Super Mario Galaxy Movie Nintendo Direct Announced For Wednesday, 12th November
Nintendo has announced a brand new Nintendo Direct focusing on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is coming later this week.
On Wednesday, 12th November 2025 at 6am PST / 9am EST / 2pm GMT, Nintendo will be debuting the first proper trailer to the sequel to Nintendo and Illumination's 2023 box office smash, The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
A YouTube premiere has already been set up, and you'll be able to watch it right here:
Rosalina and Bowser Jr. were obviously going to be present, so I found the trailer to be a little bit predictable and mundane. Not as many surprises and teasers here. I'm sure the movie will be awesome, even though Galaxy 1 and Galaxy 2 are not my favorites, but the movie might not be as entertaining as the previous one. Also... Baby Bowser's eyes are just... wrong.
Switch is the first console I ever bought, and tbf even though I wanted it since launch, I thought it was always too expensive. I hoped the Lite version would drop in price significantly just so I could play Zelda BotW, but it just never did...
Early this year I finally bought the Switch for my gf. I didn't get Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley out of fear for reasons mentioned above. I got persuaded into buying the Switch with Mario Party Jamboree as a pack to just give us a lot of options. Despite trying for a total of 2-3 hours, that game is like the worst gaming experience I've had. My gf didn't like it either and bought Mario Kart 8 DL immediately.
Not much later I bought Streets of Rage 4, mostly for myself and cuz it was on sale. Turned out my gf really likes it as well and we even got its DLC after beating the game a few times. We've tried a few other games too, but we tend to stick to MK and SoR4. They're basically only as challenging as you want them to be, fun to play and yet easy to put away as well. Do any of you guys have recommendations on multiplayer games for Switch 1 with replayability that can easily be put away? I suggested Ibb & Obb and Unravel 2 to my gf, but she's not interested in that style of co-op, so I believe the game needs a certain intensity to keep her engaged with it.
TL;DR: My recommendation for Switch 1 (or 2): Get Streets of Rage 4 on sale and the DLC, I think it's worth your money three times over unlike some forever overpriced Nintendo games.
On November 13 2025 01:32 sharkie wrote: But there haven't been so many games for casuals at the switch 1 release were they?
my wife and sister-in-law, her daughters ... are what i call "Animal Crossing" Zombies. Animal Crossing does not need 4K. They ain't spending $500 to play Animal Crossing in 4K. They like playing it on the Switch Lite. They were happy, years ago, to slap down $200 to play AC.
To a large extent, the Switch Lite and Switch2 are in different market segments.
Animal Crossing came out 3 years after the switch...
yep, and i don't see them spending $450+ to play a version of ANimal Crossing with much better graphics. half the time they play it on a Switch Lite. again, Nintendo could well be voluntarily abandoning this market segment.
On November 13 2025 02:30 Peeano wrote: Not much later I bought Streets of Rage 4, mostly for myself and cuz it was on sale. Turned out my gf really likes it as well and we even got its DLC after beating the game a few times. .
my wife and i play SoR4. it is great fun.
over the years the game we've played the most on the Switch is NES Golf.
On November 13 2025 01:32 sharkie wrote: But there haven't been so many games for casuals at the switch 1 release were they?
my wife and sister-in-law, her daughters ... are what i call "Animal Crossing" Zombies. Animal Crossing does not need 4K. They ain't spending $500 to play Animal Crossing in 4K. They like playing it on the Switch Lite. They were happy, years ago, to slap down $200 to play AC.
To a large extent, the Switch Lite and Switch2 are in different market segments.
Animal Crossing came out 3 years after the switch...
yep, and i don't see them spending $450+ to play a version of ANimal Crossing with much better graphics. half the time they play it on a Switch Lite. again, Nintendo could well be voluntarily abandoning this market segment.
I think you might be conflating "Switch 2 has better graphics than Switch 1" with "The only thing that new Switch 2 games will have to offer are better graphics". The former is a fact about the hardware, but the latter is an unjustified assertion that you're making about the next 5+ years worth of software.
You're right that Animal Crossing isn't played for the graphics, but that doesn't mean that the next AC won't have a ton of new stuff... just like every previous AC. In fact, Nintendo clearly understands that better than Microsoft and Sony, because Nintendo has historically been about innovation and new ideas, not simply copy/pasting a game in a higher resolution. Franchises like AC and Pokemon, for example, have had huge evolutions in gameplay, not just graphics. Whenever the next AC game gets released, it will be very popular like every other AC game... not because Switch 2's graphics are better, but because the next AC will have things that the previous one didn't/couldn't.
