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That’s crazy that the game spent 8 years in development! (Granted, it got mothballed for a good while, since they struggled to get it running acceptably on Switch 1, but still!). That explains the existence of the BCP as well. It was to buy them time while they waited for Switch 2 dev kits to come along. I suspect that we’ll be hearing similar stories about most of Nintendo’s first party Switch 2 exclusives for the next couple of years or so…

I just don’t like the idea of accruing any form of debt if I can help it. The only debt I have is an old student loan and (soon to be) a mortgage. That’s it. Any regular bills/payments are done via Direct Debit. Anyway. I’ve now loaded up my PayPal wallet. Glad I had that bright idea! Now I don’t need to think or worry about it anymore

Aye. I always do (unless PayPal is an option). I never buy anything on credit (don’t even have a credit card). Edit: Ahh, I forgot that I chose PayPal as the payment method on the My Nintendo Store. Perhaps that’s why payment hasn’t been taken yet? Edit 2: Oh wait a sec! That means that I could just put the money into my PayPal wallet and just let it get taken from there instead! That’s a much better idea! Then I don’t need to worry about having enough money lying around in my current account!

God I hope so!

Oh that’s interesting. Had no idea that the GCN/PS2 version was a totally different game from the others! Ubisoft was a very strange company up until the PS360 came out and consolidated all of their game development output.

Weird that I haven’t been charged yet for my GCN controllers… Guess they’re doing these in batches? Dunno Wish they’d just take the full payment for everything already and be done with it! Sick of waiting and having to keep money set aside in my current account, not knowing when it’ll be taken!

SNES Mouse you say? They know what they're doing... And yes, it is a hint as to what's to come...

That'd be a hell of a game of 52 Card Pickup!

He ain’t gonna have many true fans if he keeps making comments like that.

Not mentioned is the fact that they’re working on a native 4K/60FPS mode and a 120FPS performance mode… https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/05/exclusive-fast-fusion-will-contain-12-tracks-free-content-update-confirmed Sounds like the game is coming in a bit hot to be honest… but still, can’t complain with getting these extra tracks and improved performance for free.

Given the rumour about Arc System Works supposedly working on a Switch 2 exclusive game? Makes perfect sense. They were the ones who remade Another Code 1 & 2 after all.

Interesting! Had no idea that the US got a different version of ISS2. BTW, it really strikes me just how many more sports games the GCN got over the N64. Even at this early stage in the GCN’s life, the difference is night and day!

Worth noting that both the NES and FDS versions of the Kid Icarus soundtrack are included.

Hey! 2/8 of those already have Switch 2 upgrade updates, so you’re well on your way!

REmake came out that early in the console’s life!?!? No way! I must be going nuts, I swear I remember it coming out in November 2002! But yeah, I agree. It’s an incredibly well made game, but the controls are so clumsy that I cannot stand actually playing it. If only it featured the same control setup as Eternal Darkness…

Man, what a blunder that sale was! Imagine if SEGA had managed to hold onto Visual Concepts and the 2K brand to this day... They would've been several times the size they are now. Desperate times though. I suppose they were just all out of cash by this point. Fun to think about the what-ifs though!

You could certainly do worse than blatantly ripping off Power Stone.

Turns out that the Switch 2 Dock features the same HDMI conversion chip as the PS5 Slim… https://famiboards.com/threads/nintendo-confirms-the-switch-2-wont-support-vrr-while-docked-apologizes-for-publishing-incorrect-information.13707/post-1800042 Meaning that it should be possible for Nintendo to eventually enable VRR support in Docked mode with a future system update. It took Sony about 18 months to finally get VRR working on PS5 post-launch, but hopefully it’ll happen eventually with Switch 2 too VRR is especially important on Switch 2, because a flawless 120FPS is not a realistic expectation for most Switch 2 Exclusive titles; but VRR would make that mode a lot more viable all of a sudden!

Yes Sam! You da man!

I’m sure Sword & Shield will also get a performance update, but yeah; it is upsetting that the worst Pokemon game gets the update first. To be fair though, S/V does need it more; because it’s a complete technical disaster on Switch 1. At least S/S already looks good and runs relatively well at a mostly stable 30FPS.

When they say “Optimized for smoother movement on Nintendo Switch 2”, I assume that means that they’ve increased the framerate cap. Note how only games that previously ran at 30FPS have this notice (they specifically point out 3-4 players in ARMS, which was previously capped at 30FPS, and Bowser’s Fury, which was capped at 30FPS in handheld mode). Link’s Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom were already designed to run at 60FPS, they just struggled to reach that target on Switch 1; so they should just automatically hit that 60FPS cap now through brute force. Nice to know that most of these games are getting 1440p/4K resolution support though

Honestly? You may well be right. Disney have actually been really good about letting their retro titles get re-released in recent years; so I think we actually will get Mickey’s Speedway USA on NSO. Shame there’s no current way for us to get the original arcade versions of KI 1 & 2 on Switch though, as Gold is quite the downgrade from the arcade original version of KI2 (though it does include a top tier training mode at least; the first of its kind really!).

Well I’m gonna be super busy with work stuff throughout much of June, so I likely won’t actually get much time to play any games until start of July… When I do have time to properly play Switch 2 though? Echoes of Wisdom will be the first big single player game I’m gonna be playing on it!

Well, Switch 1 was limited to USB2 speeds at best, and even the OLED dock ran its Ethernet port from an internal USB 2.0 adapter; so 100mbps was the best you could ever possibly get out of a wired connection on Switch 1. I'm hoping that Switch 2 is better in that regard, but the outer USB ports on the new dock are still limited to USB 2.0 speeds... Let's hope that the Ethernet port gets access to the full USB 3.0 speed, or else the WiFi 6 connection is going to be substantially faster than Wired this time around!

They did, it's called Mario Smash Football. It's made by the same development team.