Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Tim Gettys & Blessing Nintendo Switch 2 Direct FIRST REACTION

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

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All together, anytime, anywhere. Of course, I'm Tim Geddes. I'm joined by. Blessing, Adioia, Jr. We are in the streets on the run from Greg Miller. He thought he was going to cash in the stars in the bank. Oh, no, sir. Oh, no, that's not the game we play.

The game we play is Nintendo Bless. And we just saw the Nintendo Switch 2 direct. We wanted to give you our initial first impressions of everything that we just saw. Bless, top level, what'd you think? Tim, that was a magical time. Let me take this microphone for a few a second. Because like we've been waiting for this for such a long time. We've been talking about our predictions.

We've been speculating. We've been talking about like what could we see? What could we not see? And the fact that most of the stuff we saw there, we expected. Even the third party stuff, right? We've got to talk about that third party montage of games. But so many of those things that we saw were things that we initially speculate about. But in the back of our heads, we were like, all right, we want Eldon Ring to be there.

Is Eldon Ring going to be there? Okay, we want this going to be there. So many of the things that we wanted were there. And I'm so hype from top to bottom, right? There are some things that we're missing, and I think it's worth talking about the 3D Mario at all because there's a conversation we had there. But overall, with what we got, Mario Kart World looks fantastic.

Metroid Prime 4 looks fantastic. We got a new 3D Donkey Kong game, Tim. A new 3D Donkey Kong game. I had such a good time. What about you? Kirby Air Riders, Sakurai directed, I can't believe it. That's the type of stuff the Nintendo dreams are made of. Like, as a lifelong Nintendo fan,

I love that we can get something a little bit weird. Decades later, that's awesome. But on top of that, you nailed it, man. third party support up the wazoo they nailed every single thing that we were talking about we got elden ring tarnished edition uh as well as a suite of a ton of other third party games kind of what we were expecting um and to me it proved what we needed to know the switch two is going to be a competitor the switch two is going to be in in the same conversations third party wise as a PlayStation or Xbox obviously not on the highest scale but on the lower end which i think that

point of entry is so important important to be in a interesting right now that needs all the support and can get from as many systems sold as possible. So these games being put out in more places, Final Fantasy 7 remake, it's happening. Like a lot of the stuff that like you said, we've been discussing for weeks, months, years at this point of speculating what was going to be at this direct. Mario Kart looked fantastic. Metroid Prime, Switch 2 edition games, 120 frames per second HDR. Maybe it's not OLED, but like, hey, so far, not only am I very happy with what the Switch 2 seems to be,

that direct for the first Switch 2 direct. Again, many things are missing. This is the first direct of many to come over the years. Yeah, I think as we're talking about the price point as well, right? So, of course, we're on the run. We haven't had time to be on Twitter, be on Blue Sky, be on the internet as much as we want to, checking out, like, all right, what are the streets saying? What does everything look like?

$450 seems to be the price point of the Switch 2. That is, I think, on a little bit of the higher end of what people expected, but still, I think it's better than $600 or better than $500? It's in this weird middle place, right? then the conversation gets to about the software, right? $80, maybe $90 depending. I don't think we know the full word yet, but I think there's concern to be had there.

I, on one hand, I am like, damn, video games are getting expensive. That kind of sucks. On the other hand, I think this is one of those things that we've talked about quite a bit, right? Whether it be just how more expensive things are getting overall in the world, whether it be terrorists, whether it be a little bit of column A, column B, column C, right?

This was a bit to be expected, but still, I think, is a little bit of a sting on an overall, I think was a good direct. I think if we're talking about the direct itself, which didn't have that information in it, right? Like, dude, Cyropunk 2077, if you want to talk about the third-party stuff that's going to be there, right?

I think you make a really good point as far as, oh, so many of the games that we've had on current platforms or recent platforms are here, and seemingly they're going to run as well as you'd want them to run. I think another big conversation is to be had about the C button.

We finally know what that is. Yeah. Game chat, community functions, right? That stuff, I think, is very awesome. It's the funny thing of, it's a Nintendo Direct, and so we kind of have to talk about this on Nintendo levels as far as

we've had game chat for other consoles for generations at this point. I think the fact that it's finally coming to Nintendo is to be celebrated. And I do like some of the quirky stuff they're doing with it. I do think the camera stuff is weird, but in a delightful way.

