@Yosher well it’s as if Nintendo themselves don’t have the dev kits. I mean I played princess peach today and that thing desperately needs an upgrade. But what do I know.
@SoIDecidedTo I absyhatr back log comments. The system is delayed. Doesn’t matter… I have a back log. There’s no games. It doesn’t matter I have a back log. There isn’t any development kits. Doesn’t matter I have a back log. Why did you even buy a new system. I think all these back logger commenters should be banned from buying a new system until their back logs are complete. Guess what. We wouldn’t need new systems because we live in a consumer society and most of us bought way more than we could ever play through. Stop deflecting with back logs. These are legitimate issues.
@progx yup for me. If it’s like other four hour Kirby games. Disappointed. And I owned the original. Kart is simply a million times better. Give me a new f zero.
You know how after every Nintendo game which is rated a 9 or a 10 nintendolife asks its audience for their own ratings of the game in a poll…. They should do that for madden so we can see if the community agrees with this score or wishes their money back.
So when I said that I would rather a tv only version I was laughed at because portable is it and graphics are good enough. Now 30fps for a 2d game and it’s “cancel my preorder and buy on ps5”. I thought I was the only graphics whore.
I thought switch was a portable system and no one played it docked. Yet that’s a lot of pro controller sales. So a tv only switch would have made sense. Well for the consumer. Not for Nintendo who would have had to sell the systems for less monies.
People in here asking for oled screens yet acting like their main tv is 720p lcd so they can’t see the difference. Maybe they’re real gamers with crts. I dunno.
The problem with this and every other Nintendo article about digital foundry on Nintendo life is that Nintendo fans love when Zelda is all of a sudden 4k 60fps. It’s apparently game changing. But then when their new game comes out between 1080-1200p with drops down to 30fps it’s good enough and digital foundry has its priorities wrong. Again my problem is that if this dk game was on either a ps5 or a Xbox series X it wouldn’t have had for sure run at 4k 60fps. With the Wii era Nintendo fans would say our games are innovative and waggle waggle they can’t be the same on a dedicated system. Since the Wii u the only thing Nintendo is offering is portable play and there’s nothing notable to explain why we can’t have these games on a better system. So some of us do have to wait for the switch 3 and god forbid that thing is t backward compatible.
My problem is if they would have just released a console at the same price they asked for the switch 2 it wouldn’t have had the graphics sacrifices a portable has to have. I never play my switch undocked so I am being asked to play the next 8 years with graphics less than ideal. I feel like I’m subsidizing portable players.
I hope no one here is getting excited for a Nintendo direct. You should just be worried about spending the next part of your life mainning donkey Kong.
@Suketoudara Nintendo wouldn’t give them a console and a game to look over so they were just making educated guesses based on the same videos we all got. And they made that clearly known. It’s on Nintendo for hiding their hardware and software to these media outlets.
@hammers1man I think they should have went with a 6.2 720p OLED and then released a 1080p XL later.
So many comments in here that people didn’t even notice the screen because they only play docked. Seems to me a tv only model should have been a version.
Love this site. When digital foundry says anything nice Nintendo fans are like these guys are experts. When they’re fair and critical…. These guys are hacks!!! Complete objectivity at its finest.
What I like about stories like this is that this is considered a success over three platforms for a game routinely on deep sales where the publisher has to give the console a 30% cut meanwhile mario kart 8 sells 77 million and I’m supposed to think poor Nintendo has to raise their prices $10 because of inflation.
@TwinFami well maybe that’s the only real option. If you live in the real world please understand the word inflation. Nintendo just used it to sell you a 1440p Mario kart world and soon a 1080p donkey Kong at record prices because of inflation. Yet we defended that so I don’t know why buying a tv is the limit.
@Polvasti hey I maybe deaf but I couldn’t hear the Margot boobs jokes. Plus I am giving this man the benefit of the doubt. I find it’s only white Christian American males whom are still sexist. What do I know.
Also Asian culture has always been female empowerment. That’s why they have so much cos play, anime and chun Li dressed traditionally. But I’ve only been to Shanghai, Tokyo, and Taiwan so maybe that doesn’t represent everyone.
