Nintendo Switch 2

[Mike S]

Well, the “compulsively check leaks and rumors communities online every five seconds” era of my life is over. It looks exactly how we thought it would for about a month now, but I’m excited to go to the in person experience. MARIO KART 9 LOOKS BEAUTIFUL. I’M OBSESSED WITH THE NEW DONKEY KONG

Mario Kart 9 looks stunning. Genuinely interested to see what happens with that size of the map (makes me think 24 player race courses).

It’s funny when you think about how we technically haven’t had a brand new console Mario Kart in 11 years since 8 first launched on Wii U.

 

[Jerroddragon]

If Mario Kart 9 is a launch title...god that would be amazing

I'm just going to have to wait until april to say more

I know the teaser is for normal people..but wish they could have throw a few bones....because for sure most of what they will talk about in april will be leaked by then

 

[Mike S]

If Mario Kart 9 is a launch title...god that would be amazing

I'm just going to have to wait until april to say more

I know the teaser is for normal people..but wish they could have throw a few bones....because for sure most of what they will talk about in april will be leaked by then

Launch it with Mario Kart and a Switch 2 specific version of Metroid Prime 4. That’s all they would need.

 

[LPCaptainDeath]

I understand the lack of Kid-Icarus, Earthbound, and Warioland to some extent but for the love of all that is holy, can we please get new Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and F-Zero games?

 

[AlexanderMBush]

I understand the lack of Kid-Icarus, Earthbound, and Warioland to some extent but for the love of all that is holy, can we please get new Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and F-Zero games?

Star Fox feels like a dead franchise, F-Zero has been rumored for a bit to be getting a port/remaster of F-Zero GX and Donkey Kong's a tricky and slippery one.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I understand the lack of Kid-Icarus, Earthbound, and Warioland to some extent but for the love of all that is holy, can we please get new Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and F-Zero games?

Kid-Icarus is a no brainier...not sure why the last one was not ported then make a sequel

Star Fox....I just want a smile game. No Gimicks just give me a game where you go through 10 planets and try to get the highest score and have options like 50 planets and you get to go through 10 each run
Also a real online dog fight mode where you can customize how your ship looks


Also for the love of god....give us the Wind Waker port....its done its ready please release it

 

[mccgavin]

I wouldn't rule out a new Star Fox game, I definitely think it is capable of a series revival similar to what happened to Metroid. I think they've just wanted some time to pass after the disaster that was Zero.

 

[LPCaptainDeath]

Star Fox feels like a dead franchise, F-Zero has been rumored for a bit to be getting a port/remaster of F-Zero GX and Donkey Kong's a tricky and slippery one.

Don't call my boy dead... He's great... 'C'MON' lol

Kid-Icarus is a no brainier...not sure why the last one was not ported then make a sequel

Star Fox....I just want a smile game. No Gimicks just give me a game where you go through 10 planets and try to get the highest score and have options like 50 planets and you get to go through 10 each run
Also a real online dog fight mode where you can customize how your ship looks


Also for the love of god....give us the Wind Waker port....its done its ready please release it

For real tho! We don't need to re-invent the wheel with Star Fox, that's primarily why most of them haven't been as successful since N64. Just make a game almost exactly like that one, introduce a customization option like you mentioned, an online option like you mentioned that let's you either co-op missions or dogfight and there ya go. Simple.
Why hasn't this happened yet?

Also, F-Zero should've been on every console since the WiiU with a crazy handle-steering schtick where you use the pad to do stuff with your ship. Don't know why this franchise has been dormant when the tools are right there in front of it.

And for DK they really have zero excuses when they can literally do exactly the same thing that they're doing for Mario and Kirby games and just adapt it to that playstyle. It really isn't rocket science.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Don't call my boy dead... He's great... 'C'MON' lol


For real tho! We don't need to re-invent the wheel with Star Fox, that's primarily why most of them haven't been as successful since N64. Just make a game almost exactly like that one, introduce a customization option like you mentioned, an online option like you mentioned that let's you either co-op missions or dogfight and there ya go. Simple.
Why hasn't this happened yet?

Also, F-Zero should've been on every console since the WiiU with a crazy handle-steering schtick where you use the pad to do stuff with your ship. Don't know why this franchise has been dormant when the tools are right there in front of it.

And for DK they really have zero excuses when they can literally do exactly the same thing that they're doing for Mario and Kirby games and just adapt it to that playstyle. It really isn't rocket science.

Its getting better but the old guard always wants to do something with a gimmick over finding out what works and doubling down on that

I mean look at all the last star fox games since the N64 all but the remake had something the held it back because they could not just let us have fun in a game

Switch 2 gives me hope...it looks like what people want. A more powerful switch not trying to reinvent the wheel everytime and even now with wireless controllers....I really don't think any system needs to do more then be more powerful. Also I'm hearing rumors its not 4K...thank you god

The Ps5/Xbox generation is sooooo slow and boring now because of 4K, every team is wasting years making the game look "real" who cares Astro bot beat you all in GOTA....people want fun they don't care if every game looks like last of us

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Don't call my boy dead... He's great... 'C'MON' lol

 

[Mike S]

Its getting better but the old guard always wants to do something with a gimmick over finding out what works and doubling down on that

I mean look at all the last star fox games since the N64 all but the remake had something the held it back because they could not just let us have fun in a game

