Nintendo Direct Reactions + We Played a Bunch of Switch 2’s 2026 Lineup - NVC 798

welcome to the nintendo direct live post show here on nintendo voice chat or our normally weekly episode if you're listening later on youtube or audio services i'm logan plant joined by seth macy we just watched the nintendo direct this morning what'd you think seth uh i thought that was great actually um i the little stinger at the end wasn't expecting that one um some of stuff was spoiled but overall uh strong lineup of partners third-party games for the nintendo switch probably on par with what you'd expect for any of the other consoles and that's probably not really something we could say for the last few nintendo generations so yeah it's awesome it looked great yes it's gonna be good still not used to seeing this this type of game on switch 2 i mean resident evil requiem in a few weeks is a great get for switch 2 indiana jones was a big hit a couple years ago finally coming out and then your one prediction in our pre-show oblivion remastered was the final thing of the show which was cool i i thought it was okay i i don't know i think that a lot of time was spent on games we already knew with not really any new information like requiem we've known for a while that's coming to switch to that's great pragmata same thing there is a demo available today and the leon amiibo was the new news for requiem but still that was like a lot of time on those we knew about um and then bethesda unfortunately some of their stuff did leak before the show but that was a cool thing to end on with with three big games coming to switch too i thought valheim was a really cool game you said that you played that on pc a lot yeah we used to play me and the like group of guys that i play with um for like everything on pc we played like back in early access and the the only reason we stopped was because it was still pretty glitchy and we were like sailing somewhere and we just it glitched and we just kept taking damage and we died and we were so far away from our base we're just like let's just not do this anymore rough That being said, even then, when it was still like a glitchy kind of pre-release version, super fun game, especially, especially if you get a crew of people together. Like it is so fun to just build up your stuff and then go explore lands, you know, build, build your camps, build your cities, find crazy, spooky things. And it's a very, very fun game with with a group of people, especially. I mean, it's fun by itself, but if you get a good group of friends together to play this, it is awesome. And having it be a handheld thing on Switch now is super cool. Yeah, I thought that was a really fun announcement. I played it like five or so hours on Steam. I just don't really game on PC very much. So this coming to Switch, I'll definitely pick up. It's a very good tree puncher, so I'm excited about that. We're going to talk about every game that was in the director, just most of the highlights. But I also want to say you should stick around if you're watching with us live, because later in the show, I'm going to talk about all the first-party stuff that I played last week at a visit to Nintendo. I played Mario Tennis Fever. I played Mario Wonder on Switch 2. I played Virtual Boy, so stick around for that later. Well, let's go back to the very top of the partner showcase, which kicked off with Orbitals, which is a two-player kind of split-fiction type Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, like an 80s, 90s anime art style. Seth, I thought this was the highlight of the show. It's what led off. It's coming summer 2026, no date yet, but this looked really, really good. Yeah, I mean, the the the anime style of it just being that throwback style to like the kind of weird cartoons that I would catch when I was like a child. It has me very excited stylistically, but. I don't really like co-op games where you have to play. OK, so we'll see. I mean, if it looks amazing, but we'll see. I just don't like that. I have to play with somebody else and it's whatever. Yeah, that's fair. I think this is a really fun genre of games. I love A Way Out. It takes two, not as much, but Split Fiction is really great. And Lego Voyagers came out last year. It kind of fits this niche, too, of co-op platform puzzle games designed specifically. They have to be played with two players. I think it's a really fun genre. And yeah, just kind of the stop motion way this stuff is moving, I think, looks really good. And it's just a cool get as a Switch 2 exclusive. I think it's a really good fit on a Nintendo console. We see here it has Game Share, so you can play with somebody on Switch 1 as well, even though it is just a Switch 2 game. so i think this is going to be a cool one this summer yeah i'll i don't know i'm looking forward to enjoying themselves with it and i will appreciate it artistically like right there come on look at that it's straight out of like some vhs that you spent 80 on at suncoast video that and it just turned out to be awesome like ah i love that yeah a big announcement that we got sooner than i think we expected is final fantasy 7 rebirth is coming to switch to on june 3rd We just got Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade like six days ago on Switch 2, and it's an incredible port. I put a review update for this up on IGN, and it just runs great. It's 30 FPS, but it's really, really solid, really smooth, and the resolution is nice too. And Rebirth is a much grander game. This is more open zone exploration, less of the linear Midgar hallways from Remake. But this is really great to see already coming in four months to Switch 2. yeah i i mean i knew we were going to see it because they've said as much but i didn't expect we're going to see it so soon yeah it just it looks fantastic and i think that um i'm curious to see how it's going to really run on switch two in these more open areas what they showed looks really good but this i'm also excited about that they showed that it has that same thing that that remake got on switch to where you can just crank up everything can do 9999 damage just on on a single hit and so you can just blast through the story i think rebirth is a little bit bloated compared to remake like i i think that it does a lot of these very ubisoft like open area tower zones with a lot of filler content and they gate the next main objective at a really high level so you have to engage with some of this i don't know really c plus b minus level open world activities i haven't finished rebirth i like remake a lot more but with this kind of mode where you can just blast through and see the main story i'm more inclined to go back yeah i still play rebirth at all or did you have you not played this one no i haven't finished remake so i have to okay but uh my friend chris like he got it for switch and he's just like texting me he's like bro this is amazing he's like he didn't play i don't think on playstation he's he's he said it's like a 10 10 game for him personally like he loved it he loved this sort of story twist and like um playing it on switch was just awesome so um i gotta i gotta finish this game it's i i have no excuse every time i play it i'm like oh yeah that's right i really like this yeah and then you know i get distracted by other things so it's just got such like a unique combat system with that like turn based but also real-time thing that i think works really well yeah i was very hesitant to play um any final fantasy game that doesn't have a turn-based battle system because that's just what i grew up with that's what i liked you know um and then this one kind of bridges the gap between what's modern and what i liked about turn-based that you don't you know you aren't pressured to be doing everything instantly because you can't slow things down when you're changing around or picking something but also it doesn't feel like some of these modern action rpg styles it just feels arbitrary like you're running around in a circle and it doesn't actually matter that you're running around in a circle because you're whatever attack you does so very good game especially if you haven't played it and you're a Switch 2 owner, absolutely get it. And you might even be able to find the Day 1 edition still out there that has a pack of Magic cards in it. Yeah. Which is a cool bonus, and that was only a $40 game, unlike Nintendo who puts out these Switch 2 editions for $80. So yeah, pretty consumer friendly pricing