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@TtimeXP just dance actually does that already! theres an official app that lets you use your phone as a controller, or use your phones camera to track your motion. so theres pretty much no chance they wont use the switch 2 camera lol

it seems the european preorders will still have some competition since they advise us to have our payment and address details set up before preordering

im sorry but this is such a scam? this experience is available completely for free (with 50 minutes of ads per hour of quality gaming content) just by searching "[game title] playthrough no commentary" on youtube. ive been not playing games for years. we dont need artificial intelligence stealing the jobs of human beings of middling intelligence

definitely waiting til this is on sale since i dont want the game to perform well at launch (years of delays to go multiplat while launching last on switch, shady deluxe edition nonsense etc), but damn... this is probably the meatiest trailer theyve put out while genuinely being kind of funny

@Kiz3000 ah ***** youre right, i mustve missed that caveat in my excitement 😩 looks like nintendo arent as with the times as i'd hoped

it seems theres a lot of confusion surrounding this, the local transfer thing is just how you designate a second system as your own, this way you could have a secondary system without needing to connect to the internet all the time to verify your primary console is offline. THAT is the point, you transfer a game from your docked home switch to your out-and-about handheld switch once at home, from then on theres no internet connection necessary, and it doesnt matter which console is primary or secondary

the image in the article is mad unsettling. mans got two pairs of reversed joycons... i dont trust that

fr though, i really doubt this is true. the only upcoming exclusives we know about are z-a, robobot and metroid prime 4 afaik, and i doubt theyd do an indie/partner direct right before showing off a backwards-compatible console

honestly i keep going back to gnosia. it seems so simple but god it has had its hooks in me since the english release, so easy to play for like 15 minutes when im not in the mood for anything else. definitely recommend for anyone who hasnt played it, its a single-player social deduction rpg that is right at home on switch. maybe not super popular but it is absolutely one of the best games to play if you cant dedicate hours to a play session

shill mode off, i have a massive backlog and i dont even own all the first party stuff people seem to love. god the switch has an impressive library (though i have little doubt that botw stands on top to this day lol)

see this couldve been avoided if they did american wasteland first. that game wouldve inspired them to make the best remake to ever grace the earth, with energy left over for 3+4 (inb4 anyone even THINKS "wahh music licensing")

all i need is a promise that they will add moderation to an eventual splatoon 4. splatoon 2 and 3 have never been subject to any kind of moderation, there are absolutely no deterrants to griefing and making the game miserable for other people. hell, people can and do use the most sexual usernames imaginable in what is advertised as a kid-friendly game, we really need reports to actually lead to weeks- and months-long bans.

as for other switch 2 games, yeah i would love elden ring to rear its head. apparently bg3 has gotten downgraded after launch and requires mods to get the best experience? so that probably wouldnt work too well on switch. monster hunter wilds might be a pipe dream but its MY pipe dream, same with gta6

anyone who happens to read this and is interested in ever17: you NEED to play never7 first, ever17 makes zero sense without knowledge from never7. spikechun advertising it as though ever17 comes first is very strange and is going to leave people with a poor opinion of one of the best visual novels of all time

EDIT: DO NOT BUY EVER 17/NEVER 7!! they use awful ai upscaling and the images are apparently poorly cropped so they look horrendous, and the scripts werent proofread. just play the fanmade translation-remakes for free (ik the ever 17 one is called himmel edition, not sure about the others)

omg wait this is amazing news!!! i never knew comcept was closed/absorbed, i do hope everyones jobs were safe but damn comcept were the main reason i had such low expectations for fli before the barrage of delays. hopefully the support from other level-5 staff in polishing up the game shows results (of course the real move wouldve been getting 1-up studio on the case instead of beefing with nintendo). i kept my preorder open and it hasnt been cancelled so i guess i may be able to see for myself if the games worth it :/

rise was some graphical wizardry, that game can easily stand toe-to-toe with most modern stuff visually. so at the very least, we know capcom can optimise for subpar hardware, and the fact that the 3ds was home to the monster hunter series in all its nigh-unplayable glory with dogshit controls for a good while shows that they will do ANYTHING to get this series on handheld devices. im very hopeful for a switch 2 port that looks and plays well, and maybe whatever work they put into optimisation could also lift the series s version up a bit

