General Nintendo thread

As of June 10, 2024, it will no longer be possible to post screenshots and videos to X (formerly Twitter) from the Nintendo Switch's Album, or send friend requests to social media users via the Friend Suggestions feature.

Elaboration here.

Surprised it took them so long.

I used it quite a bit. But I have also phased Twitter out of my life by now.

Oh, no, not Twitter! Anything but Twitter!

I've been trying to find the image an discussion (may not have been this site) that showed some possible remake games on the pipeline with stuff like Xenoblade X, TP and Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and some other games that got me curious about it since the discussion mentioned it coming from a source that actually did get stuff right.

Notable Sega Atlus leaker Midori has been leaking a handful of successor leaks recently and leaked a Nintendo game codenamed U-King-O.

Other folks have pointed out that U-King is Breath of the Wild's codename and that the suffix "-S" was added to the codenames of Switch ports. This particular codename is likely either the Gamescom demo from last September or an actual port of Bot W to the successor.

This also ties into the entire discussion over people trying to find out the codename for the successor.

Edited by tclittle on May 11th 2024 at 1:02:03 PM

*(gets Vietnam flashbacks from the Switch not getting its own Mario Kart game due to 8 Deluxe)*

*(also looks at the PS5 only getting The Last of Us ports instead of a new installment)*

The Switch 2 will also not get a new Mario Kart game, it'll get Mario Kart 8 Ultimate, which is a port with 5 more characters, 5 more tracks, and 1 new mechanic (new Karts that can hold two racers).

if they did do another version of 8 on new Switch, would I be crazy to want the R, T & R/T variants from Tour for all the courses, Booster Course Pass included?

Edited by chino514 on May 12th 2024 at 7:14:07 AM

And every single new character is yet another Mario or Peach skin

In all seriousness, Nintendo surely understands how much Zelda pushes systems, and TOTK is too new for them to have had time for a brand new one.

Coming back to what ~Nap 1100 said several pages ago:

That would be great for the F-Zero fandom (obviously) and interesting to observe from an angle of wider Nintendo/gaming culture. I highly doubt that they would release both a new F-Zero and a new Mario Kart at the same time. As MK is more present in the mainstream casual gamer consciousness right now, does it make sense for Nintendo to put F-Zero out there first? The intention behind this being to direct attention to this comparatively lesser known series by not having it go up against Mario Kart. But this is all speculation.

I'm not really into racing/driving games myself (do I not play them much because I'm bad at them or am I bad at them because I never played that much?), but I think it's interesting how many different subgenres and unique mechanics there are and how dedicated the fanbases for specific games and series can be.

A couple days ago, some of the Switch 2's specs potentially leaked via public shipping info from Nvidia.

Highlights are DLSS, raytracing, 16g of RAM, and 256g of internal storage.

What actually came out of the shipping documentation is just the confirmation that the console will have 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

Everything else is leaked info from the 2022 Nvidia hack that people have been talking about for just as long on the Nintendo fan forum that figured out the shipping info.

Edited by RacattackForce on May 12th 2024 at 12:22:13 PM

Speaking of new consoles, the prototype of the DS was shown off and Iwata mentioned the Revolution (aka the Wii) at E3 2004, 20 years ago this week.

O huh

Nintendo Overlord?

Should Metroid Prime 4 be a launch title for the Switchetwo, or should it be cross platform and come out on the Switch?

Cross platform.

Cross-platform, without a doubt.

So recently I've been hearing, with all the talk lately about video game companies doing terrible and/or stupid things, that Nintendo slapped a notable pirate/romhacker/something with a fine so huge he'll likely be paying it off for the rest of his life. Did something like that really happen? I've even heard people comparing it to stuff like indentured servitude or debtors' prison.

Yes that indeed happened and dark but funny thing was his name was Gary Bowser

Not to be confused with Doug Bowser.

Sort of. There's a Moon Channel video on it that explains everything. Basically he was the fall guy for a legit shady as fuck organization that was involved in some legit sketchy shit that bricked a bunch of people's consoles and did a bunch of illegal shit.

Edited by doomrider7 on May 12th 2024 at 5:42:47 AM

Oh so some things that were legitimately worse than just Poke the Poodle software piracy were involved?

Yeah, the company the guy worked for was legit selling jailbreaking gear that could brick your system and was a legit multi-million dollar operation. As with a lot of the Nintendo stuff explained in Moon Channels videos, it's either no different than what other companies do or there's a significantly big amount of context being missed or just straight up ommited. When you realize that a lot of online gaming stuff runs off of ads and clicks, you realize that sensationalist stories are gonna drive more traffic than informative ones.

Edit: A LOT of people bring up the time that Sony lost a law suit about emulation stuff and roms as well as few other cases missing the entire point that those happened AGES AGO when the tech was new and alien as hell in many ways and a lot of those precedents CAN be overturned it's just that no company wants to actually press that Chaos Button since a loss could horribly uppend laws for developers in terms of IP protections and a win would effectively criminalize emulation entirely(with the caveat of the VERY bad publicity of doing that). It's why the stuff that the Dolphin and Yuzu the teams did was so ludicrously stupid and reckless since it would hand an insanely easy justification to press the button AND LIKELY WIN! Nintendo does NOT WANT TO PRESS THE BUTTON, no company does, but if pushed enough it's no longer a question of whether they want to or not, but if they have to in order to protect their IP's. A lot of this is due the fact that in spite of having some of the most valuable IP's EVER, they lack the sheer resources for more fine tuned and surgical approaches to these things that other companies like $ony and M$ would have(granted they both have their own serious issues).

Edited by doomrider7 on May 12th 2024 at 7:07:14 AM

That said, there was a separate incident over a decade ago with someone who leaked New Super Mario Bros. Wii onto the internet before the game's release.