for Intergrade. That's out June 3rd. Capcom had a couple of games we mentioned. Pragmata is out April 24th and there is a demo available today. And this is a new IP from capcom it's that third person shooter mixed with hacking minigame that you said looks like a thing from the mid-2000s oh i don't know this one seth uh i want to say like it maybe sounded like i was being sarcastic and making fun of that no i think we should return to hacking minigames i think we should move the the hacking minigame genre forward and this one looks like it's doing that and again any sort of novel combat system in a game i am all for it so yeah this one i remember when they first showed this and we're like is this a kojima game and of course it's not um i'm not hugely excited i'm gonna kind of wait and see what everyone else is feeling with this one before i before i give it a go it looks great it looks interesting but it's also yeah not something that i feel like i'm gonna be jumping out on a day one but hey maybe i'll play the demo today be like okay this is absolutely a game that i need in my life yeah this is a fun one to finally see coming out it was announced at the i think the ps5 reveal event six years ago and then was it that long ago no yeah yeah because this is the one that at the game awards like two or three years ago had that trailer where like diana picks up a piece of paper off the ground and it says like delayed like a sad crying face or something on it again this is it's been a long road for this one it's finally coming out and i'll talk about this now i did play this one last week at a nintendo switch 2 preview event and was pretty impressed with the port. I think that it was a little rougher than Requiem, which I also played and ran fantastic on Switch 2. It targets 60 FPS on Switch 2, but was a little choppy. It's still going to be a totally fine way to play this game if all you have is Switch 2 or you want that portability. But the game itself, I was super impressed with. This kind of left brain, right brain thing where you are strafing around these giant androids as hue and aiming with different types of guns there's like a blast shotgun which is good at close range or a pistol which has infinite ammo that you always have and then diana on your back who you kind of zl target like a zelda or something these enemies and then you use the face buttons to complete that hacking minigame we see where you're moving this cursor from point a to the goal and then there's little stops on the way you can make there's like three blue squares and if you pass through a blue square your damage is boosted for the next shot that you fire and And then you can pick up these modifiers off the ground that says, oh, for the next three times you pass through this node, you'll create a wide hack effect that damages all three enemies in this circle that it creates. And so then when you're fighting enemies, you can choose, do I want to pass through that now or do I want to wait to pass through it until I'm in kind of a tougher combat scenario? So it is really cool because while that hacking is going on, you still have to pay attention as Q and work your way around these enemies and make sure you don't get shot. And there's like a parry mechanic too. I think it works really well in just the 15-minute demo I play. They're already building on this idea in cool ways in what I think is the very first level of the game. So I'm really high on this one. I love what Capcom has been doing lately. I mean, I love Monster Hunter, Resident Evil. They've been putting out great games. And to see a new IP from them when they're kind of firing as hard as they've been the last couple years, I think it's going to be really great. Yeah. All right. I'm going to give this demo a shot and see where I come out from it. yeah i assume it's going to be the sketchbook demo which is the one already on pc and the same okay that i played last week so that is available today and you should check that out and then resident evil requiem is out in just a few weeks february 27th we got a final trailer for that one here and confirmation of a leon kennedy miibo which i know was brian altano's number one dream so very happy for him this morning yeah hopefully he's awake yeah i know yeah the 6 a.m nintendo a direct one they always do this they keep getting us back with the damn amiibo i mean it's not to the yeah it's not like it was where i had to have everyone that i could get my hands on but now it's like okay these are these are cool um the super mario galaxy amiibo that are coming out of uh of rosalina and mario and the lumas yeah and like these third-party amiibo that are just the quality is so good on them it doesn't really even matter that they have in-game functionality um it's like My friend Terrence was always talking about like these are the high quality collectibles that also do a little something that we never really got from Nintendo in a line like this. So it is it's awesome to see these cool amiibo, especially like, man, a Leon Kennedy. We get the hatchet. He's all buff looking. Yeah, this is pretty badass. Yeah, I agree. Nobody cares about the weapon skins. No, I'm scanning these things, but that's fine. I think people know what they're getting into at this point. Yeah, and they do look good. So those are coming out summer 2026. Game looks really good. Played this one on Switch 2 also last week, and it was just the Grace demo that we've already seen before. It's kind of the beginning of the game where she wakes up in this hospital bed and then sneaks around these hallways. There's a dark hallway you can't go down, so you come back later. You eventually find a cigarette lighter, so you go back, and you're just holding this lighter, and it's all you have. And then what are you calling this monster? The tall granny monster? Spooky granny goblin. She's just a big, scary, like, granny lady that is... The demo is... It will scare you. You'll get some jump scares. And it does... The atmosphere is amazing. I played the demo at PAX West on PlayStation 5. And, yeah, atmospherically, it is awesome. It feels like Resident Evil, like, in the best... All the best possible ways, which is good, because it's a Resident Evil game. You would want that. I am so confused about this trailer. We talked about it on the live show. Why is Leon miss every shot that he takes in it? Is there some joke I'm missing? Or do they not want to show what it's actually like on Switch 2 when you kill an enemy? Because it doesn't look good. That's so weird to me. They show Leon miss like four shots in a row. Yeah, if I had to guess, it's probably they didn't want to slap a mature rating on the stream or something. So they just had Leon miss. Okay, that makes sense. But yeah, that's probably it. Yeah, but this is going to be a really cool port out February. 27th on Switch 2. And then, Seth, your number one reveal of the show is Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered, which is coming to Switch 2 later in 2026. This was your one prediction, and it came true. Yeah, it came true. I'm so happy. I'm always happy when a game that I really love comes to a Nintendo console, because then I can talk about it on this show. Otherwise, I don't get to talk about these games. But, man, I mean, this was the first game that I played on the 360 that made me realize, like oh wow the you know the next gen is here and the remake is really good i have not run into the issues that people talk about i guess the longer you play the kind of worse it performs but i i have not experienced any of that but playing this uh this remake i have gotten further on the story than i ever did on the uh the original one i never opened or closed a single oblivion gate on the original one i just walked around and picked herbs and just did side quests and explored i also didn't know that there was a fast travel option so i spent about 30 hours just walking everywhere without knowing it and i you know what i'm fine with that and having this on nintendo switch as soon as they announced it like originally for uh when it came out for xbox and pc and playstation 5 i was like oh my god why can't we have this on switch too it would be so like this would be the perfect video game to play on like a plane ride or something where you just want to kind of lose yourself and not have to pay attention to the fact that you're sitting in an uncomfortable seat with 200 other people for six hours yeah yeah this is a really cool one and