Nintendo Switch 2

[Jerroddragon]

The DK DLC is 20 bucks

I have no idea why Nintendo hates its fans so much, 10 bucks would suck but thats nothing but this is like something that should be a free update for a 70 dollar game

 

[GA-MBIT]

I've really not been too hard on the anti-Nintendo train like a lot of people lately, but yeah. This sucks. Barring the Global World Events™, there is no good reason for products these limited to cost $70-$90. Lots of them were already pushing it at $50-$60.

 

[mccgavin]

DK DLC is ridiculous. I love that game to death; but for $20, it better give me a Stardew Valley-tier content for value ratio. No game is worth $90 for all of it's content, and to show it off so soon after release just feels scummy. An Odyssey-style Peach's Castle post-game world was the only thing the game was missing. You couldn't have possibly fit that in the base game? Or even just added it as free post-launch content?

Having played it a little bit, while the DLC is cool, it's a bit sparse when it comes to content, and absolutely does not justify the cost. DK Isle is not a fully fledged world, there are no bananas or fossils. It's basically a place to view statues you can unlock by spending Banandium Chips.

The new mode is fun, but it's not super in-depth, and you can only play it in 5 of the layers within the game. This all would've been great as a free post-launch update, but the value here is really being stretched thin as a $20 upcharge.

 

[Viator]

Really happy that Fire Emblem was not what I expected whatsoever. A Sequel/Prequel title seems incredibly interesting for me, especially with one like Three Houses.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Having played it a little bit, while the DLC is cool, it's a bit sparse when it comes to content, and absolutely does not justify the cost. DK Isle is not a fully fledged world, there are no bananas or fossils. It's basically a place to view statues you can unlock by spending Banandium Chips.

The new mode is fun, but it's not super in-depth, and you can only play it in 5 of the layers within the game. This all would've been great as a free post-launch update, but the value here is really being stretched thin as a $20 upcharge.

That's so unfortunate. $20 is the price of a full-game, or at least a whole new campaign. That should be saved for an Octo Expansion or a Bowser's Fury kind of situation; definitely not something on the level of a single smaller Mario Odyssey kingdom.

 

[Mike S]

Having played it a little bit, while the DLC is cool, it's a bit sparse when it comes to content, and absolutely does not justify the cost. DK Isle is not a fully fledged world, there are no bananas or fossils. It's basically a place to view statues you can unlock by spending Banandium Chips.

The new mode is fun, but it's not super in-depth, and you can only play it in 5 of the layers within the game. This all would've been great as a free post-launch update, but the value here is really being stretched thin as a $20 upcharge.

Really? Considering the base game was a gift the $20 won’t really hurt me but that sucks that DK Island doesn’t have much new. I want to play it still because I loved the base game but this is a bit deflating. The new mode only being in 5 layers is actually a plus to me as a 100% completionist because this gameplay loop seems like it could get old fast lol

I’m really starting to believe the theory that a lot of this pricing stems from them trying to do whatever they can without raising the price of the Switch 2 console itself.

 

[Skipper Justin]

Resident Evil Requiem looks so bad on the switch 2.

 

[Mike S]

Resident Evil Requiem looks so bad on the switch 2.

Rumor is there’s also a PS4 version which will likely look pretty similar.

 

[bdubsCEO]

The Galaxy ports and DK DLC are genuinely the first Switch 2 issue that I actually get the hate over. $40 for a Wii game, even in 4K is absurd. The DLC should’ve been a free update.

Tomodachi Life looks amazing. MP4 looks… good, and I’m REALLY excited to try it in 120FPS or 4K, but the open world motorcycle scene looked incredibly boring. My expectations are honestly going down for this game.

The new Yoshi looks adorable, I hope it’s 4K or 1440p60fps with that beautiful art style. Doesn’t seem to be breaking a lot of new ground, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.

RE8 looked great to me. It seems like the Switch 2’s MO is going to be “you can play great looking versions of all current gen games, with the tradeoff that everyone’s hair is going to look super crunchy.”

