I won’t buy one, and will likely retire from purchasing consoles.
I want a machine that plays games that belong to me, that have no online requirements whatsoever.
I want to own a machine that cannot be bricked remotely by the seller.
It’s a pastime/luxury/extravagance that I can and will abandon and replace with something more reasonable.
Steam deck, or a variant, is all I am doing for handhelds any more.
I won’t buy Nintendo products anymore.
- ARMS
- Big Brain Academy: Brains Vs. Brain
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
- Game Builder Garage
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
So Pokemon is finally getting the patch it needs just to function properly. It’s just tied to a $400 console.
The majority of the Switch 2’s marketing has focused on ports and upgrades for old games. Which a Steam Deck still does better. And at least Valve won’t brick my system when their profit margin is threatened.
$450 console, plus tax
This is a pathetically short list
They’ll probably add more later, but they’ll still almost entirely not be major games.
This, with the paid updates list, covers most of the first party games, though there are still some that’s left.
covers most of the first party games
Which gets me thinking… have we seen any announcement for third party game upgrade patches? Free or paid?
I’m still passing on the switch 2 at this rate.
Free upgrade is always great. Sadly, Tears of Kingdom is not on this list
That’s a paid update.
But it has an app that you can see the map on 😲 /s
It’s embarrassing, really.