i've never played this one i've played some skyrim i've never played oblivion so i think this is a really oh i'm gonna go i'm gonna i'm gonna say oblivion is better than skyrim okay i like i let me put i think i like oblivion better i think it's more varied than skyrim not to say that skyrim is a bad game or anything but this game i'm glad to see that they did a remake this game needs needs all the love it's wonderful it's beautiful it looks so good in hdr it's unbelievable i i know my experience with this one is going to be when a game gives me too much freedom I can't handle it and I just like in Skyrim I never beat that game which I just like wanted to run the shop in that opening village so I ran across the world to get the item you need to marry the shopkeeper and then I took over the shop and then I like killed a bunch of chickens in that village you're not supposed to kill the chickens and that was it and that was my 15 hours in Skyrim like I just I can't do it it's the same thing in like the outer worlds I just too much freedom I got in this shootout that never ended in the first down killed a bunch of characters important to the story. And yeah, that was it for my save. That's funny because that's what I like about these games. Oh, yeah, me too. It's great. I just never see the end of them. Oh, no, I've never I never beat Skyrim. I never beat I never beat any of the I never beat like Red Dead Redemption 2 I only beat Tears of the Kingdom because we were doing a show about the ending Otherwise I would just never I would just wander around that world and just do quests and have fun and caper Yeah, that's what they're about. Like, I look at Fable, which isn't coming to Switch 2 as of right now, but I look at that game and I'm like, I'm never going to finish that. I'm just going to get into too much trouble and everybody in town is going to hate me and I'm going to be the town pariah. but I can't wait to be there. A couple other things from Bethesda. Fallout 4 Anniversary, which I think on this show you said, Seth, you like more than a lot of people do. Yeah, I think Fallout 4 is great. I really enjoyed it, and I'm excited to go back and play that again. You know, this already exists elsewhere. I kind of wish that the big reveal was the Fallout 3 remake that everyone seems to think is going to happen one of these days, but you know what fallout on switch same same idea as i was saying with the blooming like this is a game that you could just play on an airplane it has all the expansions um like the far harbor expansion is it's almost a game like a fallout game in and of itself it's so it's so huge and my only criticism is they didn't hire anybody who could do a main accent but that's fine i mean i'm right here and they never called me but that's okay but yeah maybe it's not too late get in on the anniversary edition yeah i if you guys remake this call me and i'll i'll coach you guys on the on the proper main accents. Yeah, cool. That's out February 24th. And then last one from Bethesda is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which we already knew was coming to Switch 2, but we got a release date. That is May 12th. I dabbled in this one on Xbox when it came out originally. And this is just a really unique, really cool game. I think Nintendo fans are going to like it because there's definitely some Metroid Prime inspiration in this Indiana Jones game and it's kind of puzzle focus and just the way that it is a first person game and very kind of methodical you're you're uncovering these areas but then when you're doing something more actiony like climbing a rope or something it zooms out to third person like it does for samus in in the morph ball so it's definitely some inspiration from metroid prime and indiana jones and just a cool different kind of take on a first person game like it is super slow and and puzzle focused and it's this brawler combat where you just got your two fists in your whip and and that's it you're not this killing machine just like indiana jones really isn't in the movie so i think his machine gun here but you know you know what i mean like it's a much slower paced thing you're not like this god like you are in a lot of first person games and it's a really cool take yeah yeah i never got around to playing this but i know everybody loves it and everyone talks about how good it is and i have no excuse i have no excuse at all and i don't it looks like that shot right there it looks a little on the jank side but yeah we'll see i mean i'm sure it'll be perfectly fine when it comes to switch too and for a lot of people this would be the only way to play it and uh i didn't know it was like a slower i thought it was more of an action-y game so now i'm actually more interested in it because i do like solving puzzles and with the occasional combat so i yeah the combat is like a lot of sneaking around like i wouldn't quite go as far to call it a stealth game but there's a lot of scenarios where you you have a gun but you usually have six bullets for it and they're hard to come by so it is about your fist or just finding like a sword, a saber hanging on the wall that you take down and then you have. Like it is kind of that sandboxy type thing, like a Dishonored or something like that. So it's a lot different than just first person shooter combat. Sweet. I mean, we can all agree Indiana Jones rules as just like a character. Yeah. And this is such a faithful game. And Troy Baker is Indiana Jones. And at certain times, like when he's yelling, especially, I think he sounds like Harrison Ford. there's a lot of times i think he just sounds like troy baker but there's a lot of times he also does sound a lot like indie that is something that i i suffer with in a lot of games we're not as soon as i know it's troy baker i'm like ah i can't see this as a character i can only hear troy baker talking it's sort of like whenever i watch a movie with leonardo dicaprio i'm like he's not a character he's just leonardo dicaprio doing an accent yeah exactly well we talked about valheim already so let's talk about the adventures of elliot which is one of my most anticipated This is coming from Square Enix. It's the HD 2D kind of take on a 2D Zelda. Like this demo came out last year, and it is really, really a lot like A Link to the Past. And this trailer showed even more of that a little bit. It's all about time travel. It's called the Millennium Tales, and you're going through these different ages of the world. And in every age that you're in, the town looks completely different. There's different items and powers to find. And this game is out June 18th, and I think it's looking really fantastic. Yeah, it looks so good. I forgot there was a demo, so I have not played this. But, I mean, it's like everything I like. It's 2D, HD, it's Square Enix. He looks like maybe he's a red mage. Correct me if I'm wrong. But red mages, everyone knows, are the best type of mages. So, yeah, this looks wonderful. I'm very excited. Maybe I'll put my name down for the review. Or maybe I won't, because actually that's going to be around iGenLive time. That's a busy time. Yeah, June 18th. for that one and then yeah lots of other little smaller things super bomber man collection yeah coming from yeah out now are you a bomber man fan i you know what uh i have the one that came to switch when switch launched and uh i kind of just disappeared but that is a really fun game and i think people kind of skipped over it so i didn't get to play these but these were games that i was obsessed with wanting to play because bomber man was in like every issue of egm there'd be like some new version of Bomberman for some Japanese-only console and I was completely obsessed with them. I never got around to playing them and now I can play five Bomberman games on one collection today. With GameShare. Yeah, I like Bomberman enough. I don't know. I'm not super versed in the series to really recognize the difference between different Bomberman games. It's Bomberman across them all. It generally feels like Bomberman but it is cool to get unreleased ones through a collection yeah konami who was not even making games for a long time going back and making collections of their classic franchises is a pattern that i continue to like to see yeah because konami has such a good back catalog of of amazing games and uh this is the way to to get them out there and i'm gonna sneeze excuse me yeah bless you yeah it looks great though and that is out now i