it feels like im falling in love with this world all over again
life has changed so much since i’ve last seen u, but you’ve remained.
a place i can always come back to and feel okay again
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Improved visuals with smoother and sharper cutscenes, the high-powered Ether Jet vehicle, fully voiced Heart-to-Heart conversations, & more await you In Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, available now on Nintendo eShop: https://t.co/zWS9Wf0zGi
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El Nintendo Direct tendrá una duración de 50 minutos y el Nintendo Treehouse: Live será de 95 minutos.
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-Listen in the car with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
-Create and share playlists
-“My Mix” generates a playlist via play history
-Peek at the library, even without Nintendo Switch Online (web only)
Everyone’s acting like Call of Duty on Switch 2 is a massive victory Nintendo fans have been waiting for.
But what if most of them never actually wanted it?
The announcement has been framed as an obvious win. More third-party games, bigger audience, platform finally getting “serious” titles.
Yet I keep coming back to a simpler question that feels strangely absent:
Do most actual Nintendo fans even want Call of Duty?
When I look at what already delivers incredible multiplayer on this platform, I’m not convinced the gap was that big.
Splatoon 3 has been running meaningful seasons and Splatfests for years. It’s competitive, creative, and social without ever feeling like a second job.
Mario Kart has been quietly destroying friendships and creating family memories for decades, and it does it with items that let anyone have a chance.
Nintendo Switch Sports turned living rooms into bowling alleys and tennis courts again.
Smash Bros still fills arenas with chaos that works whether you’re a hardcore player or someone who just picked up a controller.
These are genuinely excellent multiplayer experiences that understand something important: most people playing on Nintendo hardware want to play with other people, not necessarily against strangers in a hyper-competitive environment with meta loadouts and voice chat toxicity.
Nintendo has spent years refining multiplayer that lowers the barrier instead of raising it.
You can hand a Joy-Con to almost anyone and have fun in five minutes. That’s not an accident. It’s the entire design philosophy.
Call of Duty brings a very specific flavor of multiplayer — one built around progression systems, constant balance patches, and a live-service loop that rewards grinding and keeping up.
Some people love that.
A lot of Nintendo households have historically treated that style of game as “the other console’s thing.”
I’m not saying CoD will fail or that nobody wants it. Some Switch owners absolutely will.
But I wonder how many core Nintendo fans were actually craving it versus how many people outside the ecosystem assumed they should want it.
The Switch has thrived by being extremely good at the kind of multiplayer most people actually play in real life:
Couch co-op.
Local play.
Low-stakes online with friends.
Events that feel like events rather than obligations.
Adding CoD doesn’t automatically improve that. It just adds another flavor.
So I’m genuinely curious:
What’s the multiplayer experience on Switch (or that you hope comes to Switch 2) that actually got your friends or family who don’t normally game sitting down to play?
And when you picture playing Call of Duty on Switch 2… does it feel like it fits naturally into that same living room, or does it feel like it belongs to a different category of gaming entirely?
Am I overthinking this, or has a decent chunk of the Nintendo audience been perfectly content with the multiplayer identity the platform already built?
Nintendo fangirls saying this, when the Switch 2's price is going to increase, by $200, at the start of September.
Ya'll aren't immune to this. LMFAO
Quit being salty over Valve's superiority.