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

[Harman Smith]

That final boss in Bananza is sick. Slapping him around the arena is just so much fun.

 

[Calandrino]

Who is knocking down the doors for Wave Race?

Which sucks because all I want is a fun rail shooter with branching paths set in a space ship. But NOOOOO.

The answer is always "just play something else"

Sorry if not enough furries

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

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)

Nintendo is really starting to replace EA as the Great Satan of the Gaming Industry

 

[LightDragonman1]

I mean, this is the first I've heard of anyone having extremely bad frame rate problems there. Most everyone else has nothing but good things to say about the last sections of the game.

I personally am definitely going to pick up Bananza once I get a Switch 2. It looks to be one of the best games of the year.

Though, would you say it is up there with the greats like the Donkey Kong Country games?

 

[NerdShamer]

Though, would you say it is up there with the greats like the Donkey Kong Country games?

They've really should have found an actual voice actor for King K. Otherwise, it's largely the Ooga Booga version of Mario Odyssey.

But it's absolutely not as good as the better entries of DKC, though

 

[LightDragonman1]

Well I loved Mario Odyssey, so that's a plus for me.

And I must say, it does have a lot of cool throwbacks to the original Country games. Including a pretty awesome remix of Stickerbush Symphony.

 

[Never Scored]

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)

If that happened on an actual N64 game back in the day we were like, "The boss is so awesome, the system literally can't handle it."

 

[IrishGuy088]

The answer is always "just play something else"

We set up one of our old computers and it is basically a House of the Dead machine now. All emulated Wii stuff with the old hardware that was sitting in the basement. It has been a ton of fun.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

If that happened on an actual N64 game back in the day we were like, "The boss is so awesome, the system literally can't handle it."

I remember that lol

 

[Fox Girl Enjoyer]

Nintendo is really starting to replace EA as the Great Satan of the Gaming Industry

Its funny you say that as Sean Malstrom (guy has been writing about them since the Wii) has been saying Nintendo wants to be EA for years

The reasons why you love Nintendo are the reason why Nintendo hates Nintendo. Nintendo doesn’t want to be seen as the ‘scrappy company’ who uses ‘older technology’. Nintendo wants to be EA. Nintendo desires industrialization. You don’t see innovation come from their games. You see their IPs rolled out like a factory assembly line with no soul generation after generation.

But yeah, Nintendo has gotten complacent which always lands them in trouble. I still think they are going to struggle outside Japan and it's going to be a constant battle to try and get the US and European markets to buy in.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Its funny you say that as Sean Malstrom (guy has been writing about them since the Wii) has been saying Nintendo wants to be EA for years

But yeah, Nintendo has gotten complacent which always lands them in trouble. I still think they are going to struggle outside Japan and it's going to be a constant battle to try and get the US and European markets to buy in.

Reading your article, the below part stood out to me as being especially bullshit:

The reason why software sold so well on the Switch, especially third party software, was because of the carts. People would opt to buy the Switch version of the game because there was a physical version. Now, does this represent all of the software? No. But it represents much of the ‘fringes’ such as the indie releases.

Thats absolutely not true. Often times you couldn't even find those games in physical stores. People brought 3rd party games on Switch so they could play them on the bus or because Switch was the only "console" they owned. I'm as pro-physical as you can get but lets not lie about why Switch 1 wasn't successful, its not because John Q. Public was going to Doesitrun, its because the Switch had a good formfactor. I'd also point out that him calling things like Nintendo's NES output (huge swaths of which were farmed out wholesale to UPTG/Rare and Tose on contract) not industrialized is the epitome of rose-tinted glasses.

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Reading more of the guy's stuff, no, he's just a retard. Bitching about Nintendo doing the same thing twice as "industrialization of gaming" but then when he's talking about his own game that he's making its a blatant Final Fantasy 6 rip-off from the structure of the party right through to the structure of the plot. How is that not the very same thing he's complaining about himself?

When I see Donkey Kong Bonanza, I see nothing but ‘slop’. Everything about the game feels wrong especially tied to Donkey Kong. The production elements such as all the singing come across to me as damn annoying. You couldn’t pay me to play Donkey Kong Bonanza.

And then there's this..... opinions disregarded.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

it's going to be a constant battle to try and get the US and European markets to buy in.

honestly this is a small whitepill but as dire as Western Civilization is right now, its one strength is that its literally always going to be a Bastion of consumer skepticism and that applies to the game industry as well, a Karen freaking out when McDonalds forgets one pickle on her burger is also indicative of the general mood as far as Gamers in the west go, people in America and Europe are far more willing to not buy a game and save the money in their wallet when it comes to something thats ostensibly targeted at them if they dont like something about it then Japan or other asian countries, in Japan (and East Asia generally speaking) you are shamed for not forking over your money to Mr. CEO if his company makes a game or service targeted at your demographic and you dont buy it for whatever reason, its the toxic Asian business culture that we did this for you therefore you dont (or rather shouldn't) have a choice in participating in an economic exchange, I can almost guarantee theres at least some seething during meetings at Nintendo Headquarters in Kyoto because westerners (and especially Americans) won't buy their shit and often tell them to fuck off when they make a choice gamers don't like

 

[Unnecessary Surgery Land]

I wish I didn’t grind so much. I reached the Elephant Bananza and it makes everything so much easier. Almost insultingly easier.

