Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

They just announced online is coming on September 2018 on twitter. A bit of an underwhelming announcement, with no more details.

@kkslider5552000 Not talking about world design and combat. Those two elements were great. I was talking about sidequests like the fetch quests and kill this quests that plagued every city, especially Alcamoth. Colony 6 reconstruction was also tedious, the affinity charts with NPCs was tedious, etc. Xenoblade X and 2 moved them all to the terminal (X) and the Merc Missions (2) to allow for a better sidequest ratio in both of those games.

Only a few of Xenoblade 1's sidequests were good like Tyrea's quest, but that isn't enough to make up for the other bad sidequests. At least Xenoblade X's underwhelming main story wasn't actively frustrating.

That was unexpected.

What is it with Nintendo and announcements out of the blue on twitter?

Anyway, I'd love a port if X on Switch. It's sidequests were brilliant, and I never got bored of exploring Mira, unlike in BotW that I was sick of just wandering at the endgame.

@Luna_110 This is all info, you can tell from the wording, coming from the investors QA happening...oh I dunno....now?

Looks like Smash will be September then.

@Grumblevolcano Or a new IP perhaps?

Or maybe Pokemon with some new online battling system?

@PokeMario I feel like that would for sure be their big holiday game for October/November if it is indeed launching this year.

@IceClimbers I would think so too, but then again Mario Maker was kind of like the Wii U's big title in 2015 and it came out in September.

@PokeMario Didn't they do that to hit the series' anniversary?

@PokeMario Could work, the 20th anniversary of Pokemon Red and Blue in the US is in September (Mario Maker was only a September release because of the 30th anniversary of SMB). Smash over the summer, Pokemon in September and then Nintendo may shut down the 3DS/Wii U online servers (only the multiplayer servers, eshop stays intact).

In other news, both BotW and ARMS have new updates.

That person is the real MVP

That’s why I said in my post that it’s a reminder, because I know that it has been posted before.

So we might need to wait another 8 months to back up our saves. Brilliant!

The fact that an 11 month old portable console has no way whatsoever to protect save files really is beyond belief.

As for the online date, it looks like that website that reported it was delayed until Autumn after spotting an update on the Nintendo Italia site was correct.

@DarthNocturnal €20 for something that's not worth €20 in any way, shape or form is still overpriced. A reminder that all of Nintendo's games use a P2P network (and you've already paid for that through your network provider). I dunno what the €20 are going to do, but dedicated servers are pointless for their games, and I don't see Nintendo updating their games to support that either.

The only reason people are fine with it, is because it's not €60 like it is on PS4 and Xbox One... That doesn't mean it's a good deal.

http://nintendoeverything.com/ys-viii-for-switch-will-have-fi...

For whoever worries about the localization, seems we'll get fixed up version

It isn't like the others are using their sub money for game servers. So $20 for nothing, is better than $60 for nothing!

@Therad I'd still rather have the option to opt-out of "free" games, but so far the $60 on other systems looks better value if you care about the games. Again - rather not pay and not get the games. Switch is asking $20 for decades old games. PS4/Xbox is asking $60 for current/this gen games.