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Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
The entire Nintendo Switch 2's physical game controversy explained
Image via Nintendo. There is no doubt that Nintendo Switch 2 is going to be one of the most anticipated console launches in gaming history. With numerous updates from its predecessor like the all new Joy-Con 2 controllers, custom Nvidia chipset, and many more, this upcoming system is going to change the way we used to see hybrid-handheld consoles. However, there has been a huge controversy stirred up lately regarding the physical copies of the games of Nintendo Switch 2. This aspect of this highly anticipated console is concerning the fans, keeping in mind the shift from physical gaming disks to digital only gaming world. The Nintendo Switch 2 game-key card saga Switch 2 Game Key Cards Explained and Why I'm Split When the highly awaited Nintendo Direct was held in April, it was all about some great treats for the fans in the form of new game reveals for Switch 2, like Mario Kart World, and many more. However, another aspect of this console was also disclosed which was quite concerning. As far as physical copies of the games are concerned, Nintendo Switch 2 will use game-key cards. Switch 1 uses the conventional game cartridges which essentially contains the full game data. But that's not the case with Switch 2. The game-key cards of Switch 2 don't contain the full game data at all. These key-cards are some kind of license to download the actual game from the internet, once inserted in the console. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Добро пожаловать в Аравию SAUDI Забронировать Undo However, once the game is downloaded, players need to keep that card inserted in Switch 2 in order to play that specific game, and this is how it works as a conventional Nintendo cartridge, serving a physical DRM Mechanism. This is where the real controversy begins. Despite needing the card to play the game, the card doesn't actually confirm the typical ownership of the game unlike the Switch 1 cartridges. Fans also feel pointless to buy them cause it's almost like a digital version of the game as the entire game data needs to be downloaded from the internet, despite having a physical object. Although these key-cards are exclusively for third-party titles, but that doesn't make the fans less disappointed. Read More: All Switch games that won't run on Switch 2 Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Metro
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Nintendo Direct set for around Switch 2 launch claims insider
A reputable insider has claimed the next Nintendo Direct will air around the Switch 2 launch, as the line-up of presentations continues to grow. June is usually a big month in the world of gaming because it's the time of year when major publishers hold presentations to announce new titles, but this year will be even bigger than usual thanks to a new console. The Switch 2 is set to launch worldwide on June 5, 2025, alongside Mario Kart World which, based on our initial hands-on preview, looks set to be the game of the summer. If a new console wasn't big enough, it seems Nintendo might have more in store around the Switch 2 launch to send enthusiasm into overdrive. According to insider PH Brazil, who was relatively accurate about a dedicated Switch Direct earlier this year, Nintendo is planning a Nintendo Direct for the Switch 2 launch week (June 2), or the week after (June 9). Nintendo has broadcast a new Nintendo Direct in June consistently for years, so the month isn't exactly surprising. However, with the Switch 2 launch, it was unclear if Nintendo would delay its usual presentation to a later date. If this information is to be believed, this won't be the case – and it makes some sense to rally momentum behind the console. After Mario Kart World, Nintendo has Donkey Kong Bananza to promote before it comes out on July 17, while games like Kirby Air Riders, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment still don't have specific release dates. More Trending We could see a whole bunch of third-party announcements too, with Red Dead Redemption 2, Halo, and many others rumoured for the console. Assuming a Nintendo Direct does happen, the first week of June is stacked with gaming presentations, between Summer Game Fest on Friday, June 6, and an Xbox showcase on Sunday, June 8. As such, a Nintendo Direct the following week feels like the more likely option at this point. According to insiders, Sony might hold a State Of Play presentation within the same month, while smaller events like Day Of The Devs are also set to take place under the Summer Game Fest umbrella. If you haven't yet secured yourself a Switch 2, you can still pre-order the console, and the Mario Kart World bundle, at some retailers. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: The Last Of Us season 2 was a mixed bag and I'm worried about season 3 MORE: 5 reasons why I'm not buying a Nintendo Switch 2 this year – Reader's Feature MORE: Resident Evil 9 began as 'open world multiplayer game' as insider reveals scrapped sequel
Digital Trends
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Steam has a hit new life sim and it will brighten your day
