playing Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival was the gaming equivalent of playing Donkey Kong Bananza only as player 2. 😂 There was a game in there somewhere, they just made you watch instead of play it.😝

@speedracer216 @roy130390 I guessed every age yesterday b/c it seemed so non-specifuc.😂

My comment from yesterday:

"So glad I neither know nor care about the lore.😂
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That said, how old do we think Pauline is supposed to be? At first I thought a little kid like 5 or so but then she spoke and she seemed older like the tween racing girl in Wreck it Ralph and then the trailer ends with them touching fingers and I start getting a weird Woody Allen vibe like what the heck is going on?!?!🤣

So now I'm wondering if she's just quickly aging in game time and it ends with her being full Odyssey adult age b/c planet core gravity or some such?🤷‍♂️
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Either way I'm all about the chirpy sidekicks. Hoping she has some cute "Don't ever do that to me again!" line if DK dies in a boss fight like Daxter said to Jak. 🤞"

I spent way too much time wondering about Pauline's age yesterday so glad for this. 👍

PS - This reminds me off all the people over at PS saying Bella Ramsey was too young looking to play an 18yo in season 2 even though Bella Ramsey is 21 in real life. 🤪

@ekwcll "it's fine"

What's fine? Oh, don't bother answering that, it's fine.😂

@beltmenot Problem? No, these are my problem faces - 🤬😩😱😝 - and I used my "this is kinda funny" face - 😁

@SillyG There have been no amiibo-game bundles at all for Switch? I guess I never thought about it. We have like 50 amiibo, some still in their boxes, so I collect them a bit, but I guess you're right. Last bundle I bought, maybe the only 1, was amiibo Festival at Toys R US clearance for like $5. Which was about $4 too much.😂 I dud use a bunch of them in New Horizons though.

I guess it's too much work and not enough money. My wife who's in publishing is trying to produce a big book box set and she says it's a nightmare. Manufacturers just aren't set up for it. Then there are rights, licensing etc. Probably just eadier not to bundle them.

This game and this amiibo, releasing the same day, really would have been a nice bundle though. Maybe some store will knock $10 off the price if you buy both. Might even pick up this $30 amiibo for $20. It's my birthday present after all. 😁

@Wraggadam1 @Clark2k I like that they have these little "Let's give the kids something to do in the game." additions, but it isn't co-op to me. 🤷‍♂️ Co-op is when my kids or my wife and I can pick up and play a game cooperatively and it doesn't really matter which player we are b/c we are both playing the game. If everything DK did in the game was controlled by the CPU (or AI I guess these days) and player 1 only played Pauline would you feel like you were playing the game or just watching and occasionally hitting a button?

If a game is advertised as 2 player co-op both should be playing somewhat equally. Otherwise it's just a bunch of people sitting around watching. It's false marketing. I know Nintendo has been doing this since at least SMG, so like 15yrs, so you'd think they could come up w/ a better name by now. They are calling "easy mode" assist. They could have called easy mode easy mode and co-op assist.😁

@SillyG Yeah my college kid said they are still using our Sjylanders DK amiibo in Smash and it works as DK so they said the same as you. I'm not faulting Nintendo for not showing it in the Pic, I was just curious. Thanks.👍

@sethfranum Those are the current prices currently by me in the Target by me, not the past. 🤷‍♂️

@dartmonkey If I start being nice now just block my account, it's been hacked. 😩

Best Buy (US electronics store) has it listed for $29.99 US, so that's likely the price. And a no from me.🤑

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintendo-amiibo-donkey-kong-and-pauline-donkey-kong-bananza-series-multi/6636551.p?skuId=6636551

Edit: So I was looking at the box and just now discovered her name is Pauline and not Paulina. 🤪

@JimNorman Can you help a fellow out. From the article:

"Pauline's attacks can be controlled in Mouse Mode, and you can even share locally to a Switch 1 system using GameShare — how neat!"

My understanding is Switch 2 Mouse Con don't connect to Switch, I'm guessing different Bluetooth protocols or some such, so how can player 2 use Mouse mode to control Paulina on the Switch using Gameshare? Or do Switch 2 Joycon work on Switch when using Gameshare? Would be nice but that isn't what I've read. I suppose a firmware update could fix it though. Maybe it's just a poorly worded sentence?