...of course this could just be copium or whatever lol. rise was my first monster hunter game and i am desperate for more. its funny bc my pc can probably run the game yet im fine waiting for worse performance on switch 2 if it means getting to play with low-latency split joycons

i hope we at least get platinum points for purchases alongside the scrapping of their expiration. i will definitely miss the pure rush of getting a free game or free dlc, but platinum points can get you actual stuff (plus those stupid icon parts... man their allure really is something)

yet another delay, a price increase, cancelled physical version, and releasing 3 days earlier on other platforms with a scummy digital deluxe edition... yeah im one of the biggest fantasy life fans out there and theyve lost my custom. i cant in good conscience give this company money, im really hoping they end up going out of business at this stage. they have no respect for their customers anymore. hell, i found out through the new fli news that theyve been using generative ai for other games, i feel really bad for everyone whos wasting their time and energy working for this company

while i have pretty much zero respect for copyright law, i am glad to see nintendo take action against people who are defrauding their customers. not everyone buying these products realises theyre fake, after all. i do hope this includes those awful "amiibo coin" things that are just cheap nfc tags covered in resin, as those cost literal pennies to make and are marketed to people who think duping amiibo is some mystical mysterious hacking magic instead of something any smartphone can be used to easily accomplish

imagine they delay it by a few more days just to screw with everyone after the playstation store debacle. really hoping we dont end up getting a seperate switch 2 version, shipping the game with switch 2 improvements baked in would be great though. they seem surprisingly confident about the game though, im bracing for disappointment regardless but maybe ill be pleasantly surprised

while this is obviously a bad move for everyone involved, the thickness is the most important measurement for game cases. theyd better not get noticeably thicker, i threw out a bunch of ds/3ds cases bc theyre just way too thick and take up a lot more space than switch cases. physical games lose their appeal more and more as time goes on, a €100+ sd card can feel like its worth the saved shelf space nowadays. the novelty of looking at the boxart kind of dies out when the only visible part is the spine, so bigger cases just dont make sense

"hello kitty herself" real ones know her names kitty. next we'll be hanging out with "cinnamoroll" smh 😡😡

jk of course. im glad the game seems decent enough but the deluxe edition feels so gross. "hey look, heres time-locked content we refuse to release for this platform just to arbitrarily sell as dlc!" why not just re-run past events? and what happens to the game once they stop adding in timed events, do they just never re-run anything and let the game rot? and do deluxe edition late-adopters miss out on anything not currently included in it? i think i'll wait for a sale ngl

"cardboard robots" shut up!!! shut up!!! stop reminding me that labo exists!!! ever since the switch 2 "not all games will be supported" thing its been labo this, labo that. so now i desperately want to get my hands on a discontinued product that inherently doesnt work secondhand. everywhere i look labo rears its head and it is oh so painful

on the actual topic of the letters though lmao. i think this is nintendo at its objective best... which isnt a wholly good thing. yeah the switch 2 is about to be an amazing console that gets rid of most if not all of the switches downsides, but theyre spreading themselves too thin trying to appeal to absolutely everyone while losing their appeal to lifelong nintendo fans. give us menu music, give us themes (i am drowning in platinum points over here), give us whimsy that "serious gamers" (lol) can ignore

while ongoing support is obviously vital, i would love to see some of their back catalogue on switch 2. i have my doubts about game pass coming to switch 2 like im sure a lot of people are hoping for, but making xbox 360/games for windows titles available (natively, since i think game pass has them via streaming?) would be huge. that era has so many amazing titles that would hopefully be relatively cheap to port assuming they still own the rights/studios

i might hold off if theres only the black model at launch. that one ai loser said there was an mk9 edition system in the works, which im hoping means coloured joycons. but yeah idk, my switch has terrible battery capacity and the loading times have really been getting to me so i may just brave the black joycons if thats the only launch option

