{"id":2059,"date":"2025-04-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:39:15","slug":"nintendo-played-it-safe-with-switch-2-and-im-already-disappointed-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/nintendo-played-it-safe-with-switch-2-and-im-already-disappointed-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo played it safe with Switch 2 and I\u2019m already disappointed \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did you feel the Direct was a let-down? (Nintendo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader is unimpressed with the Switch Nintendo<\/a> Direct and complains that only a minimum effort is being made with the games and hardware.<\/p>\n

I had a bad feeling about the Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> from the moment it was unveiled<\/a>. Even before that we had lots of people demanding it be just a souped-up Switch, with the same basic look and design, and I always thought that was a boring and very un-Nintendo idea. But they got their wish and here it is: the Switch 2. Or rather Switch 1.2, amirite?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to pretend that the Switch 2 Direct<\/a> was a disaster or that I\u2019m not going to buy one – I probably will eventually – but everything I\u2019ve seen of it so far is disappointingly predictable… and predictable is the last thing I usually associate with Nintendo.<\/p>\n

The mystery \u2018C\u2019 button has turned out to be a chat feature nobody\u2019s ever going to use (and you need a webcam for anyway), there were no other major secrets about the design and mouse controls really were just mouse controls. It all looks perfectly fine but nothing about it excites me yet, and that worries me.<\/p>\n

In terms of games we got Mario Kart World<\/a> (aka Mario Kart 9), Metroid Prime 4<\/a> (which looked to be doing nothing different to the previous 3) and an upgrade for Super Mario Party Jamboree that clearly nobody is ever going to play more than once, while shrugging their shoulders and going \u2018Is that it?\u2019<\/p>\n

The Zelda remasters are such minor improvements you\u2019ll need a tedious Digital Foundry video to explain what the differences are. Meanwhile, that wheelchair basketball game looked like something a junior programmer knocked up in an afternoon. Welcome Tour, on the other hand, looks like something they made while on the toilet.<\/p>\n

There was other stuff in the trailer that doesn\u2019t seem to have been playable, so we don\u2019t know how it is, but it all seems like smoke and mirrors. A third Hyrule Warriors game, for the three people that like that, and a sequel to Kirby Air Ride for the even smaller crowd that like that (seriously, why that of all things when we already have Mario Kart?). Oh, a new FromSoftware exclusive that turned out to be a very unexciting sounding multiplayer game. Urgh.<\/p>\n

Where was Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Zelda, Super Smash Bros., Fire Emblem, Pikmin, and all the rest? Where was the new IP that showed off how the mouse works, considering Mario Kart and Donkey Kong don\u2019t use it at all? That was clearly the point of the basketball game but was that really the best Nintendo could do? And why was it so grey?<\/p>\n

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