The Nintendo Switch

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!

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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.

I hope Silksong finally comes out so that people can stop whining about it.
that's right, I'm whining about the whining. whineception.

No Silksong. Almost all the games announced seemed like something a particularly precocious middle schooler might have come up with during game-design summer camp.

more precocious middle schoolers should make games if so
glad to see World Of Horror will get out of early access next year, been wanting to play that for ages

The black and white deer and wolf game looked really pretty.

Can't believe Sports Story is finally coming out, though it was dead for sure

Almost all the games announced seemed like something a particularly precocious middle schooler might have come up with during game-design summer camp.

I feel like this has become a major trend in indie games (a trend I can't wait to be over)

curious which games you're talking about do you just mean 'twee' aesthetics or like silly gameplay concepts like the goose game

Speaking just for myself it's a particular combination of twee aesthetic and a naive-feeling over-earnestness. It's like gaming used to be sophomoric in an edgy way and now it's sophomoric in a twee way. The latter is quite preferable, but both trends are kind of annoying to me

I think this is related to the explosion of cozy farming sims and to an extent I get it; we all want something that feels comforting In These Times, etc.

Trends are all annoying

can you really blame the young people who have came out of the last decade of... this world
usually though, i would expect such nostalgia from the olds and not from people in their 20s-30s coming of age post-2008 recession
capitalism sucks, but at least we have the fantasy of Animal Crossing.

botw2 gets closer with each day

direct tomorrow. with zelda coming out soon we are entering the great beyond for new game announcements, no clue what to expect. prime 4 is still presumably being made but dunno what else

the FF pixel remasters are finally coming to Switch this year so I assume we'll see news about that

f-zero negative zero, the prequel to the reboot?

Silksong, lol.

Wind waker, lol

man i'd be ecstatic for a wind waker port lol, i never played that one on gamecube

shd have all the zeldas and all the marios on switch 4 sure

new vers of link to the past like they did with links awakening wld be nice

the continued absense of mario galaxy 2 is upsetting

pikmin 4, july

still haven't played any of the pikmins

may 12 for tears of the kingdom

Reportedly $70?

street fighter 2 turbo was $79 when it came out in 1992

i guess 1993 by the time it hit the US. either way, i played it so much that i was able to optimize my enjoyment-to-cost ratio to over 500 enjoyment points per dollar

Yeah, fair enough. Breath was one of the few games I've played totally worth $70, tbh. Sort of surprised there's been no gameplay footage this close to release, though. I'm sure it will run well, I'm just wondering if, as has been rumored, it may be the same map, mostly the same enemies, etc. Not that that would be a dealbreaker, either. Again, another game where more of the same (plus flying or something) is probably OK.

its "the same map" but different

I’m the sucker who would buy this at any price

Tetris!

Nintendo’s voucher program lets you give Nintendo $100 in exchange for two vouchers, each of which you can redeem for a game from a specific list. That list now includes Tear of the Kingdom, meaning you can effectively get one of the most anticipated games of 2023 for just $40 if you’re willing to effectively buy another game at full price.

The list of qualifying games includes lots of old stuff that’s frequently on sale, but also plenty of more recent hits like Splatoon 3, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Splatoon 3, and Fire Emblem Engage. What was a maximum savings of $20 is now $30 with Tears of the Kingdom in the mix. The vouchers last up to 12 months, though it’s not exactly clear when Nintendo will stop selling them.

https://kotaku.com/legend-zelda-tears-kingdom-discount-switch-voucher-1850091365

nice to see Level 5 coming out of their coma

yeah the level 5 stuff + ghost trick and baten kaitos being rescued are the highlights here

MINISH CAP!!!!! Effing FINALLY.

it wasn't mentioned in the western nintendo direct, but there's a new Boku no Natsuyasumi coming out this summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW4Fsbty6Ls

wonder if we're gonna get a localization

crosses fingers

I was annoyed that my Switch online sub got renewwed last month when I'd meant ot let it lapse - I barely used it after dicovering the Occarina port was so shit. But now, with all this Gamecube stuff and Warioware etc I am dead pleased.

Now I just need new joycons, mine have developed fatal stick drift.

i will buy boku no natsuyasumi, tim convinced me

Not directly Switch-related, but an intriguing item just crossed my inbox (I may have a google alert set for "silksong")

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/02/hollow-knight-dev-files-new-trademarks-for-fearless-fox

lol I think they need less on their plate.

they should make what they want to imo

The Ocarina port got better btw!

It did? I might have to try it again then! It was the controls I couldnt deal with, they were janky as fuck.