7th April 2025, 8:12 PM
Yeah, $450 was the pre-"Liberation Day" tariff price. The new US price is as far as I know unknown.
I thought that the announcement video was mostly good. I probably will get a Switch 2 early, though the final price is a factor of course, how high will it go?
As for the game announcements, the first party library is good, but as someone who mostly uses my Switch to play Mario Maker 2... well, there were no Mario Maker related announcements here, unfortunately. A SMM2 update like those other nextgen updates would make this a must get immediately -- mouse control for level creation would be amazing, for instance! I hope it happens.
Other than that absence, the Kirby expansion with new content is pretty cool. I will definitely need to play that, the 3d Kirby game was really good. A bit more content would be fantastic, though, it felt a bit rushed at the end. Donkey Kong Bananza looks like a lot of fun, I definitely want to play that one. Kirby Air Riders... that's a shocking one, I never thought they'd do a Kirby Air Ride sequel! I both like that game and don't, so I hope that it builds off of the good things about the original while not copying its worse features. Like, use more than one button, have actual circuits this time, let you see your objectives DURING the games instead of only from the main menu, etc...
As for Mario Kart, I like MK games decently well enough but have always found them a bit too luck-based to love. I much prefer F-Zero, which is why it's probably been a few years now since I played a MK game at all (MK8 for the Wii U is the last one I played, I still haven't played the Switch version of 8) while I play F-Zero 99 sometimes. The new MK game looks good I guess though.
I thought that the announcement video was mostly good. I probably will get a Switch 2 early, though the final price is a factor of course, how high will it go?
As for the game announcements, the first party library is good, but as someone who mostly uses my Switch to play Mario Maker 2... well, there were no Mario Maker related announcements here, unfortunately. A SMM2 update like those other nextgen updates would make this a must get immediately -- mouse control for level creation would be amazing, for instance! I hope it happens.
Other than that absence, the Kirby expansion with new content is pretty cool. I will definitely need to play that, the 3d Kirby game was really good. A bit more content would be fantastic, though, it felt a bit rushed at the end. Donkey Kong Bananza looks like a lot of fun, I definitely want to play that one. Kirby Air Riders... that's a shocking one, I never thought they'd do a Kirby Air Ride sequel! I both like that game and don't, so I hope that it builds off of the good things about the original while not copying its worse features. Like, use more than one button, have actual circuits this time, let you see your objectives DURING the games instead of only from the main menu, etc...
As for Mario Kart, I like MK games decently well enough but have always found them a bit too luck-based to love. I much prefer F-Zero, which is why it's probably been a few years now since I played a MK game at all (MK8 for the Wii U is the last one I played, I still haven't played the Switch version of 8) while I play F-Zero 99 sometimes. The new MK game looks good I guess though.
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