The latest Trails game has been officially announced for the West. It looks like we're finally catching up with the Japanese releases fellas! I am still playing Daybreak 2 so I avoided watching the trailer, the most important part is that the game will come out in Fall of this year.
I've only just started playing the Trails series after reading about it for so long. I marathoned Sky FC over a week (I'm a working man with a child, gimme a break guys) and have immediately dived head first into SC. The combat improvements are already nice. And the mods that add the JP voices during the game are great too. I'm looking forward to finishing all the games some time in 2026.
Nintendo avoided giving price details on stream because they wanted to obscure how much they're jewing you.
On top of that you have to pay to upgrade your switch 1 games to 60fps like the Zelda games.
The console price is about what I was expecting. $50 over for the new Mario Kart bundle seems like a no brainer. Glad to see they lead with the new Kart because that tends to be one of the biggest system seller games for Nintendo. I'm excited to play around with a Burnout Paradise version of Mario Kart.
It was nice to see such a huge emphasis on major 3rd party games. The ones I'd be interested in playing I would just pick up for PC anyways, but it's good to see its available for people who are purely consolefags. Eldin Ring, Cyberpunk, and Madden/Fifa being the most obvious ones for the normie audience. A huge improvement from the staggering THREE launch titles that the Switch originally had after the Wii U absolutely slaughtered Nintendo's 3rd party support.
As well, this isn't even all the 3rd party shit we can expect to see. Articles have been out saying Dev Kits were kept to only select devs, and even denied for one major studio due to "instability" (rumored to be Embracer). We should start seeing more games coming out around the holidays.
The Nintendo Switch 2 dev kits are a rarity.
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Surprised to see Nintendo is the one to finally make digital games cheaper than the physical ones. I'm a big physical edition guy for 95% of games, so I'm a little disappointed to see this. But I know it's something that's been coming for a while, so I guess we'll see if Sony will follow suit.
You don't have to pay up if you're a Switch Online Member.
I might still just pay for the BoTW/Tears upgrades outright so I just have them. I'm hoping they follow the $10 standard that Sony did for PS4->PS5 upgrades. But it wont' surprise me if Nintendo charges more than that.
I'll be overall interested if there will just be generalized performance improvements with games overall, and these just unlock "further" upgrades. There are some games that still kinda run like ass (Looking at you Astral Chain) so I kinda hope we'll get some word on at least FPS/performance boosts on other Switch games from some reviewer before launch.
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