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@Truegamer79 they are the king even if they are stubborn. Dual analogues was the right choice and it took a while to get there. Some choices also didn’t have the longevity such as motion control. And they are absolutely last to the online scene which if you didn’t notice is a big scene. They passed on mindcraft so they are capable of making mistakes but they aren’t as dumb as Xbox which thought it bought the dk franchise.

@cvrator I love Nintendo games. I don’t want to get into this nonsense. I have owned every Nintendo since 1985. I have owned a donkey Kong arcade cabinet. I grew up with Mario wallpaper and Zelda bed sheets. I memorized issues of Nintendo power. Won video game tournaments. Nintendo games are of course good games. I don’t know what reality you think I made up. I am a docked player. Almost exclusively. It is my preference. As a result I have no use for paying almost twice as much for a system then it should be just because it’s portable. By the way I had 5 Nintendo switches for a lan party room. But I personally am out at this price. I’m also annoyed that all of a sudden graphics seemingly matter to Nintendo fans. If graphics don’t matter than we didn’t need a new system because that’s literally what this system does. Prettier graphics. We could have had these graphics a while ago if the switch one wasn’t a hybrid. But what do I know. You’re the true fan.

@HugoGED if that’s true we didn’t need a new system. MKW could have ran at that on OG switch.

@SuntannedDuck2 it’s an arcade game. This was the content that was included. The price is steeper than other ACA games but this is a far cry from MKW. They will release Ridge Racer 2 and then Rave Racer. You add that up and it’s still cheaper than MKW. Buy what you want but this isn’t a compilation so people need to get over it.

@Qwiff you can’t actually look at two screens at the same time. And spoiler alert it takes more time to move your head to the second screen then it does to press X and bring up the map.

@quinnyboy58 they should have dropped the series S price.

@Narrator1 the problem is nintendo was always the affordable console. And now I can buy a series S cheaper than a switch 2. So it’s not the affordable system that it once was. Also a lot of Nintendo portable players end up buying multiple systems. I don’t know why a Zelda portable is a must have but for some people it is. So that’s more money into Nintendos pockets. People realized that and wanted to March. Or at least type “drop the price” on repeat.

@electrolite77 I wish Nintendo would release “just a console”

@cartunecartune it’s for a different market.

5 years ago when Xbox and PlayStation fans pointed out why was BOTW sub 30fps and less than stellar resolution Nintendo fans mocked Xbox users and PlayStation fans as “not real gamers”. And switch was “good enough”. Fast forward to 2025 Nintendo releases a new switch and Nintendo fans are drooling over their 4k 60fps botw. Less than a week later Xbox drops a new handheld and here we are back to Nintendo is “good enough!”

@MrHeli it’s not possible. This is arcade perfect.

Crazy that for so long these games were considered “good enough” to Nintendo fans and when Xbox or PlayStation users commented on the resolution or frame rate they were mocked as graphics whores. Now the reason to buy a switch 2 is for the graphics. Times are changing I guess.

@USWITCH64 exactly. My man. Why have a 4k console and play in half the resolution. I mean I have a 98 inch tv for a reason.

@rvcolem1 so a tv only model which would be more durable because there would be no fear of a battery giving out is a solution. Nice. I thought it was only me.

@schmauz so a tv only switch model would have been the solution.

Should have just released a tv only version for less money. It doesn’t switch you ask. It switches to pre inflation prices.

@MontyCircus 30% off sales. Who did that first… Hamster or Nintendo.

@KociolekDoSyta I couldn’t justify $60 for skyward sword HD yet lots of you ate that shameless price up.

@N64-ROX well I don’t know what to tell you. Mario kart world is $80…. Inflation?

@Protion9 a lot of third party games are cheaper on other platforms. I have been told over and over again that games are worth the price on switch because you can play portable. I never play portable personally but if this is the justification than I don’t know why suddenly it doesn’t apply here.

@KociolekDoSyta I find the switch 2 and Mario kart world price offensive. Yet I’ve been told it’s worth it to some people or to vote with my wallet. So this is worth it to me and you can vote with your wallet. Thanks.

Is it just me who would much prefer being able to buy these games via hamster ACA? But I’ll be buying it simply because it’s the only way to get it.

@DTfearTheBEARD hey did you manage to get two. I’d really like to know how the wifi is for local wireless play. I used to have to put all my switches side by side in their docks to not lose connection. I’m hoping that won’t be an issue with switch 2 and they can play further apart.

But is it better than ridge racer!!!!??

@Gohanjin I’ve never heard this complaint before. It was all frame rate and some people hated the blur while others thought it was an artistic decision.

Yet digital foundry wasn’t able to get one to go hands on with and test.

