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Where Are The Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Orders?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.17.25
Thu, 17 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates from the Mario Kart World Direct?
Chapter 2: What does Phil Spencer say about Nintendo?
Phil's going to say what Phil's going to say.
I get it. How are you doing, Greg? I'm great. How are you, Tim? I'm really, really good.
I want to tell you, I haven't been on a show with you, I think, since it became part of your rigmarole of the... I like that.
Oh, I've been doing it. I can't stop doing it.
That's the problem.
Anytime I cold open.
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Chapter 3: Why is there no pre-order information for the Nintendo Switch 2?
You just don't lead when I'm on often, I guess.
I think that's how you find breaks down. That's probably what it is.
So I hear it when I listen to the show or watch the show. I can't stop myself.
It's good. I like it.
It's always impressive that you're able to sneak it in right before I hit the intro. We've never rehearsed that. You're just so good at it.
42?
42. April 27th right around the corner. That's nuts. More importantly, April 25th right around the corner. That's my birthday stream. We're going to play Monster Hunter and do the spring event. I'm very excited.
Moose's birthday is also your birthday, which bothers me because I want to celebrate both of you separately. You know what I mean?
No, I think it's so rare that we're together. If it's a weekday, then my birthday is something happening here. You know what I mean? So I like that when we're not together and you just have a day for Moose, it's also a day for me.
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Chapter 4: What new features were announced for Mario Kart?
A baker's dozen!
It might be eight stories.
What the... What the fuck? No.
You're giving me the face that Bless gave me when Last of Us 2 was delayed. This might be a bigger problem. Fuck.
Joey Noel slacks me, goes, OMG, Monster Hunter now premium pass activated because I hit them up wanting to get free premium passes. And she says, thank you. And I open mine and I do not have the premium pass. They only activated Joey. They didn't activate me.
Oh, shit. Look at this cute little outfit. I thought Nintendo delayed the Switch 2.
I want this outfit right there. It's the Kulu motif layered chest. I want that for my character. I'll give it a second. Maybe they're doing it, like rolling them out. I'll shut down the app and restart it.
At least it's not officially delayed yet. You know what I mean? There's still hope for the Switch 2.
It'll happen. It'll get delayed. It'll get a price bump. $150 probably. God. Woo!
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Chapter 5: How will the new Mario Kart gameplay mechanics change player strategies?
Very cool. Good for them. In a new Nintendo Direct focused solely on the game, Nintendo revealed some of the game's new courses, including the retro-themed Mario Bros. Circuit, the urban Crown City, the canal-based Salty Salty Speedway, the snowy Starview Peak, and a new haunted course, Boo Cinema, that looked awesome.
New items set to feature in the game include the Coin Shell, which fires ahead, leaving coins behind, the Ice Flower, which freezes enemies, the Hammer, which flies in an arc and wedges into the ground for a while, causing chaos. for the other drivers. And Kamek, which transforms opponents just like in Yoshi's Island.
I thought the hammer was super cool.
It is. It is.
Had you already seen this?
You saw it in your... Yeah, I got to play with all these items. And one thing that I didn't bring up in our direct breakdown was the focus on coins seems to be much higher in this game than in previous games.
So is it going to do more than the mini speed boost?
It's still doing that, but it just seems like that stuff matters a bit more. I think maybe just with the 24 characters just having more, it's like the little... Specifically Knockout Tour, we've been saying that every lap, quote-unquote, feels like... The final lap. It feels like, oh, man, we got to get it because you get knocked out otherwise, right? And this is the one where you lost IGN.
Yes, it is.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Nintendo Switch 2 pricing and release date?
Chapter 7: What are the community reactions to the Nintendo Direct?
Online race is up to 24.
um all the controls are returning you get it you get it you get it uh one thing we didn't get from this direct the switch to pre-orders another thing we didn't get is uh more technical stuff of like can we play it in 120 frames per second can we uh is it 4k 60 otherwise all that stuff where i know that's not traditionally nintendo but their last direct says otherwise you know get ready for story number three kind of funny games daily things that have gone away
From the Switch 2. What?
Just the headline to tease you. Number three. Nintendo Switch 2 VRR mentions disappear from Nintendo's website. Jordan Miller. Oh, okay. Okay. But back to the story number one. Yeah. As you said, an entire reaction and games cast up about this. You can get detailed, detailed, deep dives over there. Please do. Of course, the reactions up as a games cast as an audio.
Obviously, everything's on YouTube. I enjoyed the direct. I didn't expect anything crazy from the direct. I expected 15 minutes of Mario Kart, and that's what I got. I'm excited for Mario Kart. This game looks amazing. Like I said in there, I woke up to the fact that this is going to be the first game Ben and I play from Ground Zero together, right?
We are just going, and we're going to learn at the same time. I'm going to be unlocking things with him. When he wants to play, I'm really going to want to play as well because I'll be so into it. That's I hadn't thought I'd wrap my head around that so far.
Every game Ben has played has been something I either don't care about, like Paw Patrol or something that I've played a million times and know incredibly well. So that's exciting here. I'm also not let down by this direct because I didn't expect the preorder information here. I didn't expect them to have new news. I think that's a different beat. And I do think that that's a disappointing beat.
So you'd have this marketing beat today of here's Mario Kart 8 or Mario Kart World. It's awesome. Here's why it's incredible. Here's all these cool things. We hope you like what you saw. Great. And then you let that be the good news for a while. And then next week, come in with the bad news.
I absolutely agree with you that I didn't expect to get the pre-order information or any of that in this direct. Yeah. Because, yeah, it is a different beat and all that stuff. Having said that, I do think that contextually with where we're at, with all the Nintendo Switch news and how the information has been handled and the level of utter chaos we are in.
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