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This week the Punching Up crew discuss all the recent Switch 2 drama including the pre order delays in North America, $80 games and more!

Timestamps:0:00:00 - Intro

0:17:37 - Switch 2 preorders delayed in NA 

0:23:29 - Tariffs not factored into the price

0:27:50 - Switch 2 Battery life

0:32:51 - No achievements

0:48:24 - Nintendo Defends $80 games

1:17:34 - What We're Playing

1:51:22 - Donkey Kong Bananza devs

1:56:18 - Switch One enhanced Games

2:04:42 - Welcome Tour

2:13:01 - Ending Questions

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Big Devin Energy

Micah’s take on 1000 pts vs trophies is so whack. I’m on your side Brad 😂

Joe B

Micah - "I dont want to hunt achievements, so they shouldnt exist for anyone who does want them"

Mama Micah

Correct, glad that came across clearly. -Micah

Davey Cakes

That’s not my favorite attitude, but I respect it. Some people enjoy that Nintendo is more of an island that doesn’t bend to norms. I honestly didn’t care about achievements until the 2010s when I started playing more on Steam. Now I love having a global achievement system. It’s like a progress tracker that let’s you see where you stand in the community. We aren’t all achievement hunters/addicts, we just think of it as a nice bonus feature that adds to the feeling of participation. Even Nintendo’s own spin on system-level achievements would’ve been neat. In-game unlocks that also give you external rewards (such as badges for OS personalization), for example.

Joe B

My thoughts too. I personally have no desire to get all of Zelda: BOTW Korok seeds, but if Nintendo had a trophy/Star system to track it then I may be more inclined to seek out every corner the map has to offer. This applies to so many other titles for their 1st party as well. I just dont get the idea of trashing a feature that would only increase the user base. I remember Colin even saying in the past that he wouldnt go back to Nintendo, but that an achievement system for old NES games would be tough to resist.

BigDumbStupidIdiot

Listening to Brad crashing out over no achievement system is just the best

Lunar Tear

The Demi Moore part: *insert gif of the cat being shocked and looking around*

Frank G.

Shout out to Raul for this intro.

Cache

Dude im so happy generic doesn't like dmc anime. I've been arguing with new fans that don't understand this fucking sucks compared to the games.

Drew's Dew

Achievements would’ve been great.

Drew's Dew

Trophies is not a pay to have thing.

ToiletDrummer

as a massive fan of DMC3 especially, that show sounds like my personal nightmare

Michael Mashpotato

I had to pause the episode and head on over to youtube to listen to the “Fight for us Stamp” song after it was mentioned. I played the battle version too. Rebirth OST is so fucking good.

Del Griffith

Micah played a Mario game! Praise Jebus!

David P

It's interesting to hear the detachment from the story. I'm all in on just focusing on the game and being what is ostensibly a side character

NeO JD

I’ve never heard of Demi Moore bush until now. Still would. 😅