Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Eagle9 From what I remember it's announced on Twitter two to three days in advance, sometime in the afternoon UK time.

But outside of that...yeah cant say much.

There is a thread on Reddit that is predicting the time it will be announced. Apparently, the Directs are announced between 2 to 3 days roughly prior to the Direct at 7 am PST. 5 out of 8 were announced at 7 am PST last year, whether that means anything or not remains to be seen.

Why talk of Nintendo's Switch-led turnaround may be premature
_{Console enjoyed record sales, but still has tepid support from third-party developers}

https://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/why-talk-of-ni...

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Yes.

Let's compare a console for $300 to a peripheral to a console.

One purchase, versus one purchase, and an additional purchase with exclusive games.

Makes sense.

I mean yes, it is too early. At the same time, can't say it will flop because the Kinect did. What kind of comparison is that? That's like saying PSVR will flop because EyeToy flopped. Apples and oranges.

Still, nice to see the goalpost moving will never cease.

That is one of the worst articles I've ever read. Written by the same guy who said after the Switch reveal.

"I spent some time playing the Switch at a press event recently and it did little to inspire me. "

"I’d steer him clear of the Switch, which is looking like it’s going to be as much of a dust collector as every other console Nintendo this millennium."

So basically another clueless analyst, like the ones who called for Nintendo to go mobile and/or 3rd party. Will these guys never learn.

@YummyHappyPills I totally forgot he was still posting on here. There are a few people I have ignored due to the pure negativity they spew.

@FragRed He linked an article. A very....very dumb one.

That only confirms this joke will never get old!

@YummyHappyPills Yeah I have been seeing that from PlayStation, Xbox and PC fanboys across the internet. The one they are using right now is that the Switch has only a tiny install base compared to "console X" as a backup to their arguments.

Knights & Castles has released on the Eshop and unbelievably they're asking for £26.99 for it. It looks like an Angry Birds clone crossed with tower defense. It's also on Android/iOS but it's called Crazy Chicken Strikes Back and costs only £3.59.So of course it should cost £23.40 more on Switch. Greedy buggers.

@FragRed I spent this morning looking up the salt around Bayonetta 3.

Good lord I was not disappointed.

This was my favourite quote for the scenario:

@FragRed It's a good thing new consoles don't always start out with tiny install bases, or that argument would sound kind of stupid.

Anyway, haters gonna hate.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE There's so much wrong with that article, banking on old convoluted tech talking points. It has the central assumption that Kinekt failed because it didn't have AAA third party games, rather than because it was a me-too gimmick to bank on the already fading fad of Wii's gimmick, and didn't just fail but was the cause of an active revolt against the brand when it was a required accessory for X1. Similarly the article seems to consider the Wii a failure due to the lack of third party and faded interest, not considering it wasn't aimed at gamers at all, while Switch is selling to the gamer market, and ignores that if Switch "fails" like Wii, it would be a tremendous over the top success Sony would drool over, and the article even notes that the console might be a huge success despite it. "This product might be a tremendous success, but it also might not be because other products entirely unrelated weren't." Silly article is silly.

@YummyHappyPills It's not even goalpost moving. It's just tech writers trying to find SOMETHING to stir controversy with. I mean even WiiU was never held in such low regard to compare it to Kinect as a sales estimate. "This successful console might be as successful as Nintendo's old successful console we'll consider a failure because it lost momentum after shattering all sales records, and we'll compare it to the camera accessory of the XBox because both didn't have EA games so we'll presume that's why the one failed rather than because it was an expensive unwanted accessory too late on the market that had no worthwhile games from ANY party" isn't goalpost moving. It's just a bad joke. PS4 Camera would be even lower on that list were it not used for PSVR.

Just because @SLIGEACH_EIRE shared a link to an article, doesn't necessarily mean that he agree's with it - don't shoot the messenger! _{(..unless they add an additional comment worth 'shooting' them for! )}

Slig hasn't been a negative nancy for weeks. And he posts pretty much everything Nintendo related.

I've got a new SD card I want to put in my Switch but I'm unsure of something. Some of my games like Splatoon 2 have data on both the system memory and SD card I've been using,3.5gb system memory and 1gb SD. How do I get around that?

Am I right in saying when I archive the software both sets of data will archive and my save data is all in my system memory?

@OorWullie - Simply copy the old stuff onto the new card - either save the old data to a pc and copy to the new SD or use an SD card reader and an adapter directly from a pc. The Switch won't notice the difference.

If you haven't got a pc or a mac, then... um... maybe you can do it from the Switch. Dunno.

@zitpig Cheers. I just edited my comment before I saw your reply. I didn't think it would be as easy as that. Unfortunately I don't have my PC with me at my parents. I just had a look and it seems it's just update data that's separate on the SD card. I was worried about save data but that seems to all be in the system memory. I should be OK archiving them and doing the updates again as I start the software for the first time on the new SD.

This is one of the biggest reasons that I am struggling to suppport the Switch. For us that bought the Wii U and stuck with Nintendo now are being asked to buy the games all over again to play online on the Switch. (Mario Kart, Bayonetta, Splatoon). I realize some changes have been made, but with the shutdown of Miiverse and abandoning of Wii U completely I feel like Nintendo just expects their loyal fans to buy it all up again and I have a feeling that most are.

@JohnBlackstar Nintendo doesn't expect you to buy into it; it hopes you will, but doesn't expect you to. There is far more to Switch than just those few games though. It's not hard to justify it TBH.

The games you mentioned were supported online for over a year and all for free. That's pretty good going tbh, as M$ and PSN charge <>£40 for online play (ok, ok you do get "free" games thrown in too).

The WiiU is dead, as well as all that went along with it. Time moves on. As always.

I'm a Nintendo fan, but I've not rebought any of those games - I felt I got value out of them on the WiiU and have now moved on and don;t regret it for a second.

@JohnBlackstar Sony did this with The Last of Us, if you wanted to play the online mode or just the game again on PS4 you had to buy it at full price and you could potentially argue The Uncharted trilogy. Rockstar did it with GTA V and then stopped supporting previous generation hardware.

In fact a lot of publishers take this approach when new hardware comes out. It's easy to help fill gaps during the early months/years and most importantly, it almost always works. Gamers have shown time and time again they are more than happy to splash the cash when games they loved are ported.