don't know seth That's all the major ones that I had kind of written down to talk about. Is there anything else from the show you wanted to mention? No, I'm a little surprised. I mean, we kind of already knew everything about the Disney Afternoon Collection, so there probably wasn't anything more to say there, but it is weird that I know just based on the posts that I've made on IGN Deal's social accounts, people are really excited for that game. And it has the two games that aren't on any of the other platforms and won't be coming to the other platforms. It was physical. So it was a little weird to not hear something about that. But yeah, it's fine. It's fine. I pre-ordered it before the show, before the show started. So a last minute IGN deals post like two minutes before we're live to pre-order that. Yeah. Yeah. Again, I thought that just as we wrap up on the direct, I thought it was fine. I think that there's always very critical eyes on the partner showcases because it doesn't have what you come for, for a Nintendo Direct, which is the Nintendo stuff. It's like Nintendo throws a party, and then they don't show up to it. And I think that's just a reality of these. I think there's a lot of hunger right now to see what's next for Nintendo. They announced a lot of stuff for this year last year, and that stuff is still coming out. Like, Tomodachi Life got its own Direct. And Mario Wonder is coming out next month. And Pokemon Pocopia, and we're waiting on dates for Yoshi and Fire Emblem and the Duskbloods, which I'm a little surprised didn't show up here. So I'm hoping we'll hear from Nintendo maybe later this month or maybe in March with a direct of their own. I thought this show was just fine. There's some cool surprises, but it was fine. Yeah. I mean, I didn't have my expectations super high. Normally I do. Like, normally I lie to myself and I'm like, yeah, no, but they are going to announce, you know, five new Mario games and a new Zelda, even though it's a partner direct. And then I didn't I didn't allow myself to cause the sort of grief of unrealistic expectations for this one. So I thought it was, yeah, I thought it was fine. What, remember when Elden Ring was coming to Switch 2? What happened to that? Like we. Yeah, that version was really rough. And then it got delayed into this year. I thought we'd see it today. I thought so too. It did not show up. I know the Gamescom demo was bad and everyone was like pretty down on it. But then I played it at PAX West and it was, it was good. I was, you know, and the team was like, this is not the Gamescom. You know, they mentioned over and over again, like, this is not the Gamescom demo. this is a new demo and it ran quite well and i we haven't heard anything about it since then so um well hey maybe someday we'll hear more about this yeah they could just shadow drop this one at some point that's true probably yeah yeah i'm surprised because i also played that pax demo and i thought yeah it was not near the disaster that the gamescom won apparently was i wasn't at gamescom so i thought we'd see it today i thought we'd have it by now but yeah no from software at all because we also didn't get the dustbloods as we mentioned so just more to look forward to and then um borderlands 4 got canceled quietly shelved indefinitely on switch 2 so that's just not really yeah you gotta be careful you can't say canceled when something's been uh indefinitely delayed i definitely delay pr person reached out to me when i was when i used to write news it was like our game was not canceled it was indefinitely delayed okay please change the what you wrote so that's too bad um i didn't play borderlands 4 my friend my borderlands obsessed friend lish he said he was like feeling kind of like how he felt when he was playing borderlands 2 and that is another one of those games that like we had a group of four people that we would play obsessively on like xbox 360 so to know that this is like such a good return to form for borderlands also written i think sam winkler is the head writer who did uh tiny tina who um so like the writing is back um and not to have this on switch it's just it seems like such a bummer i'm i'm sad that they couldn't they couldn't figure it out because this is another one that just it just seems like perfect for for the handheld switch to experience but oh well yeah it was a game that launched with a lot of problems on the platforms it did come to got delayed for switch two and then 2k it sounds like everyone's just moving on to different projects so maybe we'll see it eventually they'll get back around to it but i don't really expect it at this point yeah well that was the partner showcase stick around because we are going to talk all about the first party games that i played last week at nintendo but first i want to share that if you want the perfect pokemon team then planet pokemon puts the power in your hands you can pick your game assemble six pokemon and customize everything that is moves it's held items levels it's got it all you can check type coverage resistances and weaknesses instantly. 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All right, Seth, last week I flew to New York City and I played a bunch of games on Nintendo Switch 2 at a big kind of spring showcase Nintendo hosted for their lineup of the next few months. I played Mario Tennis Fever, Mario Wonder on Switch 2, the virtual boy and a couple other things so let's start with mario tennis which is out next week on february 12th i got to where are you at on this one first before i jump in seth as well as far as my my feelings towards mario tennis yeah yeah how you feel about i'm looking forward to it quite a bit um you know baby waluigi is what everyone wanted and uh i really liked aces i didn't play it enough aces felt very much like a like a solid seven and uh i think which is actually what we gave it anyway but this looks like seven eight seven point eight or something like that yeah oh yeah that's right in the decimal era yeah um but this i'm i'm looking forward to this like tennis games are almost always fun and especially especially when they're like arcade goofy nintendo sports like this so i'm i'm yeah very much looking forward to this i think i'm going to have a lot of fun playing this game for a while yeah yeah i think after playing i only played about 15 or 20 minutes of this one and i think it is going to be a really solid mario tennis game i played a few singles matches a few doubles matches and instantly i mean it's called fever the big mechanic is the fever rackets and that is what dominates the gameplay there's there's 30 of them to choose from and they they have a ton of different effects on the match there's like an ice racket that when you use your fever shot which is this gauge you need to build just by returning shots and playing normal tennis, then your ultimate unlocks. You use a fever shot where your character launches into the air and you aim wherever on the court you want to fire this. And then when that shot lands, your fever racket's effect takes place. And so it can be ice where you cover your opponent's side of the court in a sheet of ice and it's super slippery for them. So then you want to aim your ball that way so they have to slip over the ice on the way to return the shot. Or sometimes fireballs come out of the racket when you fire your shot. or there's kind of these passive effect ones too like you can go invincible with the star racket so other people's fever effects don't impact you so there's this push and pull of do i want to pick an offense heavy one kind of a tactics heavy one the defensive heavy one for myself and i think it's been really fun to kind of figure out how to use all 30 of these online because i'm sure like a fighting game there's probably going to be balances to each one this one beats this one and so if i see my opponent pick this one i'm going to want to pick this one which i think is really cool awesome wow 38 characters that is so many is there like a like a story mode or is it just strictly like competitive uh one through you know start with an easy yeah there build there is an adventure mode that's going to star baby mario baby luigi waluigi and wario we haven't seen that yet all we played at this event was the multiplayer standard kind of free play matches but there is going to be that story mode and there's going to be something called i think it's called trial towers which looks to me kind of like a smash brothers classic