Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH 300 Games wow... Did you even play through all of those? How does one find the time? Anyways, that sounds like a real gaming lover, i am impressed! Though there are probably a lot more people on here who might have played that and more

@JaxonH Yeah that's why I was mostly physical on 3DS, I didn't wanna deal with that. Switch though. I just buy games where they are cheapest and let the chips fall. I gotta do another count though, I gotta be near 500 switch games by now. Granted I’m only in the 200s for 3ds as I have very little VC.

I swear I never buy what I actually go to the eshop to buy. but with 14 games removed from the wishlist...it can breath a little easier. Yeah I'm going to work on my database this weekend...

@Solaine
Not to completion, no. Many of them I only played a bit (such is the story of most gamers and their backlog). But having the variety to choose from is nice. Never know what you're in the mood to play. Sometimes I may not touch a game for years then one day fire it up.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Been limiting my digital purchases to only the top shelf games I really want. And no indies unless they're creme de la creme, otherwise they pile up too fast. Physical collection is a lot larger. Usually I get a game physically, and only if I really like it do I grab it digital also.

One of these days they'll release a 2TB micro SD. Switch generation may be over by that point but at least it'll serve to consolidate multiple 1TB micro SD cards.

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@JaxonH I must say I’m looking forward to the 2TB but I’m getting along ok switching between them. If I had some free time I’d actually organize them but my internet is midling at best so that would take days. I’ve got another 600 GB left so I can be a bit free with what I buy for now. Did a quick count and minus demos and anything I have deleted because I beat it I’m at 482 (titles that doesn’t count games that are multiple packs) so I hope the system doesn’t have some sort of limit because I might be getting close.

Hot Wheels. This game is super fun and addicting!

I genuinely wasn't expecting to get sucked into this game, of all games. I wasn't even originally going to buy it. But it's fun! The controls feel weird at first but man, once you get acclimated and learn the drifting it's super rewarding. Tracks are crazy well designed. Collecting all the hot wheels cars is addictive and... ya. It's just one of those games... It's just one of those games!

Sometimes we talk about old niche games from back in the day, and are like, "oh ya I used to love such and such back in the day, it was so good!". I feel like this is one of those games. A game that most will overlook assuming licensed shovelware or mediocrity. But a game a select few will discover as the hidden gem it is. A game we'll likely talk about the same way 20 years from now. Hey, remember Hot Wheels on Switch? Heck ya, that game was awesome!

@Ryu_Niiyama
I dont think it does, otherwise one of us would have hit it by now.

On my Lite there is no kickstand to tuck a spare micro SD (OLED will be same) so I can only keep the best 1TB of games I haven't beaten. I prefer to keep my fave games installed even when I have beaten them, but stuff like Xenoblade, Xenoblade 2, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD and Final Fantasy XII, that alone was costing me like 75 GB total. For 4 games I'd already beaten.... they had to go.

But Zelda BotW, Bayonetta 2, DKC Tropical Freeze, etc. I just can't bring myself to archive them.

I recently tried DragonBall Z Kakarot and I'm pleasantly surprised. It's the ideal game for someone to experience DB who's not familiar. Also redownloaded DB Fighter Z because, I have all the season passes and stuff. And there it sits archived. Was like, I can make space for one good fighter beside Ultra Street Fighter II and SFII Collection.

Oh, Darksiders 3. So. Just going off what I've played so far. It has some graphical glitches. Textures sometimes not loading properly, some visual lines that appear for a moment then disappear, etc. But nothing game breaking. It's rough around the edges. But it's actually pretty smooth and looks decently good.

I played the first hour. If I was recommending based on that alone, I'd say ya. It's worth buying. What holds me back is SwitchUp also reported framerate issues in the second half of the game. But again, I'm not sure how frequent they are. Definitely more frequent than first half, which is basically fine. First 12 hrs are normal. Second 12 hrs have reported performance issues.

