Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Bendy is coming to the switch here is the web address

@andrew20 I thought we went past Switch systems bending. Shame.

Well find your local Nintendo customer service portal and get a repair booked in.

@YummyHappyPills I meant the game in 2018 also to xbox one and ps4

Project Octopath Traveller demo has been downloaded over one million times. They are overwhelmed with the response to the game, and have made a video addressing the concerns noted in the survey, and showcase the improvements they are making to the game as a result.

It's a great video. They are really fixing this game up.

Don't count on it happening, either way. The data from which that was assumed included all kinds of Nintendo Directs. I remember there being only one occasion of a general Direct Mini like we saw earlier this month going to a general Direct.

I think we got a general Direct Mini because that's all Nintendo has to show for now. I'd love to be wrong, but... Always set expectations low.

@YummyHappyPills @Octane That's not EA, Valve or PUBG!! Wonder how those names came about as the rumoured purchases when a totally different kind of company was in instead acquired? Unless there's another planned buyout and this is part of that bigger picture.

So I got LA Noir for Christmas and needed more room for data.
I went out and bought an SD card recommended by Nintendo.
Inserted it into my Switch and went to format it.
It didn't recognize that an sd card was inserted.
So I power down my console re insert the sd card turn it on, check for updates, nope, my Switch is up to date.
Go to format it again, still no sd card inserted according to my console.
So I try 3 different sd cards, all recommended by Nintendo themselves, still nothing.
I ring up Nintendo (Australia, as they do the repairs themselves here) and they tell me to send it in and they will replace the faulty SD card reader.
Awesome I thought.
Bit of a bummer that I will be without my Switch for a couple of weeks but no biggie I thought, I'll send in my faulty left Joy Con too.
So 2 weeks go past, I get a call from Nintendo Australia telling me they've fixed my joycon, my sd reader and found a couple of hairline cracks on the casing and replaced that too.
Brilliant I say.
Thankyou.
I get it back,check that my SD card is inserted as I had to send that in as well so they could test it, power it up and go to data management.
No SD card inserted it reads.
Wait.
What!.
I check the paperwork which states they replaced my game card reader NOT the SD card reader!.
My Joy Con works, I have a nice new casing but I still have a faulty SD card reader.
I ring Nintendo who try and put the blame on me asking if I had dropped it after I had picked it up.
I said no, I literally picked it up today, tested it and rang you guys back to let you know you still haven't fixed it.
It is now Australia Day long weekend so I thought stuff it, no use sending it in as it won't get posted until Monday anyway.
So I use it over the weekend when it crashes twice within an hour!
It has never crashed once in the 300+ hours of Zelda, 60 hours of Rabbids or 30 hours of Doom not including the hours on Indie titles,and now, after I get it back (still faulty) it now crashes too.
I sent my Switch off to Nintendo today and will be without it for at least another 3 weeks.
This is a brand new product I spent over $600 on (including extras) and yet I'm meant to just cop it on the chin.

I have been an avid Nintendo collector, I own all their consoles, the N64 I have over 190 CIB games for, over 60 Wii U games and heaps of other Nintendo related items and never have I had a problem once.
Not one.
This is the first time I've had to deal with Nintendo and I have to say I am really disheartened and disappointed with how they have handled this.
I won't be buying many games for my Switch as I've owned it since day one yet I have sent it back twice.
It will be interesting to see how they handle it again.

@Harmonie I dunno, I feel that they'd only use the word 'Mini' for a Direct if they have something more substantial to come - like saying 'here's a little something to whet your appetite' ..they could've just padded it out a bit and called if a 'full' Direct - but the use of the word 'Mini' suggests (to me) that the last one was just a small taster before the 'main meal' ..whether or not that 'main meal' comes this week or not is another matter, but I feel that the suggestion is that there is more to come

@NaviAndMii Part of me is wondering if the mini Direct was done to keep people happy while Nintendo and third parties work out the best way to schedule the other first half of 2018 games.

It looks like Sumo Digital is finally making another Sonic kart racing game. I don't know why it took Sega so long to get this into development. I mean, I assume it's going to be Sonic - stands to reason it is. I hope it comes to the Switch if it does exist, that would be pretty awesome.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/01/30/sonic-sega-all-stars-ra...

@FragRed Yeah, I kind of feel the same - I really feel that Nintendo need to clear up the status of the Online Service (going forward) as a major priority...we're 10 months in now and there's still only one game supported by the Switch Online App (and no third-party games at all) - if we're ever going to get games like the long rumoured GTAV port for example (where voice chat/communication is key to the online experience) they really need to lay some solid plans down so companies can start integrating it in to their games. I've just felt for some time that the lack of clarity surrounding the online infrastructure is holding the whole system back (at least in terms of what types of game are currently viable on the platform)

@NaviAndMii Pretty sure GTAV is a single player game.

Voice chat isnt core to the experience. It is to the side GTA Online modes though.

@YummyHappyPills You'd be naive to think that...GTA Online is where the money's at - so I'm pretty sure that the developers/publishers would consider that to be the 'core' mode. They even cancelled the promised single player DLC because Online has proven to be so lucrative...

@FragRed YES BEST NEWS OF THE DAY, HANDS DOWN. Man, Sumo really needs to knock it out of the park this time. Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed was more fun than Mario Kart 8 in my opinion (if much less polished), something I haven't said since... Diddy Kong Racing vs Mario Kart 64.

@link3710 I would love Sumo to make a new Diddy Kong Racing for the Switch. That would be amazing!

@NaviAndMii Well...no.

The core mode would be the stuff that supplies the base. That would be GTAV, going by the definition of core, the central construct on which others are built around.

GTA Online is built on top of GTAV. GTAV therefore is the core of the product.

Yes one is more lucrative, and therefore it is the primary focus but it is not the core.

Thats not naivety. Thats the basis of software development.

Plus, I did notice Rockstar hasnt released a game since 2013. So I am well aware of their financial standing in the online modes.

@YummyHappyPills Silly comment. GTA:Online is the core mode (or at least they'd consider it to be the core mode now) - it's where their entire focus is at this point and it's where they make the majority of their money...if the Switch doesn't have the necessary online architecture, there'd be no incentive for them to bring it over - whether it started development as a 'game as a service' or not is kind of irrelevant if that's what it ended up becoming

@NaviAndMii I interpret it differently. I see calling the Direct a "Mini" as a way of automatically bringing the customer's hype down a peg before watching it. Nintendo had to have been aware of the massive hype that was surrounding a Direct at the time, and perhaps realized that it couldn't be quite matched up to with their current output. Calling the Direct a Mini was an easy way to say "Tone down your expectations".

I could be wrong, as companies are always supposed to hype up their less exciting announcements like they're just as exciting and big as the major announcements. I just think that it was wise to tone down expectations here. It's just unfortunate that the base then turned around and created hype for a regular Direct by twisting around the data of past Directs to make it look like it will happen.

@FragRed Sumo is probably the only company I'd trust right now to resurrect that series, and it would match the rumors... Gah, don't get my hopes up.

@Harmonie If Nintendo were trying to tone down the hype then they did a poor job in communicating that with those teaser tweets the day before rather than just say straight out it's only a 15 minute Mini Direct. And it was pretty lacklustre for a lot of people with the only big announcement being Mario tennis Aces which itself is kinda underwhelming for a new announcement. So that is the reason people started looking at the prospects of a potential future bigger Direct.