event style mode okay they just throw you into different scenarios like oh you're you're three babies and you need to beat a giant bowser on the other side of the court so it looks interesting but yeah the huge character count is really awesome too so like everything was unlocked in this demo i don't know if it's going to be like that in the full game but everything was unlocked and i played as baby waluigi who is hilarious and every character has their own stats and kind of their special ability and you can read what that ability is when you're picking them like baby wario charges up his top spin shot super fast so if you play him you should use top spin and boo has this slicing serve that just goes completely like horizontal and catches everyone off guard like he did in aces so lots pairing 38 characters with 30 rackets it's a ton of different combinations yeah and i think they're answering the call of aces not having enough content at launch this one is just stuffed with things to do hell yeah how does it feel like does Does it just the gameplay feel good or does it you know, is there any do you have any worries about it? Yeah, I think that the gameplay, it's like just how the tennis feels itself is my main concern. Oh, that's kind of important in a tennis game. Yeah, like it feels good. I don't want to sound like it's bad or anything. But Aces to me, it laughed content at launch, but it felt so good to play. It was fast. It had these fighting game mechanics and inspirations with this bar management where you needed to charge up your bar to do a super shot and then break your opponent's racket. And you could kind of get your opponent off the back foot and take advantage with a good combo like you can in a fighting game Really cool Fever feels a lot more casual from the tennis perspective because it so focused on the fever effect It's like when you are playing a doubles match with four people and you've got ink on the court and ice on the court and somebody is launching fireballs at you. And there's a fire bar from Super Mario Brothers that somebody plants right in the middle of your court and it's spinning around. it's like the tennis can't be that crazy because you'd never be able to keep up with the ball so it is when you're just playing a normal tennis match waiting for your fever gauges to kind of pop it's kind of floaty like the tennis ball feels a little more like a beach ball like it's super slow moving but then once the fever stuff starts then it's super frantic and you're like fighting for your life to chase down the ball even if that ball is moving a little slower so we'll see it's a different flavor than aces for sure i don't think it's bad but i adore aces and from the jump again only six or seven matches i got to play i liked aces more but we'll see if i kind of adjust to it more as i play more all right no no baby amiibo no baby waluigi no baby amiibo no an amiibo unlock different tennis ball colors that's what that's where we're at yeah they're they're leaving money on the table not having a baby waluigi and a baby wario right amiibo come on now agreed they should have made that uh but that's mario tennis fever the other mario thing i played seth was super mario brothers wonder nintendo switch 2 edition plus meetup in bella bell park baby fell yes baby bell cheese as prime called it a couple weeks ago yeah and since the last time we talked that got a release date trailer that's coming out on march 26th to switch to and it's going to come with Bella Bella Park, which is this multiplayer hub area where you'll play cooperative or competitive minigames with friends either locally or online. It's going to have the Toad Brigade Training Camp, which is new single-player or multiplayer challenges that take place in Wunder's existing levels, like collect 100 coins in 30 seconds in this level with the ma-ma's that eat you. And then it's going to have Koopaling Wonder boss fights. All the Koopalings are back, and they have their own boss fights. Rosaline is a character now. Luma is a character that you can control with mouse controls and there's an assist mode so lots of new stuff coming to this one but i don't know i still after playing it feel like this isn't what i or a lot of people wanted from wonder dlc and i wanted like challenge levels um which which we're getting i haven't seen yet but i want like new worlds i think that wonder you said that a couple weeks ago seth could have used two more worlds and it's a mario game excuse me i'm so fired up now that my coat my cold has been reactivated like that was my biggest like it's over it's six worlds how how many i mean somebody correct me here if i'm wrong but what six worlds that what is this a game boy mario game i don't think so yeah it would have been nice to see and i i liked the special world in wonder but i thought it could have been a little more challenging like mario games are easy to beat for most people but if you collect everything you should be rewarded with really difficult final challenges they know you can handle and wonders special world wasn't all that tough so i wanted that but what is here is a bunch of multiplayer mini games and i played one where i was playing with four four people total three other journalists and two of us were using the joycon two mouse controls to control a cursor on the screen and two of us were playing as characters and i was using the mouse controls and basically this felt like something straight out of the wii u era where you are using the mouse to place platforms on the screen for the two characters to platform across. And it leads to puzzles where spikes are throwing their spiky rolling balls that they pull out of their mouths, and they're just throwing them into the abyss. And so I trace a platform to guide this rolling ball to hit some boxes to create a path forward for my teammates. So yeah, it was clever and fun and fine. That was probably the best one that we saw. We also saw this kind of hot potato one with a bomb where the bomb has one of the characters faces above it and that character needs to be carrying the bomb or a timer ticks down if that timer hits zero before you clear the end of the level you lose so just some very kind of mario party meets mario wonder feeling stuff it's not bad i think with the right groove like if you're playing with your friends or your family it could be really fun playing with people that are essentially strangers at a very curated preview event is not always the best way to see how these multiplayer party games really go but i think there's going to be a lot to do there's dozens of games in bella bell park there's some races we were all carrying these baby yoshis and had to feed our baby yoshi more fruit than every other player that was popping up on screen so yeah if you want complete multiplayer mayhem mario party type stuff but with mario wonder controls that's what this switch 2 edition is not really what i wanted I'm really curious to see how it's going to be received I was a little bit more down on this game than most people and I think there's no excuse for that other than well no there's an excuse it didn't reach the expectations that I had and is that fair to the game itself? probably not how are they going to know exactly what I want but I don't know I don't know if I want another Switch game with 20% more yeah yeah let's let's talk about that because that actually was my main takeaway leaving this this preview event was i wrote an op-ed which you can read on ign which is called i'm already tired of nintendo switch 2 editions and just playing this game it was just it is frustrating to me that such a big part of nintendo strategy is to repackage these switch one games give them a visual boost and then add in my opinion kind of misguided dlc packs to them like jamboree tv was awful and unacceptable and it was a bad expansion glued on to one of my favorite switch one games in mario party jamboree kirby star-crossed world fine like just remixed versions of levels from the base game with some like glowy effects not a ton new there either probably the best one of the ones we've seen so far. And then Bella Bell Park is these multiplayer games that it's like, I don't know, if I want a multiplayer game with Mario on Switch, there's so many options for that. You can play Mario Party or Mario Kart or Mario Tennis, which is coming out in a week, or 3D World, which is more fun in multiplayer than Wonder is. And then these things cost $80 for the new consumer, which