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@ROMhaiku I think cloud gaming is where it’s at, honestly. It’s well past good enough now. I played the entirety of Starfield and Expedition 33 on Gamepass streaming. If you can finish Expedition 33, a game SO dependent on timing, on a cloud service using a Bluetooth controller and a built in LG smart TV Nvidia app, it’s more than good enough. (As long as your internet connection is solid.)

@WiltonRoots Funny you mention Mario Kart World, as I was recently sucked backed in too because of the community events and forgot how much I enjoy Knockout Mode in that game. I still have a lot of stuff to clear out in the open world as well!

@ElkinFencer10 Exactly how many $80 games do you see listed right now? I know there’s more than just Mario Kart, but how many $80 games do you personally want to play on the Switch 2 that are locking you out due to price.

I’ll wait.

@WiltonRoots I’m currently playing through a mixture of my backlog of Switch 1 games, new (to me) 3rd party games, and exclusive Switch 2 games and I feel like about every two weeks I get another quality title I want to play or at the very least an interesting NSO game addition.

This doom and gloom stuff is juvenile clickbait.

@TerribleTerabytes I think the “But there’s no new Mario or Zelda!” comments are always the knee jerk reaction. It’s always either that or “it has no games!”, proceeded by why the commenter personally didn’t buy the hardware and is now right to not have done so and told us all so at launch.

@hcfwesker Nope. You had to pay extra for the game bundle. Was cheaper than a standalone copy but not packed in.

@foursider Sorry but games look a lot more than “a bit better”. This console punches well above its weight.

I don’t live in Japan and haven’t been a teenager in a LONG time, but my life without Nintendo would just simply be less happy. I’d happily choose them over YouTube if forced to give up one.

@Duncanballs Mine showed up after I updated my controllers--have you tried that?

@NX-3318 Same here, not gonna lie--but I am using the DLC as an excuse for another playthrough.

@contractcooker I have never been a big fan of Pokemon, but Legends: Z-A hit all the right notes for me and I played it like crazy until I was done with the Hyper Dimension DLC.

I'm also finding Pokopia to be fabulous and looking forward to the next gen next year. Wonders never cease.

@Anti-Matter Then don't read the news? There is no way a significant margin of the gaming community is ever going to care about this. It's a fraction of a fraction of gamers and it doesn't make a dent in sales.

I'd flip flop the last 2 and put Sunshine in 3rd. The rest of the list I agree with.

@Duncanballs It's always the same ones banging that GKC drum. I think you and I have discussed this before. They think their little storm-in-a-teacup GKC crisis has any bearing on anything.

I also still don't really "get" game collectors. I know many in my personal life and none of them actually game that much at all anymore, but also won't sell any of their collection.

I just don't understand the point of huge vats of plastic and paper degrading in your house for years so you can say you own the physical copy that you'll never play. It makes less than 0 sense to me.

@Dyna-Z No. Switch 1 Pokemon needs to die. ASAP.

@Dang_69 Honestly you quit at such a cool part of the story.

I have had this game on my Switch, and then my Switch 2, forever and never touched it. SO GLAD I waited now. Will gladly pay for the upgrade and play through this one.

I’m not mad I bought it—$30 isn’t so hard to swallow. The game is just not very fun so far though. It’s like a waiting simulator.

I liked the commercial. Not sure why some commenters here are bagging on it for not being a Gen 10 Direct. It’s a commercial during a sports event. Step away from the computer and get some fresh air.

@SuntannedDuck2 I have to agree with you here--especially about the PS5 being boring. That system is ultra powerful but Sony somehow majorly lost their mojo with exclusives and the one game I wanted to play on their platform this gen (God of War 2) is now available on PC so I can just grab it on Steam if I ever want to.

I also don't understand why this site has so many regular writers who don't seem to like Nintendo's hardware or software--why spend all this effort and creativity on a system you don't enjoy? Along the same lines, I also don't know why so many commenters spend so much time bagging on a system they clearly don't want, don't own, and have no intention of owning.

I know it's just the internet being the internet, but as I've said in other comments, it makes this site way less fun. Every topic turns into "This is crap because I don't like it and neither should you." It's worse than on all the Apple sites.

@johnedwin I think even that's possibly too soon.

@WiltonRoots It's a level of purposeful obtuseness I see in few other places, and I live in the US, so that's saying a lot.

@Duncanballs 90s teen as well, but had kind of abandoned gaming in general in HS and college. Got back into it afterwards when we had two small children, student debt, and no money for anything else. Switch 1 brought me back to Nintendo when I got one for my kids and started getting sick of asking for a turn so I bought my own. lol

My boys are now at the age where THEY are starting to drift away from gaming a bit in favor of their social lives and activities and school (and rightly so!) but I'm sure I'll still be playing when they come back!

@Porky Cool....what's your point?

@Porky I don't know what on earth you're on about but you need to go get some fresh air.

@Duncanballs Us too! My younger son and myself are the two big gamers in the house and we both got ours opening weekend and it was such a special launch because of that.

Cheers to you! Enjoy 2026!

