Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Pokemon Let's Go is gonna be more popular than the vast majority of everyone here's favorite games, and people should learn to deal with that now.

New info dump for The World Ends With You. Can find it on Nintendo Everything if anyone is interested. It's a huge list.

Okami HD with motion and touch, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, The World Ends With You with motion and touch, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Mega Man 11, Team Sonic Racing, Dark Souls Remastered and Dragonball Fighter Z (and SNK Heroines- no I haven't forgotten about you this time). And Pokémon of course.

These are the games that will define my summer/fall of Switch gaming. And it's about to kick off proper the week after this one.

Btw, Banner Saga has reviewed well, and all I keep hearing over and over and over again for reviews of the trilogy is "masterpiece". I think it might be time to make room digitally and say screw the physical version. I might just have to accept that some games will need to be deleted off the 512gb card until technology brings us a 1TB microSD card (of course by that time I'll probably need a 2TB card, but I digress).

Oooooor, I could buy it on PC for my GPD Win 2. Granted I'm not doing much better for space on that either. Yes I have a 512gb SSD + 400gb micro SD + 256gb ultra fit USB, but the USB is full of roms A-Z from SNES to GameCube and Wii, so that's off limits, and just 50gb of space left on the other 912gb. But as more games are announced for switch I've been deleting them off the system (just today I deleted Salt N Sanctuary- only half a gig but that's half a gig some other indie can occupy instead).

Btw, Resident Evil Revelations and Revelations 2 are just $13.99/ea on the eShop. Absolutely fantastic releases on Switch. They look almost just as good as playing the game on an Xbox One, and come with really excellent motion controls and HD rumble and all that jazz. They even have optional motion gesture reloading where you slide the clip in to your right "gun" with your left hand... and it actually works really really well. Of course it's 100% optional so, no harm in trying it out.

Warhammer coming to Switch??!!!

Warhammer 40,000 Deathwatch Switch- Amazon UK

@JaxonH So the Switch version is from Fun House, the steam version was developed and published by Rodeo Games, and its also on mobile.

Good lord knows what version of the game this is, but the PC release is at least UE4, albeit with pretty high recommended specs (3.4GHz CPU, 1GB Video RAM and 4GB RAM) so it wont be an ideal release.

And it's lucky, as the PS4 version released only just before the Switch console did, so it's a late port I'm okay with.

Aren't we finding out how well Nintendo did in Q1 soon?

@Grumblevolcano Tuesday.

Gives us an indication of how much of those 20m they have left to shift and how much is on Pokemon.

Those aren't high specs. That's pretty much "can boot into Windows" specs....

@skywake Those are also the things Switch lacks

I kid of course. Some lower quakity assets and the 3.2gb estinated total RAM for Switch wont be much issue.

CPU might. Speed isnt great but thats what tailoring the experience is for.

Lets hope the devs do that eh?

@Knuckles-Fajita
My point was that recommended specs are pretty meaningless at the best of times. Those specific specs are even more meaningless. I'm not sure you can even buy a ram stick with less than 4gb or a graphics card with less than 1gb. 3.4Ghz? Pretty much every cpu on the market right now is between 3 & 4Ghz with higher spec parts adding more cores. Those recommended specs are pretty much just them listing the specs of the cheapest laptop on the shelf of their local retailer.

@Knuckles-Fajita @Grumblevolcano It's never a good idea to put all your eggs into one basket when trying to reach a 20 million sales mark. I am expecting lower than expected numbers which will lead to another steep drop in share prices.

@FragRed

Possible we will see. The next direct will tell us a lot.

@Qwertyninty I dont think there will be a direct soon but I hope that Nintendo will surprise us with unexpected games (maybe for their online service).

I am very curious about the numbers tomorrow, not only the hardware sales but also software sales worldwide.

Pokemon AND Smash will boost the hardware sales but I really think that the HW numbers are quite good for now (Q1).

I'm leaning towards September or this week. September because 2015 is the only year without a September Direct or this week to try and hide any negative Q1 results.

@Grumblevolcano I'm not sure a Direct would help cover up any poor Q1 results unless there was some major announcements which I highly doubt would happen.

@FragRed To the investors, sure but that's not who I'm thinking about regarding hiding negative Q1 results. Too much negative news about a console is bad for the console's perception from a consumer perspective, Wii U and XB1 are 2 perfect examples of this.

So instead of just seeing Switch not doing well enough and causing Nintendo's stock to fall, the focus turns to stuff like "Will [insert character] be announced for Smash Ultimate?".

Capcom is pleased with Switch sales for Mega Man Legacy Collection and Street Fighters 30th Anniversary Collection,
https://nintendoeverything.com/capcom-pleased-with-the-sales-...

@FragRed
I also think the numbers will be lower than forecasted for the moment.

BUT seriously, Pokemon is gonna sell stupid amounts of software/hardware this holiday season. I think it's gonna be another case where the online world of "enthusiasts" like us are way more jaded on the product than the general public. Just think of how many parents are gonna buy that game (and a Switch if they don't already have one) for their kids this fall/holiday. And all it takes for a portable system like the Switch is for a few kids to bring it to school and show it off to their friends, and the Pokemon fever spreads anew.

@Tsurii im very happy to see that they are bringing this to the west. i expected an announcement, but not this soon!

My weekend in Switch playtime:

• Completed the main story in Captain Toad (with all gems).
• Finished my Normal/Veteran run in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon.
• Played a suprising amount of Dawn of the Breakers (that F2P lite action-RPG that hit the eShop this week).
• Solved two puzzles in Picross S (I thought I had finished this months ago, but it turns out I have nearly 2 pages of puzzles yet to be solved, lol).

@Grumblevolcano Let's face it. Announcing Zelda: Exodus of the Wind and Super Mario: Universe at the Q1 wouldn't really move the numbers, only an announcement for Brain Age: GO! for iOS and Android would actually excite investors.