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@Exerion76 Same reaction I have to these unfortunately. I tried a couple of these type of games (Bravely Default 2 among others) and I can’t do 100 hours of the same enemies, areas, fight music, etc over and over and over. And that’s not counting all the hours I’m undoubtedly going to get stuck on bosses.

I’m similar in age to you and if I’m going spend 100 hours on one game it needs to have a lot more depth than these typically do.

@Elektrogeist1287 Because 75% of the posters here are always miserable and angry about EVERYTHING.

@StarCollector To me, the weird controls are what make the game. Once you get used to them, you are in for the most intense online racing you've possibly ever experienced. My hands literally get sweaty.

I can see why some people look at Air Riders as having a lack of variety, but I personally disagree. I feel the depth in gameplay and learning how to successfully race on each track are both so much fun and so challenging at the same time. Once you start unlocking more racers and really trying to master all the modes, there's quite a bit to do here. This may be my favorite Switch 2 game of the year so far other than (suprisingly) Pokemon Legends: Z-A.

@metaphysician Nobody eats at that restaurant anymore! It's too crowded!

--The Internet

@HotGoomba I think you're wishing for it to be that, but it has nothing to do with anything. These games are all either old or suck.

@mackers84 One of my childhood comfort games! 😆😆

@Debo626 For sure. It’s what we call being “too online”. All perspective goes way out the window.

@Peirceroyal I am not ready to say it's better than Mario Kart, but I agree with you generally--it's got gameplay qualities that are unique from other racers and when I do poorly on a track I feel compelled to go back and master it. This is the mark of a good racer to me. Fast Fusion is also pretty unbelievable (and supports GameShare!)

This game rules. It's one of those "easy to learn, hard to master" games that give you endless depth and enjoyment and gets its hooks into you fast. I have had so much fun with it already.

@Debo626 you must be new here. Everything Nintendo does is to screw the world over somehow. 🙄

@Maxz I see what you did there and I give you 5 stars out of 5.

@iLikeUrAttitude Damned if you do damned if you don’t then I guess. I think it makes total sense for physical copies to cost more, especially if they’re just going to sit on a collector’s shelf unplayed like some kind of precious gem, rather than a lump of plastic that will degrade over time and become unusable eventually anyway.

My bad back can no longer handle golf, but I still love playing it online with my friends. Can't wait for this to come out.

@crazybenjamin The human need for something, anything, to complain about.......

@Solid_Python Yep. I figured the comments on Nintendo Life in response to this headline would be something along the lines of either a) "No it isn't, it doesn't have 3rd party games or b) i'M gOiNG To WhiNE aBoUT GKCs AgAin

But it turned out to be a third, infinitely dumber option: c) Games that you download are fake.

@TheExile285 They telegraphed the whole 2025 release schedule pretty early on (and it’s anything but sparse—there are tons of games). I don’t get people who bought the hardware knowing the software lineup that was coming, then take to the internet to complain ad nauseum about the lineup. If someone bought the hardware and are now mad about the software, they simply didn’t do their homework before spending the money. It’s nobody’s fault but their own.

The Switch, and even more so the Switch 2, are real world examples of how far we’ve come in performance per watt and what kind of power you can fit into a tablet-sized device. Our biggest inhibitor now in almost every modern device on the market is battery capacity.

This is a moment in gaming I’ve been waiting for my whole life. We should all just enjoy it and take it in while it’s new and shiny.

@Timppis what on earth can you possibly be talking about.

@Ashunera84 I taught myself long ago that “reading the comments” is an exercise in insanity. Dumb dumbs on the internet rarely have any idea what they’re talking about.

But I do often read them here because I like this site a lot and man some of you folks actively root against Nintendo. I don’t get it.

How are some of you still complaining about the lack of games? I’m buried in new stuff to play.

Continuing to have a blast with Legends: Z-A. I just really love it. They got the variety of activities just right in this game and got rid of a lot of the menu management so it's continuing to hit all the right notes for me. I feel that I'm going to finish it pretty soon, but I did just hit a wall in difficulty, so I'm just savoring my time now.

Yeah so……if you’re Microsoft or Sony maybe exclusives don’t matter anymore but the lack of exclusives on those platforms is why I don’t own a PS5 or Series X/S. I can play most of those games on my Switch, computer, or even iOS devices and the ones I can’t play don’t seem that interesting anyway.

This kind of nonsense is why I didn’t buy the new Battlefield game, even as a huge fan of the series.

I’ve gone from liking to loving Z-A very quickly. Glad to see it succeeding. I think some of the negativity is overly harsh.

@VoicelessWolf I think I’m a lot more optimistic about the next core games now as well.

@iLikeUrAttitude Big agree—that game was a masterpiece. I hope some other developers took note. (I think they did)

@iLikeUrAttitude With Pokémon allegedly being the “most successful IP in the world”, these games should have Disney level budgets and much better graphics. I find the new one very fun but the graphics are not its strong point.

@johnedwin That’s the thing that bugs me so much. I’m truly enjoying the new game but they surely have the budget to make these so much better right?

I was not doing much gaming when Pokemon started, so this franchise has never done much for me. When I got a Switch I made an honest try on the newer video games (Sword/Shield, Scarlett/Violet, Arceus) and found them all really boring and tedious.

