Topic: Nintendo Switch 2

@metaphysician
The problem isn't the availability of slop on the eShop. The problem is that the flood of slop makes it harder to find actually decent releases and releases you might like

If you walk into a record store, for example, you don't just see boxes of records on the floor straight from the truck. At least not in a decent store. Instead you'll often see a section of best sellers, curated staff picks, probably a stand for prominent new releases. And of course you can go into the main section and flip through records grouped by genre and sorted alphabetically

But the eShop, especially on the OG Switch, presents just a list of all the new releases. Chronologically. That you have to manually go through in order to figure out what's new. The abundance of slop makes it harder to find something new and interesting. Same deal with the constant repackaging of games into new bundles

As I said, the addition of a recommendations section, highlighted section and the way they now highlight popular recent releases rather than just going into recent releases? That all helps. And I don't see why you would be against such an improvement

Out of curiosity, has anyone here ever discovered something useful in the recommendations section? I click in occasionally but it is essentially always only stuff already on my wishlist. Plus Nintendo published games like Drag X Drive which I don't want. But I realize I am not really the target audience of that recommendation section.

No, but last week I was recommended 'Brainrot Tung Tung Sahur' 💀

I'm well informed of games released, and check every week for new releases and add any to wishlist as needed, making purchases as needed.

The Best Sellers is also my go-to. I miss nothing. Honestly never had a problem. I'm not against improvements, I just personally don't feel any kind of way about it because I stay informed.

Check every Thur, scroll the recent releases and add to wishlist as desired. Start today, and do it again next week, and once every week after. Over time it ensures you keep tabs on anything of note.

@FishyS
I've been reminded of stuff on it that I was interested in but had forgotten about. Which I occasionally then add to my wishlist. I don't think I've purchased anything from it yet but I do check my wishlist occasionally for stuff on sale or to purge stuff I'm not longer interested in

Honestly most of my purchases are either games I was highly anticipating or stuff that I was aware of which goes on a deep enough sale they become hard to ignore

Does anyone here have any 3rd party dock recommendations? I generally try to stay away from 3rd party accessories like this, but with how expensive buying a 2nd dock is, I figured it was worth a try at least.

Hi everybody, I hope you're all doing well. I got a Switch 2 carrying case as a birthday present, and I'm trying to decide what microSD Express card I should get before I go on vacation. Should I bite the bullet and get the 256 GB card, or try to save up for a higher capacity card? The Switch 2's internal storage isn't quite enough for all the games I have. I'm thinking of bringing my Switch 2 so I could play stuff like Animal Crossing and Mario Kart World as a way to blow off steam after a long day, and I have a passcode set up for my Switch 2 as a security measure.

If it helps you to know, I looked at my Switch OLED's storage and I did some math. I'm using 62.5 GB in its internal storage, and 225 GB (out of 512) in its SD card. Making up for a total of 287.5 GB used. I also don't play a lot of RPGs, since those tend to be long and are probably huge in terms of game size. Thanks in advance for your help!

@D-Star92 I went with a 256GB card and honestly no regrets. I think this is just a case of asking yourself "how many games will I genuinely play concurrently".... and generally the S2 digital game file sizes aren't that big. I think FF7R is an outlier at quite a large download (100GB? I could be wrong) but games like MKW are like around 25GB.

@CJD87 All right, I think I'll go for a 256 GB card then. That seems to be enough for the kinds of games I like playing, actually. Thanks!

It really depends on what you want to play. Most of the first party games aren't that big so far, with the exception of Age of Imprisonment and Metroid Prime 4, which is also rather large on Switch 1.

If you're wanting to play a lot of third party games though, they can be very large and few of them come on cartridge either.

@D-Star92 I honestly will go with 512, I got a 256 GB and found myself regretting it since it fills up so fast... XD

@Matt_Barber I think I mainly play first-party Nintendo games, but I do have quite a bit of third-party games as well, if that helps. I have some third-party games (mostly on Switch, but also a few on Switch 2) on my eShop wish list, too.

@darkfenrir Oh no, sorry to hear. 512 GB is a safer option for sure, I've actually been considering that as well. After I did the system transfer, that internal storage filled up pretty quickly, lol. Thanks for your help.

@D-Star92 Good luck on whichever one you decide! In US I think you can find the 512GB choices at sub 100 USD much easier XD

Over here I can only find 200 usd ones... and it's just Lexar...

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined #1 and Final Fantasy VII Remake #2 on US eShop (and Final Fantasy VII Remake Bundle #22, with Dragon Quest VII Reimagined NS1 version #23).

Square Enix must be downright chipper seeing this.

Metroid Prime 4 still holding strong dang near 2 months later at #10 (#39 on NS1- it's clear at this point sustained demand is really starting to shift toward Switch 2 and away from Switch 1).

@D-Star92 I would get a card now, a 256 will be able to load quite a few games. Then go bigger when you need it. I started with a 256, and am now onto a 512…I could really use a 1 TB card but they’re too expensive

Quite a few small games or two modern Final Fantasy games

If a 256GB card can last you a couple of years, the larger ones will probably be a heck of a lot cheaper by then. That might make for a canny investment. But yes, you could blow right through it with just a couple of the bigger third-party games.

It's worth remembering that you don't have to have everything loaded at once, so if you tend to concentrate on a few games at a time rather than playing all across your library, you might get more use of it. On the other hand, if you want everything available at once, you might have to bite the bullet and get that 1TB card. Given the larger file sizes, it'll probably fill up sooner than you think too.

I originally bought just a 256 GB card back in June since the prices for larger MicroSD Express cards were so ridiculously high, but after downloading some larger third-party Switch 2 games and S2 editions (No Man's Sky, Split Fiction, Skyrim, Divinity: Original Sin 2, etc.), none of which are available as physical S2 cartridges, the storage was already getting full. So this month I had to buy a 512 GB card, which I should've done right from the start. At least the prices for larger cards have gone down a bit (though they are still high), so I paid 90 euros for the card I got, when just a few months ago you couldn't find a 512 GB card for less than 120 euros.

@OmnitronVariant Steam is largely the same way. This is the downside of having a less explicitly cultivated digital platform.

@JaxonH It's almost like dropping big games in a timely fashion on a platform leads to strong sales.

Hopefully Nintendo fans buy in with these releases so there's no more inequity when it comes to AAA releases from them.

@OmnitronVariant You have to scroll past the popular new releases section which I suspect few people do, but, yeah, a lot of the eShop is a steaming pile of garbage. It's been getting worse and worse in recent years. The AI slop isn't the only category of slop but it's certainly the fastest growing.

It should be noted that there are a few small indies who put AI coverpages even when the game isn't AI, presumably because they don't want to pay for an artist. Although I understand the financial logic, I wish they wouldn't because it makes it hard to sort them out from the true AI slop.

Obviously Steam and mobile have just as much or more garbage, but the Switch eShop doesn't hide its garbage quite as much. Plus I guess we just have an image of Nintendo having slightly higher standards even if it might not be true.