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You beat me to it. Silent Hill f is giving off strong Forbidden Siren vibes. The cutscenes look impressive and it's interesting that it's being written by the author of Higurashi.

It must still be a long way from release though, since they managed to talk about it for 45 minutes without showing a second of gameplay and haven't even narrowed down the release window to a year yet.
 

Nothing knocked my socks off here. I'm not a fan of most first-party Nintendo franchises though, so your mileage will probably vary. The new Mario Kart being open world is a surprise, but I find open world racing games rather slow and bloated experiences. The only thing that got me excited was the start of a trailer that looked like it might be the fabled Final Fantasy IX remake; turned out it's just a port of Bravely Default.

No confirmation of whether any changes have been made to the analogue sticks to prevent drift (ie. whether they switched to Hall Effect sensors). Some Switch 1 games will get Switch 2 upgrades, but unlike early PS5 releases you will have to pay for the upgrade (no price on that yet). There are compatibility issues with some Switch 1 games; it's definitely a worse situation than PS5's solid backwards compatibility at launch, but not a complete disaster based on the lists of games with problems.

Nothing made me want to rush to get one at launch.
 
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Dai said:

Nothing knocked my socks off here. I'm not a fan of most first-party Nintendo franchises though, so your mileage will probably vary. The new Mario Kart being open world is a surprise, but I find open world racing games rather slow and bloated experiences. The only thing that got me excited was the start of a trailer that looked like it might be the fabled Final Fantasy IX remake; turned out it's just a port of Bravely Default.

No confirmation of whether any changes have been made to the analogue sticks to prevent drift (ie. whether they switched to Hall Effect sensors). Some Switch 1 games will get Switch 2 upgrades, but unlike early PS5 releases you will have to pay for the upgrade (no price on that yet). There are compatibility issues with some Switch 1 games; it's definitely a worse situation than PS5's solid backwards compatibility at launch, but not a complete disaster based on the lists of games with problems.

Nothing made me want to rush to get one at launch.
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I'm pre ordering as soon as hmv notifi me and Might get to games with it.
 
I wasn't expecting the Switch 2 to launch so soon, I'd love to get it at launch but not sure if I'd be able to. I want to get it by the time Pokemon Legends Z-A releases though as that'll be the preferred way to play the game.

Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza look fantastic, really looking forward to playing them and Kirby Air Riders is a welcome surprise despite not playing the original.

I never got overly far in Breath of the Wild nor started Kirby and the Forgotten Land so I'll wait until the Switch 2 versions to play them now and sell off my copies to purchase the physical Switch 2 versions in the future.

I'm glad that we're finally getting GameCube games on NSO with Pokemon Colosseum and XD: Gale of Dakrness being major titles as well as Fire Emblem with how expensive those games are on the second-hand market.

Really liking the look of the Switch 2 though some of the pricing of certain things I'm not so fond of which seems to be the general consensus.
 
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