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@WiltonRoots
A new 3D Mario game isn't coming out this year, it would have 100% been announced by now if it was.

Late 2026 release at earliest is my guess.

Nevermind, NBA 2K26 will still release on Switch 1, PS4, and XBO.

Microsoft will respond to this by canceling even more games.

@HenrikL
Who at Nintendo would develop a new Perfect Dark game?

Would be a great early title for Switch 2, there aren't many multiplayer shooters on the platform (just Fortnite for now, Splatoon and Call of Duty sometime in the nebulous future), let alone PvE shooters.

@SpaceboyScreams
You can choose to mute Oddrock/Pauline or only have her provide hints in the game settings.

Nobody takes Metacritic user reviews seriously.

I'm surprised 2K didnt just wait until WWE 2K26, it's cool that the IP will arrive on Switch 2 sooner than that.

The difference between Switch 2 LCD and other screens is actually quite noticeable...if you slow down you optical lobe to process what you see at 11-33% speed.

Either I am completely insensitive or there is some screen lottery because I have no issue with the Switch 2 display.

Kits and Krysta dont know anything about Nintendo's development pipeline, even when they worked for Nintendo.

@fenlix
Cyberpunk 2077 is by far the most high-profile and technically-ambitious 3rd party launch title, which partially overrides it being a late port.

The same can't be said for something like, say, Yakuza 0, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, or Bravely Default HD. Even something like Street Fighter and Split Fiction are small bananas compared to Cyberpunk.

Nobody picked up a Switch 2 to play full-priced late ports of years-old games, release some new high-profile 3rd party titles and the situation will change significantly.

Looks incredible, Nintendo Tokyo EPD (the 3D Mario devs) don't miss.

Honestly, I don't think Richtman knows anything regarding the Zelda movie or any Nintendo movie in general. Back before the Zelda movie was officially announced, he claimed it would be an animated movie produced by Illumination (like with the Mario movie). This ended up being completely wrong.

Now he's claiming they are looking for 16-23 year olds to play Link/Zelda, even though two weeks prior he claimed Hunter Schafer - a 27 year-old - was being considered for Zelda.

I would buy a 1080p version of this, hopefully that is made someday in the future.

@Dhaladog
I think the next 3D Zelda will be announced in 2026 and released in 2028.

New 3D Zelda games are huge ambitious projects, we just saw this with Tears of the Kingdom releasing 6 years after Breath of the Wild. I think the next 3D Zelda will have a shorter development cycle than TOTK since there (hopefully) won't be another global pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, but I'd still expect it to take ~5 years of development.

@OorWullie
I'd say both Zelda Switch 2 Editions and Jamboree Switch 2 Edition will continue to sell well until the next brand new 3D Zelda and Mario Party entries are released respectively (probably late 2027 for the next Mario Party and 2028 for the next 3D Zelda).

I always thought Nintendo would eventually develop a spin-off to Splatoon, but I figured it would be a smaller-scale title, maybe something like a rhythm game.

I'm glad that Raiders is not that, it seems to be an (open world?) action-adventure game that retains Splatoon's core movement/shooting mechanics.

Specs look great for both models but that price is going to be a true sticker-shock, possibly 2× that of the cheapest SteamDeck or Switch 2.

The crazier thing is that apparently LRG has only had Switch 2 development kits for the last ~2 weeks.

I got around 2.5 hours going from 90% to <10% battery, with ~80% brightness and no downloads in the background.

IIRC Zelda BOTW lasted around 3 hours on the 2017 launch Switch (not sure at what brightness but I assume not low), so this is nominally worse but still broadly comparable.

I think Welcome Tour should have been a free pack-in game, but if it requires the purchase of accessories to 100% complete, then the game being a Switch 2 pack-in or not wouldn't have changed anything (unless you expected Nintendo to pack in a free Pro Controller, camera, and 4K TV with the Switch 2 just to make Welcome Tour 100% complete-able by everyone).

Yabuki not outright denying 200cc probably means it will be added in an update several months down the line. Hopefully this game's 200cc feels like an actual 200cc rather than 300-400cc like it is in Mario Kart 8.

The game is still ugly but this is a gigantic improvement - the frame rate is a smooth 60FPS, the aliasing shimmers are gone, and there are way more Pokemon in the overworld (almost too many).

@Suketoudara
Digital download codes sold at retail are still physical products. Sales of Mario Kart World sold from the Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundles will be tracked.

Probably an AI-written web page with the expected AI mistake.

Makes sense, I think only the absolute biggest Nintendo games will be $80: Mario Kart, Smash Bros, 3D Zelda, and maybe 3D Mario if it goes open-world like Mario Kart/Zelda.

A24 is a pseudo-indie production company largely known for making relatively small budget ($10-70M) films, like Civil War and Warfare.

I don't see any way in which an Elden Ring movie adaptation will be anything but extremely expensive and ambitious, and I just don't know if A24 is the right studio for that.

