Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Ralizah Its an image that would sober the hardest of alcoholics

@BLP_Software For the love of God, someone please re-take this photo without the joy-cons for a more accurate representation. Amateurs! lol

I'm sorry but you're just not allowed to say that here. The pro controller is a mandatory purchase, remember. And when added to total of all the other mandatory purchases (e.g. 10tb SD card x3, unobtanium-lined carry case), brings the total cost of entry to $4,676,822.69. Remember?

@gcunit Don't forget the screen protector and battery pack!

Although I do think the former is a wise investment but they are like £8.

Haha. Yeah I just use the joycon. I’ve got an extra set just laying there with the straps on.
They look adorable!

@Ralizah It's mainly the disc-drive that makes up the Wii U's size. People see a PS4 or Xbox One and think; big box = more power, but size has nothing to do with it. Open it up and it's mostly empty space inside for air circulation, and a huge disc drive. And a built-in power brick too in the case of the PS4 (not sure of the One X still has one), the Wii U has a separate power brick. The Switch? The limiting factor is the battery. The actual circuit boards are always surprisingly small. It's the stuff you need to support it that takes up the most space.

@Octane The One X has an internalised brick, with no free space on the insides (Hence its surprsingly heavy wait). A quarter of its internal space is a heatsink for gods sake. But like Switch there is no wasted space.

This week's UK sales charts.

Individual Formats

All Formats

Doom made its Switch debut at #23. Sonic Forces made its Switch debut at #15 in the Individual Charts.

Edit: By the way, DOOM sold ~3,500 copies which is about 1% of the total Switch audience in the UK.

I'm sending them in to NL, hopefully, they publish a story about it, they skipped last week.

3500 units. Yup. Laughable.

And the Xbox One X matched launch sales of Switch.

When a £450 refresh system sells as much as your new £280 system...ugh.

@BLP_Software Space is never wasted though. Air circulation is important, and from what I can tell, nearly half the Xbox One X is either empty space, the heat sink or the fan.

@Octane If you watch a teardown youll see its densely packed.

Yes, most of it IS for cooling. But this is a system where power supply cables are taped over the cooling system for space reasons, take that case off and there is veey little space. Where there isnt cooling, there is the board (which everything sits on) or a hard drive/disc reader.

Either way, its better designed than the PE4 Pro. That thing is the only upgrade thats bigger, and is mostly empty space and a bigger heatsink to support that bigger GPU.

Almost like it wasnt designed very well...

Well like FIFA Amazon had sold through all its Doom stock a day after release, I had to get it from Argos. It's doing OK in the download charts too.

I think Skyrim is going to be a big success on Switch. That Link gear will certainly help. Maybe Doom should have had some Goomba demons.

@UmniKnight FIFA 18 on Switch was gone from the UK charts after only a couple of weeks and has never come back nor never will. And as you say, the other versions are still there. There's always an excuse though.

Edit: That 1,2 Switch is in the charts is a mockery. It drifts in and out.

@UmniKnight I think it's to do with 3 things:
1. No crossplay - If all your friends are playing FIFA on a system you'd likely pick it up for the same system so you can play with your friends.
2. Missing features on Switch - Not sure how important The Journey is to FIFA fans but not being able to play online with friends on Switch will be a big problem for many.
3. Media negativity surrounding the port - Even if 1 and 2 didn't exist, some damage will have already been done anyway. I'm talking stuff like the rumour that the Switch version was a standard port of the 360/PS3 version.

There was a lot of pessimism heading into the Switch... I don't blame it, but what alternate version of the Switch would have killed the system for you?

Here's mine: It has Wii U backwards compatability, but you have to carry around a second screen when not at home.

I dont think EA has restocked FIFA 18 Switch at all...

I think every post you make has the word 'objectively' in it

@Grumblevolcano Then there is

4. The majority of UK gamers are sheep.

I had a perfect example of this last week when I was down at my mates watching the footy. Some other guys I kind of know were there and the COD ad came on,they were all talking about it and gave me a funny look when I said I couldn't be any less interested in it,Mario Odyssey is where it's at for me. Silence, just total silence. I said you don't know what your missing then the conversation went back to the football.

Rocket League is now showing up on the UK eshop in the coming soon section for £15.04.

@Grumblevolcano That's promising. Could be cheap enough for me to double-dip then.