people complaining about the article tentatively calling it "mario kart 9" when they only started numbering them at mk7... like yeah mk9 is simple and instantly understood to refer to this game lmao its not that deep.
but anyway this game looks great, the character designs feel like such a throwback. at this point my only clear hope for the game is speed selection for random online play😩 nintendo please dont lock us into 100 and 150cc just bc theres someone who hasnt grinded points in the room

i dont use the strap part, but these make split joycons so much comfier to hold and help keep the ir sensor accurate since youre at a lower risk of covering it with your palm

i would love a switch 2 port, it could really strengthen the early lineup. its a shame wilds isnt hitting ps4, but maybe the performance on slightly older pcs will be a good indicator of whether a switch 2 release will be possible

it cant be that hard to let users block certain publishers from appearing in our feeds. that way indie developers wont be inhibited and customers wont have to deal with the "games" that are even an insult to shovelware. win-win

but yeah, this shouldnt even have to be a consideration. surely nintendo are losing money by having a barely-functioning eshop? theres essentially no "new releases" or "sale" tabs anymore since these are full of ai slop, so new games have less of a chance of being discovered and purchased. the 3ds eshop was pretty great because there was actual moderation. nintendo should punish publishers who constantly release things that can barely be called games, instead they push everyone toward dekudeals for god knows what reason

i was somewhat tempted to pick this up just to box to fall out boy, shame they couldnt just get the instrumental versions of the songs they licensed if not just using them straight up, vocals and all

camera, mic and streetpass would be great for ds/3ds remakes and allow for more experimental features in games, maybe from newer developers who missed the ds era. streetpass especially would be a nice way to incentivise bringing the 3ds out with you, giving you something to do when waiting for the bus or train etc.

swappable backplates would be great, and would be a welcome replacement for limited edition consoles. let us add some colour!! slightly related but im hoping the base system has at least a white colourway, if not going in the way of the switch lites colours.

i would kind of hate joycons with specific features because theyd both be expensive and create heaps of what would functionally be electronic waste due to how situational theyd be, while they wouldnt be able to be used effectively in many games since not every player would be guaranteed to have them

reading through the other comments reminded me of an idea i had ages ago that imo would be sick if it was even remotely possible: a reason to keep your old switch while buying the new one by allowing an original switch to be used as a wii u gamepad. the switch 2 would be running the games while your original switch could connect to the top usb port, or maybe vice-versa for 3/ds virtual console which wouldnt be demanding but would require a mic and camera

has anyone tried this while upgrading from base nso to the expansion pack? since you get a slight discount based on the number of days left on your subscription, im worried i might not get the extra code since im not paying full price

does this game have a report feature? i just dont think its funny to have a sexual username in a family-friendly game, nevermind just generally being annoying. as a fan of splatoon, ive had to deal with my fair share of inappropriate usernames and griefing/generally being annoying on purpose, and it really sours the experience. its all fun and games until youre the one getting matched with one of these losers when youre just trying to have a good time playing a game

i wonder if theres any studies/surveys been done to see how age correlates to ideal game length. when i was younger i would gravitate towards really long games, but since i was like 21-22 and was settling into having an income ive ended up enjoying much shorter games. i dont even have a job (disabled, in case anyone gets notions) so i have a lot of free time, but i dont actually start that many games. i think i used to weigh price and play time since i would only get a few games every year, but now that price isnt as much of a consideration i guess time has also lost its significance for me??

anyways i really hope i can get back into some rpgs. i started fire emblem three houses recently and its been a struggle to keep going even though i really enjoy myself every play session 😩

really hoping this pertains to story mode rather than the game as a whole-- either give us new news presenters or shuffle the old ones around if theyre so dead set on reusing them. i really hope all of these characters are prominent going forward, especially off the hook. put them in the base games story mode already!!

