Nintendo loves the niche picks, don’t they? I think it’s a good thing because it gives forgotten IPs more exposure, like they’ve done with F Zero and now starfy
It's nice seeing another assist trophy get the game(s) they're in on Switch. Would be neat if Midna, Krystal, Black Knight or Phosphora is next (Phosphora seems the most likely of the bunch if any happen on the current Switch).
So I tried to take advantage of the Voucher extra gold points offer, I even went to the eshop from the Switch news page, and I have not been given the increased amount of points.
I purchased it before the 14th July, that's UK or German time (where Nintendo of Europe is based) when the deal is advertised as ending,
The real question should be with the Switch 2 reportedly having a mic will the Switch 2 expand to include games and systems that supported a microphone......
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Okay, so the extra points do get added later,
but it's very misleading to begin with, to the point where people might be put off purchasing the vouchers.
Bizarre.
Slightly off topic but I've been messing around with this little Anbernic device I got at the start of the year a bit more lately. Playing around with various emulators and such but also some of the ports of various games to this device where you can drag assets from the Linux builds of games and run them in a container. Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV, Shovel Knight, Undertale, Bit Trip Runner 2, Cave Story etc, etc but also Moonlight for streaming stuff from a TV
But this morning as I was scrolling through the list of ROMs and ports on this little device it got me thinking. This is pretty much the "Switch Micro" NSO centric device I was saying Nintendo should make. Obviously it's not perfect. Scaling of some games, particularly GBA, to a small 640x480 screen is sometimes a bit rough. Also N64 emulation and above isn't ideal, especially without analogue sticks. You also end up doing a lot of fiddling with the Steam Command line, writing images to SD cards, fiddling around with settings and scraping images. But ignoring all that.... it's not far off what I feel is almost "endgame" for such a device
Which makes me wonder where NSO is going to go in the next 5, 10 years. And how the landscape around emulation and portable devices is going to continue to change. I personally wouldn't be at all surprised if 5 years from now there's a device out there that's basically a Steam Deck micro of sorts. Maybe not the same level of raw power but full x86, cheap and DS Lite sized. With enough power to push past GC. And I wonder if when that device inevitably comes I'll even remotely care about GC on NSO
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@skywake@Grumblevolcano@Eel@FishyS@Fizza I wonder if we'll get a second update again this month like we got in July? If so we're long overdue for SNES games being added to the service. I'd say Genesis too, but I'm unsure if Sega is even supporting NSO anymore. In a dream update I'd definitely like to see maybe 2-3 great third party games each for SNES and Genesis added, but won't hold my breath for Genesis titles.
@WiiWareWave I think more Rare games. Push Square and Pure Xbox have reported about more Xbox 1st party games coming to PS5 like Forza Horizon 5 but they seem more like Switch 2 than Switch 1 potential candidates so I figure on the Nintendo side it'll be more Rare games for NSO.
I would like to point out that we are close to having double the N64 games on NSO that Virtual Console ever had on Wii.
This alone makes NSO feel like a success to me. It's still missing a few of the ones I want most (Mischief Makers, Rayman 2, Diddy Kong Racing, various Konami games), but its much better for N64 games than any system since N64.
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