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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders To Open April 24 With System Prices Remaining As Announced

« Last post by TurdFurgy on April 18, 2025, 02:08:09 PM »

Glad the price didn't increase. I'm not excited for the Switch 2 so I have no idea what is compelling me to preorder one, but that's my plan. Maybe I'm just a fanboy after all?  In general I think we've been paying decent prices for games for a long while now and even me being the frugal sun of a gun I am I don't think the price increase is exactly unfair.

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders To Open April 24 With System Prices Remaining As Announced

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on April 18, 2025, 12:14:21 PM »

What time during the day do these pre-orders start? Is it 12:01 AM or around when businesses open on the east coast?

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders To Open April 24 With System Prices Remaining As Announced

« Last post by Adrock on April 18, 2025, 12:00:01 PM »

I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to pay these game prices. I don’t pay that. Granted, I’ve spent $80+ on some retro games. However, those go up in price; current games eventually drop. For example, I bought Tears of the Kingdom for ~$52 in July 2023, about two months after release. Spend what you feel comfortable spending and don’t spend a penny more. It isn’t as if Mario Kart World is going anywhere.

My plans haven’t changed. I intend to snag Switch 2 at launch. I’ve already set aside money for it, and Mario Kart World is cheaper in the bundle. With everything in flux, I want to get the console itself ASAP. Sony just increased PS5’s price in a bunch of regions this week so there’s a real possibility Nintendo eventually follows suit. Digital downloads wouldn’t be subject to tariffs though I’m skeptical Nintendo will adjust the pricing accordingly.

I’ll probably get a Switch 2 Pro Controller though I believe Switch 1 Pro Controllers are backwards compatible, and I’ve only used one of mine to pair and update so it’s practically new. The Switch 2 Camera is gonna be a no from me, dawg.

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders To Open April 24 With System Prices Remaining As Announced

« Last post by Ian Sane on April 18, 2025, 10:35:17 AM »

Nintendo of Canada's website confirms the April 24th date.  It also has what I'm pretty sure are the first confirmed prices.  Games are $100-110.  Yeah right.  I'm not going to buy any game at full price at that amount.

But the really lousy part of it is that is going to destroy some Canadian stores I've been a customer of for years, in some cases decades.  The Switch was a big seller for them and now it's being followed up with a ridiculous price hike.  In the US Donkey Kong is 10 bucks more than a normal Switch game.  In Canada it's 20.  I don't think I've ever seen game prices increase by such a large margin in Canada.  That's going to turn some people off and the lowest earning owners of the current Switch are going to just get cut out entirely.

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TalkBack / Re: Lunar Remastered Collection (Switch)

« Last post by Adrock on April 15, 2025, 02:55:21 AM »

Adding to the mix is a wild localization from a team that originally chose to include ‘90s American pop culture references such as Austin Powers jokes into a Japanese game. It’s a community fan favorite.

Darn, this is a big miss for me as I generally don't like Working Designs' translations. Some of the changes are innocuous like making a random villager in Alundra into a surfer dude. Corny but fine, I guess. Then, there are far worse instances like attempts at humor that are really off-putting as well as certain choices that recontextualize the original intent.

Maybe I'm yelling at clouds. I'd rather have a closer translation. For that reason, I was looking forward to Lunar Remastered Collection. I may have simply missed the train on Working Designs since I didn't play its published games until well after the 1990s. At least Lunar: Silver Star Harmony has a new translation. Unfortunately, Eternal Blue never got a similar remake.

Beyond that...

I would have even loved to see the Collection expanded with the other versions of the games and offshoots like Silver Star Harmony, Silver Star Complete, Lunar Legend, All The Lunar: Hyper Applications, Lunar: Sanposuru Gakuen, and Lunar Dragon Song, just to make this the definitive compilation.

...feels like a major missed opportunity and is perhaps not in the spirit of such a collection. This was probably the last best chance to get an official translation of Mahō Gakuen Lunar! AKA Magic School Lunar! (though I read it isn't very good) and/or fix Lunar: Dragon Song. Oh well.

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TalkBack / Re: No, Switch 2 Pre-Orders Weren't Rescheduled for May 8

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on April 11, 2025, 01:51:38 PM »

So there is still no official pre-order date?

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TalkBack / Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Announced for Switch 2

« Last post by Khushrenada on April 11, 2025, 05:09:48 AM »

Honestly, it's been awhile since a game trailer made me smile so much and laugh a bit while watching it. Before the title reveal, I felt the game should be called Donkey Kong: Force of Destruction based on what was being shown. I'll admit that I'm still thrown off by the new DK look and, with all the different enemies and art style, part of me wonders if this could have been a new franchise instead but I can get over that from how wild this game looks to be with almost everything seemingly destructible. I was just sort of expecting the usual for Mario Kart but it also blew me away by taking it into an open world style format. With that and DK, Switch 2 looks to already have some bangers. And it feels like Nintendo is still keeping some games under wraps because they've got to have more Switch 2 games for the latter half of the year than just Switch 1 game add-ons. Curious to see what they might have that could top DK for the holiday season when it looks this good.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Adding Switch 2 Exclusive GameCube Library

« Last post by Khushrenada on April 11, 2025, 04:55:27 AM »

F-Zero also likely suffers from the fact that it probably doesn't have someone championing it right now as a game or series they'd like to make a new entry in. We got a brand new Famicom Detective Game after about three decades and that series was given a new chance at life in part because there was someone that wanted to revisit it. We did get F-Zero 99 which was a sign of life for the series even if it again avoids the 3D of it all. I do think that has helped show there would be interest in a game. It's just a matter of when someone at Nintendo would want to retackle it. Kid Icarus seemed dead until Sakurai decided he wanted to make an entry for it and now he's bringing back Kirby's Air Ride. All of that tells me that F-Zero isn't dead with Nintendo. There will probably be a new game for it at some point. It just depends when someone will finally be willing to decide that's what they want to make.