On November 13 2025 08:11 JimmyJRaynor wrote: I suspect Nintendo might just abandon the niche portion of the handheld market the Switch Lite occupies. They prolly have bigger fish to fry.
'member when Nintendo games were super cheap? https://imgur.com/EVOOH7Z The Canadian dollar was worth ~$0.87 USD so these prices are realistic.
Yeah the strange idea that games are now costing too much really comes from people who hadn't played games in the SNES or N64 era, when the prices were still $60-$80 25-30 years ago lol.
The big Nintendo Switch 1 price increase really has not materialized in Canada. For a time Walmart had the vanilla Switch1 was $410 rather than $420. Now its $420 with the Switch Sports game packed-in. So what are we talking about here? After all hoopla.. the price really didn't go up. https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/22I2HMGU176Z
Today's Nintendo has been very responsive on a micro level to the nuances of demand in every country.
On November 13 2025 01:32 sharkie wrote: But there haven't been so many games for casuals at the switch 1 release were they?
my wife and sister-in-law, her daughters ... are what i call "Animal Crossing" Zombies. Animal Crossing does not need 4K. They ain't spending $500 to play Animal Crossing in 4K. They like playing it on the Switch Lite. They were happy, years ago, to slap down $200 to play AC.
To a large extent, the Switch Lite and Switch2 are in different market segments.
Animal Crossing came out 3 years after the switch...
yep, and i don't see them spending $450+ to play a version of ANimal Crossing with much better graphics. half the time they play it on a Switch Lite. again, Nintendo could well be voluntarily abandoning this market segment.
On November 13 2025 02:30 Peeano wrote: Not much later I bought Streets of Rage 4, mostly for myself and cuz it was on sale. Turned out my gf really likes it as well and we even got its DLC after beating the game a few times. .
my wife and i play SoR4. it is great fun.
over the years the game we've played the most on the Switch is NES Golf.
When a new Animal Crossing comes out people will all buy the new console on whatever console it will be... Also Nintendo will never abandon the Animal Crossing segment
Pokémon Pokopia looks pretty awesome, and it's loaded with a lot more content than I had expected. Animal Crossing fans, Pokemon fans, Minecraft fans, Dragon Quest Builder fans, and other cozy/life-sim fans are probably going to enjoy this game. Pokémon Pokopia releases March 5, 2026.
There appears to be well over 100 Pokemon in the game; you're constantly learning new skills/moves from them as your main character (Ditto); you can transform into some Pokemon (like Lapras, which lets you surf to other islands, and Dragonite, which lets you fly to other islands, which means this game's world is going to be even bigger than just your island/town); there are crafting benches and tons of missions/quests; and the ending of the trailer has teasers for brand new forms of Pokemon (like a phantom Pikachu - not sure if it's officially ghost-type - and a plant Snorlax - not sure if it's officially grass-type).
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond overview trailer and a Nintendo Life review:
I'm not a huge FPS player, but maybe this game will break my general apathy towards the genre. This'll be my first Metroid Prime game too!
The environment looks beautiful, gameplay/abilities look fun, and at 40K/60FPS or 1080p/120FPS, the smooth performance and great graphics should make for a solid experience.
MP4 releases on December 4th, the exact same day as OT0.
I haven't stopped playing Kirby Air Riders. So many different modes with so many different unlockable, customizable options and missions and side quests. Super addicting, chaotic, and adorable. And it feels so different and unique compared to the Mario Kart / kart racing games.
Imagine an unofficial, unlicensed, 2D Run 'n' Gun adaptation of the 1982 movie Blade Runner. That is Neon Inferno. Highly recommended. I love playing it in Arcade Mode.
On November 26 2025 20:53 sharkie wrote: Is the game what Mario Kart should have been?
I definitely still love the MK franchise, but it depends on what you're looking for tbh. KAR plays very differently than MKW/MK8, in that your vehicle is always moving forwards and there are a lot of different modes and many more ways to play the game. Also, the customizability and side missions and extra content is enormously huge in KAR, whereas it's lacking in MKW/MK8. If you want a more traditional, straightforward, nostalgia-filled kart racer that already has a solid and safe strategy for what players want, then go with the Mario Kart games, but I also highly recommend Kirby Air Riders for anyone who wants a racing game with a ton of variety and new ideas and more replay value.
i must admit i 100% agree with the headline of this review "Neon Inferno is Living Rent Free in My Head... "
there is merit to the complaints about combat readability in certain set piece fight areas. After you die ~20 times though you learn hot to read the combat. I'd say somewhere between 2% and 5% of the time combat readability is an issue.
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