@DaGoldenBoo they only believed in customer service when they ere faced with a class action lawsuit. Here we are again hoping, pretending, lying to ourselves that Nintendo is any different than any other company.
@CJD87 speaking of open world. I know that’s the route nintendo is likely to take to sell us a 70 game. But I’m all honesty a 50 on rail shooter would be a welcomed change. Everything does not need to be an open world.
Can someone please tell me if the local wireless connection is better on the switch 2 than the OG switch. In our lan room of OG switches the systems docks literally have to be touching each other to limit disconnects.
@Gorlock if they wanted to they could have sold just the screen part of the unit alone and og switch owners could have used their previous joy cons. Saved some bucks. But the magnets are better. And the old joy cons had no mouse support. Neither of those things matter to me though and would have been happier with a cheaper unit.
@ThisisJosh yes but early adopters are always willing to pay high prices. There’s no guarantee the casuals which came in during covid and animal crossing will. And that was the difference between being a successful console generation and being the highest sold generation.
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Re: Developers Reportedly Still Struggling To Get Switch 2 Dev Kits
@Doctor-Moo hey I’m just letting you know that’s how people on here react to any constructive criticism at all.
Re: Developers Reportedly Still Struggling To Get Switch 2 Dev Kits
@Yosher well it’s as if Nintendo themselves don’t have the dev kits. I mean I played princess peach today and that thing desperately needs an upgrade. But what do I know.
Re: Developers Reportedly Still Struggling To Get Switch 2 Dev Kits
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Re: Developers Reportedly Still Struggling To Get Switch 2 Dev Kits
@SoIDecidedTo I absyhatr back log comments. The system is delayed. Doesn’t matter… I have a back log. There’s no games. It doesn’t matter I have a back log. There isn’t any development kits. Doesn’t matter I have a back log. Why did you even buy a new system. I think all these back logger commenters should be banned from buying a new system until their back logs are complete. Guess what. We wouldn’t need new systems because we live in a consumer society and most of us bought way more than we could ever play through. Stop deflecting with back logs. These are legitimate issues.
Re: Official Box Art For Kirby Air Riders Revealed, Price And File Size Confirmed
@Olmectron local wireless play?
Re: Kirby Air Riders Zooms Onto Switch 2 This November
@Dalamar no negativity on this site. Everything is a 10.
Re: Kirby Air Riders Zooms Onto Switch 2 This November
@HugoGED right here. Two button 4 hr game. Hard pass.
Re: Kirby Air Riders Direct Revealed for Tomorrow, 19th August 2025
@progx yup for me. If it’s like other four hour Kirby games. Disappointed. And I owned the original. Kart is simply a million times better. Give me a new f zero.
Re: Kirby Air Riders Direct Revealed for Tomorrow, 19th August 2025
This is the big fall game. That’s disappointing
Re: Review: EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 (Switch 2) - EA's Gridiron Series Finally Plays Ball On A Switch Console
You know how after every Nintendo game which is rated a 9 or a 10 nintendolife asks its audience for their own ratings of the game in a poll…. They should do that for madden so we can see if the community agrees with this score or wishes their money back.
Re: Review: EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 (Switch 2) - EA's Gridiron Series Finally Plays Ball On A Switch Console
@DashKappei this site reviewed the 30frames per second FC games better than the FIFA 1080p 60fps. Go figure.
Re: Apex Legends Switch 2 Performance And Resolution Upgrade Detailed
@DankPeezy Nintendo does no wrong except when they have their own Kinect moment.
Re: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Will "Average" 30fps On Switch
So when I said that I would rather a tv only version I was laughed at because portable is it and graphics are good enough. Now 30fps for a 2d game and it’s “cancel my preorder and buy on ps5”. I thought I was the only graphics whore.
Re: Around 1 In 3 Switch 2 Owners Bought New Pro Controller Despite High Price Point (US)
I thought switch was a portable system and no one played it docked. Yet that’s a lot of pro controller sales. So a tv only switch would have made sense. Well for the consumer. Not for Nintendo who would have had to sell the systems for less monies.
Re: Zelda: BOTW & TOTK Are "Transformative" On Switch 2, Says Digital Foundry
So wait now we all love digital foundry. The objectivity here is on a whole other level.
