Oh that’s neat! I’ve played Prime 1 before so if I fancy playing it again I’ll try this out. Prime 2 and 3 I’ve never played (well, I did get a little ways into 3 on Wii years back - but I’m planning to start from scratch). Thank goodness for Primehack!

I do love going back to older games! The Steam Deck is particularly great for that. Will take me years to catch up on everything I want to play 😅

I’ve been meaning to play FFIX, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, FF7 Rebirth, Baten Kaitos, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Persona 3 Reload to name a few!

That’s a lot of RPG to get through!

No nothing’s been announced. I’ll probably just emulate them

I recently started Digimon Cyber Sleuth! I’ve never played a Digimon game before but this one has been fun so far. There definitely seems to be more of a push to constantly evolve your mons than Pokémon.

I’ve never played the Mario & Luigi RPG games, but this looks fun. The artstyle is really charming!

Ohhh looks beautiful! I hope it’s good after all the delays. Reminds me, I need to play Prime 2 and 3…

Yeah I think you’re right. Not enough notice for a 2024 release.

So just to be clear - are you predicting that this new Switch will release in the window just before xmas 2024, as announcing a new console now and not releasing it for a while is tantamount to shooting their christmas sales for the original console in the foot?

If so I guess it depends - will the new console be backwards compatible? If so, people will likely continue to buy games now in the knowledge that they can upgrade later on. And there have been rumours of a new Switch for a while. I suspect most people who wanted an OLED Switch by now would’ve got one. I feel like they could announce the console now and release it after a year or two, without hurting themselves too badly.

Ohh interesting! Wonder if it’s planned to release in 2025? Excited to find out more.

Yes I think you’re right about Pokémon. But Nintendo does often keep things under wraps until the last minute. Maybe we’ll hear something about Metroid a few months prior to the release of the new console? It would make sense to keep a heavy hitter like that up their sleeve.

I think slowing down on first party releases is natural at the end of any generation - once dev kits are available it just makes financial sense for new games to be built on the upcoming hardware.

Will Nintendo reduce the price of the current Switch’s games? I doubt it (at least any time soon). Unlike the Wii U at the end of its lifespan, the Switch is still popular and people are still buying games like BOTW. And working on the assumption that there will be backwards compatibility, it wouldn’t be consistent with Nintendo’s strategy to reduce prices now.

I could see the new Metroid Prime being a Switch 2 launch title, and maybe they’ve been working on something like Odyssey 2 for that purpose. I doubt we’ll see another Animal Crossing or Smash game for a while.

I’m sure it’s not a bad game - it just felt very generic from the demo. Definitely worth trying the demo on Steam if you can.

I played a demo of Build and it was ehhhhh. I don’t think it would work well on Switch, in terms of the UI and stuff.

Heist on the other hand felt like a perfect Switch game. Can’t wait!

I’m actually quite hyped for Steamworld Heist 2! The original was one of the first games I got on Switch - kept me entertained for a good while.

It runs perfectly! You can use the joy cons to do brush strokes, but I’ve been sticking to tracing out shapes using a joystick which works fine.

Being able to play it portably is nice - it’s quite a long game.

I’m playing through Okami on Switch. It’s such a beautiful game! Love the wacky characters.

I’m also most of the way though Paradise Killer on Steam Deck. It has Danganronpa vibes but with a more vaporwave design and some great music.

Finally I’ve recently started Subnautica on PS4. I’ve got my first little habitat set up and a Seamoth!

Whoa, beautiful visualisation!

Have you played it on Switch? I’m wondering what the best version is to play. Annoyingly on PC it’s only available via Epic games store…