westman98

The game looked shockingly bad during the Partner Showcase, glad it looks much better at launch and is launching with multiple frame rate options as well.

People who want a Virtual Console-like service on Switch/Switch 2 are going to have to realize that they likely won't be getting Virtual Console-like prices.

@Otimus
Whatever "chip shortage" conditions the Switch 1 launched in is absolutely nothing compared to what is happening right now with the RAM/memory shortage.

Hopefully this isn't an AI-generated book - Amazon has been flooded with them for quite some time now.

@YoshiTails
The NSO Playtest Program game shares some nominal similarities with Pokopia but is otherwise a completely different game.

Much better preview reception than I thought, seems like the highest-effort Pokemon spin-off ever (or at least in a long long time).

@raymond23
You bought a Switch 1 game digitally (which is obviously counted as the sale of a Switch 1 game), and then bought the Switch 2 Edition upgrade pack (which is not counted as the sale of a game at all but rather the sale of DLC content).

Seems like nobody has read the fine print on Nintendo's financial reports, but the way Nintendo tracks the sales of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games (which includes Metroid Prime 4) is:

• Sale of Switch 2 Edition retail copy = Counts as sale of a Switch 2 game
• Sale of Switch 2 Edition digital copy = Counts as sale of a Switch 1 game

In other words, if you bought Metroid Prime 4 Switch 2 Edition digitally, it counts as the sale of a Switch 1 game.

(This same principle also applies to Pokemon Legends Z-A. This means the 3.89 million copies that Pokemon Legends Z-A Switch 2 Edition reportedly sold only accounts for its retail sales. Digital sales of Pokemon Legends Z-A Switch 2 Edition are accounted for with the 8.41 million copies that the Switch 1 version of Pokemon Legends Z-A reportedly sold.)

Metroid Prime 4 is a game that sold way more on Switch 2 than Switch 1, so you could theoretically have a sales breakdown that looks like this (these are guesstimates, don't take them as truth):

• Metroid Prime 4 Switch 2 Edition retail sales: 900,000
• Metroid Prime 4 Switch 2 Edition digital sales: 400,000
• Metroid Prime 4 Switch 1 retail sales: 300,000
• Metroid Prime 4 Switch 1 digital sales: 150,000

The way Nintendo would report these figures would be:

• Metroid Prime 4 Switch 2 Edition sales: 900,000 (below 1 million)
• Metroid Prime 4 Switch 1 sales: 400,000 + 300,000 + 150,000 = 850,000 (below 1 million)

Total sales: 1.75 million (above 1 million)

Most curious to learn about The Duskbloods, we haven't seen much of it since the April 2025 Switch 2 Direct.

Souls gameplay mixed into an extraction-type game sounds intriguing but we'll have to see if From Software can pull off the execution. I'll be optimistic and trust Miyazaki, this is his big new game post-Elden Ring and has apparently been a big passion project within FromSoft for quite some time.

@SpacedDuck
Xenoblade is 1st party, both the Xenoblade IP and Monolith Soft are owned by Nintendo.

The only way a Xenoblade game shows up in a Partner Showcase is if it is something like a Xenoblade Warriors game - the Hyrule and Fire Emblem Warriors games showed up in prior Partner Showcases since they are published by Koei Tecmo in Japan.

Crazy how this game was playable on Switch 2 back during Gamescom 2025 less than 6 month ago. The Gamescom demo build definitely had frame rate issues, but it didn’t look so unsalavagable as to require an indefinite pause in development (which may as well be equivalent to its cancelation).

The Prince of Persia remake was also canned recently, but that game was never playable to the general public, while B4 on Switch 2 was.

@PlatinumSeraph
I'd be surprised if Splatoon Raiders missed 2026, we saw a glimpse of gameplay and cutscene footage when it was announced so clearly a decent amount of work has already gone into it (as opposed to some games that were announced way too early like Metroid Prime 4 or Bayonetta 3, which were unveiled with fancy JPEG logos).

At worst, I could see an early 2027 release window.

@OmnitronVariant
Nintendo shipped 17.37 million Switch 2 units to retailers by the end of 2025, of which over 15 million units were sold-through to customers by the 4th week of December 2025.

Not hard to understand these figures.

@h3s
I'm not talking about technical performance here. Of course games generally play better on Xbox Series consoles than on Switch 2, they are more powerful.

That first interest poll is one of the first signs that poor Xbox Series sales will have a detrimental impact on its software lineup in the future. Right now most console games still have Xbox versions because game development takes several years and many of those games were greenlit for Xbox back when the brand was much healthier. That is no longer the case.

@MrGawain
A variety of game developers attend GDC, it basically covers every type of game you mentioned and then some.

Time to find out who is voicing Yoshi

@ButterySmooth30FPS
Switch 2 version is now 4K. Frame rate is apparently smoother too, though the game already ran at 60fps on Switch 1.

@Crockin
Did you watch the trailer? The Switch 2 upgrade includes a lot more than just Rosalina and mouse mode.

Amazing how Beyond Good & Evil 2 has survived all of these Ubisoft cancelations.

Ubisoft is cooked as a company.

SCOTUS is likely to rule against Trump's current Liberation Day tariffs so that should alleviate some of the current pains, though this only helps in the US market. RAM and memory pricing remains a big issue globally.

Nintendo does have one more mitigation tactic in their arsenal to stave off an imminent Switch 2 hardware price increase, and that is to increase the price of Nintendo Switch Online - both the base and Expansion Pack subscriptions.

