Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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I wish I didn’t grind so much. I reached the Elephant Bananza and it makes everything so much easier. Almost insultingly easier.

Whoever reads this and still hasn’t played DKB for fucks sake don’t be a grind fag early by punching your way through terrains. Speed run to the elephant bananza THEN grind. It makes all that old grinding shit seem like a massive waste of time because it’s so easy to suck up terrain to get gold/collectables while being an elephant
 
Thats absolutely not true. Often times you couldn't even find those games in physical stores. People brought 3rd party games on Switch so they could play them on the bus or because Switch was the only "console" they owned. I'm as pro-physical as you can get but lets not lie about why Switch 1 wasn't successful, its not because John Q. Public was going to Doesitrun, its because the Switch had a good formfactor. I'd also point out that him calling things like Nintendo's NES output (huge swaths of which were farmed out wholesale to UPTG/Rare and Tose on contract) not industrialized is the epitome of rose-tinted glasses.
Unless you're fucking 6, yeah that absolutely was the case. The game being on the cart was a big deal and its why Switch had a lot of people collecting games because you HAD the game. To say it wasn't important is retarded.
Bold is you didn't understand what he was actually saying. It's industrialization of IPs which could happen during the NES because, outside of Donkey Kong and Punch Out there really weren't any IPs to exploit.
honestly this is a small whitepill but as dire as Western Civilization is right now, its one strength is that its literally always going to be a Bastion of consumer skepticism and that applies to the game industry as well, a Karen freaking out when McDonalds forgets one pickle on her burger is also indicative of the general mood as far as Gamers in the west go, people in America and Europe are far more willing to not buy a game and save the money in their wallet when it comes to something thats ostensibly targeted at them if they dont like something about it then Japan or other asian countries, in Japan (and East Asia generally speaking) you are shamed for not forking over your money to Mr. CEO if his company makes a game or service targeted at your demographic and you dont buy it for whatever reason, its the toxic Asian business culture that we did this for you therefore you dont (or rather shouldn't) have a choice in participating in an economic exchange, I can almost guarantee theres at least some seething during meetings at Nintendo Headquarters in Kyoto because westerners (and especially Americans) won't buy their shit and often tell them to fuck off when they make a choice gamers don't like
I agree to a point. US consumers can be dumb as shit too, but Nintendo doesn't get the foreign market and sometimes doesn't even try. It might not even be an Asian vs European thing but just a Nintendo thing. They are too arrogant for their own good (and I blame Miyamoto a lot for that).Like you said, they'll do something the Western markets don't like and then be surprised Pikachu face when it doesn't work out like they expected. You can kind of see this in Palworld. Nintendo has lost the West with Pokemon to the point where an ARK clone can copy its idea and become one of the biggest games of 2024. Nintendo will never question why that game took off. They'll just seethe and think they don't get it like grorious Nippon does. There may be better examples but you get the idea.

A bit of a tangent, but another good one was China. China is a market dominated by mobile games and anything they buy is either A)about China or B)anime. What does Nintendo release with Switch in China. Not Fire Emblem. Not Xenoblade. Not even fucking Zelda. It was Mario, Kirby and NEW Pokemon (imagine releasing those games when Genshin Impact looks better on mobile and is free). The system flopped and Nintendo gave up. They just assumed Mario must always sell despite Chinese never really growing up with Mario. They really wont make changes until they absolutely have too.
 
Nintendo put out 4 SMB games on the Famicom. Capcom put out six Megamans, it was "industrialized" to fuck.

In regards to physical games... you are wrong. I'm a physical game collector, I own over 100 Switch games, many sealed, but I am not the norm. The norm on every system to have released numbers is well under ten games per system and huge swaths of people, even adults, have switched to digital because of ease of access, bundling, deals, etc.
 
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Which sucks because all I want is a fun rail shooter with branching paths set in a space ship. But NOOOOO.

At least the first two (three) games are good enough to replay forever.

Sadly the best Star Fox game is Ubisoft's attempt to sell a No Man's Sky experience through toy-to-game figures. Think Skylanders with ships. Neat idea, but toys-to-games has yet to work out successfully for anyone in the long run.

