Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Mon, 07 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the overall impression of the Nintendo Switch 2 after the announcement?
We'll get on to that.
Another 50 grand if you're ready to lose it, Gary. Gary, we got a lot to talk about. We're going to talk a lot about Nintendo. And I just want to get your top level. I love talking about Nintendo. Because once we get deep into it, we're going to talk about Nintendo. But I missed your impressions from last week. How are you feeling post the announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2?
I feel good about it. We've waited for it for a long time. They feel like, come on, Nintendo, where's the Switch 2? We're finally there. It's going to be out in a couple of months. You've played it. It's real. It exists. We now know almost everything we need to know about it. There's still some things out there, but we've got a clear sense of what it is now and what the proposition is.
And for me, it's everything I wanted it to be. It's just a better Nintendo Switch, right? Some people say, oh, Nintendo's lost the innovation. But when you hit on something that is a proven, brilliant, fucking winning formula, why reinvent the wheel? Just give us a better one of those. The biggest issue that we had with it was, certainly for me, was the performance issues.
It does not compare to the other consoles. Which is why we were getting these terrible ports of Mortal Kombat. Why did they even port this? It's a mess. Now we're going to come closer to some kind of parity, I think. It looks much more impressive technically. I like the bigger size, the bigger screen. I like many of the things that they're doing.
Obviously, there are things to nitpick at, for sure. We talked about some of it last time I was on the show, and we'll get into it again today, I'm sure. But for the most part... Can't wait. I already have my order in. I can't wait to get one. I'm excited to have it.
It's the thing of there's good news and bad news, right? I was just telling you right before the show.
It's always the way with Nintendo. They give with one hand and they take away with the other.
Right before the show, I was telling you about how I was at the event last week in New York and... For people that were at the event, it was tough to look online and see the details coming out as they were coming out.
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Chapter 2: How do the new Joy-Cons of Nintendo Switch 2 compare and what about Hall Effect sticks?
I'm saving my impressions for a gamescast, but what I'll say is that the most upsetting part of this review for me is that I didn't finish the game because I was not smart enough to get there, sadly. That's my problem. I can't do puzzles. I'm 16 hours in. I played a lot of this video game. I also, Barrett, I think played this game or played through it, right?
Barrett texted me when he beat this game and I was very jealous. Yeah. Yes. Um, we're going to talk all about it, but like I played so much of this game, I tried to beat it and literally I was like, all right, cool. I just gotta, I gotta beat it sometime.
I love about games, right? When they first showed this as part of like, I think they showed it as part of a showcase of other games, right? It was just, it was just one of the other games that was in there. It wasn't necessarily one that stood out as like, Ooh, that looks special.
Right.
So I'm sure some people did, but it wasn't like a game that was generating a lot of buzz out of that showcase. Now people have got their hands on it. It's like, you never know where the next like amazing games coming from. Right.
Yes. And I'm very excited to talk about it. Jason Schreier, to spoil a little bit of the review, I ran into Jason Schreier at the Nintendo event and we talked a little bit about Blueprints. When I asked him how many hours of Blueprints have you played, he told me he played over 100 hours. And so we're going to have a lot to talk about.
I'm excited about it. And it's out this week, right? Game Pass. Yeah, we're going to have to try it.
And Gary, you say you're not a puzzle guy. I enjoy puzzles, but like the puzzles focused genre of video games, I don't really gravitate towards. And I really clicked with this one. I think the way it kind of onboards you and tells you kind of what to look for in its language of the game.
is very well done for someone... So you didn't encounter any puzzles where you felt frustrated or, you know, fuck this?
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Chapter 3: What unreleased Nintendo games have allegedly leaked online?
I'm sure Roger fucking loves the Croods. The Croods. Dude, you haven't heard of the Croods? Is it part of the Ice Age universe?
Why are we even... I'm sorry I blew it up.
I want to hop into the next news story. Story number two, unreleased Nintendo games allegedly leak online, including Ridge Racer and Retro Studios prototype. This is Jordan Midler at Video Games Chronicle. Prototype builds for several canceled games, including a Nintendo Switch Ridge Racer title, Lego Civilization, and an unannounced game from Retro Studios have allegedly appeared online.
Footage of the cancelled Ridge Racer game, which is allegedly from a build from 2017, is currently circulating on social media. The game was reportedly developed by Bandai Namco Studios Singapore and was intended for the Nintendo Switch. The game was never announced and has presumably been long since cancelled.
Further development footage of a game prototype developed by Retro Studios titled Harmony has also appeared online. The footage shows a third-person perspective of a fairy character that can transform into different characters to solve puzzles. The build is claimed to be from 2017. However, the game itself was never announced by Retro.
The unannounced game had previously been referenced by Reese Kiwi Talks Riley, a content creator who has interviewed several former Retro Studios employees. Earlier this year, Riley mentioned on Reset Era that he'd been told the project was a huge disaster and that the game was canceled after years of going nowhere.