@AverageGamer So because you personally don’t use any of the features it was a useless upgrade for everyone? Cool…thanks for the input.

@AverageGamer There were plenty of reasons to get the OLED, the upgraded kickstand and bigger screen being my favorite.

@Kiyata I’m currently drowning in games on my Switch 2. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@JohnnyMind Let’s hope the momentum keeps going and they build on the success again next gen too. I like to think the Switch and Switch 2 have been the culmination of all their weird hardware experiments over the years and I do not wish for them to abandon the form factor to chase another niche audience that actually doesn’t exist.

@OmnitronVariant You’re doing some serious mental gymnastics here so you can tell us all the sky isn’t blue and water isn’t wet, but your logic is just not sound.

The Switch 2 is the best system I’ve ever owned. The Switch 1 felt like a bit of a toy to me both in looks and functionality (even though it was an amazing console itself). I finally feel like Nintendo hit a sweet spot with the switching concept they’ve been working toward since Wii U.

@OmnitronVariant Your anecdotal data and opinions are nowhere near evidence of anything at all.

Unpopular opinion: video game retailers and physical copies of games can all die off and I won’t think twice. Neither is needed. It’s 2026. GameStop will eventually suffer the same fate and I’ll care even less.

@daftmagician LOL I never understand those comments either. There were even a couple in the article about Switch 2 having high developer interest. “Well that’s great but I don’t like my Switch 2 it has no games.”

I don’t get it and never will.

@DTfearTheBEARD Microsoft is trying to be both the biggest 3rd party in the world AND a console maker. That’s never going to work unless their next console is more like one of those Steam machines.

I agree with you though—it is a shame—I have always loved Xbox and it feels like a zombie brand at this point.

@Machined And are fine giving up a LITTLE graphical fidelity in exchange for seamless docking and portability!

@psyraven76 Tears of the Kingdom is just one of those games. Did a second playthrough on Switch 2 and couldn’t put it down.

I’m loving it. Never played the original. 9 so far for me.

@tkdboy1889 They'll be right once the masses find out what GKCs are!

@StewdaMegaManNerd Right and then Nintendo gets accused of artificially limiting supply. They can never win.

I'm glad to hear this news, but at the same time never put any energy into the doom and gloom clickbait about low holiday sales. There is not a whole lot of logic in comparing the two launch years and I felt the whole narrative was ridiculous.

The Switch 2 rules--I'm so glad I've had mine since day 1 because I've played it almost every day since. Feels like sci-fi being able to play games like FF7 Intergrade or Cyberpunk on a handheld. Battery life could be better, but I rarely play long enough at a time to go through a whole charge.

"Pritchard will have a big task ahead of her in spearheading the next generation of Nintendo with the Switch 2. The console has gotten off to a great start, but concerns around price uncertainty and Game-Key Cards linger in the minds of fans around the world."

Was this closing paragraph written with a straight face, or was it just meant to get the comments in a lather? It seems like you guys try so hard to sell the narrative that the world over hates GKCs and have even been parroting pretty disingenuous reporting on holiday sales for the Switch 2 and it's puzzling to me.

Either 1) You actually think your comments section represents anywhere near a significant amount of the fan base (it doesn't) or 2) You just like rage baiting.

hmmm....

@Johnny_Arthur Exactly what year do you think this is?

So glad to see some of you have about as many games/hours as me for the year. I'm going to choose to ignore the additional hours I put in on Steam and Gamepass as well. Yikes.

@Hwatt For real. I don’t think it’s happening though.

As much as I do not care what happens to GameStop, I always like visiting them. I just don’t have any real reason to anymore. Starting in my PS4 days, my library started shifting fully to digital because I really liked not having to switch discs in and out, especially the days when I was a heavy PSVR user.

When I got the first Switch, I started out buying everything physical because I was slowly selling a lot of old unused hardware and software back to GameStop and using credit to buy used physical copies of other stuff. But my Switch (now my Switch 2 with a much larger hard drive) goes just about everywhere with me these days and I don’t feel like dealing with physical games.

I read somewhere that on PlayStation these days, physical games only account for about 3% of sales—I’m fine with it. No more plastic out in the world. I’d be fine with moving cartridge/disc drives forever to lower console prices too.

@WiltonRoots I have to add—and I’ll just get called a Nintendo apologist or whatever—but I have serious doubts that armchair quarterbacking we’re seeing in the stories about this have anything to do with reality.

The launch timing of the hardware was different and so in turn were software release schedules, which people are suddenly looking at through rose colored glasses for the Switch 1. It may have had a “Zelda and a Mario” year one, but many were complaining that was ALL it had and all it would ever have because it was such weak hardware.

Of course none of that was true either and most of the garbage people are saying now isn’t either other than it really does suck to be in the US right now and our economy is in the toilet. Hardly Nintendo’s fault.

@Dee123 LOL. LMAO, in fact. Nobody does anything here but complain.

@Exerion76 It bears repeating that "other handhelds" is a sliver of the market and they aren't really the same kind of device. The Switch/Switch 2 are mass market devices.