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[Nintendo Legal]

RTA in Japan (a speedrun charity event) was notified by Nintendo that they are utilizing Nintendo games without permission.

Due to this, RiJ Summer 2025 will not feature Nintendo games.

The organizers are in discussions with Nintendo regarding future events.

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yes it's Nintendo's fault for not providing good sizes and such, but I'd rather publishers just outwardly say "due to Nintendo's cartridge offerings being non-viable we are not doing a physical release" than do the Game Key Card bullshit

cold take: Game Key Cards just disincentivize purchases more than Digital-only games and I honestly wish that those that are using them would admit that their games are Digital-only

Definitely fair, but imo Metroid Prime 4 is a big enough release in general for Nintendo to want to treat this separately (especially considering that it's been in development for 6 years *post-restart*, and Metroid still does count for notable releases - see: Metroid Dread)

Only path I see for 2025 is a strange shadow drop in August (which imo is extraordinarily unlikely, but I can't rule out)

Releasing in any other month in 2025 would likely be sales cannibalism that Nintendo would like to avoid (not to mention that it would go partially against a Nintendo strategy)

- August: Drag X Drive (+ Kirby and the Forgotten Land N2E)
- September: Kirby Air Riders or Metroid Prime 4
- October: Pokémon Legends Z-A
- November: other September game or Hyrule Warriors
- December: remaining game not released in September or November

honestly imo 2025 release wouldn't make much sense with Nintendo's way of normally handling stuff.

Keep in mind that the way Nintendo went around Year 1 stuff with Switch 1 (and probably Switch 2 as well) was to have one title per month, and every title has a month now:

amusingly Splatoon 2 both:
- is the first Splatoon game I got into (not at launch though, more like mid-2018)
- launched the same date (July 21st) as my birthday... which is neat I guess

where exactly is this post from by chance?

got trolled so hard in world 4 this should have been 1:00:2x

I have a Series S and it's only a "games I can't play well on my Switch/Switch 2 or don't want to play on my laptop" type deal.

That being said imo what reason is there to buy a PS5/Xbox in general at this point.

Definitely - I'm not necessarily sure how widespread this will be but I'm very confident that at a minimum it will cover the US as well (given how similar other changes we saw with the Switch 2 accessory prices were between the US and Canada).

Honestly fully expecting something in the US soon as well (given the correlation we saw with Switch 2 accessory price changes + [certain political events])

the loads actually got worse with 10.0.0 amusingly (and initial glances with 10.0.1 courtesy of the speedrunning community are that 10.0.1 didn't re-improve them) (that being said they're still *generally* better than Switch 1)

SplatoonJP has just reposted their post with an updated/corrected image.

SplatoonJP has just reposted their post with an updated/corrected image.

Up shot is that if/once this is reverted, in theory Switch 1 performance should be even better than on 9.3.0 (and earlier?)

As per a post on [certain platform] by an S3 mod/cheat developer, it appears as though it was shuffling in an attempt to hide anticheat changes that causes more lag... which has evidently failed (tool got updated for 10.0.0 shortly after anyways).

bsky.app/profile/bugb...

By the way in Splatoon 3 10.0.0 Switch 1 version Nintendo (seemingly intentionally? possibly to try hide a certain thing they added) shuffled all functions in the code, which ends up causing more lag in CPU bound areas, like Salmon Run or some Online Maps(cause more cache misses). If intentional, hopefully once they realize it was useless they’ll backtrack, they got a cool and upgraded compiler that should have improved performance but this killed it instead (shuffled I mean randomly placed in the code, whereas normally methods of a class are put together)

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i am uncomfortable with the idea of calling a video game console that can still be factory reset and still play the majority of games "bricked" because someone was thick enough to try to run a piracy cartridge's "switch 2 bypass" firmware on it. really feels like promoting the idea of ewaste

you know you’re delusional when you personally offer people money to do runs of miserable categories purely for the purposes of having 100% accurate loading times to retime

anyways hi that’s me right now

happy birthday

Can I just say I do not feel bad for anyone who got their Switch 2's banned as a result of the MIG Switch itself?

99% of the people using it were using it for some degree of piracy anyways, but regardless how you were using it, you *should know* it would be targeted given its use for piracy.

SCU isn't a material negative on the game for weapons that can't get special frequently, but can be the basis for a lot of issues on ones that can.

honestly an idea I've thought about is: why not make SCU more effective on weapon classes that have a worse natural special output (e.g. blasters) but make it less effective on weapon classes that have a higher natural special output (e.g. most chargers, shooters, dualies, etc.)

That being said, it's also worth nothing that Splatoon 3 released on an already established console, whereas MKW is a launch title exclusive to a new console.

Hypothetically if we got Splatoon 4 as a launch title it probably still wouldn't have done as well in the first 3-4 days.

Nothing against you, but imo this is extremely misleading.

The 782k figure for MKW is for only *physical* copies, whereas the 3.45 million total is for *all* copies.

at least the third Splash-O-Matic has it now.

I mean it's not a good kit at all... but it has an Ink Storm

Dear Pick

unfortunately they are not coming out until later

Kind Regards,
Nintendo_CS

probably one hour before if I had to guess (same as 9.1.0 for Grand Festival stuff)