Author Topic: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?  (Read 3133 times)

sworddude

Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #75 on: April 19, 2025, 02:08:24 pm »
Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch 2 will have no achievements system.
https://www.polygon.com/news/553774/nintendo-switch-2-no-achievements


I'm very alright with that, just gives people pointless busy work. takes the fun out of some games

Throphy system is not the golden standard, glad they keeping it that way
Your Stylish Sword Master!



Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #76 on: April 19, 2025, 03:26:16 pm »
Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch 2 will have no achievements system.
https://www.polygon.com/news/553774/nintendo-switch-2-no-achievements


I'm very alright with that, just gives people pointless busy work. takes the fun out of some games

Throphy system is not the golden standard, glad they keeping it that way

What game does a trophy system directly take the fun out of in any way? You can just disable trophy notifications in the system settings and pretend they dont exist.  No game ive played bases its plot around the Trophies.


I think the line between "I dont like trophies personally or need them in the Switch 2 UI" (which is fine) and "I have a personal bias so im gonna pretend trophies hold no merit at all to anyone else and are bad for gaming as a whole" has been heavily blurred in this thread sadly.   And thats just not fair to detract from how others enjoy games.
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sworddude

Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #77 on: April 19, 2025, 04:40:13 pm »
Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch 2 will have no achievements system.
https://www.polygon.com/news/553774/nintendo-switch-2-no-achievements


I'm very alright with that, just gives people pointless busy work. takes the fun out of some games

Throphy system is not the golden standard, glad they keeping it that way

What game does a trophy system directly take the fun out of in any way? You can just disable trophy notifications in the system settings and pretend they dont exist.  No game ive played bases its plot around the Trophies.


Just the existence of it, it's a mental thing. not a huge deal if it's there cause like you said can be ignored or disabled
Your Stylish Sword Master!



dhaabi

Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #78 on: April 20, 2025, 02:02:20 pm »
Preorders for US and CA open April 24. Is anyone here actually planning on buying a console by the end of 2025?

How about you dhaabi? Not sure if you said yet and I missed it. But are you getting one?

Right now, only Mario Kart World has any appeal to me, but I don't really enjoy the kart racer sub-genre that much, so I may just be impressed by its presumed level of quality. I'm sure that I'll own a Switch 2 eventually, but it may be some time after its launch.

Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #79 on: April 21, 2025, 02:10:38 pm »
And now the Zelda amiibo got a 10 dollar price increase.  Guess I'm not getting those anymore.  Such a bummer launch of this system.

Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #80 on: April 21, 2025, 03:36:28 pm »
Preorders for US and CA open April 24. Is anyone here actually planning on buying a console by the end of 2025?

How about you dhaabi? Not sure if you said yet and I missed it. But are you getting one?

Right now, only Mario Kart World has any appeal to me, but I don't really enjoy the kart racer sub-genre that much, so I may just be impressed by its presumed level of quality. I'm sure that I'll own a Switch 2 eventually, but it may be some time after its launch.

Ditto.  There's stuff I'm interested in, but nothing at all that makes this a Day One or (even Day 60) purchase.


Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #81 on: April 21, 2025, 09:21:36 pm »
Right now, only Mario Kart World has any appeal to me, but I don't really enjoy the kart racer sub-genre that much, so I may just be impressed by its presumed level of quality. I'm sure that I'll own a Switch 2 eventually, but it may be some time after its launch.

If they didn't have the free roam mode, I'd be saying the same, but it sounds like I'll be able to explore and do stuff, otherwise it's more of a multiplayer thing.  It's why I really loved Sonic All-Stars Transformed, because they had a whole campaign to do stuff that unlocked things that was more than simply just racing the tracks and that was something Mario Kart always lacked.  It's why I thought Diddy Kong Racing was better than Mario Kart at the time.

That and Donkey Kong Bananza in July would have been enough to get me interested in a launch release, maybe even a replay of Breath of the Wild if I decide to give in to the stupid upgrade thing...still unsure about that...but neither have quite the impact as Super Mario Odyssey or Breath of the Wild was for me with the Switch 1 launch.

turf

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Re: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?
« Reply #82 on: April 25, 2025, 11:30:00 pm »
I landed a preorder.

Did anyone else have any luck?