Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@GrailUK Ryu on Switch doesn't count if you exclude VC for Wii U, if I recall correctly Nintendo has said that retro collections can be considered a form of VC.

@Grumblevolcano Fair enough, but the presentation on the retro collection and extras transcend it beyond a rom dump. Man hours are going in to these games that will benefit from Smash exposure. Anyhoo, I am starting to sound like I am arguing the case for some coincidental nonsense I posted lol. I know deep down it means nothing, I think I am contracting Directitus.

Not sure if anyone has reported this, but now buying all the 2018 Switch games has become easier!

@GrailUK I think a DX version would sell pretty well, not MK8 Deluxe well, but still good for a port with old DLC. It would be worthwhile for Nintendo anyway.

I'd be happy if Snake returns to Smash, it makes an excuse for Metal Gear Solid to come to the Switch!

@GrailUK Are you saying that Nintendo now owns all the banks??? If so we are all doomed.

@GrailUK I do think we'll get a Smash 4 port for Switch anyway. Just like Mario Kart, it makes sense to have Smash appear early on in a console's lifespan. Wii U probably would've been more successful if MK8 and Smash 4 were 2013 games.

@FragRed Well, I thought it was worth looking at for those still reluctant to give payroll Nintendo's bank details lol.

If we do get any newcomers in a potential Smash DX, I'd like to see Rex (w/Pyra), Inkling (boy/girl would be alternates like Villager), and Takemaru.

@RR529 You can't forget about ARMS! Spring Man and Ribbon Girl are probably the most likely, the latter being easier to see in a Smash environment with multiple jumps and a fastfall, but what would really tickle me is Dr. Coyle. Her influence practically make her the main character of that game (and something something more villains Ridley).

There are a lot of options for new characters but I'll just list some of my ideas.

ARMS - Spring Man and Ribbon Girl seem most likely, but I think Max Brass with a Hedlok burst mode could work.

Splatoon - Probably a generic Inkling with the option to choose between Boy/Girl and skin tone/ink colour...so it's basically the same as MK8D. Squid Sisters or Off the Hook could perform for the special attack.

Pokémon - If we don't have Gen 8 by then we'll probably see something from Sun and Moon. Decidueye is an obvious option but I think Lillie would be better. She's against fighting but she would probably charge into a fight if she was chasing Nebby

BotW - I think one of the Champions could show up but I'm not sure who, but they're all skilled fighters and they could use a Divine Beast for a Special attack?

I'd love to see some retro characters of course but since Nintendo has created some new and successful IPs they will be a priority.

@GrailUK Oh you mean your local bank has not yet become a Nintendo branch? They move your details over when Nintendo takes over. All we have to do is sit and sign the dotted line on the contract Reggie personally gives us. It's ever so easy. And each month all your money disappears into Nintendo's savings account which they promise is just to look after our cash until a rainy day.

Oh, and I fully expect there to be a Warriors game in the direct (even if just as a quick headline).

Japan already has Dragon Quest Heroes I&II, One Piece Pirate Warriors 3, Warriors Orochi Ultimate, and a Dynasty Warriors & Samurai Warriors. I find it hard to believe not even one of these wouldn't make the jump west, especially as I assume they already have translations on other platforms (?).

Well. This turned into the Smash thread.

I expect this Direct to be significant. Very deliberate wording there.

Not big. Not huge. Just significant.

I can say that with absolute confidence as it's the first Dorect to a year with only a handful of release dates already.

Yeah, I expect the direct to have big news, but I don't expect to see MP4 until E3 for example.

Its going to be big, just not E3 big.

@Dev I was thinking of having the Squid sisters as the Smash Move and then Off the Hook for a Splatfest Plaza stage, but your version makes more sense.

A Inkopolis Plaza/Square would be awesome but I'd really like it if there was a stage that changed every two minutes to reflect the cycle of stages in the game. So you might have two minutes in The Reef but after an announcement it could change to Moray Towers. Something like that maybe?
It would be a good way to change the songs.

A more sensible way would just do the same as the AC stage and just change it when it's loaded, but where's the fun in that!?

But anyway, I see smash as more of an E3 thing. January's Direct should go into detail on Kirby, Yoshi and other games coming soon that we don't know about. More info about the online service, VC and other things like that would be nice. Seems like an appropriate time to share that kind of thing.

Well they need to get on with it already.

January is well underway and we still know next to nothing about this year's lineup.

And honestly, anything less than what was shown in that supposed 5.0 video... will be unacceptable to me as far as paying for online. We had most of that stuff on previous consoles. Apps, folders, custom sorting, themes, browser... all that was on Wii U and 3DS. The only thing new would be system level chat and cloud save backups (but even the cloud save backups are only needed because they took away our ability to back up to SD). So it would essentially just be one new feature above and beyond previous Nintendo consoles and handhelds.

And I say anything less simply isn't worth paying for. If they want my money, they better do at least as much as what we saw in that video, if not more.

I'd pay $20 dollars a year if only for Splatoon 2.

I didn't watch the video for potential spoilers, but what I hear sounds great.

Personally I think MK8D, Splatoon 2 and a future Animal Crossing game would convince me to pay for online, because those are the games that have an almost endless amount of replay value with online play.
I hardly get bored with playing Splatoon online and if I grow tired of it MK8D is even better anyway. There going to (hopefully) be plenty of online games coming in the future which will hopefully be just as good. And I'm mostly a single player kind of person, some people play almost all of their games online. If they throw in some form of Virtual Console then I'm willing to pay for it.

The price doesn't seem TOO bad when compared to the services that Sony and Microsoft are offering. The only thing missing is cloud saves, because I'm a paranoid person that believes that his Switch is going to die randomly, but an SD card option would also work in an update.
A cloud option would be less of a security risk for Nintendo though...

To be fair there are only three things in that video that could realistically be behind a paywall. Lobbies, messaging and cloud saves. And they've already stated at one point that Cloud Saves will be a thing in addition to deals and other content on the eShop. All at less than what the competition is charging.

Honestly? I'm ok paying what they're asking just for cloud saves and a regular flow of content. I'm not happy that we're paying now and I'd like to be able to continue to have online play for free. But it's far from the worst deal in the world even with what we know now.

People talk about PS+ being £50 a year but in the last year they’ve had Deus Ex Human Revolution, Metal Gear V, Batman Telltale, Until Dawn, Darksiders 2 as free games, and they’re just off the top of my head. I doubt Nintendo will be giving away AAA modern games somehow.

Then there are the numerous multiplayer games on PS4 which make it worth while. Switch has bugger all as yet.