I like the idea of like Mario Party mini-games using the camera. How often am I going to do it? We'll see. Maybe I do it like once or twice, but I don't know. There's something about that stuff that does sit well with me.

I like the way they showed it off. I am right there with you. Obviously, it's weird to celebrate things that feel like they should have been done many, many, many, many years ago. But that's where we're at with Nintendo. And I do feel that Switch 1 was such a great step forward of Nintendo not being so lost in the past. And now Switch 2, they're like kind of finalizing some of the things that were like, how do they still not have this stuff? So having a little bit more parody is great. But with that kind of Nintendo charm, you can call it quirk, you can call it whatever you want.

But like having that stuff, I do think fits Nintendo in a way. way that doesn't fit the other consoles of like trying to have that like group experience and like we all talk about the COVID animal crossing times but to me the COVID was the Mario Kart times the amount of my friends and their partners playing Mario Kart that don't necessarily play games and we're now like playing together having these like weekly uh meetings of us just hanging out and now being able to do that like via the game itself and the console itself not necessarily something I'm going to do you're going to do but I think there's going to be a lot of people and I think that's the thing that we always need to remember is Nintendo doesn't just make games for the people talking about

talking about video games. They also make it for a bunch of kids playing the games. And I want to bring up the, forget the name of it, but the Astrobots type thing. Oh, yeah. The toolbox? Looking at my notes. Yep, go through that. What I really like about that, what I don't like about it is it's a paid digital only thing. I think that this should be a pack-in with the device itself.

Switch to Welcome Tour. Switch to Welcome Tour. I love it though because while I look at that, I'm like, I don't necessarily think I'm going to love it that much. I can't imagine being a kid and being able to love it. learn all about the new console that I have and what makes it work. Like, I think that that is so cool and something that we can't discredit. Like, there is an audience for that and a reason for it existing, teaching them about mouse

mode, teaching them about all the different features. I think it could be pretty cool. Yeah. I think that's going to be pretty cool. I do think it's one that you should have packed in. It's one that should come with the console, but, you know, win some, we lose some. I think another one to talk about is the dustbloods. Tim, what the fuck is happening?

What the fuck? From Software Logo appearing at Nintendo Direct already. pretty cool. The fact that you're getting an exclusive original game being developed by from software for the Switch, you watch that trailer, I watch that trailer, and I'm like, is this, this is what I think it is? Is this Bloodborn 2? Like, this is giving Bloodbore

2 vibes. It gets announced as the Dust Bloods. Now, initially, very exciting announcement. As, again, we were on the streets. People talk about, like, you know, I talk about, hey, man, I get my information from the streets. We're literally on the streets right now, so you see it. The fact that, like, it seems like

this is more of a multiplayer thing. The word that I've seen so far as that it's PV, PVEE, eight players vying for supremacy. Interesting take. It leans more into what I imagine is almost like a night rain situation, almost like more of a, hey, we do PVP a lot in our games, right? And Eldon Ring and other From Software games. Let's try and make a full experience out of it. I'm still very excited about that.

I think that's going to be a very fucking awesome game. Part of me wishes that we were going fully more into the single player RPG style of a game that From Software has really made a name for, right? But even still, I think it looks cool. I think it looks awesome. Some of the creature design in that trailer is fucking cool. The character design. I mean, it looks like a from software game.

But even more so, right? Like, some of those creature designs look really gnarly and really cool in a way that I can't wait to see more of. And I just have so many questions about it. I mean, yeah, that was great, right? Like, obviously not a Tim Getty's game, but Nintendo getting an exclusive from software game. Like, that is such a major win, again, on top of all the other third parties we've talked about. I think it's interesting that a lot of the third parties are getting like the tarnished edition. like new additions, which might mean new content,

I want to segue that into talking a little bit about Nintendo Switch 2 edition games. We've had so many questions about how this is going to work. It seems like Switch 1 games will have enhanced additions that add new resolutions and all that stuff, but also new content. You'll be able to buy it as a Switch 2 edition full price or upgrade your Switch 1 game.

We still don't know pricing on that. I don't know if that's being talked about, but we haven't heard it yet. So I'm interested in that, but I caught that some of the third party games, like Civilization 7 also getting that. So that opens the world up a bit to get some former third party

Nintendo games, maybe even some of those cloud games that we saw before, like the Kingdom Hearts games and Resident Evil and things like that. Maybe we get Switch 2 editions of those as well. So yeah, like kind of a lot of possibilities, but on the first party fronts, very interesting. Like we're seeing both Breath of Wild and Tears at the Kingdom.

