I am not interested in the Switch 2 – but there is one game that will open my wallet
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Look, I love mine Nintendo Switch. It is a great small device – hell, I may not have achieved the pandemic lockdowns with my common sense intact if it had not been for the beautiful, calming influence of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. So it’s fair to say that I am interested in the Switch 2But I don’t get one on the launch day for a very simple reason.
Where is my damn Pokémon Launch Title, Nintendo? With every new consoleration, I am sitting and I am eagerly waiting for the possibility that you finally learned your lesson and decided to set a mainline Pokémon Game in the launch setup. And I am disappointed with every new console generation.
The closest to us ever came Pokémon Dash For the Nintendo DS, which was more a glorified technical demo for the new handheld engineers of the new handheld than a fully-fledged game.
I will admit it, I am that kind Pokémon Fan who complains about how nonsense the modern games look like and run, but then MRIRILY presents my credit card when a new one comes out. Does that make me a hypocrite? Probably, but I don’t think it is unreasonable to both love something and also wanted it to be better. In any case A Pokémon Launching the title for the Switch 2 would stand in line to get hold of the new console – but as it looks now, I just am not interested.
The title problem of the launch
If I can be honest here, the launch of Switch 2 … is quite weak, to be honest. What do we have? A lot of triple-a games from third parties are re-released, but the Unprospectacular images of Cyberpunk 2077 Run on the new console Did not exactly lit a fire under me. Some OG -Switch -Upgrades for an extra ten dollars -Oh wow, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Is not now running like waste?
Great, I am sooo impressed. We have a number of smaller series titles and a little first-party Namur Headlining, but demonstrably none of the largest franchises. Forgive me that I am not uncontrollably enthusiastic Puyo Pop Tetris 2S.
We get a new one Mario KartBut not a mainline Mario game. Super Mario Party jamboree” Donkey Kong Bananza, And Pokémon Legends: Sat are all incoming, but not for a few months – oh, and Sat Will be available on the switch that I already have, although it probably looks terrible.
A new Zelda game is nowhere to be seen, and Metroid Prime 4 Is, uh … well, it’s coming, but only Samus knows when. I would like to take the time to remind you that it has been Eight years Because that game was originally announced – and it is also a Switch 1 game. Very cool, Nintendo.
To be honest, it is something of a recurring theme for Nintendo. Launch solutions have rarely been impressive for the consoles of the gaming giant; Almost half of the Wii launch titles were mediocre film and TV programs, while the two largest DS launch titles were both Nintendo 64 Remakes (Mario And Rayman). To be clear, I am not saying that those remakes were bad, but come on.
Why is Pokémon beaten?
I tried to understand the logic behind the consistent refusal of Nintendo to record Pokémon – What, so that we don’t forget it, is the largest intellectual property in the world, more than worth it Call of Duty” WarcraftAnd Award the theft of a car Combined – in the launches of his consoles. On paper it is not logical.
I have some theories. Firstly, that is the hardware development team of Nintendo simply does not affect the much-headed snake of companies that jointly Pokémon Franchise (Game Freak, The Pokemon Company, Creatures Inc.) to ensure that a new title is always ready for the relevant console launch. Another theory is that Nintendo deliberately uses new Pokémon releases to shed the sale after the launch of his consoles, or spaces from those third parties games to prevent attention from being distributed by a new one Zelda or Mario title.
I would like to believe that the most important reason is that Game Freak would rather spend a little more time with the hardware to release a game that looks great and is great, but … well, let’s be honest, that seems unlikely. In reality it is probably a combination of all these factors and more, to never be well understood by purely mortals like us.
All I can really say is this: Nintendo, if you had done that Pokémon Tides and Gales (or whatever it is called) to launch with the Switch 2, it would sell better. Simple like that. I would buy it immediately; I was one of the six people who both bought Pokémon Mini. I am not difficult to please.
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