I have still never played a Fire Emblem game, and this direct was giving me major flashbacks to 2019 when I desperately wanted an update on “Animal Crossing Switch” and it seemed like every Direct ended with 20 minutes of Fire Emblem content. Very much the same situation here.

I was almost 100% sure they’d tease Animal Crossing here given Yoshi, Luigi’s Mansion and Animal Crossing are the only series that are incredibly likely to get new games soon, using deductive reasoning with their release times and what their teams have been up to.

 

[Mike S]

The Galaxy ports and DK DLC are genuinely the first Switch 2 issue that I actually get the hate over. $40 for a Wii game, even in 4K is absurd. The DLC should’ve been a free update.

Tomodachi Life looks amazing. MP4 looks… good, and I’m REALLY excited to try it in 120FPS or 4K, but the open world motorcycle scene looked incredibly boring. My expectations are honestly going down for this game.

The new Yoshi looks adorable, I hope it’s 4K or 1440p60fps with that beautiful art style. Doesn’t seem to be breaking a lot of new ground, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.

RE8 looked great to me. It seems like the Switch 2’s MO is going to be “you can play great looking versions of all current gen games, with the tradeoff that everyone’s hair is going to look super crunchy.”

I have still never played a Fire Emblem game, and this direct was giving me major flashbacks to 2019 when I desperately wanted an update on “Animal Crossing Switch” and it seemed like every Direct ended with 20 minutes of Fire Emblem content. Very much the same situation here.

I was almost 100% sure they’d tease Animal Crossing here given Yoshi, Luigi’s Mansion and Animal Crossing are the only series that are incredibly likely to get new games soon, using deductive reasoning with their release times and what their teams have been up to.

If DK DLC wasn’t a thing I feel like 3D Mario would’ve been teased which I’m thinking now will either straight up be Galaxy 3 or have a lot of Galaxy-like elements. The credits of Bananza don’t cover a lot of the people that worked on Odyssey so what are they working on?

I get the pricing concerns for these but I’m still buying both the DK DLC and Galaxy 2. Don’t hate me lol

 

[bdubsCEO]

If DK DLC wasn’t a thing I feel like 3D Mario would’ve been teased which I’m thinking now will either straight up be Galaxy 3 or have a lot of Galaxy-like elements. The credits of Bananza don’t cover a lot of the people that worked on Odyssey so what are they working on?

I get the pricing concerns for these but I’m still buying both the DK DLC and Galaxy 2. Don’t hate me lol

I bet 3D Mario is the holiday 2026 game. I no longer think it will be later than 2026, but I’m not surprised that it wasn’t even mentioned here.

I’ll probably get the DK DLC too. But half of the reason I got a Steam Deck is so I’ll never have to buy Nintendo’s absurdly priced rereleases, so I just can’t justify getting either Galaxy game when I could play them in 4K and everything at any time

 

[Skipper Justin]

The Galaxy ports and DK DLC are genuinely the first Switch 2 issue that I actually get the hate over. $40 for a Wii game, even in 4K is absurd. The DLC should’ve been a free update.

Tomodachi Life looks amazing. MP4 looks… good, and I’m REALLY excited to try it in 120FPS or 4K, but the open world motorcycle scene looked incredibly boring. My expectations are honestly going down for this game.

The new Yoshi looks adorable, I hope it’s 4K or 1440p60fps with that beautiful art style. Doesn’t seem to be breaking a lot of new ground, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.

RE8 looked great to me. It seems like the Switch 2’s MO is going to be “you can play great looking versions of all current gen games, with the tradeoff that everyone’s hair is going to look super crunchy.”

I have still never played a Fire Emblem game, and this direct was giving me major flashbacks to 2019 when I desperately wanted an update on “Animal Crossing Switch” and it seemed like every Direct ended with 20 minutes of Fire Emblem content. Very much the same situation here.

