Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

For the record I believe I agree with what both @KirbyTheVampire and @StuTwo said and disagree with both of them at the same time. Because the world is a grey and fuzzy place. You can't put things in tidy boxes. Like the Switch, is it a portable or home console? Kinda both but also neither. Boxes are boring, don't put things in boxes.

Unless it's the Wii U.... put your Wii U in a box. Move on.

If you don't want to use splitters and have cables around the room, i would suggest my solution because you can also utilize it on a lot of devices, and not only for listening (i could use them for calling with my smartphone too for example). And i was also able to get all for a very cheap price considering what i was getting. Possibilities with the set i got are great and with this i will be able to voice chat and listening to Splatoon game sounds at the same time from D1! Funny thing is that, if voice chat app will allow it, i will be using it not only for Splatoon 2!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE How much for the box??????

@Ralizah @JaxonH You know, I wrote a bit long reply to you guys, and it was a good one to add to the discussion points that the folks following along may have liked too, after I first promised to keep it short to not derail the thread further. And of course it ended up anything but short. And then I decided the thread got back on track and it wouldn't be fair to the thread to post it here, so I saved it, but ended up not posting it here. Sorry guys! It was an interesting OT conversation though!

I feel that this thread is going to crash and burn if it's not kept on-topic.

In terms of Pokémon on the Switch, I had Menacing Moon and Sinister Sun in my head for some reason. No way the series is going down a dark route that it'll be using those names.
There's numerous possibilities for what the Switch game can be though.

So I just watched a slideshow on Gamexplain for FE Warriors. While the new characters still look painfully generic, the other new characters looks cool.

As for other possible fighters, Hyrule Warriors had 13 playable characters not including DLC, and Nintendo already said that they will have more than that for this game. Because they'll be focusing on SD Awakening and Fates, here's who I think they'll add

Awakening
Chrom, Lucina, and Robin (of corse)
But who else? A villain? Cordelia? Tiki? I could see them doing that.

Fates
Corrin, Ryoma, Xander, (saw their swords in the reveal trailer) probably Camilla (can't have a anime game without fanservice) Azura, or Takumi?

I didn't play Shadow Dragon so feel free to speculate who you want.

As for DLC.

Lyn, hector, and eliwood could get their own pack.

The villains of the game will probably get their own pack.

Alm and celica probably will get their own pack.

I could see a Radiant Dawn pack, if Ike isn't going to be playable in the main game.

Maybe a pack for those incest siblings. (Forget their names)

A alternative outfit costume pack. Allowing you to look like a different character, but be the same fighter.

What do you guys think? Just wanted to know. E3 will be here soon enough.

Not sure why Nintendo insists on doing everything so needlessly complicated. I'm not sure why people let them get away with that silliness. But in the end it's not a big deal for me personally. Not sure if even have people to chat with anyway

@Aaron09 I would think Tharja is a safe bet.

I think the new splatoon headset looks pretty cool. I'll wait until I hear more because I am looking at getting an iphone 7 (dropped my 6S last week.....fell face first on concrete steps and bounced off. sigh)

I don't plan on using a headset anyway, so it's not really a big deal for me, but it is overly cumbersome for those who do want to use one. I think people who plan on using voice chat with a headset with the same people on a regular basis would be better off just using Skype or something.

Why is that Splatoon headset considered complicated? Isn't it just a standard wired headset you can plug your phone in to? Why is the internet throwing it's toys out of the pram? (honest question because I am obviously missing something!)

Everybody already has social media.

Everybody who would do this already has another way of communicating, via said media.

Therefore, one could assume it's simply more convenient to do it through said media, than use the system and its bandwidth and resources to talk to people when youre going to have something you can plug a headset into anyway either on your lap or at your desk a few feet away.

Plus, you'll have more friends on said social media.

People fail to realise that while more options are good, they by living their lives as everyone else already has options presented and they can do what works best for them.

Isn't that just a mysterious conclusion?

...So no one else is having this issue?

@DarthNocturnal Maybe. But if this protects children I'm all for it. If it doesn't then...erm...I'm not.

@MarcelRguez Then they should be expected to hire a company that does know what they're doing to implement the online infrastructure for them.

Discord, Facebook, Hangouts, Twitch, Skype, TeamSpeak, join.me, hell for one on one use bloody FaceTime

@MarcelRguez This goes well beyond voice chat.

@DarthNocturnal Then let's hope that the rest of the features are up to snuff because so far it doesn't look like it did any good.

100% agreed. They have no excuses.

@MarcelRguez I'm talking about their entire online infrastructure. So far there isn't much reason to have confidence in it - friend codes, convoluted voice chat implementation, lack of dedicated servers for games like MK8D and Splatoon 2, etc.

The only major positive so far is that their account system situation is finally sorted out.