is a price point I still think is ridiculous. And then it's just so inconsistent across all the entries like i think it's just a really poor strategy that i don't think the market is responding all that well to or either i don't think these games are selling very well and i wouldn't be surprised if we don't see that many more switch to editions yeah and i mean like i i'm kind of surprised but they've it seems like they're looking at the success of the games that they brought from wii u to switch and how well those did but without realizing like yeah but that's because nobody owned the wii u and these games were just great anyway and so like people had no other way to play them and then to give us kind of the same thing with like a little value add that ends up costing so much more that actually doesn't add that much value because it's like weird or off brand a little bit or doesn't seem to like fit in yeah i i kind of i think i have to agree with you i'm also would like to not see more of these switch to additions unless that's just a free update of the graphics. Go ahead. Keep doing that forever. That's something I want to point out is because a lot of the people reading and commenting on that article were like, oh, but so many of them are free. No, Switch I'm not talking about the free updates. Switch 2 editions, I'm talking about these paid sometimes 5, sometimes 10, sometimes 20 completely inconsistent dollar upgrades for these Switch 1 games that are then more expensive at retail also. What I love is I look at Splatoon 3 which got a free 4k update and they added a brand new map on switch to launch day and then just last week it got this update with health bars and and there were new weapon kits they added last year and they're completely changing how this game plays and it's all just free and this stuff is on switch one and switch two animal crossing new horizons they released version 3.0 they added the hotel free update switch one and switch two all they put in the switch two edition was like the 4k textures and the mouse controls and more people can play online together like that to me is the right path for a switch to edition what about besides the mouse controls what about a four player minigame and mario wonder says this can only be on switch 2 right why do you need to own the next gen console other than the the reason is that they want you to i just think it's really weak and super anti-consumer how they're doing it yeah i have to wonder how much of it is still the sort of domino effect from the pandemic and the lockdowns like are these just the sort of stopgap measures that they have to fill in content while because so many bigger projects were were delayed or or slowed down significantly um in that time i don't know but it also does kind of feel like a cash grab yeah totally no it is you mentioned the wii u i think that's exactly right i bought Mario Kart 8. I bought Mario Kart 8 Deluxe again. I was more forgiving of that for several reasons. One is I knew the reality. Nobody had a Wii U. These are some of the best Nintendo games of all time. Let's save them and re-release them. Also, you can't fit your giant Wii U disc into a Switch. It's just not a thing. Would have some sort of loyalty discount program been nice? Yes, they didn't do that. That's fine. But on Switch 2, it's just like 10 million people played Mario Wonder. And now we're releasing a new version of this. How many of those people are going to pay this $20 to get these minigames? I don't think it's that many. Kirby has not charted on their sales charts since they released that game. Not many people came back to Forgotten Land for that Switch 2 edition. The numbers tell us that. So I don't know. I think that they are trying to fill out the release calendar. Maybe as teams get more stuff going on Switch 2, we won't see them as much anymore. You know what I find kind of surprising? And maybe I'm wrong. Please correct me if so. but i don't hear anybody talking about animal crossing with the new update like at all and that was the biggest thing that ever happened in video games when it came out i mean not not really obviously but um it seems like it it came and went and it didn't kind of it didn't capture the imagination of anybody really which is i think unfortunate but i i think there is a small subset of just the hardcore Animal Crossing fandom that they're not engaging with IGN or traditional kind of games discourse and media. They're engaging with their Animal Crossing YouTubers. And I've noticed those channels have gone up a lot in viewership again since this update. So I think there's a small group of people that they turn on their Switch and they have Animal Crossing and Jackbox Party Pack and then that's it. I think that there's people like that that are back, but it didn't really recapture the wide appeal. And then last thing I want to say is that I think is really the worst thing about these additions is that Nintendo just chooses to make content randomly, seemingly arbitrarily for some of these games. Kirby gets it. Mario Party gets it. Mario Wonder gets it. And if you want to play those games in 4K, you have to buy this content. And I think that is the worst part about them is that Mario Odyssey is 4K for free if you own that game. Mario Wonder, sorry, you have to pay $20 to get these mini games. you might not want to play the base game you already own in 4K. I just think that's super crappy, honestly. And I've complained about it for a year. I'm going to keep doing it until they stop, because I think it's just a really disappointing direction. No, I agree with you 100%. And I do, but I mean, they're kind of running out, they're going to run out of games eventually. So that's the good thing. And then we'll get new games. And then when we have the Switch 4, we'll get them all with a new 3D. Nintendo Switch 3 edition. Virtual reality update to Bayonetta. Speaking of virtual reality, I played the Virtual Boy, the first ever VR console from 1996. This is coming to Switch and Switch 2. We also got an overview trailer for this, which revealed the launch lineup and two previously unreleased games that are coming to Switch Online. That's a new F-Zero game called Zero Racers. It was going to be a spinoff for the Virtual Boy. And then D-Hopper, which is this top-down platformer where you're jumping up through levels as this frog. And I'm sure it's going to play with the 3D in some fun ways. Seth, this thing was awesome. This was so cool. I'm so happy to hear that. I saw the cardboard version, which is $25, and it was behind glass. I didn't get to play that. Whatever. That's the cheaper option. It's there if you want it. But I played with the replica headset, which is $100. It's coming out on February 17th. and like if you just glanced at this you'd be forgiven for just thinking it was a virtual boy and not this empty shell that you slid a switch into because from a distance it just looks like a virtual boy super high quality it has that like stand with the two legs on it yeah it's got the cranks you can adjust the viewing angle the red and black lenses i've never played virtual boy before so i can't really compare it to the original experience but i thought it was really just fascinating and wacky and nintendo is insane for making this 30 years ago they're insane for putting it out again 30 years later and i'm not sure which they're more nuts for but it's super happy they did it i just thought it was a blast yeah i mean this is the stuff that nintendo does that makes me love them so much this is their worst performing console ever um it what like 400 000 700 000 total units worldwide it just it came and went um it's not great i mean nobody nobody is fondly remembering their virtual boy and yet they made this thing that i'm super excited about that i immediately pre-ordered the day that it went up to just to play like you can't play these games otherwise i mean you could find a virtual boy out there probably for sale somewhere but like that's kind of sucky i will say the one big thing that i'm bummed out about is that you can't play these games without the headset either the the real one or the cardboard one and that seems like such a miss and i hope that's something that they patch going forward because it is a bummer that you yeah can't you can't enjoy these without at least spending an extra 25 dollars but this is what i love i it's so stupid everyone everyone who's bought this who's pre-ordered it is like i don't know