Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@gcunit In all honestly he's just doing NLs job.Posting numbers,charts and news on upcoming switch games.

@MsJubilee And that's where the duplication comes in. Take it to a news thread.

I would like a News thread. Maybe NL can take cues.

Holy hell. Nintendo has announced they are killing Miitomo.

This thread is probably the most relevant place to post new game trailers and other breaking news.

Miitomo is shutting down on May 9th.

Looks like @Grumblevolcano got there first.

Yep. May 9th and currency is no longer purchasable.

I had to Google Miitomo to remind myself what it was again. To be fair, does anyone care? I guess it got you free My Nintendo points, but even those are rather pointless. No big loss I think.

Zero Gunner 2 is now available on the UK and EU Eshop's,just bought it Another game called Earth Wars has also appeared out of nowhere. I looked to see if I could find a review for it but then noticed it was once called Earth's Dawn. It's by a Japanese indie and released as a retail title on PS4 and Xbox One in 2016. It looks pretty good and incredibly it only costs £4. I just snagged it off the South African Eshop for £3.54.Not bad at all! I'm not sure if that's an error or not. I read someone on Twitter saying they got The Escapists 2 for 67 pence or something like that. It was available at that price for a couple of minutes before it was corrected. After my experience today with the game though that's still 67 pence too much.

Here's a trailer for Earth Wars. It's a 2D beat-em-up/shoot-em-up/action RPG that's heavily influenced by Odin Sphere and it's only £4. At least for now. Looks like money well spent to me.

@OorWullie yo that game looks tight! Did you play it yet?

@Inertiacreep Not yet, probably won't until tomorrow as I'm going to play some Zero Gunner 2 then go to bed. It got some good reviews on PS4 but also some average ones, bringing it's Metacritic score down to 68%.That's still not bad and it was a retail title on there too so it'll have cost considerably more than £4.Most of the negatives I see about it are that it can get repetitive later on but then also say if you like old school beat em ups then you won't mind that. It's supposed to have a quite a bit of RPG depth to it too. The only thing that could make this a bad purchase at that price is if it's a dodgy port but I don't recall that happening with any indie releases so far.

I posted here about it because I think the shutdown date may give us an idea of when we'll see the paid online subscription. Nintendo will likely introduce Switch rewards for My Nintendo when the paid online service goes live so by getting rid of easy coins before it goes live you'll need to do meaningful stuff to get the good rewards. They could also take it a step further and start the paid online subscription soon after the last of the easy coins expire.

I don't remember the expiry for Platinum coins so I don't know when that lead to but it would be a tactical move on their part if this is the case.

If it is to start in May then all those folk who bought their Switch in March and April along with BOTW and any of the other games that released in this period will see all of their gold coins expire before they can use them. You couldn't make it up. Certain individuals are getting paid for coming up with this nonsense.

What about all those that are new to the world of Nintendo, those that were encouraged by Nintendo to make a MyNintendo account and had to spend a few minutes of their time navigating the fancy looking website.and were fooled into thinking it was a good thing. Those folk will watch those gold coins disappear and feel like they've been scammed. In fact, day one buyers should be receiving their email any day now to inform of this impending expiry date. But they could use their gold coins on rewards for a console they don't own I hear you say,they've got a good deal on at the moment for Mario Kart 8 DLC. They could use all the gold coins they earned from their digital copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and get pack 1 of MK8 DLC for free. Can't argue with that. Great job Nintendo!

@Grumblevolcano As always, I think you're reading way too much into it

Miitomo gets shut down because nobody used it.

I don't see why @SLIGEACH_EIRE can't post news in this section. It isn't like he is the only one doing it, even though he is by far the most prolific. IMHO the news are more relevant to the switch than discussions about Miitomo or Monster hunter worlds. News can provide topics to talk about, nothing wrong with that.

As I don't visit many sites, @SLIGEACH_EIRE's posts are often the first and last time I might see some of the news he reports/repeats/reposts. As @Therad just stated, this is a Nintendo Switch thread and his information is more relevant than a tedious discussion about something like MiiTomo which isn't evn on the Switch.

Uhm... forgive me, but what the heck is miitomo?

It was the first mobile "game" nintendo made. Tried to be part game, part social app.

People just want to take it out on him because there aren't any good games coming out when he posts all the new trailers.

@JaxonH Sadly, outside of maybe Owlboy, it's looking like there is nothing of interest on Switch in its first two months of 2018 for me.