Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano

My top five "lookin' forward to the mostest of 2021"?

Those with confirmed 2021 release windows...

Shin Megami Tensei V (I've always enjoyed the mainline games more than the Persona games.)
Monster Hunter Rise (Poised to outsell Portable 3rd, becoming the best-selling entry in the portable series of MH.)
Disco Elysium (I'm very...very tempted to drop $250 on the iam8bit CE; so far I've held off.)
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis (I'm buying an XSX for this game alone, everything else is gravy.)
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (Amazing yet still underappreciated series of action rpg games.)

So, far there are only 3 games I'm interested in, that are confirmed for this year (2 of them are confirmed for this year, not sure about the third one).

• Balan Wonderworld
• LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga
• Genshin Impact (Switch)

@MsJubilee
I mean, I feel like I'm one of the only people on here that's excited for Balan Wonderworld, so I definitely get where you're coming from. 🤔

@kkslider5552000
I guess you're not the only one that's interested in less than 5 games for 2021, so we both have something in common. 🤔
EDIT: Sounds like you're going through your backlog this year as well, which is always a good thing to do.

Never had cause to look specifically, @WoomyNNYes.... But that's about what phone chargers cost from the top names if you need a replacement & want the official one

@SM3DASislit I'm excited for Balan Wonderworld as well. It looks really good! Plus it's made by the same people that made Sonic. I'd love to know more about it though.

Persona 5 Strikers looking real good on Switch. I love this little skit. They buy a gold bullion bar with cryptocurrency lol, kinda resonated with me given all the gold and crypto I bought in the last few years

I have a serious question about the Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition. 😅
What kind of red does it have? It's not the darker red what the Odyssey bundle had. It looks a lot like Neon-red you can see on the box art of a regular Switch. That would be awful. In rl it looks nothing like red. That color on basically everything of the Mario Edition? =/

Hitman 3 Cloud Edition launches same day as the native versions on other consoles (January 20th):

"nO cLoUd cLoUD bAhD fuR gAEMInG cooMUNitYYy"

"PhYsIcaL oNly. ClOud isN't PuUuUUurE"

"iTs nOt my FaULt I dOnT oWn a CoNsOLE tHat CaN rUn tHesE gAmEs naTiVelY, it'S tHe dEvElopERs faUlt fOr nOt cArInG aBoUt meEEEeE"

@JaxonH Even the text font is exactly the same as P5D and P5R for the dialogue boxes

the DETAILS

@JaxonH Looks like the Playstation version.

But yeah, the character interactions and skits are a big plus for me. This seems like it's probably the best licensed musou game to date.

@Ralizah Actually I think it is the PS4 version lol that's what Derrick implied during his preview video

Switch version won't look too far off aside from the distractingly poor aliasing and terrible load times though

@TheFrenchiestFry Yeah, aliasing aside, I was pretty happy with the Switch version based on the demo.

This is probably the closest I'll ever come to having a portable version of Persona 5.

@JaxonH that make sense, Capcom, don't want two game of it franchises competing with sales, is like Capcom anouncing Monster Hunter 6, when Monster Hunter Rise is still selling well or fresh in people minds.

@Ralizah @TheFrenchiestFry
Oops, think I got confused between vids, as I was watching a few. Here’s the Switch footage (looks basically the same anyways).

Also, load times are only like an extra 5 seconds I think (one showed 4 seconds extra, another 6 seconds extra), nothing of note really.

@Budda Looks like neon red to me as well. I'm expecting it to look like that in real life too, but if you really wanna make sure, you could wait for an unboxing video.

Someone's not a Comcast customer.

@Ralizah virgin Persona 5 Switch vs. chad Persona 5 Vita remote play

@rallydefault Don't need to be to have a good experience with a multiplat. I am one of the rare breeds of Nintendo Life readers who owns more than one console and a PC

@TheFrenchiestFry Eh.

I don't really go anywhere right now, but I just seem to enjoy playing games more on a hybrid device.

I was thinking about trying to preorder an RTX 3060 next month (my preference would be the 3060 Ti, but god only knows when those will be available for MSRP, lol), but the more I think about it, the more I realize that, maybe outside of Cyberpunk, I'm not really going to need it for anything this year. The PC games I'm playing this year are really, really rudimentary stuff - older Trails and Ys games, some adventure games, the last gen Deus Ex game, etc. And the rest of the time, I'm going to be spending on my Switch. So why put out hundreds of dollars just so I can play CDPR's disappointing sci-fi shooter in a timely fashion?

Although I have an SSD now, so load times in P5S would pretty much evaporate on my rig, I imagine.

EDIT: I wish to god I could get remote play to work well. I'd seriously use it so much. My Vita is always close by, but streaming never seems to work well on it. Even when I use direct connect and sit a couple of feet away from the PS4. :/

@Ralizah Yeah same. Honestly I've never even gone out with my Switch in general. It's either up in my room or in the dock downstairs in my basement

I've literally never brought it out in public outside the instance where I go on a road trip or travel

I've been spending a lot more time PC gaming instead as of late and honestly out of my consoles, I've used my PS4 considerably more in the past two years compared to my Switch

Also I actually played like a good 30-40 hours of P5R on Vita remote play and think that feature was severely underrated in general. Honestly sucks that Sony won't come out with a new PSP for a while