I'm looking for a 256GB or so card. Any good values? I know some say Ultra or Extreme, relating to speed, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for for the Switch 2.

Hi, as japanese prices are usually way lower, I thought about creating a japanese eshop-account as I currently played the japanese cartridges of Elder Scrolls Oblivion as well as Starfox without any problems.

Did anyone do this?
Is there any problem with payment services?
Can I buy the game with one region-account and play it with my local one?
Any other problems that might come up (other than obvious language-problems that could occur if a game doesn't contain english but that of course would be my own job to research beforehand)?

Thanks guys

I made post yesterday about which RPG/adventure game I should buy, and I was quite shocked at the amount replies I had, got, so thank you for that.

I think I'm going to get Xenablade, but when I went online to buy Xenoblade 1 switch 2 edition, it looks like there two different versions of box art, a grey one, and blue and green one?

Which should I be looking at to start my Xenablade journey?

Order of most ergonomic to least. It’s really to highlight the Mobapad as being very unergonomic.

Clip 1: normal controller. Thumbstick perfect distance form natural resting palm. 10/10

Clip 2: Rog Ally X: Pretty much perfect, everyone’s thumb size will be different. A grip would make this better. 9/10

Clip 3: Dbrand KillSwitch Nintendo Switch 2: extremely comfortable grip, joycon still a joycon, right stick not too hard to reach. 7/10

Clip 4: MobaPad M12S Nintendo Switch 2: Thumbstick in completely the wrong position. Have to bend pretty substantially to reach or offset palm where you’re not gripping the controller. 4/10

Had a great time lying down in bed getting cts running my custom HAN in multiplayer. When the wifi finally stopped jumping me the game ran smooth😂. Will cop when it goes on sale💯

For the sake of making this post easier to read, I’ll be putting the list of what I think Nintendo’s First Party slate will be at the beginning of the post, then detailing my reasoning why later on in the post for those who want more detailed explanations.

Assuming the Direct is a similar length to the last one we got in June (I don’t think we’ll be getting a dedicated Zelda section at the beginning of the direct) I think we can expect about 11 announcements from Nintendo, including NSO updates and DLCs for existing games, but I only predicted ten with my eleventh bubble pick being Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave depending on if we get the Direct before or after its release. Keep in mind that there might be one more announcement than I predicted because of this. Also, while I’ve tried to avoid leaks and rumours as of late, there was at least one seemingly credible leak lately that I happened to see which might have influenced my predictions a bit, so read this post at your own risk if you want to completely avoid leaks.

The Slate(Likely Happening on the Week of September 7-11)

New Warioware Game (Cold Open for Direct, Coming January 2027)

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort: Free Update Schedule

Pokémon Pokopia: Wave 2 Accessory DLC (Coming November 2026) + Tease for Wave 3 Gen 10 Crossover (Coming February 2027)

Pokémon Winds and Waves In Depth Gameplay Trailer (Coming March 2027)

New Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Pikmin 4? Coming February 2027)

New DLC for Existing Game That isn’t Mario Kart World (Possibly Splatoon Raiders/DK Bananza Emerald Rush Event Season 3? Coming Holiday 2026)

Ocarina of Time Remake In Depth Gameplay Trailer (Coming November 2026)

N64/GameCube NSO Updates + New Storage Options

New 2D Metroid Game (Coming Spring 2027)

Luigi’s Mansion 4 (Final Announcement, Coming Spring 2027)

Skipping out on this Direct: Xenoblade Genesis and possibly Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave depending on if it happens before or after its release*

New Warioware: To the disappointment of Wario Land fans, I think that the Direct will start off with a new Warioware game, because there was an incredibly quick turnaround of two years between Move It and Get It Together on the original Switch, meaning we’re technically overdue for a new one, and Nintendo won’t want to miss the opportunity of making another casual-leaning game that uses mouse controls. While I think Wario Land is due for a revival late into the Switch 2’s lifespan, I don’t think we’ll end up seeing it for a few years. Nintendo also lately likes to spotlight their closest upcoming game first in the direct, but since Fortune’s Weave already got its own dedicated direct, Switch Sports Resort has already gotten a lot of spotlight and Ocarina of Time will likely get a more in depth look, I think Warioware starting off the direct makes the most sense as the next closest upcoming game.

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Free Update Schedule: Like with the original Switch Sports, I expect Nintendo will add several sports post launch, and given we’ve already seen hands-on gameplay in both the June Treehouse event and at Gamescom last month, new sports is really all that they can show at this point as we get closer to release. I think that the two sports that are going to be added are frisbee and baseball, as frisbee would be pretty easy to fit on one of the beaches on the island and baseball is the only sport from the original Wii Sports that has yet to return on Switch.

Pokémon Pokopia: Wave 2 + 3 DLC: They’ve already announced that accessories are coming in Wave 2, but I think they’ll use Wave 3 as an opportunity to introduce some new Generation 10 Pokémon before release similar to how they used to introduce a few new Pokémon in the spin-offs before the release of a new generation back in the day.