Re: "Somewhat Mixed" - Digital Foundry Delivers Its Technical Analysis Of Donkey Kong Bananza
People in here asking for oled screens yet acting like their main tv is 720p lcd so they can’t see the difference. Maybe they’re real gamers with crts. I dunno.
Re: "Somewhat Mixed" - Digital Foundry Delivers Its Technical Analysis Of Donkey Kong Bananza
The problem with this and every other Nintendo article about digital foundry on Nintendo life is that Nintendo fans love when Zelda is all of a sudden 4k 60fps. It’s apparently game changing. But then when their new game comes out between 1080-1200p with drops down to 30fps it’s good enough and digital foundry has its priorities wrong. Again my problem is that if this dk game was on either a ps5 or a Xbox series X it wouldn’t have had for sure run at 4k 60fps. With the Wii era Nintendo fans would say our games are innovative and waggle waggle they can’t be the same on a dedicated system. Since the Wii u the only thing Nintendo is offering is portable play and there’s nothing notable to explain why we can’t have these games on a better system. So some of us do have to wait for the switch 3 and god forbid that thing is t backward compatible.
Re: "Somewhat Mixed" - Digital Foundry Delivers Its Technical Analysis Of Donkey Kong Bananza
My problem is if they would have just released a console at the same price they asked for the switch 2 it wouldn’t have had the graphics sacrifices a portable has to have. I never play my switch undocked so I am being asked to play the next 8 years with graphics less than ideal. I feel like I’m subsidizing portable players.
Re: Opinion: Honestly, I'm So Glad We Had To Wait For Donkey Kong Bananza
I hope no one here is getting excited for a Nintendo direct. You should just be worried about spending the next part of your life mainning donkey Kong.
Re: Opinion: Honestly, I'm So Glad We Had To Wait For Donkey Kong Bananza
Went from the best launch games in history to of its just Mario kart.
Re: Opinion: Honestly, I'm So Glad We Had To Wait For Donkey Kong Bananza
The writer of this article must have loved the Wii U and N64 days.
Re: Donkey Kong Bananza, Like Mario Kart World, Was Initially Planned For Switch 1
@Johnny44 this thing runs at 1080p. I think you should temper your expectations.
Re: Nintendo Will Discontinue Switch Game Vouchers Entirely In 2026
@chriswashere313 you pay full price for Mario golf to subsidize zelda development and thefts a good thing
Re: Nintendo Will Discontinue Switch Game Vouchers Entirely In 2026
Just remember games are a product… and that’s a good thing!
Re: Review: Arcade Archives 2 Air Combat 22 (Switch 2) - A Top Gun Origin Story
I can’t stop myself from buying games like this. This was my childhood and the fact that it’s easily playable without an emulator is a quick sale.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Tests Out Switch 2's Free Switch Game Upgrades
@GrailUK that’s on you for having your emotions swayed because someone else points out a flaw. Everything isn’t rainbows.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Tests Out Switch 2's Free Switch Game Upgrades
@Suketoudara Nintendo wouldn’t give them a console and a game to look over so they were just making educated guesses based on the same videos we all got. And they made that clearly known. It’s on Nintendo for hiding their hardware and software to these media outlets.
Re: Struggling For Switch 2 Storage? TeamGroup Launches A Range Of Micro SD Express Cards For The Console
You know if there was a tv only switch we would be able save things considerably cheaper on a hard drive.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
@hammers1man I think they should have went with a 6.2 720p OLED and then released a 1080p XL later.
So many comments in here that people didn’t even notice the screen because they only play docked. Seems to me a tv only model should have been a version.
Re: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Review For Pokémon Scarlet & Violet On Switch 2
Love this site. When digital foundry says anything nice Nintendo fans are like these guys are experts. When they’re fair and critical…. These guys are hacks!!! Complete objectivity at its finest.
Re: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Has Sold 10 Million Copies Since Launch
What I like about stories like this is that this is considered a success over three platforms for a game routinely on deep sales where the publisher has to give the console a 30% cut meanwhile mario kart 8 sells 77 million and I’m supposed to think poor Nintendo has to raise their prices $10 because of inflation.