Very excited to see that. Didn't expect that. I expected just one of them. But in addition to that, Mario Party Jamboree with new mouse mode gameplay and the camera stuff. Gamboree TV is what they're calling it. Jambery TV, right? And you also got Kirby in the Forgotten Land, getting the, was it, Star World?

Star Cross World is what it's called. We're getting more Kirby in the Forgotten Land. I thought that that was going to be years away. I'm so excited for that. I popped off when I saw that. And again, that's such a huge win for me. And seeing the Switch games that they chose to feature is almost as interesting as what they didn't.

Yeah. Again, like I think this is going to be, hopefully is a thing that we see more in the future of them returning to some of these Switch games, right? Because I think the thing that I like about it is that they're taking inspiration from Mario World or Mario 3D World, Bowser's Fury. Hey, here's the base thing, but then we're adding a little bit to it, right? It seems like that is the strategy for Kirby, and I think that's really smart. Hey, give people a reason to actually be excited for this thing.

We have an enhancement, but now there's more content. Same with Zelda here's the kingdom. We have an enhancement, but now here's a third party app. You're going to download and do the things. And some of it is like, all right, do I really need this? but then some of it, I really liked sharing the creations. That's something that I, for one, which was there from launch of Tears of the Kingdom.

I think that's a really useful function. And yeah, for you, like, what are some of the ones that you didn't see there that you're surprised that we didn't get? Where's Animal Crossing? Animal Crossing and Smash, right? Those are some of the biggest Nintendo franchises, the biggest Switch franchises in particular in terms of sales.

But again, this is the first direct. I do kind of appreciate that they're like, you know, we don't need to stack the deck too much because it's already stacked. launching with a Mario cart. We also have Switch 1 games, Pokemon ZA, Metroid Prime 4. We're getting Switch to Enhanced versions. I'm so excited about that. I mean, let's talk about Metro Prime. These episodes brought to you by Lost Skies. What would you do if you woke up and the world around you was now floating high in the clouds? Lost Skies is the new open world survival

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I'm very excited about that. And yeah, I think the mouse function is one that is really fascinating. Of course, we saw that when they first revealed it, right? But seeing that in play with Metrohead Prime, I think is really smart. I think that's going to lead. It comes back to the conversation of what that's doing, what the C button is doing as far as community. stuff. I think that's going to open the door for

third party stuff to feel a little bit more natural and at home on the Switch 2, right? Hey, we're going to get Call of Duty on this thing someday. Cool, let's make it so that you got mouse controls, you get a little bit more precision there, you get the community functions. I think a lot of that stuff is so smart. So good on them for making it happen.

Absolutely. I mean, we're jumping around here a lot because it is fresh in our minds and we don't have this all taken in, but let's talk hardware a little bit. 7.9 inch screen, same thickness as the Switch 1, 1080P screen portably, which like, hey, that's more than enough. 120 frames per second, HDR, LCD, but I mean, I'm hopeful. I'm very hopeful that it still looks good.

You're going to get OLED someday. OLED is coming. I know. It might take you some years, but you're going to get it. I know, but I didn't get it today. We got a 256 gigabyte storage that's faster drives than Switch 1. That's a lot of storage. That's huge, right?

Switch 1 came with, what, 30? 32? 4K. We all wanted to hear it. We did. Thank God. And in addition to that, 1440P, we saw in the menu there. So love that we're, you know, in modern times, Nintendo.

We got a fan of the dock to help, which is just nice. HD Rumble 2, they're calling it. We'll see what happens with all of that. Something about the microSD cards, needing express cards. I don't think that's going to be too big of an issue for most people, but that's going to be a bummer to some. But yeah. I think one thing to shout out to is the pro controller.

That now has back buttons on there, right? That's going to be really good for the Andy Cortezons of the world. And an audio jack, that's huge for the Tim Gettys of the world. They're like, what are you doing, Nintendo? This thing needs it. Audio jack is huge. And yeah, I think the fact that, hey, pro-controller, how do we make it better for the Switch 2? I think the fact that we're making back paddles a little bit more standardized, I absolutely love.

