Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

A really cool looking game called Furi has appeared in the coming soon section. Described as a mash up of punch out,boss rush, hack n' slash and twin stick bullet hell shoot-em-up with some adventuring in between. It was well received on PS4 but it's meant to be tough as nails.

It releases on the 11th of January and will cost £17.99

Disc Jam Confirmed for Nintendo Switch

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disc-jam-confirmed-for-ninte...

Edit: Here's a trailer.

Disc Jam Release Trailer

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Looks great and could potentially be as brilliant as Rocket League but it's criticised for lacking modes and single player content. From what I've read though they've got the game play part nailed so it can be expanded on. The one issue I see with it is, unless it's a huge hit, it won't be easy to find online matches and it won't have cross play as it's not been released on Xbox. Sony need to get their arrogant finger out their butt and join the party. Cross play works amazingly well in Rocket League.

So any guesses as to what day in January we’ll have a direct? Most people probably agree we’re having one in January and past trends point to it (to an extant).

Any thoughts as to what would be shown there? I’m just kind of hoping they show something ‘exciting’. Things have been pretty uninteresting for me with Switch releases.

Check deposited a couple of hours ago and the very first thing I do is take advantage of Best Buy's weekly ad deal of getting Mario + Rabbids for $30 w/ purchase of an additional Switch game. Was pretty much a no brainer for me as far as deals go. Hadn't bought a retail game since SMO so this was a nice last minute Christmas gift to myself (and indirectly my bro whom I am sure is going to be hogging Splatoon 2 from me).

@OorWullie Furi is essentially a boss rush bullet hell action game. It's tough indeed. The adventuring part is a bit misleading, because I assume they're referencing to the 30 second walks in-between the boss fights. It's a lot of dodging until find the right moment to hit the boss. It's pretty good.

@-Green- My prediction is 10th or 17th January with the main focus being 3DS games, Switch games and Switch services releasing before E3.

I bet that they'll take about the Online Subscription beginning next year. The delay better worth it.

@Grumblevolcano @Azooooz I disagree entirely. I don't think Nintendo believes that Directs are the appropriate place to be talking about services anymore. I think the online service will talked about separately.

@Azooooz I hope they delay that online subscription indefinitely. I don't see how it would improve what we already have. It's going to be the same thing, except that it's now free and not a paid service.

@Octane I never tried online play yet, is it really good? I think they'll make more dedicated servers and make more features from the subscription money.

@Azooooz Define good. Not worse than any other online experience. And none of it is running on dedicated servers. It's all P2P, like most of the online games these days. I don't see how dedicated servers could improve the experience for the end user. The biggest bottleneck is your own internet connection. Any complaints towards Nintendo's current online infrastructure has more to do with how backwards some of it is (voice chat for example), and that has more to do with how everything is set up, rather than it being a free service at the moment.

So I don't see how they can drastically improve it, unless they start chucking arbitrary features behind a paywall. And in that case, it's no different from PS+ or Xbox Live, where you aren't paying for the online service, you're paying for the monthly games and discounts.

@Octane I'll be satisfied if we get cloud saves with the $20/year service. Anything else is just a cherry on top.

@Ralizah You know what would be even better? The option of making your own back-up files.

@Octane Nah. Cloud saving is much more convenient for me. And since we can't back up our saves, it absolutely needs to be a thing sooner than later.

I have question, does anyone here ever tried plugging their Switch's Dock to Laptop's monitor? o_o Will it even work?

@darkfenrir I doubt your laptop supports HDMI in.

@Octane Oh T_T oh well. I only saw there's a place to plug in HDMI and got excited. Thank you for the answer nonetheless

@IceClimbers The online service is so connected to the games that I can't see Nintendo not mentioning the online service at all. Even the single player games like Kirby Star Allies could have online multiplayer (co-op would work best in that case).

@Grumblevolcano They'll just mention that said games have online play. The paid service and the things attached to it (Classic Games Selection, discounts, etc) though? That'll be at another time.