Switch 2 gives me hope...it looks like what people want. A more powerful switch not trying to reinvent the wheel everytime and even now with wireless controllers....I really don't think any system needs to do more then be more powerful. Also I'm hearing rumors its not 4K...thank you god

The Ps5/Xbox generation is sooooo slow and boring now because of 4K, every team is wasting years making the game look "real" who cares Astro bot beat you all in GOTA....people want fun they don't care if every game looks like last of us

The Switch 2 being a straightforward upgrade, and even being called “Switch 2” in the first place, likely comes down straight from the current CEO Furukawa who I’ve always seen described as more of a straight business man compared to Iwata. This doesn’t seem to have hampered game quality but it does seem like it reigned in the type of out of the box craziness fans don’t appreciate like what happened with Star Fox Zero. Hopefully if there’s a new Star Fox it’s more straight forward but I think the series should evolve to include on foot gameplay and an overarching space opera story. A straight up arcade game isn’t going to fly and do big numbers imo. Metroid currently stands alone as the only OG Nintendo franchise allowed to have an actual story.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

The Switch 2 being a straightforward upgrade, and even being called “Switch 2” in the first place, likely comes down straight from the current CEO Furukawa who I’ve always seen described as more of a straight business man compared to Iwata.

I think it ultimately kind of makes sense.

The Nintendo Switch--is a legitimate gold mine of potential's worth that didn't need to be brushed aside for another wacky concept. The Hybrid market is a lucrative one that they saw a perfect opportunity to put their flag in and stake their claim.

The Switch 2, for all that it's worth--seems to be aiming to be what the PS2 was compared to the PS1. Upgrades and improvements, alongside giving things that were needed when the Switch 1 started. The Top USB-C I have been told multiple times, has been a massive win for the sake of handheld play; as it'll allow easy hook ups to chargers to be played for when you are on transit (Be on trains, planes, or whatnot have you). Internally, the console seems to be also benefitting from modern advancements and 4 years of watching that of what Sony and Microsoft have done with traditional consoles, and in turn seems to be using in-house DLSS technology alongside raw power that seems rather impressive for the handheld.

I'm guessing this will be around 400-449, but I think for the value at the end of the day it's gonna be worth it so long as third party support is as vast as the PS2 got.

 

[LPCaptainDeath]

The Switch 2 being a straightforward upgrade, and even being called “Switch 2” in the first place, likely comes down straight from the current CEO Furukawa who I’ve always seen described as more of a straight business man compared to Iwata. This doesn’t seem to have hampered game quality but it does seem like it reigned in the type of out of the box craziness fans don’t appreciate like what happened with Star Fox Zero. Hopefully if there’s a new Star Fox it’s more straight forward but I think the series should evolve to include on foot gameplay and an overarching space opera story. A straight up arcade game isn’t going to fly and do big numbers imo. Metroid currently stands alone as the only OG Nintendo franchise allowed to have an actual story.

i do hear you, but -counter-point- Metroid Dread is the highest grossing Metroid game to ever exist and it's literally just Metroid's SNES/GBA era gameplay with a fresh coat of paint. Where they experimented with that was bringing contemporary ideas INTO the gameplay, not MAKING the gameplay mimic contemporary or experimental ideas, if that makes sense. Dread was in no ways a departure from what people knew and loved about Metroid games in the first place. No whiplash like N64 Star Fox to GC's Adventures. We really can keep it simple(stupid, Nintendo) and just give Star Fox a fresh coat of paint, next gen graphics, and call it a day imo.

EDIT: I also want to add that i would love nothing more than an Obsidian's Outer Worlds or Bethesda's Starfield meets Star Fox type of game where we fly around the cosmos in the Great Fox picking up missions and walking around on foot and delegating tasks to crew members and stuff. But i am also totally capable of admitting that that is taking a BotW approach to Star Fox and i don't think Nintendo is at liberty to experiment that hard.

Meanwhile we get 15 Mario Party games and 10 Mario Kart games that all look and feel the same, while F-Zero collects dust...

 

[Mike S]

i do hear you, but -counter-point- Metroid Dread is the highest grossing Metroid game to ever exist and it's literally just Metroid's SNES/GBA era gameplay with a fresh coat of paint. Where they experimented with that was bringing contemporary ideas INTO the gameplay, not MAKING the gameplay mimic contemporary or experimental ideas, if that makes sense. Dread was in no ways a departure from what people knew and loved about Metroid games in the first place. No whiplash like N64 Star Fox to GC's Adventures. We really can keep it simple(stupid, Nintendo) and just give Star Fox a fresh coat of paint, next gen graphics, and call it a day imo.

EDIT: I also want to add that i would love nothing more than an Obsidian's Outer Worlds or Bethesda's Starfield meets Star Fox type of game where we fly around the cosmos in the Great Fox picking up missions and walking around on foot and delegating tasks to crew members and stuff. But i am also totally capable of admitting that that is taking a BotW approach to Star Fox and i don't think Nintendo is at liberty to experiment that hard.

Meanwhile we get 15 Mario Party games and 10 Mario Kart games that all look and feel the same, while F-Zero collects dust...

Dread was also allowed to be Metroid 5 and advance the story. Star Fox isn’t going to be successful endlessly copying 64 but now it’s prettier. It needs to add new aspects besides just being an arcade shooter.