Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

My resolution is take better advantage of free game offers (like on the Epic Games store, etc.). I only have a Mac, and it is not gaming capable really (outside of like Apple Arcade), so I always assumed I wouldn't be able to get any of the free games that are only for Windows. I don't know why I thought that, and I should have known better, because I tried it with the new Yooka-Laylee game yesterday, and I got it even though I am incapable of playing it. In just one day now, I already have 4 free games from the Epic Games store, and 1 from GOG (not including F2P games like Fortnite). I seriously regret missing out on all of the freebies over years past, but I'm going to take advantage now, and if I ever get a gaming PC in the future like I hope to, I'll have a nice library waiting for me.

@HobbitGamer
Yes! It’s happened twice actually! I wasn’t sure if my system was defective but when I rebooted the system and started the game it worked fine. I also reset the Gyro in settings to calibrate it. It’s been working fine ever since.

@JaxonH PHEW! Okay, so it must be a software thing. Kind of like how Everspace makes the Home sidebar slow to appear.
Thanks, I’m relieved now. I’ll fiddle around with the settings and such so more.

I’m the crazy person that finished the Saints Row 3 campaign on the Switch. I played it on PS3 years ago but there was one part I just couldn’t get past so I just stopped playing. Really, I think open world games are best on Switch, but most people would probably be turned off of this game because of the strange popup and other weird visual effects. I only experienced FPS drop once in the whole game, surprisingly. A few things I found strange are that corpses will just disappear if you try to pull them out of a car (can’t remember if this was the same in the PS3 version) , and that sometimes things will pop out such as cars. I haven’t experienced bad pop in though. It looked surprisingly good on the handheld screen. This game makes me think for sure that any GTA/older open world city game will run great on this thing. My next games to get are Skyrim and Super Mario Odyssey.

@SuperSpaghetti You’re not alone. I had a blast jumping into SR3 for the second time. Same with ACIII and Black Flag

It’s a real blast of a game and it comes with all the fun DLC weapons and vehicles, plus DLC Missions. If anyone’s looking for something similar to GTA on the Switch I definitely recommend it.

After seeing the image Nintendo released to celebrate the last decade, I was inspired to make my own, which I will post here.

@Matthew010 Interesting infographic, though I feel like some of the best games of the decade are missing there. Kid Icarus, Bayonetta 2, Dragalia Lost, Wonderful 101, and most notably not a single Fire Emblem, Yoshi or Kirby game. Not to mention picking Paper Jam as the M&L rep is... odd to say the least. It's a cool graphic, but I think not limiting / forcing yourself to 3 games per year could have helped you show a greater variety of titles.

@link3710 It was only a quick one - if I'd put more time into it, I'd like to have showcased more variety which is what you are saying. Maybe I should've used another M&L game - Paper Jam isn't the best.

Online reports are stating that the Switch is knocking on the door to 50m after last week's estimated sales numbers. The Switch has unofficially gone past the lifetime sales figures for the SNES and XBone after only 32 months of being on the market.

@Magician Jeez... that puts the Switch as surpassing the 3DS in 2021 at the current rate, and the Wii and PS1 within it's lifetime. Sales will probably end about matching the PS4... That's about as good as it gets. The only things above it would be the blue ocean DS, the console people bought as a DVD player the PS2, and the combined 13 year run of the Gameboy and GBC.

Ya Switch is a monster. I remember gatorboi in the comments telling me how the system was DOA, then after a fire first year, it was "sure it's doing well now, but once the Nintendo fans dry up around 30 mil, sales will fall off a cliff. Halfway into year 2 Switch blitzed past 30 mil, then ran straight into 40+ soon after starting year 3... guy suddenly disappeared off the face of the planet.

Now we're talking 50 mil, and it's just barely over 2.5 years old. I remember talks in the first year that the system may catch 3DS, but that 100 mil seemed far fetched. Now, I'd be shocked if it doesn't break triple digits.