@N00BiSH
Both of the 2D Zelda's already target 60FPS but have frequent frame drops, playing them on Switch 2 will presumably automatically smooth out any frame rate issues via brute force.

Frame rate not being mentioned in the patch noted mostly implies that the 2D Zeldas aren't getting a 120FPS mode, which isn't too shocking.

As I've said before, the Wii genuinely broke people's brains regarding Nintendo hardware.

I like the game a lot, but Red Dead Redemption 2 aiming to be realistic is what makes it a slog to play.

Wow, this leaker has some dirty fingerprints.

Back in 2013, Microsoft was on the verge of shipping an Xbox One that required a mandatory internet connection to operate, with an internet check-in every 24 hours to ensure compliance. A physical Xbox One game was tied to a user account once activated, which meant a "used" retail game couldn't be traded-in or given to somebody else, thereby eliminating the very concept of "used" games in general.

Switch 2 game-key cards are nothing like that LMAO. In fact, the idea of "game-key cards" isn't new to Switch 2, as there are a decent number of PlayStation/Xbox games that have adopted this approach for their retail disc copies (with the most notable example being the last few Call of Duty titles).

@DollyrotsFan1
Switch 2 is cheaper than the Xbox Series X, and that's before the Xbox price increase that took place last week.

@HeadPirate
There are no Switches manufactured in Japan, rather they are manufactured in China, Vietnam and Cambodia (mostly China). The Vietnam/Cambodia units are shipped to the USA to avoid the 145% Trump tariffs on Chinese imports, while the Chinese units are shipped to the rest of the world.

Nintendo is choosing to subsidize the Japanese market because the Yen is super weak and they don't want to price out the Japanese market, which is a very important market for Nintendo. On the other hand, Sony/Microsoft have increased the price of the PS5/XBS in Japan multiple times as the Yen has weakened over the years, but since PlayStation and especially Xbox have a relatively small presence in Japan, they can get away with pricing out the Japanese market and not hurt their global gaming business too much.

@HeadPirate
The Japanese Switch 2 only looks cheap to us westerners because of the significant devaluation of the Japanese Yen over the last 3 years. Japanese consumers still have to pay ¥50000-53000 for the Switch 2, a 50%+ increase over the ¥32000 Switch 1.

Xbox hardware sales are already in the gutter, so price increases will accelerate the decline.

The impact will really be felt when PS5 and Switch 2 prices increase.

I'm more sympathetic of the use of game key cards than most (especially for games retailing at well below $60/70 ala the Bravely Default remaster, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2), but come on now, a $250 Collector's Edition should ship with an actual real physical copy of the game, full stop.

I'm sure Switch 2 cartridges are expensive, but not "$250" expensive lmao

Kinda astounded that Split Fiction and Madden are the largest Switch 2 game by file size, I figured it would be Cyberpunk given that it's a big open-world game with a ton of dialogue and cutscenes.

It's weird that Madden is now on Switch 2 but not College Football.

Though this also applies to PC, where it gets Madden but no College Football.

@PikminMarioKirby
Censorship is bad, no thanks.

@PharoneTheGnome
That's because the Switch 2 is not actually an upgraded Switch but rather a brand new game system with brand new system-on-chip.

Specifically, the GPU on the Switch 2 is not natively backwards compatible with the GPU on the Switch 1, so it uses a translation layer to convert Switch 1 GPU code to Switch 2 GPU code. This works 99% of the time but does present some issues for some titles.

I guarantee that if the Switch successor introduced some crazy new feature as the new central selling point (like the 3D for 3DS or the GamePad for Wii U), people would be criticizing Nintendo for needlessly attempting to fix something that ain't broke.

The Wii genuinely broke people's brains regarding Nintendo hardware 🤣.

Remember in the good old days (i.e. last generation) when consoles would go down in price over time?

I don't play racing titles that make use of the analog triggers, so this doesn't impact me one bit. In fact, it's better for shooters (a genre that I do care about) like Splatoon or COD to have digital triggers.

A lot of people are going to experience 120FPS gaming on Switch 2 for the first time with this.

Come on now, Doug Bowser's statements and Don Mattrick's statements have completely different contexts. This is outrage for outrage's sake.

IIRC, the old rumor was that a bunch of younger developers from Nintendo EPD Tokyo really liked Donkey Kong and wanted to work on a new title, so they spun-off to form a "new" team to work on a new Donkey Kong game while the rest of EPD Tokyo worked on a new 3D Mario (as they have done since 2005).

@Overzeal
No it wasn't, just because the Trump administration listed 90% on that chart doesn't make that figure (or any of the listed percentages) accurate.

@Overzeal
First of all, the US won't reciprocate, Trump has already said he won't budge, stock market and economic collapse be damned.

Second, Vietnam does not have a 90% tariff on US imports, that's absurd. Vietnam's US tariffs are more like 5%, the 90% figure refers to the trade deficit between the US and Vietnam as a percentage of US imports of Vietnamese goods.