Steven

I hope so. I love Nintendo and I am a big fan but this idea of patenting game mechanics is just ridiculous. The only legal protections there should be should be copyright protections on code and copyright protections on trademarks and characters.

There's no escaping it. Generative AI for Art is pretty lame until it gets so good you can't tell the difference, and it will get there eventually but what is really interesting is the possibility that AI can be used to support the game itself. Think of it like sort of a Goldilocks Theory of Gaming.. This game is too hard! But this game is too easy! And this game is juuuuuuust right. A game that is so "balanced" that it keeps you engaged better than anything Miyamoto ever dreamed of while not letting it become too hard that you throw it through a window. Or too easy you get bored and fall asleep.

I don't remember any of that. I do remember enjoying the game a lot until I broke the game by building too much stealth into my character. Going over 100% stealth was effectively God mode.

You can sell or trade lame key cards. Also, lame key cards give developers a chance to release a product that might not be so profitable as a AAA title like Mario Kart World would be.

Not only are the microSD EX card requirements new to the Switch 2, but the performance of the game cards, and their cost to publishers has gone up because in order to take advantage of the Switch 2 performance, we need faster read and write times. That means more expensive game cards to publish on.

I understand the doom and gloom in society today where it seems everyone is out to screw you, but Nintendo generally has not been like that. Sure, I think they charge too much for accessories, and sometimes they dont communicate very well as to the reasons why the do certain things, but they're not here to screw you.

I dont think a docked only version is the right path, even for people like me that only play docked only. I think the right path would be use Thunderbolt 4 ports instead of USB 3 and design a Pro version of the Dock itself that has an eGPU built into it thats even better than what the Switch 2 has. You would have to design games for lower settings to be compatible with the Switch 1 and higher settings for the Switch 2 and ultra settings if you have the Pro dock. And I would buy that in a heartbeat. Yes, its the games that drive the system. I agree. But dont you think its time that people stopped complaining about Nintendo's power compared to other vendors offerings? Just because Elden Ring is coming to the Switch 2 doesn't mean it itself is not a gimped down version.