Category: Nintendo

We’ve seen this question asked all over the internet, and since Nintendo thinks silence is a viable answer to mass confusion (work it out for yourself, guv), we thought we’d chime in.

The simple answer is yes, they do. That includes all original Joy-Cons, the Pro Controller 1 itself, as well as the GameCube adapter.

Switch 1 controllers can be used wirelessly and are also compatible with Switch 2 exclusive games, but they can’t be used if a game requires features unique to the Joy-Con 2 (such as mouse controls).

In short, if you don’t want to buy additional controllers, your old ones will work fine in almost all scenarios. The Switch 2 comes with two Joy-Con 2 controllers included.

In the run-up to Nintendo’s new console, the Nintendo Switch 2, we’ll be posting a series of quotes from the late and great Satoru Iwata. Taken from Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom, the quotes offer a fascinating insight into his mind and give you a sense of some of his lateral thinking that shaped Nintendo.

The book itself is a great read, revealing a passionate and widely respected CEO who many noted fizzed with joy. We can also use it as a marker to see how the company might, or might not, have changed since then.

This week’s quote on Nintendo game pricing:

‘After a piece of hardware is released, the price is gradually reduced for five years until demand has run its course. But since the demand cycle never fails, why bother reducing the price this way? My personal take on the situation is that if you lower the price over time, the manufacturer is conditioning the customer to wait for a better deal, something I’ve always thought to be a strange approach.

‘Of course, this doesn’t mean that I’m against lowering prices entirely, but I’ve always wanted to avoid a situation where the first people to step up and support us feel punished for paying top dollar, grumbling, “I guess this is the price I pay for being first in line.”‘

There is validity to this thinking (see Ubisoft and its pricing strategy of dropping games mere months after release). And as we saw with the Switch 2 pre-order process, Nintendo handled it in a way that rewarded the most dedicated customers first, which was widely applauded in Japanese circles (not so much elsewhere).

Stay tuned.

Hideki Kamiya, the man behind some of the greatest games of all time, including serving as the director of the original Resident Evil 2 (1998), has said Nintendo Switch 2 leakers are the ‘the worst of scum’.

Posting on X and keeping true to his reputation for ‘saying it how it is’, Kamiya didn’t hold back:

I hope that all of the people who leaked Switch 2 information/those who helped leak it will be cursed for the rest of their lives to always have poop on the soles of their shoes when they get home…

…Now that I’ve enjoyed the surprise announcement of Okami with all the users, I truly believe that… all those damn leakers should be cursed…

The shitty leaker only acts for his own pleasure and self-satisfaction, not only is he not contributing to anyone’s benefit, he is incurring all sorts of opportunity losses, and has done nothing to be proud of in front of others. He is the worst of scum, so he should be covered in shit from head to toe and thrown out of the atmosphere… and then stop thinking and wander forever…

These damn leakers are in a position of responsibility where they have access to information that only a very select few know, yet what they do is nothing more than an expression of a filthy desire for approval that lacks a shred of rationality; they are shameful people, so it is not the manufacturers whose secrets have been exposed who should be blamed, but these damn people, and they need to be crushed as soon as possible…

Kamiya’s joke-at-first-turned-rage is more understandable when considering the huge cultural differences between countries and their subsequent values.

Both a critic and supporter of Nintendo, Kamiya does raise a genuine point about leaking culture in general (and the internet’s notable lack of restraint), although it’s also fair to say that Nintendo waited a long, long time to announce the Switch 2, clearly due to fears of having another Wii U-sized failure.

In a nutshell: good luck, leakers! You have shamed Japan and will be crushed.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!

There are now 30 characters in Mario Tennis Aces on Nintendo Switch, each with their own signature Special Shot.

16 characters were available at launch, and 14 characters were made available later on in the game. Special Shots are activated with the L button once your gauge is fully charged. I particularly enjoyed discovering these new ultra moves.

Here’s every single one of them:

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