why i did this but i did it anyway and it's just it's so weird and and cool and fun and this is the stuff that i i just love about nintendo is that they'll just do this like there it is uh virtual oh that wasn't uh nestor's funky bowling excuse me yeah that was the uh there were two bowling games on virtual boy there's only 22 games and two of them were bowling yeah that's wild straight yeah here's zero racers the f-zero spinoff unreleased that is is coming and i'm very excited about and then uh here's the the d hopper one we're seeing on screen okay oh this looks like good too yeah and then uh there's what mansion of innsbruck that was one that never came to the west if i'm not yes that's right okay yeah so you could change colors later why virtual boy i don't know why would you change it from the red the red is iconic i know but Yeah, I played Wario Land, which I've always heard is a really actually good game. Not good for a Virtual Boy game, but a good game. A good game, yeah. And it is. It's really cool. It's just like the Game Boy Wario Lands. It's got this destructive, aggressive, fast-paced platforming with Wario where you shoulder slam into things. And then Virtual Boy is stereoscopic 3D, like your 3DS was. This is Nintendo's first 3D console. and it plays with that in really fun ways. There's just these giant swinging balls on these pendulums that you have to avoid and you use the depth to help judge where they are and it works really great. And having not played Virtual Boy, it made me nostalgic for the 3DS with having that slider up and just seeing that depth to it. And then Wario Land also has you jump back into the background or the foreground and so you're way back there in this 3D space or right up on your eyes in this 3D space like Kirby Triple Deluxe or Mutant Muds or Donkey Kong Country Returns does We seeing that now It just a really good platformer that never been re And now it coming if you subscribe to the more expensive tier of Nintendo Switch Online and spend an additional or You can play this one Wario game. So it's stupid, it's silly, it's superfluous, but I think it's just so exciting. Yeah, I love it. I mean, the talk is, has this accessory outsold the original run of the Virtual Boy? and for a week or two it was sold out it was unavailable to pre-order from nintendo it came back back now right yeah it's back now you can get it now again but i mean yeah i would say that this is doing better than they anticipated for them to have sold out of the virtual boy accessory that again only works or is the only way to play these games for now so i'm so excited it's so stupid what an idiot i am for for getting into this god i know i know i can't wait we'll have them like two weeks i can't wait to show them off on the show yeah it's gonna be great uh i also saw a bunch of physical goodies that nintendo's releasing over the next few months i saw the talking flower toy which is out on march 12th oh yeah i saw the three new mario wonder amiibo elephant mario and then there's a poplin with uh prince florian and there's captain toad with a Talking Flower. And I saw the new Joy-Con, which yeah, they're so boring. The new Switch 2 Joy-Con with the mint and the purple rails. But yeah, I saw a lot of that stuff. Talking Flower is cute. I think if you have a little kid, that's a really cute toy to get for them because it kind of just talks on its own sometimes. And then you'll press it and it says these different things. And it's like, oh, did you get all your homework done? And just really cute things to have on a kid's desk in their room or something. I thought it was really nice. What was that? I was going to say that you can also, it will talk automatically, but I just wanted to say you can make it shut up like at night so it doesn't talk when you're asleep. There's going to be settings underneath that you can tweak to make it not talk twice per hour like it does during the day. Yeah, I wouldn't like that. I was going to say the most surprising thing to me about the Talking Flower, $39.99. That's what it costs to get a Mario Galaxy Amiibo, actually. So very surprised. I'm not going to get one. Maybe. Probably. No, I don't think that I'm going to get it. know um i think that nintendo noticed that the amiibo did not sell as well with their higher price points the mario wonder amiibo are 24.99 which is cheaper than we've seen for the metroid amiibo or the galaxy amiibo um or for the kirby amiibo which are much bigger and have the two parts but i think they're course correcting a little bit on on the amiibo prices yeah i will say the the galaxy amiibo have actually dropped to 34.99 for 39.99 so um and that's not even like a discount that's just the price that retailers have them at now so yeah yeah so yeah it was it was good that was a nintendo's spring lineup excited about tennis less excited about uh mario wonder and extraordinarily excited about the virtual boy we have about thought any that that those words would have escaped anyone's lips never yeah right yeah they somehow did it yeah uh but we have about 10 minutes left i want to talk about tomodachi life for a little bit but first i want to tell you that you can gear up for zombie horror in resident evil village get wonderfully weird with date everything or keep the good times rolling with bus simulator 21 you can head on over to humble where right now you can get humble choice for just 14.99 and score a curated bundle of pc games available now through march 3rd this month's choice includes resident Medieval Village, Date Everything, Core Keeper, Starbaders, SteamWorld Build, Squirrel with a Gun, Bus Simulator 21, and Big Helmet Heroes. 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It's got everything charming and wonderful about the 3DS game in a bigger form factor with better graphics and more to do. It's like Animal Crossing. You're building your own island and putting buildings on it, but you have all the weird Tomodachi life stuff. You're falling in love with a Juggalo on a ski lift and making your Miis. I am so, so very excited for this game. I when this was first announced, I booted up my original copy and like instantly I was like, oh, my God, that's right. This game is so weird and fun. And it's another case of like Nintendo's just being weird and they do weird so perfectly because it's genuine and it's effortless. And that is what you want out of weirdness. And I am I can't wait. And I can't not only can I not wait to just play this, I can't wait to like for us to all talk about it on the show. Maybe people can write in with their weird Tamodachi life stories. But the stuff that happens in these games is so absurd that just talking about them is hilarious in and of itself just because of what happens. On 3DS, my wife ran away with a character named Weenie McAdooviak, and they got married. And I was sad about it. And that's just one of the millions of weird things that happens in this game. yeah i and they did such a good job of showing what you're talking about in this direct because i think this is one of my favorite games specific directs they've ever done just because of how they handled the storytelling of it where they are telling you all the features of this game here's how you make your me's here's where they live here's what you customize here's the shops and all these different things but but then they're telling this love story of i think angie i don't remember what her name was but they're telling this love story of these me's And she falls in love and she admits it and she gets rejected. And then she falls in love with the clown named Hugh Morris. Yeah. And then she declares her love for him on this Ferris wheel. But then three other people in the town love Hugh also. And Hugh makes his choice. And at one point, she's like crying on the beach over her first heartbreak. And Hugh Morris goes up to her and the way he comforts her in the hilarious like text to speech me voices they have in this game says, why can't I ever get my hoodie strings even? And she's like, thanks, I feel better now. And I'm just like, what is happening right now? It's just, it's perfect. It's just hilarious. And I think they sold what makes this game different and why it's different than something like Animal Crossing and that it is its own thing. It is this observational me simulation where you have to put the ingredients in and then you see the reactions that come out of it. And I just, I thought they showed that really well. yeah it just