The only way to transfer save files for Pokémon Games, Splatoon 2 and Animal Crossing from one console to another is to do a System Transfer.

This requires you to have both systems on hand and connected to the same Wi-fi network.

Furthermore, for Animal Crossing, you will need to use the Island Transfer Tool.

There is unfortunately no way around this.

A full list of games with no cloud backup

Various nordic prices have been coming online lately and they are INSANE!! 650€ for the Mario Kart bundle!!

For comparison: * Switch Lite 220€ * Switch (normal) 250€ * Switch Oled 330€

The final part of Odyssey has you control Bowser just wrecking shit and they made a whole game doing that and I love it. Plus the goal of getting bananas is like the new moons. I have never been interested in a Donkey Kong game before but this has me interested. Plus Lion King music

I'm actually pretty into the concept of Drag and Drive gameplay wise. Dual mouse support has to be one of the more subtle Nintendo console gimmicks but a wheelchair based game is a good application of that.

But it looks so dull aesthetically. Like, I'm sorry as someone who spent years in game dev courses I wouldn't be surprised if the game as we saw it was made from a unity asset store pack I just didn't recognise. Do you know what would help give the game some immediate character?

Mii's!

Like, immediately it would just be so much more appealing. Random wheelchair basketball game with a generic YouTube game dev tutorial robotic aesthetic? Yeah I mean it seems cool... wheelchair basket ball with your Mii's? Genuinely would feel far more like a must-try.

Yes, this is purely aesthetic based commentary and no, Mii's wouldn't add anything to the game mechanically, but in terms of how oddball the concept is as a demonstration of the Switches features, I would like to see the game not be made artificially less appealing by a lack of visual effort.

Hell, ideally I feel like this would just be one part of a "Mii Sports" for switch 2 but unless they literally flipped around a bunch of assets to show off one of the sports without revealing the rest of the game (and like, why would they?) that doesn't seem likely.

Per GameFly's Twitter, (which I can't link)

I know $80 is waaaay too much for a lot of us to afford, especially since we're completely SOL if we want to return a game.

So, I hiiiiiiighly recommend renting through GameFly instead, especially since can reserve games in advance if you want.

And if you really wanna keep a game you rent, you can buy it at a discount :O

(it's still crazy to me that GameFly is going strong even after over two decades)

(Also, I'm not being paid to promote this or anything like that—I just really like not having to buy games haha)

The screenshot being passed around that says that physical copies of Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza cost $10 more than their digital counterparts is not from an official Nintendo source.

Nintendo's official US pages for Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza state that the MSRP is $79.99 and $69.99 and make no mention of a physical copy being more expensive.

This is not to say that it's impossible some retailers will be selling them for more than the eShop, there is no source from Nintendo that says that they will.

I’m totally fine with the price of the Nintendo Switch 2 console. $450 seems like a reasonable price for a new gaming system.

However the price of everything else is an issue. Nobody wants to pay $80-$90 USD for a new game. Even with all new features, nothing in that Direct screams $80. An extra pair of Joy Cons is $90?!?!?! The console manual isn’t free and having to pay extra to upgrade old games even if you have them in your library is ridiculous.

Overall the announcement of the prices is killing the hype people are having.

Edit: Thanks for all of the engagement and the upvotes!! Personally I think I’ll wait for it on sale or wait for Nintendo to release a Switch 2 lite version.

Edit2: I now know that the whole $80-$90 price range isn’t for USD my apologies

Now personally I've found 3rd party support has been lacking on Nintendo consoles for awhile due to its hardware limitations IMO, but with the switch2 I feel like that could change, at least whilst the seriesS is still "new gen Xbox console". And seeing the likes of Eden Ring and Cyberpunk confirmed being me great hope we will see more announced other the years.

Ill be picking up Hitman, Cyberpunk, Hogwarts Legacy whenever I pick up the switch2.

I have high hopes for this thing!

Not trying to get political but I thought it was important to the price discussion. Some insiders are saying the new tariffs could push the price upwards of 550 dollars. Switches are primarily made in China, which now has a 51% tariff and Vietnam, which has a 46% tariff.

Nintendo put up this page on their website explaining "Game Key Cards", which are a new type of release for Nintendo Switch 2.

This type of release has led to a lot of confusion and unfounded rumors, so I'm going to clarify the facts on this.

• These cartridges will be sold as a key to download a game to the console. There is no game data, just an instruction to download the requested game from the eShop.
• This is not all games. This is just some games. It is up to the publisher whether they want their games to be on the cartridge or not. Nintendo announced in the Direct that the Switch 2 cartridges are advanced and can read at higher data speeds, so they have confirmed that many games will read from the cartridge still.
• This is not new. Several Nintendo Switch games have a similar practice of putting only a small portion (or none) of the game on the cart. This has unfortunately been a game industry standard since the PS4 and Xbox One, and is rampant on the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X.

I personally am against this concept and I don't think I want to spend any money to support it. Developers who don't put the full game on the cartridge are greedy and lazy.

Shout out to https://www.doesitplay.org/ for cataloging which games on various systems need to download before you can play them.

It very well could be a vocal minority I’m seeing but the backlash on the software pricing specifically is everywhere right now. It’s dominating all discussion for the Switch 2 now, and it’s really unfortunate.

The outcry is understandable, of course. I’m just wandering how much Nintendo shot themselves in the foot this time. We won’t really know until sales numbers come in, of course, but I thought I would ask here, just as an anecdote:

Are you still getting the Switch 2 this year, in spite of the price. If not, do you think you will in the next two to three years as more games come out even if the prices aren’t lowered?

I would really like to see Pokemon Legends: Arceus and Xenoblade 2 in particular to receive some performance and visual improvements. Maybe they could also receive some new features similar to BotW and TotK, like statistics and achievements on the Nintendo App, and some additional QOL additions.

A small detail you may have missed from the Direct is that the Switch 2 is only compatible with MicroSD Express cards and it is not compatible with standard MicroSD cards.

MicroSD Express cards are

• The same size and shape as MicroSD cards.
• More expensive than MicroSD cards.
• More widely available in smaller volumes.
• Have more pins than MicroSD cards for faster data transfer.

I can easily see parents and children getting very confused by this. Please make sure people are aware.

EDIT:

How to identify a MicroSD Express card

• They have this EX logo on them.
• They have an extra row of pins.

If either of those things is missing, it is not a MicroSD Express card, and will not be compatible.

I was hoping to play the second and third games before prime 4, but it seems like this won’t be happening. Oddly they didn’t have even announce prime 2 as a GameCube game.