Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

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".

Just finished Pikuniku. What a silly, fun little game!

I picked up torchlight 2, river city girls, fe, unravel 2 and the donkey kong expansion for Mario rabbids kingdom battle in the sale. Hmm... What to start next?

@Grumblevolcano a pretty silly thing to say considering both the Xbox and PS4 have games too

“Console has games”

"Planet Earth has games"

@JaxonH Funny you mention that, I was thinking about that the other day when perusing the forums. There was a couple of them with hard set opinions against the Switch and how it would fail and blahblah. What a stance to take based on nothing. Then you've pretty much gotta eat crow and admit you were hard-headed for no reason or change your name/start a new account and start over after actually embracing it (which I've heard at least one of those guys did).

Unravel Two is 75%! One of my favourite indie games.

-Try to get through Trails of Cold Steel I & II before III arrives on Switch in March.
-Continue picking away at the backlog, PS Vita has a significant portion of my attention.
-Try to cut back on buying retail releases on day-one.
-Try to cut back on buying special editions of games with a wide release in multiple regions.
-Begin storyboarding my game in preparation for RPG Maker MV.

Interesting, first Fire Emblem and now Pokemon. Seems that being in "online mode" in open areas has rough performance.

Wow, that final boss in Astral Chain was merely awful. It kept going and going. I was getting annoyed! Platinum loves throwing crap at you.

Samurai Showdown preload is live on the US eShop with a discount. Game releases February 25th.

Hey guys, so how's the rumor mill been lately? Anything interesting?