It is believed that this footage has been obtained via a Nintendo Switch development kit that was sold online. Dev kits are provided to developers by platform holders and are often heavily modified versions of retail consoles that can run in-development builds.
These kits can often retain information and playable builds for games long after they are cancelled, and thus it is against the terms of service with platform holders that provided the dev kit to sell them on. A build of the unreleased game is now said to be circulating online, with many reporting that it is playable, though in a very basic state with temporary assets and environments.
A menu screen for LEGO Civilization, which, as it sounds, appears to be a LEGO take on the classic strategy game, was also found on the dev kit. Those with access to these files claim they have attempted to run the LEGO Civilization title, but have reported that it will instantly crash when attempting to play it.
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Chapter 4: Why won’t Nintendo Switch 2 have a system-wide achievement system?
It was the thing. What was the game? Was it?
Oh, well, it was like the notorious one was fucking the last airbender game. On 360, where you can literally just stand in a fucking corner and just rack up achievements.
There was that. There was the mayonnaise game. Wasn't there like a Mr. Mayonnaise or My Name is Mayo or something? My Name is Mayo. My Name is Mayo.
Where you just hit mayo, and that's it.
I think Greg platinumed fucking Bluey, which is a game for five-year-olds. Oh, no, but he loves Bluey. That's genuine. I love Bluey as well, but the game is not a game that grown-ups, that you're going to get a lot of satisfaction from playing.
Was the game called ZJ's Balls? ZJ the Ball. ZJ the Ball. ZJ's Balls. ZJ the Ball, which was like a Christian series of games that they just put out. And there were so many of them.
This was his last bout of like... This was his last bout.
And I think this was where me and Janet were like, what the fuck are you doing with your life? Was it a Flappy Bird type of game? Not even. Actually, I forget exactly what the gameplay was.
Achievements, like anything... can be good or bad. You ever see the movie Shane? Alan Ladd Jr. says a gun is only as good or as bad as the man who wears it. Wow. That's right. He made you think there. See philosophy. That's deep. Yeah, it's deep. And it applies here as well. They can be implemented in a way that is a lot of fun.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour pricing?
I have a feeling they're not going to allow cameras... just for anybody. I feel like you've got to be on the friends list or you've got to approve or whatever it might be.
Oh, I see what you're saying. You know? Yeah, honestly, you're probably right. It's not going to be random matchmaking.
That doesn't immunize me from my fucking friends who absolutely will get their cocks out on stream. What friends do you have? Just people that want to fuck with me, you know?
That's fair. There's fucking Greg Millers of the world out there. God.
uh let's move on to story number four another nintendo news story welcome tour costs ten dollars this is wesley yinpool at ign ign can now confirm that that nintendo switch to welcome tour costs 9.99 and is a digital only product that's significantly cheaper than other switch to games but ign has already reported uh to the complaints from some nintendo fans that welcome tour costs money at all
with many saying it should be a Switch 2 pack-in, as DualSense tech demo game Astro's Playroom was for PS5.
IGN interviewed Nintendo of America's Vice President of Product and Player Experience, Bill Trennan, at a recent Switch 2 preview event in New York, and asked him if Nintendo discussed making Welcome Tour a pack-in game, and why the company made the decision to price it as a separate digital product.
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Chapter 6: How are social features like game chat emphasized on Nintendo Switch 2?
Chapter 7: What are the hosts’ views on achievements and their impact on gameplay?
There was that. There was the mayonnaise game. Wasn't there like a Mr. Mayonnaise or My Name is Mayo or something? My Name is Mayo. My Name is Mayo.
Where you just hit mayo, and that's it.
I think Greg platinumed fucking Bluey, which is a game for five-year-olds. Oh, no, but he loves Bluey. That's genuine. I love Bluey as well, but the game is not a game that grown-ups, that you're going to get a lot of satisfaction from playing.
Was the game called ZJ's Balls? ZJ the Ball. ZJ the Ball. ZJ's Balls. ZJ the Ball, which was like a Christian series of games that they just put out. And there were so many of them.
This was his last bout of like... This was his last bout.
And I think this was where me and Janet were like, what the fuck are you doing with your life? Was it a Flappy Bird type of game? Not even. Actually, I forget exactly what the gameplay was.
Achievements, like anything... can be good or bad. You ever see the movie Shane? Alan Ladd Jr. says a gun is only as good or as bad as the man who wears it. Wow. That's right. He made you think there. See philosophy. That's deep. Yeah, it's deep. And it applies here as well. They can be implemented in a way that is a lot of fun.
But more often than not, they just amount to busy work and having the gamer waste their time doing stuff that isn't a lot of fun just because for whatever reason they want that gamer score or they want that platinum. And it's just not, I don't get any, some people get, I guess an endorphin hit off of hitting the platinum or whatever.
I really don't like the satisfaction should be in itself in the gameplay and knowing that you, that you finished the game or whatever, you beat the final boss, like getting some arbitrary number of points for, for doing like, again, just run around and find every fucking hidden thing.
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