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I'm not paying extra for amiibo. They don't have the same kind of use as actual accessories to justify that big of a jump in price, and Nintendo games have been having less and less games that have amiibo features, let alone ones that need specific amiibo.

Yeah no thanks, I'll just be getting unofficial cards that function like the amiibo from now on. $20 was already pushing it considering the quality and number of uses hadn't improved like the initial increase, and I can't see sales doing well.

I guess I'm just not using my Switch 2 for anything but Switch 2 games and games with Switch 2 Editions, because a 256G card plus the internal is still less than my current microSD which is almost full. Someone said there's a 1TB card but that it's bad, can anyone else confirm or deny?

@Scarmucci Seems so, thought I think it's an overall price increase like when they went from $12.99 to $15.99 rather than region specific. GameStop has the TOTK ones listed at $19.99, so a 4 dollar increase, and GameStop listings were the ones which confirmed only physical copies of Switch 2 games would cost more.

Thankfully they bumped up the prices of the accessories so the people acting like Nintendo was gonna have the Switch 2 be $900 in the US still have something to complain about. Even then, the only substantial increases are to things with actual tech in them like the controllers and dock, which is understandable.

But... is there really nothing bigger than 256 for micro SD Express cards right now? My current is almost full and 512GB is as much storage as the Switch 2's internal and the only card I've seen combined.

I just wish they kept actually adding uses for them. The Wolf Link amiibo is the perfect sweet spot of adding unique things to multiple games without feeling like physical DLC, but it feels like it's been a long time since they tried.

Uh-huh. Just like how they promoted Age of Calamity as canon and it wasn't. Very cool.

I also wish people wouldn't jump the gun on things like this and would just wait rather than spread doom and gloom. Nintendo's not gonna bump up the price to something unreasonable in one of their biggest markets, because then units won't sell, which would mean they'd take a loss on the console manufacturing, the tariffs to ship it, and not make money from software. It's likely gonna be a negligible price increase for most, and remember, a reevaluation can come to the same conclusion as before.

And if it is too expensive, just don't buy it right away. If enough people do that, the base price will be cut before the natural discounts. Since the Switch 2 is backwards compatible, they're not gonna shut down the servers for Switch 1 games like MK8 DX or Smash Ultimate, keep playing those. Play your game backlog in the meantime. If you somehow don't have one, try new games or genres that you might find yourself sucked into. There's plenty of alternatives to do until it becomes affordable, if it's even a big price increase.

Seems they're only charging for Switch 2 Versions that add things and not just graphical and FPS boosts... and they tacked on something most people won't use to charge for BOTW & TOTK.

@Mallow I think a lot of people are just used to Nintendo consoles being the more budget friendly console option since the Wii, as the GameCube was the last time they really put effort into things like competitive graphics.

@PikminMarioKirby Nintendo seems pretty good at optimizing their own games unlike companies like Ubisoft, Activision, & Warner Bros. So I can easily see them adding content and upgrading things and still manage to have it be a smaller install. Especially for something that's not open world where there's a ton of random factors that might meet or trigger and cause issues.

I don't think 6 out of 12 is bad for someone who's only played the 2 Warriors games and only watched a few streamer playthroughs.

That's great, especially since the Switch was great for Co-op and Local Play. So pretty much everyone buying a Switch 2 will have some extra controllers.

Love the people blaming the current President, and not the previous administration where the price of everything more than doubled, the direct cause and effect of the tariffs to try and reduce prices long term. However we in the US were gonna have to pay more either way - either through tariffs or the same leadership as the past 4 years turning USD into Monopoly money. Even if the tariffs are a failure, they're a lot easier to get rid of than years of inflation.

The price increase is only for the physical side, digital versions will still be at the standard $70 or $60 they said would be case by case for games starting with TOTK. But if physical sales crawl to a halt, they'll either backtrack or stores will just stock less Switch 2 games from now on. But physical media is way more prevalent in say Japan than the US, so it'll lean more on how those markets respond to this.

