Starting squad Switch 2 was strange – or I thought after watching the April Nintendo Direct. Bright, Mario Kart World As a premiere game, it made sense from a business perspective. When re -release Mario Map 8 It sells 68 million copies on the original switch, it is not surprising that Nintendo Lead with what the data shows would probably be a great success. But it was Really This? Only a racing game?
A month later I played Mario Kart World More than any other game on my switch 2. The way it fits my life, regardless of whether I have a few minutes or an hour to play, I transformed it from a strange choice of premiere into one that makes sense, even if Nintendo tries to seem to seem different.
I decided on Mario Kart World The package to save money, but a really thrilling part about obtaining Switch 2 – or at least I thought so – there was a chance to play The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Finally fully. I jumped back strongly after exceeding some more hard challenges for guides, and because stuttering often in places and froze for a few seconds while crossing between the open world and dungeons, I thought that it didn’t make sense again until a more existing switch. I loaded the day when my switch 2 arrived Tears of the kingdom To see what difference makes the improvement of the frame speed and did not play again.
Instead, I spent most of my time Mario Kart World. I have played much more so far than I played Breath of the Wild In addition to the premiere of the original change in 2017. At the end of a long day, after work and family responsibilities, I do not lack free time. I lack the desire a lot of time in which I have and I certainly do not want to do something that requires mental effort. AND could discover more parts of Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 Or learn to play a fresh character in Street fighter 6 – Or I could put a cow on a motorcycle and ask them from the back from the dinosaur.
It’s an effortless choice that matches lunch breaks, brisk sessions at night, a longer game with others at the weekend – whatever I want. If I miss something with a slightly more depth except teaching shortcuts or corruption on the wall, I can always go to online mode with a knockout. Five or 10 minutes Tears of the kingdom He won’t get much, but I can start and finish something that is pleasant and valuable at the same time Mario Kart World.
The lack of enough time or willpower to assign to longer games is not a problem for me. Although it is effortless to call this recent cultural trend caused by publishers who spend the absurd number of games every week and rotten the state of domestic and world affairs, this is not a trend at all. This is a enduring way in which we interact with games. Scientists investigating how to improve the scope of projects in the development of games for Calculation of entertainment The Journal said that most players never finish the game, even if they like it. Already in 2013, former Ubisoft designer Jason Vandenberghe A magazine for game programmers That every good game creator knows that most of his players will not end their game.
In the parallel universe, in which Wii U was not a historical failure, the Nintendo software pipeline did not parched in recent years of the console, and the company did not have to prove that it was still a contender Breath of the WildI saw Mario Kart World Or something like that . The premiere of the original switch. His mixture of quick challenges and longer races is the incarnation of the style “anywhere, however, however, you want to” play in Nintendo with the system, and enters your schedule, not feeling as if you had to sacrifice something else to enjoy it. It is a kind of game for people who do not finish games, which is most of us.
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It was significant for Nintendo in 2017, when the convenience of mobile games in his pocket seemed to be his greatest competitor and it seems that now it is even more significant when time and time Cash restrictions affect the industry more than ever. Of course, Nintendo wants to launch his fresh, exorbitant system with a game that will not make people not think that they will wait until the x months later, when they have more time, which can play with friends and family without having to buy additional consoles and games. It just makes sense.
What makes no sense is Nintendo’s approach to almost everything else in the offer of the release of Switch 2. Mario Kart World It seems that this is an anti -acclimatic opener, partly due to the lack of transparency towards what will happen next. Yes, perfectly sounding Donkey Kong Banana It is later this month. But besides, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond he still floats in the ether, without the announced release date and Pokémon Legends: For It is in a few months. Where Nintendo promised a fixed number of games each month and extensive support of third parties during the first few months of the original switch, there is no point, which is in the store from now to the holiday.
Nintendo provided fewer development sets to its publishing partners than in the case of the first switch, including what some publishers told me, is an attempt to focus on quality. Politics led to excellent ports such as Cyberpunk 2077 AND No man of manBut it also means that this year there is not so much to Switch 2. Or if so, we don’t know about it. It goes away Mario Kart World To manage the console for the first months of life, and racing games rarely have a lot of importance with critics or consumers, no matter how good they are.
Mario Kart World may not have the stars of the fresh 3D MARIO game or an unexpected charm of something like that Donkey Kong BananaWhere the second level mascot suddenly occupies a central place. Maybe there is no universal charm of Pokémon’s continuation or the shiny veneer of the fresh metroid. It has convenience, flexibility and respect for my time. In this respect, Nintendo was finally: a racing game was enough.
