It’s official: The looming price hike convinced my brother to drop his PlayStation gaming days in favor of Switch 2. He just took advantage of a $450USD deal (with sales tax excluded(!)) which bundled in DK Bananza.

He’s really looking forward to being able to simply play third party games like Elden Ring (his favorite) and Resident Evil in handheld mode. Not a super spec focused gamer nor does he care about GKC (as do most non-enthusiast gamers), so I’m really thinking he’s gonna love it!

Also: I just purchased and downloaded Mina on my Switch 2. Really looking forward to blasting through this game this weekend!!

And a first on a Nintendo portable device since MW3 on DS in 2011

Rayman Origins Enhanced is rumoured to be coming to Switch 2 (possibly Switch 1 as well) which would be great. Origins is currently playable on 3DS and Wii/WiiU but not Nintendo's current consoles.

I actually played through the Wii version recently and it's a good port, even if it's obviously not HD.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book may be my goty. I am 100 percent serious about this.

Yeah honestly can’t say I’m surprised to hear. I’ve heard very high praise behind the game— Nintendo kinda dropped the ball when it came to marketing. I plan on getting around to it next weekend, after I wrap up my runthrough of Mina & Bubsy.

At this point I think it's safe to say, Switch 2 is the strongest third party presence Nintendo has had since the SNES.

Mainline COD, Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed, and Resident Evil are back for the first time in generations. Plus the likes of Cyberpunk, Indiana Jones, Pragmata, 007 First Light, and more.

A combination of the smallest power gap since the 6th gen, plus modern games being more scalable than ever and publishers wanting to maximise their reach as buidgets climb has paid dividends for the platform.

I counted and in 2017-2020 I bought 17 third party games for Switch 1; I've already passed that in under 12 months of Switch 2.

Next week will be 12 months since launch, I still maintain S2 is the strongest first year of any platform by far even over S1, the year has been better than most platforms most stacked year, titles I've picked up so far off the top of my head.

DKB, MKW, RE9, Pokopia, Tomodachi, Pragmata, Octopath 0, Bravely Default, Prime 4, Tales of Arise, Silk Song, Hades 2, SF6, Fatal Frame 2, MH Stories 3, DQ7R, DQ1/2/3 HD2D, FFVIIR, Fallout 4 AE, Trails Sky 1st, Fantasy Life, Cronos, Persona 3R, Yoshi MB, SW Outlaws.

This is already more I've gotten for some platforms when they're past half way of their run.

I think its a hard game to market. I cant even really explain why I'm enjoying it so much.