I'm glad to see it. Hopefully it means a successor hybrid. One generation's worth of power more and Switch would be a juggernaut powerhouse of a handheld. Next gen Switch should match PS4, or close to it. And that's when games will all look and run brilliantly on the go. 720p floor across the board.

My Switch Lite will be coming in 5 days. Bought Resident Evil Revelations, Rayman Legends Definitive Edition and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy Of The Duelist Link Evolution in preparation. This will be my first console since the PS3 Slim so I'm pretty excited.

^welcome and wave your free time goodbye. It is way to easy to sneak in a game or two on the switch.

@JaxonH If they can get a switch to base ps4 quality. I'm jumping ship on sony and ms.

@JaxonH @Ryu_Niiyama It's not a matter of if. Any hybrid produced in 3-4 years should easily be beyond base ps4 quality. Keep in mind, generation leaps are usually 8-10x the power, and a 2x leap would bring it above the PS4.

The main things it would need would be doubling the RAM to match (which 8GB should be more than enough for anything at 1080p, and it'll be hard to find anything worse than GDDR5 by that point) which is easy. The graphics card is... questionable, but the Xavier is already on the Xbox One's power level, so given another 3-4 years, we almost certainly should be well past the PS4 in time for them to cut it down significantly for the successor... no promises though, NVIDIA's schedule is weird. Though given how much business Nintendo's generated their previously flagging mobile GPU division, I'll expect another custom chip designed for this purpose. And finally the CPU... well, quite frankly both the PS4 and Switch CPUs are pretty terrible, shouldn't be hard to surpass it.

@link3710 Provided that Nintendo continues with the hybrid model or even pushes for that much of a graphical improvement by then. Not only that, there is the heat issue to consider (part of why the X1 is underclocked).

I still figure that is part of the reason why Nintendo picked the Tegra X1 to be modified even though Nvidia had announced Xavier and I'm sure that chipset was at least talked about when they went to Nvidia. I know it didn't come out commercially until march last year but I could have seen Nintendo limping the wiiu along a little longer if they thought they could make a Xavier based system at 3 hundo. After all, Nintendo had no reason to think the switch would do as well as it does...in many ways from a game perspective its a more powerful portable wiiu...if the hybrid selling point had failed then the library wouldn't have saved it (wiiu had a great library but the system still tanked because it wasn't popular).

Nonetheless, I tend not to speculate that far out. If Nintendo makes a ps4 graphics hybrid I'll be happy, if not I won't be shocked either way.

@JaxonH
People can't own up to their mistakes usually, even with the anonymity of the internet lol

Smack talk is much the same.

The massive success of the Switch has really highlighted how many people didn't want to buy a Wii U, Lol.

The way Nintendo marketed it, people didn’t understand it was a separate console to the Wii. They probably didn’t want to buy it because of their ignorance more than just not wanting it because the console was bad. Also, their marketing was aimed towards really young kids mostly, that could’ve turned many people off (including kids older than those who were featured in advertisements) as it made the console look like a device for kids. I’m glad the Switch is such a success because ever since I saw it, I wanted to try it out. It’s a device you see and want to try out because it looks cool and sleek. The Wii U game pad was chunky and had many flaws, but I’m glad it exists and flopped so Nintendo could make something much better inspired by the general concept. Probably the reason they ported so many Wii U titles to the Switch, because it was such a failure. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a port, sold more than the original game + Wii U consoles. I wish they would’ve made a new one but I’m glad they ported my favorite Mario Kart game.

Don't forget that 2019 was rather quiet on the PS4 front (probably preparation for PS5) and 2017-2019 was rather quiet on the XB1 front (Xbox is now mostly about Game Pass). Sony and Microsoft could've said nothing and you'd still know for certain that 2020 was next gen just by how quiet 2019 was. Meanwhile on the Switch front that Game Awards ad said it best, "Nintendo Switch has games".