Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@IceClimbers insane being the operative word...

@JaxonH ... Because Nintendo fans only buy Nintendo games.....

(At least the ones that dwell on the internet... )

@JaxonH
personally, i hate October, November, but most of all December, my oldest daughter, 10/21, my wife 11/21, then Christmas 12/25, then my youngest daughter, 12/27, come January I'm friggin broke, LOL

so i will only be getting one game for myself in the rest of this year, but with so many games coming out in the next 60 days, I'm hard pressed what to pick

@jhewitt3476
My brother is 10/10, mom is 11/19, Christmas 12/25, so not quite is crammed as yours but still, it's a lot at once. I had $400 in eBay Bucks left over from a previous quarter though, so I used that to put towards Christmas gifts to lower the damage this year. That's helped a lot.

@link3710
Today, actually. Pete Hines confirmed "the next Wolfenstein" will be on Nintendo Switch, while explaining Fallout 76 simply couldn't work on the system. Since the next Wolfenstein game to release is going to be Wolfenstein Youngblood... there ya have it.

Exciting, right?!!! DOOM Eternal and Wolfenstein Youngblood, on Nintendo Switch. And both of these will have the benefit of being developed ground up with Switch in mind, in collaboration with Panic Button. Which, Panic Button even said they were working hand-in-hand with the development team to ensure better compatibility and decision making so the game will look better and run smoother, as opposed to porting it after the fact with a game that was developed without Switch in mind.

Youngblood in particular will be great for Switch via the co-op, if they make it local wireless. I'm not looking for a split screen co-op because I know that would be too demanding. But local wireless for two separate systems would be perfect and would ensure the game is playable long after the servers shut down.

https://gematsu.com/2018/10/sega-ages-phantasy-star-launches-...

Phantasy Star on Tuesday. I'm game.

Will it come out in other regions?

@NEStalgia Well considering the discussion somehow went to some weird image cropping on the mural on the website near Little Mac (lol) that was discovered after the September Direct that just happens to be right about where one of the leaked characters is at, then yeah insane is definitely appropriate. Apparently it was just some glitch in the website and therefore just an insane coincidence though.

@Yosheel It doesn't mention regions. I'm guessing it's a worldwide release.

@Ralizah well the tweet it's using as source is in Japanese and Sega of Japan is the only one talking about it.... So...

@NEStalgia pre steam (I don’t like steam or the other storefronts actually gog is wonderful ) started in 03 (gaming seriously that is) with age of mythology. I adore RTS games and since they are mostly PC affairs that’s how I got hooked. Granted I always grabbed drm circumventing software or cracks even with software I own. DRM is beyond anti consumer and anti privacy. Especially since I didn’t get high speed internet until college so anything to circumvent internet checks was welcome. Beyond that up until 05 I used big box or hand me down PCs then I built from “newegg parts” lol. Never had any major issues. All my ac games worked but unity. Granted I never went back after all the patches. Last AC side comment: ubi is all over the place with the character development and pacing. I felt more for the plot device kid than deimos. I don’t think my Kassandra is going to have a good life. Half the options I’m like “why would she say that? Nobody would say that. “ Also Daphnae, you have no right to break my heart like that. Even with recycled dialogue (this is why I hate voice acting still).

As for the FF games I will take digital over not at all. Half of the old games are digital only on other storefront. Nintendo was the last hold out for the game being on the media with no install. That time has passed. Best to get a big sd card on sale and play some games.

@NEStalgia
Ahh yes, SATA drivers. I remember now.

@JaxonH @link3710 I like how NLife did report on Fallout 76 not coming to Switch, but completely missed the announcement that Young Blood is confirmed for Switch

That's because we don't know if it IS Youngblood or not. He said "the next Wolfenstein" and Youngblood isn't the next full title, instead being another side story.

So until we get the specific name, it's not confirmed. All we know is A Wolfenstein is coming.

@Knuckles-Fajita The ''next Wolfenstein''; Youngblood is the next Wolfenstein, regardless of whether it is a numbered title or not. Even if you want to be pedantic; it's a lot more reasonable to assume that next year's title is making its way to the Switch, considering that it's probably built in the same engine; rather than a possible 2020/21 title that may very well be on next gen systems at that point.

@Octane On the note of "the same engine", DOOM and Wolf2 are idTech 6, whereas Eternal is already on the new idTech 7. Plus Wolf2 was allaged closer to 7 than 6, so a different engine quite clearly isnt an issue.

Timescale, maybe. But the engine? Given Eternal is coming, nah.

@Ryu_Niiyama 03? Kids, these days.... That's why my "newer builds" (that went wrong) started Actually that was probably the worst one. Opteron rig. Early adopter. Dual boot windows/linux. The amount of custom kernel compiles required, endless reboots to get the custom kernel modules running right, to get the nforce (or sandforce?) chipset running, the SATA running on both OSes took about 2 months spending all night on it. It overheated like crazy, lost one video card (I remember AoE 3 non-stop freezing, dealing with both video card and MS support, and still the intermittent nature took a month or two to reveal as a GPU, some time after it started randomly freezing outside games, too, with the solution often being "buy $400 video card, then see if it helps..." Actually, no, I have bad memories of that one but it wasn't the worst. The worst was the one after it, which I did largely to get Jade Empire running (wouldn't install on the other one for some hardware related reason, can't remember what.) Another top end system, early Core 2 Quad adopter when the 4 core models first came out. I figured I'd had it with AMD, time to spend more and go Intel. That one, by the end developed the bad mobo, or bad mobo power connector and would randomly completely lose power. (Which of course leads to data corruption issues etc. over time to deal with as well.) Mobo goes, GPU standards changed again, PSU standard changed, best to just scrap the box. Again....

And you people wonder why I like consoles? If it breaks the whole machine is the part, you just swap it.

Also....DRM cracks? Really? Well that's not playing fair

AC Character pacing. Ac may get the character pacing wrong, but at least they know where the frelling map button goes (glares at RDR2)

@skywake I try to forget

@Knuckles-Fajita It still makes a lot more sense to have Doom, Wolf, Doom, Wolf in a close time frame on Switch than Doom, Wolf, Doom, skip wolf, different major multiplat that may be on PS5/X2 by then wolf on Switch.

@Octane That's ludicrous. That was by far the more important part of the interview, I glazed over that article since it looked so unimportant.

Hmm, so when do you guys think we'll get that Smash Direct?

@IceClimbers December 6th.

@IceClimbers I was very confident about sometime before the hardware bundle released (i.e. November 1st at the latest) but given time is running out fast for that to be the case, I'm leaning towards November 13th or November 15th. That'll give Diablo 3 and other 3rd party games some breathing room. Pokemon is Pokemon, whatever gets announced in a Smash Direct won't affect Let's Go.