StueyDuck
Member
im sorry i didn't mean to upset master Nintendo, it was wrong of me to critique, i will serve properly from now on.
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Tune in tomorrow, March 27th, at 7 a.m. PT for a livestreamed Nintendo Direct (30 Minutes)
The date would have given away the Switch 2 date. We’ll get it next week.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Is this a first step in a digital game marketplace? All companies need to get behind it and give better consumer rights for these things, if that is indeed the future.
why show it at all then????
Efren is G.O.A.T.
Member
To remind people it's still coming on the original switch I guess.
Plague Arisen
Neo Member
What a awlful showcase for Metroid Prime 4. I hope they have a better trailer to show next week if they are hoping the game to succeed
the difference hear is the we are thinking the big n has a lot of big remasters for prime loz kirby and fe they are just siting on.Either I'm overly optimistic or a lot of you are overly jaded. This was a pretty good Direct, what else were you expecting for a system in its sunset year and about to be overshadowed by its successor?
Then again, I remember how many people thought the last State of Play was somehow trash, so yeah I just think a lot of you are super jaded
Probably because it's the last big Switch 1 title and so that they don't need to spend time clarifying that it will still be on Switch 1 next week.
This also allows them to show Switch 1 footage while presumably showing the upgrades next week.
I'm starting to think the reason we haven't seen the Prime/Zelda remasters are because we're getting the announcement of Gamecube added to NSO next week. There's not that many Gamecube titles left to make it's addition to NSO interesting so this way they can say hey - MP2/3, TP and WW are there. I'm sure we'll eventually get the remasters, but I think it would lessen the impact of the NSO announcement if they showed them ahead of time. It would also piss people off who pay for them and then realize they can play them on NSO (obviously they'll be very different from a performance/visual perspective, but you know how people get).
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LoboPocoLoco
Neo Member
This might've just been the worst Direct presentation Nintendo's ever done.
RoboFu
One of the green rats
the 3DS could play DS games.. The DS could play GBA games. The WiiU plays Wii games... not sure what you are talking about?
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
No.... is Z for Zero and A for Alpha
CamHostage
Member
"There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation."
i get you i just want the better visuals fps and the qol stuff
i hope you are right.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Other than metroid this was a weak direct...not sure why they bothered really since the switch 2 one is so soon.
Also I'm willing to get that metroid footage was switch 2 anyway.
Also I'm willing to get that metroid footage was switch 2 anyway.
amigastar
Member
If i would play FPS on Console like Metroid Prime 4 i would always choose easy mode since Metroid is not about fidelity and shooting mechanics.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Forgive me, but I may have misunderstood you. You stated the following.
This suggests that Nintendo, or other companies, will produce cross gen games for Switch 2.
I mentioned that this didn't happen with the 3DS and Wii U, so might not with happen with Switch 2.
You then pointed out the 3DS and Wii U were backwards compatible with the software of thier predecessors.
But the Switch 2 is also BC with Switch software..........
Sorry mate, it's been a long week and I'm lost here.
CamHostage
Member
The way games are made and sold has changed. Games can now scale rather easily (either in settings/emulation through the deployed app or with modest porting work in development,) and are built using common engines which support a variety of platforms (or can be rewritten without a total rethink thanks to the common APIs they are written for.) Even if Switch 2 is the target for both tech and market interest, most games would cut down to lesser hardware with liveable compromises. (It's actually hard to come up with a game concept which would only work with the power of a next-generation platform, and even bleeding-edge graphical techniques often have fallback methods. It's been a problem throughout the PS5eries gen that gamers feel they aren't seeing "true next-gen" in new games.) High-spec games can be made which would just struggle too hard to not be released only for next-gen (or would drag in loading so hard that it would kill the flow or burden online players, assuming Switch 2 has a rapid IO solution,) but for the majority of games, a developer could make a Switch 2 game as good as possible for that system and could still kick out an acceptable Switch 1 version.
But also, don't forget that Nintendo actually bridged two consoles with cross-gen releases of its biggest title. GameCube and Wii both got Zelda: Twilight Princess, and then Wii U and Switch both had Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Both of those cases were to deal with these games being too late in the life of the past-gen platform to not cross over (and the "next-gen" power of Wii and Switch was skewed from what we used to consider a jump in these transitions,) but there was enough market to keep the old-gen version in production even though Nintendo fans are highly likely to quickly upconvert to each next Nin hardware.
(Side-note: The DS was a dinosaur, even at launch. Had great games, but cross-gen between it and 3DS would have been as silly as cross-gen between PS1 and PS3...)
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1000% the sop was better then this.
Mortisfacio
Member
Every time I watch these I just realize more and more I'm not Nintendo's audience. Less and less, I don't even think my kids are. This direct felt like something out of the early 2000's.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Personally, I thought it was fantastic.
In fact, I can't remember the last time Nintendo put out a bad presentation? Maybe in the Wii U days? Everything they've done in the Switch has been S-tier
Orbital2060
Member
They run a tight ship. Pretty smart to have a Switch presentation before moving on to Switch 2.
ngl it had some stuff but nd standards it was not good.
Orbital2060
Member
Virtual game cards, cool.
