The Nintendo Switch 2

it is time

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

very surprised the mouse thing turned out to be true!

time to first look at it

time to wait until april 2 for the important part (video games)

slick to oh btw new mario cart

I guess 3rd parties can start announcing games now?

Looks good! Sightly bigger. Better attachment mechanism for the joy cons

xp unless they want to be in the Direct, which they probably do

roll on 4 february

time for 3 months of frenzied speculation about the 'c' button

So, when I was really little, single-digits, we had a ColecoVision, but I don't remember what games we had for it. A tiny bit later we had an Atari 7800, and I remember playing ... Pole Position? Something like that. Both consoles I recall winning in a contest or something, or getting them for opening a bank account, back when that was a thing that happened. But the original NES, I know we got that when I was in my early teens, so like a lot of people my age (old) it was a cultural touchstone. I played the hell out of OG Super Mario Bros., OG Zelda, MegaMan, Contra, OG Castlevania, etc.. Those games and Nintendo in general were formative. Secrets, guides, codes, the whole thing, tons of fun.

For some reason, though, that was the end of the line for me, and I never got another console (from any company) until the GameCube. I played it a little, but don't remember spending much time with it. Same for the original Wii, which I know we owned but which I don't recall playing too much, for some reason. Fast forward again until I had kids and we bought a used Wii, which I hacked and stuffed full of easy-to-rip games, but besides Wii sports and the kids doing Just Dance or Animal Crossing, I don't recall much of what I played on it, either.

Long story short (but still long), I bought the Switch when it came out, making it for all purposes the first system I owned since the original NES that I spent any time with. I was excited, and played the hell out of Breath of the Wild and Smash Bros. and Mario Kart, plus a bunch of compelling new or new to me indies like Hollow Knight and Shovel Knight and Ori, but often times the system just felt kind of lacking, especially Nintendo titles; even my formerly Animal Crossing obsessed kid was disappointed by the Switch's Animal Crossing. Me, I'd missed out on decades of great games, and either the system was not capable of playing them, the games were not being ported, or when they were ported there were problems or delays; I recall Doom 2016 on the Switch being particularly disappointing, as was the delayed port rollout of Dark Souls Remastered. Once I bought the PS4, with its deeeeep bench of often deep discounted games, it was hard to go back to the premium-priced but (imo) often kinda disappointing or relatively slim-pickings must-have Nintendo titles, not to mention all the novelties, like the cardboard stuff or the remote control car stuff.

I still have the Switch, which is mostly used for Mario Kart, but other than that it hasn't really held my attention. I never really used it handheld, either, which kinda missed the point! Which is to say, Switch 2 is the epitome of a wait and see console. I suspect it will be a lot like the PS5 and feature tons of remasters, but few "exclusives," as such. I guess we'll see what an 8-year gap between consoles/designs allows Nintendo to do or offer.

Maybe now I'll finally get a cheap Switch 1.

The male controller ports on the sides of the console look... very breakable. Surprising design for a Nintendo product

roll on 4 february

I thought this too until seeing well afterwards that it's 2 April

I just skimmed past a rumor that the Switch 2 joysticks may be "hall effect," which I had never heard of but which sound super cool, whether or not this is the console that gets them. For sure I've had drift issues on both the Switch and Playstation but especially the Switch.

you can already get 3rd party controllers with those for current consoles. some of the newer 8bitdos have them

can also buy hall sensor sticks and replace them yourself, did that to my launch joycons for £20 and it was pretty easy to do

mm/dd, reggie?! I’m out

gta 6 gonna debut on dis ting?

prob not powerful enough

depends how scalable it is, prob wouldnt happen before the pc version anyhow

hope this thing has an OLED screen. after having been spoiled with the steam deck, i can't go back

good chance they'll save that for a revision, but i hope so too

I can never figure out why some games were or could be ported to the Switch but not others. Doom and Doom Eternal and Wolfenstein 2, but not Wolfenstein: New Order. Dark Souls 1, but not 2 or 3. Witcher 3 and Skyrim and Bioshock 1-3, but not GTAV or Mass Effect. Super Mario Galaxy, but not Super Mario Galaxy 2. Ori games looked great, but the Batman games were reportedly a mess.

I think part is money and time or rights, what is worth it, but I suspect it has to do with power and sometimes simply how the code is written; I don't know anything about code, but I understand Nintendo can be tricky to write? I've seen a couple of vids, one on Wolfenstein 2 and one on Ori, about porting to the Switch, and sometimes it seems it takes a certain degree of ingenuity to figure out a way to make it work without making the console work too hard. Curious how much power this new one will or can pack.

