The Nintendo Switch

Maybe they will add some old levels to Mario Kart, new characters to Smash Bros., and announce that they are only a couple of years out from Zelda 2 and Metroid Prime 4.

Splatoon 3 just sold 3.5 million in three days in Japan, biggest game launch there ever.
bigger than Pokemon, Dragon Quest, FF7. that's kind of a big deal, no?

I bought the previous splatoon a while back and could never get used to the damn controls.

my kids were so hyped for that, they'd been talking about it for like the past year
i played a little of the new one, it seems exactly like splatoon 2? like "new" characters and levels but no appreciable difference in gameplay or graphics or anything

i also struggle with the controls, i end up mostly using the right joystick to look around instead of tilting the controller

xp yeah thats enormous sales for japan. the switch animal crossing already shattered the previous record and this shattered it again

like "new" characters and levels but no appreciable difference in gameplay or graphics or anything

Super Mario Bros to SMB3 was a notable leap. But yeah, sequels in the same console generation are usually subtitled “very similar to what you already like; 3/4 of the way to the inevitable reboot”

But damn, people must be craving some more of what they like about splatoon! This is very petty or me but i can’t stand the character style of splatoon. I don’t want to be any of these characters or look at them

i'm not a huge fan of the char designs/fashion either but the game is absurdly fun once you master the movement (i have not bought 3 though nor will i for a bit)

lol

Tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct Will Be Livestreamed Twice by Nintendo Ireland Out of Disrespect for the Queenhttps://t.co/ShQr0os4Ms

— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) September 12, 2022

Oooh, I'd given up hope but I just realized there could be Silksong news!

silksong doesn't exist

New Zelda title as ironic commentary

Why did Nintendo (er) spoil themselves?

As accidentally winsome commentary on UK

Oh, wait, this thing happened already, didn't it.

I'm officially excited about (checks notes) one thing announced, and it rhymes with Griselda.

lots of stuff I liked, but it was pretty much all 3rd parties outside of a Pikmin logo and a v short Zelda trailer.
Nintendo's first party studios MIA, I guess they are working on content for the next systems launch?

Hm I wonder if Link doesn't have the glider in BOTW2?

hell yeah links back and hes got an airplane baby

Nintendo's first party studios MIA, I guess they are working on content for the next systems launch?

Sigh. I feel like half my time with the Switch has been spent waiting for what comes next, but at this point I think I've finally realized that with few exceptions, whatever it is that Nintendo does best may just be not for me. I loved Breath and we as a family got a lot out of Mario Kart, but both of those were ports from the previous system. I loved the Ori games, but they were Microsoft games that somehow made it to Nintendo. Other than that, my fave indies (Hollow Knight, Cuphead, Hades) have been available on all systems. Oh well.

im studying the trailer like the zapruder film, stuff weve seen before floating castle, sky islands, no towers or shrines, links weird arms, link doesnt have any of his old gear, time reversing mechanic maybe thing; new stuff link has guardian shotgun shell looking things hanging from his belt, big green design on a bluff, wooden shield, stone axe, airplane!

his gear looks pretty rudimentary feel like this could be the distant past, relative to botw, or some sort of time mixing situation cld be going on, the castle is there but its behaving strangely

Sigh. I feel like half my time with the Switch has been spent waiting for what comes next, but at this point I think I've finally realized that with few exceptions, whatever it is that Nintendo does best may just be not for me.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 11:37 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

are you going to be ok

Certainly by May 2023!

IF I DON'T HAVE THE GLIDER I DON'T WANT IT

Nintendo consoles are for Nintendo first party games. You should buy them if you want to play Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Kirby, and, uh, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom, which I’m playing through right now. If you’re not into those but want a handheld you might be better off getting a Steam Deck

damnnn new Fire Emblem and Octopath sequel at the beginning of 2023 + BOTW 2 drops in May. craziness

IF I DON'T HAVE THE GLIDER I DON'T WANT IT

― death generator (lukas), Tuesday, September 13, 2022 11:49 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it has an airplane!

and prob some cool jumping/flying mechanics

one question about this game is if theyre using "the same map and engine" how do you make it a new fresh experience, and obvs part of the answer is links got to have new different stuff, different mechanics

however if they make a mario odyssey 2 you absolutely must be able to jump on the hat

is it actually the same map i assumed they would do a calamity / upheaval on it so theres like recognizable spots from the first game but they're fucked up now

Zelda: a game about gliding

it has an airplane!

woke nonsense

pretty funny that every dev's stardew-valley-chasing farm game is now coming out at the same time

New Nintendo Direct Entirely Stardew Valley Rip-Offshttps://t.co/eo8GPW92ce

— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) September 13, 2022

is it actually the same map i assumed they would do a calamity / upheaval on it so theres like recognizable spots from the first game but they're fucked up now

Surely it's this, and I for one am looking forward to it. I love it when you get a familiar landscape made strange, whether in a sequel or in the same game, like the Leyndell/Ashen Capital in Elden Ring

I'm a little bummed that there's no sign of Wind Waker or Twilight Princess ports, still

Sigh. I feel like half my time with the Switch has been spent waiting for what comes next, but at this point I think I've finally realized that with few exceptions, whatever it is that Nintendo does best may just be not for me.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 11:37 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, this system you posted about 592 times just wasn't for you

xp everyone seems to think those and metroid prime 1-3 HD are just sitting completed in a vault somewhere until they have a slow quarter and need a stopgap release

Nintendo consoles are for Nintendo first party games. You should buy them if you want to play Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Kirby, and, uh, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom, which I’m playing through right now. If you’re not into those but want a handheld you might be better off getting a Steam Deck

I agree with this to a certain extent but you can't exactly go buy a Deck easily. Also although I have a Deck and like it, it is nowhere near as plug-and-play as the marketing suggests, you have to do a lot of dicking around to get many games working on it, if they work at all. I'm currently playing Soul Hackers 2 which launched well after the Deck did and it's buggy as hell with regular crashes, I had to search out and install a custom windows layer just to get it working decently. It's not a mass market device, that's for sure.

nintendo consoles are for nintendo first party games, nintendo handhelds are for third party JRPGs and japanese adventure games, the switch is both of these so it's for both

nintendo is for nintending, nuff said

I agree with all of that, and it's totally fair, there just haven't been that many first party games that have commanded my attention. Basically just Breath of the Wild, and again, that was technically last gen. Not really a fan of turn-based or rogue-likes or JRPGs, which kind of limits offerings on all systems, tbh, but especially on the Switch. But hey, it was worth buying for Breath and the two Oris alone!

Tune in on Nov. 9 at 9:00 a.m. PT for a new @IndieWorldNA Showcase featuring roughly 25 minutes of information on upcoming indie games headed to Nintendo Switch! #IndieWorld

Watch it live here: https://t.co/hDrAmAABvI pic.twitter.com/l1oo184Kga

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) November 7, 2022

Vampire Survivors? Long-MIA games like Silksong, Samurai Gunn 2, Mineko’s Night Market? Six thousand cozy farming life sims?

meta farming sim where you farm farming sims

it will be 10 more farming sims yes

i forgot about mineko's night market i just assume these things come out while i'm not looking

I’m on leave from work for mental illness and I’ve been playing a lot of Stardew Valley again, which frankly is extremely good and I do not really need another six thousand entries in this genre when we have this.

I tried the Factorio demo for a bit and while I think I would enjoy the game and their small team worked very hard to make it work on a controller I think the “last mile” of work to make it actually a good console game may not quite be there.