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

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Archeops said:
Someone on Reddit found the price changes being made to Nintendo Switch Online in Canada and, to the surprise of no one, it’s being increased.

Basic Individual Membership
  • 1 month: from $4.99 to $5.99
  • 3 month: from $9.99 to $11.99
  • 12 month: from $24.99 to $29.99
Basic Family Membership
  • 12 months: from $44.99 to $49.99
+ Expansion Pack Individual Membership
  • 12 month: from $63.99 to $69.99
+ Expansion Pack Family Membership
  • From $99.99 to $109.99
I’m honestly not too surprised by the price increase NSO’s getting but we’ll have to wait a month for the real meat of Nintendo’s announcement.
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> If you can't afford the Switch 2 then buy the original Switch.
> Btw that costs more now.

Raging Capybara said:
It's just cope from nintentards. KT has only 8 courses online. The game world has the potential to generate millions, maybe billions, of different routes for the Knockout Tour, but the game only allows you to pick 8 pre-defined tracks.

This game is the epitone of retarded decisions. I can't understand what kind of expired crack these japs smoked while developing this game.
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Going to bet five years from now they are going to release Mario Kart Maker that will allow users to make their own tracks using World's assets.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
> If you can't afford the Switch 2 then buy the original Switch.
> Btw that costs more now.
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I got the feeling that nintendo is doing this in Canada as a test market, and if they pull it off, it'll be implemented in more places to make the switch 1 as unappealing as posible so the s2 looks like the better deal

They got away with increasing the price of the games, and sadly, I can see them getting away with this too
 
>make a game about a monkey wrecking shit up
>make the main person playing the game in the commercial a sheboon
What did Nintendo mean by this?
 
73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
Bruh this commercial is filled with black people wtf
(it also weirds me out that they don't bother advertising to kids anymore, basically everyone in this commercial was a millennial)
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Man I don't think Nintendo even targets kids anymore. The employed-or-tugboat man-baby market spends more.
 
Seems like a Bananza preview review embargo dropped about 12 hours ago. The shills all liked it.

Oh, and EPD 8 confirmed, not that anyone with eyes would have needed it to be.
 
73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
Am I crazy for thinking this character design is pedo-bait? It reminds me of purah from botw. I honestly want nothing to do with the game because of this.
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you're crazy
however, I get what the other guy means by "off"

she has eyeliner, jewelry, and immaculately styled hair, when she is presumably supposed to be like 5 years old and in an underground world full of abstract rock creatures, as well as being taken care of by a scruffy ape that doesn't even wear pants
It kind of clashes with both the setting and her character premise
I can see it being done as a way to communicate her want to be a singer, especially since heavy accessorizing is pretty synonymous with the kind of singer she's aiming to be, but it just doesn't click with her age and the story
+ when she's shown as a damsel in distress in the weird cinematic trailer (which was trying really hard to be heartfelt and grand for some reason? it is a DK game. why were they using movie trailer editing) it makes it even weirder

this is a really quick and shitty edit, but maybe it kind of gets across what I mean? Tone down the makeup, make the hair look as scruffy as her clothing, generally get across a rougher vibe than the uncomfortably dressy look she has now
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idk, hopefully this is making sense. I don't think the original design is pedo bait, it just reminds me of those girls with really overeager moms that doll up their kid because the kid said she wanted to look pretty like mommy that one time. Not very fitting for a DK game about throwing rocks and going mining, at absolute minimum

EDIT: I think they may have maintained the makeup and hair for marketing reasons, given that Pauline isn't as ubiquitous as the princesses yet, since that's most of what defines Pauline outside of the red dress and maybe hat. I still don't think it fits, so I'm keeping the rest of my post, but it's probably worth mentioning.
Also, honestly, having her be a rough and tumble scruffy kid would contrast nicely with how much more dainty she seems to be as an adult. Would be funny if she got into all sorts of shit as a kid/younger girl and ended up growing up to be sick of all that and just into makeup and singing. Just my personal opinion though, I know Mario characters aren't really supposed to have character arcs like that
 
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Quijibo69 said:
They're trying to reenact the No Kings protests with younger people.
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Screw them all we need the King
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moocow said:
Man I don't think Nintendo even targets kids anymore. The employed-or-tugboat man-baby market spends more.
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Their consumer base was found to be 20 year-olds primarily. Kids are pretty questionable as it seems outside of Fortnite/Roblox/Minecraft, they really don’t play games anymore. Though to contradict this with anecdotal evidence, I work at a library and kids were going crazy for a Mario they brought out (along with many liking Sonic).

