Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@NEStalgia I'm glad it's not retail as it would give them the excuse to charge 30$ or 40$. I think 20$ may seem cheap but I'm ok with that. 😉

@Spoony_Tech Haha, true. Then again, Playgrounds looks like interesting, creative, unique attempts at making a video game about basketball and is worth $20. 2K18 looks like a rehashed attempted at making your own instant replay of TV basketball and it's worth $60. Sometimes I wonder who determines the pricing categories at these companies

@NEStalgia budget obviously. To get all those players names and the NBA license cost lots of money. Legends don't cost as much to use as the current players.

@Spoony_Tech Both are NBA licensed, but yeah, the players cost a good bit of money I imagine. It kind of makes you pine for the days of totally unlicensed generic sports games. I've never been a sports game fan, but there were a few back in the day that were fun games in spite of being sports games, and weren't so fussed over licensing!

It's also good that the NBA doesn't allow exclusive licenses, like the NFL does, otherwise, this game might not exist.

NBA 2K18 Legendary Gold Edition for Switch means the game will likely have parity with current gen, visual fidelity aside.

I'm in. It's been a long time since I played a real sports game. It's time to give NBA 2K18 and FIFA 18 a fair shake- I'm impressed with how good these games look nowadays. Last time I played sports game was NHL 2002 on PS2... it's been quite a while.

I'm not going to praise Nintendo for adding a baseline feature that has been expected in any commerce platform for the last 15-odd years, but they have finally allowed us to add our credit/debit card details on the eShop.

You can now save credit card information on the Switch eShop.

Baby steps indeed.

@Peek-a-boo I wouldn't exactly call that a good thing. All this means is that the Nintendo Network servers will be taken down more often on Switch due to hackers trying to steal card info.

@Grumblevolcano It's a good thing that your credit/debit cards are stored locally onto your system then, and not in a database of sorts over their network.

The only way someone could steal your information is if somebody nicked your Switch (ho ho!) and the password is somehow figured out. Even then, if they attempt to enter the password and get it wrong three times, the credit/debit card number is automatically deleted from said device.

I'm just pleased to see that Nintendo has decided to join us into the 21st century for a change.

@Peek-a-boo we could save our cards on the Wii U, so it was only a matter of time before they added it to the Switch

@Peek-a-boo they're doing a lot of different and straight things with the Switch

@Peek-a-boo There may be things they are behind on but that's discrediting that they are ahead on mobile tech partnered with Nvidia, the latest wifi connections, Vulkan APIs, and even something as basic as charging.

I was just about to say this but I always opted to say no. I don't need my information stored then Nintendo gets hacked.

@Spoony_Tech

Everybody is so quick to defend Nintendo on this particular subject!

Hyper Sentinel Nintendo Switch trailer

It'll arrive later in the Summer.

@Peek-a-boo I don't like the situation for any of the 3 to be honest. Thankfully prepaid eshop/Xbox/PSN cards exist so you can just buy them at retailers, redeem them and that's it.

@Grumblevolcano Fair enough. I too choose to buy monetisation vouchers to redeem instead.

I was just originally pointing out that you won't be 'hacked' because your details are stored locally, not over the internet like both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network does. If anything, Nintendo has made a good decision to store your debit/credit card information onto your own Switch!

Is downloading from the eShop always this painfully slow?

@Murph Yes.

Fortunately things have improved since March at least, from what I can see. There was a time where I couldn't connect whatsoever or it would keep cutting off. Now I'm at least able to still download updates.

@Murph not for me. I downloaded the NBA Playgrounds 7,4gb in a little more than 1hr