Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Yeah, just sounds like little pictures making up a bigger picture (story). Ho hum. As for touchscreen, doesn't sound too promising does it.

Your point would necessitate this happening on a wide scale. Can you supply the statistics you are using to come to such a conclusion?

@TheShadowFax its a nice option to have I loved the 3DS but other than the 2DS I could never get a comfortable grip admittedly I play mostly docked but for those times I can't tabletop is a great compromise.

I was initially worried the small joycons wouldn't be comfortable but have to admit they have really surprised. Great design.

Nintendo just out of nowhere announced Labo Toy-Con 03.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1022647762591141889

It launches the same day as the Torna DLC.

So that's the other things finally revealed from the initial trailer.

September release huh. There's their big September game then.

I notice they like releasing this whenever Sony drops a blockbuster.

At least I have Spyro to play that month.

looks more interesting than the first two were (Game Wise). hoping Mario Kart 8 support this too.

@Knuckles-Fajita Good point. As April only had Labo and Xenoblade 2 expansion pass content on the 1st party front, September could just be Labo, Torna DLC and the paid online service.

@Grumblevolcano So this year is....not hot?

January - Nothing
February - Bayonetta 1 + 2
March - Kirby Star Allies
April - Nintendo Labo
May - Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze & Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition
June - Sushi Striker & Mario Tennis Aces
July - Captain Toad & Octopath Traveler
August - Nothing, though they seem to be publishing Monster Hunter.
September - Nintendo Labo
October - Super Mario Party
November - Pokemon Let's Go Be Divisive
December - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Noooo......
NO WAY !!

No, because that would mean Nintendo would have to supply it. Companies usually don't supply that kind of stats.

But I think we have heard about many that have had it. Personally I think it is good if it creates buzz, so Nintendo can fix it in the future. And not forcing people to pay for repairs if they have one of the really bad ones, such as plastic cracking around screws.

I found one 3-4 mm long hairline crack besides the vent after the nl article. It is placed in such a way that it can only be from expanding really. Holding there wouldn't strain the casing in that way. It is so small I wouldn't have noticed it if I didn't examine the switch.

Have you checked yours? The black plastic can make cracks nearly invisible.

That looked almost fun.
And now we know what the next update for mk8 will be.

@Knuckles-Fajita To be honest, I think that Labo announcement could even mean no Nintendo Direct until September. The big reason I thought there'd be one before would be to announce games to go alongside the Torna DLC and Super Mario Party like Wii U ports but now it seems like Nintendo's just taking advantage of late 3rd party arrivals (like a lot of the Capcom support should've come in 2017).

@Knuckles-Fajita

I can't list half that many games that Sony published this year, and certainly not Microsoft. Even just counting only new releases it's still more.

So ya, if they release this many games every year, I'll be a happy man. I never thought I would see the day we get basically a game a month all year, all of which are both console and first ever HD handheld versions, including Smash AND first ever console Pokemon, and that's considered "not hot". Some years may have more games I'm interested in than others, but with that many good games releasing there's always gonna be at least a couple. I can already count Daemon X Machina, Fire Emblem, Pokémon 2019 and Yoshi for 2019- if they add 4 great Wii U ports on top of it, and one or two other new games like Metroid Prime 4 or Bayonetta 3... it's gonna be 2018 all over again (a very good thing), only with even more games I'm excited for out of the bunch.

If 3DS had a lineup like that at any point during its lifespan people would have been raging about the greatest lineup ever.

Heck I remember just getting DKC Returns, Fire Emblem Awakening and Luigis Mansion the first half of 2013 (2 new games and a port- HALF of what Switch got the first half of this year) and people still talk about how great that release year was to this day. Think it got a Mario & Luigi game in August and Pokémon in November. Which, Switch is getting that much and more for the second half.

