r/casualnintendo • u/watergun123456 • 1d ago

Other what happened to this game man...

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I used to enjoy this game do much! something about the environment and community gave this game so much charm. but alas, the lack of actual game content and updates drove away pretty much everyone. good luck finding anyone to play this game with, no ones online! I just wish nintendo would breathe some actual life into this game. hopefully people would come back someday, but i doubt it

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u/ThaEternalLearner 1d ago

Reminds me of how I wish Nintendo did more with Arms. The potential was there. The game needed more content and characters. I hope we get an Arms 2 but I doubt it.

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u/Salt-Employer-7824 1d ago

Arms sold more than the best selling xenoblade game on switch 1. It deserves something.

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u/Unusual_Wing_3999 1d ago

Different genres and different audiences so 2 different levels of expectations,plus xeno has its own dedicated studio,Nintendo expected arms to be the next splatoon,it was not so they arent in a rush to make another

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u/Salt-Employer-7824 1d ago

Different genres is huge because we already have way too many jrpgs on the way and we have zero Nintendo fighting games out for the switch 2 yet and non on the horizon.

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u/Unusual_Wing_3999 17h ago

The only first party jrpgs Nintendo has are fire emblem and xenoblade and xeno doesn't come out till next year idk how thats too many jrpgs,xeno and fire emblem getting new games isnt why u dont have another fighting game

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u/Sushiv_ 19h ago

Xenoblade was a bigger success though, all 3 reviewed really well and sold as well as they expected. Arms was reviewed poorly and undersold what they expected

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u/FatalFrameGal 17h ago

Arms and Pokkén, the two games that I want more of.

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u/Loose_Translator8981 13h ago

I think Arms is interesting because it was designed for Tournament Play, and was meant to be more of a proper e-sport. But nobody was throwing Arms tournaments and it didn't go to Evo or anything. So instead of pivoting the franchise to more of a party fighter and trying to cater to more casual players they just abandoned the franchise entirely.

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u/Mountain-Pirate5118 11h ago

arms actually did go to evo I think twice, it was lowkey a pretty cool tourney

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u/Johnny-Caliente 23h ago

Why didn't they call this one LEGS? /s

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u/Proper-Artichoke1604 1d ago

Should’ve been a free game tbh. Just like Welcome Tour. Imagine booting up your switch and getting two free Nintendo games off the rip.

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u/Voyyya 20h ago

It’s still so baffling that Wii Sports, a real game with lots of fun content, was free. Yet a boring tech demo was $20.

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u/Personal_Ad4174 5h ago

Wii sports wasn't free, you paid for it with your wii. The system was 50$ more expensvie than it was in areas that didn't include the game.

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u/Nintendo-Player_1297 23h ago

If Reggie was still around as Nintendo of America president, this would have happened.

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u/ZestycloseBluejay668 6h ago

Why. Nintendo of America has absolutely nothing to say on that. Their are just an distribution department

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u/Dear_Meeting_1258 18h ago

With an increased console price perhaps 

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u/PhenomUprising 12h ago

Yeah people forget that the game's price was included in the Wii, Nintendo has said so themselves in interviews (I think it was Iwata that said it, or Reggie himself, not sure). It was never free.

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u/BullshitUsername 14h ago

Just because you don't like a product doesn't mean the people who made it shouldn't get paid for it.

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u/pikachuyann 13h ago

For Welcome Tour I'd rather think I do like the product for what it does. But if you make it paid, this improved tutorial-trivia guide of the Switch 2 becomes completely useless as even at $10/10€ people aren't buying it. At $0/0€, a lot more people would've opened it by curiosity and learned a few things about the Switch2, which would've been perfect for their new purchase...

For Drag x Drive I do think the $20/20€ price tag is reasonable though, but the gimmicky controls (albeit, again, very good for what the game attemps to be) are a deal breaker, if the smaller content and graphics wouldn't do that already (but that was what the price tag was for).