As part of this job, I watch a whole lot of Nintendo Directs. Hundreds of games are beamed into my eyes every year and I try my best to retain as many of them as possible. As you can imagine, some fall through the cracks. That was the case with Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, which was first revealed on a Nintendo stream in 2023. Even after making an appearance in February's Nintendo Partner Direct, it still didn't stick in my mind. I'm not sure why. Maybe it got lost in a sea of recently announced life sims, like Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and Tamagotchi Plaza. For whatever reason, I didn't expect it to make much of a splash. As it turned out, I underestimated the power of Nintendo 3DS nostalgia. Fantasy Life i is out now and it's doing exceptionally well on Steam for a niche game. At the time of writing, it has reached a peak of over 47,000 concurrent players and 92% of its user reviews are positive. That only accounts for PC players too, not those jumping in on Nintendo Switch. The success got me curious enough to hop in and start my own life. I'm glad I did, because Fantasy Life i is a plesant little vacation that has made my days just a little brighter. Developed by Level-5, Fantasy Life i is a brand new entry in a cult hit life sim series that started on the Nintendo 3DS in 2012. Since then, its only other installment was a mobile game that was discontinued in February 2023. That makes Fantasy Life i something of a long-awaited sequel for fans of the original. And those fans were clearly hungry for it. Recommended Videos I can understand why as soon as I start playing. Described as a 'Slow-Life RPG,' Fantasy Life i is about an archeologist who is accidentally sent to a mysterious world where labor is valued. There's a big central story here that involves bone dragons, time travel, and the fate of the world, but that makes everything sound more stressful than it is. The real appeal? The fact that I simply get to live a quiet life. Fantasy Life's closest equivalent is Rune Factory, as it mixes some light hack and slash combat in between more peaceful town management. The hook is that players can learn 14 different jobs, each of which has its own skill tree, progression system, and function. I start by getting a cook's license and am taught how to turn any food items I get into meals by way of a quick minigame. I level up, get access to more meals, and start filling out my skill tree to improve my cooking efficiency. I repeat those steps when I get my licenses to become a miner, woodcutter, angler, and more. I immediately get the appeal as I start obsessing over leveling up each job, completing set tasks to increase my license level. What's so neat here is that Fantasy Life essentially allows players to become a town's entire supply chain. I cut the wood that I use to make swords that I then equip for my paladin job. I can plant my own vegetables by day, cook them by night, and then sell them around town. Lots of life sims allows players to do all of this, but Fantasy Life is clever to break them all out into specific job paths that each have their own RPG progression system. I feel more like a tradesman than a player pressing buttons. That's only one layer of it, too. There's also a town building component where I can terraform a patch of land, build houses for villagers, and decorate my house. Then there's some dungeon crawling, as I can hop into an open-world desert at any time to hunt for materials and level up my classes. Drop a central story on top of that, filled with boss fights and time travel shenanigans, and you've got a fairly robust life sim that you could sink well over 100 hours into. I just have one word of advice if you do decide to jump in: take it slow. When I started, I figured I'd simply mainline its narrative and start doing the life sim part afterwards. That's doable, but not exactly an ideal experience. Fantasy Life expects players to naturally level up their skills between story missions. I quickly found that late game enemies were kicking my butt because I hadn't been leveling up each of my combat classes. The more I did, the more skill nodes I could unlock that would boost my attack and defense. And leveling up my blacksmithing skills meant I could make stronger gear for myself. After misunderstanding that, I was left trying to grind everything up quickly, which meant doing a lot of repetitive minigames all at once rather than spreading them out. It's more difficult to embrace what's ultimately a series of grinds if you're doing them all at once. I have a few gripes with Fantasy Life i that hold it back from being a game I plan to turn into a routine, namely its very limited multiplayer integration that makes it so players can't work through the story together. Even with that complaint, though, it's hard not to be charmed by it all. Fantasy Life i is a sweet little game for those who love doing little digital chores and feeling rewarded for every single one. Considering how dark the real world is, it's the exact kind of escape a lot of us probably need right now. Maybe that's why it's so popular. Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is out now on PC and Nintendo Switch.
CNET
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
GTA 6, Nintendo's California Opening, FBC: Firebreak First Look
GTA 6, Nintendo's California Opening, FBC: Firebreak First Look | Obvious Skill Issue 4 GTA 6, Nintendo's California Opening, FBC: Firebreak First Look | Obvious Skill Issue 4 Click to unmute Video Player is loading. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Next playlist item Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 28:02 Loaded : 0.36% 00:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 28:02 Share Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Close Modal Dialog This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Close Modal Dialog This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. GTA 6, Nintendo's California Opening, FBC: Firebreak First Look | Obvious Skill Issue 4 GTA 6, Nintendo's California Opening, FBC: Firebreak First Look | Obvious Skill Issue 4 May 17, 2025 Tech Show Transcript Today on Obvious Skill Issue, David is joined by social producer Faith Chihil to chat about GTA6's latest delay announcement, what it was like visiting Nintendo's second U.S. store, and whether Remedy's FBC: Firebreak, a multiplayer shooter, can live up to the creepypasta search action vibes of Control.