I was already looking forward to this game thinking it had potential but now it has GOTY potential for me. My favorite game all time is Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy and I've never found a decent successor despite all the sequels that game had, they were never the same. But this has potential. It's everything I want in a game. 3D. Collectibles. Some semblance of a story. Platforming. Voice acting. Violence. Random minigame distractions.

If it's long enough, and judging by everything we just saw it is, and plays well enough, which Nintendo is usually pretty good at, I don't see why this couldn't become an all time classic for me. And it releases 3 days before my 60th birthday. Yes I've been gaming a long time, since Pong.😂

@Drago201 Anything for a buck.

Doesn't matter to me. I played the original for an hour or 2 on my PS, not my thing.

Reminded me of Dreams on PS4. Obviously not a full game like that but just the way they were adding material to the sculpture.

Not sure how much I'll use it personally but I really do like it as an addition. I like when things like this get added to games rather than games themselves. There were a couple of other things they added in here that I wouldn't buy as a game to play but as side distractions sure why not.

What's the price? Would pick it up for the normal $15.99 like most of the ones in my local Target. Maybe even $19.99 like the Guardian if it looked good enough. But the recent price hikes of $29.99 and $39.99 are insane. They should have bundled them with the game for an extra $15 since they're releasing the same day.

Can @NintendoLife do some work, after another 15 or so DKB articles, and find out if my DK amiibo from Sjylanders Superchargers is being supported? It's worked in some other games but it's not in the picture.🤷‍♂️

8. Eight DKB articles, not counting the live feed. Can we hit an even dozen just today? I bet we can.😁

So glad I neither know nor care about the lore.😂

That said, how old do we think Pauline is supposed to be? At first I thought a little kid like 5 or so but then she spoke and she seemed older like the tween racing girl in Wreck it Ralph and then the trailer ends with them touching fingers and I start getting a weird Woody Allen vibe like what the heck is going on?!?!🤣

So now I'm wondering if she's just quickly aging in game time and it ends with her being full Odyssey adult age b/c planet core gravity or some such?🤷‍♂️

Either way I'm all about the chirpy sidekicks. Hoping she has some cute "Don't ever do that to me again!" line if DK dies in a boss fight like Daxter said to Jak. 🤞

Really wish they would stop calling these cheesy add-ons co-op. Co-op means equal to me. Can you imagine if the multi-player in MKW was 1 person races and the other person stands there at the start of the race and waves the flag. That's what this is, flag waving.

Take the Co-op off the button and call it "Player 2 Assist". Or just "Player 2". Cooperative shouldn't mean 1 player does 95% of the work and the other does 5%. It doesn't have to be 50-50, player 2 almost always has to sit out the first level or so,,like in Luigis Mansion 3, or just help fight, so 60-40 even 70-30 is fine. But this isn't playing anything, it's just assisting. May be fine for a little kid, but it's not co-op.

I guess it's better than nothing, but I'm sure I'm not the only person watching that video seeing Co-op only to be disappointed.😩

Odds of the missing content releasing as paid dlc? 🤑

People making a live action movie are looking for actors to be in the movie? Wow.

Ugh. I was hoping to see it. Thought it was today. Sitting on my couch scrolling through YouTube trying to find it, only to see "Starts in 24 hours". 😝

They gave us 2 days notice for a DK Direct but they just drtopped SPlatoon on us unannounced in an app. I could really use a little more consistency out of Nintendo.

I don't care what's in it, just wanted to see how it looked. May go back to bed.😴

@Slideaway1983 I understood you correctly. Switch 2 dock (unless you were talking about Switch maybe) has 1 USB-C which is used for power and 3 usb-a and then made their camera USB-C so it can't be plugged into and of the 3 free usb-a ports on the dock. All they had to do was make 1 of the 2 USB-C powers on the outside of the dock USB-C and we could have avoided this entire conversation.

My kids think they nay have left the charger over their cousins house. They called their cousin and asked them to look for it but they said they couldn't find it. My kids aren't kids, 20 & 22, that's not something they would lie about.

You might be right about not using a Switch 2 charger w/ Switch. Once we have a Switch 2 I won't need it, and my kids don't play TV out, so they can figure it out.