Re: Switch 2's HDR Looking Washed Out On Your TV? Here's The Fix
@TwinFami well maybe that’s the only real option. If you live in the real world please understand the word inflation. Nintendo just used it to sell you a 1440p Mario kart world and soon a 1080p donkey Kong at record prices because of inflation. Yet we defended that so I don’t know why buying a tv is the limit.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Hoping To See In The Donkey Kong Bananza Direct?
I want to see 4k donkey Kong. I guess I’ll be disappointed.
Re: Switch 2's HDR Looking Washed Out On Your TV? Here's The Fix
@Polvasti hey I maybe deaf but I couldn’t hear the Margot boobs jokes. Plus I am giving this man the benefit of the doubt. I find it’s only white Christian American males whom are still sexist. What do I know.
Also Asian culture has always been female empowerment. That’s why they have so much cos play, anime and chun Li dressed traditionally. But I’ve only been to Shanghai, Tokyo, and Taiwan so maybe that doesn’t represent everyone.
Re: Switch 2's HDR Looking Washed Out On Your TV? Here's The Fix
It’s ok. Although it says 4k on the box. That’s for switch 1 games. How is it Mario kart world is only 1440p and donkey Kong bananza is 1080p.
Re: Switch 2's HDR Looking Washed Out On Your TV? Here's The Fix
@Polvasti maybe it wasn’t sexism. Maybe he was supporting the women’s empowerment movement clothing choices versus the puritan hypocrites. I dunno.
Re: Switch 2's HDR Looking Washed Out On Your TV? Here's The Fix
I thought people told me this is why you buy a switch over a steam deck. It’s simple and already set up. What convoluted trash.
Re: Nintendo Supposedly Investigating Possible "Swollen Battery" Issue With Switch 2
@DaGoldenBoo they only believed in customer service when they ere faced with a class action lawsuit. Here we are again hoping, pretending, lying to ourselves that Nintendo is any different than any other company.
Re: Talking Point: How Are You Finding Mario Kart's Open World?
Well it’s a day of reckoning. For the first time nintendo fans being honest. Thank you universe.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2's John Marston Teases "Exciting News" This Week
@CJD87 speaking of open world. I know that’s the route nintendo is likely to take to sell us a 70 game. But I’m all honesty a 50 on rail shooter would be a welcomed change. Everything does not need to be an open world.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2's John Marston Teases "Exciting News" This Week
@AllBLK PlayStation fans also thought Xbox had no games until they started to be the best sellers on their own platform.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2's John Marston Teases "Exciting News" This Week
I thought Nintendo fans thought these other companies made boring games so there was nothing to play on other systems.
I also thought Nintendo fans thought open worlds were boring. That dlc shouldn’t be paid. That internet play should be actually free.
Re: Nintendo Survey Asks Switch 2 Users About Their Experience So Far
About a month ago people or media was telling us this was one of the best console games launches ever. Here we are after a week disappointed.
This was never going to top BOTW.
And I wasn’t going to be better than SNES Mario world, Fzero, pilotwings, sim city.
Re: Mario Kart World: How To Access The Hidden LAN Mode Option
@DTfearTheBEARD thank you
Re: Mario Kart World: How To Access The Hidden LAN Mode Option
@DTfearTheBEARD is the local wireless lan connection better on switch 2??????
Re: Mario Kart World: How To Access The Hidden LAN Mode Option
Can someone please tell me if the local wireless connection is better on the switch 2 than the OG switch. In our lan room of OG switches the systems docks literally have to be touching each other to limit disconnects.
Re: Magnetic Joy-Con Sticks Already In The Works For Switch 2 Amid Fears Of Drift
@SirLink yes it is the users fault. They are all wreckless.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For The Nintendo Switch 2
@Gorlock if they wanted to they could have sold just the screen part of the unit alone and og switch owners could have used their previous joy cons. Saved some bucks. But the magnets are better. And the old joy cons had no mouse support. Neither of those things matter to me though and would have been happier with a cheaper unit.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For The Nintendo Switch 2
@ThisisJosh yes but early adopters are always willing to pay high prices. There’s no guarantee the casuals which came in during covid and animal crossing will. And that was the difference between being a successful console generation and being the highest sold generation.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For The Nintendo Switch 2
@SirLink they could have sold a hybrid model and a tv only model and met both markets at different price points. That’s an easy solution.