CNET
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Getting a Switch 2? Wait To Buy These 3 Nintendo Games
After the Switch 2 Direct, we finally have a good idea of what games are coming to the highly-anticipated Nintendo console. There's a good mix of launch day games from first-party developers, as well as popular AAA games from publishers like Microsoft that are already confirmed to be coming to the Switch 2. We also know that the Switch 2 is going to be backward compatible with the original Switch's game cartridges, letting you keep your library intact. Nintendo's official webpage explained the new virtual game card sharing system for the Switch and also confirmed that "Switch 2 editions" of existing games are in development -- and we got a look at the first batch of those games during the Nintendo Direct showcase. We don't know how many Switch 2 edition games are in development, but we can confirm that seven separate Switch games will have Switch 2 editions on the console's launch day. They're mostly older games that pushed the original Switch's hardware to the limit, with a couple exceptions. Here are all of the confirmed Switch 2 upgrades so far. Every Switch game getting a Switch 2 Edition upgrade Nintendo CNET has compiled an extensive list of games getting a Switch 2 edition upgrade during the launch day release batch. These are the seven games we know are getting Switch 2 editions: Super Mario Party Jamboree Pokemon Legends: Z-A Metroid Prime 4 Beyond Kirby and the Forgotten Land Sid Meier's Civilization 7 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom If you want to know more about what kind of upgrades you can expect from a Switch 2 edition of an old game, we've collected all of the info here. How much will Switch 2 Edition upgrades cost We don't currently know how much a Switch 2 edition for an old game will cost or how much it'll cost to upgrade your game if you already own the original version. We only know that the Switch 2 editions for Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom will both be free upgrades for anyone that has a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. The games I wanted to see Switch 2 editions for (and why) Before the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct stream, I wrote about the old Switch games I wanted to see Switch 2 editions for. While two of the items got crossed off of my wishlist, there was one glaring omission. Here are some of the first-party games that could benefit the most from versions fully utilizing the Switch 2's more powerful hardware. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Scarlet and Violet's obligatory "Pikachu clone" scurries through some rough-looking grass. Nintendo Game Freak has struggled to make mainline Pokemon games work on the Switch. Sword and Shield's toxic "Dexit" controversy largely overshadowed the fact that the game had some of the most mediocre graphics on the console, and Pokemon and NPC models frequently suffered from sudden pop-ins as players explored the game's Wild Area. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet caught even more flak for its performance issues. The pop-in issue returned, but this time around faraway models you could see frequently skipped frames in their animation cycles. While the game was larger and more ambitious with a grander open world, the game's performance suffered as a result. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have both had a hard time reaching 30 frames per second (FPS) outside of most towns, and certain areas like Kitakami and Tagtree Thicket absolutely tank the frame rate. The Switch 2's presumably stronger hardware would likely support Game Freak's more ambitious open world designs, and grant the developer a chance to give Pokemon the 3D graphical fidelity the franchise deserves. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Tears of the Kingdom's art style does a lot of heavy lifting, but the Switch 2 can really help this game out. Nintendo There's no doubt that Tears of the Kingdom is beautiful game, thanks in large part to its strong art direction and cel-shaded models that make the world feel vibrant and alive. Despite that, the game doesn't do much to improve on Breath of the Wild's visual fidelity, and it suffers from blurry, low-texture terrain that muddies up the experience. But Tears of the Kingdom's true sin lies with its performance. While the game fairly consistently reaches its 30 FPS cap, there are sections of the game that drop the performance to 15 to 20 FPS, which makes Tears of the Kingdom feel choppy and outdated. Areas like The Great Sky Island and the Depths, rainy days and even the core Ultrahand ability all push the Switch to its limit and the game is drastically slower when you're in these areas or just trying to glue two items together. Tears of the Kingdom is an iconic Switch game in one of Nintendo's flagship franchises. It's a perfect candidate for a Switch 2 upgrade with beefed up graphics and performance optimization to help it consistently hit 60 FPS on the stronger console. Kirby and the Forgotten Land The uncanny blend of real and cartoony graphics is a key part of the Forgotten Land, but the game is held back by some low-texture models. Nintendo Plucked out of Dream Land and plopped down into an eerily real world, the titular pink power puff stands in stark contrast from his environment in this 3D Kirby game. Kirby and the Forgotten Land creates a world that in many ways visually clashes with the protagonist and his enemies, which makes it more interesting to explore. The new Forgotten Land is an analog to the real world, and it's modeled very differently from the usual cartoony landscapes and character designs that players have come to expect from the franchise. The issue with this new, realistic world is that the game is graphically inconsistent. Stages like Everbay Coast's Scale the Cement Summit stand out as winners benefiting from the new artstyle, combining fantastic water lighting events with impressive graphics for the level's waterlogged buildings. However, other areas like the Natural Plains and Winter Horns end up looking disappointing in comparison, with grass and snow textures that don't hold up to the rest of the game. The environment is incredibly important to the story of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, so it makes sense that an upgraded version of this game would buff out some of the weaker textures and deliver even more strongly on developer HAL Laboratory's intended vision.
