Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I probably won't be done with Zelda until Splatoon 2 rolls around lol.

Same here LOL. And the day i'll finish Zelda i'll be both happy and sad: happy because i'm sure it will make me fly over mountains, sad because it will finish sometime

I can't believe how great the switch looks in handheld mode, Zelda is seriously awesome to have on the go in HD

@Gswarrior Yeah, playing something like Zelda anywhere with almost no compromises made for the sake of portability is incredible. SO impressive.

@IceClimbers And then the Zelda DLC comes out

Seriously though, if that Hard mode is more like Master Quest than Hero Mode then 2017 may as well be called the Year of Link.

Watching The Nick Kids Choice Awards currently, The Switch is getting plenty of commercial visibility there. The KCA did a small segment of the Switch too.

@Grumblevolcano if they are smart they release one big game a month, MK8d in april, Arms in hopefully early may, and i would love to see Splatoon 2 in may as well god Splatoon 2 is the main reason i wanted a switch i loved the first one so much hell its the reason i still play a WiiU

So in the first days i wrote that i got some problems with joy-cons charging only in docked mode with system turned on and that joy-cons battery was draining even at system turned off. One evening i played Zelda in handheld mode, and then i putted the entire unit (system+joy-cons) in the dock. After that all is working properly. Joy-cons charged to the max during the night and now battery seems to be really durable! After playing Zelda on the TV with joy-cons attached to the base grip (not charging) for maybe 4 days joy-cons battery is still over half. Now that all seems good i'm loving this system even more!

Spawn Wave did a Switch console temperature test and it was interesting. Playing BotW in handheld, the temp wouldn't go over 41C, playing BotW in docked mode it wouldn't go over 46C. He played FAST RMX in docked mode and it stayed at 49C. He had to leave the metal shield off while doing the test so the temps could have been cooler also.

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Playing Zelda at work on a lazy Sunday...

Gotta love it

@JaxonH Are you working on a real life Millennium Falcon?

I noticed that too lol, looks like Jaxon is actually Harrison Ford.

Ha! 😁 Funny you should say that. My co-worker calls that part the Millenial Falcon lol. We have nick names for parts (the Alligator, the Millenial Falcon, the Starfish, etc).

My partner didnt like me buying Switch. Now she cant stop playing Zelda and says I need Skyrim.

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@Almighty-Koz I think Nintendo probably believes they can still get away with a summer game drought and using updates and DLC for that time period instead hence why I was thinking Splatoon 2 in August with nothing for June and July. It would put the focus on ARMS rather than that game being forgotten about. Splatoon in late May 2015 followed by Super Mario Maker in early September 2015 was helpful in making the game such a big hit. Sure Europe and Japan got Yoshi's Woolly World in between those 2 games (Europe late June, Japan mid July) but for America that game came out in October.

@Grumblevolcano
Summer game drought? What about ARMS and Mario Kart Deluxe? (And that's only first-party)

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I really hope Oxygen Not Included heads to the Switch...no idea what to do with this one. I want to play it but not only is it in early alpha but it's currently PC only.

Do you guys know how long it'll take it? I know it'll happen eventually since the Wii U got Don't Starve (the dev's last game), so....

@rallydefault That's spring, a summer game drought would be no new 1st party games in most of June, July and August.

@Grumblevolcano yea im not convinced only cause the global testfire coming up, if memory serves me correct the last one they had for a game the game was about 2 months out. The other thought is i dont think nintendo has enough coming out to keep thier fiscal q1 cushioned, they had a pretty bad q4 which ends on the 31st its the reason i fully believe why we got the switch and zelda now vs waiting for the more traditional launch window, it was to bad thier fiscal quarterly earnings. april 1st starts thier fiscal year, and i fully believe we will see a release in may for splatoon 2 maybe early june which fits thier "summer" window and gives them a major release thats a known ip in that quarter. they may however take a wait and see aproach on how Arms does, if it does will that could push splatoon back a little. just my theory from following gaming for the last 30 years from outside the industry so i could be completely wrong hell this is nintendo who wont release a game normally if its not done.

Why Nintendo Switch games are ending up more expensive
No Rime nor reason?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-10-why-nintendo-swi...