Donkey Kong Bananza gives DK a full sandbox playground to destroy—and it's a surprising showcase for Switch 2.
LLC: "Twenty minutes was all it took for me to be all in on Donkey Kong Bananza, the latest DK-release coming to the Nintendo Switch 2. This has blown me away."
I'm kinda more excited for this than MK World but not by much. Still shocked it exists. Even with Nintendo dumping different DK games onto the NSO these last few months.
IGN interviewed Nintendo of America's Bill Trinen to discuss Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, the decision to price Switch 2 at $450 and Mario Kart at $80, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour as a paid digital product rather than a pack-in game, and a lot more.
The Switch 2 tutorial game Welcome Tour being anything but free is a joke and greed. Apparently, it costs $9.99.
Everything about the switch 2 is bad. Overpriced portable system that's the same price as a ps5 that is way better in basically every way except being portable. Nintendo games are of less quality and technologically inferior to a lot of games on ps5 Xbox and pc so why would it even cost the same price and even worst cost more money. A lot of switch 2 versions of switch 1 games costs more money even though it's just the hardware itself playing the game in better resolution and higher fps. Switch 2 online will cost more and I always thought the Nintendo online should be free. Fanboys kept making excuses saying it's not that expensive and because of these same fanatics Nintendo wants to overcharge for everything. I see game prices going up soon because fanatics keep making excuses and justifying buying inferior products at a premium price. Nintendo normally succeeds by having a very affordable system and games.
I find it interesting that more or less they are saying switch 2 is either really worth 400 and the 80 game is what bumps it to the 500 msrp. Or! Switch is really worth 450 and Mario kart is a 50 dollar add in but for a physical/separate release you can pay the premium of 80 for the game.
However, knowing they are charging 340 equivocal dollars for switch 2 in Japan. We know that the 450 msrp is crap as well as the 80 dollar game.
To me, a guy who works and earns his living in japan in yen, the japanese model is definitely not cheap either! Yes, at the current exchange rate its 340 usd equivalent, but many people don't earn usd in japan...so we still need to shell out 50,000 yen for the console, which feels like buying the console at a 500 buck price tag. and thats just for the japan-locked model. you want the region-free? gonna cost 70,000 yen!
Nintendo Executive Board Directive: No matter how small the drops of blood, always squeeze the customer to the maximum amount possible. Squeeze them as if it's the last generation we'll ever see! No Mercy!! The more loyal they are the harder the squeeze!!
Nate Bihldorff talks pack-ins, game-key cards, and Korok Forest
Nintendo Life: "The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal has been a rollercoaster ride. We've been waiting what feels like years for this momentous occasion, and from the game selection and the revelation of the 'C' button's function to the pricing issues, there hasn't been a dull moment."
Future proof by not having hall effect joysticks
And also shipping with 256gb internal storage in 2025?
I don't understand why they didn't allow use of mini NVME SSD for internal storage, it would be a lot cheaper for the amount of storage you get.
It would have been the best option, but knowing Nintendo, they can probably come up with a million reasons why they didn't choose the SSD. I expected it, but was still disappointed with the fact they choose memory cards.
@all in this subthread on NVMe storage
The smallest high speed NVMe drives still need cooling and the Switch 2 is too thin to accommodate them. Physics is likely why Nintendo's engineers decided against the smallest NVMe drives, which are times thicker than the substituted MicroSD Express cards, which the bay its inserted into, may have an adequate cooling solution for.
The idea that Nintendo omitted NVMe storage to be greedy, is one issue I can't get behind. On the price, NS2 is way overpriced as are the games and the DRM is ridiculous. Nintendo threw a fan in the Switch dock and changed $50 extra dollars for it, that's unbelievable. The NS2 JC2 controller are $10 more than the original Joy-Cons but have no new features (a dedicated button added for paid online chat doesn't count as a new controller feature, either).
I'm hopeful that Switch 2 is a failure in it's current state, but not because of Express SD cards that is actually one of Switch 2's most interesting pluses even though Nintendo still managed to bungle Switch 1 software cross-compatibility with standard SD cards.
That was exactly what I wanted to say! The only future proofing they're doing is filling up their coffers by intentionally selling faulty analog sticks, forcing us to buy more extremely overpriced controllers. Absolutely shameful practice that not enough people are putting pressure on Nintendo to fix. We're going to go through another full 8 years with crappy potentiometer analog sticks. All first party companies need to stop this nonsense, and we should be forcing their hands at this point.
There may be other shortcomings as well since we do not know the other hardware specs other than the screen info.
"Future proof our plans to continue selling slightly upgraded models over the next few years"
Future Proof until Sony and Microsoft launch their next gen consoles and third party developers slowly make their way over leaving them behind.
Future proof until next gen is out in a couple of years and it can't handle the ports again because of how underpowered it is (and it's even debatable it can do them all even now)
Exactly! The fact that they haven't released any info about the exact specs of the console doesn't look promising.
Indeed. This is one of those times whers it's patently obvious that Nvidia isn't being truthful with Switch 2's capabilities, either. 10x more compute power. In what way, rasterization, throughput, shading, fill-rate, overall compute? In what way is Switch 2's APU 10 more powerful than Switch 1? Where did all the performance even go because we’re obviously not seeing it in what's been showcased so far.
We still have a lack of real transparency in Donkey Kong Bananza, sub-1080p resolution in MKW with performance issues (which to be fair may be ironed out in the next 2 months), Cyber Punk is also 720p30 with roughly equivalent settings to what is seen on the Steam Deck. Switch 2's saving grace will be HDR, and maybe some decent stereo speakers this time around?
There's nothing it can do that my phone can't (aside from having expandable storage and playing Nintendo's 1st party software legitimately), and for $50 less than the original MSRP of the PS5 and costing more than the Xbox Series S... that's a huge problem! Well, at least in my opinion.