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Fortunately, the game goes on sale often on Switch and the Deluxe edition gives you everything you would get if you were to buy the individual ships, pilots, and weapon systems. The figures themselves actually aren't half bad and wouldn't look even a fraction of embarrassing on a shelf as a half naked anime chick.

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Its funny you say that as Sean Malstrom (guy has been writing about them since the Wii) has been saying Nintendo wants to be EA for years

But yeah, Nintendo has gotten complacent which always lands them in trouble. I still think they are going to struggle outside Japan and it's going to be a constant battle to try and get the US and European markets to buy in.
Sean Malstrom just posted an article claiming that JRPGs plots are on the same level of quality of Star Trek V. He’s a retard.
 
Sadly the best Star Fox game is Ubisoft's attempt to sell a No Man's Sky experience through toy-to-game figures. Think Skylanders with ships. Neat idea, but toys-to-games has yet to work out successfully for anyone in the long run.
I played a bit of Starlink but ultimately found it disappointing. Maybe I should give it another chance...
 
Sean Malstrom just posted an article claiming that JRPGs plots are on the same level of quality of Star Trek V. He’s a retard.
You know, there's an bit of an fringe theory that autists genuinely hate mainstream media because they can't enjoy it as much as talking about whatever the fuck that they're obsessed with
 
I'm very pissed right now. My local Target had like 3 Switch 2s on Wednesday but I decided to wait a day for my next paycheck and they were all gone by then. They are literally impossible to find online for non-scalped prices. I was tricked into buying a Switch 1 on Temu that was misleading labeled on my Google search and won't get fully refunded for a few days unless I call the bank and fight with them over it. My local Gamestop is supposed to get more either today or Monday but unless I can get refunded by then I won't be able to afford it, I'm in the poor house and spent the first half if the year between jobs after my last job downsized and a few months ago someone hacked my PayPal and stole my money.
I finally decided that I must CONSOOM and snagged one from Best Buy when they restocked last Thursday. Really enjoying MKW so far and 60 FPS for TotK is nice.
 
If Nintendo can keep hitting it out of the park like they've done with Bananza then they're on a new Golden Age, might be the strongest we've seen them in decades. I'm very interested in seeing what the next Zelda will be. I know Tears of the Kingdom is relatively a new release but the fact that they reused BOTW's map hints they did that so that the Zelda team would be crafting a true original successor instead of a pricy Expansion Pack to BOTW.

No way am I buying a Switch 2 now. You need at least 3 must play exclusives to justify purchasing a new console. Bananza is the first one for me.
 
I’m normally kind of a Nintendo fanboy, but why is DKC Returns HD not priced like the Metroid Prime remaster? 60 dollars is unjustifiable.
 
If Nintendo can keep hitting it out of the park like they've done with Bananza then they're on a new Golden Age, might be the strongest we've seen them in decades. I'm very interested in seeing what the next Zelda will be. I know Tears of the Kingdom is relatively a new release but the fact that they reused BOTW's map hints they did that so that the Zelda team would be crafting a true original successor instead of a pricy Expansion Pack to BOTW.

No way am I buying a Switch 2 now. You need at least 3 must play exclusives to justify purchasing a new console. Bananza is the first one for me.
I still think Nintendo's greatest great game to shit game ratio was on the Wii U. Like, there are a few shitty games like Star Fox Zero, but if you averaged the metascores of all the first party releases, I think it ends up being something like a 85% or something retarded like that. Unfortunately, only me and like ten other people bought one.
 
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I still think Nintendo's greatest great game to shit game ratio was on the Wii U. Like, there are a few shitty games like Star Fox Zero, but if you averaged the metascores of all the first party releases, I think it ends up being something like a 85% or something retarded like that. Unfortunately, only me and like ten other people bought one.
They were backloaded in the second half of its life. Those first two years, plus awful Nintendo marketing and naming conventions, doomed it.

I seem to remember there being a three week period where it got no new physical releases at all. Just brutal.
 
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