Grand theft Mario when

My main question is will it be uncomfortable to hold like the regular Switch

are they going to forza horizon mario kart ? seems likely

doubt it since it would detract from the pick up and play identity of it but they could do more dynamic stuff with the tracks changing lap to lap etc, i know they dabbled with that in the last one

i guess i could imagine how it would work like if each cup was its own map that had all 4 tracks on it and then a horizon mode where you can use it as a sandbox

maybe theyll have wonder flowers that make the tracks go all loony

how fast can nintendo switch 2 go? does nintendo switch 2 have automatic transmission? does nintendo switch 2 have four-wheel drive?

hope this thing has an OLED screen.

The leaks say it doesn’t. And they got literally everything else right, so chances are they’re right about that too.

Mariokart as a launch title obviously makes sense and it’s odd they haven’t done it before (it’s consistently their biggest or almost biggest selling game in each generation) but it’s hard to get excited about it. MK8 was sort of perfect already? It’s not a game that’ll benefit from better resolution or whatever and it’s already 60fps. And 8 had 96 courses by the end! Some of which came out recently enough that I’ve still only played them 3-4 times.

maybe they could add more to Kart than just more tracks and drivers
loved the missions/minigames in Kart DS, bring those back!

one must assume they understand the challenges of following up MK8 after all those expansions and are going to have some big new gameplay hook in this one, even if it's not apparent from those 10 seconds of footage

there will be other launch titles as well, presumably including ones that show off the new gpu more (metroid prime 4?)

They frequently add gimmicks here or there (two characters per kart in Double Dash or the upside down driving in 8 or whatever) but the games are generally good in spite of those, not because of them.

realistic mortal injuries from shells

Double lol.

1) Inevitable Digital Foundry analysis, an hour long based on that 2-minute "reveal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pdx4GK4PSw

2) The first question/comment from a viewer named "Abadaba-Pling Boink Weeeee U," a name so ridiculous the hosts can't even keep a straight face.

(This, btw, is a trend I find endlessly hilarious from any channel that takes questions or comments from chats or texts or whatever. "Stinkybum420king asks a very good question ... "

does USB-C mean we can maybe output to TV while still using the touch screen to allow wii U and NDS games on virtual console

feel like it would be against Nintendo's MO for switch to have games that only work with a tv

also they've rereleased almost all the good wii u games on switch already, whats even left?

ds is more compelling but you can do most of them on one screen since the second screen is often just a status/map screen and can be put as an inset, e.g. see that castlevania ds collection thats on switch

i think on switch 2 you'll even have the vertical resolution to be able to stack the two screens vertically at 2x scale

what if you can attach 2 switch 2s together and make a giant ds

switch 4

snake should be a launch game and it should be the definitive version of it - meaning, with a high score list that persists from gaming session to gaming session using save technology

you can already access the global high score list by walking your Mii to Snakelist Cave on Wuhu Island

(you'll need to touch your Tingle Amiibo to open the gate)

I just played Mario Wonder for the first time and noticed that my controller plays musical notes when Mario steps on a keyboard – has it always done that and been able to play sound??? I think I’ve played lots of games that rumble but never any that actually make noises. Maybe I’ve just been playing the wrong games

the switch's "HD rumble" is essentially just passing a sound wave through an actuator in the controller so you can do stuff like that with the right sound wave yeah

very few games use it in that way though

https://i.imgur.com/CzrgLag.png

its pretty cool, 3-D Mario sorta in the vein of the open world Zelda games, but yeah I think you can beat it in an afternoon. I appreciate the fact that you can play it with 2 people but its not really fun being Bowser Jr, kinda like shooting the little crystals in Galaxy it's more just a thing for your little brother to do

yeah its like how player 2 can control the hat in odyssey or whatever, it doesnt do much its just for a small child to think they're doing something

i did not like the big bowser interrupting the game all the time also the whole thing being the same generic aesthetic was monotonous but there was some cool stuff in there too

i dont want like open world vistas and fields in mario but making a game where all the normal 3d mario sized zones are seamlessly connected to each other in some labyrinthine way would be cool

i guess it doesnt really need to be seamless if there's no vistas though

yeah im not sure how open world helps mario theyd need to have some novel situation that makes it work

ahhh yeah I'd forgotten how obnoxious it was that Bowser would come out every 10 minutes or whatever while you were trying to complete other tasks, that part didn't feel particularly well thought out

I like the idea of a Mario game being like Metroid Prime where you'd get various powerups and new skills that make different parts of the map accessible, guess you don't really need open world for that though. actually an open world game sorta goes against what Mario is about but idk I have faith they can come up with something cool

yeah open world is antithetical to games where your progress is based on getting new abilities rather than collecting orbs or hitting story triggers

luckily Mario is about collecting orbs so it does theoretically work with less fundamental revision than zelda needed

Zelda 1 is open world. You can do the dark world dungeons out-of-order in A Link to the Past too.

