Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

More Shovel Knight amiibo

Yeh, don't hold your breath, not if the previews have been anything to go by.

@Paraka And that's a rather big if imho. But eh, screw Capcom, there will hopefully be other online co-op games with as much longevity as Monster Hunter in the future, that do grace the Switch. That is, as soon as developers realize that it'll probably have the liveliest online community with the least downtime due to portability.

Nintendo Partners with Western Digital® to Create Licensed Nintendo Switch SanDisk® Memory Cards
_{64 GB and 128 GB Versions Will be Available in Stores Starting in October}

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170901005103/en/Ninte...

And as usual, these things end up being more expensive than the non-branded versions.

I just need to know a price. Won't pay more then 50$ for the 128gb.

@Octane We all know people will buy them because they say specifically for the Switch and that's where they get you on price. I see these being 30$ and 70$ respectively

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Hmm Sandisk are one of my two favourite memory card brands (the other being Lexar) but I'll wait and see what they are priced at; plus if they'll still have non Switch branded Sandisk cards.

Not that I need one yet as I've still got 15GB-20GB of the internal memory to spare.

Ive yet to need a card yet. Ill go as long as i can for Switch lifetime before buying memory. I buy physical games. When time comes ill buy a 64GB card at most. Switch games don't require that much memory.

Another game incoming from FDG Entertainment...

@antster1983 http://store.steampowered.com/app/446810/Blossom_Tales_The_Sl...

Makes sense. Looks a LOT like Zelda.

Stardew Valley has now been submitted to Nintendo.

https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/903528540729217024

NINTENDO SWITCH GAMES MAY REQUIRE MEMORY CARDS TO EXPERIENCE ALL CONTENT
_{Portions of games will still be available without a microSD card.}

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2017/09/01/some-nintendo-switch-ga...

I said it before and I'll say it again, it was a stupid decision to limit the internal memory to a miserly paltry 32GB's.....it wasn't enough for Wii U so it was never going to be enough for Switch. They've passed the buck on to the consumer and it's going to cause headaches.

Well, easier to pass the cost onto the consumer than pay more for higher capacity game cards

I'm happy to see that Golf story is coming on September.... I missed that kind of game so much. If VC comes, I would re download Mario Golf Advance Tour in a heartbeat.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Here's the thing.

For it to require a memory card implies the following, as games dont install like on other systems;

1: Either the developer doesnt want to use a costlier, larger 32gb cart

Or 2: The game uses a 32gb card, and in addition to that, the remaining 25gb on the system memory is also not enough in addition to that, as they specifically say an SD card is needed.

Which means these games are over 57GB in size, to mandate a huge cart and the necessity of an SD over internal storage.

And that raises a lot of other questions about these games.

They should put them on a 64GB card. They said cards up to 128GB were possible to play on Switch.

I don't wanna buy half retail games.

Hybrid of homeconsole and handheld is great, but hybrid of physical and digital is crap.

And I wanna see a game that's more than 64GB, heck they haven't reached close to 32GB yet (on Switch).

The game in question is NBA 2K18, which needs internet access and microSD card to download and save additional data, so that it can be the complete game.

A 25GB game that doesn't fit on a 32GB card? How can that be?
Is 2K Sports going the cheapskate? Did they put their Super Kyrie Irving Special Limited $99,99 Edition 25GB Game on a 16GB card??
However, Nintendo said that the games that use this cheapskate tactics will still be playable even in their vanilla version, but they'll be missing content. Content that should be on the physical card.

Kyrie is a huge wimp anyways. Crying for a trade cause he cant play under Lebron. Hes lucky Lebron came back to make Cle great again. 3 Finals appearances and 1 ring not enough. Hell he only played in one of those appearances. Have fun playing mediocrity basketball again Kyrie. /rant

No one should be buying this half assed game on Switch. What a joke.

Can anyone tell from the nba 2k footage if there is cloth physics in the game?

@BLP_Software

3: The 25gb game is using a 32gb cart, but due to the read-only nature of the cartridges, certain content had to be written to SD?

Perhaps the majority of the game is on cart, and it's just the online portion or something that requires a content update first.

I'll be interested to see how this pans out