@darkswabber The "tweet" was your first mistake.😉

@darkswabber Why do you think is Odyssey renamed to Expedition? The video at the top of the article ends with Lego Expedition next to Odyssey and Brick Life. You did watch the video before posting, right?🤷‍♂️

Here's another article that goes into a little more detail.

https://simulationdaily.com/news/lego-fortnite-expedition/

@Slideaway1983 "and 2xUSB-A are out the side, same as OLED"

So if inside the dock there is an HDMI port next to 2 USB ports, 1 each of A and C, and outside there are 2 USB ports, wouldn't it have made sense for them to make 1 of those A and 1 C, especially since they knew they were making a camera that used C? Why does the dock need 3 A ports anyway? 🤷‍♂️

I'm not too flustered about the lost charger, once we get a Switch 2 we'll use that, so 1 charger for tv out should be enough for the other 2 old Switch which we can keep charging w/ our other chargers, just no TV out. Both my kids mostly play handheld anyway. I mean I'm not happy that we can't find the lost charger, but not spending money on a new one.🤑

@Slideaway1983 Thanks. Guess that makes sense. We'll your explanation makes sense, not Nintendo doing it that way.😂

We lost 1 of our 2 Switch chargers so we're trying out all the rest of the ones we have in the house, none of them worked BTW, but at one point we couldn't get TV out b/c my kid put the power in the TV USB, or the other way round I forget. Point is, while they are marked, it's black on black so hard to see. So Nintendo having a USB-C camera but no open USB-C port on the dock doesn't surprise me at all. They have a history of doing things like that. Nintendo Logic.🤪

Is there a USB port on the dock for it since I'd never use the camera handheld? Plugging it in the top seems unnecessary.

That boy was not cut out to be a delivery driver. Not b/c of throwing the package, anyone can do that, but the way he shuffles off like Jabba the Hut. 😂

Going to assume he's fired by now. Maybe that's what he wanted.🤷‍♂️

That huge collectible case to keep melting chocolates in is making my Labo seem like a wise investment.😂

Looking forward to trying out my Labo vehicle kit wheel and pedal.😁

@AmplifyMJ My wife and I are so addicted to the weather forecasts, it's worse than social media.😂

Glad it all worked out though and you had a good time.

@Slideaway1983 Thanks. One less thing to worry about. 👍

@Olliemar28 "What?"

Did you not read the headline? 😂

@AmplifyMJ Very nice.👍 I'm surprised you got to wear shorts in NY in April it feels like it's rained every day here since like March. You got lucky. Bonus not being kidnapped and sent to El Salvador.😩

Does the dock hold the Switch 2 tight enough to let me pop off the Joycon w/o taking it out of the dock? The joycon go on and off the Switch no problem while docked.

I'd prefer no screen and saving $100.🤑

Poll says 9% don't have a Switch 2. Wondering how many of those are in the US, we seemed to have the biggest supply constraints.😫

@AmplifyMJ Is that you in your avatar? Don't think I've seen it before. I abandoned my Twitter account for BS so may have missed it, just saw the poster.😂

And so begin the Switch 2 Pro rumors. Took a whole 6 days.😂

Have people been playing this game so much already that they need to be able to drive 30 different carts from the get go or is there some great god Kart that you can only drive after unlocking the first 30?

I'm not saying 1 Kart is all I need but I feel like after only 5 days of playing 3 or 4 would still be enough. Unless there is some unbeatable invulnerable 100% victory flaming Bowser shell god Kart waiting for me, then yeah, maybe I'm in a rush.😂

My overly excited overly optimistic brain is making this look like the first games in the Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank series and I couldn't be happier. I've been waiting for a proper J&D sequel for 25 years.

This probably won't be anything like those 2 games, Nintendo will turn it into a farming Sim or something, but maybe, just maybe, this could be a really great 3D platforming adventure. Too bad it's only single player and not couch co-op but probably for the best they just focus on a great single player game to start .

DK Bananza already looked great but this has the potential to be my favorite Switch 2 game if they do it up right.🤞

At this point I'm guessing MS put in some very fine print that reads "10 years of CoD on Nintendo consoles that also have Gamepass on them". Either that or just a Cloud version. 😝

Not that it matters, here in America it doesn't matter what powerful people do or say, no consequences. Even for flat out bold faced lies. I mean what's going to happen if CoD doesn't come to Switch 2, do you think they'll split up MS and Activision? Not gonna happen. Maybe a $1 mil fine, which might be cheaper than getting the game to run on Switch 2. 🤑

But if PS4 is getting it then surely Switch 2 can run it, see Cyberpunk, so maybe Nintendo just doesn't want it, or wants MS to pay them more than MS wants to pay? But hardware should not be a limitation for PS4 games.