467 hours here. About 100 hours more than 2024, and about 200 hours more than 2023. I guess I am going to cross 550 hours if this keeps up.

Most played games were Xenoblade Chronicles X: DE, Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Donkey Kong: Bananza. Some other top games were: Metroid Prime: Remastered, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and AI: The Somnium Files.

Wow, well, time to finally complete it!

Al: The Somnium Files was much better than I expected. 3rd one is coming out soon so will probably play they sequel soon-ish too.

Edit: So the third game has been out for a while now, the release trailer I just saw was for PS and Xbox release.

Depends on your use case. I only buy digital and mostly get Nintendo first party games on release, so the vouchers have been super helpful for that.

I am sad about them ending it.

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Not sure, I got the impression that all consoles sold worse than usual, but I didn’t actually dig deep into it.

Ahan. Thanks. Will keep it in mind.

Oh yeah, that last lines were about Switch 2 doing record sales in first year, not about the holidays sales, should have made it clear.

I agree with all your points about holiday sales, but I am not sure if it means that it’s momentum has slowed down or it just went down because of other expenses and stuff people wanted to buy over this period. Will be interesting if the sales go back up or if they keep going down.

The same is true of PlayStation and Xbox too (and has been for a decade or more). At least in US, don’t know about Europe. This is not to defend Nintendo, just saying that if that was the issue, it would effect all the consoles, and would have been effecting them for last many years. Average people don’t even know about these, and many probably don’t even care.

There might be more to this, but with the current economy, and consoles getting more expensive instead of cheaper as time goes on could be some of the reasons, IMO. And there weren’t much holiday sales this year.

First year sales are also generally limited by supply, not demand, so it will be interesting to see how Switch 2 does in its second and third years, specially if we do get next PS and Xbox next year.

Thanks. My Three Houses is still paused, but will take a look once I am done with it.

Didn’t check the video, but did read a review for Switch 2 performance, that said it is better than Switch 1, but still recommended to play on other platform, if you have access to those. Either way, already started it, so not going to buy it again. 😀

Hopefully they will learn from the feedback and improved the the next games even more in Super Robot Wars series. I tried looking up some mecha animes to watch, but then taking the time “investment” to account, I realised I don’t really have enough time to add another thing in my screen-time / entertainment list. So, I’ll probably play these games with basic knowledge of a couple of animes I have watched. Do you think they will still be fun for me?

I usually have a small game going on with a larger one, to keep things fresh. Though, that depends on the game too.

I plan to play Divinity: Original Sin, Divinity: Original 2 before playing Baldur’s Gate 3, so you are still at least 2-3 years earlier than me.

How is Path of Radiance? Quick search shows this was the first game to move to 3D, and the first one back on home console after quite a while.

I remember this area. And if I still remember it, must mean it was a tough area.

I am going to call it “boring premium” colour from now on. And yeah, full colours shell will be cool, though I don’t buy multiple consoles, so won’t be for me but I know many people who would jump on the chance.

People bought so many JoyCon because of colours, they should realise they’ll be missing money like that.

What about full coloured JoyCon 2? Like we had for original JoyCon. Not happy with just a slight border and ring having different colours.

What are the chances that it was shut down because of the unionization, vs just bad timing?

Watched the SwitchUp review for Switch1 and Switch2. Game looks good, and the demo carry overs the progression, so worth a try if anyone wants to play it soon.

If Max Payne wasn’t in the pic, it would’ve been pretty difficult to guess.