Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Therad I'm just expecting paid online. Everyone else does it. But Sony and Microsoft seem to have a low enough average attach rate to make forcing a game rental service on to folk shrewd business.

Data miners have apparently unearthed some possible details about the next Switch update 6.0. I am interested as to what that classic controller icon means.

This is just common sense really. But I have seen people arguing it will have SNES, 64, gamecube and even Wii games. Or voice chat directly in the switch. And a bunch of other things. Nintendo usually doesn't over achieve, so what you see are what you get.

I'll be slightly amazed if Gamecube titles don't turn up sooner or later. And Wii. If they expect NSO to achieve long term growth, it's got to happen.

@gcunit I highly doubt the growth of their online service would hinge on decades old games.

And that's one of my issues with paid online. It's not even about the online anymore, it's all about the ''free'' games

I meant of those we don't know of.

It is not impossible there will be more than NES games, it would be easy for them to do that. But it isn't a certainty and even if they do Nintendo can sometimes be incredibly dense and/or slow.

@Octane Why did you pay for the service? Why, for the free games, of course!"

@Therad No, seriously, I'm buying for cloud saves which is the same reason I paid for PSN for years before the current year when I started getting the freebies and sales. I'm probably one of the few though

Galaxy brain: finding 7 other friends to share the family plan so you only pay $4.37 per year :^]

I can literally trip over my sidewalk across a year and find enough pennies to pay for that.

Travis Strikes Again confirmed for January 18th

Jesus, there's gonna be soooooo many games to buy in January. I should probably start saving now

I'll pass, as I've never played this series before.

i should start getting the first two before buying this.

Oh geez I am just going to have to start stockpiling eshop credit again.

Between that and Onimusha January 2019 is already better than January 2018 for Switch.

@IceClimbers That's a pretty low bar to set. Didn't January 2018 just have the ever disappointing Lost Sphear, Darkest Dungeon and Celeste? I mean, at least Celeste was amazing, but it came at the end of the month so...

For new releases, sure January 2018 was rather bad but there were some really cool parts to that month on the Switch front like Nintendo's Direct trolling.

Oh man that's true. The hype around that direct mini was beautiful to watch. It wasn't like I was lacking games either, between Doom, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Super Mario Odyssey all to do.

Seriously though I need to ask: who has time to play all these games with school and work? I can barely keep up with my own backlog due to those two lmao.

@link3710 Yeah I was mostly pointing out how bad January 2018 was in terms of releases.

I had plenty to play then too between Odyssey and Doom. Doom going on sale in mid-January also happened so that helped lol