Gambit2483
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You played Donkey Kong Bananza, MP4, Kirby Air Riders and Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment already?? How was it?
Nintendo Switch 2 has the worst launch day titles of any system in my gaming life.
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Lethal01
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Rare never owned Donkey Kong, sorry if that was a joke
Kilau
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A joke yes, a MS exec thought they owned DK when they bought Rare.
FalconPunch
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It's a derivative of the snes game with the last major gameplay mechanic twists coming in the gamecube version double dash. It's as "new" as your annual fifa.
Lethal01
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Oh riiight, forgot about that.
Jaguar Victory
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It plays all Switch games right? If so I'm content for now as I haven't explored that catalogue in 4 or 5 years.
Bumblebeetuna
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It's a sequel and a new game. The other is a remake. Not sure where you are getting confused here.
Mortisfacio
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I'm not a fan of them, but launch day titles, I think Switch 2 launch titles are still better than Xbox or PlayStation had for XBone and PS4 for 1st party. Outside of Bloodborne (which came after launch), the "good" games were 3rd party.
touchfuzzy
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Yeah like a year and a half after launch. If we can count up to late 2026 as Switch 2 launch it's gonna have the best launch ever.
DenchDeckard
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No business with half a braincell would put any first party ip against a new mario kart.
The launch slate is looking great. Within the first 6 months you are going to have 3 bangers. One being a new metroid game. That's insanely good.
The launch slate is looking great. Within the first 6 months you are going to have 3 bangers. One being a new metroid game. That's insanely good.
Perrott
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Retarded takes that are objectively wrong (we have 40+ years of console launch lineups to compare against, do your homework, people) should be a banneable offense
The Nintendo Switch 2 lineup is stacked and literally does have a little bit of everything in there, including Deltarune ffs
The Nintendo Switch 2 lineup is stacked and literally does have a little bit of everything in there, including Deltarune ffs
swaffles23
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A bunch of meh
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ReBurn
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JORMBO
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The launch lineup sucks. MK and messing around with the Zelda games should keep me busy for a bit. I am ok with the lineup because DK comes out a month later. That's two new games in a month I will get a lot of gameplay out of. Death Stranding 2 is also June. That's obviously not NSW2, but leaves me with plenty of games to play in that time period.
Jaguar Victory
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Clearly they never played Smugglers Run on PS2
Gojiira
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Keep moving the goalposts my guy. You're not convincing anyone
Bumblebeetuna
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Keep moving the goalposts my guy. You're not convincing anyone
Goalposts haven't been moved once. You still seem confused. Oh well.
GermanZepp
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Abysmal takes from everyone: the thread
Hero_Select
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lmfao. How can people be this stupid?
hououinkyouma00
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Don't give a shit.
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Miyazaki’s Slave
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Careful…you pooped on Nintendo for TotK. I think in reality you are Nintendo's biggest hype man.
(In disguise of course)
Thaimasker
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Most consoles don't have a system seller as huge as Mario kart at launch... Even if you combine all the launch games sells that's a hefty number to get to. The wii did and that's almost it off the top of my head.
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memoryman3
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Mario Kart, Hitman, TOTK and Cyberpunk are all solid. Can't call it the worst when any one of those games are better than the entire 3DS launch line-up put together.
hououinkyouma00
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Was Metroid a launch title? I know the GC Pokemon games aren't.
what about the Interactive instruction manual you have to pay for lmao
i was going to say yes it was
i will hold off and get a mk bundle with dk in the fall btw no carts for me all digital.
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Watching Mario Kart World during the treehouse increased my hype by like 100x. I wasn't initially sold on the open world, but it frankly looks so good. Also the visuals are really quite nice.
Are DK and Metroid definitely not launch titles? I'd assume they're at least launch window.
And I'd be lying if I said I'm not drooling at the idea of playing TotK at 4K60 on day one…
I dunno, I don't think it's too bad. There's gonna be plenty for me, at least.
Are DK and Metroid definitely not launch titles? I'd assume they're at least launch window.
And I'd be lying if I said I'm not drooling at the idea of playing TotK at 4K60 on day one…
I dunno, I don't think it's too bad. There's gonna be plenty for me, at least.
BacklashWave534
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It's a great game but it doesn't make me want to buy the system. They should have had Metroid Prime 4 ready for launch.
Gamer_By_Proxy
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semiconscious
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why's this becoming more common?...
Hero_Select
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If Metroid Prime 4 is a system seller for you then just get it when it comes out? Shouldn't be too long after launch. Weird that they haven't announced a release date yet but I'd guess August/September at the latest.
Mario Kart is much more universal and an actual system seller
dk imo is launch window prime4 i think is sadly late fall
blacktout
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Donkey Kong Bananza already has a confirmed release date. It's July 17th, so not at launch, but close.
I think if Metroid Prime 4 was a launch title we would have gotten confirmation of that in the Direct. My guess is late summer, early fall. August or September.
