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If this is real, then I'm sure I'll pick it up regardless - if only out of morbid curiosity if it ends up looking sketchy... But a HD-2D remake of Chrono Trigger probably holds the first 4 slots of my top 10 remake/remaster/rerelease wishlist.

Rockstar probably moved it once the news broke that Silksong was gonna feature in that museum/exhibit thing in Australia

Jokes aside, I'm not entirely surprised. I'm sure a lot of people are eagerly waiting for this game, but fall 2025 always seemed a bit "best-case-scenario-y" to me.

Probably not. I like owning physical games - and I adored the Switch 1 - but when push comes to shove, I'd rather play the vast majority of 3rd party games on PC, PS5 or Xbox because I rarely do handheld these days, and might as well get the shiniest presentation.

Which is probably a good thing. I double-dipped far to many games this generation because I wanted the physical Switch game as a trinket for my shelf to represent a game I actually played somewhere else.

@ChakraStomps judging from your comments, I assume you're generally ok with the price increase we're seeing. That's fine, you do you.

I never said that I am going to turn to piracy. On the contrary, my very first sentence was that I'll turn more towards Steam for my gaming needs. I said I assume piracy will go up, and I stand by that assessment.

Cool, I'll keep moving my gaming towards Steam instead of the console-manufacturers.

This trajectory of games being "settled" at $60, moving to $70 and now $80 (or more realistically $100 in my currency) is happing a little too fast - even if I were to agree that a rise was overdue, which I don't. My guess is we'll see an upswing in videogame piracy over the next few years.

Nah this ain´t it. I'm mostly fine with LRG, but their whole MO was/is/should be making physical games for collectors. They have no reason to put their distribution infrastructure to this release.

I'm all for it. The Crash/Spyro trilogies were very decent looking remakes, and I'd like to see Banjo-Kazooie either treated to the same remake-love, or a proper sequel by people who seem to genuinely carry some love for that era of gaming.

Leaving Banjo-Kazooie on the table is the second weirdest choice Microsoft has made during their aquisition-spree IMO. The first one is not making a very urgent call to Obsidian the moment the Bethesda-purchase went through. I' would very much have liked a sequel to New Vegas.

The DLC was lackluster for those of us who wanted more story. The Trial of the Sword-segment was fine for what it was, but didn't appeal much to me. So I don't see it as an essential inclusion in a re-release...

... but I don't think it would have killed them to have it included and make it a "Definite release". It's such a common practice in the industry overall to include DLC like this upon remasters/rereleases that I automatically assumed it would be here as well. In isolation, I'd chalk it up to "oh that's just how Nintendo does things", but seen in the context of every other news we've gotten from Nintendo relating to money these past few weeks, I'm getting a serious ick from the penny-pinching and overt greed that I think shines through.

Only game that so far entices me to upgrade to a Switch 2. I loved Age of Calamity, and getting to revisit the Breath-of-the-Wild-universe. I´d have prefered if that game stuck to the canon (downer ending and all), but it was a great game to just detach and grind out battles with. Maybe all Warriors-games are like that? I dunno. But AoC worked very well for me, and I´ll pick this up the same day I get a Switch 2- whenever that is.

I think he is right conceptually, but this is still Nintendo betting that the value of their franchises can weather the storm of sticker shock - and I´m not convinced. Personally, I think they overplay their hand, but I won´t be surprised if it works out for them long-term. Zelda, Mario and Pokèmon are cornerstone franchises for a lot of us, and they can genuinely only be legally played on Nintendo hardware.

I hope those who are willing to fork up the cash find enough value to justify it. I´ll join them eventually, but certainly not over a new Mario Kart. They´re reliably good games, but they´ve never been a system-seller for me.

Mario Kart should always have been priced at $50. It´s as guaranteed a hit as it´s possible to get, and if its predecessor is any indication, it´ll earn back its development cost multiple times over during the Switch 2 lifecycle. Selling it cheaper means more people buy it, which means more money in the end. If any game should be sold at a break-even/loss in order to build the userbase of the new console, it´s this kind of casual multiplayer-romp.