it was yeah like you said it's a great it was a great single game direct that just kind of i wouldn't say answer any questions that i had but definitely got me really excited to see what the big differences are between this and the 3ds because it's fun and as weird as the 3ds one it is kind of limited like you don't do island building something will open up if you you know if two me's who live on the top floor get married and have a baby it'll open up an umbrella stand or something i don't really remember but this one is just like more of that and so that's what got me more excited about it is you have all these weird things and you know it's like a city building sim kind of a little bit now way more in depth with the city building stuff people were just they had they showed all the different types of islands you can make you can make your island just look like a me face so they're all just walking around on this giant me face like super flexible and dynamic definitely inspired by all the customization stuff in a new horizons like the patterns and decorating outside and all that stuff. This is going to be a huge hit. This has millions of views on the Japanese version, millions of views North America. It's going to be big. I think between this and Pocopia, it's going to be a very successful spring for Nintendo for stuff that maybe you weren't expecting. I think kids are going to lose their minds for this game because it is so funny and silly. like that's what kind of my kids were young when the first one came out and that's what part of the enjoyment from from playing it was that like their reactions to everything it's like brian talked about you know his daughter who's like i think six or seven like just losing her mind over crazy stuff and then you've got pocopia coming out which is also going to be kind of weird and strange and off the wall so like yeah nintendo just be do this don't don't give us any more uh $20 4K upgrades with extra content. Just make weird stuff. This has got to be, relatively speaking, I don't want to say that making video games, but compared to a ground-up Legend of Zelda game, this is probably a much lighter lift, and it what do they call it? Emergent gameplay, where it makes its own stories. Look at how stupid this is. Monster Trucks. I love it. Really stupid, and a big part of this Direct is that Nintendo made good on a promise from 12 years ago to make the next Tomodachi Life entry more inclusive with gender and dating preferences in this game. You can pick male, female, or non-binary for all your Miis, and then you can do the same for what type of Miis that Mi likes to date. And a lot of people got very mad about this predictably online and saying Nintendo's gone woke and it's the new leadership and all that. No, this is from a quote from 12 years ago when Tomodachi Life came out on 3DS. there was a ton of backlash specifically in Japan over this decision. And Nintendo had to put out a statement that it got so heated at the time. And they said, we apologize for disappointing many people by failing to include same sex relationships in Tomodachi life. Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to change this game's design and such a significant development patch can't be accomplished with a post ship patch at Nintendo. Dedication has always meant going beyond the games to promote a sense of community and to share a spirit of fun and joy. We're committed to advancing our longtime company values of fun and entertainment for everyone. We pledge that if we create a next installment in the Tomodachi series, we will strive to design a gameplay experience from the ground up that is more inclusive and better represents all players. So, yeah, that was from 12 years ago. It took 12 years to get a sequel to this game, and they're making good on that. So everyone blaming the new president of Nintendo of America, Devin Pritchard, for doing that. Come on, guys. Like, I don't think that's people listening to our show. But that is out there, and it's just not true. It just tells me the woke mind virus has figured out time travel. That's what's really going on. Okay, sure. Yeah, but cool to see that. I think that's great. And people were very excited about that addition to this game. And then I think on the negative side, this is the only hang up I have with living the dream is that some some bummer news came out after the direct, which is that Nintendo is restricting image sharing from this game. so close not it's so close you can't upload screenshots straight to social media from the switch you can't send them to your nintendo app on your phone to download them like the only way to get screenshots of this game off your device is to directly plug in your switch to your pc or your sd card to your pc and rip them off that way and there's a long statement here i won't read basically they said that out of context scenes may be misunderstood or may not reflect the spirit in which the game is intended to be enjoyed so if you put in like a politician and you make them say some really terrible stuff and then you post that online nintendo doesn't want your me their me's representing that which i get but people are going to do it anyways and it's just like this game is about that social sharing and communication like you said telling telling the stories of what happened in your game and they're just making it harder to do that yeah that's i mean whatever it's the old monkey paw strikes again but yeah yeah that is that's a classic nintendo move and then also um there's going to be no online features which means as of now it doesn't seem there's going to be a way that i can make a me of myself and share that with seth so i can move in to seth's island which is a shame because i wanted to do that and like i'm terrible at making these and there's going to be ways to like describe what you want the me to look like in this one but like how am I supposed to get like Barack Obama and all these people on my on my switch that were on my Wii and my 3DS like 15 years ago like I don't have the ability to make them myself that well no like half the people on my 3DS ones are like friends of mine that you know I yeah had their me's so it's it is it's a bummer but again something that maybe they can they can figure it out with an update for $20 yeah yeah so just like it is so close because to me those are two critical features of why the first one is so good is like sharing me's and sharing stories from it and they had a chance to to go the next step with this one and and they're backtracking a little bit but i still think it's going to be really great i just i don't know i want i want everyone's me in here and i can't make them myself i see i'm a me master i can make any me you want and i'm very excited to make a lot of new me's let's bring me's back let's bring those funny you know celebrity me's that everybody used to post on social media back in the day but let's bring them back i'm excited tomodachi life you know plug plug your switch into the pc so you can download it from your file server yeah and make like a youtube video description of how to design all these celebrities and characters and stuff and that's going to be the way it's like you're going to have to post instructions to make these me's which is fine yeah we'll figure we'll figure it out that's tomodachi life that is out on switch one no switch to update as of now on april 16th. 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Plus, it's a week delayed, but we'll talk about all the juicy quarterly financials we got from Nintendo this week, including first sales numbers for metroid prime 4 pokemon legend za and nintendo acknowledging that switch sales have been slightly weaker than expected outside of japan which is very interesting a lot to talk about there thank you seth so much for joining me anything that you want to plug i would like to suggest everyone follows ig and deals on x blue sky threads facebook and instagram and tiktok because that would help help me out a lot cool i will shout out all those previews that i talked about today from the Nintendo event. Go check those out up on IGN.com. Thank you so much, Seth, for joining me. Thank you to everyone back in our Los Angeles studio for running everything this morning. That's Malc, Mariah, Jordan, Amir, Nick, and Dave. We got to sit at home in our offices. I think we're both wearing sweatpants and they all had to drive in to work. 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