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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Forum Favorites

« Last post by NWR_insanolord on April 06, 2025, 05:35:34 PM »

It was my suggestion, so obviously I have something to say. Platformers are probably my favorite kind of game, and Switch has one of the best libraries of them, especially considering the classics available through various means.

As far as original titles go, you've got two really good 3D Mario games between Super Mario Odyssey and Bowser's Fury. They do different things, and I prefer the more traditional platforming of Bowser's Fury, but they're both excellent. Keeping with Mario, Super Mario Bros. Wonder brought a lot of new ideas to the 2D side of things.

There are also a lot of good examples in the indie space, but none stand taller for me than Celeste. Featuring a tough but fair difficulty and plenty of variety in mechanics, it's not only one of the best platformers on Switch, it's become one of my favorite games ever, and one I've already replayed at least half a dozen times.

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders In United States Delayed Due To Tariff Impact

« Last post by Kairon on April 06, 2025, 02:31:14 PM »

As for the games... honestly I have no answer for that. Physical games will get hit hard if these tariffs stand. And there's no wiggle room as to what goes in the box. So... maybe the solution is to go *SIGH* all digital, which makes me cry as a person who prefers physical copies, but it's the only way I can see to mitigate these painfully high prices.

Maybe for the games Nintendo brings back the gold point program, but of course only for digital games.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Forum Favorites

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on April 06, 2025, 02:07:06 PM »

Alright, not a lot of love for Sega games, but how about...

What are your favorite platformers on Switch?

Thanks to insanolord for the suggestion!

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders In United States Delayed Due To Tariff Impact

« Last post by Luigi Dude on April 06, 2025, 01:12:47 PM »

Won't this also impact the MSRP on Playstation and XBox consoles? Does a company like Microsoft have more influence here or does that even matter?

If these tariffs stay EVERYTHING is going up.  There's a reason the stock market is literally imploding right now.  Nintendo was just the first one to be unlucky and announce a new product literally on the same day the tariffs were announced.  No company is eating an extra 30-50% tax that wasn't on their products before.

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders In United States Delayed Due To Tariff Impact

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on April 06, 2025, 11:56:17 AM »

Won't this also impact the MSRP on Playstation and XBox consoles? Does a company like Microsoft have more influence here or does that even matter?

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders In United States Delayed Due To Tariff Impact

« Last post by Kairon on April 06, 2025, 12:03:03 AM »

I've been similarly thinking about this on and off as well IanSane.

I think they have to raise the price on the system as we know it now... but introduce a lower priced SKU with the dock, HDMI cable, and charging grip stripped out. There can still be a "Complete" SKU at some eye-watering higher price, but this "Core SKU" would be able to preserve some lower price as an introduction to the ecosystem. A handheld Switch 2 is still a complete system, and you can always buy a dock separately. Pre-tariff the price of an extra dock was $109.99... so that'll still hurt, but at least you get your foot in the door.

As for the games... honestly I have no answer for that. Physical games will get hit hard if these tariffs stand. And there's no wiggle room as to what goes in the box. So... maybe the solution is to go *SIGH* all digital, which makes me cry as a person who prefers physical copies, but it's the only way I can see to mitigate these painfully high prices.

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TalkBack / Re: Pauline To Be Partner In Donkey Kong Bananza?

« Last post by Caterkiller on April 05, 2025, 08:53:54 PM »

You look at the wrist of this “Pauline” and you can see a bracelet made of that purple rock. That purple rock boy is made up of VoidCo caution tape, the same stuff used to block off an exit in the demo. It was sang away. I assume this rock and this girl are one and the same. Or Little Rock Boy transformed himself into the girls bracelet. This is Pauline’s daughter or Pauline is younger for some reason.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2

« Last post by broodwars on April 05, 2025, 01:57:53 PM »

Has anything been said about cross-saves between switch 1 and 2?

I haven't seen Nintendo come out and actually confirm cross-saves, but considering their official page on Switch 2 "Enhanced" games very concretely describes the Switch 2 versions as "updates" to the Switch 1 games (and not unique versions, and Nintendo just confirmed that all the Switch 2 version "Game Cards" are just Switch 1 versions with mandatory patches), I think it's safe to save we have cross-saves.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/transfer-guide/games-with-free-updates/

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on April 05, 2025, 01:32:42 PM »

Has anything been said about cross-saves between switch 1 and 2?

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Preorders In United States Delayed Due To Tariff Impact

« Last post by Ian Sane on April 05, 2025, 01:24:47 PM »

I've been thinking about what Nintendo could do.  Now it is possible that their pre-order delay is more to see what happens.  Trump has been putting tariffs on Canada repeatedly and it tends to follow the cycle where he announces some big tariff and Canada either threatens to retaliate or gives him a call and it goes away in a few days, though usually some new threat comes up a few weeks later.  Vietnam has already been in talks with the US about the 46% tariff so it is possible that it gets negotiated to a lower amount that is more what Nintendo was preparing for and then Nintendo can just continue as they planned.

But if it doesn't the assumption would be that Nintendo has to change the Switch 2 price, so how do they do that without it completely sinking the system?  Now the price is already higher in Europe and Canada where the tariffs are not applicable and the idea seems to be that Nintendo wants price parity across regions.  They may have to abandon that idea and have the US price be higher.  Now they have reportedly been stockpiling Switch 2's in the US in anticipation of this.  So they're not going to get hit by the tariff until the new systems start arriving.  I'm going to regard the existing systems as the core unit.  They can sell these at the existing price point.

So for the new arrivals that will have to sell at a higher price they need to increase the perceived value to American customers and need to do so with something that does not get added to the system until after it arrives in the US.  It would probably have to be something digital.  So it would be software bundles.  Obviously they have one with Mario Kart and I'm sure they were always going to have others as new games came out.  That might not be enough to cover the difference so they need to think of something that will add value.  Perhaps online vouchers for extra games but Nintendo doesn't necessarily want to give away new games.  But the Switch 2 is backwards compatible.  So the solution might be that post-tariff systems are bundles that come with the new Switch 2 first party game of the day and vouchers to download a certain amount of Switch 1 games.  Nintendo should probably not expect to sell as many Switch 1 games after the Switch 2 launch so it seems like the best place to take some of the tariff hit.  And if a person gets some free Switch 1 games with their system maybe they'll want to pay to upgrade to the Switch 2 version.  A free year of online play is also something that could be thrown in, which might also benefit from encouraging people to then pay for online once their trial is up.

Now I don't know how many Switch 2's are already in America.  Ideally they would want to hold on to those and spread out their distribution so they can still give the perception of offering a cheaper core model but the numbers are such that stores don't have that many and most of the Switch 2's in American stores are the more expensive bundles.  And in terms of time, the Switch 1 lasted 8 years but Trump will only be president for 4.  The priority should be surviving in the American market and building up a userbase with the intention of getting the real money from that market in the later half of the system's life, when presumably the tariff situation will have improved.