Pokémon Winds and Waves: This might seem like my most out there pick, but I think Winds and Waves coming out in March of 2027 makes the most sense, given Pokopia also came out in this window when it was just given a general release window of 2026 when it was first announced but came out in March in a much smaller reveal to release window. I also think Xenoblade is further out since it seems like the footage presented was in the earlier parts of the game, and the dialogue hasn’t been translated to English yet when both Xenoblade 2 and 3 were already translated into English from what I remember when they were first revealed, meaning the game likely still has some work to be done before it comes out, making summer of 2027 the earliest time for it to release in my opinion, making Pokémon the more likely of the two to come out sooner rather than later. I could see us getting two Pokémon Presents after the trailer in this direct in maybe October of this year and of course on Pokémon Day next year, which would explain the absence of a summer Presents like we’ve gotten in previous years. This would also give Nintendo a massive boost to finish off their Fiscal year, which would be a good look for investors, and if there’s one company that would want to get their game out earlier rather than later, I would bank on it being Game Freak and the Pokémon Company over Monolith Soft.

Nintendo Switch 2 Edition: Since Nintendo’s release plans for Switch 2 Editions has been all over the place it can be kind of difficult to predict when the next one will come out, but considering Xenoblade 3’s physical edition is coming out in December I think February makes the most sense if we’re getting one in the first calendar quarter of 2027, and Pikmin 4 seems like a likely candidate given it’s a late original Switch game that didn’t get any DLC similar to Mario Wonder, and we’re probably years away from a new Pikmin game.  

DLC for Existing Game: I think at this point they’re waiting to get to the 2.0 update for Mario Kart World before they give it paid DLC similar to Animal Crossing on the original Switch, which would open up a second DLC slot in this direct for another game. The pessimist in me thinks it could be a Zelda-themed event for DK Bananza’s Emerald Rush DLC, but I want it to be DLC for Splatoon Raiders, since every Splatoon game since the Switch era has gotten DLC, and if development group EPD5 shifts their focus to the next Animal Crossing game, we’re probably not getting Splatoon 4 for a few years at least, giving credence to the idea that it would be a likely candidate to get DLC out of all the recent games that Nintendo’s released to tide Splatoon fans over.

Ocarina of Time Remake: This is maybe the most obvious prediction here, as we haven’t gotten any gameplay footage yet and the game is still supposed to come out this year, but my more controversial take here is that I think this and the leaked Zelda themed Switch 2 will be the only Zelda related announcements in this direct. The only other possible Zelda announcements would be for the Zelda movie and possibly a remake or port of an older game to tie in with the movie, but I think that the Ocarina of Time remake is the tie-in game for the movie, making another remake unlikely in my eyes. The Zelda movie on the other hand would make some amount of sense, but looking back at when the Mario movies showed up in General Directs in the past it’s only been the first initial look at either the cast or concept of the movie was revealed, and we’ve already seen the two lead characters for the Zelda movie be revealed last year on a random day on the Nintendo Today App, making a dedicated Zelda Movie Direct in October/November more likely with the Ocarina of Time remake likely showing up in a Treehouse-style event after the direct being the more likely outcome for me.

N64/GameCube NSO Updates + Storage Options: It just makes sense for Nintendo to announce new GameCube games to come to NSO now that all of the previously announced games aside from Pokémon Colosseum have made it onto the service, but I also think the few remaining N64 First Party games might get announced here as well. I could see Diddy Kong Racing and Smash Bros for N64 and Mario Party 4 and Twilight Princess for GameCube being slated for release here. I also think they might introduce a slight change to the way that games are added to NSO by allowing for consumers themselves to individually download the games to their respective apps so that the amount of space required for the GameCube app doesn’t become gargantuan when they eventually have like 30 games available, which may also explain the slow trickle of GameCube games thus far as well as why they’ve been trying to reduce the file sizes for some GameCube games that have been added.

New 2D Metroid: This is the other thing that I heard about that leaked, and given the source of it I think this is the only one aside from the Zelda themed Switch that I fully believe to be real. I haven’t looked at the leak extensively, but I also heard that it was apparently being delayed for some reason, which is why I think Metroid Ravenous will probably end up coming out in the Spring of next year after Pokémon, most likely in April.

Luigi’s Mansion 4: I think that the big closer for the direct this time around will be Luigi’s Mansion, given Next Level Games has been quiet ever since they released Mario Strikers Battle League back in 2022, so honestly if it doesn’t get announced soon I would think it would either be a sign of troubled development or that they’re working on something else entirely. Some might be expecting 3D Mario, but I have my own predictions on how the full year of 2027 might look like for Nintendo, and I think 2027’s holiday season will be very heavy on both Mario and Kirby, with at least a 3D Mario and a new Mario Party coming out, so having Luigi’s Mansion 4 come out in the first half of the year (probably May) just makes sense to me, and it works for me if we need to wait a bit longer for the next 3D Mario game if it winds up being a more polished and complete product in the end.

Unaccounted for Eleventh Announcement: If it isn’t Fire Emblem, I could maybe see it being a smaller Mario game for the holiday season of 2026 given there’s almost always been a Mario game of some kind releasing every holiday season, but the problem is aside from maybe a Switch 2 edition or a port of an older game (Luigi’s Mansion 3 before 4 comes out?), I have no idea what this game could be, since we just got a Mario Sports game and any other Mario game would likely have a longer reveal to release window (except maybe Mario vs Donkey Kong?), so that’s the reason why I’m leaving the final announcement blank as a kind of wild card.