Switch 2 drama and tariffs! Xbox E3 Game Showcase dated! + Canceled Switch games LEAKED!

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Topics:

• Doug Bowser explains why Switch 2 costs $150 more than Switch: 1) "a lot of improved features" with Joy-Con 2, LCD screen, and CPU/GPU processing power, and 2) the social features like GameChat - CNBC Video

• “the Super Mario Bros. 2 movie” will be released next March (movie hasn’t been described as a “2” before)

• Bowser offers iffier quote about price to CBC that went viral https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/nintendo-switch-2-price-tariffs-1.7503598

• Doug Bowser claims tariffs "weren't factored into the pricing" of Switch 2, but Nintendo is "actively assessing" the situation - Wired (non-paywall) / (gives lots of similar non-answers to NPR too)

• Doug Bowser explains the $80 price for Mario Kart World Washington Post (non-paywall)

• Switch 2 Joy-Con controller was designed "from the ground up" but doesn't use Hall sticks https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-says-the-switch-2-joy-con-controllers-dont-have-hall-effect-thumbsticks-145541771.html

• Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is $9.99; BotW & TotK Switch 2 upgrades are also $9.99 each https://www.ign.com/articles/our-big-nintendo-switch-2-interview-with-nintendo-of-americas-bill-trinen

• Switch 2 carts still taste bad on purpose https://www.gamespot.com/articles/switch-2-carts-still-taste-bad-designed-purposefully-to-be-spat-out/1100-6530649/

• Switch 2 eShop will have no music either; Switch 2 has no achievements

• Builds for old or canceled Switch games have leaked, apparently including Retro Studios' canceled music RPG, Project Harmony https://nintendoeverything.com/cancelled-nintendo-switch-games-leaked-online-with-footage-of-scrapped-retro-studios-game-ridge-racer/

• Xbox Game Showcase set for June 8, followed immediately by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/04/09/xbox-games-showcase-2025-outer-worlds-2-direct/

Questions from Discord: 

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What we’re playing:

Mary: :) 

John: Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden (finished), Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden (“done”), Super Mario RPG

Greg: Rivals, Apex, Rocket League

Brett L: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (beat) Avowed (just started) Split Fiction

Brett M: Split/Fiction