Having criticisms doesn't mean I don't like something. I liked TotK, but it breaks the systems that were designed well with BotW in mind. As such I don't think it makes BotW redundant, unlike a lot of people here.
i do not think so i think we would have a date by now if it was early fall
blacktout
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Not necessarily. As far as I know, Nintendo hasn't dated any games beyond July, which makes sense if they're planning a June Not-Technically-E3 Direct soon after the Switch 2's launch.
GeorgioCostanzaX
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The most exciting thing for me is the Zelda upgrades but I don't think we got a release date for those? I didn't actually finish TOTK because I got used to superior performance on Steam Deck OLED and couldn't stomach the jerky performance in handheld mode on Switch. Mario Kart's open world is interesting and probably will actually sell systems but Nintendo hardware always sells out at launch anyway. To me the Wii U launch was way worse and there was a software drought for months unlike Switch 2 where we at least have Donkey Kong in a few weeks.
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Woopah
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New Zelda versions are at launch.
OmegaSupreme
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Moronic statement. It literally is. Look at the sales of kart in the switch.
cabbage5k2
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3DS launch was far worse than this, as they only had fucking Pilot Wings, Steel Diver, and Nintendogs + Cats(???? the hell was this launch???) for first party and a Street Fighter port on top of other mostly trash games (except Shadow Wars, I heard that one was the one good game at launch except Street Fighter). That, and the online shop didn't even work for three months. And the only other first party games that released within the first couple of months are two N64 ports. It took until fucking November for Super Mario 3D Land to come out... and the third party games that did launch around this time were either trash or ports of older but good games (one of the exceptions was the 3D Resident Evil Mercenaries game; come to think of it Capcom really did a lot of the heavy lifting in the launch window of the 3DS). Yeah, compare that to the Switch 2 launch day, much less launch year... yeah. It's astonishing how badly they fucked up the 3DS launch.
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DryvBy
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The original Switch had a horrible line-up too. There's wasn't much of anything on the Switch for over a year.
WhiteWaterM00se
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I am not buying a Switch 2.
But i was not moved by the 3rd party titles at launch. Civ looked good, Ridge racer was ok too. The 3rd parties were simply not good enough. Be honest.
I actually am starting to think all the hype about all the 3rd parties like Assassins Creed, Madden, FFVIIR, Baulders Gate, COD, MS and Sony has hurt Nintendo. It seems the consumer was lied too or possibly something went wrong with dev kits. Nintendo will have a hard time securing enough 3rd party to live up to the hype. Especially now, today did them no favors. Nor did Nintendo's response removing the Treehouse video. ROFL.
Maybe Nintendo should have set the direct up better and showed only games launching within 60 days of the system launch and then said, another Direct would come before June. Which would allowed more 3rd parties to be shown.
Right or Wrong. Nintendo is the current face of corporate greed. (Who would have thought!). At least for the moment anyway. 2k and Rockstar may say "hold my beer". Auto industry, food industry and pharmaceutical's must be whistling by the graveyard after today.
The gaming industry will course correct in time, and adjust prices and expectations. Unfortunately, due to a confluence of events, Nintendo appears to have picked the worst day and week possible to reveal the Switch 2.
The thing Nintendo is guilty of, is a lack of communication and transparency. I also think it appears Nintendo is out of touch with the worldwide market. That falls on Nintendo's leadership. I do think the excessive hype hurt Nintendo greatly, and it will be a lesson learned from this situation.
But i was not moved by the 3rd party titles at launch. Civ looked good, Ridge racer was ok too. The 3rd parties were simply not good enough. Be honest.
I actually am starting to think all the hype about all the 3rd parties like Assassins Creed, Madden, FFVIIR, Baulders Gate, COD, MS and Sony has hurt Nintendo. It seems the consumer was lied too or possibly something went wrong with dev kits. Nintendo will have a hard time securing enough 3rd party to live up to the hype. Especially now, today did them no favors. Nor did Nintendo's response removing the Treehouse video. ROFL.
Maybe Nintendo should have set the direct up better and showed only games launching within 60 days of the system launch and then said, another Direct would come before June. Which would allowed more 3rd parties to be shown.
Right or Wrong. Nintendo is the current face of corporate greed. (Who would have thought!). At least for the moment anyway. 2k and Rockstar may say "hold my beer". Auto industry, food industry and pharmaceutical's must be whistling by the graveyard after today.
The gaming industry will course correct in time, and adjust prices and expectations. Unfortunately, due to a confluence of events, Nintendo appears to have picked the worst day and week possible to reveal the Switch 2.
The thing Nintendo is guilty of, is a lack of communication and transparency. I also think it appears Nintendo is out of touch with the worldwide market. That falls on Nintendo's leadership. I do think the excessive hype hurt Nintendo greatly, and it will be a lesson learned from this situation.
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