I´m probably not in the majority, but as a casual Mario Kart fan who still bought every incarnation going back to the N64, I´m happy to sit this one out for the forseeable future. The bundle is still too expensive for a console that has no games I´m dying to play during its launch window.

I doubt we'll see the HD version anytime soon. But I'm less bothered by that with Wind Waker than with Twilight Princess. WW holds up visually even today - at least if the emulation upscales the rendering resolution a bit.

Normally I'd have vaxed on and on about wanting a physical release instead of the "you'll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-with-it" philosophy of games as subscription-services, but even a game as dear to me as WW would not really be worth a tripple-dip at the prices we're facing now. I still have my WiiU hooked up to the TV, so I can play it there if the mood hits me.

I'm of a similar mind. I'm still excited about the prospect of great games on Switch 2, but the shine faded a bit with the pricing - and the collector in me eyerolls at the game-key-carts.

I'll probably pick up a Switch 2 closer to Christmas when Hyrule Warriors comes out. I'll play the heck out of it, because that's the only game I'll have. My fandom for Nintendo has always been partially fueled by nostalgia for my childhood-years, but this is one aspect of that I'd rather have gone without revisiting.

Seeing as I bought like 25 games for the OG Switch in its first year alone, I don't expect Nintendo will actually make more money (off of me at least) this coming generation - because I'll scrutinize every purchase through a completely different lens with prices at $100 in my local currency.

Fine by me. I was absolutely ready to buy day 1 - but with prices being set at $100 in my local currency and the cart being a useless trinket offline - I’m happy skipping this. I already own it on Steam.

The console itself is clearly priced too high to begin with, but the real sting for me is how Norwegian retailers feel comfortable pricing the entire lineup of launch titles (including the remaster of a Zelda game from 2017) at what amounts to $100.

Mario Kart 8 has consistently been topping the Switch sales-charts for close to a decade. There is no combination of words in the English language that can convince me that this price-gouging is necessary for a game like this.

I´ll pick it up cheap and used, or not at all.

It´s a sad state of affairs when this is something to applaud rather than the bare minimum expectation from a physical release of a game that´s years old at this point.

But that´s a general grievance I have with the industry at large. I do genuinely applaud CD Project Red for making this choice - they certainly didn´t have to.

I´m gonna give this a pass. Not that it´s prohibitively expensive, but the comparison to the PS5 and Astros Playroom is very apt. This should have been a pack-in. I skipped 1-2 Switch for the same reason back in 2017.

The buzz about Switch 2 software prices is honestly a little offputting. I suspect I´ll only buy the exclusives I genuinely intend to play immediately on the Sw2 - rather than hoard any game I´m even casually interested in, as I did on the OG. Probably for the best considering how much space my Switch 1 cases take up at this point >.>;

A HD rerelease for the Switch was on my bingo-card for last weeks direct. After having thoroughly plundered the WiiU backlog to prop up the Switch, it´s baffling that Nintendo has shown such restraint towards this game. I´d happily buy it again.

@KingMike Indeed it did. In 2018 or so was it? I have both that and the GameCube Original - but seeing as Luigi's Mansion 2 and 3 are on the OG Switch, I'd have liked a HD remaster of the first one as well.

The 3DS has a lot of great games, but I'm much more inclined to play on the big screen these days - and when I'm out and about I don't want to bring 2 different handhelds.

Play-Asia is gonna make a lot of money off of me this coming gen if this turns into a widespread thing. I have more than a few of those Asian editions where the games are actually on the cart already.

Tears of the Kingdom is the only game I've ever paid more than 60 bucks for (if we ignore collectors editions that are obviously priced at a premium+ tier).

I think that record will stand for at least another year or two. There is nothing shown in the Nintendo Direct today that will change that.

At least Nintendo doesn't overload their game with in-game microtransactions - I'll give them that - but $60 is more than enough for a single videogame, regardless of what the publishers want us to believe.