I was almost 100% sure they’d tease Animal Crossing here given Yoshi, Luigi’s Mansion and Animal Crossing are the only series that are incredibly likely to get new games soon, using deductive reasoning with their release times and what their teams have been up to.

I disagree. The textures of RE look super rough. The hair especially which you did note. It looked like everyone was wearing a strange wig haha

 

[Mike S]

I bet 3D Mario is the holiday 2026 game. I no longer think it will be later than 2026, but I’m not surprised that it wasn’t even mentioned here.

I’ll probably get the DK DLC too. But half of the reason I got a Steam Deck is so I’ll never have to buy Nintendo’s absurdly priced rereleases, so I just can’t justify getting either Galaxy game when I could play them in 4K and everything at any time

I was considering putting Wii games on my Steam Deck but it seems like way too much of a hassle to ask my PC knowledgable friend to setup correctly. Simply spending $40 is easier plus I’m sure in a few years we get Wii games in the Nintendo Classics.

 

[AvoidTIMtation]

LOL *PEAK* Nintendo

 

[Mike S]

LOL *PEAK* Nintendo
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The price is high but I’ve been thinking about it and the more I do the more I see this as being something for die hard fans/collectors. In addition to this they’re also selling a cardboard version so I doubt there’s any hardware blocking DIY solutions to making the games look as intended. Give it a few weeks after release and I’m sure you’ll see stuff popping up including 3D printing solutions.

 

[krazyhorrorkid]

Holy crap what a garbage direct.
Hope you like remasters, remakes, and 70$ old games. Let’s bring back one of our biggest flops in our history as a company too.
Old games, old games, old games.
Yoshi looks cute, don’t care for Fire Emblem or Mario Tennis.

Just pure embarrassment…

 

[bdubsCEO]

It was pretty solid, considering the circumstances. It was never going to be this crazy huge Direct full of the biggest Nintendo series, just because the vast majority of their biggest series probably won’t be releasing for at minimum another year because of where they are on their development timelines.

Actually, I’m gonna go through all of them and examine which series could hypothetically get an announcement.

Mario: The Odyssey team just released Bananza. I’m sure there was some degree of splitting up to work on 3D Mario, but I don’t see it releasing earlier than late 2026.

Zelda: TOTK released over two years ago. The Zelda team has a track record of starting their next game instantly, so the next Zelda has probably been in development. There was a 6 year gap between SS and BOTW and BOTW and TOTK, although TOTK was impacted by COVID. Regardless, I don’t think we’ll see the next Zelda for at least 2-3 more years.

Smash: It’s been 7 years since Ultimate released and 4 years since development fully
wrapped with DLC. I’m sure a Smash project is in the works in some form, but Sakurai really made it sound on his YouTube like Air Riders is and has been his main project for a while. It’s coming, but again probably not for 1-3 years.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons released over 5 years ago, and the DLC/updates finished almost 4 years ago. Up until New Horizons, the series release gap was 3-4 years.

New Horizons of course released a whopping 8 years after New Leaf, but the project was very likely in development hell having originally been planned for the Wii U, then being scrapped and reworked, then delayed several times even after being announced for Switch.

Given how quickly they wrapped up content support for New Horizons, I would be shocked if the next game hasn’t been in development 4-5 years. Add on to that being the second best-selling Switch game and quite literally the PERFECT game to push GameChat, and I would literally put $50 on Animal Crossing releasing next year.

Paper Mario: Origami King released five years ago, and the TTYD remaster released a year ago. I’m not sure if TTYD was considered a full new game internally, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we get word of a new Paper Mario soon-ish.

Luigi’s Mansion: 3 released in 2019, 6 years after 2. This and Animal Crossing are the series I’m most confident we’ll get announcements for, possibly even in the Spring direct. The release timeline just lines up perfectly, and it would be incredibly cool to see what kind of visual magic they could cook up with the Switch 2. This series has some of my favorite art direction in any Nintendo series; ESPECIALLY the first game.

