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Switch is reaching peak Tetris though

Maybe my nostalgia for ninja gaiden NES is strong. But this ninja 1987 kinda looks like an inbred cousin of ninja gaiden. Hopefully the gameplay is intense.

Is NES Tetris is considered the definitive version for competition? I’m guessing emulated versions won’t replace this? Anyway, NES Tetris is exciting

Wow sounds positive. My kids are going to lose their minds. I’m going to be hearing sonic themed questions for the next few months

@AmyTheBrawler yeah Nintendo deserves to have switch 2 leaked… they’ve dragged it out too long. It’s nothing short of a miracle that more hasn’t surfaced

@RetroGames even if it only appeals to current switch owners, that’s only 140 million-ish 🤣
But yeah, hear your concerns. Time will tell I suppose… and at the end of the day Nintendo first party titles will probs sell consoles and 3rd party support will keep it relevant. I’m more worried that Nintendo has burned out the Zelda production line and will have prime 4 for launch (not the most mainstream franchise) and they will need a banging Mario iteration to have a hope

@OwenOtter I can’t read that without hearing the music

I have a feeling this may not be approved for Australia? Not showing up at all in the eShop and is certainly the 10th now

Update for the aussies: Google says comes out 11/12 in Australia at 2am AEST

Sadly I could just never get into smash. I recognise it’s a brilliant franchise but street fighter and tekken brainwashed me back in the early days.

Just looking forward to the intro with epic booming notes.

Also was a big fan of crystal dynamics back in the 3DO…. They did solid work in the mid 90s (loved crash and burn and total eclipse)

Having worked in some toxic environments there are ways to deal with people in a supportive way and still get the desired outcomes. Clearly this guy was an unhappy employee. I’m not sure any of us were there to be able to dismiss his experiences so lightly.

I thought switch 2 backwards compatibility had been confirmed?? Am I mistaken?

Too bad he hasn’t been able to see the switch go absolutely bonkers.

Can only really vote for little kitty big city, stray and echoes of wisdom. Thought stray and echoes were excellent. Minor gripes around controls and menu scrolling aside

Went back and replayed BotW and TotK to decide once and for all which is better and had to go with TotK. That’s my sad gaming year summarised. 3 kids and a busy job. Adulting sucks

I purchased this game last week and am already a billionaire. 8/10.

Got all excited, went looking for soul reaver, realised doesn’t drop until 10/12

God I hope all eshop purchases come across to switch2

I don’t see it happening this year. I’m hoping the next direct will either be switch 2 announcement or Metroid prime 4 gameplay.

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

To keep the most true DS set up, I would say WiiU asymmetric play, but this won’t work with the current cradle set up. Also it won’t work for people who want to play on the go, so will probably need some second screen access when paused set up.

I actually think it will be very difficult without some modification to the base game to be honest

Prime 2 & 3 plz thx Nintendo

I think my kids will love this so will be a holiday purchase provided it’s reasonably priced in australia

I abstain. They’re both lacking I feel. The art of the European box needed some more work on the finer details (is that a whip??) And the Japanese version is all over the place and barely tells any story.

I’m curious about the MP2&3 remasters. A few ‘insiders’ were claiming the remasters have been ready for ages. I quite enjoyed the MP1 remaster and really want to play through them all.

Good too see I wasn’t the only person thinking about DD related humour

I came here for the comments, and some were golden. Thank you Nintendo life community.

There have been reports of old brick original game boys surviving toilet flushes etc, so stands to reason it should be piss proof. Definitely test on someone else’s switch first. While they’re playing for bonus points.

It’s gonna be as stable as the ass end of a pyramid

Shut up and take my money

It will be released in ‘a’ year. Just not one of the next few

The network went to the light… or maybe the flames if some of those conservative 80s parents were right

Keen for TotK to be honest

Must be a North Korean deepfake trying to take down Nintendo

They must have dialled back the stability.

They forgot the stability…

Cunning Annalingus. Leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth…

Sands of time would be in the mix too

I will be getting these but was hoping for a bit more from the upgrades. I hope the intro is banging

Have to say if a reveal hasn’t dropped for the 8th anniversary, it’s now unlikely until the new year. I’ve been checking in daily in hope of an announcement 🤣

I think Nintendo will have some marketing strategy that once the announcement is made it has to release within some set time period for all their advertising to have maximum effect (probably a strategy they got wrong with WiiU). And they probably have created or are close to completing all their advertising material.

As others have also mentioned, Nintendo’s Christmas sale mean they probably will announce switch 2 early next year. However people don’t spend up too much immediately post Christmas (except for Boxing Day sales) which means you wouldn’t want to release in the month or two post Christmas.

Everything is looking like early new year announcement and console drops in April? It would also maximise their profits for the 25/26 financial year for their shareholders (shareholders/market seem happy to see a drift in profits at the end of this current financial year because new console is coming).

Of course the other really sensible reason this could be dragging on is because some games just aren’t ready to ship yet. Zero point releasing switch 2 without a great library of launch titles. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more launch title speculation… this will make or break switch 2.

Pokémon Z-A
You’ve got to have prime 4.
You’ve got to have a new Mario… odyssey 2?
It’s well overdue for new Mario kart…

Then re-releases/remasters of TP/WW, Metroid prime trilogy and who knows from there… Tetris or some good puzzle game. Maybe a cross platform release or two. Something out there and new to Nintendo like shadow of the colossus or Astro bot (if a new Mario isn’t imminent).

Anyway, having great fun speculating 🤣

I’m happy with what we got in echoes. I think a whole game of side scrolling just won’t have enough content by modern expectations

EDIT: And this is coming from a massive Zelda II fan

I honestly think this is the product no one wanted or needed

Gave it a 9 but after some thought would probably rather have given an 8. I’m 2.5 dungeons in. And whilst frame rate doesn’t bother me as much, the poorly implemented echo selection really does. Especially given TotK was an absolute shocker in this regard, possibly implemented slightly better.

Echos should be presented in a few rows sorted by some group - monsters, environmental, puzzle where you can scroll left and right and up and down.

And yes, probably I’m not very far in, but Zelda and echoes just doesn’t feel like it’s enough for a whole game. I’m hoping another layer of complexity or harder puzzles is needed

I call BS. Happy to be proven wrong though.

My OG switch is a clunky broken ass rig that somehow barely still works, so I’m hanging out for switch 2 and will be an early adopter. Bring it on now before my switch finally dies.

Just vague enough that it seems to mean something without meaning anything

Sensor bar would make… sense. I found the joycons terrible at remaining centred. It made world of goo almost unplayable

I’ll get this because nostalgia

It’s nice to see Nintendo change the formula every now and then. Zelda would not be the franchise it is today if it got the EA sports carbon copy remake approach.

Switch daisy chaining? Sounds controversial.

Well now that the cat is out of the bag Nintendo will be thinking “when will we have adequate stock to launch” and “when will the launch line up be adequate”

That’s probably the hold up now. I really like that point about people who buy a switch MK8
bundle probably have no idea about switch 2. I hadn’t thought about it that way before.