Though IMO, ultimately unless it's a game you've been waiting for a long time to happen or it just never goes on sale (ex. being Pokémon games which only get discounts via stores like Walmart or Target), you should be trying to shop during sales anyways. Even if it's only $20 off, it adds up when you continue the habit.

Watch the SV one break things further and all the others be great improvements.

I don't care what they offer me, I'm not touching the Expansion Pak without the Gen 1-3 Pokémon games!

The severity of this issue will entirely depend on how big the file sizes of Switch 2 and Switch 2 Version games are.

Pokemon Colosseum and XD being there give me cope they'll be compatible with Pokemon Home.

I hope they do it a few games at a time, and I hope they do that to add Cross-play to the Campaigns. Because as far as I'm aware, the Multiplayer is all Cross-play between Xbox and PC, however only the Halo 3 and I think ODST have it as far as Campaigns go.

It could also just be worded or thought out poorly, as, well yeah, the MCC wouldn't contain 5 or Infinite which would be 'all' the main Halo games.

I'd love to see a Switch 2 upgrade for Kirby's Dream Buffet that has 4 Player Local Play. But unfortunately I'd see them just making a new game instead of improving the original, if they even did either.

If they make enhanced versions of Switch 1 games, one specific one I'd love to see is Kirby's Dream Buffet getting 4 Player Local on Switch 2.

They're releasing Packs way to fast if they want this game to not burn out and end in 2 years. And not only are they releasing too fast, the powercreep brought with each one is also insane. Most games would give you more ways to earn Pulls the more they add, but nope, not this one. They're gonna find F2P players giving up and the few people who pay are gonna be frustrated their cards are worthless ever 30 days.

Day One buy for me. By far the coolest thing from the Direct.

@rjejr The give and take for removing the chest slider.

Enjoyed my time with the game, but aside from the new levels of customization and a few QoL changes, it really was just a boneless New Leaf. The holidays especially felt boring and meaningless compared to previous entries.

Wonder if for Home they'll just have to axe the GO Dex if anything happens. Not like it would've ever been completable at the rate Niantic was doing things anyways.

@DwaynesGames Very rarely they have make-up Events where you can earn around 5 previous Themes by playing and unlocking others not currently available with Tickets. But it's just strange they don't do more of those, especially since the unlock Events are only a few days each in length.

Sounds like a few toy companies are trying to focus more on gaming now. Hasbro's been knocking it out of the park with Transformers toys in particular but there profits from it are down like crazy, so they're thinking about scaling down toy production and increasing game production. Potential start of this is a project with the Space Marine 2 devs, with their engine with really good vehicle physics for either a Transformers or GI Joe game.

@Anachronism It's really bizarre they don't do them more often, especially with how many games they've passed over. That and the fact the Events to earn previous ones you might've missed are sparse too.

@BrazillianCara That and why Nintendo seemingly doesn't care about the quality like their other IPs. If a Mario or Kirby game had any of the problems Scarlet Violet had and launched, heads would roll. But since it's not theirs and it sells anyways, they couldn't care less.

This is the equivalent of if Nintendo remade Mario 64 as a 2D game, because "well the previous Mario games were 2D so it wouldn't make sense to be in 3D".

It'll entirely depend on how well it's executed. Since there's presumable no PvP like Legends Arceus, if they AI isn't perfectly balanced and is instead say, really stupid or annoyingly good, it's going to make or break it for a lot of people. If in most instances the AI will just take hits and you can mostly avoid getting hit, it's not engaging and people will get bored. But they also can't have every Wild Encounter feel like a fight for your life, that's going to turn off a lot of people too.

Then there's things from the series they'll have to properly translate to real time combat that they didn't have to think about for Legends Arceus. Are fast Pokemon gonna be able to dart around the battlefield avoiding everything while slow Pokemon just get destroyed? Are there gonna be a specific handful of Moves that just trivialize the game, where as in a Turned Based format Moves you might run like Hydro Pump, Scald, Surf, or Muddy Water might all be wanted on the same Pokemon for different reasons?

There's A LOT you have to think about for Real Time Combat, especially when moving from Turn Based. And I'm not sure GameFreak is gonna be capable of handling such a big, complex task when they fumble much simpler ones. I'm not saying they can't, but considering they couldn't even make a proper open world with scaling for Scarlet & Violet, I don't see this working.

