Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@DarthNocturnal
I have Portal Knights PS4 too.
When i see the Minimum Save Data requirement, it said 3 GB for PS4 version.
So, the Switch version is just only 2.7 GB ?!
Wow !

So, two new games this weekend. Odyssey and Splatoon 2, one for me and one for my daughter. So now we have to take turns with the switch.

My gaming library seems a little bit skewed towards Nintendo though, with only Mario+rabbids being from another developer. But it is expected with a Nintendo console.

Two new games for the end of the year will bring my Switch count up to 11 games in its first year. it's still Nintendo making most up of my library (with three games): Zelda BotW, Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade 2, followed by two games from each Bethesda and THQ Nordic with DOOM and Skyrim, and Sine Mora EX and This Is The Police respectively. The other 4 games are from NIS America (Disgaea 5 Complete), Ubisoft (Mario+Rabbids), Terrible Toybox (Thimbleweed Park), and Take-Two Interactive (L.A. Noire).

In comparison on N64 my first 10 games were 1. Super Mario 64 (Nintendo), 2. Pilotwings 64 (Nintendo), 3. Wave Race 64 (Nintendo), 4. Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo), 5. Mortal Kombat Trilogy (Midway), 6. Killer Instinct Gold (Nintendo), 7. Blast Corps (Nintendo), 8. Lylat Wars (Nintendo), 9. Diddy Kong Racing (Nintendo), 10. Mischief Makers (Nintendo), closely followed by 11. extreme-G (Acclaim), 12. GoldenEye (Nintendo), 13. Doom 64 (Midway), 14. Bomberman 64 (Nintendo), and 15. Tetrisphere (Nintendo) in its first year. Though I borrowed and played lots of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (Acclaim), Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Nintendo), International Superstar Soccer 64 (Konami), San Francisco Rush (Midway), Top Gear Rally (Kemco), and Mace: The Dark Age (Midway) in 1997 as well. I even remember some of the stinkers, even if it's just for some parts of a nice soundtrack: Multi-Racing Championship from Imagineer and Dark Rift from Vic Tokai.

Nintendo's making a big deal about The Game Awards:

Basically 5 people who retweet that tweet get invited to the event.

@Grumblevolcano I assume we'll see the Zelda DLC there (can't imagine it being announced elsewhere at this point), but I wonder if we'll see something else there as well?

After what Nintendo has done advertising wise this year I hope they blow the lid of the place! Zelda dlc and available after the show. What Retro is doing! New 3rd party games we know nothing about! Not they I would care as much but Smash would steal the show.

@Spoony_Tech I'm not sure how much they'll show, especially with a Nintendo Direct almost assuredly coming a few weeks afterwards. The Game Awards aren't a Nintendo-specific event, after all.

@IceClimbers Yes I agree however most of the gaming world would be watching and it would be bigger exposure then just a simple direct where mostly Nintendo fans would watch. I'm pretty sure some awesome Metroid Prime 4 footage could pull in a few PS4/one owners.

It'd be fitting to show BoTW again, lol.

Who's ready for Resident Evil Revelations Collection!

HD Rumble, fantastic motion, the likes of which we haven't seen since RE4 on the Wii...

Gosh dang I wish the games had preload. I have a physical copy in transit, but I'll buy purchasing the first game digitally as well so that I have both games on my Switch. I deem these games classics worthy of joining my all star digital lineup. Thus far the only 3rd party games to gain the honor of a 2nd digital purchase have been Skyrim, DOOM, Ultra Street Fighter II, Monster Hunter XX and Rayman Legends. And soon, Resident Evil Revelations and Resident Evil Revelations 2.

@JaxonH I just wish it was a midnight launch so I could play in the morning. Preload would be nice but for me it's not needed if I'm just going to dl at midnight but that's not happening.

Btw, embargo lifts at 3am est. What an odd time.

To be fair MiiVerse is something else entirely given it was a forum that needed to be moderated. So it's still not a like for like comparison with what Sony and Microsoft are doing. And in any case cloud saves are a way to backup your saves, they are an extra layer of protection ontop of the save physically being on the system itself. So if a cloud save service did disappear all it would mean is that your saves are not backed up i.e. how it currently is

Lets be honest, even when given the option how many people regularly backup their save files? For most people their saves on the Switch are as safe as they have always been. If anything their saves are safer than they were on anything pre-DS/Wii era.

Little question about Switch E-shop account.
Can i use my Wii U ID to link with Switch E-shop account ?

Since it's coming to Switch tomorrow, I thought it's time to finally beat my Wii U version. Weird how easy it was to beat Resident Evil Revelations after being stuck for so long. Pretty anticlimatic final boss fight (should keep the biggest boss always for last). Back to Sykrim and L.A. Noire.

@Anti-Matter You can link both to a Nintendo Account, and then you can choose to move Wii U funds to the Switch.

@Zyrac
Ah, thank you so much.

Yet another roguelike dungeon crawler with pixelart coming to the Switch. Appropriately titled "Crawl" it will come to the Switch on 19th December, just in time for Chrimbo.

http://www.powerhoof.com/crawl/

Dude... Capcom killed it with Resident Evil Revelations Collection. Killed it.

These are two of the best looking games on Switch, on both TV and on handheld. Resident Evil Revelations 2 is a real looker- it's like playing the Xbox One or PS4 version- that's how good it looks. And if you think I'm exaggerating, watch the comparison video. Most people agree the Switch version actually looks BETTER. It's both sharper and brighter.

Both games are full 1080p on the TV and 720p on handheld. No compromises with dynamic resolutions or anything. Full HD, all of the time. And boy does it show. The gyro controls are AMAZING, but Capcom was always good with motion controls. The HD Rumble is also extremely good with multiple settings for intensity. It's incredibly well done. All of it. The games even have touchscreen support and amiibo support! Can scan amiibo in to get green healing herbs and ammo and stuff, for both the campaign or RAID mode. Which btw, is online or local wireless or splitscreen.

And all for $19.99 each? Shoot... they killed it. This is a game to own on Switch here. These games are both classics. And honestly, they pretty much blow 99% of other Switch games out of the water in terms of graphics, resolution, price, quality of game and sheer fun factor, and exclusive features.

Listen to Jax... Buy this game. You won't regret it.

How long did this take everyone to dl? I wasn't home for mine but I started it at 7:08 am and when I checked at 9 am it was done. At first the estimate was about 2.5 hours but slowly dropped from there. Not nearly as long as I thought it was going to be being how big the file is.

Bout an hour and a half I think.

I'm downloading the first game too though cause I want them both digitally. Top tier classics deserve digital for easy access.

Down to 162gb though. Using a 400gb mico SD + 32gb internal. Granted, you don't actually get that much usable space, but altogether probably 400gb usable. So roughly 240gb out of 400gb in just 9 months. Help!!!

That's why I snagged a 2nd 400gb card, which is in transit from Spain. Split digital copies of retail titles onto the backup stored in the Nyko kickstand and leave the main card for cartridge use and digital-only titles (basically as if I never went digital for top retail titles). The plan is, one day, when the generation is over and 1 terabyte cards exist, throw everything onto a single card then. Even so, probably still need to delete some games to make a generation's worth of Switch games fit onto a 1TB card, but that's fine. Just cram the best games I can fit on it and that'll be plenty.