Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@BruceCM Oh most certainly get it! I bought it day one no regrets. Really enjoying Bloodlines, never played it before so this is really quite the experience.

For Team Racing Sonic, does anyone know if you can join a friend’s online public race? Or can you only join friends in private custom lobbies?

Edit: nevermind, I looked it up, and apparently no it’s not possible to join friends online in public races. Man, that so lame! This is a team-based online multiplayer game, but it’s impossible to join together with your friends in teams online? Yeah that makes a lot of since.

I was going to recommend this game to the only 2 people I know who own a Switch, but since they live 400 miles away, and apparently there’s no way for us to play this game together with anyone other than AI bots - forget it.

Edit 2: I really like this game otherwise; it’s much better then I was expecting. It just sucks that I’m playing online with strangers right now and there’s no way for a friend to jump in and join me. Don’t know how they overlooked this feature

So I decided to get the 2 vouchers for $99. Alrwady preordered super mario maker 2. Holding out to see what else becomes eligible for future releases. The only future release I saw was Dragon quest builders which I'm not interested in.

@NintendoByNature I'm sure the other games coming out later this year will be eligible. I bet you can redeem your remaining voucher for say, Link's Awakening, Animal Crossing, or Pokemon Sword/Shield when they come out.

@SuperWeird Pretty sure Nintendo’s online infrastructure is partially to blame. Other systems have it.

@MarioLover92 I'll probabaly do Pokemon if it's eligible. Luigis mansion 3 links awakening and astral chain will prob all be physical for me

I start to think that Suda51 is a crook.

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@Grumblevolcano Damn, maybe I should have bought it for my One X. Switch version is gimped.

@Grumblevolcano Phew, good thing I got it on Steam

@JaxonH What’s the “Motion Control” option in the AC3 menu for? (Just switched from Desmond to Haytham)

Edit: Nevermind. Gyro for aiming, got it.

@Grumblevolcano The PC port is left out as well. This is just Sega not giving a damn.

@MsJubilee You can join a friend's lobby in the PC/Steam version:

Don't think you can join friends in public races though. But you can invite your friends while you're in the lobby.

Regarding third party exclusives on Switch, unless Nintendo owns the IP, it aint staying that way. Expect Daemon x Machina to jump too.

Heck, Nintendo gets the shaft so much they end up having to publish multiplatform titles just to get them at all. Looking at you Dragon Quest, Skyrim, Dark Souls....

Yeah if its a third party exclusive without nintendo's involvement its not staying exclusive. See Super Bomberman R and Octopath.

I feel that games like Octopath and Sonic Lost World should’ve gone further in eliminating exclusivity. So not just PC but also PS4/XB1.

@MarioLover92 Oh must be just PS4 and XB1 that have it then.

I find it staggering that people cry out to have everything ported to Switch yet when the PS4 has ports from Switch its the end of the world to those same people.

@bluemage1989 word.

Exclusives designed around a particular system's unique features, or that were partially funded with money from one of the big three, shouldn't go multiplat. So: your Zeldas, Marios, Uncharteds, Bayonettas, etc. They help to define the unique identity of a system, and they're important for keeping non-market leaders from sinking into obscurity. This is what Microsoft is missing, I think, and it's the reason they won't regain their footing unless Sony seriously messes up with the PS5.

Third-party exclusives not built around unique hardware features... eh. I still think it's important for systems to maintain some exclusives of this sort as well, but, at the end of the day, I won't cry myself to sleep about people invested in other ecosystems getting to play our timed exclusives. I care more about playing games on my preferred system. The only case where I'd be actively annoyed by this is if a company maintained exclusivity in one direction, but not the other. For example, since mainline Persona is very likely remaining Sony exclusive, I'll be actively irritated if SMT V goes multiplat. They need to either give each system their exclusive game (as I think they will end up doing), or allow both to go multiplat. Anything else feels unfair.

Well, it's not wrong to port a game from Switch to other consoles, as long has it has stayed exclusive for a very long long time. Octopath Traveler and Super Bomberman R are good examples. I actually don't mind at all, as we already have played the game.

I don't get the whole 3rd party exclusives staying exclusive is good mentality. I want stuff like Persona 5, Shenmue, Yakuza etc, why should I complain about Octopath or No More Heroes going multiplat?