Good luck getting the fans to rally behind them after they ruined the IP they stole from its creators, that they constantly trashed on along with said fans. I'm sure they won't do the opposite of that and cheer for them to lose.

They wouldn't do it, so IDK why we talk about it. The sole reason the Virtual Console died is so they had something to lazily tack onto NSO to go, 'see, you're not just paying for our online that used to be free, here's some emulators!"

@LadyCharlie The only reason the emulators exist is to justify making people pay for online that was previously free.

Just a skip for me so far. The trailer didn't show off anything that appealed to me personally, and having 2 Johto Starters is a major buzzkill.

Let's be real, the service was never meant to be good. It was always just an excuse to charge for online that'd previously been free, without improving anything.

Anyone expecting more than a trailer of ZA had way too high of expectations.

It's so bizarre seeing a company like Konami fairly price a lot of Collections, that also go on sale relatively fast, then you randomly get a $25 singular GBA game.

I feel "Hard-to-learn mechanics for those unfamiliar with series and related games" is a weird Con, as I can't imagine many people who don't have some history and experience with Yugioh wanting this Collection. Though I suppose that gets less valid the further you go back, as aside from obvious exemptions like Dungeon Dice Monsters, early Yugioh had more of a rough draft for rules than, well, actual rules. So those early games could play completely differently from each other or what we know know as Yugioh.

Depends on if I can keep my data on the Switch if I transfer to the Switch 2. Could keep the Switch 1 in the living room for Co-op and use it to Trade Evolve in Pokemon Switch games and potentially NSO Pokemon games.

@danzoEX With the current state of Pokemon, I don't have faith a new or remastered Colosseum or XD would be good. Part of what made them so fun is they were difficult, and that would never be allowed now.

@RupeeClock ILCA wanted to more or less do the Diamond Pearl main story with the changes of Platinum for BDSP and things like a Delta Episode for Giratina, but were given a stupidly short deadline by TPC they had to re-use the original DP DS game coding. Which IMO proves Nintendo doesn't care if the Pokemon games are good or not - it's their CoD and they know it'll sell no matter what.

@Kiyata I mean Let's GO had the Pokeball accessory that was a watered down Pokewalker that worked as a basic controller. And as much as I'd love a new PMD... spin-offs that aren't trashy mobile games are dead now. Throughout almost a decade of the Switch, there's been exactly 3: One actual new game, a Remaster, & a Wii U port. So at this point we'd be lucky to get a Explorers of Sky DX with the minor changes Rescue Team DX got, god forbid more like new Dungeons with Regional Forms.

@Oldstalk It wasn't the non-GameFreak devs' fault. They wanted to essentially do the story of vanilla Diamond & Pearl with all the changes from Platinum and a Delta Episode equivalent for Giratina, but were given such a ridiculously short time window by TPC they ended up re-using the original coding of the DS games for most of it. The Grand Underground areas with Pokemon you couldn't find in the original games until post-game was their attempt to band aid some of the issues.

Either Gen 5 just to get it on modern hardware or Johto games to fix the issues HGSS didn't touch, like half the Johto Pokemon not being in Johto and no good late game or post-game areas to Level up. I'd personally love a Let's GO Johto but have no idea what Pokemon they'd use, and think it'd have worked better as a LGPE DLC where you get to see Johto before the 3 year jump, and the reward for the DLC getting you the opposite Partner Pokemon to use in Battle.

I don't expect anything but would be glad to be proven wrong. Would be surprised if we got more than a minute of Legends ZA. I'm sure it and Metroid Prime 4 will be like BOTW and be launch titles for Switch 2 while releasing on the original, so no release date but maybe a launch window.

As far as the 3DS and DS libraries go, I think it'd be great to have more secondary studios tackle them as line-up filler and see how they approach the duel-screens compromise. And unlike what The Pokemon Company did to ILCA, actually, you know, give them time to make the game instead of giving them such a short deadline they have to re-use code from the original games.