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

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Calandrino said:
Punch-Out, Balloon Fight, Wave Race, Space Firebird. Too many to name.
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I feel like "sitting on games" is a bit of an unfair complaint when the company in question has been consistently making games longer than anyone else in the business, amounting to 50 years of production. Like... yeah, they sat on Punch-Put and Balloon Fight and Wave Race, but seriously? They release a minimum of six or seven games per-year on the first party ticket and have dozens of franchises under their corporate umbrella.

Are we really going to cry foul that Balloon Fight didn't get an entry in the last 30 years? Maybe they could come up with something creative and someday they probably will, but really? Who is knocking down the doors for Wave Race? And I like that series, but I am also not sitting around crying about 1080 Snowboarding getting a pass for all these years. Punch-Out is probably floating up near the top of games that could and should get another entry soon, it is a simple formula that is awesome and fun.

Meanwhile there are serious demands for more Mario, more Zelda, more Animal Crossing, more Mario Kart, more Smash Bros. and a slow-burn on stuff like Metroid and Donkey Kong and Kirby and F-Zero and Splatoon and Star Fox. Those are immediately higher priority than the other niche games mentioned, however good they may be.

And surely there are too many to name, Nintendo has more first party games than just about anyone. But they don't have unlimited development capacity and it is a feat that most of what they do make comes out at such a reliably-high level of quality as often as it does. I'll complain myself about a lack of an ARMS sequel but I don't lose sleep over it. Maybe I get it someday, but maybe I don't. In the meantime I'm happy to have a really great Donkey Kong game and a fantastic Mario Kart game. Plus Metroid is probably going to be excellent.

It seems like an excuse to complain rather than a bona fide gripe with the developer. Give me a sequel to Joy Mech Fight or don't, I'll deal.
 
I reached the final fight with k rool in the city, the game was running at a locked 60 up until I reached the second phase of the fight, the game hit N64 level of lag, it was unplayable for me. This game desperately needs a performance patch.
(Even if they do fix it, the experience has been ruined for me, I don't really see myself playing it again anytime soon)
 
73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
I reached the final fight with k rool in the city, the game was running at a locked 60 up until I reached the second phase of the fight, the game hit N64 level of lag, it was unplayable for me. This game desperately needs a performance patch.
(Even if they do fix it, the experience has been ruined for me, I don't really see myself playing it again anytime soon)
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So it was great until the final boss and now it sucks? I guess, you pick your own metrics...
 
whatever I feel like said:
So it was great until the final boss and now it sucks? I guess, you pick your own metrics...
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Having the framerate tank during the final boss does ruin the experience for me, this was sub-30fps gameplay, a 3d platformer should not be lagging to this extent (and I'm not say the entire game sucks, it was fantastic up until this point)
I just expect the game to hold a consistent framerate throughout when I pay 70 dollars (plus tax) for it.
 
73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
I just expect the game to hold a consistent framerate throughout when I pay 70 dollars (plus tax) for it.
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I'm not someone who hates on Nintendo all that much but in all seriousness - why would you expect this from Nintendo? I get why you would expect it in theory but have the past few decades not given you enough reason to doubt that Big N can deliver this?
 
Fcret said:
Moe is still better than western gay race communism infecting everything but tbh I miss the aesthetic of 80s/90s/early 00s Japanese SF so much.
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Anything is better than that. What's SF?

whatever I feel like said:
Star Fox which is for forty year old perverts.
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Is this really its reputation now? Fucking hell :lossmanjack:

IrishGuy088 said:
Are we really going to cry foul that Balloon Fight didn't get an entry in the last 30 years?
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Yes. Can't be hard to let a smaller company do something with it. They let Crypt of the Necro Dancer make a fucking official Zelda fan game crossover, I think they can commission Inti Creates to mess around with some abandoned IPs.

73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
I reached the final fight with
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This should be spoilered tbh

73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
this was sub-30fps gameplay, a 3d platformer should not be lagging to this extent
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That is kinda inexcusable, if it was pretty far under 30.
 
IrishGuy088 said:
Meanwhile there are serious demands for more Mario, more Zelda, more Animal Crossing, more Mario Kart, more Smash Bros. and a slow-burn on stuff like Metroid and Donkey Kong and Kirby and F-Zero and Splatoon and Star Fox. Those are immediately higher priority than the other niche games mentioned, however good they may be.
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What a strange way to group these IPs. Splatoon has been a massive success and has tons of kids merch and marketing in Japan, it belongs on the same tier as Animal Crossing. Kirby is also bigger in Japan than you might expect, and it gets new games frequently because its HAL's flagship franchise. The other four don't get games as often, but they're still on different levels. Donkey Kong is big because he's a Mario spin-off, he just doesn't have a consistent dev team since Nintendo parted ways with Rare, so any new DK game takes resources away from other potential games. Metroid is definitely not as popular as any of those other series I've mentioned so far, but it has Sakamoto to always champion it and it has a certain "hardcore" cred most other Nintendo IPs don't have.

As much as I love Star Fox, it wishes it was on the same level as any of those other series. It's never had a consistent dev team, every game after 64 has been outsourced out to a different third-party team each time, and it seems like there's really no one at Nintendo interested in doing much with it. And F-Zero is just plain fucking dead. Its last game was 20 years ago, and there's no sign Nintendo plans to do anything more with it because it will take attention away from Mario Kart.
 
ㅤㅤㅤ said:
I'm not someone who hates on Nintendo all that much but in all seriousness - why would you expect this from Nintendo? I get why you would expect it in theory but have the past few decades not given you enough reason to doubt that Big N can deliver this?
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In my experience, performance issues in most switch 1 games was a non issue (except for echoes of wisdom, that was atrocious), even the lag in botw and totk didn't bother me, it was impressive that the switch 1 could even run those two games in the first place. But now they have a console that's advertised as having a 120hz screen, and is allegedly more powerful than the steam deck, yet their second game already pushes the system too hard. There's just been a lot of shit that turned out to be false advertising in regards to this system, and this is the cherry on top of the shit sundae.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Anything is better than that. What's SF?


Is this really its reputation now? Fucking hell :lossmanjack:


Yes. Can't be hard to let a smaller company do something with it. They let Crypt of the Necro Dancer make a fucking official Zelda fan game crossover, I think they can commission Inti Creates to mess around with some abandoned IPs.


This should be spoilered tbh


That is kinda inexcusable, if it was pretty far under 30.
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Always has been, thanks furries.
 
73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
I reached the final fight with k rool in the city, the game was running at a locked 60 up until I reached the second phase of the fight, the game hit N64 level of lag, it was unplayable for me. This game desperately needs a performance patch.
(Even if they do fix it, the experience has been ruined for me, I don't really see myself playing it again anytime soon)
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It'll take a lot of complaining. The director admitted they knew about it, and put it in the Will Not Fix bucket.
 
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