Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

>the year is 2030
>Switch 2 has become a whites only console
>Owning one has become a symbol of white supremacy, aided in part by /pol/
>Browns and blacks are barred from getting the system because of its high price point
>Multiplayer lobbies become clean, safe havens that are not bombarded by the worst players around
>Every Nintendo game is a goty contender
>Fun times are actually had, no kvetching about muh "dei"
>Tendies are actually playing games.
>Tyrone and Miguel keep making anti switch 2 posts
>Switch 2 finally has a price drop
>Suddenly, for no reason at all, the quality of games drop and multiplayer becomes unbearable to play.
>Switch 3 comes out
>The cycle repeats
 
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An interesting turn of events just happened with my Switch 2, while I was looking for a way to redownload my digital games in the eShop I got a message saying that I was eligible for a digital copy of Mario Kart World despite having the game already tied to my account. This would make it the second time I’ve gotten a free game from GameStop through some sort of technical error on their part.
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Digital games do okay on the Switch so I wonder if the public perception of game key cards is so odious that it's not simply harming physical sales but also digital ones. I could definitely see this being a motivation among the hardcore/enthusiast crowd who bought in early, but I'm skeptical if it will hold once the casuals move to Switch 2. Although hardcore/enthusiast gamers are basically whales in comparison to casuals in terms of spend so keeping them placated with actual physical releases will still probably be worth doing.
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The main issue with the physical games bit is that Nintendo kind of shot themselves in the foot when they decided that, for whatever bullshit reason they could muster, that 64 GB Switch 2 cartridges would be available for publishers at the start of the system's lifetime. Combine that with the usual costs and the success of the original Switch and it's no surprise some publishers decided to go with Game Key Card releases.
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Still, pretty interesting to see consumers categorically reject something so hard that the publishers have to publicly fret about it.
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I'm physical-only for the most part, I may have gotten MKW digitally but that's because the bundle was a better value and I’m planning on getting DK Bananza physically.

Game Key Cards just feel like a pointless thing meant to give publishers and customers a false sense of security and/or ownership, the only thing they truly bring to the table is combining the storage-gulping issues of all-digital titles and the annoyance of physically swapping game cards into one shitty package.
 
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Archeops said:
Game Key Cards just feel like a pointless thing meant to give publishers and customers a false sense of security and/or ownership, the only thing they truly bring to the table is combining the storage-gulping issues of all-digital titles and the annoyance of physically swapping game cards into one shitty package.
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There are games that have shipped with cards with letters on them. The Game Key Card solution is a labeling technology advance: now these packages are explicitly labeled. So the execs will see first hand (hopefully) that it does not make economic sense. Or whatever. They're a bad solution, and that's the whole issue. But they probably work enough for your average goysumer.
 
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Game Key Cards just feel like a pointless thing meant to give publishers and customers a false sense of security and/or ownership, the only thing they truly bring to the table is combining the storage-gulping issues of all-digital titles and the annoyance of physically swapping game cards into one shitty package.
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Storage is a massive problem on the Switch 2, especially considering how rare the 1TB microSD express are and how the console only supports up to 2 TB cards anyway.

If I'm going to be stuck downloading games, then I'll just do it on PC where I get better graphics, mod support, and I can get a 4 TB SSD for $200. No reason to buy a digital-only game on Switch 2 unless it's an actual exclusive.

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There are games that have shipped with cards with letters on them. The Game Key Card solution is a labeling technology advance: now these packages are explicitly labeled. So the execs will see first hand (hopefully) that it does not make economic sense. Or whatever. They're a bad solution, and that's the whole issue. But they probably work enough for your average goysumer.
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Yeah, I think Nintendo's shift in labeling here is really a godsend. They're making it much harder to bait-and-switch consumers with 'physical releases'
 
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I just saw the DK Bananza direct last night and personally, I think it looks fun. However, the visuals look too similar to Mario Odyssey and it makes the game look like a mod of Odyssey more than a new game. The game also seems to try and trigger the ol' Nintendrone Memba Berries with "Oh, BaNaNA". Gameplay looks badass though. But it's not worth $70, and sure as shit doesn't justify buying the $450 shit brick. Maybe I'll pirate it when I get a proper gaming computer.
 
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You can resell a GKC, unlike code in a box. About the only plus I see. Microsoft in particular has been doing this bullshit for aa solid decade now, just declining to label their games as such.
 
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I just saw the DK Bananza direct last night and personally, I think it looks fun. However, the visuals look too similar to Mario Odyssey and it makes the game look like a mod of Odyssey more than a new game. The game also seems to try and trigger the ol' Nintendrone Memba Berries with "Oh, BaNaNA". Gameplay looks badass though. But it's not worth $70, and sure as shit doesn't justify buying the $450 shit brick. Maybe I'll pirate it when I get a proper gaming computer.
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I mean, that's sort of like saying Monster Hunter rise/wilds looks like a mod of DMC5 because they're both on the same engine.
 