Mid-8 for me. I liked pretty much the entire thing, but the only things that actively excited me were the Hyrule Warriors and From Software exclusive.

Donkey Kong is probably the showstopping, unannounced, one-more-thing moment for a lot of people. But I'm lukewarm to it, so I was left wanting.

It was a great presentation, but we all want magic and this was not it for me.

I would be shocked if the cart had the entire game on it - but if it does, and it plays decently - I can see myself picking up another version of FFVII:Remake, sure.

But between this and Cyberpunk, it's very clearly a way for devs to quickly re-release something that's half a decade old because it's new on Nintendo. Hardly the kind of release that gets my multi-console-owning-butt excited.

I think it's a... fun choice to make a brand new From game exclusive to a Nintendo-console. But seeing as Sony never did anything more with Bloodborn, I expect a Nintendo stewardship can't be worse. Hopefully it sells well.

Sure. I'll bite, I guess. I'd rather have a third game to follow Tropical Freeze, but it looks fun enough.

Can't stand the visual redesign of DK, though.

I have to believe this is an inside-joke between team Cherry and those of us waiting for the game at this point. The first acknowledgement in quite a while, and still no date beyond "2025" made me crack up at least. Why even show it if not to poke the metaphorical bear of fanboy-entitlement?

Unsurprising announcement. I love the games dearly, but I really hoped that if they were doing this they'd also add a bit more story-content. Or in a dream-world, somehow remix them into one single, epic adventure.

If BotW includes the DLC and has all content on-cart, then I'm sure I'll pick both of these up as collectibles, but overall this is an underwhelming update saved by the stellar quality of the games they're based on.

The smartphone-stuff is white noise to me. Any gameplay feature relying on apps will be deprecated sooner rather than later, so they're a novelty at best.

Biggest fist-pump moment of the show for me. I loved Age of Calamity (although the plot eventually turned a bit too fan-fiction-y). I get that most people don't find this as exciting as a proper new Zelda, but the BotW/TotK-games are some of my favorite games of all time - so any excuse to further explore that incarnation of Hyrule, Link and Zelda are welcome in my book.

I'm torn on this. Getting old forgotten games from the GameCube era available on Switch 2 is great, but this probably means the dual WiiU Zelda remasters will always be locked to that console. And the great games they're built on will be locked behind a subscription paywall for the forseeable future..

I really wanted a Luigis Mansion 1 remaster on my shelf to complete the set on modern Nintendo-consoles. Oh well. This is still a good thing overall.

Got a good chuckle from me. The added joke of.. uh.. "Navn Mann" himself not exactly being super fond of his own product if you ignore the subtitles and understand Danish is a fun easter-egg for us Scandinavians out there. Great stuff.

Loved Hollow Knight, and I´m gonna pick up Silksong on day 1. Until we have a release-day, I´ma play something else and not think much about it.

The announcement was obviously too early, but Team Cherry were kinda painted into a corner, since Silksong is basically a mutated stretch-goal from the original Hollow Knight Kickstarter. They were - at the very least - obligated to tell their backers why the final piece wasn´t coming.

I hate to sound like a Nintendo-fanboy, but this is folly.

Nevermind that Nintendo has systematically wielded their excellent exclusive output to pretty much obliterate any challenger in the handheld space for as long as I´ve been alive...

Casual players will gravitate to their mobile phone App-stores, and PC-master-race-players already have a Steam Deck. Playstation might get some traction with a 2nd gen Portal that also works without a PS5 connection, but Microsoft? I play most 3rd party releases on my Series X these days, so I´m not inherently against Microsoft making hardware, but this seems... misguided.

Honestly I´d rather see Valve make a Deck 2 and a proper Steam Console that can just live under my TV.

I remember when the "live-action" remake of the Lion King came out a few years ago... I didn´t care for it, thinking that all the amazing filmmakers, actors and CGI-artists could probably put that talent to better use than to remake something that was already so close to perfect.