And the fact that Nintendo are the ones that are like, you know, I mean, I understand the Dual Sense Edge and the Xbox Pro or Elite Controller have them well, right? But like, the Pro-Controller having back paddles has now made it ubiquitous. Hey, this is now a part of what you want out of a good controller. so that makes me very happy. One of the things I want to talk about... What about Halifect Joycons? I doubt it. You know what I mean?

I highly doubt it. I think they would have said something. There's the drift, stick drift, kind of a Nintendo Switch specialty. And yeah, I think they would have talked about that if it was changed. So I wouldn't expect much there. But, hey, there's a lot they didn't say.

There's a whole bunch that wasn't in this dry. Oh, my God. We're in the streets, man. We're in the streets. But yeah, June 5th is the release date. What do you think about that? I mean, awesome, right? June was what was suspected.

I was expecting later June, getting it earlier June. I think is awesome. That's the day before summer game fest, I believe, or at least somewhere in that area. That's wild, right? But I think good timing. It's going to be a fun month. And so that's very exciting.

One of the things that we're jumping around a lot, but one of the things I did want to make sure to mention was this game, a Dragon Drive. That looks very interesting, right? That's one of the games that you're playing with the mouse functionality. That's going to be the thing to display what you can do with that. But the fact that you have that game, it's like an interesting, competitive multiplayer thing,

3V3, right? You're playing basketball. But it also is like just such an interesting concept and really cool for the fact that you're bringing like an accessibility thing of, hey, we have, we've seen basketball, right? We've seen people who in wheelchairs play basketball and how that looks. What if we were to actually put that into a video game and make it function in the most Nintendo way possible? I think that's really cool. I think that's a really just creative way to go about that.

I'm hopeful for it. You know what I mean? I think we all look at that and gut reaction is, oh, it's another arms, you know? we need to want arms. We just want arms to be better. Like Nintendo doing new IP that's taking advantage of what makes its system unique is, I think, very important for Nintendo and the industry at large. So that's cool that it's a thing.

And in addition to that, it looks a little bit more Rocket League adjacent. Like I feel like arms, one of the bigger issues was, at the end of the day, it was a fighting game. And fighting games are kind of like a niche genre overall. And not to say Rocket League is like the biggest thing ever, but like we've seen the success that game had. You know what I mean? So I think that this drag game has potential.

I'm not sure it's going to hit, but I'm happy it's happening. And again, jumping around a lot. But we have a nice cadence of releases. Like I feel like this direct, maybe you could look at it and just be like, all right, well, there's a lot of stuff on Switch 1. Don't think about that way. Think about it as you're going to be able to play a bunch of Nintendo games. This might be one of the better Nintendo game years ever.

Yeah. I mean, Project 007 being announced here, or not being announced, but being reintroduced here, right, and getting a trailer here, I think it's fucking special. Hyrule Warriors, age of imprisonment, coming out this winter. Looks fantastic. The premise is awesome, right? Very similar to what we've gone before with Harrow Warriors.

But the fact that now we have it back in this world or in this version of Hyrule, right? I think it's very exciting. Delta Rune 3 plus 4. Coming out launch day, dude. Coming out launch day. Let's freaking go. That's going to be freaking awesome, right? And the list goes on as far as game announcements that I think we wanted to be here and the fact that they were here.

W.W. 2K24, me and Roger were joking, or 2K25. Me and Roger were joking about that. I was like, yo, what if WWE's here? Guess what? It was here, along with NBA 2K, EA Sports FC was another one that was here, right? Tony Hoshbo Skated at 3 and 4. What's a SpongeBob reference? What's going on with that?

I mean, I'm so excited for that, right? That speaks to my heart. There are so many things that we can talk about that were here. I think one of the things we should talk about that wasn't here, unless you have something else that you want to talk about that was here. We haven't talked about some of the biggest things that were here, which is kind of crazy. This is one of the big things.

But Star Wars Outlaws, another third party thing that kind of slid in there. So Ubisoft support. Cool. But hey, big things. Kirby Airwriters, baby. Massa Hero Sakurai here and directing a sequel to a 20-year-old game, that's insane. It's going to be awesome. Y'all are going to fall in love with this. Mario Kart World, we haven't even really talked about, which is kind of crazy. And then, of course, Donkey Kong. Yeah. It's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, GameCube, baby. GameCube on MSO. We haven't even talked about that. There's a wireless game cube controller with Rumble. I mean, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. RIP the dream, Winwaker.

