Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

calling it now, it's a port for Amiibo Festival.

I'm not particularly concerned or hyped. All signs seem to point to a pretty whatever announcement

The games journalist Chris Scullion has said this on his Twitter, regarding the upcoming announcement:

'Try to temper your expectations a little: a number of my sources tell me it's aimed at children who are maybe 'casual' gamers (hate that term) and it may involve accessories you have to buy. It sounds like it may be a potential money factory (like Skylanders initially was when people cared), but all I'm saying is cool it: it's not the Animal Crossing or Smash Bros you may be expecting, and there's a chance you might think "is that it?" when it just isn't aimed at you. Of course, the "kids at heart" thing suggests it may hopefully still have some sort of gimmick that makes it appeal to adults too. We'll see: I've told you all I know.'

Cheap Pokemon amiibo-type toys/cards that integrate with a (maybe free) specific software title?

An announcement of something in addition to what we have, whatever it is, won't harm Nintendo. Even if it's Switch Music with fake plastic guitar accessories that do nothing it'll be something to ignore as we play the games they've already announced for 2018. The only way they could lose momentum would be if they announced something wasn't coming to Switch or was delayed. And that's not going to happen with the way they've announced this.

I'm thinking it's probably something like a Nintendogs or Wii Sports sort of deal. Something that nobody in this thread likely cares about much but something that's big enough that they are making a big deal about it. And if it's something like that they're going to gain a LOT of momentum out of it even if we shrug our shoulders and ignore it.

"Get closer to your Nintendogs & cats than ever before with our new range of....FURRY JOY-CON!!!"

Haha! Yeah, I agree - a 'new way of playing' would only add another option to what is already a highly flexible and versatile console...the marketing around the Switch has always been focused around showing off the myriad ways you can enjoy playing games on the console - it'll just be myriad+1 ways of playing instead!

Very curious...my nieces almost broke my Joy-Con in rage when playing Overcooked a few weeks ago - so some highly durable (preferably padded and bouncy) 'Kid Joy-Con' would be most welcome from my end! (..heart in mouth stuff watching them kids playing with my precious console! )

I know they want to expand the audience, but the idea that the Switch was only bought by Nintendo fans so far seems way off-base.

Dandara finally gets a release date - 6th February in PAL regions. Given Raw Fury tend to release games simultaneously worldwide, Expect this out in NA & Japan on (or around) that date as well!

Where on earth are you getting this idea of a second mini Direct and a full Direct?

@Harmonie The February direct is from rumours I read on other fora and doing the math (max 20 days after a mini direct is a full direct presented). The second mini direct is just a wild guess because I think that Nintendo will announce something every week till the first of February. Don't pin me on that, it is just wishful thinking!

@Harmonie Yeah, I don't know about the 'second Mini Direct' idea - sounds fanciful - but NL's Alex made a rather convincing case that a 'full' Direct could be just around the corner the other day...

...enough to make my hype glands tingle anyway!

This "new play" thing - any chance it's going to be that Ubisoft Starlink thingy? It's basically another toys-based video game, which is a genre I will never get on board with but I appreciate there is a huge market for.

@Krull Great shout! Yeah, you could be on to something there...ticks every box!

Why Nintendo be announcing a new way to play...thats multiplatform and already announced

Hm... I'd say something new involving Amiibo to revitalize them, or maybe... I dunno how they'd even use the IR sensors tbh. Maybe they're bringing back R.O.B?

Continuing yesterday's discussion of download speeds......I played with it yesterday, and tried DLing a demo of some random indie game around 600MB. On wifi it was going at a good clip, 1% a second or so. As soon as I docked it it crawled and took a good 15+ minutes to DL the rest. So it appears like the LAN adapter is either REALLY REALLY slow, or the Switch is intentionally slow when running wired at least for downloads? I wonder if that affects lag in games like Splatoon in any way? I'd be curious if anyone else has done any testing with the eth adapter.

@Krull wow I've totally missed that, but makes a lot of sense. Very cool concept, not a game that would appeal to me though.

Bad day to be asking with all the hype and speculation for the announcement this afternoon but here it goes.

I have Switch. NA region. Have bought games from the Eshop as well as used packaged download codes (for Mario and Rabbids).

Tried to download Resident Evil 2 Revelations last night using download code from the physical box. Got Error Code 2813-6561.

Looked it up on google. Says code mean download code was entered incorrectly (not it, tried many times) or code was intended for a different region.

Code I put in was the NA code on a NA machine.

Kicker is that the EU code provided WILL work and allow me to download it.

I have not yet because I wanted to check to see if it could lead to any complications.

Any ideas or thoughts why the EU code would work but not the NA and whether its ok just to use that one?

@JonSpangler Not sure why it's not working but if the EU code works you can use it with no worries. My main user account is UK one, my Switch is Japanese but I buy almost all my games using my US user account on the US Eshop and play them with my UK account.

@JonSpangler What region is your Nintendo Account? From what you're saying it sounds like it's from a region which uses an EU store which would explain why EU codes work but NA codes don't.