I also pray we get a remake of the first game… you can play it on an emulator with HD textures running in 4K widescreen, and I have several times but nothing can be done about the 30fps. I would kill to see that game in 60 or 120fps.

Mario Sports: Tennis was just announced, I’m sure we’ll get all the other Mario sports games at random points throughout the systems life.



Now, let’s go through all the series that almost certainly won’t get an announcement soon.



Kirby: We’re getting both Air Riders and Forgotten Land DLC. I don’t think we’ll see the next full game for a while, although I can see them alternating between smaller 2D classic style games and Forgotten Land style bigger games.

Mario Kart: DLC or hopefully free updates are certainly coming, but no new game obviously.

Mario Party: Jamboree is still very new, AND got a Switch 2 edition with new content.

Yoshi: We already got an announcement for the very charming if very typical of the series Yoshi and the Mysterious Book (professor layton ahh name)

Splatoon: Raiders is coming and will probably be considered a full title while they spend more time on a hopefully revolutionary Splatoon 4. I have a lot of nostalgia for the series, but they’ve really struggled to evolve it. I’m concerned in the same way I am for Smash: when you’ve refined the formula to perfection, where do you go next?

Mario and Luigi: Brothership is very recent, and I’m still in shock that game exists. I thought it was a dead series. It didn’t review very well, hopefully it didn’t kill the series.

Pikmin: I bet you anything Pikmin 4 gets a S2E and DLC. It’s the type of series that only releases once in a blue moon but will never go away, especially given the sales success of 4 and the popularity of the characters as mascots outside of the actual games.

Donkey Kong: JUST got its huge game for the generation. I could see a 2D Country game, but probably a lot later in the systems life.

Rhythm Heaven: New game already coming.

Tomodachi Life: New game already coming.

Fire Emblem: New game already coming.

 

[mccgavin]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons released over 5 years ago, and the DLC/updates finished almost 4 years ago. Up until New Horizons, the series release gap was 3-4 years.

New Horizons of course released a whopping 8 years after New Leaf, but the project was very likely in development hell having originally been planned for the Wii U, then being scrapped and reworked, then delayed several times even after being announced for Switch.

Given how quickly they wrapped up content support for New Horizons, I would be shocked if the next game hasn’t been in development 4-5 years. Add on to that being the second best-selling Switch game and quite literally the PERFECT game to push GameChat, and I would literally put $50 on Animal Crossing releasing next year.

The long gaps between Animal Crossing games are largely due to the fact that EPD 5 also develops the Splatoon series. It's been said that Nintendo has been expanding their internal teams to work on more games concurrently, so it's possible we can see a new AC in the relative future, but we know that Splatoon Raiders is their next game.

Luigi’s Mansion: 3 released in 2019, 6 years after 2. This and Animal Crossing are the series I’m most confident we’ll get announcements for, possibly even in the Spring direct. The release timeline just lines up perfectly, and it would be incredibly cool to see what kind of visual magic they could cook up with the Switch 2. This series has some of my favorite art direction in any Nintendo series; ESPECIALLY the first game.

I also pray we get a remake of the first game… you can play it on an emulator with HD textures running in 4K widescreen, and I have several times but nothing can be done about the 30fps. I would kill to see that game in 60 or 120fps.

A new Luigi's mansion seems pretty likely. Next Level Games typically releases a new title about every 3 years, which is how long its been since Mario Strikers: Battle League came out. I'm not sure if they'd remake the original game right now, as it is going to have an imminent release on GameCube NSO.

Kirby: We’re getting both Air Riders and Forgotten Land DLC. I don’t think we’ll see the next full game for a while, although I can see them alternating between smaller 2D classic style games and Forgotten Land style bigger games.

I think we'll see something else new from Kirby pretty soon. Air Riders is being developed solely by Bandai Namco, so it isn't taking development resources from HAL. The rumor going around is that Kirby Planet Robobot will be getting a remake/remaster in the style of Return to Dreamland Deluxe, as it will be celebrating its 10th anniversary next year.