i really just think this is the result of the games initial popularity. EVERYONES heard of this game, so pretty much everyone whos interested in it has already played it. i cant imagine remasters appeal to many people who have played the original, especially such a linear puzzle platformer. its not really a game many people would bother revisiting either

i personally did buy the remaster just because i've always wanted to get around to playing this game ive heard so much about over the years (it was a tough decision because i naturally have a pretty poor view of the creator lmao). but i really do think im in the minority, pretty much anyone else whos heard about it either decided to play it years ago or to never bother with it

we're all anticapitalists until the shareholders pull something like this 🙄🙄 fr i am really hoping for this to hit the switch successor, if it wasnt already in the works itd be sweet if this got them to consider a port!! having access to a powerful handheld means this mh generation HAS to hit the switch successor assuming wilds is a new generation (the 3ds got a few mh games, even though the 3ds was painfully unsuitable for them, so portability and local co-op are obviously huge for the series), so hopefully instead of a timed exclusive like rise we just get the same game as the other platforms.

definitely dont want them wasting time on the switch though. i see the appeal of a huge install base, but the switch has rise already. i dont want them compromising TOO much, rise was already very impressive for the switch imo, i cant imagine it doesnt push the switch to its limits considering capcom were part of the push for higher ram on the switch in the first place. and japan adores mh, they could sell the switch successor just by pushing the possibility of local multiplayer that wouldnt be possible with other platforms. please capcom... save it for the switch 2 or whatever we end up getting🙏

the only way i can browse the eshop is by using dekudeals, since afaik it recently started filtering out the shovelware publishers (and always sorted by popularity so those were never a huge issue). so yeah, being able to mute certain publishers so youd never see their games would be a game changer, though nintendo really just needs to bring back quality control. ban any generative ai "games" and all that softcore porn etc.

imo bundles should absolutely not be treated as new games, they should only show up on any applicable games pages, that way shovelware publishers like red deer games wouldnt be able to release 50 deluxe/ultra/mega editions every few days to stay at the top of the eshop.

and yeah, an actual refund option. theres an urban legend that nintendo allows returns if you phone them, but its only one return per person or something. i shouldnt have to go through all that!! i bought a game a few months ago and the eshop listing uses screenshots from another platform, the actual game runs and looks atrocious and i cant return it. this experience just made me super distrustful of the eshop and id much rather buy something on steam since i know i can return it if its falsely advertised. plus, tracking the number of refunds compared to the number of purchases so that if a games returned way more than is expected, nintendo could review the eshop page for any falsehoods

@HeadPirate nintendo state pretty much everywhere re: blocking that you wont get matched up with blocked players, but yeah in my experience blocking hasnt accomplished much (in splatoon 3 at least) so thats not too much of a surprise if true. if only nintendo actually responded to reports in order to deter trolls so nobody would need to block playera in the first place😔

@swoose oh wow i never wouldve considered that but it makes so much sense. some splatoon fans just... dont enjoy splatoon huh😭 blocking players just to make the game less challenging/fun is wild. the closest ive seen is people throwing mirror matches during splatfests bc theyre angry at having to play the game, so yeah i can definitely see this being an issue

very glad to hear about the lack of trolls in x at least, that lessens the potential blow a bit haha. it does tend to be the lower-skilled players who intentionally ruin other peoples games in turf and non-x ranked from my experience so that actually makes a lot of sense. hopefully in exchange for the anti-block feature theyll actually start investigating reports, at the very least the ones from x matches

the "users youve played with" is the only way to block people as far as i know, i guess instead of fixing the matchmaking issues where they make you play against people youve blocked, theyre just not going to let you block them in the first place. so nice of them to refuse to punish people with extremely offensive usernames, AND forcing the people whove blocked them to still play with them. very appreciative of their community

and its only for x rank which is... weird? im glad i can still block people since i dont play x rank but i really cant see the rationale behind this. i guess theyre assuming teabagging and throwing is happening a lot less in x rank? but if thats the case, people wouldnt be blocking anyone for those reasons anyway!! it just truly makes zero sense and is honestly just discouraging me from ever trying to reach x rank since blocking is at least a nice placebo effect

richard was links awakening so some people are assuming edward will be the oracle games. i would be so happy with an oracle of whatever the third one was gonna be in the links awakening style. unless they get the insane idea to make two games again?? theres no way theyd do that in this day and age though... right...?

