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Yeah, it's hard for be excited for "free updates" when you're paying $60 retail at launch for a game that has the amount of content you'd expect for a $20-$30 game.
At least the golf game was more or less an full game at launch, although the courses that you'll play through in career mode says otherwise. But the New Donk City course was essentially an meme version of mini-golf and I just stopped playing it, after that.
 
But it wasn't designed to be more than a portable. So how could it ever be good docked?
>buying a Nintendo console expecting it to be comparable power-wise to the other Big Two

You know that hasn't been a goal of theirs since the Wii, right?
 
I know.
I don't like the portable aspect of it. I know there's a dock but it's clear that it's technically limited by the fact that it's mainly a portable console.
You should stick to PC and just emulate anything that's Switch exclusive.

I doubt Nintendo will ever make a new dedicated console. Maybe they'll do an external GPU thing built into the docks of future systems. like some laptops have:
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But I doubt it. More people play their Switch as a portable than docked.
 
If that's the case, I wonder how many of them own the LITE version of the Switch even though it can't play some games without a wireless controller.
The Lite is doomed by design, when I think about it. But at any rate, I heard that you can't enjoy local multiplayer with quite a few games because everything is hard-coded to use wireless controllers.
 
Alongside offering mostly stable online multiplayer and cloud saves, Nintendo Switch Online has a laundry list of games from decades past to play for a small fee. The Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as its successor the Super Nintendo and the N64 are represented with a handful of their best titles. The Game Boy Advance was where many Nintendo fans got their start with the company, so GBA support would be a popular addition.

The lack of any Game Boy library feels like a glaring omission in 2022, as the console sold better than all the three that are currently included in Nintendo Switch Online. The Switch has championed Nintendo's characters with so many first-party titles, but while it has understood what made the company's home consoles so great in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, it hasn't truly reflected the company's success in the portable market.
Before the Switch and the Nintendo DS were selling at alarming rates, the Game Boy Advance proved that the original Game Boy handheld wasn't just a fluke. It was a system that improved upon its predecessor in many ways, showing that portable gaming could be cost-effective, fun, and varied. It solidified Nintendo's hold on the market, and as the Nintendo Switch has surpassed its lifetime sales, there's no better time to honor the Game Boy console that showed what handheld gaming could be.

There are many must-play GBA games that could ensure the Nintendo Switch is an even better console for retro gaming enthusiasts. With Sony bringing backward compatibility and trophy support to older games on the PS5 with its new PS Plus format, it should be an easy decision for Nintendo to bring some of the Game Boy Advance's best to Nintendo Switch Online.
 
They should bring both. For single player I'm much more interested in NGC, but GBA would be awesome for multiplayer stuff.
GBA has plenty of good shit for single player too. The Metroid games, Zelda Minish Cap, Mario & Luigi, and Mother 3 (Ha...).

I'd hope for both systems, but I've a feeling Nintendo would charge extra for GameCube titles.
 
All I'm looking for right now is Jet Force Gemini on the N64 virtual console and a re-release of Metroid Prime Trilogy with standard controls. Got a couple friends that really need to play Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime Echos. Though if a re-release of Metroid Prime Trilogy still had motion controls, it wouldn't be the end of the world. All three games played really well with motion controls; my main concern is that the Switch's gyro motion controls are not going to be as responsive as the Wii/Wii U's IR+Gyro motion controls.
 
GBA has plenty of good shit for single player too. The Metroid games, Zelda Minish Cap, Mario & Luigi, and Mother 3 (Ha...).

I'd hope for both systems, but I've a feeling Nintendo would charge extra for GameCube titles.
Oh, definitely, and NGC has tons of multiplayer too. It's just GBA was more difficult to find someone to play with, Pokemon was the only exception in my experience. NSO would change that.
 
You should stick to PC and just emulate anything that's Switch exclusive.

I doubt Nintendo will ever make a new dedicated console. Maybe they'll do an external GPU thing built into the docks of future systems. like some laptops have:
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But I doubt it. More people play their Switch as a portable than docked.
Actually, according to numbers Nintendo themselves released years ago, its actually dead even the number of people who only play it docked and the number of people who play it portably. The actual minority was for people who used it as a hybrid.

Gamecube games or GTFO. And even then, they'll probably screw up the emulation.
We probably won't get Gamecube games on the Switch. The Gamecube had analog triggers which many games made use of (including Super Mario Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion), and the Switch has no way to emulate that because its own controllers lack analog triggers for some confounding reason.
 
We probably won't get Gamecube games on the Switch. The Gamecube had analog triggers which many games made use of (including Super Mario Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion), and the Switch has no way to emulate that because its own controllers lack analog triggers for some confounding reason.
What's to stop them from making the GameCube controllers mandatory, or god forbid them remapping certain functions?
 
We probably won't get Gamecube games on the Switch. The Gamecube had analog triggers which many games made use of (including Super Mario Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion), and the Switch has no way to emulate that because its own controllers lack analog triggers for some confounding reason.
Mario Sunshine used the analog triggers extensively and they found a way around that, they can do it but it'll take effort on their part which Nintendo is allergic to.
 
What's to stop them from making the GameCube controllers mandatory, or god forbid them remapping certain functions?
Nothing, which is why they will almost certainly do it.

Mario Sunshine used the analog triggers extensively and they found a way around that, they can do it but it'll take effort on their part which Nintendo is allergic to.
Doubt they will put in that effort for the two dozen games they'd port from the system to make it worthwhile. Also flies in the face of emulating the games as they originally played on the console.
 
Doubt they will put in that effort for the two dozen games they'd port from the system to make it worthwhile. Also flies in the face of emulating the games as they originally played on the console.
I kinda doubt it too, but did most games extensively the analog triggers? Also, they could just sell NGC controllers like they did for every other NSO console.
 
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