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

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whatever I feel like said:
Who owns what is well established. Nintendo owns anything that was specifically created for Donkey Kong or Star Fox. This includes all Kongs, Kremlins, collectables, Krystal and Tricky, etc. It does not include Banjo and Conker but only because they (characters who debuted in DKR) were specifically sold to Microsoft. There is one, and only one, grey area- the speed zippers used in DKRs plane levels were reused without change in Banjo Pilot, leading to a question of who owns them. In all likelihood Nintendo does but didn't notice or care when Rare updated them. Its also possible that they were too generic to trademark.
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Does Rare or Nintendo own all the original DKR characters like Drumstick and Tip Tup? Is Tip Tup still in Banjo Kazooie in the Xbox version?
 
Nintendo's Embarrassing Switch 2 Welcome Tour - Rerez


TL;DW: Welcome Tour is not only boring and uninspired, it actually showcases the capabilities of the Switch 2 hardware in a negative light. There is nothing rewarding about completing the extra challenges, no Easter eggs, nothing that could be considered part of Nintendo's DNA or magic. The mini games aren't fun or imaginative, some are outright confusing and infuriating. At times it feels like a corporate PowerPoint presentation and falls woefully short of Nintendo's other previous efforts when compared to "introduction" titles such as 1,2 Switch or Wii Sports.
 
Belvedere said:
Nintendo's Embarrassing Switch 2 Welcome Tour - Rerez


TL;DW: Welcome Tour is not only boring and uninspired, it actually showcases the capabilities of the Switch 2 hardware in a negative light. There is nothing rewarding about completing the extra challenges, no Easter eggs, nothing that could be considered part of Nintendo's DNA or magic. The mini games aren't fun or imaginative, some are outright confusing and infuriating. At times it feels like a corporate PowerPoint presentation and falls woefully short of Nintendo's other previous efforts when compared to "introduction" titles such as 1,2 Switch or Wii Sports.
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WOAH no way the tutorial for the Switch 2 isn't very fun and not worth money? Who would've seen that one coming?
 
Anon88 said:
WOAH no way the tutorial for the Switch 2 isn't very fun and not worth money? Who would've seen that one coming?
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How the fuck does this guy yap for 30 minutes about Welcome Tour? You could look at what interests you and be done in two hours. I scrubbed around the video, at 14:30 he goes on a whole minute long tirade about how scrapping paint off a wall isn't fun.

Nintendo Youtube is a hellhole. Every video is some cunt recounting their experience with the console in elaborate autistic detail. That or making a 20-30 minutes video to complain about how the console isn't worth it, or how they would "fix" Mario Kart World.

When Mario Kart 8 released for the Wii U, Youtubers complained over and over about Battle Mode, the character roster, and how there's no reason to play the game in singleplayer other than unlocking stuff. Did you know Mario Kart DS had missions?

Collecting 15 coins would excite the paint scrapping guy I'm sure.

 
Never Scored said:
Does Rare or Nintendo own all the original DKR characters like Drumstick and Tip Tup? Is Tip Tup still in Banjo Kazooie in the Xbox version?
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In theory Nintendo owns everyone that didn't show up in Banjo-Kazooie or Conker's Bad Fur Day. Presumably because Tip Tup was in BK he transferred over to Rare when they brought "all Banjo assets." Not sure on the others except for Krunch, Tricky and IIRC Wiz Pig, who are all definitively owned by Nintendo. Notably, while Banjo and Conker were replaced with Kongs in the DS port of DKR (which MS owned Rare developed, with Nintendo publishing,) Tiptup and the others remained. My suspicion is that Rare were given direct orders to take out Banjo and Conker but otherwise didn't tell the Nintendo rep that they still had other owned characters in it but there is no proof of that and even Nintendo-wiki specifically points out the oddness of Tiptup appearing.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
What Nintendo is saying is that you own nothing goy, just like those cartridges without an actual god damn game on them, but a digital code that connects to a store which Nintendo has full control over.
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Not sure if this was posted. But could Nintendo void your gamecards if you get banned from online services?
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Not sure if this was posted. But could Nintendo void your gamecards if you get banned from online services?
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No, one of the major selling points of a cart was that it could be passed around and resold..... probably.

