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The story
A thread popped up on 5ch where users who’d bought a Switch 2 started comparing notes on what they were actually playing. The list ranged widely — Momotetsu, Clubhouse Games (Asobi Daizen), Derby Stallion 2, Fantasy Life, Donkey Kong Bananza, a Warriors-style “Musou 2” title, and the Yo-kai Watch 1 remake — and the conversation quickly turned to whether any of it really needed a Switch 2 at all. Anyone who mentioned games also available on PS5 or PC, like No Man’s Sky or Musou 2, got hit with a wave of “just play it on PC” and “PS5 is fine for that,” exposing a split between people who bought the console purely for Zelda and Monster Hunter and are letting it collect dust, and those who are actually putting hours in.
What people said
・Clubhouse Games (Asobi Daizen)
・Mario Party Jamboree
No idea if it actually has to be on a Switch 2 though
Is it more fun than Winning Post (the rival horse-racing sim)?
Played it on 3DS back in the day — is it still fun now?
It's multiplatform
PC's fine for that
Both of those are fine on PC
Is it fun? I'm on the fence about buying it
Really? I dropped it pretty fast
Guess what I actually liked was just hanging out loud with friends at someone's place back in school
Re: #44
For No Man's Sky, I've got the PS5 version
Oh, it's on PS5 too? Then PS5 is fine
I think it's the best thing on Switch 2 so far
The gorilla's just too ugly
Maybe Dusk Blood?
I don't think it will? It's a versus/competitive game
It'll flop on Switch and then go multiplatform, probably
If a PC version comes out and there's still hype for it, I'll just buy that too
Games like that are most fun in the early feeling-it-out period right after launch
Even if the console undersells expectations, enough units are already out there that Nintendo will probably stick with it for ages — that's the problem
If it flopped as hard as the Wii U, they could just move on to the next one already
I was torn on which version to get too, but I heard the Switch 2 framerate is a mess so I got the PS5 version
I don't have a PS5 so Switch 2 it is for me
Hope we both enjoy it!
Got Namahage (a folklore ogre-turned-Yo-kai) and I'm so happy about it 🥰
By the way, I play pretty much everything else on Steam
A used Switch Lite will do
I bought a Switch all excited to play it and it turned out to be such a mediocre game that I was let down
I think the praise it gets is mostly from people who played it back when it first launched
Of course you need one
It's night and day, and there's definitely a new entry coming too
Even if the original is good enough, the Lite is definitely the wrong pick for it
No, the Lite is fine
If it's just the cost of the BotW (Breath of the Wild) game itself, sure, but if you're buying a whole console just for BotW, the Lite will do
Honestly, I don't think the game's performance justifies buying a console just to play it — so if there's nothing else you want to play, I wouldn't really recommend buying one at all
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Nintendo’s Switch 2 launched in 2025 as the company’s current console, and its lineup mixes carryover flagship franchises like Mario Kart with brand-new exclusives such as Donkey Kong Bananza, alongside multiplatform titles like Fantasy Life and the Musou series that are also available on Steam and PS5. The thread split between posters who say the real reason to own a Switch 2 is to wait for flagship titles like Zelda and Monster Hunter, and those who argue everything else runs just as well on PS5 or PC. A number of posters admitted they’d bought the console but were leaving it on the shelf until a true must-have exclusive shows up. What’s easy to miss from the outside is that most of the games named in the thread aren’t Switch 2 exclusives at all — they’re playable on other platforms too — so there’s a real gap between people’s reason for buying the console and what they’re actually playing on it.
*This article is compiled and summarized from excerpts of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Sad News] The Games I’ve Actually Played Since Buying My Switch 2 lol.”
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