Nintendo Switch Thread - Page 213

On January 17 2025 02:41 Yaqoob wrote:
Edit: I just saw that DarkPlasmaBall had already posted the YT announcement video

I am preordering 100%

On December 20 2024 00:57 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


Year in Review 2024 for Nintendo just came out

My top three most played games on the Switch, this year, are Ring Fit Adventure (170 hours), Animal Crossing: New Horizons (78 hours), and Pokemon Shining Pearl (70 hours).

On January 24 2025 19:00 KobraKay wrote:


Yeah I'm back :D was more than a month without being able to access TL.

I'm late to the party as usual....My year in review was actually nice but it showed both myself and my kid shifted our attention to the switch after the first Q (and my steam review clearly shows the opposite).

On my end it was Pokemon Scarlet leading by a large margin, SM Odyssey came second with half the time followed by Arceus and Mario Kart.

Also had respectable times in Mario Party. I got a full year Nintendo online subscription so im expecting NES nostaliga to take a big chunk of my 2025 year in review

As for the switch 2 for some reason i'm loving everything about it and the confirmation of both digital and physical backwards compatibility (I thought only digital was expected!) was like the definitive selling point that I was missing.

Kid will be happy when he realises he will get to "own" my current switch :D

Also glad they are starting with a new MK, expected I know, but i remember in early days switch 1 playing a lot of MK with my wife and it was a blast now wiith the kids as well its going to be even better.

On January 26 2025 00:45 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


The quick nod to Mario Kart 9 in the Switch 2 teaser, and your post, got me thinking about what changes I'd like to see in MK9. After all, Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe) was the best-selling console game of the past decade or so, significantly outselling every other Switch game, PS4 game, PS5 game, and Xbox Series game. What could top that?

The answer, for me, is 100% this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hUDegnk1I

I don't think it's very likely to happen, but having races through other famous Nintendo games (and increasing the cast of racers to include other Nintendo franchises, similar to Super Smash Bros.'s roster) would probably create the most amazing hype possible for the next Mario Kart game. Have a 2D-Mario circuit/cup. Have a 3D-Mario circuit/cup. Have a Zelda circuit/cup. Have a Pokemon circuit/cup. Et cetera. Best fan service ever.

On February 16 2025 20:19 KobraKay wrote:


I would go for it for sure.

Not related but intriguing. I was looking into your tier list and saw that you play a multitude of genres and games but i miss seeing any luigi's mansion there.

Is there a particular reason those were a skip for you?

On February 17 2025 00:11 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

The video game industry has been super sleazy, anti-consumer and sometimes criminal since 1975. The pinball machine industry in the era proceeding the video game boom of the late 70s had this same issue.

And, on that note. Another scumbucket move by Nintendo. Nintendo got 32 of 33 BS patent requests rejected in Japan. That did not stop them though. Nintendo failed in Japan. Welp, they've got another patent application in the USA.
https://80.lv/articles/nintendo-gets-new-patent-to-fight-against-palworld/

In the 80s Nintendo did not like the video game rental business. They fought it at every step. US courts declared video game renting 100% legal. It was a great way for 10 year olds with "paper route money" to play games. Nintendo eventually decided to go after BLockbuster photocopying the instruction manuals as a way to stop rentals. In Canada, it didn't matter. Every small video game chain said "fuck you" and challenged Nintendo to take them on. From Nintendo's views all these tiny video game store owners belonged in jail. And, they tried to make that happen using the RCMP.

This recent move by Nintendo is just more scummy behaviour as Nintendo continues its 40+ year tradition of anti-consumer behaviour.

Even if they've made some great games and great tech please keep in mind Nintendo's scum bucket moves. Do not hesitate to pirate Nintendo products whenever it is convenient.