And intellectually I know that this logic can be applied to the idea of a Chrono Trigger remake as well. But I also know that if Square-Enix gets the Octopath Traveler team to remake CT in the HD-2D style, I will buy it a minimum of three times across the PC, PS5 and Switch 2.

Admittedly I mostly play Switch on my TV, and I've never felt the 720p screen of the retail model was lacking in a way that made my experience notably worse. It's a neat hobbyist "because we can"-type of project to me.

The only mod that would genuinely excite me for the Switch Lite is to restore docking-capabilities to it. I vastly prefer the Lite for handheld play over the OG/OLED, and sending savefiles back and forth is a real pain.

Few companies are as belligerent when it comes to protecting their own creative work as Nintendo, and this is an open-and-shut-case as far as I can see.

The e-shop is really turning into an anchor around Nintendos neck, what with their stubborn refusal to actually do anything to improve the thing after 2017.

I suspect the next generation of Switch will have a lot of "physical" releases anyway. Codes-in-boxes and license-to-download-carts. So if the boxes are larger, they still probably won´t eat up as much real estate as my current Switch 1 collection. I´ll buy a lot fewer games - mostly sticking to exclusives and playing everything else on PC.

As many have mentioned already, the PSVita covers were a perfect size and should absolutely be the template for Switch 2 in my opinion.

I loved Harvest Moon back on the original Game Boy Color, and I got my parents to help import the N64 game (since it didn't initially release in Europe), but the franchise peaked with Harvest Moon DS and the GBA remake of the PSone game for me. After those I completely fell off of the entire genre until Stardew Valley.

I have no idea how these games hold up - or how close they ever were to what I loved about Harvest Moon back in the day - but I doubt they'll be a better purchase than Stardew Valley for anyone with a passing interest in this type of games.

But these games were someone's first foray into cozy farmlife sims, so I´m happy for whoever is looking forward to revisiting them now.

I´ve never been a die-hard completionist in the Pokémon games, but I have over the years mostly kept up. I have Pokémon in my HOME storage that goes all the way back to my original Ruby/sapphire cartridges.

But GameFreak apparently doesn´t count most of them, because they need to have been caught in the actual Diamond/Pearl remakes apparently? So I guess I´m going without these freebies.

Not a huge loss to me personally, but still profoundly stupid to not honour the monsters players have caught in such an arbitrary way.

I loved Hollow Knight, and I'm very much buying Silksong on day 1 - whenever that is. But I think the fandom has a few bad apples who feel very entitled to... "something" from Team Cherry just because they happened to make a game they liked quite a bit.

I will admit that every now and then after a big industry stream/direct/whathaveyou, I like to stop by the Steam-forum and chuckle at the various stages of the Kübler-Ross model that are represented in the fanbase over there. Those guys have been on a real mental journey these last 5 years.

I can imagine the "restrictions" on backwards-compatibility is mentioned because stuff like Labo and Ring Fit might not work with the new Joy Cons. Hopefully the hardware is more than capable of giving a 1:1 or better experience of Switch software.

I´ve seen the argument that the second is somewhat lesser than the first, but honestly I think they´re both equally good. I´d buy the second one again if it got the same treatment that the first did last year.

Fingers crossed someone kept the original .wavs for the sequel, cause my only real complaint about BS1:reforged was that the voice recordings still had a bit too much compression-crunch to them.

I've enjoyed quite a few of UbiSofts games in the past, but I wouldn't consider it a personal loss if they went under.

I will say, though, that its a headache to me that after many credible accusations of poor working conditions with crunch, poor leadership and sexual abuse, the house of cards falls down at a prime time for the worst gamers out there to say "Yeah! That's for attacking your customers [by trying to make us play as a woman or a black guy]!".

I don't think Ubisoft deserves any sympathy, but some people are going to have utterly asinine takes on the why of it all when/if Ubisoft falls apart.

