Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Anyone else hoping for a continuation of Night in the Woods?? New characters and setting or continuing on from the first is fine wiyh me I would just love more. This has been of my favourite experiences on Switch so far and my wife was a big fan also.

I beat Guest Star mode with Blade Knight and completed Ultimate Choice on difficulty 4. That's enough for me.

@Grumblevolcano still need to pick this up. Any thoughts on the game??

Remind me, was this revealed to come to the Switch previously?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ESRBRatings/status/101387877523324...

Google Express has a 25% off coupon right now that works with video games, including Octopath Traveler.

It makes the game only $44.99.

@bluemage1989 The game is ok but a bit too short, hidden extras (puzzle pieces and extra stage switches) are easier to find than in previous games and the post-game is less varied than other Kirby games.

If you don't have Tropical Freeze already, I'd definitely recommend Tropical Freeze over Star Allies.

@Knuckles-Fajita "And to not be fair to Sony, that's also THEIR fault."
Yeah, the hubris coming off their runaway success with PS2. Kind of like going from PS4 to PS5....fun times ahead!

I've just seen that L.A Noire performed better on Switch than on Xbox One! XBONE sold 0.17m and Switch sold 0.27m.
That might convince Rockstar to bring some other games to Switch which is great for the console's future!

@Matthew010 ''better'' is relative in this case. I'm certain it kinda flopped on all three consoles.

@Matthew010 Where are you seeing this?

@Knuckles-Fajita Vgchartz, although I've been told this site can be inaccurate.

@Mrtoad It's been available to buy from some less than reliable 3rd party sellers for well over a year now, but I think that's the first official confirmation of Batman: The Enemy Within. Between that and GoG:TT we should have some good Telltale games coming this year.

Ah - didn't know Noire kinda flopped on all the consoles. Is it a PC game moreso? Never played it and not really interested in it lol

@rallydefault More of a last gen game. It came out in 2011 on PS3/X360 so i guess most of the people who played the game back then didn't want to double dip on the current gen consoles since it wasn't even a remaster of any kind. Just a straight up port. The only new audience the re-release had was probably the Nintendo community hence why it sold somewhat better on the Switch, i guess.

L.A. Noire flopped the first time around too, or at least underperformed so drastically it led to Team Bondi's closing. Not really surprising to me sadly.

@Syndrome
Oh, that's right. I forgot it was actually on the last-gen consoles. That makes more sense.

@Syndrome It was a remaster on Xbox and PS4.

@rallydefault It's Rockstar, the remaster isn't even on PC.

@EvilLucario LA Noire's sales isn't the only reason Team Bondi closed, though they did certainly owe large debts especially to current and former employees. There was some dodgy stuff going on at the studio which lead to an investigation and Rockstar from removing themselves from ever working with the company again.

VG Charts is decent for ballpark estimates but nothing more.

For example, Nintendo announced Xenoblade 2 crossed 1.31 million back in late Feb or early March. By now it's probably beyond 1.5 mil. Yet VG Chartz shows it just over a mil. And it shows Skyrim just under a mil, but Skyrim has consistently outperformed Xenoblade in every trackable chart to date (namely Amazon best sellers and eShop). So we know Skyrim has to be around 1.5 mil, at the bare minimum. Probably more given it's outperforming Xenoblade 2 (not by a huge margin but still) by every metric we have available to us.

So yeah, I do like to reference them anytime I'm just trying to get a ballpark figure, but they can be a little hit and miss.

@Octane
Even on Switch it was in remaster territory, even if not in 4K (which was only available on the Pro and X, obviously, normal PS4/X1 got 1080p, same as Switch).

So ya, upgrade to 1080p, motion, touch, HD rumble and some asset changes along with the other versions IIRC (or some other change like lighting, who knows).

Kinda like Dark Souls will be. Upgrade to 1080p, still has some of the changes of the other remastered versions, just not full tilt given the constraint on power.