Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH I think there's a lot of people parroting each other. Many people who are stating online that Switch' visuals such, may even have never touched the dawn thing on a properly calibrated TV. It's to bad that nowadays it sometimes seems more important to voice any opinion at all than to actually have an informed one.

@toiletduck
No, of course not.

West Dakota lol. We’ve annexed a new state I see 😉

And for the record, I certainly don’t intend any offense to anyone. Forgive me in advance if that’s how I come off (I’ve been told by enough people in my life to know my own personality, and I know I can be direct, which can be misconstrued). My only intention was exposing a flaw in an argument of a claim made. I hold no ill will toward anyone

@JaxonH hehe as long as people get the point

I recognize how your directness and sense of justice are mistaken for something else every now and then. I had to cope with that for a long time, until the point where I just stopped getting into arguments for the most part because I didn't want to hurt anyone.

With everyone going on in the world right now, I wish I lived in West Dakota. (Semi inside joke for other Americans lol)

Whats ur choice regarding tv output resolution? Imagine 4k tv.

720p, 1080p or automatic?

Is west dakota slang for Canada or something?

@Ryu_Niiyama
lol it's just not a state, so I'd like to live there and just disappear from the world for the time being haha

I guess technically "west" dakota would be somewhere in wyoming or montana

I googled West Dakota and it turns out it's a famous drag queen, if that's what floats your boat ;p

@JaxonH If you looked at the Chit-Chat thread the other week you would have seen ThanosReXXX discuss their blunt personality, compounded by their living in Amsterdam. In short, join the club!

Anyone been to North Washington? No? Oh well, it's probably just my way of saying Vancouver.

I'm not American, evidently.

@theJGG
I've been to NorthERN Washington. Right across the Puget Sound from Seattle. Had cousins who lived in Port Townsend. Same area as was filmed in the Twilight movies.

Temperate rainforest is beautiful up there. And the Pacific Ocean. Very dark sand. Lots of obsidian in it.

Don't forget, in less than a week the MH Rise demo online functionality shuts down.

Apparently Konami are "dissolving and restructuring" with no details as to what that is. They've proper given up on gaming now ain't they?

And less than a week until you cant download the demo anymore.

I've got 25 hrs on my play timer for the demo already (that's more than many full price games offer), and deleted my save data once to reset the counter. It's so good, hunts are so dynamic and never play out the same way twice, it never gets old just hunting Rathian, Great Izuchi, Azuros and Mizutsune over and over. Especially since each weapon makes it feel like a completely different game. I've used all 14, but narrowed it down to 3: Switch Axe, Charge Blade and Hunting Horn.

If they dont nerf hunting horn in the full release, it's easily going to be the go to weapon for speed runs. Even the almighty longsword wont be able to keep up.

@jump konami supposedly denied that gaming production will be impacted. You know they need the IPs for Pachi-slot.

@Gusmar depends a bit on which TV, but usually auto is your best bet, because your TV is probably better at upscaling than the Switch. And besides that it's usually better to just scale up the signal once and not twice (e.g. game=720p, output=1080p, tv=2160p means 2x upscaling whereas game=720p, output=auto=720p, tv=2160p means 1x upscaling). So since the tv is upscaling anyway, let it do the entire job.

Edit: obviously don't pick 720p since some games output 1080p and you don't want to lose that output quality.

My Atelier Ryza 2 Collector Edition arrived a day early. Much bigger box than the collector edition of the first game.

I was playing in handheld and thought, ok, this doesn’t look bad. It’s not perfect, but it’s not super low res, not hyper-pixelated, it’s a good looking handheld game. Well done. Then I thought, I wonder how good it looks on the 4KTV with the mClassic. Holy smokes, what a difference. The color pops so much more, plus the sound bar for audio, the extra power and higher res plus the mClassic smoothing edges. It was a significant jump.

And that’s not even saying handheld mode doesn’t look good... It does. Not Super Mario Odyssey good or Monster Hunter Rise good, but standard JRPG good. But docked is pretty impressive by comparison. Obviously if you compared it to the PS5 version, which is probably perfect without any shimmering on fences and edge lines, etc, the flaws are immediately apparent. But for a switch game, ya. Not bad. Oh, and the Framerate is solid, feels very smooth. Unlike certain games I know of (cough cough, Fairy Tail). I’m happy to at least have this as a baseline of quality now. There was a time where the JRPG ports were pretty bad.

@JaxonH I would get this game but I never played the first one so got to get that one first.

@jump
My guess is that the opposite might be happening, or what looks like a "reversal" restructure. Maybe Konami is shrinking down for a few months, and then come back bigger than ever I'm saying that because there's that Momotaro Dentetsu game that's doing really well in Japan right now, that they might be restructuring to come back to console games, given how well it has done, but the pandemic did slow things down for a while, so that's why I think they'll take the "reversal" route regarding restructuring.
(This is most likely hopeful thinking, TBH). 🤔 😐
My (more realistic) guess is that Konami is restructuring to make a (mini) comeback to consoles, and when I mean mini, I mean the only console game they'll release for the near future is DDR games (which I wouldn't mind honestly). 🤔

@jump I'm guessing it'll be a situation where Konami doesn't make games anymore but make deals for other devs to make Konami IP games so kind of like LucasArts. Then the rumoured PS5 exclusive MGS remake and Silent Hill games turn out to be real.

Konami will just cut deals with Sony to release exclusive games on their system, like they’ve done for decades. They have no interest in releasing core games unless they’re paid to do it. Otherwise it’s all Bomberman, board games and retro collections.

Even Symphony of the Night, a retro game decades old, they release a package only for PlayStation. But all the retro games that were on NES, GameBoy, Genesis, they release that multi platform. It’s always a one-way street with them. If it was on Nintendo they make it multiplat, if it was on PlayStation they keep it exclusive. The fact the Symphony of the Night collection was released right around the time of Simon in Smash, but not on Switch, is telling.

So ya, I don’t care what they do. Because if they’re not gonna release on Switch, I’m not gonna play their games. That’s just where I’m at with these companies that intentionally neglect (be it due to mule-headed stubbornness, ignorance or payment received) releasing their games on a console that has been breaking records 4 years running and has a consistent, established record of ALL their releases on Switch outselling other versions, sometimes by 10:1 margins. No more patience for that nonsense.