It's because the games they've made in recent years haven't been all that good, and the few good ones they've made haven't been marketed all that well.

I hear the argument in the article, and I respectfully disagree. If the industry could live through the brown-gray-shooter-era of the PS3/360 generation, I'd be more than happy to have a pocket of it carved out for me and my people with the HD-2D style for years to come.

Chrono Trigger is on my shortlist of best games I've ever played. I agree that it still looks good, and it doesn't need a HD-2D remake. But we're talking about a medium of premium-priced entertainment here - if we're gonna start greenlighting only the games that are "needed", it would all crumble overnight.

So I'll take one Chrono Trigger HD-2D remake with an orchestral soundtrack, achievements, and maybe a few more endings, please. But by all means, please keep making new stuff as well. I have money I've earmarked for Octopath Traveler III as we speak.

The original OT was such a breath of fresh air paired with the classical style of SNES-era JRPGs. Bought it, finished it (eventually) and loved it. The artstyle and visual direction is rightly what most people talk about first, but the soundtrack really deserves to get some high praise as well.

Funnily enough, I just started playing the sequel yesterday, and so far I’m loving it just as much as I did the original all those years ago.

I vastly prefer the form-factor of the Switch Lite over the original, but no I won’t get this. It looks gorgeous, but I shelled out for the TotK OLED upgrade last year (moving on from my launch-day model) and I have a regular Lite for travel.

The two reasons this is a non-starter for me is the Lites lack of TV connectivity, and the premium the Zelda-branding adds to to the cost at my local retailers. I’m good until the Switch’ successor next year.

I started out with the SNES, and like to consider myself fairly good at seeing retro-games through the lense of their time. I have a hard time playing early 3D games from the N64 and PSX-era at their native resolution, but I think the recent HD remasters that have mostly just upscaled those graphics are very charming. Pixelart from the NES/SNES-generations can be basic, but I adore that stuff so that's seldom a problem.

My pick for this particular question is easily Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag. You can certainly write a thing or two about Ubisofts numerous sandbox-games, but I always had a soft spot for them. Black flag was where AC peaked for me. I never replay these games, but I somehow finished Black Flag 3 times over a few years. Sadly, I feel like it just wouldn´t hold up graphically, narratively or mechanically if I tried to boot it up today.

I´m excited at the prospect of a remaster. Hopefully one that weeds out the present-day-sections and leave us with just the pirating adventure.

I loved Hollow Knight, and Silksong was on my watchlist for what felt like ages. But this draught of information has cooled my enthusiasm. Don't get me wrong, I'll buy it day 1 when we actually do get it, and I'm sure I'll love it. But I'm not thinking about it, speculating about it or waiting for it anymore.

I will say though, that after this wait, I'm basically expecting the endgame to rip off the reveal from Pokèmon G/S at this point; Take us back to Hallownest for a semi-remake of the original with Hornet and her new abilities.

Obviously I jest, and I realize trailers are carefully curated things, but it looked so polished and "ready" ages ago

TotK is my personal GOTY as well - in a year where both Baldurs Gate III, Spider-Man 2, Starfield and God of War Ragnarok are in contention (I was a little late to the latter).

I don't think it's objectively better than Breath of the Wild. That game felt "cleaner" in it's narrative and presentation, and Tears has a handful of missteps that I wasn't too jazzed about. But TotK was such a welcome return to my favorite incarnation of Hyrule, Link and Zelda that I'm really bummed I don't get more.

Honestly, I'd even take a new Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamities' non-canon copout story irked me a lot, but the setting, presentation and gameplay was so good. And I do like the notion that a grander story could be told across multiple genres - even if the Breath-of-the-Wild/Age-of-Calamity/Tears-of-the-Kingdom trilogy ultimately failed to do that.

I´m in awe of how good SMB3 looks and plays on the limited hardware of the NES, and there is something to be said for the "original" being the "purest" form of any work of art.

But I was just too young for a NES of my own- so I got a SNES, and All-Stars is how I beat the game originally.