Mephisto40
Member
I really don't understand why they even bothered to do this
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
OMG!!! There is a C button
i am going lmao and be so sad if they do not give us gc on nso in 6 days ac will my 1 game on that thing i know most of you are like lozww but i will hold out hope for the remaster the qol in that is just too good makes the og feel like trash. so i have heard have not played lozww at all.
not a Sony fanboy (don't like them or their first party games), but that's always the case in my book
ND are terrible
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asdasdasdbb
Member
They are Switch 1 games. Not everyone is going to buy a Switch 2 at launch, and as I've mentioned before here, Nintendo might very easily release a new Switch 1 SKU at some point. Nintendo might not release any more games beyond Metroid and Pokemon but third parties will.
imo namco called the big n up and begged them for one lol
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yes but no loz remaster 2 pack no prime 2/3 no fe 4 remake??????
Woopah
Member
Nate had pretty low expectations from what I remember.
Nintendo has already announced 2 first party games for 2026
he did and was right but going in after the nd i just knew he got a lot wrong but lucky no he was just off on kirby and they did the thing he said not to do with prime 4 show it without a date lmao.
Jigsaah
Gold Member
Ahh I missed it live. Skimmed through to watch the games that would interest me. Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, Gradius Origins and that Goldman hand drawn game looks good. Lots of remasters. I'm guessing no Mario or Zelda news until the Switch 2 announcement April 2nd.
Overall I give it a C+
Overall I give it a C+
Kerotan
Member
But it looks like a PS3 game.
March Climber
Member
You must have missed the one that was 80% farming simulator trailers, back to back. That will forever be the worst Nintendo Direct.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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CamHostage
was maybe alluding to, those are probably more like Switch 2 announcements.Personally I don't care too much for re-releases of insanely popular games that should already be rather easy to play on modern systems through BC, but I guess HD versions of those two games could bring a few surprises in terms of content alongside QOL updates.
Eh, when I think "big Nintendo 1P games" for Switch 2, I'm thinking a brand new Smash Bro, 3D Mario, Kirby etc. Not necessarily remasters of what they've already released.
The remasters will happen of course, but that's nnot enough to carry a brand new system's launch IMHO, even if it's Nintendo's games.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Apparently Prime 4 isn’t showing up next week at all!
BlackTron
Member
There might be a reason they singled it out to show in this presentation. It wouldn't look very flattering next to their next-gen games and they want the focus on that. The two directs in quick succession reek of getting a bunch of Switch 1 news out of the way first and Metroid was "really" Switch 1 news...
Banjo64
cumsessed
I’ve tempered my expectations for next week to be honest.
I suspect they will continue their approach of staggered releases to allow each game its moment in the spotlight. I’m only expecting Mario Kart 9 and a new 3D Mario to be shown next week with lots of third parties like Genshin, maybe Elden Ring etc.
It’s a marathon.
Shaki12345
Gold Member
You have no comprehension of what the Switch is capable of and what MP4 is doing.
MP4 is the best looking Switch game.
BlackTron
Member
I certainly don't expect their entire hand played next week, but consider how close we are to launch. We're getting at least the launch games.
I question whether they will drop both Mario and Kart at launch. They would probably prefer to space out games with Mario in the title for the same reason you said. But they could show both. I think whichever one we don't get at launch we will get later in the year. I'm guessing the opening punch is Kart, something that says Zelda on the box without being the next huge big Zelda, and a blue ocean Wii Sports or Animal Crossing type game. Aside from Metroid, of course.
touchfuzzy
Gold Member
So I'm guessing he just pulled that one out of his ass? Definitely not any big discourse generators from that one at all, either first or third party.
Oddly, I came to the opposite conclusion. It seems weird that Nintendo would announce two brand new games for 2026 already for the Switch, but only have 2 games remaining (Metroid and Pokemon) for the rest of 2025. If they are committed to supporting the Switch for at least 12 more months, shouldn't there be a little bit more there? Are we really getting nothing in the next few months?
The Switch has a huge "casual" audience that likes cozy and simple stuff. These are, historically, not the people that buy a system in the first year or two. They may also not be the people who would buy, say, Fire Emblem 4 Remake. These are the people that would buy Rhythm Heaven or Tamadotchi. So it is possible that Nintendo focused their attention for this Direct on games that would appeal primarily to the casual crowd, knowing that such a crowd may not be interested in watching a Switch 2 Direct if they don't feel the need to buy the console. But Nintendo may feel that Switch 2 owners may still want to know that, say, Fire Emblem is coming, even if it is "just" crossgen. So perhaps there are some "core" crossgen games coming out this year, but Nintendo is willing to market them first as Switch 2 games.
Or maybe not. Guess we'll find out in a week. But it makes me think there may NOT be that many Switch 2 exclusive games right off the bat. Mario Kart 9, new Mario, sure. Maybe another surprise or two as well. But then maybe a couple crossgen games.
In any case, as for the Direct itself, yeah, not much for me either (the THQ sidescroller with DuckTales-esque pogosticking looked kinda interesting). But then again, apparently I am the only gamer that does not demand to be entertained by commercials. I watch them for information, not "hype". So no sense getting angry about it.
As an aside, I also find it interesting that there were no Switch games revealed for April or May. Given that Nintendo does not like having gaps in their release schedule, this does seem to imply a May/June Switch 2 release. November is almost certainly out.
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