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The fact that it’s still not CarPlay/AndroidAuto integrated kills this app for me. Come on Nintendo!

Imagine if this had been EA or Take-Two; it would have been docked points for how cynical the release is.

These games were available for a tenner each at different periods on Wii U. This is pure nickel-and-diming and I’ll be sticking with my Wii copies as a result. But it’s one rule for Nintendo and another for everyone else.

They are amazing games, two of my favourites of all time. I just really don’t see how people can defend this release.

Paid DLC after two months means this was cut from the main game. Not cool.

I was in the UK last week and took a punt on GBG for £20 from CeX. Still haven’t tried it yet but have liked what I’ve seen and read.

FFVII? No.
Elden Ring? Nada.

Bonfire Simulator 2025 with janky webcam support on your new £400 console? You betcha by golly gee whizz!

Tune in for tomorrow’s Game Key Card Direct!

They perfected Eternal Darkness by switching off the lights.

@Blaa The content churn does though. They’ve got nothing to talk about at the moment. All the Switch 2 tier lists, back compat analyses, and hardware teardowns have been exhausted.

@Anti-Matter They were native, that’s why. Too young to remember the ”Two GameCubes taped together” jibes?

*A developer.

Not multiple developers. This is one guy.

@Bizzyb I don’t think you would get anywhere near to a million, personally.

@Andee This is the main point. My daughters don’t care about game preservation. My brothers in law who play FIFA and COD don’t care. It’s an extremely specific demographic of 30+ neckbeards (of which I am one) that care. Physical games (and ownership) are on the way out, downloads and EULAs are the future.

@MrGawain The excuse will then be to not put their games on Switch citing ’lack of demand’.

This is going to be a gamechanger for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. I have the presets at system level on Switch but it’s such a faff I rarely bother. This is going to change that!

I have (impossible) dreams of playing Micro Machines 2, or even better, Micro Machines Turbo Tournament ’96, on NSO. /wistful stare

@PsylockeRules Bazaar Bazaar have copies.

@Mirage-5x5 You beaut! Thanks ever so much.

339kr a pop in Sweden. Insanity.

Amiibo were 100kr when they launched. We’ve had inflation over the last ten years but the increases amiibo have seen are absolutely crazy.

You’ve got a Streetpass!

@Reztobi Exactly how I feel. Nintendo have always been like this though. Success against the odds followed by total anti-consumer complacency, followed by a generation of trying to claw back goodwill. Wii to Wii U, DS to 3DS. Always the same pattern.

Like you say, they’re priming themselves for failure. It’s anecdotal, but my siblings and their families have 5 switches between them. The only talk of Switch 2 in the family so far has been discussing what a ridiculous price Nintendo are asking.

Has anyone been able to find this to pre-order on a physical cartridge in Europe?

@iedutu Blaming the consumer for raising awareness of bad business practices is definitely a take

The price has more or less killed my excitement. I have bought every console day one since the GameCube in 2001, and this is the first time I’ve thought about giving it a miss.

I moved to the Nordics in 2016 and have become used to being gouged (I live in an unfavourable market and the SEK has been in the toilet for 5 years), so I am fully expecting this to end up at around 5500-6000kr. And that’s before I buy any extras. And I think that’s too much. Mario Kart is likely going to cost 1000kr.

The more I think about it, the more I think I’m going to back out on this one. Great news for you all that are excited, but I think we might have crossed a line for me.

@kalosn Yes, it’s been confirmed that both Pro Controller and Joy-Cons from Switch 1 are compatible with the new console.

@Thomystic I’ve had my Pro Controller since launch in 2017 and never had an issue. The battery life on them is incredible.

Haha the old ”should happen, but might not” clause.

Doesn’t take much to act like an internet ITK in 2020s, does it? Waddledeeknows…

Is this getting a physical edition? I can’t see it up for preorder anywhere in Sweden.

No Battlefield game since has even come close to Bad Company 2. That game kept me on my 360 for months.

@nocdaes I think you should think about it.

Nintendo never uses bleeding edge technology in it’s raw specs. Some connectivity gubbins perhaps, but never raw power. At least not since the GameCube.