So. I can't in good conscience recommend. It's a shame because I'm actually having a lot of fun playing it on Switch. I really am. But if you get super sucked in only to run into issues a dozen hrs later. That could be a real bummer. That said, I don't think it's constant. It may have some chokepoints but, as long as you're not in a super open area late game with tons of enemies, I'm not sure it's game breaking. Then again I haven't played that far, so. Who knows.

Saw a great review for that recently, @JaxonH .... & found a half price Steam code yesterday! So I'll try that version to compare

I just wish the difficulty was retuned or I was able to better customise my experience.

I am going through the campaign and I am having the same experience of just driving around the track on my own. On easy, I am driving around the track on my own in first. On medium, I am driving around the track in last place.

The game is sort of built around you falling off the track, but I really don't know why, as it isn't fun at all? It takes so long to respawn/reset, you are better off just restarting the whole race. There is basically no recovery from a single mistake. So I will be having loads of fun trading paint on medium, really feeling how thrilling and fun the game can be. Until I get the slightest nudge, sending me into an absurd death spin and the race is just over. I get it, I am a toy car etc etc but there has to be better mechanics to allow me to recover, if I can be span into oblivion with the slightest breath. This doesn't add any thrill to the races to me to know everything can be undone in a single blink, it just adds mountains of frustration.

However, on the flip, easy is so ***** boring because you just pull ahead and no one ever challenges you in any way after the first half of the first lap. It is like all the cars just despawn or something. It is like they know the difficulty just comes from spinning you out, so they just remove the cars all together.

And you could just argue something asinine like "well play on medium and just don't make mistakes". But the tracks are sort of built around you making mistakes, as you learn the tracks to avoid mistakes in future. However, my plan wasn't to play the campaign as a 20 hour long tutorial.

Online has exactly the same problem. It is way more engaging than playing the AI on easy, but you can be the best driver in a race, someone will nudge you off the side and then you are in last place for the rest of the race. As in the time it takes for you to fall off and respawn, somehow you've already been lapped. Never feels good. Just always feels frustrating. Because you feel cheated, even though it's built into the game. Like why get any skill with the game, when you can just push people off the sides to win.

I get that if you just gave me a way to disable falling off the side, a huge part of the game is lost, as so many tracks are built around the risk of this happening but I'm just not really having fun as it is right now.

Worth noting that literally a couple of posts above this I said that I wasn't getting the OLED model because it lacked any sort of internal spec improvement. I mean think the OLED screen is a worthwhile upgrade for sure but I don't play the Switch portably enough to justify it. Or at least not enough to justify possibly only a couple of years of use. I'm probably the last person on here who would be trying to push people into buying the OLED model to make myself feel better or something

I was just making the technical point that those comparison photos/videos are not misleading. OLED is that much of an improvement. The problem is judging the performance of a screen based on an image shown on a different screen. It's like judging the performance of speakers from an audio clip. It's never going to be an accurate representation because it's being captured, compressed and then displayed on something else. When doing side-by-sides you can kinda gauge the difference but it's never going to be a particularly accurate representation of how it actually looks in person

I was just watching the UK version of the Direct and it turns out Europe has an exclusive special edition for Triangle Strategy containing the game with a normal box, a steelbook, 6 dice, playing cards, a double sided poster and a big book-like box (think Bayonetta 2 Wii U first print edition). Japan Direct revealed a different special edition for Japan (features game, playing cards, soundtrack and scales) and NA gets nothing.

You know, given we're kinda talking about storage. It is kinda strange that there's only 64GB of storage on the OLED model don't you think? I mean when the Switch launched I was ok with 32GB of storage and I'm still ok with 64GB. I said at the original reveal and stand by my view that microSD cards would get cheaper fast enough that it was more economical to skimp on the storage.

But while 32GB wasn't a lot in 2017, 64GB is even less in 2021. I mean here's a comparison, the Switch launched at $470AU in early 2017. At that point in time that amount that money could get you a smartphone (comparable device) with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and an LCD panel similar to the launch Switch. So about the same. By comparison the Switch OLED is $540AU, at that price point for a smartphone you're getting an OLED screen, 6GB of RAM and 128GB storage. Pretty comfortably. The Switch OLED has a similar screen... but only 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and more or less the same SoC it had in 2017

I get that pricing is a bit off all over the place currently because of the superbug but seems the RAW value has gone backwards here by a lot. Good thing for Nintendo you can't play Metroid Dread on a mid-range smartphone. Even so, 64GB of storage on the OLED model is.... a bit stingy.....

