Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Then they would probably sell less games if people would care that much about trading. I don't see a good business case to limit a game artificially to handheld. Everything except the touchscreen works in TV mode.

@Therad Agreed, but I remember reading somewhere that Game Freak was really attached to the idea of people going out and about to trade, hence why.

The Pokémon main RPGs were never touchscreen-needing games. Since the new Pkmn is a game build from the ground up for Switch it will obviously run in all 3 modes. It is not a tablet, mobile, 3DS, or Wii U port that depends on a touchscreen, you don't need to be concerned.

@SKTTR I hope you're right, I just remember, as I've said to Therad above, that Game Freak was really attached to the idea of people going out and about to enjoy Pokemon, hence handheld preference.

@UmniKnight You can still go out and about and enjoy Pokémon on Switch.

In fact, I'm pretty sure it didn't use a touch screen and used that mantra just fine until Diamond and Pearl. And there would be nothing to gain gameplay wise from using a touchscreen beyond side modes.

So let me ask you this, would they prevent a signal being sent to your TV when playing Pokémon, because of a side mode that needs the touch screen. Or would they just be logical about it, and let you use the controls like in the past for selecting moves and menus and even to this day MOVING AROUND THE WORLD.

You really are horrified of a handheld only future, to the point you're getting so paranoid about a game, that began as a handheld only, with no touchscreen, being suddenly relegated away from a TV screen...just so it can use the touch screen.

Pokemon on Switch will probably work like MK8 Deluxe. If you want to use the touch screen for menus you can while in handheld mode but the game also works perfectly fine via button controls in both handheld and docked modes.

@UmniKnight I think you're giving too little confidence to the dev team at GAME FREAK there, buddy.

@BLP_Software Call me paranoid as you wish, I'll assume the worst, not be caught off guard like Monster Hunter XX did me. And, let me then ask you, why would they be "excited" about how people play the game the most? Why does that matter? Why would Game Freak even care about something so utterly pointless?

@MegaVel91 After MH, I will give nothing confidence. Remember Scalebound? Was to come out on Xbox wasn't it? We know what happened there.

@DarthNocturnal That is true, but if developers can lock in use of either mode, then the fact remains that it can happen. I just don't think Game Freak will manage to get it done properly, considering how attached they are to their out and about game-play (As in, wouldn't surprise me if there are features locked to handheld mode)

@NaviAndMii

You may well be right, mate. Those citing a potentially tricky balancing act are right given previous attempts at expanding an existing system but it's not impossible.

Personally I think as long as it is just to soup up existing games and doesn't get its own library-and happens later in Switch's life-it could happen. It just doesn't seem the most likely route IMO. It does seem with Switch Nintendo are keeping their options open though e.g. there was a patent for a supplemental, cloud-type device want there?

@DarthNocturnal The Severed port on Switch is handheld only, on account that it uses the touchscreen.

@DarthNocturnal Trading, perhaps something involving movement as they have done things with that before. (Having the Switch and walking with it, they've done it with 3DS). Again, I may very well be overthinking this, and reading too much into it, but it also wouldn't surprise me if they did do something like this.

The switch doesn't have support for Street pass and are missing accelerometer and GPS for any sort of movement based trick. They could technically add Street pass, but that would tank the battery life of the switch. Maybe they lock trading to nearby systems, but is that a deal breaker for most players?

There isn't any good reason for any game to be handheld only, unless it is a touch based game of course. So while it is good to take corporations word with a grain of salt, this isn't one of those times.

So guys. Maybe its good we didn't get MegaMan Legacy Collection 2.

Turns out it's version of MM9 is Japanese.

@Therad I suppose you're right, best to see how it all turns out.

So how would one go about evolving an Inkay on a docked Switch? Tilt the controller upside down?

Behold, the Megaman Collection we wanted, bought from the UK PSN Store.

And its Japanese.

@meleebrawler Inkay has one of those dumb evolution methods that will probably wind up getting an alternative at some point, like how they introduced an item to evolve Feebas once contest stats stopped being a thing.

@BLP_Software I'm not having this problem on XB1, all 4 games are in English.

@Grumblevolcano UK store, £11.99 by CE Europe. 7, 8 and 10 are English. But even the trailer on the page shows Dr. R symbols in the level, which is Dr. L in English.