Or else Nintendo finally does farm it out again. Keep in mind that F-Zero GX was really more a Sega game than Nintendo. Even then, F-Zero wasn't something that creatives inside Nintendo wanted to tackle. According to Nagoshi, who was the person who really developed GX, Nintendo was highly impressed with what Amusement Vision made which you can take a few ways. Either they didn't think another company could make a game at the Nintendo sort of level or they didn't see F-Zero as a big priority and were surprised to see what heights an F-Zero game could reach. They've said things about not knowing what else they could do to move the series forward after GX. Considering Nintendo just went back to 2D for the series twice more on the GBA, they just don't seem to want to make the jump to 3D internally aside from F-Zero X. If GX didn't exist, I wonder how many people would be asking for a new F-Zero game still or if we'd have just seen it as an antiquated old style of racing game and a minor part of Nintendo's history like Mach Rider or Excitebike. Don't hear people wondering when Nintendo will finally return to the Excitebike series. But since Nintendo didn't design GX, it leaves the series in an odd situation with the company. If Nintendo finally decides to take another crack at the series internally, it could end up looking rather different than expected. Sort of like how Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and now Donkey Kong Bananza are willing to take DK in different directions internally compared to what's been done by Rare and Retro with the DKC series and fan expectations of what elements make a DK game.

Nintendo can point to sales as a safe way out of not making a new F-Zero entry but, I think based on the history, they just don't really know what they want to do with the series or seem to see it as a 3D series. If Nintendo was going to stick by GameCube sales as justification for decisions then we wouldn't have seen Luigi's Mansion 2 or a new Kirby Air Ride game. Perhaps Mario Kart is also a factor with it taking up all their ideas and focus so that another 3D racer seems redundant. (However, considering the company has also got multiple series known for 2D platforming games, I don't think redundancy is that big an issue.) Still, if Air Ride can return then I do think we finally see another 3D F-Zero and I even think we see it in the next five years on Switch 2. The big question is how many franchises can Nintendo keep juggling? In the past decade, they finally got Fire Emblem to take off big. Pikmin 4 has helped boost that series power and justified making a Pikmin 5 and that there will be demand for it. Animal Crossing hit huge numbers with Switch. You've got the beasts of Mario and Zelda that need to keep churning out entries. Metroid Prime 4 may determine what Retro's making for the next few years. The future of Smash Bros. is currently in question of how to follow up Ultimate and who may do it if Sakurai really is stepping away from the series. If DK Bananza is a big hit, is EAD going to try and juggle Mario and DK games going foward? If F-Zero does come along and turns out to be a success both in sales and with fans then that will cause demand for another future entry. That's why farming it out is likely how we'll see a new entry. Find a studio willing to make the entries for that series sort of like Next Level Games has become the Luigi's Mansion and Mario Striker's dev. Pokemon company handles the Pokemon games. HAL handles Kirby. Retro and Mercury Studios have got Metroid duty. Monolith Soft has Xenoblade along with their assistance in Zelda. Mario Party by Hudson aka NDcube aka Nintendo Cube. Fire Emblem and Paper Mario are Intelligent Systems. They'd probably want to find a company to try it out and if successful then have them keep making more entries.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will you be willing to buy Virtual Game Cards, or would go all digital instead?

« Last post by Adrock on April 10, 2025, 12:30:29 PM »

Assuming a full on-cartridge physical copy isn't available, would you be willing to buy a game on a Virtual Game Card, or would you just bite the bullet and get a full digital copy if it came to that?

I’ve long planned to go fully digital on Switch 2 for the convenience. However, I’ve softened this stance and will get a physical copy if I see a Godfather offer. For example, I got Super Mario RPG at Staples for $30 last year.

Virtual Game Cards are the worst of both worlds for my purposes. I have to download a large file and physically switch out a game card that takes up space in my house. The main benefits are you can share with friends and trade them in, neither of which I generally do anymore.

I did recently find out that later releases of Switch game cards sometimes include version updates which partially addresses one of my problems with physical media. Something to keep in mind if I eventually buy a Switch 2 game card especially since I rarely buy games on release day.

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TalkBack / Re: All Known Upgraded and Updated Switch Games Coming to Switch 2

« Last post by broodwars on April 10, 2025, 10:25:28 AM »

Apparently, Nintendo also accidentally leaked a Yoshi's Woolly World Switch port in one of their videos where they scrolled a library of Switch 1 BC games