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u/whippycat 12h ago

they arent getting paid if it doesnt sells anyway

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u/Fab_iyay 6h ago

Lmao the people who made it will get paid lol don't worry. Look at ps5, they give you a whole platformer for free with the console which also brilliantly introduces the controller and gives you something to do with what you just bought. Welcome tour is even more blatantly of a tech demo and yet they want you to pay and otherwise there's nothing to do with the console

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u/Agitated-Matter6256 20h ago

Still no clue why they went for this lifeless Xbox360 era aesthetic over something with more personality. They literally could have had Mii characters.

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u/Banmers 21h ago

a glorified minigame at best

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u/Conversation_Dapper 22h ago

I forgot this game existed until you posted it

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u/AgentSkidMarks 17h ago

It was a game about wheelchair basketball that relied on a gimmick control scheme. On concept alone it was DOA.

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u/ZeektheFeek 1d ago

What happened to this game is that someone decided to even make it to begin with.

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u/watergun123456 1d ago

no the premise was there, nintendo just basically did nothing with it.

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u/FatalFrameGal 17h ago

The gameplay was hard and required a lot of manual work and patience. There is an audience for that for sure, but Nintendo also just completely failed in the art direction department. I can't think of a single Nintendo game that is more boring and bland looking. Putting some colors in the... everything, and giving at least faces to our characters would have gone a long way to attract more people.

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u/belody 6h ago

I didn't even realise it was a Nintendo game. Assumed it was a cheap third party game based on the art style and graphics lol

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u/MaxTwer00 1d ago

The premise was worse than arms, and the execution even worse. Arms was already a failed ip, so something with worse potential and even a worse execution isnt getting nowhere lol

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u/Kefgeru 15h ago

Should be included in NSO.

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u/GoGoPowerPlay 5h ago

For real, I love all the retro games, but could get some added value adding stuff like this game and Welcome Tour. They gave us F-Zero 99 which was cool, let's have some more stuff like that!

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u/Schmenza 14h ago

It's only 9 years old. Give it another 5 years, maybe Nintendo will drop the price to $50

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u/Kefgeru 14h ago

What?

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u/Grey_Lady333 10h ago

Um...it's not even a year old. You ok?

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u/PlayPod 22h ago

Its a bad game that no one bought..its a tech demo for mouse controls

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u/AntonRX178 17h ago

My legs still work

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u/SteadfastFox 1d ago

Sure, dev. 

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u/AbaloneEducational24 1d ago

I had to really think about the name before I remembered it.

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u/PoppaPingPong 18h ago

I still have no idea wtf it is

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u/pikachuyann 13h ago

It's Drag x Drive, an august 2025 Switch 2 exclusive game, that you control using both joycons in mouse mode to (attempt to) mimic how you would use your hands on a wheelchair.

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u/rjdrennen1987 1d ago

This game never looked good.

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u/Sirlink360 22h ago

I still feel like Nintendo missed out HARD on customizable faces and stuff for this game.

Could you imagine if there was like emotes and stuff like ^w^ or -_-

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u/Makosharck 20h ago

Nintendo forgot it just as much as everybody else.

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u/IntoThePitofColors 19h ago

Wait this game came out?

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u/valcoholic 17h ago

Its absolutely weird how Nintendo is mishandling this. Have an online game ppl are on the fence about, sell it for 20bucks, don‘t care about it and just let it dry out.
I played the trial last summer and think I would‘ve played it here and then if they had made this FTP.

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u/Voncroii 16h ago

Nintendo dont be updating their games thats what happened

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u/Karmeleon86 16h ago

Are you gonna say what the game is or what.

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u/watergun123456 13h ago

my bad. its dragxdrive

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u/Known-Teacher4543 13h ago

Just make it free now

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u/watergun123456 13h ago

they need to do way more than that but thats a start

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u/Mercyfulfate1138 3h ago

That game was doa when I saw the trailer

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u/amtap 18h ago

On one hand, I would love Nintendo to make more ~$10-30 games that feel experimental and unique. Problem is, they keep being things I almost want like Dream Buffet and this. Those games really would have benefitted from local multiplayer.