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Nintendo Gaming / Submissions are closed

« Last post by Order.RSS on Today at 09:33:50 AM »

Hi all, since the Direct has already started submissions are now closed.
I'm gonna make coffee and then see what they've announced.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« Last post by NWR_insanolord on Today at 01:21:46 AM »

A friend of mine is playing Metroid Fusion for the first time right now, and him talking about it made me want to go back and play it again. My controversial opinion regarding 2D Metroid is I think each game has been better than the previous one, so while that means it's not my favorite, all the games since Super Metroid are fantastic, and I especially love how breezy the GBA games are. They're a lot less difficult than the MercurySteam games, but it's so fun to just comfortably glide through them. I'm still going through Prime 4, which I've been enjoying, but the fact that Samus has actual dialog in Fusion really makes me wish they'd gone that way in Prime 4 as well.

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Nintendo Gaming / LAST CALL

« Last post by Order.RSS on Yesterday at 08:26:39 PM »

This is it folks, deadline for predictions is tomorrow, the moment the Direct starts!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2026?

« Last post by Evan_B on Yesterday at 01:02:39 PM »

Okay, so the Partner Direct is happening tomorrow so this is my last chance. Here’s to the year.

-I also believe that the Switch 2 will have a price increase. Probably around another fifty dollars? Nintendo will “offset” this with more hardware bundles, as it costs them nothing. Think of this as your Voucher Ticket, except you’ll need to buy an entire piece of hardware to justify your discount!
-I’m DOUBLING DOWN on Hi Fi Rush, this time having a Nintendo Switch 2 version that runs better than the Nintendo Switch version. That’s the only Microsoft-adjacent thing I can reasonably predict, as I don’t have enough knowledge of their other IP to comment.
-Wait, no. I lied. I think Grounded will get a Nintendo Switch 2 edition that performs better than the Nintendo Switch version.
-This might be the most basic prediction ever, but there is going to be a NEW Square Enix title announced and released this year that uses nostalgia/brand recognition of previously-released titles as a selling point. Not a sequel, a spin-off or new concept.
-Wishful thinking: Visions of Mana somehow comes to the Switch 2. I am personally happy about this.
-The Adventures of Elliot gets another Demo! Also a basic prediction. I gotta make that money somehow.
-Elden Ring: Nightreign also comes to the Switch 2 around the same time as Elden Ring. It might come out at the same time as a new content update for Nightreign, but it will not be as up-to-date as the current version (the more specific this prediction becomes, the less likely it will come true, but I don’t care).
-I think we’ll get news of a new Monster Hunter exclusive to Switch 2 for the later half of 2026. Rise and Stories 2 both released in 2021, believe it or not. Or google it.
-We get a tease of Pokemon Gen 10 later this month, but it does not have a 2026 launch. I expect it will occupy the Legends Arceus slot of 2027, and that we’ll see Pokopia (Ditto game?) as this year’s major release.
-Splatoon Raiders is a Summer release, because for some reason that’s when Splatoon games are released (unless they’re switched around with Xenoblade 3). I think that this game is going to have some Amiibo. HOT TAKE!
-If there IS a Mario-Galaxy-Movie-adjacent Mario game, it will not release within the theatrical run of said movie.
-We’ll get Twilight Princess on GCN Classics before they dare release WWHD/TPHD on Switch 2.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« Last post by Evan_B on Yesterday at 08:48:47 AM »

I’m surprised to hear that Magnolia is more Metroidvania, because I got a very similar vibe from its loop in comparison with the (admittedly slight) amount I played of Lilies. I am going to go back to that game, if only because the strength of the boss fights here makes me think they probably had the right ideas the first time around.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« Last post by Evan_B on Yesterday at 08:46:19 AM »

On one hand, it’s nice that Nintendo is giving respect to those non-A-listers, and I can at least respect that approach a bit. On the other hand, I think it’s a decidedly unsafe way to approach a new hardware launch, and feels a bit overconfident about the selling power of some of their IP.