Something has clicked with me over the last few months with Pokemon though. I got hooked on the TCG Pocket app and still play it daily, and I am having a FABULOUS time with Legends Z-A. I find the progression and various quest options to be so much more entertaining than in games past and am hooked on it. I imagine this will be the first Pokemon game I finish.

I will never collect the physical cards or watch the cringey anime, but I sure am liking the video games lately!

uh.....I've read several reviews today and they've largely been saying that this thing is a mess. I've seen nothing I'd describe as "glowing".

@Skunkfish I’m not sure they ever planned on being supply constrained. They have reached pretty good equilibrium at this point from what I’ve heard and the console is still selling like crazy.

@charliecarrot I tend to agree—especially after how much Civ 7 I’ve played on mine. It is not only a fabulous replacement for my original Switch but also is now stealing time away from my PC library. We are now at the point where a console inside of a tablet can run games that at least approach PC graphics.

And I will also add my sentiment that it is utter NONSENSE that people think the Switch 2 is boring or Nintendo being lazy or whatever else. This machine is everything everyone wished the first one was. It is exactly what I’m guessing the VAST majority of Switch 1 users wanted, higher price aside.

All the complaining is a storm in a teacup. This hardware is going to rule the world by next year.

@Rainz Agree. This year has been relentless with good releases and I love it.

@John_Deacon If not THE most profitable. Big agree here—it continues to baffle me as well. I have far more fun with the card game than I ever have with the video games and the anime is just meh at best too. Still deciding if I even want this next attempt or not. TCG Pocket is entertaining me plenty for now.

This case looks cool, but I would never use it because of the experience I had with my RTS case for my Switch OLED. Those fabric raised areas the Switch sits on top of, if they'e like my old case, will eventually rub bald spots on the back of the Switch 2 over time. Looks like for this one it would be a large unsightly rectangle. I'd say buyer beware to anyone who is bothered by stuff like that.

Say what you will about the 1st party cases being over priced--one of the reasons I chose Nintendo's option this time is because it's just basically a pouch with none of that stuff on the inside.

@datamonkey Do you think they just develop the game all the way up until the second it ships? There are cut off points. And the DLC isn't required. It's already a huge enough game on its own. Just don't buy it.

Along this line of thinking, why do sequels to things have to come out? Why couldn't they just put all that stuff in the first one? Why did the Switch 2 have to come out? Why couldn't they just put everything on the hardware we already have?

Software gets released. You usually get asked to pay for it. Vote with your wallet. What else can I tell you?

@datamonkey That's........what most DLC is.

@Unit_DTH I have a feeling Metroid is going to get its own short one.

Was pleasantly surprised by a new Fire Emblem and the Galaxy re-releases. Definitely happy about Metroid Prime 4. But I still really wish there was a little less "coming in 2026" during that Direct.

@Dimey I have never played Mario Galaxy 2 and would love to have the opportunity. Foolishly I sold my copy of 3D All Stars a couple of years ago.

So many armchair quarterbacks. Devs can charge what they want/need to charge. So can Nintendo. Don’t buy it if you don’t like it, but the sales for both Hollow Knight games and Nintendo first party games continue to thrive.

I think this initial batch of releases, both 1st and 3rd party, have been plenty to get me through to the holidays. I’ve been planning on finishing brand new titles first, rereleased or upgraded 4K titles second, and other random backlog from Switch 1 third. Right now I feel like I have plenty of fresh stuff to play to get me through to holiday release season and will not be getting to some of the older stuff for quite some time.

Holy cow…..I cannot imagine tacking an entire battery on the back of the Switch 2. It’s heavy enough.

The comments around here lately....holy cow some of you really didn't want this console to succeed!

@Coalescence Right! This is what happens when you have a vision and a plan and just stay the course. It takes discipline. You have to be willing to keep your head down and work on what you know is right for your vision even while you are ridiculed for being wrong or behind or whatever else.

There are very few companies in the world willing to operate this way. Most of the ones I can name are insanely successful. And never once did Layden say "Nintendo is perfect and makes everyone happy." Obviously some of you are offended and took it that way though lol.

@Anti-Matter Seems that maybe you should have looked at some reviews before playing 3D All-Stars?

@Dman10 Agree. As a heavy gamer most of my life, (I'm now in my late 40s), I have made a lot of friends that are also gamers. A subset of them are very stubborn about only buying physical copies of things in case they want to play them again, they want to give them to their kids later, etc. The reasons vary.

Guess what though--that same subset of friends never even plays them when they're new. I'll spend 40 or 50 hours to complete a new open world game and I could ask any of them what they thought of it and they'll say either "I've never even opened it." or "I played for an hour and then packed it up."

To each their own for sure, but I just don't get the point. A lot of my old CDs and even some of my old plastic SNES cartridges have started malfunctioning now because plastic basically warps and melts over time if it sits in one spot for years and years. That same thing will happen to all these useless game collections. There's literally almost no reason to amass them, and I don't ever want to go back to swapping cards/discs out every time I want to switch games.

The part about the power bank acting as a fulcrum—ugh—that’s exactly the thing I would worry about with a case like this. At the very least it’s going to rub friction spots and scratches on the back of the Switch and at worst will cause some kind of damage in transit.

I will never understand how 3rd party case makers green light cases that potentially damage the device.