As a defense for the marketing, kids gravitate towards what older teens/young adults play. The marketing perfectly conveys the Switch 2 as trendy and avoids the cringe fest Nintendo experienced under Wii U.


Anonitolia said:
+ when she's shown as a damsel in distress in the weird cinematic trailer (which was trying really hard to be heartfelt and grand for some reason? it is a DK game. why were they using movie trailer editing) it makes it even weirder
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Going to throw out a theory, but this whole game is a stepping stone for the inevitable Illumination Donkey Kong film. The whole feel of it comes off as if Nintendo is prepping for a Disney-fixed DK movie.
 
moocow said:
Man I don't think Nintendo even targets kids anymore. The employed-or-tugboat man-baby market spends more.
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Kids are the worst market to appeal to nowadays. In a lot of western countries they are in decline, in Japan they are outright vanishing.

Better to advertise to millennials who will buy your brand due to loyalty and nostalgia, while being able to drop massive sums on it.

With Nintendo, I don't know if children will even want such a sanitized brand.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Screw them all we need the King
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Their consumer base was found to be 20 year-olds primarily. Kids are pretty questionable as it seems outside of Fortnite/Roblox/Minecraft, they really don’t play games anymore. Though to contradict this with anecdotal evidence, I work at a library and kids were going crazy for a Mario they brought out (along with many liking Sonic).
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Most kids like open ended sandbox style games with a lot of creative freedom. My kids like some Nintendo games, but they don't play Mario Odyssey or Zelda, they play Mario Maker and Animal Crossing. It seems common across the under-12 set.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Kids are pretty questionable as it seems outside of Fortnite/Roblox/Minecraft, they really don’t play games anymore. Though to contradict this with anecdotal evidence, I work at a library and kids were going crazy for a Mario they brought out (along with many liking Sonic).
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Never Scored said:
Most kids like open ended sandbox style games with a lot of creative freedom.
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I volunteer for a certain wish-granting organization. One of the jobs we do is to ask the recipient of the wish icebreaker questions to get to know them a bit so we can get an idea of what they'd wish for. When the subject turns to their favorite game, 9 times out of 10, it's one of the 3 @Basic Blond Boy mentioned. Occasionally you get a Mario response, but only occasionally
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
I volunteer for a certain wish-granting organization. One of the jobs we do is to ask the recipient of the wish icebreaker questions to get to know them a bit so we can get an idea of what they'd wish for. When the subject turns to their favorite game, 9 times out of 10, it's one of the 3 @Basic Blond Boy mentioned. Occasionally you get a Mario response, but only occasionally
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My wife works with kids, and while the answer for favorite is (unfortunately) usually roblox, pretty much all of them know mario.
 
73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
(it also weirds me out that they don't bother advertising to kids anymore, basically everyone in this commercial was a millennial)
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Nintendo hasn't made anything really new since 2017 and all of their key franchises are old as fuck. They are probably going down the Disney route where they appeal too much to millennials because they are unable to appeal to kids anymore.
 
Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
Nintendo hasn't made anything really new since 2017 and all of their key franchises are old as fuck. They are probably going down the Disney route where they appeal too much to millennials because they are unable to appeal to kids anymore.
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Will will end up like Sega, just making Mario and Zelda games for other consoles and PC.
 
Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
Nintendo hasn't made anything really new since 2017 and all of their key franchises are old as fuck. They are probably going down the Disney route where they appeal too much to millennials because they are unable to appeal to kids anymore.
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Would argue 2019 as the year given that was when Ring Fit Adventure came out and turned into a surprise hit.

I have seen it argued that Nintendo has declined since 2022 and I can hardly argue against it. 23 and 24 were mainly lackluster entries or remakes. Nintendo began pivoting hard into the scummier practices around this time including the lawsuits and soon the grander expansions with movies and the like.
 
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