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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« Last post by broodwars on Yesterday at 10:30:12 AM »

Well according to current rumors Star Fox and Fire Emblem are summer titles and an Ocarina of Time remake is the big holiday release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uguu9QJUhio

Is this guy known to be very reputable in the rumor mill? He just showed up in my suggested viewing.

With Star Fox being highlighted in the new Mario movie it sure would make sense for another Star Fox game to drop soon. And a classic on-rails release online multiplayer would be the ideal way to go.

Not sure how I feel about this.

On the one hand, Ocarina of Time is one of my all-time favorite games and I'm always up for a new Star Fox, provided that they learned their lessons from the failures of Zero.

On the other, remaking Ocarina is a dicey business. While Ocarina was revolutionary for its time, by modern standards it's a pretty basic game. What kind of remake are we talking here? There are just so many little things Nintendo could do with an Ocarina remake to rub people the wrong way that if I were them I'm not sure I'd want to do it. Isn't Ocarina still the #1 highest rated game of all time?

As for Star Fox, please...for the love of god...no more remakes of the original Star Fox. We've already had 3 of them (SF64, SF64 3DS, & Zero). Do something new, and please don't suck like just about every other attempt to not remake the original Star Fox.

On a side note, I find it hard to care about the new Fire Emblem. I bailed out on 3 Houses out of boredom with the monotonous out-of-battle routine of scouring the map for stuff on the ground, giving stuff to the students, micromanaging everything, etc. I never got around to Engage, though I should sometime soon since I'm trying to catch up on Switch stuff on Switch 2.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« Last post by Stratos on Yesterday at 02:18:32 AM »

Well according to current rumors Star Fox and Fire Emblem are summer titles and an Ocarina of Time remake is the big holiday release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uguu9QJUhio

Is this guy known to be very reputable in the rumor mill? He just showed up in my suggested viewing.

With Star Fox being highlighted in the new Mario movie it sure would make sense for another Star Fox game to drop soon. And a classic on-rails release online multiplayer would be the ideal way to go.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Changes To Pricing Of Switch 2 Games, Ends Price Parity

« Last post by Kairon on March 26, 2026, 05:06:58 PM »

This sucks for retailers, but honestly I think rising costs for manufacturing physical media was dragging prices for digital releases higher than they needed to be. Finally making the choice to break parity will give Nintendo more room to offer digital games at lower prices, in this case a return to last gen's $60 pricepoint, if they feel they need to react to consumers shying away from higher game prices.

Oh, and I did just finally understand why I saw someone calling this the Switch 2 version of the Voucher system. Two Switch 1 games would cost $120, but vouchers let you get them digitally for $100, $10 off per game as long as you committed to the bundle and bought it digitally. Now, two Switch 2 games would normally cost $70, but with the Digital drop you can get two games for $120, the same discount of $10 each per game. EXCEPT now you don't have to buy it a year in advance, and you can get the discount for just one game, not have to commit to buying two.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Changes To Pricing Of Switch 2 Games, Ends Price Parity

« Last post by broodwars on March 25, 2026, 06:46:37 PM »

Looking forward to those digital prices going right back up as soon as Nintendo's finally killed off physical media altogether. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Nintendo to put out a game worth $70 aside from DKB.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Changes To Pricing Of Switch 2 Games, Ends Price Parity

« Last post by Evan_B on March 25, 2026, 05:21:43 PM »

This is a very logical idea but, man, Nintendo is rather blatantly trying to steer things towards the all-digital future.  If I ever get a Switch 2 I already figure that I'm going to have to increase my digital purchases significantly unless I want to just miss out on tons of great games.  Now it will be a question of whether it makes sense financially to not do that.

Now how is this going to affect Game Key Card prices?  Are they going to be the higher "physical" price?  Ironically that seems like that would kill the format.  You can imagine physical game enthusiasts willing to pay a premium but why would anyone pay extra for what is essentially a digital version?  But then if GKCs die to push people towards digital purchases they accomplished their goal.

Of course the true result of this is that physical media is outright killed.  Then the prices go up.  Then games you "bought" become rentals.  I feel this has always been inevitable.  It's just unfortunate that Nintendo is so aggressively putting their thumb on the scale after the Switch 1 was actually a very good system for physical releases.

As someone who just recently picked up my first GKC, I can’t imagine that format will exist for much longer with this idea in place.

Also, it sounds like this is the last generation I will be able to own video games and I’m resigned to that fate.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Changes To Pricing Of Switch 2 Games, Ends Price Parity

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on March 25, 2026, 02:55:31 PM »

Still no preorders?

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Changes To Pricing Of Switch 2 Games, Ends Price Parity

« Last post by Ian Sane on March 25, 2026, 02:55:07 PM »

This is a very logical idea but, man, Nintendo is rather blatantly trying to steer things towards the all-digital future.  If I ever get a Switch 2 I already figure that I'm going to have to increase my digital purchases significantly unless I want to just miss out on tons of great games.  Now it will be a question of whether it makes sense financially to not do that.

Now how is this going to affect Game Key Card prices?  Are they going to be the higher "physical" price?  Ironically that seems like that would kill the format.  You can imagine physical game enthusiasts willing to pay a premium but why would anyone pay extra for what is essentially a digital version?  But then if GKCs die to push people towards digital purchases they accomplished their goal.

Of course the true result of this is that physical media is outright killed.  Then the prices go up.  Then games you "bought" become rentals.  I feel this has always been inevitable.  It's just unfortunate that Nintendo is so aggressively putting their thumb on the scale after the Switch 1 was actually a very good system for physical releases.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Changes To Pricing Of Switch 2 Games, Ends Price Parity

« Last post by Adrock on March 25, 2026, 02:19:17 PM »

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NWR Feedback / Re: Connection Problems

« Last post by broodwars on March 24, 2026, 07:31:39 PM »

Feels like posting causes server timeout 99.99% of the time since late February, at least in Talkback. Dunno why this thread works when nothing else has.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« Last post by Luigi Dude on March 24, 2026, 01:06:59 PM »

So some stupid website that has bad takes (not NWR) has reported a rumor that Nintendo is scaling back Switch 2 production in lieu of poor NA sales

The source of that rumor is Takashi Mochizuki from Bloomberg who has a long history of posting inaccurate information about Nintendo.  So yeah, there's no credibility in said rumor.

Of course even if the article was accurate, it's saying Nintendo will only produce 4 million Switch 2 for the first Quarter of this year instead of 6 million.  That would still be almost record breaking for a Nintendo system this early in its life.  The Switch 1 in comparison only sold 1.8 million in Q1 of 2018.

Nintendo's own forecast for the system is 19 million by the end of March, and they were already over 17 by the end of December.  Even if they over shipped at the end of last year, we have reports from around the world Pokepedia's success has been selling out hardware everywhere, so not only will they easily reach 19 million, there's a good chance we could be looking at 20-21 million by the end of March.  If that happens the system will have surpassed the Gamecube's lifetime total by the end of April.  Even if the rumors are true and Nintendo has to cut shipments by 30% of what they planned, that would still put the system on track to have a user base that's bigger then then the N64's lifetime total by the end of this year.

At this point articles and YouTubers that try to doom Nintendo should be treated as comedy.  Even in the worst case scenario's, the Switch 2 is on track to be in the upper half of Nintendo's best selling systems.