Not to mention the mountain of third-party games that have piled up on the system this year (including exclusives like The World Ends With You, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate and Octopath Traveller) and substantial DLC which are basically half-games in and of themselves (Mario Rabbids DK expansion and Xenoblade 2- Torna standalone expansion), and I've got a bigger backlog that's accumulated this year than any year in my entire history of playing video games.

And yet people want to complain about not enough good games... At the end of the day, 2018 will have been a great year for Switch, adding 3X as many purchase worthy games to the catalog as 2017 brought, even if 2017 had a record 1st party release lineup (which should be stressed- record lineup, meaning its folly to expect a repeat of an outlier- release years should be judged against historical average, and 2018 still beat any year Wii U or 3DS ever saw, and that's what I'm judging by, that and the fact I'll have added double digits of Nintendo published games from 2018).

All this to say, even if it wasn't the best year ever strictly regarding first party, it was still, at the very least, pretty good. And the ports all had merit because they were actual handheld versions- akin to 3DS getting DKC Returns or Xenoblade Chronicles, all of which brought tons of hype because, it's a big deal when a console game goes portable. It justifies the ports. At least, for those of us who owned a 3DS and want handheld games. Maybe not for people unenthused with handheld gaming. But if that's the case, there's a much higher probability they never played the ports to begin with since most of Nintendos fanbase is on handhelds. Or was, anyways.

I don't have a problem with the quantity of first-party titles they're releasing this year (it's keeping pace with last year, where we got a decent-to-big release every month). Most of them just don't appeal to me. A lot of them are ports of games I have no desire to revisit on new hardware for full price. A few of them are sports and party games, neither of which I'm willing to buy any time soon (besides Smash, which some people consider a "party game"). And then you have releases that are just flawed in big ways, like Pokemon Let's Go! with its extreme hand-holding and lack of random battles.

It's looking like the best first-party releases of the year will be DLC. Octo Expansion was fantastic, and the Torna expansion looks really meaty as well.

Third parties are picking up the slack for them, though. We're getting more third-party releases this year than I can reasonably keep up with. It's nice to finally see some quality JRPG's come to the system as well!

@TheShadowFax I use tabletop mode with my wireless bluethooth headset, more comfortable than handheld mode lol

@Knuckles-Fajita You're missing the Octo Expansion, Torna DLC and DK expansion for M+R. That's some seriously meaty content, that brings this year from meh to decent.

@JaxonH That's some solid argumentation! I was actually a bit grumpy over this year's line-up but you just made me realise that's because of unrealistic expectations and not because of a bad line-up.

@toiletduck
I think a lot of expectations were. But when you put things into perspective on a broader scale, you realize this year was not half bad, in fact I dare say it's pretty good.

I think Ralizah said it best- it's more the fact that a percentage of the games simply do not appeal to him, not that the lineup is actually bad. I skipped out on LABO and I'm still unsure on Super Mario Party- not that the game looks bad because I think it looks amazing and probably the best Mario party I've ever seen, I'm just not sure if I'll play it. Unless it has good single player, then again this would be something good to have for holidays with the family.

Although I'm incredibly excited for Pokémon- having never got into the series before I'm hoping this will be the one that does it for me. Yeah it may tell you to have a certain type of Pokémon before a gym but how many types are there- chances are you're going to have whatever type they want you to have anyways. Plus I have absolutely no idea what the weaknesses are, at all, so that sort of thing is exactly what I need to get into the game.

@JaxonH It's funny, because I think Wii U owners would have killed for a year like this. When a "slow year" for Switch has Mario Party, Pokemon, Smash, etc. then you know Nintendo is doing something right.

The only way I can see this year being disappointing is if you owned all of the ports on Wii U beforehand and refuse to buy any third party releases on Switch that are also coming to PS4/Xbone. A lot of these people aren't even interested in a bunch of the exclusives lined up for the system. It's hard to take people like this seriously when they complain. If you're going to ignore vast swaths of a system's library, OF COURSE you're going to be disappointed with it. But those limitations are self-imposed.