Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

Derkon said:

It's being marketed as a mulitplayer game, so I'm assuming gameplay is going to be closer to Nightreign than a more traditional Souls game.

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Sounds more and more like Nightreign in BB setting. Not worth buying a switch for that imo

Gotta admit I'm pretty underwhelmed with what Nintendo showed here. The console seems ok but they mostly showed ports of games that just run better on other platforms. $80 price tag for Nintendo games is also pretty scummy.

Wow, a first party controller that actually has back buttons without being some sort of $200 faggotry. It's a goddamn miracle.

Though I guess it's somewhat less impressive since Nintendo doesn't actually include a real controller with their consoles anymore. I assume Switch controllers will work just fine if you don't care about their "GameChat" nonsense?

Derkon said:

$80 price tag for Nintendo games is also pretty scummy.

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That's $80 for digital. There's a 10 €/£ 'tax' on physical carts that I assume will carry over to North America too.



I hope that's just for first party games and third party devs realize that they will sell zero copies on the Switch compared to other platforms that are superior in every way if they take up the same stupid pricing scheme.

launch lineup

Mario Kart World
Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Street Fighter 6
Split Fiction
Hogwarts Legacy
Hitman World of Assassination
Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
Deltarune Chapters 1-4
Civilization VII
Survival Kids
Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition
Fast Fusion
Fortnite
Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer


yikes, there's only one game on there i'd play hahaha

Also, I didn't have time to watch the whole thing -- was there any talk at all about how Switch BC will work? I saw that BotW and TotK are getting full Switch 2 updates but I only care about stuff like the Legend of Heroes franchise, Astral Chain, etc. that may or may not receive an actual patch. I know it can't magically make games that were capped at 30 fps run at 60 fps, but still hoping that it will at least boost a game like, say, Bayonetta 3 that was designed to run at 60 but never even got close to that in reality.

If all the thing is going to do for Switch games is make them load faster it's harder to justify on day one. Especially since they shut down my local Gamestop which makes pre-ordering and then trading in the OLED Switch much more of a pain in the ass. Nintendo and Amazon have been at war for a long time now, so there's not even a guarantee right now that we'll be able to buy a Switch 2 from the most convenient place to get a pre-order. Amazon hasn't sold a new release Nintendo game in over a year now, and if you look at all the Switch console listings there you'll see that they are exclusively third party sellers.

spronk said:

yikes, there's only one game on there i'd play hahaha

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I don't even see one; there's some good games there but I've already played all of them on better hardware. I certainly hope that Monolith Soft will have a Switch 2 patch ready to go for XCX on day one though, especially after people found the not-yet-functional 60 fps option in the executable. That would be the one thing that could change my mind back to getting a pre-order. XCX is just sitting on my shelf because I don't want to play it on the old hardware if it's getting an immediate upgrade for Switch 2.

Vorph said:

Also, I didn't have time to watch the whole thing -- was there any talk at all about how Switch BC will work? I saw that BotW and TotK are getting full Switch 2 updates but I only care about stuff like the Legend of Heroes franchise, Astral Chain, etc. that may or may not receive an actual patch. I know it can't magically make games that were capped at 30 fps run at 60 fps, but still hoping that it will at least boost a game like, say, Bayonetta 3 that was designed to run at 60 but never even got close to that in reality.

If all the thing is going to do for Switch games is make them load faster it's harder to justify on day one. Especially since they shut down my local Gamestop which makes pre-ordering and then trading in the OLED Switch much more of a pain in the ass. Nintendo and Amazon have been at war for a long time now, so there's not even a guarantee right now that we'll be able to buy a Switch 2 from the most convenient place to get a pre-order. Amazon hasn't sold a new release Nintendo game in over a year now, and if you look at all the Switch console listings there you'll see that they are exclusively third party sellers.

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They put this up, not sure how far it will extend to 3rd party stuff:

Derkon said:

They put this up, not sure how far it will extend to 3rd party stuff

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Damn, that's a pretty weak list. Even if it's just Nintendo-owned stuff Bayonetta 3 should still have been in line right behind the most recent Pokemon games that were complete shit.

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90 bucks for a game is fucking retarded. FROM wont keep that shit exclusive to this forever, it'll look better on a PS5 or PC anyways.

heh i'm only interested in mario kart, and ....windwaker. on the switch 2 so far.

I'll peep that fromsoft thing to determine if it's a real game or just some kind of mini game crap

I was going to pick one up whenever I ran into one in the real world, but $450 for the unit? $80 _digital_ games? $90 Joycons?

And no, there's no tarriff tax on those values, the Canadian and Australian prices are the same, after adjusting for exchange rates.

Maybe Nintendo is saying the kids market is deaaaad, forever lost to phones, and their real competition is the Steam Deck? The screen is better on the Switch 2, but with the Steam Deck you bring in your entire existing PC library and legacy PC pricing. Here Nintendo's massive programming teams... managed to come up with two racing games and Donkey Kong (in the Luigi's Mansion-esque-not-quite-Mario-launch-title-slot)?

I'm honestly looking into Steam Deck 2 info / Steam Deck competitors instead.

spronk said:

launch lineup

Mario Kart World
Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Street Fighter 6
Split Fiction
Hogwarts Legacy
Hitman World of Assassination
Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
Deltarune Chapters 1-4
Civilization VII
Survival Kids
Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition
Fast Fusion
Fortnite
Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer


yikes, there's only one game on there i'd play hahaha

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Where dat Metroid?

Why did bravely default go gay? the first one was good until the lulz 3rd person camera break ending hahah gimmick camera game play!... are the others?

$450 new console price and full price game list of old nastalgia shit and games everyone has already played on better platforms. Who is any of this for?

Juvarisx said:

FROM wont keep that shit exclusive to this forever

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I don't know why people believe this (seeing it on the YT comments, reddit, etc. too) when Bloodborne exists. If Nintendo paid for the development--which is a very strong possibility--it will stay on the Switch 2 forever just like Sony's Bloodborne exclusivity or Nintendo's own deals with Platinum Games for Astral Chain and Bayonetta 2/3 on Switch.

Don't really care one way or the other myself, but I think people are strangely optimistic about something that has actual precedent for going the opposite way. First thing I do with all From games is shut off the online garbage, so I have zero interest in Nightreign and if this is just Nightreign with PS4-tier visuals that's even more of a hard pass.

Derkon said:

They put this up, not sure how far it will extend to 3rd party stuff:

Nintendo Switch 2 – Free Updates for Nintendo Switch Games – Official Site

Free updates to improve playability on the Nintendo Switch™ 2 system will be released for selected Nintendo Switch™ games.

www.nintendo.com

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LOL @ Zelda Links awaking and Echos of Wisdom- both use the same engine that studders and FPS drops even with edge-bluring the heck out of the game... and its not all that graphically demanding, it was just obviously made by the B team, and then when they did decided to use it for Echos they cleaned it up some...but still not as good as it should be... its like "Look at TOTK...wow....smooth for 95% of the gameplay unless you do something to make it shudder... of the EoWisdom FPS drops just trying to play the game normally all the time..."

Well there is no shot I'm buying back into this ecosystem.

LCD again too which is hilarious. You 100% know they are going to cash grab the OLED Switch 2 release in 2-3 years when sales slump.

Switch games with start up issues on Switch 2:


Games that start up but have some compatibility issues:


I expected stuff like Labo to not work but this is a bigger list than I was expecting. I'm sure most of this will get patched but who knows when.

lol. What. Gtfo with those prices.