Hey Gahoole, I missed your last stream, but I watched part of the vod and heard you were debating getting a Switch 2 and Donkey Kong Bananza before the price goes up. I have both, so I wanted to throw in my 2 cents.The Switch 2 is just a souped up Switch

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Anonymous 06/21/26(Sun)03:10:16 No.15865

Hey Gahoole, I missed your last stream, but I watched part of the vod and heard you were debating getting a Switch 2 and Donkey Kong Bananza before the price goes up. I have both, so I wanted to throw in my 2 cents.
The Switch 2 is just a souped up Switch 1. A lot of the time I forget I'm playing a different console because of how similar it is. I got it because it seems like it will have at least a few worthwhile exclusives and because I wanted something to play newer games on (I didn't upgrade my PC before ram prices spiked and the PS5 and the XSX have nothing). I think that's the right choice if you're in the same boat as me.
Now on to Donkey Kong Bananza,
>Very similar to Mario Odyssey, as you would expect. The jumping and physics in general feel almost the same.
>The bananas are exactly the same as the moons, except sometime you have to break them out of their rock casing to collect them.
>It also lets you climb on most surfaces and has shrines with short challenges like Breath of the Wild
>Its most unique point is the destructible environment, which is fun for a little bit, but can get boring after a while
>The early levels and the later levels are really fun, but most of the middle levels are tedious.
>The last level especially is really fun. It's a fast food theme park.
>There's only one snow level and it's a letdown.
>The worst level is themed around thunderstorms, and you have to fight the same boss three times.
>There's a racing level with Diddy and Dixie Kong, and the racing controls are terrible.
>There are two levels with lots of swimming and they're both actually really good.
>DK has transformations that each give him different abilities. 2 of them you barely use outside of the level where you get them.
>Cranky Kong shows up in almost every level and gives you a banana when you find him.
>King K. Rool shows up too at the end. The fight with him is okay.
>Pauline, here a 13 year old girl, is your constant companion in the game, and her relationship with DK seems quasi-romantic a few times, which is really weird. One thing that's fun is you can change what language she speaks while keeping English subtitles.
>You can buy different ties and britches for DK that give him "stat boosts" for lack of a better term. The problem is a lot of the ones that give you the best boosts look awful. You can also change the color of DK's fur, but I don't think this changes anything.
Ultimately, I'd say if you like Mario Odyssey, you'll probably like Bananza. That being said, I wouldn't get a Switch 2 just for it. I've only played about an hour of DK64, so It's hard for me to say how it compares with that game, but it's nowhere near as good as Mario 64, or Sunshine, or Galaxy 1 and 2.

Anonymous 06/21/26(Sun)04:04:08 No.15866

>>15865
>The Switch 2 is just a souped up Switch 1. A lot of the time I forget I'm playing a different console because of how similar it is.
It's usually like that early in a console's lifecycle. As devs get more experience, they start to get more out of the console. But already there have been a few standout titles which kind of put your argument to rest.

>Ultimately, I'd say if you like Mario Odyssey, you'll probably like Bananza. That being said, I wouldn't get a Switch 2 just for it.
The Switch 2 has a pretty good software library already, in terms of third-party software. I think Nintendo is working hard on some heavy-hitters of their own that will come later. It's a good time to buy a Switch 2 with the Bananza bundle.

Anonymous 06/21/26(Sun)04:28:11 No.15867

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I'm not much of a buyfag but if I was a buyfag I would've bought a switch 2 by now.
For me the main sore point is having to pay for the online. I don't want to pay some monthly fee to play games I bought on a console I bought online with other people who also bought those games and console, especially since I can just play shit on Blizzard or Epic for completely free with better matchmaking service. I also had the foresight to upgrade my PC when prices were affordable 2 years ago so I'd rather hold out for an emulator for when the really interesting exclusives start coming.
That said, they've already put out a lot of games (way (numerically) more interesting titles than the Wii U or 3DS had at this point after launch), and we can expect that there will probably be at least 8 more high quality first party games over the next 3 years that would justify a purchase of the system.
The next mainline pokemon game could go either way, they might have perfected their new open world gameplay with the archipelago map, or it might just be another half-baked piece of crap like the last few games.
We know for sure there's gonna be at least one Mario and one Zelda "killer app."
Nintendo seems greedy but overall their pricing scheme for the Switch 2 has been pretty fair when you factor in issues like rising hardware prices and the fact they are paying asian and white people to make the games instead of indians and AI like other companies.

Anonymous 06/21/26(Sun)04:37:53 No.15868

>>15867
>I don't want to pay some monthly fee to play games I bought on a console I bought online with other people who also bought those games and console
It's like $80 for the family expansion pack service annually, I don't even miss it.
>I also had the foresight to upgrade my PC when prices were affordable 2 years ago so I'd rather hold out for an emulator for when the really interesting exclusives start coming.
If you upgraded your PC to specs that you think will be able to handle Switch 2 emulation, dollars to doughnuts you paid much more for that than a Switch 2 costs.

Anonymous 06/21/26(Sun)05:04:44 No.15869

>>15868
My case is an outlier but it was actually really cheap.
I chinamaxed and it only cost around $650 for the entire set up. Every component is an import other than the intel b580 GPU and corsair PSU. I bought the parts separately and as cheaply as possible over a two year period.
I was honestly a little surprised when it finally came together and actually worked without issue.
The AMD Jews don't want you to know that they make special discount CPUs that are china-exclusive like the Ryzen 7500f.

Anonymous 06/21/26(Sun)07:37:51 No.15870

>>15865
Switch has no games.

Anonymous 06/22/26(Mon)17:00:57 No.15874

BJ's has Switch 2 down to $429.99 this week. You could get that and Star Fox digital which is only $50 and come in at less than $500. Star Fox should have good online multiplayer, so that would be my pick.