Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Happened to me too. 3DS SD Card lost all its data.

Saving games to the cloud is just super convenient, and honestly is worth the price of the service on its own. I'd have never let my PS+ lapse if it had a cheaper tier for cloud saves and discounts or something. I never play the included games.

If those functions are that important, I think you will be better off with a tablet or one of those ultraportable laptops. Or an high-end phone for that matter, many of them have screens that are almost as big as the switch screen.

I lost 3DS and Wii data because of having to send in for repair, twice for 3DS and once for Wii. Knowing that I'd lose 3DS data a 3rd time is why I'd rather buy a new New 3DS XL and do a transfer than send my current one in to repair the buttons that aren't working properly.

Meanwhile since owning a 360 in 2009, I have only lost any Xbox data once and that was transferring my 360 save of Tomb Raider Underworld to XB1. Cloud saves act weird if you don't have the same content installed so the fact Microsoft hadn't brought the DLC (Beneath the Ashes and Lara's Shadow) to the backwards compatibility version at the same time as the base game led to the cloud save being overwritten.

I have no doubt that preventing save data corruption is at least one of the reasons why the Switch forces you to redownload all content (updates and DLC) if you decide to play a game after deleting it so something like my Tomb Raider Underworld example would never happen on Switch.

EDIT: Seems all my Tomb Raider 360 saves are gone.

Yep, me too. Lost 100s of hours from Animal Crossing New Leaf and countless hours from loads of other games.

The boyfriend got me dead cells, I'm happy I get to be a part of the current craze over the game. Only been a few minutes but I can already tell the gameplay is refined extremely well, just by how the character handles

@Grumblevolcano
Oh, gosh...
Sorry to hear that.

@MisterPi Dead Cells is next on my wishlist! I'm currently playing Minit on Switch. Thinking of getting Dead Cells on PS4 though. How is the frame rate?

Is minit good? It sounds interesting if nothing else.

@Therad It's pretty decent so far. 2D Zelda, but with less focus on combat, and a time limit. It's mostly exploration, finding and gathering new items, opening new paths, and helping NPCs. I'm enjoying it, and it was only €10, so I can't really complain.

Wasn't sure which thread to put this in, as it's pretty watery speculation, but I've just finished watching the Smash U direct from last week for the first time.

Overall the Direct was great, but two 'connected' moments stuck out to me as possible hints at something. Now, my experience of speculation about these supposed 'hints' that Nintendo may or may not sometimes employ are that about 99% of the time they turn out to be baloney, but...

Did anyone else notice these two moments in the Direct?

This first one being what seemed to be a prolonged focus on the Galaxy warp star item;

And this second one seeming to be a prolonged pause and then deliberate Mario Galaxy stage selection.

So... basically... what I'm trying to say is...

Super Mario Galaxy HD/Super Mario Galaxy 3 confirmed!!!11!

@gcunit Would weep tears of joy

@gcunit I hope so! I would be happy with just the first game but 2 or a new game would also be amazing!

@gcunit You spent 1/1/2000 in your basement, didn't you?

The official Dark Souls twitter announced Dark Souls Remastered Switch and the amiibo for October 19th.

@gcunit @MisterPi I'd cry with you. This would SO help me through winter with basically no other releases needed.

Dark souls...why you gotta launch on 10/19? I was trying to save money this year! Sigh.

I love how Smash turns otherwise rational people into the sort of conspiratorial nutters you'd expect to be looking for the latest clues from QAnon about the movement to take down the globalist cabal.

@Ralizah Who you callin' rational bruh?

The NL comments section is anything but rational.