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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.

Yup. Built mine. It’s better than I thought. But having to choose OoT or BotW was difficult… and I know I’ll never go back and build the other one. So I built BotW

Omg yes! Hopefully last ninja 3 works this time.

These games were my intro to gaming, so the nostalgia is very very strong. Interestingly the sound track for last ninja 2 alone is phenomenal and has some significant similarity to my untrained ear with some rob zombie work much later on.

Previously on Wii VC last ninja 3 was unplayable and was removed as past level one would never load.

I’m sure time is not kind to these games, and I doubt many will enjoy, but i do think they are an essential piece of gaming history, even if it’s just the musical work of ninja 1 and 2.

PSA: I am very biased on this one

EDIT: Don’t normally do this but had to support this kickstarter

Was kass the guy that kept telling us poems/songs in BOTW? Yeah I’m more for the sky island squish theory above or monster lunch.

I thought the name release was also delayed due to the death of queen elizabeth? Or did I get caught up in internet rumours?

Sounds positive. Since the switch led to the true handheld demise, I wasn’t ever sure we would see another original top down Zelda. This is the game I didn’t know I needed and wanted. I will be playing this with the kids day 1.

I don’t know if my body is ready to eat 8 happy meals

Completely unnecessary. That’s two thumbs up from me!

Presumably a switch 2 announcement would impact sales on some of these games, so I would assume switch 2 announcement won’t drop for at least 4, more likely 6 months

Original NES Tetris. I would assume that’s potentially a big deal? Is NES Tetris the preferred version for competitive play?

Did you mention timeline? Just getting my popcorn and waiting for the comments to blow up.

That some of these games even run on the switch is amazing.

The ‘We are not announcing the successor’ statement is still a form of marketing for switch 2 lol

I’ve worked hard and have a pretty good job now. And have 3 kids who would all play it, so I’m pretty sure I’ll get value out of it.

Would love more close ups, but that build looks about 100x better than the deku tree

Like you said… Mario kart 8s success is wild. How can you make a sequel that will compete?

I know it’s getting reamed. But I will totally be watching this when it’s free on a streaming service

While I want streetpass pretty badly, I want superior performance in docked mode more. Would have loved multiple options on that one.

Licking cartridges… I’ve heard of licking a 9V battery and an even funnier story of touching a 9V to braces. But cartridge lickers are a new bunch.

Very solid and well reasoned review. Felt super impartial except for the “it’s world of goo 2” in the pro column 🤣

Everything is going at glacial pace… except Mario kart, it still shifted roughly 1 million units!

Would buy just to watch the intro

I’m still not sure… considering purchasing for my kids but really I’m waiting on the switch successor to be announced

Oh the humanity!

Actually reading the deep levels of pain this is causing the enthusiasts, the comments are better than the article.

In my teens and early twenties, I had a big problem finding a balance with gaming and life responsibilities. I played a few games excessively… Diablo 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Tony Hawk, Tekken 3. Dropped out of uni and was staring at stacking shelves for the rest of my life. Gave up gaming until the Wii and 3DS and by that stage I had so many other responsibilities in my life I couldn’t fall down the gaming rabbit hole again.

So yeah, the 100% comments resonate with me and I had to learn to be okay with good enough rather than perfect.