NSO is already very cheap as is and has never gotten a price increase since its introduction in 2018. Nintendo has room to raise the price of NSO while still being significantly cheaper than other mainstream entertainment subscription services (not just in video games).

@WhiteTrashGuy
Switch 2 does noy support VRR in docked mode. Metroid Prime 4 supports 120fps in both handheld and docked mode - VRR is not needed to support 120fps.

@Mitchformer
Memory shortages are almost entirely to blame, it's not a coincidence that Nintendo's stock really started dropping starting in November, right when RAM/memory component pricing started shooting through the roof.

Christmas sales being slow(er) probably didn't help, but a lot of that is related to the general state of the economy which is not something any single company like Nintendo can do anything about. At this point they gotta ride 2026 with more game releases/announcements while hopefully not raising prices on Switch 2 hardware.

Not interested in this (or Rick & Morty), but it's good to hear that Squanch Games has had Switch 2 dev kits for a while. Back when HoL2 was announced last summer, they still didn't have Switch 2 dev kits and therefore couldn't announce the Switch 2 version of the game.

Sucks that people with flexible long fingers may now be confused as AI.

This year's COD (rumored to be a new Modern Warfare, will allegedly drop PS4/XBO and be a major step forward for the IP) and Warzone, anything else would be a lackluster effort given that modern COD is a live service in the vein of Fortnite or Apex Legends with cross-platform play and progression.

Getting ports or remasters of the Xbox 360/PS3 era classics would be nice on the side (I'd be down to replay MW2007 and MW2 Remastered) but they clearly aren't what most people care about.

Hopefully, Rise of the Tomb Raider on Switch 2 is based on the XBO/PS4 version and not the Xbox 360 version.

290ms of input lag is absolutely absurd, how does this get approved as acceptable?

The cost savings will be minimal, especially when AI is raising the price of RAM and storage components across the board.

> Recession indicators all across the board
> Consumer sentiment in the toilet
> Various everyday necessities more expensive due to ridiculously high across-the-board tariffs
> All hardware platforms more expensive this year compared to prior years
> Federal government shutdown leading to no pay for federal employees
> Federal government shutdown leading to no distribution of SNAP benefits

With hindsight, these results were kinda expected.

@LinktotheFuture
Of course, PlayStation and Xbox consoles have memory and storage components as well.

@nhSnork
This is rumored to be a full graphical remake with the same/similar visual fidelity as Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Worst kept secret of all time 🤣

Some kind of Donkey Kong-themed DLC for Mario Kart World sounds too good to be true.

Quiet week? It was Black Friday week, the biggest sales week of the year.

Shadows doesn't seem quite as impressive of a port as Star Wars Outlaws, which managed to preserve the ray-traced lighting, but it still looks quite good.

If an annoying NPC or two is the worst aspect of the game then I'm sold.

Probably won't matter too much for this game specifically since it is rumored to be GAAS (i.e. there will be a lot of content updates that obviously require internet downloads) but it's still disappointing to see this game end Nintendo's streak of full game cartridge releases.

@Ejadaddy
Yeah, I'm surprised the author of this article thinks Bananza sales number "isn't as high as fans would have hoped for". For a Donkey Kong game released during a console's 2nd month, it's a fantastic number and excellent attach ratio.

@WiltonRoots
Switch 1 sold 4.7 million units after 2 quarters (4 months), Switch 2 is more than doubling the sales pace of Switch 1 launch-aligned.

@Striker21
GamePass is one of the reasons why Xbox is collapsing as a hardware platform, it'll never happen for Nintendo and that's a very good thing.

Also, your entire comment reads like AI 🤔

That would be 4.54 million units sold last quarter (July to September) after a record-breaking 5.84 million June launch month, this doesn't look like a console that is losing any momentum whatsoever.

In fact, that new 19 million unit forecast still looks like a big lowball given the current sales trajectory.

Honestly, I think if Nintendo ever did remaster or port Prime 2 (and 3) to Switch 1/2, there is a solid chance they cut out Prime 2's multiplayer mode entirely.

I'm surprised that people are shocked by the length of these Kirby Air Riders Directs. It's Sakurai, he has made 30-50 min long presentations for some of the individual Smash Bros DLC characters.

@Bass_X0
The 3DS hardware, eShop, and online services have all been discontinued for quite some time, there is 0% chance Nintendo will tie any Nintendo Switch Online service, feature, or application to the usage of a 3DS.

By the time I finish Prime 4, Shadows will be available at a 40-50% discount 🤣

@LazyDaisy
As of right now, I don't think the leak contains a software build of Pokemon Gen 10, but it does contain written information about it.

@Spider-Kev
These UK charts are all retail-only, digital sales aren't tracked at all.

@Dazman
Footage of the NSO Playtest Program is out there, it plays nothing like Pokemon Pokopia.

The Playtest also looks nothing like Pokopia, but that's a bit less relevant since visuals are more subject to change.

@Wewewi
Switch 1 cartridges can't run Switch 2 software data.

Persona 3 Reload's technical state of Switch 2 is extremely underwhelming - in particular, the frame pacing issues while running at 30fps are hard to ignore.

P3R is nowhere close to being a graphical or technical showcase, it is a game that should be able to run at 1080p 60fps minimum on Switch 2. Even a less technically-competent developer like GameFreak will soon ship a 1080p+ 60fps Pokemon Legends Z-A on Switch 2.

Given this, a Switch 1 version would have been a technical mess.

Nintendo won't be the only one sueing here...

@Wewewi
There is no Switch 2 version, this is a Switch 1 game only.