Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

You should, they're great

Does anyone have a way of improving the connectivity of the joy cons? I can't put my switch anywhere except behind my TV, but it makes playing with split joy cons so frustrating! It will just cut out and not do anything or it will just keep repeating the input that it last received.

I found that putting them in the grip fixes the issue from most angles but it's not the best for motion controls. It's not the most comfortable thing in the world either. Any suggestions? Or should I just save my money for a Pro Controller?

@NaviAndMii yes! That was a great mode. The castle one was pretty good too.

If they’re ripping things off from Diddy Kong Racing though let’s be clear in two words: Icicle Pyramid.

@FragRed I don’t know. I think there’s still a lot of scope. Announcing DLC around the release of a game isn’t always popular & the original DLC wasn’t announced until months after launch.

Particularly for a ‘complete’ port it would have been risky to announce DLC early. The discussion around the game would have been clouded over in part about how there’s still a question mark over what the DLC would be and criticism that they should have delayed the game until it was finished and folded it into the retail game.

Careful handling can be the difference between lots of “6/10 rushed and Nintendo is only selling you half a game” reviews and “9/10 definitive version of the best MK”.

Who knows. It’s an evergreen title that’s going to sell millions more copies. I think DLC makes a lot of sense (much more than MK9) but Nintendo is difficult to predict.

@antster1983 You usually hear status reports on games (like, the Hollow Knight devs have confirmed the Switch version for early 2018), which makes the silence from the Pocket Rumble devs so weird. Eh, whatever. If it comes, it comes. If not... oh well.

@gcunit They're too sensitive. Too many times I try to block and end up punching or throwing instead.

Not to mention the fact that I feel uneasy with the way you actually move the character around.

US: Nintendo Switch Was The Fifth Best-Selling Tech Product In 2017

https://mynintendonews.com/2017/12/29/us-nintendo-switch-was-...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/12/29/ip...

USA Today claim that the Switch has sold 15 million units in 2017. I don't know, that seems a bit optimistic.

15 million in less than a year?!

I'm going to remain skeptical until this been corroborated, but if this is true... hot damn!

Well they upped their forecast to 14 million this fiscal, and then there were the coupl e of million they sold before the fiscal (but still classed as this year) so...maybe...?

@YummyHappyPills Oh, does the command just say L & R? My bad! (..I think it works with the trigger buttons as well though)

@StuTwo Haha! Yeah, that stage was awesome too! ..they all were! ..and the fact that you had to find all of those hidden keys just to unlock the stages in the first place! (I remember some of them being crazy hard to find - like the one in a distant water cave! ..had fun hunting them all down though!)

@YummyHappyPills
I think it does say L and R. But ZL/ZR work too and they're what I always use. Bigger and easier to press

@JaxonH You can use ZL and ZR? News to me!

MK8D is back up at no.4 (I think) on the UK eshop, thanks to Christmas, ahead of Nintendo's 'christmas' release, Odyssey.

I really like the character design in Shu ('coming soon') but the characters look like they move a bit funny possibly. I really hope it's good, but I suspect otherwise.

@gcunit

UK eShop Charts (30/12/2017)

1: Rocket League
2: Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition
3: Arcade Archives: Vs. Super Mario Bros. (NEW)
4: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
5: Stardew Valley
6: Super Mario Odyssey
7: Overcooked: Special Edition
8: Enter The Gungeon (NEW)
9: 1-2 Switch
10: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
11: Steamworld Dig 2 *(26% OFF)"
12: Sonic Mania
13: FIFA 18 (33% OFF)
14: Splatoon 2
15: Octodad: Dadliest Catch

@Ralizah Nintendo themselves said 10 million sold through as of December 10th. Yeah I find it hard to believe they sold another 5 million since then. I can see them selling another 2 million for 12 million total, but 5 million? Nah.

Maybe 15 million shipped?

Probably meant by the end of the fiscal year, which ends in March. They are right on track to sell 15, million by the end of the fiscal year.

Little bro just added to that number. He got Splatoon 2 with it, can't wait to tear some Salmon up with him.

@JaxonH The article clearly said for all of 2017. Now maybe they were just rounding up from say 14.6 million or something. I hope it's true but even I have a hard time believing 15 million after Nintendo just said 10 million a few weeks back.

@Spoony_Tech
I didn't read it, but it just makes no sense to claim a number that high, which is why I think they meant fiscal year, even if that's not how it was said.

Only other option is shipped. Probably 11 million sold by end of 2017, with another 3.xx mil shipped out on top of it, rounding up to 15... Idk.

Fiscal year makes more sense to me

15 million for 2017 sounds incredibly optimistic. I think 12-13 million is more likely.

Sales aren't linear. If they're going to hit 15mill this fiscal year they will be very, very close to that by Jan 1. Purely because the vast majority of sales are in Dec/Nov. For example the Wii in 2008 only about 8% of the calendar year sales were in jan-mar while 42% were in oct-dec. December sales alone were ~20% of the years sales, which is typical.