Edit: I'd laugh my ass off if some cryptographer could crack the code Nintendo uses on these and get free games for everyone.
 
whatever I feel like said:
In theory Nintendo owns everyone that didn't show up in Banjo-Kazooie or Conker's Bad Fur Day. Presumably because Tip Tup was in BK he transferred over to Rare when they brought "all Banjo assets." Not sure on the others except for Krunch, Tricky and IIRC Wiz Pig, who are all definitively owned by Nintendo. Notably, while Banjo and Conker were replaced with Kongs in the DS port of DKR (which MS owned Rare developed, with Nintendo publishing,) Tiptup and the others remained. My suspicion is that Rare were given direct orders to take out Banjo and Conker but otherwise didn't tell the Nintendo rep that they still had other owned characters in it but there is no proof of that and even Nintendo-wiki specifically points out the oddness of Tiptup appearing.
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I think it helps that Tiptup is just a minor quest-giving character in Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie (and a cameo in Banjo-Pilot) and that the designs between his appearance in DKR and BK have some differences.

Funnily enough Tiptup was going to appear in Banjo X (an Xbox remake of Banjo-Kazooie that was canceled and retooled into Nuts & Bolts) but was left unused in N&B.
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Archeops said:
I think it helps that Tiptup is just a minor quest-giving character in Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie (and a cameo in Banjo-Pilot) and that the designs between his appearance in DKR and BK have some differences.

Funnily enough Tiptup was going to appear in Banjo X (an Xbox remake of Banjo-Kazooie that was canceled and retooled into Nuts & Bolts) but was left unused in N&B.
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He does get at least one reference in Banjoland but, ugh, that is one aggressively ugly model. Really, all of the NaB models were. Rare spouted all that bullshit about how that's how Banjo always looked and then the Smash deal was inked and Nintendo showed them what Banjo was actually supposed to look like.
 
Hermiöne Granger said:
Nintendo Switch 2 is more broken than you know :stress:

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Might as well ask the question, who the fuck the Switch 2 is for?
* It's not a handheld due to massive size and tiny battery life.
* It's not strong enough to even compete with previous gen.
* It doesn't run a good chunk of Switch 1 games.
* It doesn't have any worthwhile games.
* It's full of technical issues that will only be patched in later releases.

Even with the argument of buying it for some potential good future game you might as well wait for that game to come out.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Might as well ask the question, who the fuck the Switch 2 is for?
* It's not a handheld due to massive size and tiny battery life.
* It's not strong enough to even compete with previous gen.
* It doesn't run a good chunk of Switch 1 games.
* It doesn't have any worthwhile games.
* It's full of technical issues that will only be patched in later releases.

Even with the argument of buying it for some potential good future game you might as well wait for that game to come out.
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Really only 4 types of people:
* People who have an old Switch 1 with problems. Might as well buy the Switch 2.
* People who want to play Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Splatoon 3 (It got an enhancement patch recently, I'm told the new gyro works much better too) or any of the other enhanced games on the system.
* People who go on long train/plane rides. They tend to have outlets so battery life isn't as much of an issue.
* People who skipped out on the Switch 1. Almost all first party Nintendo games work good on the Switch 2.

It competing with the previous gen doesn't matter. You buy a Nintendo console for Nintendo exclusives, unlike Sony who keeps porting all their exclusives to PC.

You could also say "Just buy a Steam Deck", but the Steam Deck had less lifetime sales than the Switch 2 on its first week, and despite what people from r/steamdeck might say, a lot of the pain points the Switch 2 has remain. Notably Steam Deck Verified is a joke, the system is in need of a spec bump, recent releases are hit or miss in regards to Deck support.

The docked experience also sucks (I own a Steam Deck OLED). Valve doesn't seem to give a fuck about various issues its official dock has. Switch 2 docks and just works, HDR issues on some televisions aside.
 
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