Nintendo Switch 2

[Mike S]

It’s so weird how Metroidvanias are this massive genre with like a million indie games every year and is usually critically and commercially successful, and yet nobody buys actual Metroid games when they release

Steam vs. being stuck on Nintendo has a little to do with it maybe. Metroid is a very clear outlier compared to Nintendo’s other franchises. Do we know how many of these games individually perform better than Metroid?

 

[Mike S]

Come on, announce Indy when the PS5 version gets a specific date :crosses fingers:

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Come on, announce Indy when the PS5 version gets a specific date :crosses fingers:

Really curious about the Developer Direct by XBOX next week. From those familiar, it sounds like Microsoft is giving a heavy hand of support to it (almost like a unprecedented partnership) that has rumored titles like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and 2024 Flight Sim going to Nintendo Switch 2.

I can easily see us getting our first big third party announcements from them soon.

 

[Mike S]

Really curious about the Developer Direct by XBOX next week. From those familiar, it sounds like Microsoft is giving a heavy hand of support to it (almost like a unprecedented partnership) that has rumored titles like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and 2024 Flight Sim going to Nintendo Switch 2.

I can easily see us getting our first big third party announcements from them soon.

Edit: it looks like the Direct is focusing on specific games so I’m just going to hope for Doom right now.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Hey!! There it is!

Very happy that they went simple with the name. "Nintendo Switch 2" is the objectively correct choice. Playstation has known this forever, keep it simple. Wii U, Xbox One X, New Nintendo 2DS XL, Xbox Series X...no one knows what these names mean. Sony has the 5th Playstation and Nintendo has the 2nd Switch. Grandma's gonna have a real easy time at Best Buy this Black Friday!

Incredibly happy to finally see Mario Kart 9! Since the graphical jump won't be as huge between 8 and 9, I think it's cool that they're going for a new artstyle for the first time since...Double Dash really! It's not so new either, looks like it's harkening back to SNES Super Mario Kart. Very interested to see how everyone looks, especially newer characters like Waluigi, Pauline, Bowser Jr, and especially Diddy Kong. Between this and Mario Wonder, I'm glad to see a continuation of Nintendo's willingness to be more bold with stylizing their major characters after the Wii U / 3DS era that felt so factory sealed and rigidly on-model.

24 racers is a fun idea at first glance, but the more I think on it, I've never even been able to get 12 Racers in a match locally together, and I worry that it just kinda means 12 more people losing in the end? I'm up to see where it goes though!

It’s so weird how Metroidvanias are this massive genre with like a million indie games every year and is usually critically and commercially successful, and yet nobody buys actual Metroid games when they release

I think it's all to do with the price. You can get much longer and more substantial Search-action games than Dread on Switch for a fraction of the price. Hollow Knight, Blasphemous, any of the many Castlevania collections; and many of these go on sale frequently too. I think Nintendo hampers the sales of a lot of games due to price. People would be a lot more willing to get into Famicom Detective Club, Big Brain Academy, Pikmin, Fatal Frame, Endless Ocean, etc if they were priced to match their place in the greater gaming marketplace.