Ultimate is a top tier game, but I do see your concern with only being able to play handheld. I can personally play it handheld for a while and not feel too bad (by that I mean hand cramps), but it certainly does feel 100x better on a TV.

What I might ask is if you are planning on getting a Switch 2 next year. If so, we can reasonably assume the form factor will be about the same and you’ll get the TV access. Everything we’ve heard so far says Switch games will work with the Switch 2. So in the short term you may not be able to play with friends locally on the same screen, within the year we’ll have a new system and in the meantime get some good experience with the game with what you have now.

I do still play online, and there’s still a community there, so at least you’ll be able to play with other people that way.

Does anyone know if the coop can be played “locally” from switch to switch or is it only online?

I have a flight coming up with some friends, and it’d sure be cool to just play this on the plane with them.

That’s certainly a possibility. I just have this feeling that Nintendo doesn’t have any other games than what they showed us in this direct to fill up a whole extra year. Of course, that’s just a feeling.

And I feel like they may follow the Switch playbook where they show off the console in December - probably during the game awards or (ugh) on Jimmy Fallon like they did last time. Then launch in four to six months with Metroid.

If you look to the left of the screen it does look like there are 4 shortcut slots, one in this video taken up by the wand. My hope is that she gets some other items to use along with the wand. Zelda has always had bows, for example, so that’d fit right in.

I had a very similar thought myself.

They said the next big Zelda was going to be different than TotK/BotW style, so after getting some baseline skills/items/ideas that Zelda uses in this game, they could leverage that for the next big game where you can swap between the two.

It’d just be cool to play as Zelda in 3D.

Wait, you mean the girl with the wand is not Link?

The Legend of Link

By saying just “2025” this solidifies in my mind that this will be the cross gen game that launches with the Switch 2 around April or May or whatever.

I need to preorder this this weekend.

I like the games but hate Amazon so I’ll skip it.

But hopefully the show itself is good.

Someone, for the love of god, just announce when Silksong will come out, already.

I was telling a bunch of friends to not be surprised when Animal Well ended up on a bunch of GOTY lists.

And they were like, “Nahh” until they played it when they were like, “Ahhhh.”

From top to bottom it’s one of the most interesting and well put together games I’ve played in so long.

Oh, lame.

I like The Division 2 a lot and have spent almost zero time in the PVP zones in my couple hundred hours.

I hope the pivot is just over to The Division 3.

I was just thinking about Discovery because I need to watch this week’s episode.

This is like, “Tell me you’ve never watched Star Trek without telling me you never…”

Yikes

Sorry, Mark, so long as Meta is attached to the headset I’m not going to buy it.

I don’t even let Meta websites into my house. I have all that blocked at the DNS level.

Bro drink some water.

Here’s another year old article that came out in response to this.

TLDR: You should not worry, and the only people who might think about worrying are those drinking 12 cans of diet soda a day — so basically no one.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/13/1187284010/world-health-organization-is-aspartame-carcinogenic

“Our results do not indicate that occasional consumption should pose a risk to most consumers,” said Dr. Francesco Branca, director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at the WHO, during a press conference in Geneva. He said the problem is for “high consumers” of diet soda or other foods that contain aspartame. “We have, in a sense, raised a flag here,” Branca said, and he called for more research.

But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it disagrees with this new classification, pointing to evidence of safety. In a written statement, an FDA official told NPR that aspartame being labeled by the WHO “as ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’ does not mean that aspartame is actually linked to cancer.”

The WHO has long set the acceptable daily intake, or ADI, of aspartame at a maximum of 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. So, a person who weighs 60 kilograms (about 130 pounds), could consume up to 2,400 milligrams per day, which is roughly equivalent to 12 cans of Diet Coke — much higher than most people consume.

I’m just hoping “tap X to run” is not the default any more.