Something weird happened to me today, too. I was finishing up a Zelda session, but when I pressed the "off" button that puts it into Sleep Mode, nothing happened. Then I tried pressing the Home button, and nothing happened. So I held the Off button down to try to get the menu to come up to manually put it into Sleep Mode, but even though the menu did come up, it was still acting like I was playing Zelda normally, so I was moving Link around and having no impact on the menu whatsoever, and thus I couldn't get rid of the menu. So I held the Off button for like 8 seconds, and the system fully shut down. It worked fine after that, so I hope it was just a weird one time thing. It was in the dock and everything though, at 100% charge, and the Pro controller was also charged, so I really don't know what was going on.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE That's a pretty awful news article. It cites no sources, has no comment from Nintendo, and queries only vaguely "cartridges cost more" without citing any figures or references, and doesn't cite how they arrived at that conclusion where many have noted carts are actually cheaper as BD pressing is actually fairly expensive.
Do you have any sources for your claim that pressing blurays are expensive? BD prices should be fairly low since it is an old technique by now.
@BiasedSonyFan
I own 1-2 Switch. It's pretty fun! Obviously not something you're going to sit down and play like a Zelda or something (lol - I mean, it's a totally different game, people), but it's great to play with some of my friends who really aren't gamers. It's cool because it's just person-to-person; for most of the games, the screen is just an afterthought.
@rallydefault
From the start I just assumed that 1-2 Switch was more along the lines of a card/board game than a video game. If that makes sense. The only issue with that thinking is that even for that kind of game it's a bit expensive. Is it better value than something like Cards Against Humanity or Exploding Kittens? At double the price probably not but at the same price? Maybe.
If and when I can get it for around half the price it is now? Then sure. I'll probably just grab a copy just to see what it's like. Until then it's way too expensive to justify. Especially when Snipperclips is a thing.....
@Grumblevolcano And at the same price, apparently.
But hey, I guess at this point in time the cartridges are more expensive to produce than the discs and therefore Sega should've jacked up the price...
@Grumblevolcano Barring the perceived price value of Bomberman (which I personally feel is just gamers trying to get something for nothing) I think RIME will be one of the only devs to apply a Switch Tax. I think they aren't going to like the change to their bottom line over it. I know they lost a sale from me.
Does anyone feel the pro controller dpad is less accurate than the joycons? It keeps going to the wrong menus for me when playing Zelda. I may go back to joycons.
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@Ryu_Niiyama This Switch Tax the Rime devs are applying,I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up coming back to bite them.The $10 extra which in no way is how much a cart costs over a disc will likely cost them lots of sales.Whether that loss of sales amounts to more than the loss they would make producing the cards and selling it the same price as other consoles,who knows but it's very possible it will.They could have just priced it $2 more across all consoles and recouped the money that way.Then they wouldn't have annoyed Nintendo fans refusing to buy it out of principle.It just seems like Nintendo fans are again getting the short end of the stick.
The fact 3rd party games are known to sell worse on Nintendo consoles,you'd think the devs who do go to the bother of making games for them would give their game a fighting chance of success instead of sabotaging its chances right from the start.I bet a few months after it releases there'll be an article on here with the devs complaining about how the Switch version is the lowest selling.
@OorWullie I'm sure they are assuming new system hype and "Nintendoomed" will make people desperate enough to over pay. If every dev (indie and big corp) put in dev costs on the price of their games prices would be back to the SNES era: all over the place, but never low (Chrono Trigger or Earthbound anyone?). Which nobody wants. I really do think this will be a one off. Most other devs have said the switch is easy to dev for and that Nintendo has been courting third parties somewhat so I'm still very positive about the whole thing.
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What is the point of the 2 vents on the bottom, back of the system? I have watched multiple tear down videos and when they take off the Switch's back plate there is a metal plate inside it. There is a hole in that metal plate for the fan but there are not holes that align with the bottom vents. There are heat pads on the underside of the metal plate that align with the vents but that's it, no actual vents in the metal.
The Switch's power is somewhere between the Wii U and Xbox One... I'm floored. And all this time, the internet would have me believe I'm really just waggling joysticks attached to a cardboard box.
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