We got to give it up. Win waker's not coming. It's not coming, which honestly, whatever, right? No, no, it's not whatever. This is a bad decision. I am very, very upset about it. It is an inferior version on the GameCube in so many ways, both visually and in terms of the fetch quest stuff like this, this isn't good, bless.

Just give up the dream, Tim. You know what I mean? But the dream is still here because Fire Emblem Path of Radiance was there, baby. My favorite, my first Fire Emblem game, so excited for that. Pokemon Coliseum was there. Launch Day we're going to get it. GameCube's coming launch day. We got Winwaker Soul Calibur 2 with Link.

Come on. F0GX, baby. With widescreen, which is awesome. You can customize controls. Anyway, I am hyped as hell on it. No Smash, which I think is interesting. Yeah, no Smash really, which is interesting, right? And like, again, overall talking about just the lineup for this year.

I'm looking forward to it. I think this is a pretty good lineup for year one of the Switch. However, 3D Mars. In fact, just a Mario, right? Like core Mario. I know Mario Kart maybe might fill that category for Nintendo a little bit. But what do you think about not seeing a 3D Mario here? We got Donkey Kong instead.

Well, it is interesting to look at the release schedule. Donkey Kong, a July game. That does leave a holiday season kind of open. We have Pokemon. We know that. But did we get a date for Metroid? That's what I was just looking at. I'm looking at my notes right now.

I'm trying to find it. Give me one second. Roger, do you remember a day for Metroid? I don't have anything. I didn't see, I don't remember seeing anything. But anyway, that's interesting. We'll see where that all shakes out. But let's end this talking about Mario Kart.

Mario Kart World. It's like Forza Horizon coming April 17, or Mario Kart Direct is coming April 17th. We'll get more. There's a battle royal mode called Knockout Tour. This looks open as hell. This looks awesome as hell. This is kind of a dream.

Roger can't. No release date, Roger Sand. For Metro Prime 4? 2025. 2025. What's happening? That must be a holiday thing, right? Maybe.

That's bizarre that we've not gotten to release date for Metro Prime 4. I did not even notice that. I mean, I've been saying it since day one. Releasing Mario Kart and Metro in the same day is a bad idea. So I'm all for this. Yeah. But yeah, I think it does help fill out of like, okay, well, what does the rest of this year look like? If we're getting Metroid in June, we got Donkey Kong happening in July, right?

We got, what was the game we were just talking about? Kirby? Kirby's 2025. Airwriters. We got Kirby coming in 2025. Pokemon's, there's so many different softwares that are going to fill out the rest of the year, right? And so Mario isn't necessarily the biggest concern. In fact, it's good for my famous critic. I hate, I'm so screwed.

It's my counter pick. But, yes, like, Mario Kart. Let's end up Mario Kart here. Mario Kart is what I wanted to talk about, right? That is going to be such a beggar. I was joking around with you and Barrett on KGB as far as, like, all right, another Mario Kart.

This is going to be more Mario Kart. This is best case scenario for how. to go about leveling up and elevating what Mario Kart is. Yeah, let's give it open environments. Hey, let's make it a 24 player thing. Hey, let's add in new modes. The battle real style. Knockout mode.

The knockout mode looks fucking awesome, right? Being able to go, hey, you know what it reminds me of. There was a mode in burnout, I believe it called an Eliminator. That was kind of a similar thing of last place gets eliminated with every lap. I love them adapting that into Mario Kart. I think that's going to be really fun for those, like, mass multiplayer kind of experiences. And I think there's a lot to look forward to there, let alone, the amount of different costumes we had for characters, the amount of characters seemingly that are in this game,

there's a lot going on here that I can't wait to try out. And the level design, the world concept of traveling the world, but how Nintendo influenced all of it is, that's a trailer I can't wait to go back to and frame by frame, look at everything, all the new items, all the new costumes, all of it. Very, very excited. Overall, I loved that direct. I can't wait for more information. I can't wait for the Switch. It's going to be here soon, sooner than I expected, which I'm happy about. Any final thoughts? No, just 1,000% excited. June 5th, baby.

Let's go. June 5th, baby. Until next time. Love you all. Get fuck, Greg.