[Let’s Talk] What are you playing? – January 2025
Along with a new month, a new year also just started. Now that we’re in January, we want to know what you’ve been playing.
Things have been quiet the past couple of weeks in terms of releases. Still, there’s plenty to play out there. Did you get anything new for the holidays? Playing something from your backlog? No matter the case, let us know in the comments.
Highlights from last week’s topic: 2025 Nintendo predictions
theFooFighter
Im expecting a ton of remasters. The switch 2 is going to launch and have super cool games and good graphics ect but they’re not going to abandon the switch 1’s install size. Christmas 2025 is going to be the next big switch 2 Mario game + prime 2&3 or galaxy 2 or Zelda HD on the switch 1 just to keep up momentum
Luke Houser
Switch 2 at least succeeding similarly to the current one. Switch remains the one true portable for everyone, and the successor will likely follow much of its same path quite well in terms of third-party support and hardware sales.
Shatterjack
I feel like it’s a foregone conclusion that Switch 2 will be launching with Mario Odyssey 2. They’ve had so long to work on it, it’s a case of “if not now, then when?” The real question though is whether it will eb a dual release on the original Switch. Historically, Nintendo has had a huge HUGE problem translating success in one generation to success in the next. They’ve literally seesawed from their worst ever sales to their best ever sales and back again multiple times in a row. They desperately need to get people to move to Switch 2, and Mario Odyssey 2 is their best shot possible at a system seller. The potential sales of the game on the original Switch would be massive, but it’s peanuts compared to the sales of ALL games throughout the ENTIRE generation of the Switch 2 if the system itself is successful. It’s rare these days for the development of a system-selling game to actually line up with the launch of the system, especially when Nintendo is woefully incompetent at predicting how long game and hardware development will take, no matter how many times they go through this same old rigmarole. It would be dumb to throw away this once-in-a-generation opportunity, which is why I predict that’s exactly what Nintendo will do.