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DK looked kind of awesome. Not sure what the complaining is about. And the "it is just reskinned Mario Odyssey" is totally confusing when a bunch of the people here were saying they wanted more of that.

Just like the other week when I pointed out that many of the same people complaining about BOTW when it came out are now saying how great BOTW is almost a decade later.

"U SAY U HATE WINDU WAIKA SO I MAKE TWIRITU PRINCESS, BUT NOW U RUUUUV WINDU WAIKA"
 
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Interesting to note as DKvine is not so happy:
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Also, lol what are these designs - Zebras literally look like they are from Madagascar:
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Dammit Mandrake! said:
DK looked kind of awesome. Not sure what the complaining is about. And the "it is just reskinned Mario Odyssey" is totally confusing when a bunch of the people here were saying they wanted more of that.
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Mario & DK are different IPs even if connected. This new DK game doesn't feel at all inline with the series neither visually or mechanically. It definitely comes off like Nintendo reclaiming the ape from the dirty westerners.

If anything, this would have been more fitting as a Wario title. The weird world, transformations, treasure hunting, smashing mechanics and emphasis on animations/ funny faces feel way more inline with how Wario operates.

Not to mention that it just looks graphically bad in many areas. It's like they took Luncheon Kingdom and made that the full game when it was one of the more panned levels of Odyssey. It's all just very weirdly geometric and cartoony.
 
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When making the original DKC, Rare had little to base it on (construction site... vines... he's a monkey) and expanded the world by making something new, while having the occasional call back. New is good,expand the world, don't get stuck in the mud. Franchises that get stuck almost always die.

Edit: Also, the DKV owner is a vocal fan of what he's seen so far, comments are allowed to differ.
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Seems ok.


Switch 1


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2 games, Mario Kart & DK, nothing on the horizon. I wish I lost.
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Splatoon is most likely not this year, but outside of mario kart (you know, the sequel to the 5th best selling video game of all time), there's DK which is generating massive buzz after the direct, a sequel to kirby air ride, a new hyrule warriors, and dramatically improved versions of pokemon and metroid prime 4. Yes, pokemon and prime 4 don't count as exclusives, but in terms of moving consoles? This isn't ps5, where early crossgen games often played at a WORSE framerate on the ps5 version, there are fucking huge differences, I'm getting a switch 2 when prime 4 comes out for 120fps and mouse controls, and I know I'm not the only one, especially when pokemon is also coming. And this is just the known titles for the first 6 months of the console.

If you wanna say "That's not good enough for me", I totally get that, and I more than respect it, if I wasn't such a slave to Metroid, I probably wouldn't get one this year either. But to say "Nintendo's totally in trouble this time you guys, two more weeks!" is a completely different thing when the ps5 launched at a higher price with only a demake of a ps3 game for the first 7 months.
 
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There’s been so much actual psychosis about this console online, like how the snooze deck would kill it or Mario kart would flop. Really funny to see all that after the launch. I’m not super ultra hyped to buy one or anything but I might once I have the cash. Anyway here’s a meme that I found online. The le thing I did… that was outlined in TOS… Nintendo why am I banned??

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Basic Blond Boy said:
Interesting to note as DKvine is not so happy:
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Also, lol what are these designs - Zebras literally look like they are from Madagascar:
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Mario & DK are different IPs even if connected. This new DK game doesn't feel at all inline with the series neither visually or mechanically. It definitely comes off like Nintendo reclaiming the ape from the dirty westerners.

If anything, this would have been more fitting as a Wario title. The weird world, transformations, treasure hunting, smashing mechanics and emphasis on animations/ funny faces feel way more inline with how Wario operates.

Not to mention that it just looks graphically bad in many areas. It's like they took Luncheon Kingdom and made that the full game when it was one of the more panned levels of Odyssey. It's all just very weirdly geometric and cartoony.
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Honestly of the Rare games, only DKC 1 and 2 had a cohesive art direction, 3 was so-so, enemies designs were way more silly, the Bear Brothers and Banana Birds felt that they were trying a "children's adventure" approach to that title but still worked most of the time, meanwhile on DK 64 we were stuck with stuff like this:
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Most of the stuff that worked were characters directly imported from the first 2 games and the new additions for the DK crew, everything else was all over the place.
Now on the gameplay department, the game is clearly more a spiritual sucessor to the Banjo games than a sequel to DK 64, is funny seeing people complaining about the straight-forward approach of Bananza when they spent years complaining about how 64 was convoluted with multiple gameplay styles. Reminds me when people started complaining about how 3D Mario got streamlined and when Odyssey released people came out of nowhere to claim 3D World wasn't that bad and deserved a second chance.
 
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