Mario is about the pure joy of movement, the collectibles are just a means to facilitate that. That's congruent with an open world approach IMO. Odyssey was basically a bunch of miniature open worlds.

the levels started out as linear then opened up once you completed the initial mission which is kind of interesting

sure you can make an open wold mario game but is there any reason to, if the odyssey levels had been stitched together would it have been better, they gotta have some sort of hook that makes it good, also you should still be able to jump on the hat if you want

nintendo's quietly had a really good year though apparently, i havent played any of these yet because i live a year or 2 behind the culture eternally now, but Pokopia, Splatoon Raiders, Rhythm Heaven, and Yoshi all had good word of mouth, and people seem excited for fire emblem too. they're only struggling to hit with the big "tentpole" stuff

― ciderpress, Tuesday, September 8, 2026 1:14 PM (yesterday)

the super mario wonder erasure itt sickens me

Pokopia was a big hit, people love that game. Rhythm Heaven seems to be huge in Japan but nowhere else afaict

mario wonder is good but everyone already played it on switch 1 wheres the erasure

here, itt

i will admit i never finished it

i couldnt get past the very last invisible leg on the last super secret level maybe i should go back, great game

one of the very few games to actually cause me to hoot with delight multiple times irl - the way the levels warped so unpredictably with every wonder seed was a masterclass in nintendo's effortless creativity

basically what i'm saying is that i'm glad cappy is dead

one clear memory I had as a kid was playing Super Mario World for the first time after knowing the original game pretty well, it didn't feel like a new coat of paint everything was redone from the ground up, which is a feeling I haven't gotten from any of the new 2-D Mario games but I definitely do get from Wonder. and yes I love how they put in a few extra crazy difficult levels for good measure.

metroid 6 in january nice

metroid ravenous

i love metroid dread

basically what i'm saying is that i'm glad cappy is dead

― egg + sound/vibration + hug = harmonic egg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, September 9, 2026 10:20 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

rude

dread best metroid since prime 1 imo

the movement is so nice and they removed a huge % of the frustration of not being able to find stuff via manipulative level design which i guess is a betrayal of the genre but i liked it

spare a thought for the retro studios team, who spent 36 years working on metroid prime 4 only to find it widely despised on release and near-instantly eclipsed by a new instalment

lol after all the talk of open world Mario and it's open world Kirby #yepthatsnintendo

oh ok here's the real zelda game

da pink ball is back baby

my gosh kirby is having a truman show

-metroid ravenous (dread 2 basically)
-some new jrpg from marvelous called like eternal anima or something, looked alright
-romancing saga 3 remake in the same style as the 2 remake (good)
-kirby of the wild

did i miss anything else cool that wasnt a re-announcement or dlc/upgrade

interesting there was no Duskbloods mention, guess that has been delayed again?

maybe itll get its own show

it already had a beta test so ppl have played it. probably delayed to first half of next year

wait the Apothecary Diaries game might play like a cross between Ace Attorney & Atelier? suddenly very interested!

if its an actual well-made detective game i'm interested. love the show, but anime tie-in games dont have a great track record even for the most popular stuff

feel like the switch could use some more jrpgs

agreed

I'm only up to the first boss in Metroid Prime 4 and so far it's been pretty good. Does it take a nosedive at some point?

Apothecary is being made by Gust, hype rising
Portopia Serial Murder Case is getting a remake but only in Japan so far, thought it was odd as surely anyone interested would know who the murder is? but it's apparently more of a sequel with a new storyline with Yuji Horii involved

feel like the switch could use some more jrpgs

the *world* needs more jrpgs dammit

theres probably already enough good ones for a lifetime but yes please sir i want some more

which do i want more, metroid: kirby or kirby: zelda? the choices

the original portopia nes game stinks. imagine goonies 2 but only the parts where you have to navigate rooms and hit every wall.

there is an abundance of bad jrpgs on the switch

did you know they are up to vol 15 of those Kemco jrpg collections in Japan?

I'm totally sold on the new Metroid, which reminds me that I need to revisit Dread and finish it. Also, I retract my previous statements on the OoT remake visuals. It's grown on me