Whoever reads this and still hasn’t played DKB for fucks sake don’t be a grind fag early by punching your way through terrains. Speed run to the elephant bananza THEN grind. It makes all that old grinding shit seem like a massive waste of time because it’s so easy to suck up terrain to get gold/collectables while being an elephant

 

[Lone MacReady II]

nuDonkey's rape ape face unsettles me greatly. Rape ape is the only way to phrase it.

 

[Metamorpho]

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tomorrow's the day we figure out whether or not this guy will age regress back to 14 and start posting pictures of lanky kong talking about how epic gamer girl pee and fortnite is

Did this guy end up age regressing?

 

[Fox Girl Enjoyer]

Thats absolutely not true. Often times you couldn't even find those games in physical stores. People brought 3rd party games on Switch so they could play them on the bus or because Switch was the only "console" they owned. I'm as pro-physical as you can get but lets not lie about why Switch 1 wasn't successful, its not because John Q. Public was going to Doesitrun, its because the Switch had a good formfactor. I'd also point out that him calling things like Nintendo's NES output (huge swaths of which were farmed out wholesale to UPTG/Rare and Tose on contract) not industrialized is the epitome of rose-tinted glasses.

Unless you're fucking 6, yeah that absolutely was the case. The game being on the cart was a big deal and its why Switch had a lot of people collecting games because you HAD the game. To say it wasn't important is retarded.
Bold is you didn't understand what he was actually saying. It's industrialization of IPs which could happen during the NES because, outside of Donkey Kong and Punch Out there really weren't any IPs to exploit.

honestly this is a small whitepill but as dire as Western Civilization is right now, its one strength is that its literally always going to be a Bastion of consumer skepticism and that applies to the game industry as well, a Karen freaking out when McDonalds forgets one pickle on her burger is also indicative of the general mood as far as Gamers in the west go, people in America and Europe are far more willing to not buy a game and save the money in their wallet when it comes to something thats ostensibly targeted at them if they dont like something about it then Japan or other asian countries, in Japan (and East Asia generally speaking) you are shamed for not forking over your money to Mr. CEO if his company makes a game or service targeted at your demographic and you dont buy it for whatever reason, its the toxic Asian business culture that we did this for you therefore you dont (or rather shouldn't) have a choice in participating in an economic exchange, I can almost guarantee theres at least some seething during meetings at Nintendo Headquarters in Kyoto because westerners (and especially Americans) won't buy their shit and often tell them to fuck off when they make a choice gamers don't like

I agree to a point. US consumers can be dumb as shit too, but Nintendo doesn't get the foreign market and sometimes doesn't even try. It might not even be an Asian vs European thing but just a Nintendo thing. They are too arrogant for their own good (and I blame Miyamoto a lot for that).Like you said, they'll do something the Western markets don't like and then be surprised Pikachu face when it doesn't work out like they expected. You can kind of see this in Palworld. Nintendo has lost the West with Pokemon to the point where an ARK clone can copy its idea and become one of the biggest games of 2024. Nintendo will never question why that game took off. They'll just seethe and think they don't get it like grorious Nippon does. There may be better examples but you get the idea.

A bit of a tangent, but another good one was China. China is a market dominated by mobile games and anything they buy is either A)about China or B)anime. What does Nintendo release with Switch in China. Not Fire Emblem. Not Xenoblade. Not even fucking Zelda. It was Mario, Kirby and NEW Pokemon (imagine releasing those games when Genshin Impact looks better on mobile and is free). The system flopped and Nintendo gave up. They just assumed Mario must always sell despite Chinese never really growing up with Mario. They really wont make changes until they absolutely have too.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Nintendo put out 4 SMB games on the Famicom. Capcom put out six Megamans, it was "industrialized" to fuck.

In regards to physical games... you are wrong. I'm a physical game collector, I own over 100 Switch games, many sealed, but I am not the norm. The norm on every system to have released numbers is well under ten games per system and huge swaths of people, even adults, have switched to digital because of ease of access, bundling, deals, etc.

 

[Croaking Spider]

Which sucks because all I want is a fun rail shooter with branching paths set in a space ship. But NOOOOO.

At least the first two (three) games are good enough to replay forever.

Sadly the best Star Fox game is Ubisoft's attempt to sell a No Man's Sky experience through toy-to-game figures. Think Skylanders with ships. Neat idea, but toys-to-games has yet to work out successfully for anyone in the long run.



Fortunately, the game goes on sale often on Switch and the Deluxe edition gives you everything you would get if you were to buy the individual ships, pilots, and weapon systems. The figures themselves actually aren't half bad and wouldn't look even a fraction of embarrassing on a shelf as a half naked anime chick.

 

[Harman Smith]

Its funny you say that as Sean Malstrom (guy has been writing about them since the Wii) has been saying Nintendo wants to be EA for years

But yeah, Nintendo has gotten complacent which always lands them in trouble. I still think they are going to struggle outside Japan and it's going to be a constant battle to try and get the US and European markets to buy in.

Sean Malstrom just posted an article claiming that JRPGs plots are on the same level of quality of Star Trek V. He’s a retard.

 

[IrishGuy088]

Sadly the best Star Fox game is Ubisoft's attempt to sell a No Man's Sky experience through toy-to-game figures. Think Skylanders with ships. Neat idea, but toys-to-games has yet to work out successfully for anyone in the long run.

I played a bit of Starlink but ultimately found it disappointing. Maybe I should give it another chance...