2nd April 2025, 2:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd April 2025, 3:11 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
In the first five seconds you see blocks merging to form a sphere so I'm calling it now, Tetrisphere 2 confirmed, day 1, I get your dollars for that one.
Actually Nintendo does, because second thing we confirm is that the US version will cost $120 more than the Japanese version. Thank you you tangerine nightmare!
Open World Mario Kart (and that one's not even a joke, that's a thing they are doing apparently). So like, they BETTER have a full story mode like we've been wanting Mario Kart games to get ever since Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing showed just how amazing a cart racer's single player mode could actually be.
Oh and we got them making a HUGE deal about these... "virtual cards". It's basically Steam family sharing, but more limited.
Also, confirmed that a number of games won't actually have all the game on the carts. Physical is pointless confirmed!
Backwards compatibility is roughly where we expected it to be, with the main "broken" games being the ones that relied on certain controller functions the new system doesn't have, like LABO cardbordium stuff. Expected, so hold onto that hacked Switch 1 of your's. Also, they're testing the 15,000 games on that system to have a full list of what works and what doesn't. First party's already done, so now they just have to test the absolutely flood of asset flip slop they allowed onto their store without ANY vetting process at all, hence the straight up porno games on Nintendo's family friendly console.
There's a small handful of confirmed patches to add Switch 2 enhancements to select Switch 1 games. Link's Awakening is on that list. It'll get a smooth frame rate, and MAYBE let us turn off the danged screen edge blur effect. Not confirmed, as what new features they're patching in will vary from game to game. I just wonder if there's a universal "accelerated" mode you can just toggle on like what the PS4 Pro/PS5/PS5 Pro has, to speed things up without needing patches necessarily.
Anyway, clickety widget, they got voice chat! It's a brand new ancient feature from the original XBox finally properly integrated into the Switch! Finally, you can listen to 8 year olds call you the N word because you didn't pick the right team character! It's also using SD Express, for MUCH much faster access times within at least a ballpark range of M.2 drives in modern consoles and PCs. I expect it'll probably require SD express cards too as the games will be designed expecting those kinds of load times.
They got Gamecube Classics coming now too! Which, alright they'll let you rent Gamecube games, but they STILL won't let you buy their retro catalog any more!
Anyway, from From, we got Not Bloodborne! I'm sure it'll be amazing, but I think they're going to defy expectations by making it NOT open world and instead going back to that tightly woven style like Dark Souls and Bloodborne did so well. Exclusive to Switch for maybe a year before we get an improved version on PC and that'll be the one you really want.
DONKEY KONG BANANZA! They're doing the Sonic Generations thing with some 3D sections and some 2D sections, so as one of the only two people in this entire world that loved DK64 (the other one being a lego piece), I'm sure I'll love this game.
Anyway, no Mach Rider sequel so terrible direct, worst ever.
Actually Nintendo does, because second thing we confirm is that the US version will cost $120 more than the Japanese version. Thank you you tangerine nightmare!
Open World Mario Kart (and that one's not even a joke, that's a thing they are doing apparently). So like, they BETTER have a full story mode like we've been wanting Mario Kart games to get ever since Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing showed just how amazing a cart racer's single player mode could actually be.
Oh and we got them making a HUGE deal about these... "virtual cards". It's basically Steam family sharing, but more limited.
Also, confirmed that a number of games won't actually have all the game on the carts. Physical is pointless confirmed!
Backwards compatibility is roughly where we expected it to be, with the main "broken" games being the ones that relied on certain controller functions the new system doesn't have, like LABO cardbordium stuff. Expected, so hold onto that hacked Switch 1 of your's. Also, they're testing the 15,000 games on that system to have a full list of what works and what doesn't. First party's already done, so now they just have to test the absolutely flood of asset flip slop they allowed onto their store without ANY vetting process at all, hence the straight up porno games on Nintendo's family friendly console.
There's a small handful of confirmed patches to add Switch 2 enhancements to select Switch 1 games. Link's Awakening is on that list. It'll get a smooth frame rate, and MAYBE let us turn off the danged screen edge blur effect. Not confirmed, as what new features they're patching in will vary from game to game. I just wonder if there's a universal "accelerated" mode you can just toggle on like what the PS4 Pro/PS5/PS5 Pro has, to speed things up without needing patches necessarily.
Anyway, clickety widget, they got voice chat! It's a brand new ancient feature from the original XBox finally properly integrated into the Switch! Finally, you can listen to 8 year olds call you the N word because you didn't pick the right team character! It's also using SD Express, for MUCH much faster access times within at least a ballpark range of M.2 drives in modern consoles and PCs. I expect it'll probably require SD express cards too as the games will be designed expecting those kinds of load times.
They got Gamecube Classics coming now too! Which, alright they'll let you rent Gamecube games, but they STILL won't let you buy their retro catalog any more!
Anyway, from From, we got Not Bloodborne! I'm sure it'll be amazing, but I think they're going to defy expectations by making it NOT open world and instead going back to that tightly woven style like Dark Souls and Bloodborne did so well. Exclusive to Switch for maybe a year before we get an improved version on PC and that'll be the one you really want.
DONKEY KONG BANANZA! They're doing the Sonic Generations thing with some 3D sections and some 2D sections, so as one of the only two people in this entire world that loved DK64 (the other one being a lego piece), I'm sure I'll love this game.
Anyway, no Mach Rider sequel so terrible direct, worst ever.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)