Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Peek-a-boo Oh and the eShop does have genre filters and categories.

Go into search > Filtered search. Enjoy.

@RETRO_J You're right and I'm normally not one to complain but if I do it's usually about MyNintendo. The new system is pretty decent though so that will likely be my last grumble about it.

As someone who doesn't live in America anymore but has an American Switch, that's sad.

Yeah the new DC Super Heroes DLC pack for Rocket League, for example, lets me use my gold points (US here). Unlock keys for the loot crates on the other hand don't let you use them.

On a side note, the user page on the eShop displays how many gold points you have, which is nice.

I showed you the custom Switch XL(https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/what_do_yo...) yesterday, now here's a custom pinball controller.

$26 custom pinball controller for Nintendo Switch and Pinball FX3

This really works and you could make a permanent sturdy cabinet. I'm sure someone has already seen the video and is working on it. If the game let you use customisable controls then it would be even better. It's really cool, I wonder will this give Nintendo an idea for Labo.

Really unbelievable that some people find appealing themes more important than properly working JoyCons I bought my Switch to play games, not to browse the OS

It isn't a lot of money either way but to call it "inflation" is a bit of a stretch. A game that cost $50 this year costing $55 three to five years from now? That's the kind of inflation we usually experience. Something that was 40c yesterday being $2 overnight or even within the same decade? That's a different order of magnitude.

@skywake Lets ask Zimbabwe!

"Here in Zimbabwe a loaf of bread costs $2 local. Im going to stand in this queue and buy a loaf of $5 bread."

"Hello sir, your bread will be freshly baked thusly. That'll be $10."

"Excellent. I'm almost at the front of the queue. People seem most displeased with their $20 bread. Ah mine is done"

"Thatll be $40".

Hyperinflation is fun.

That is not what has happened here and you know it.

I will check to see how it works when I come home, but at the moment, it doesn't seem worth the hassle.

@Therad Its an exaggeration but over a period of time the value of money began to fall below the value of the material it was printed on, as it was being printed, leading to million dollar bills becoming worthless before they were even off the presses.

Of course this led to people using smaller denotations of money as fire fuel, and using wheelbarrows full to buy even menial things. Also, didn't know you were from Zimbabwe!

And if you aren't, and are complaining about me comparing reactions to the rewards scheme to hyperinflation, learn my sense of humour

Anyway: Used a discount on The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth +, got more coins. That's a discount for the next game, and then that will get one for the next game...

Just to clear up any misunderstandings here: you seem to be able to use all of your gold coins on any of the games in the NA eshop. I just went through the first ten or so games in my wishlist, and they all allowed me to do this.

Yes, but how much is the discount on the next game? 5c? $1? My guess is you can find most games cheaper online even with the discount.

@YummyHappyPills maybe they should have adopted the Nintendo Gold Points standard?

In a more serious and on topic point - Zimbabwe shows the truth about any currency. That is it’s only worth what someone will accept for it in exchange and that the strength and viability of a currency is dictated by the strength and viability of the state or organisation that is responsible for it. If that state collapses the currency loses all value.

Which is an important consideration for anyone buying any purely digital goods (and also part of the reason why Nintendo wants to get you to use their digital currency - it ties you into their ecosystem and gives you a tiny stake in Nintendo not going belly up).

Eurogamer say Diablo 3 IS coming to Switch.

Sources: Yes, Diablo 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-03-06-sources-yes-diab...

@Therad The Binding Of Isaac: AFterbirth + was £35.99, I got 148 points, so £1.48 off of my next purchase.

Here's the thing, that'll likely go towards the Megaman Legacy Collection. You might think, why? You can just not get it physically. Not here in the EU I cant.

After that, I'll likely spend that discount of MMLC2, and then that one on RE: Revelations. Since that's the ONLY way for me to buy those games for Switch, it's not a bad idea. And that is a surprisingly common problem in this region.

Don't complicate things. It's a 1% rebate on physical copies and 5% on digital in the form of store credit. Are there better discounts? Sure. But everything will give you coins and some content only exists on the eshop. Also unlike previous systems you don't have to go to a specific site to claim the reward so a lot more people are going to use it.

@skywake A lot of content only exists on the eShop.

You know, not only do games cost slightly more here, and our retailers love jacking up prices, or not stocking a lot of them (Bayonetta), we are lucky to get them physically at all.

If I can get a discount on a system that quite frankly merits being digital with a fair few things, on games I can only get digitally, I will absolutely take it.

And on that note screw publishers pulling the "EU isn't as financially viable for this release" crap. You did it on PS4 and Xbox why stop now?

https://nintendosoup.com/project-octopath-traveler-dated-augu...

At amazon germany seems to list Octopath Traveler's date as 17th August, but take it with a grain of salt of course.

If true, it'll be nice, if not true, oh well. Back to waiting for the hopefully Direct soon tm...

Pinball FX3 resolution + framerate patch CANCELLED

Hey guys,

we might have been premature in the excitement surrounding the Switch release. We really think this is one of the best platforms to play the game, and wanted to make it to everyone's liking.

We have sat on this problem contemplating it for a long time, trying to find a good way to up the frames per your request.

We found that there was no 'universal' method to do this and each table would require a lot of separate work. This volumen we simply don't have the bandwith for in the graphics and the QA department right now.

We really do apologize for us being a bit slow to properly address this.

P.S.: Check out Son of Zeus though, we were able to better some of that tables problems in Cam 3-4

They're getting a lot of flack over this. Zen Pinball 2 on Wii U ran at 60FPS.