@skywake The Flash NAND will be a constant problem for as long as Nintendo opts for it, as at those sizes you've got Apple and Samsung paying way more to suppliers for way, way more chips.

So Nintendo was likely never going to get enough 128GB or above for a few million Switch OLED systems at a decent price, when Apple is there every year making hundreds of millions of phones.

@Haruki_NLI
Yeah, nah. I don't buy that theory. As I said the Switch at launch had a similar amount of storage as a similarly priced phone. And in any case the cost of consumer grade SSDs at retail has dropped by about 3X since the Switch launched. And at the lower end of flash you can get 256GB microSD cards for close to what you would've paid for a 64GB microSD card when the Switch launched. Basically, you almost get to 4X for nothing here and yet we are actually surprised Nintendo doubled the storage on a more expensive SKU

I mean the fact that flash is so cheap now kinda negates the complaint a bit as I said initially. Who cares if it only has 64GB of storage included when you can throw in a 500GB microSD card for less than the price of a game. But even so, does kinda highlight how much penny pinching is going on with the Switch OLED. Despite Nintendo's aggressive dismissals of articles stating this fact, it's pretty clear they're making a tidy profit

Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising Is confirmed for switch. Game looks lovely but I swear the paper doll movement animations hit me in the uncanny valley. I really wish devs would stop using that type of movement animation.

https://nintendoeverything.com/eiyuden-chronicle-rising-confi...

@skywake
I do wish they'd include more storage. But, what are ya gonna do, ya know? I'm just glad the OLED is getting 64gb instead of 32gb. It's not much, but I'm stretched thin over here. Every little bit helps.

I don't really care about Nintendo making profit. They're supposed to. Cause I really don't feel like building my own Switch OLED. So I'm happy to pay them for parts and labor with a nice $80 tip for making it for me. That's just how business works. Heck, I paid $200 to a repair shop just to replace my scratched New 3DS screen. $120 for a portable headphone DAC dongle to use with my phone (and they go as high as $300, probably cost $15 to make).

@JaxonH
I'm with ya and as I said it's not really an issue. Corporations gotta profit and at the end of the day with flash being cheap and the Switch accepting microSD cards it's a non-issue. It's just that as a product at that price 64GB of storage really stands out as being unnecessarily cheap.

I mean excuse Australian dollars but for smartphones 64GB is budget phone storage, sub $200AU territory. We're talking well under Switch Lite on a very good sale kind of prices and there are dozens of options for phones with 64GB of storage. The OLED Model is over double that price. I know, hardware is more than just storage but.... only having 64GB of storage does stand out a bit on the spec sheet

Just an observation. It could've easily been 128GB

@skywake
Should've been 256gb, tbh! But... ya. It is what it is.

If SanDisk would just hurry up and release 2TB microSD it wouldn't even be an issue.

I'm glad they priced Fatal Frame V reasonably. $40 is a great price for a touched up Wii U port.

Hopefully they follow through on offering a 25% launch discount on Tetris Effect. If they do, I'll be able to afford both games without having to add any more money to my account.

Then you add Metroid and Disco Elysium? Really solid month.

@skywake Agreed there, it really should have been 128GB at least.

I had similar thoughts to the recently reissued Quest 2s that have 128GB for the base model instead of 64GB. Like really Facebook, why didn't it have that much to start with?! Especially since there's no way to expand the storage and games are starting to get bigger in size (Walking Dead Saints & Sinners in particular). At least the Switch can use micro SD cards.

I'm so happy to see more kids and casual games for both Nintendo Switch and PS4 by OG Games and Microids during October and November 2021. 😀
I really want to see more games like that since I like kind of those games from Wii and NDS era.
Currently, Team17 + Microids + OG Games are my combos for kids and casual games.