We got dates for Hades 2 1.0 and MP4, so it was not all that bad.

While I was watching part about the Galaxy, the thing I was thinking was "why does Nintendo hates anti-aliasing?". I mean, FFS, in Dolphin you can run Galaxy in 12x original resolution, with 8xMSAA...or even 8xSSAA...of course if your hardware is up to it.

I'm not expecting anything crazy, but I think Switch 2 is more than capable to run Galaxy with 4xMSAA.

B-
No reason to make FE exclusive to Switch 2. Game looks bad, og Switch can run It for sure.
Talking about games looking bad... All games look dated as @$$*, even Metroid looks like a early PS4 game from 2013-2015.

Pokemon lauching with DLC, Virtual "no one asked for" Boy, Mario Galaxy collection at $70 (more expensive than in 2007-20010)

Nintendo being greed as always.

You see, it’s this kind of negativity that I don’t understand. Not even upset with the games themselves, just complaining about graphics, pricing, and…I’m not sure what to classify “no one asked for” as. This forum has been overwhelmingly negative in recent times when compared to ResetEra, FamiBoards, X, etc. Life’s a lot better when you aren’t constantly complaining. For how you described everything, a B- seems very generous.

I’m not calling for “toxic positivity,” but for looking on the bright side. I recognize the offensively greedy practices of Nintendo in recent times, and I have even voiced my grievances to an extent, but ultimately, there’s no point in acting like it’s not extremely charming that Nintendo has chosen to include VB to NSO (at no additional cost to the service, I should add), or that the newest FE—though it may look “dated”—is still a new mainline FE game.

Nintendo has gone full on into pure greed mode in 2025. We all saw that in early April as soon as we saw the $450 system and $70-$80 game prices for this gen.

Nintendo made a very conscious decision to turn their back on the past two decades of being the only affordable gaming option. In some meeting room Nintendo clearly decided 2025 was the year offering affordable products ends and everything now comes with a big markup. Of course the prelude to that was them never dropping the price on the Switch, even post-TotK as system sales really began to fall, and never did a Nintendo Selects to drop the prices on old Switch games to $30.

The console makers used to be a competition to make things cheaper to sell more, these days they are in a race to one-up each other in raising prices to become the most unaffordable ecosystem.

This whole craziness is why, after getting every other Nintendo console on launch day or as soon as I could get it (except the WiiU which I skipped), I feel no desire to buy Switch 2. Maybe that changes once a new 3D Mario and 3D Zelda hits in a handful of years, but even if I do eventually get the system, I'll probably end up with like a fifth of the number of Switch games I own, only getting absolute must-buys, and honestly if that day comes I may go for a used system to avoid their retail price which may never come down. And I could easily afford S2, I could go out and buy it today if I really wanted it, but I'm not gonna reward Nintendo for blatantly choosing greed over their consumers. Nintendo does NOT struggle to make profits, they make huge profit at the prices they already had before 2025, and yet they still chose a strategy to rip their fans off from now on. While I've always been a Nintendo gamer and a huge fan, I have the sense to not give into their absurd greed.

Well, as for Metroid, it is a Switch 1 game. But was so delayed they also bring it to the S2 with better frame rate and resolution. Prime 4 is NOT a next gen game, it's a Switch game. So of course on S2 it's just gonna look like a high res Switch game because that's what it is / or an early PS4 game. Nobody should be expecting Prime 4 to look like a next gen game. It's no different than the S2 upgrades Nintendo is selling for Switch 1 games, those games aren't magically next gen games when played on S2, so neither is Prime 4.

But you're dead on with the Pokemon, VB, and Galaxy pricing critiques. Pokemon DLC made before the game even comes out is absurd, VB is laughable with absurd pricing, and Galaxy pricing is just disappointing. I'll begrudgingly pick up Galaxy 2 for $40 simply because I've been waiting for it ever since it was stupidly omitted from 3D All-Stars, and I'll probably get Prime 4 on Switch at some point, but everything else in the Direct is easily ignored for me.

Or you could just not play them.  You're not entitled to play whatever you want.  A company has the right to charge whatever they feel their product is worth.  You have the right to not buy it and do something else. 

It's insane that none of you understand the inflation of the past 5 years or the cost of tariffs.  The bottom line for a company always needs to go up, if it goes down the stock goes down.  Nintendo makes almost all of its money from video games, where Microsoft makes most of it's money from AI these days.  Even with making most of it's money from AI, the operating ratio wasn't good enough for the stock holders and now all games are coming to all systems to try and make that Activision operating ratio.  It doesn't matter if your pay hasn't kept up with inflation, inflation still happened and is happening.  What you could buy for $100 in 2020 now costs $125.18.  And that doesn't include the 25% tariff.  And no, companies aren't going to just charge the US that 25% and leave everyone else alone.  it's going to raise prices everywhere so they don't have to raise the US price too high in it's best market.  Every country regardless of if they have a tariff will pay that increase to keep prices lower in the US.

Thanks.  I never considered I didn't have to buy them.  I was worried if I didn't I would be arrested, but now I know that isn't the case.  Thanks!

Almost all Switch 2 games are actual Switch games. However Nintendo thinks it's better to make them exclusives, to push hardware sales 

Sony tried to make that with GoW but their issue was promising GoW to be PS4 so they couldn't back off anymore. Also their games are expensive as fuck, so with only PS5 sales they would not recover expenses at least not short term 

It will take a while for "true next gen" games. We need to make peace with the fact every console first 2~3 years will be dedicated to cross gen titles. Remember true next gen games take a while to create. If Switch 2 dev kits were out like 2 years ago, then a big game to fully use hardware will only come starting ~2027