I think the critical reception towards Banaza and Z-A was completely warranted, as both felt like extremely polished but conceptually half-baked products. Hyrule Warriors is going to sell off of the IP cache and the “this is canon, guys, honest!” marketing that they’ve been pushing, but I’ve played enough Hyrule Warriors (original and AoC) to know that my body isn’t prepared for more Warriors-style gameplay, which is essentially unchanged. The same goes for Mario Kart, which I still feel has not justified its 80 dollar asking price and will need some sort of roadmap (pun not intended) to justify returning to it, even over MK8 Deluxe. For Air Riders, it kinda feels like Nintendo said “make something for the Switch launch?” to Sakurai, and because of his influence/independence he was like “okay, another Air Ride.” It’s another very polished product and has all the Sakurai-isms one might want from a Sakurai game, but outside of Smash Bros., do his games have universal appeal?

My favorite Switch 2 game so far has been Daemon Ex Machina: Titanic Scion if only because it really swung for the fences in terms of its structure and theming in a way that no other Switch 2 game has done, personally. I won’t deny that it also appeals to my preferences a bit more, but that does leave me asking “what was I supposed to be excited about with this system?” The answer was “many of my Switch games perform better,” which was a delightful surprise, but not what I would expect from a new hardware launch.

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General Gaming / Re: Community Event: Forum February 2026

« Last post by Khushrenada on Yesterday at 03:33:50 AM »

I am up. Or down? This will not count as one of today’s three posts.

Too bad. It's been quoted now so it counts!

I'd love to see the forums more active. I'm in.

If only there were some role you could take on that could give you some authority (like a manager) to try and foster more community engagement.

Don't mind me. I've just been posting walls of text no one reads for years.

Ok. I'll just move on to the next post then. 

That's really what separates the forums from something like Discord. I love our Discord, but there's no real place there for the kind of depth you can get with a long forum post. And I only don't read them when they're Khush's posts.

Yeppers. Plus, it can be hard to continue a conversation if you missed it earlier. Or if you want to return to an earlier conversation while this can allow you to revisit thoughts from days, weeks, months or years ago.

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TalkBack / Re: Disney Afternoon Collection Finally Coming To Switch February 26 Alongside Switch 2 Version

« Last post by broodwars on Yesterday at 02:43:25 AM »

I'm hoping Goof Troop at least comes to the other versions. I bought this years ago, and I'd rather not buy it all over again for just one OK-ish SNES game (as unironically significant as that game is to gaming history).

What do you mean about its significance in gaming History? Was this the first Capcom licensed franchise game on the SNES or something?

As mentioned in the article, this was Shinji Mikami's project just before getting tapped to work on remaking Sweet Home, which would become Resident Evil. If this game had gone poorly, we might be looking at a very different industry, at least in terms of horror games.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« Last post by NWR_insanolord on Yesterday at 01:07:47 AM »

I think that's definitely part of it. If you look at the games that are true Switch 2 games and not enhanced versions of Switch games, apart from Mario Kart it's a lot of smaller franchises or spin-offs. DK's kind of a second tier Nintendo property, and then you've got the niche Zelda spinoff in Hyrule Warriors and a sequel to an obscure late GameCube game in Kirby Air Riders.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2026?

« Last post by Stratos on Yesterday at 12:44:45 AM »

New Monster Hunter game announced for the Switch 2 that is not a port of Wilds
Nintendo seem to get their own series of MH games, so I don't see Wilds being ported. It's been long enough since the last one on Switch that I could see this happening soon. If it does end up being a port, then I'd bet it's World instead since that was on PS4.
Just mix them all together, Rise of the Wild World Ultimate

-A Microsoft IP will show up on Switch 2.
Now I'm copying someone else with this one, but I dunno what else to predict and I like this bold guess. And I don't mean a Rare IP, I mean something along the lines of Halo or Gears.
That really grinds my gears

I like your predictions and almost want to jack some for my own. Specifically the Monster Hunter and Microsoft-IP ones.

There are two Monster Hunter dev teams. One does Worlds/Wilds, the other Ultimate/Rise/Sunbreak. It is about that time the Rise team is wrapping their next project and that is indeed traditionally a Switch/Nintendo title.

And Microsoft does like porting their more Nintendo-style offerings to Nintendo systems. I hink we will see more Rare releases on the Switch Online, and maybe some other classic XBox titles like Rare Replay or Banjk-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts in due time.

I had a friend that worked in the Microsoft games division and he told me they had all those classic Rare games and some other ones running on Nintendo hardware in their office. PArt of that was through the game cloud streaming efforts, but some had been targeted for actual Nintendo releases but never got final approval to move forward.