Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Oh wow thanks for quick responses and recommendations guys.

@FragRed yeah I picked up Mario Oddesy and Kart. Kind of regret getting Mario kart though as had it for Wii U although not played in over a year.

Looking to pick up Zelda next and also like the sound of Sega ages and the Capcom beat em ups that’s coming out soon.

Is there actually any reason to put games on your eShop wishlist? I put them on until my list got full, then it got too annoying to go back through it and delete some to add new ones, so a lot of good ones that have come out recently I have not put on my list, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to that I know of anyway. You don't even get a notification when a game on your list goes on sale.

@Xyphon22

Yep, thats what happened to me.
Now I just use the wishlist to keep track of games that are coming soon and DLC for games that I own.

I add games to my wishlist I'm interested in but not sure about, waiting for a sale, or prepurchase that hasn't gone live yet

If I need a list to remember what games to buy, Nintendos marketing department have failed.

I was joking, but sometimes Nintendo should do a better job promoting games.

@Therad But how, realistically?

Take the game Mr. Shifty for example. That released fairly early on in Switch's life and it interested me, but I try to avoid taking punts on digital purchases (where there's no refund option) until the price is low, so I didn't get it.

What should Nintendo be doing to remind me about Mr. Shifty at this stage?

The best solution, it seems to me, is to provide a wishlist facility. Job done.

Well, they could have a "Forgotten Gems Direct".

But overall, it is Nintendos job to make me want to buy their goods.

@FaeKnight Sorry for the slightly late reply, but that's who I'm talking about. Phil Spencer is the vice-president of Microsoft's gaming (Xbox) division. (I think it was him that made the comment about Banjo-Kazooie in Smash.) Of course, his opinion doesn't speak for the whole company, but it means there's at least a small chance.

Thanks for all the responses. I guess I could start using it just for smaller games that I may otherwise be unsure of or possibly forget like @subpopz and @JaxonH seem to say. But for major games like Dust or Limbo/Inside that I know that I want but am waiting for a sale, there doesn't seem to be much reason to include them.

Since it can at times be hard to find games in the store's UI, I use the wish list as a sort of shopping list of games I want but can't afford yet or am considering but not completely sold on.

@JaxonH "I add games to my wishlist I'm interested in but not sure about,"
Logical fallacy detected. Object referenced does not exist.

@Therad Come now, don't you remember all those games they showed at E3? There were at least 20 of them.....they covered them in 10 or 12 seconds, didn't you see?

@Dogorilla I doubt anything at MS is blocking Banjo since K. Rool was already permitted. Either Sakurai doesn't have an interest in those characters, or whatever the terms were to get K. Rool aren't terms they'd abuse too often. It's good marketing for Microsoft though so there's no reason for them to deny them, and the two companies seem to be in a very cooperative phase for as long as Sony is eating both their lunches.

Tales of Vesperia Switch isn't all on the cart.

See the download notice on the Switch game boxart.

I'm kinda liking this trend now, just makes it that much easier to waive a game I'm tempted by when I know the physical edition is compromised.

I'm buying digitally anyways (Although I did get the special edition cause, awesome game, one of the best)

I dont like it, but I got into this hobby to enjoy video games. When I realized I was so far gone I was literally thinking of skipping games based on the storage medium, it was a cold splash of water in the face. Completely lost sight of what matters.

Only time I'll ever let that come between me and a game is when space is a crucial issue.

@NEStalgia, Nintendo wholly owns all DKC characters, so unlike with Banjo, they wouldn't have needed Microsoft's permission to use him.

He's actually been used/referenced a lot over the years (I think in one of the Mario soccer games, as a racer in DK Barrel Blast, a trophy in Brawl, a street name in Odyssey, and I think was even the main villain in a pair of GBA/DS DK spinoffs, one of which I think was called King of Swing), it's just that Retro wanted to put their own mark on DKC as to why they haven't used the Kremlings in the new DKC games.

Man I can't wait for Vesperia. Gonna be playing that with a friend, actually!

@RR529 Hmm, maybe. But then I remembered reading about Kremlings and K. Rool not belonging to Nintendo. Not sure which is true.

I guess we'll know if we see a Microsoft or Rare copyright in the Smash credits...

@JaxonH I mean, I bought my X1X as an all digital machine. Almost 4.5TB of games downloaded. And I still am not comfortable with forced Switch downloads. It's bait and switch. the whole point of a cartridge is to contain the game to freely move between machines and/or not need bandwidth you may not have and/or not have to wait forever to play. On Switch it's exacerbated by the fact that a 400GB SD card costs more than my 6TB HDD for X1, and on top of it all Switch downloads hideously slowly and requently stalls even when wired. I can download 65GB of Desitny 2 Forsaken on X1 or PS4 in about an hour or less at 250Mb/s+. Switch takes longer than that just to grab the L.A. Noire mandatory download.

To make matters worse I can't just say I'll go all digital because then Nintendo won't let me play my games on any hardware I pick up, so instead I need the physical as an unlock key to play digital games. It's not physical games, it's license dongles like AutoCAD used to have. It's a real black eye on the otherwise nice cartridge system. Particularly since most games seem to do this now. Nintendo really had an obligation to sort out their card distribution rather than chasing every penny of the bottom line. Guaranteed, Iwata would not have let the platform develop this way.

TFW your Wi-Fi is garbage so it takes like 6 hours to download 80 GB games off Steam