Technology is only getting incrementally better. The measuring stick for inprovements is so short now that Sony has released a ”Pro” PS5 before there is even any sort of open-and-shut showcase for what the base console can do over a PS4.

A 3-4 year old chipset is absolutely what I’d expect from Nintendo, and people who were expecting a 2024 3nm silicon have no idea what Nintendo is about. Cheap, standard components with low-ish power draw is the balance they always strive for and 5nm (which the post since has been corrected to) will do that job just fine.

I think the leaks are bang on the money, and it will be disappointing to some; but then wishful thinking when it comes to new console specs is nothing new.

@Keman What luck that Sony haven’t just set a precedent for a €1000 console then… oh

Eric Barone is one rich primate.

@Bigmanfan Agree 100%. EoW is the worst Zelda since Phantom Hourglass imo. It’s decent, but nothing more.

I’m still waiting for a Complete edition of Smash Ultimate. I love the series but there was just too much DLC this time around for me to buy the vanilla game. Reckon it might be a good shout for a quick and dirty Switch 2 launch title…

A+ for the Fast Show tagline

@Unit_DTH I get the feeling it’s a 15 year old male who thinks the pun is hilarious, but I kind of love the idea of a rogue Mario Party player who is literally only out to troll others.

I have the Ambassador New 3DS and a “regular” red N3DSXL and that line of consoles is probably my favourite ever, together with the Dreamcast.

I know a lot has been written about it (here and in other places), but for me Streetpass kept me taking my console with me wherever I went, for years. I’m amazed Nintendo didn’t see the value in bringing similar functionality to the Switch, actually.

@Roger_Brazil

Literally says at the start “Captured on PC”.

My early morning brain processed the announcement as a new Rival Schools for a split second. Now that I would be excited for.

Great (and cold) memories of the midnight launch for Wii in December 2006. Been a slow, slow death but it feels like GAME is finally on the way out.

@BANJO Same. It’s not been made available by Bergsala in the Nordics at all. So I’ll return the favour, and not bother.

@StrikerXL Yep, agreed. I’m not against the PG in principle, but yeah, it should have been gated to only the multiplayer dives or a ‘quick dive’ mode.

@StrikerXL I’m enjoying it too. My main complaint is the procedural generation is nowhere near as interesting as a curated set of dives. The maps are made with building blocks and it shows.

I loved the first two, so this will be day one for me.

The only thing I am slightly concerned about at the moment is that the online portion will be forced on me. I want to play alone.

I got the CE of UE and it’s lovely. The card game is really good too. The game is pretty exploitable, but it’s great fun noodling around in the menus creating super-squads. There are so many possibilities and active and passive buffs and effects that just doing mock battles with my creations is great fun in and of itself.

I feel like both FFVII (which I am also really, really enjoying) and UE are going to keep me going until at least the summer. What a great start to the year for RPG fans.

@Aurumonado I still have my physical copy, it’s a super little piece of Zelda memorabilia.

Now all we need is a little bit of LEX LUTHOR’S SOLVE MY MAZE.

Surely a handheld device running graphics comparable to a PS5 is going to burn through a battery in 30 minutes? Given Nintendo’s decades-long commitment to consoles with low power draw this would seem like a total 180° turn in terms of design philosophy…

I have the physical version of the Pixel Remasters and as a collector’s piece it’s really nice. The remasters really do look great on the OLED Switch and the remastered soundtracks are universally excellent.

One thing that really, really irks me though is that I have six FF icons for all of the different games. They’re pretty uniform, which is nice, but would it really have been so much more effort to have a menu on the cart on startup to choose which FF you wanted to play? It makes the collection feel like a ROM dump rather than a premium celebration of old FF games. I’m aware that it’s a total nitpick, but it cheapens it a little for me.

@Ryu_Niiyama Micro Machines says Hi!

Wait for this to be on a 16gb cart with a 30gb download for Knight.

@SalvorHardin

It doesn’t add value from customer side, but you can bet it does from Nintendo’s side. They know that at least a portion of gamers will be reluctant to let subscriptions lapse “in case that X title gets added to the service”, and that keeps them locked in.