I’d like to know what the new resolutions actually are and what the frame rates will be versus a vague description “ Visuals: Optimized for the Nintendo Switch 2 display and high-resolution TVs for improved image quality.”

Where is the looney toon basketball game?

@dojmin my son loves this game. Hours spent. He likes Pokémon but can’t read well enough to play a mainline game without someone sitting next to him. But he’s in sr kindergarten.

Punch Out deserves another shot at greatness.

@Satan in that case ACA can release Konami NBA play by play which doesn’t have a proper game dump and I’ll pay for it. But that’s a licensed game so no luck.

@DashKappei ok but if there is no scanline filter isn’t 00 the default. In other words isn’t this games setting what I normally put my other ACA games at?

I don’t know how Nintendo doesn’t see these prices and let all their games be ported.

What about the snes games that were on that Super Nintendo arcade system.

@DashKappei I normally turn the filter to 00. Is there no filter anymore.

For reference sake I have like 60 of these games. But I can’t support this price. But I will for 3d classics like ridge racer.

The pricing is crazy. I essentially avoid things like the capcom collections because I like the individual icons on my menu screen. But this is like half of the capcom fighting collection which will eventually go on sale.

@Haruki_NLI all we were asking for is to be able to message people and to chat with a headset. No one asked for this. Oh look Nintendos doing it so it’s cool. Wait a second this is going to effect games performance. Now you have to ask yourself is it worth it. Nintendo clearly thinks it is. But Nintendo also thinks a whole bunch of other ideas of theirs are great which I’m sure many of us would question.

This is like how Xbox one has resources dedicated to Kinect. Even when they stopped selling Kinect the resources were lost and the ps4 games ran better. For instance black ops 3 is 1080p on ps4 and only 900p on Xbox one and you can notice the difference. This isn’t a feature I will use and guess what I’d always rather the performance.

@Monkeido not too long ago you were paying $60 a game. It wasn’t that long ago. They sold 68 million copies of Mario Kart 8. How much do you think it cost them to develop MK8? How much do you think it cost them to develop MKworld? Well according to this price increase at the same sales rate they will make an extra billion dollars in sales. I highly doubt that’s about inflation. It should be obvious it’s about profits.

Make way for Nintendo to keep justifying porting games at full price while even companies such as EA or Activision, which this community hates, remasters and releases games in a 2/3 pack bundle at often less price.

Or is this just inflation again. I have a hard time understanding when it’s greed versus, shrug everything costs more and live with it, inflation.

Not only does ea not raise the price of their games. They are notorious for dropping their major sports games by 80% at the end of the year. That to me is a good deal but ok Nintendo fans who might get 33% off for remastered wii or wii u games I guess ea sucks.

@Aerona speak for yourself I’m rich. Naw I’m just joking. These prices are crazy even with inflation.

@electrolite77 I should have replied to your comment I guess first. I have 7 TVs because I prefer to buy one ever other year that’s a mid level tv than to buy the very best and be all in. The other thing is tv size prices go down all the time.

@jfp yes because I buy a new tv every few years and rotate the old tv somewhere else. It doesn’t mean I’m rich. I’d rather buy the mid level tv and upgrade it every once in a while than buy the best tv money can buy and be all in.

@electrolite77 maybe I’m strange. But our house has 7 tvs yet only 4 people. The fact that the switch 2 comes with a screen doesn’t make It cheaper for my house. We have more than enough TVs that a tv only version would be cheaper to us.

@jfp I think we picture corporate scenes from the movie “elf” or “big” where companies are there to make as much money as possible. I’m ok with that but don’t pretend you’re our friends and anytime you explain why prices go up I can’t just accept that as truth since I know that making money is the ultimate plan so you will likely lie in order to make that end goal.

“According to Activision’s current Call of Duty head Patrick Kelly (via the court filings,) we now know the development cost for those three specific CoD titles ranged from $450 to $700 million. These figures were included in files for a lawsuit against Activision surrounding the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting filed in May 2024.
For Black Ops III, the game was developed over three years for over $450 million and has sold 43 million copies since it launched in 2015. 2019’s Modern Warfare remake had a similar multi-year development cycle but jumped to over $640 million in associated costs and is now around 41 million copies sold”

Sports illustrated.

Are we suggesting that Nintendo is spending 200 million developing a Mario game? I highly doubt that.

@larryisaman can someone compare the standard size of a Nintendo developer team to a triple A call of duty game or any other franchise. I somehow think that making Mario kart world 8 which has no licenses actually takes a smaller development team than say forza horizon. Yet here we are with the price increase and fans justifications.

@Hwatt I do think Mario maker could use that mouse support though. Would have been nice on the original switch if I could have plugged in a usb mouse. It really shouldn’t be this complicated.