Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH Here VAT is universal. Its Value Added Tax. 20% of the value of the item.

@BLP_Software
Right. I'm aware of VAT being 20%. It's outrageous if you ask me.

@JaxonH Nintendo Switch costs $366 for us. And its cheaper even in Canada, because £280 in Canadian dollars is $467.

Importing a Switch to the UK is legit cheaper for us

@DarthNocturnal But i still can't see why they put it on Xbox. Knowing damn well games flop on that platform. Hell even exclusives flop,well exclusives that aren't Halo and Gears.

@MsJubilee Probably minimal effort required for porting.

@MegaTen Mario Odyssey, for as polished and incredible as it looks and possibly also plays (I've seen streams) is not my type of genre and I doubt I'd enjoy it as much. I'm hard pressed to give an actual favourite, between Zelda, FE:W and Mario + Rabbids. Maybe Xenoblade 2 will change things, maybe not, we'll see.

Too early to say because Xenoblade Chronicles 2 isn't out yet :^]

I adored BotW and Odyssey is also awesome though. At first I thought that Odyssey would be my GotY right from the January Switch presentation. But man, this year is full of surprises. Not only did Metroid get revived from the grave hard, but BotW was super incredibly fun (even as not that big of a Zelda fan) and I only recently got into both Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and X this year that got me SO INCREDIBLY hyped for XC2.

And if XC2 is as good as both XC1 and XCX, that will be yet another GotY candidate. Sure, platformers are my favorite genre, but I also love RPGs, and I can't wait for XC2 to blow my mind away.

Splatoon 2 is also excellent, but I've also played the heck out of the first game so going into 2 isn't that big of a leap.

Haven't tried ARMS yet but it seems like a cool game. Hope it develops more into a more fleshed-out IP.

Fire Emblem Warriors and Splatoon 2 for sure.

I don't know, I don't watch games stuff on YouTube very much. I've done more recently as it's something I can do while feeding a 2-month-old but that's the first video of his that I've seen. I thought it was right on the money though.

The first 20 hours of Breath of the Wild were probably my favorite, before the game started getting kind of stale. As a whole, I'd say Odyssey.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE

Seriously fella, stop moaning about ports. Even ignoring that you don't have a Switch, even ignoring your constant moans about no VC (those ports are OK apparently), complaining about ports from systems that you refuse to buy is ludicrous. To you, if you had a Switch, they are new games.

Sonic Forces is now showing up in the coming soon section of the UK eshop with a price of £34.99 and file size of 6.6GB. In comparison, the XB1 file size is 18.53GB so the 30fps may have been a result of keeping the file size below 8GB.

@Grumblevolcano that would have no effect on how fast the hardware would render images per second.

its that low due to lower poly renders and the format the nintendo switch uses.

Lower resolution assets I imagine, since it caps at 720p docked. Missing a lot of lighting effects too that will kick space off the file size. But having lower resolution textures really will make a huge difference

@BLP_Software
Wow. You guys pay 20% tax on basically everything? Geez. I will never complain about sales tax again lol

@electrolite77
constant moans about no VC (those ports are OK apparently)

Lol... killed it.

@rallydefault Some things are zero rate (Which is 0%), and a few are 5% like home energy and car seats for kids, but most goods and services are 20%.

Oh dear... too many games. I just find it mind blowing how many games have come or are coming to the system in the first 9 months after launch. It's night and day from Wii U. Let's take a look at how many retail games Jax will have bought on Switch this year:

Zelda Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey
Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
ARMS
Splatoon 2
Pokken Tournament
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Fire Emblem Warriors
Ultra Street Fighter II
Rayman Legends
LEGO City Undercover
Super Bomberman R
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Soldam: Drop, Connect, Erase
Cave Story +
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth +
Tiny Barbarian DX
Retro City Rampage DX
Sine Mora EX
FIFA 18
NBA 2K18
88 Heroes
Has Been Heroes
Poi: Explorer Edition
Monopoly for Nintendo Switch
Fate Extella: The Umbral Star
Disgaea 5 Complete
Nights of Azure 2
Dragonball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch
One Piece: Unlimited World Red (UK Import)
I Am Setsuna (JP Import)
Monster Hunter XX _(JP Import)
DOOM
WWE 2K18
Snipperclips Plus
Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
L.A. Noire
Resident Evil Revelations Collection
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Axiom Verge
MXGP3
Gear.Club
LUMO
Xonic: Superbeat
This Is The Police
Battle Chasers: Nightwar
Redout
RIME
The End Is Nigh
Ittle Dew 2 +

And that makes no mention of the digital games like Rocket League or Minecraft, Hollow Knight and Shovel Knight, Steamworld Dig 2, etc. Coming off the back of a thin launch is even more impressive. Normally I wouldn't buy so many games, but being a hybrid system (the first ever) games just seem more appealing. I have a massive home console games collection. When it comes to finding a great game to play at home I've got plenty. What I don't have is a large, diverse library for hybrid gaming. And that's why it's so exciting buying all these games in all these different genres- it's building a new type of game library- a type of game library that never existed before.

@electrolite77
constant moans about no VC (those ports are OK apparently)

Lol... dude you killed it.

Boring in the sense that the industry would be boring if that's what everyone did. As it stands there aren't many reasons to own more than one of the PS4/XBOne/PC. They all more or less do the same thing. If that's all that we had on offer from all companies then it would be a very boring marketplace.

With the Switch offering something different? Well now there's another question to ask yourself when you're looking at games. It makes the market a bit more interesting. In the same way that the Wii offered something different from the PS3/360. Or how 90s era consoles had various hardware advantages/disadvantages. Like how the N64 had fast load times, better graphics and four controller ports vs the Playstation which had a CD-ROM which allowed for larger games.

What's the point of competition if everyone does the same thing?

To be fair how bad or not it is depends on where else things are taxed. Also how and where the exceptions are. For example Australia has 10% sales tax across everything sold in Australia... except unprocessed foods, medical services, education, childcare, exports and pre-owned real-estate.

But as an overall proportion of GDP Australia (and the UK) have a lower tax rate than the US. So I'd rather pay the 10% tax on a video game than live in the US where they'd inevitably get in my pocket some other way. Even if, as a West Australian, there are other things about the GST I may whine about....

I mean, to be slightly fair, all 3 consoles were...relatively similar during the PS2/GCN/Xbox era. So I kinda get the complaints since that's an era I really grew up with and loved. But there's two massive differences in that

1. Many AAA companies have given up even attempting to make games beyond the same few genres (and the same few games in those genres), and/or don't make as many games as they used. And they are, for the most part, the only ones that remotely need power beyond what the Switch is capable of.
and 2. Sony and Microsoft have slowly been destroying the advantages of console gaming over PC

Tbh, Switch is like the mid-tier gaming device that's probably been needed for quite some time.