of course, it could also just be that nintendo have moved on to english kings names for all the zeldas and this is totally unrelated to any remakes (and midori could be wrong obviously) so im not holding my breath lol. fun to speculate thougj

i consider a remake to be a different experience. even if the game in question has completely new code, graphics etc, if it plays the same and looks the same its a remaster to me (so wind waker hd is a remaster). i havent played pokemon bdsp, but from what ive seen they also lean closer to remaster since their goal was to replicate the experience of the originals without improving the visuals or gameplay

...one game that goes against my own definition is the remake of 9 hours 9 persons 9 doors, an amazing visual novel that should only be played on ds. thats not a remaster since the fundamentals of the game were changed (the dual screen mechanic was removed for obvious reasons) even though the graphics are just (poorly) remastered from the original ds game, the story and dialogue remains the same etc

the final big run being announced is a huge shame, it would be really nice to schedule mini-big runs every weekend or month (aka normal salmon run rotations but on the big run maps) or let us create private salmon runs where we choose from all the stages like in post-splatfest splatoon 2.

its pretty obvious that this is the last (or maybe second-last) season, im hoping that splatoon 4 isnt a switch 2 launch title since that would put like 3 years (if even) between 3 and 4, which could set a really iffy precedent. people complained about 2 and 3 on the same console but they were still like 5 years apart, imo thats a really good time between games. plus itll be nice to not have to worry about catalogue points anymore 😩

i got my switch in late 2019 and somehow im only on my second set of joycons; as long as these dont get drift or l/r failure i want to keep using them for as long as possible. the "switch 2" is theorised to be bigger than the switch, meaning the joycons 2 will also be bigger. as an adult with embarassingly small hands, split joycons are my favourite controller of all time and i really want to keep using them without the potential strain that larger ones would cause

so much balatro content lately when its still not available on the eshop as far as i can tell... i want to play it so baddddd

i just bought this on the eshop because i wanted to revisit it after playing it on my terrible, low-spec pc back when it released. oh my god this is atrocious, i guess i forgot whitethorn games published it but just seeing their logo in the opening scene was a massive red flag. god this is genuinely a worthless game on the switch, i cant believe they got away with this?? i dont care about framerates or graphics at all, and even i think both aspects are just unacceptable. might email nintendo and see if i could get a refund on this, hopefully the "one refund per person" rumour isnt true

i still remember eastasiasoft publishing a porn visual novel featuring art done by a child... not exactly a company im comfortable supporting so its a good thing none of these games seem like must-plays lmao

@ZeldaFan83 uh, yeah?? thats literally what i said?

the speculation on the threats being made by splatoon fans totally makes sense unfortunately. of all nintendo franchises, splatoon has the most toxic fanbase by far, it somehow draws in racist and alt-right creeps despite being a family-friendly game (i cant count the amount of racist or otherwise offensive usernames ive had to report, plus "fans" both in-game and on social media just REALLY do not like japanese people. the amount of mockery of the japanese language and "engrish" is WILD, so many splatoon fans joking about japanese people being inherently stupid because their native language isnt english)

so yeah, if the game attracts those types in the west i wouldnt be surprised if the same is true in japan. if only people could leave their... "politics" out of a family-friendly game that is aimed primarily at children

my wildest dream is that somehow level 5 realised this game was shaping up to be lifeless so they got the originals creative team back together to work on story and character design...
but yeah not surprised at the delay, it would be really nice if they realised the game needed a refresh before release though because it did not look good when they showed it off

split joycon defender til i die but MAN my right hand got so sore from the final level last night. might have to dig out my joycon connector... thingy... to clear it again for the 10 flower coins and flagpole 😩

im pretty sure this is published by red deer games, which is reason alone to not give this game a chance. glad its not very good