I dunno how playing online works in regards to matchmaking but if we can play together and you don’t mind being sandbagged by me, any of you can feel free to add me and we can play some matches.
So I got to play Salmon Run today, it was open. I like the concept but I thought the execution was just awful. Everything moves so fast, no one works as a team, you’re given random crap bits of gear, the stupid ***** vents. If they let me use my own build, didn’t make me have to worry about ***** traps and just let me battle it out with enemies I would have enjoyed this way more.
It'll never happen, they said... Switch got to 100 million faster than any home console in history, and by a notable margin at that. Even counting handhelds, only the DS got their faster. Onwards to PS2 now, I suppose.
After having bought a Pro Controller with Xbox Elite swappable magnetic analogs, I started researching the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, and as it turns out, there is a way to add gyro aiming, and get it working on Switch and PC all in one fell swoop.
The Brook SE adapter. So I ordered an Xbox Elite controller and Brook SE adapter to go with it. At first I'd written it off from an Amazon review citing lag, but after watching a few YT videos, there's no noticeable lag whatsoever. The gyro seemed instantaneous too, from what I could tell.
Because this newer revision draws from the controller's battery instead of having its own (which is good, since the last one was only 4 hrs), I read you need the Xbox rechargeable battery inside. If you have normal batteries it'll randomly disconnect for some reason. So it was either A) buy a Series X controller and rechargeable battery, totalling $90, or B) buy an Xbox Elite Series 2 controller on sale for $140 which already has a rechargeable battery in it. Figured for $50 more, why not.
Though I am tempted to buy a Series Core controller also, since I've heard the ergonomics have been redesigned, and I always hated how fat the controller was, making it hard to reach the bumper buttons.
Will report back once I've tried the Xbox Elite controller with gyro aiming on Switch.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
Even once a successor is announced (I don't personally expect to see one next year) the inevitable budget priced Switch revision will keep sales trickling in for years to come.
I always thought that 100 million was achievable (even in the early days when it was a laughing matter) but I'm not sure I ever thought the PS2 could be overtaken. Obviously there's a long way to go yet but at this point I can see a realistic path to that point - it almost starts to look harder for Switch not to overtake PS2 at some point.
I just don't see Switch having a 3DS or Wii style "sales dropping off a cliff" moment. If anything it's more likely to be host to an unexpected "Pokemon" style second wind like the original GameBoy IMO.
I unlocked planking in Ring Fit. I am dead. My stomach hurts. I love how much this game hurts me.
I guess it is kinda like half cheating, but with all the frustration in Mario Kart 8, giving in and turning on the auto steering has made it almost fun to play on my own, but it is definitely better played with friends/family. Talking of that, I have stopped playing Mario Party Superstars on my own entirely, but been playing it with family over Christmas and it has been a lot of fun.
I ended up just going ahead and picking up Mutant Football League. And yeah, game is kind of a mess. It is basically Blood Bowl but with Madden’s controls/real time. Not inherently terrible but the execution feels like a big mess. In the first game I played, the team kept bribing the ref and using the power to rewind time, so I basically just could not make a single positive play or score a single point, as they just erased it each and every time. Maybe this would be funny against friends, but in a single player context this quickly turned from amusing to just infuriating. I played the game again, changed nothing apart from turning the powers/dirty tactics off and the enemy team threw eight or nine interceptions, I scored almost 80 points and held them to single figures. Clearly the powers/dirty tactics are a disguise for some truly atrocious enemy AI, so the balance is just completely busted as reviews have warned.
I picked up Dicey Dungeons basically for free because of the sale and my gold points. Playing Loop Hero made me wonder if maybe I liked rogue games after all, just not all the ones that are all about the twitchiness of one’s fingers. DD certainly seems more strategy focused than your typical rogue and seems to borrow a lot from LH, or maybe it’s the other way around, I dunno what came out first? But the difficulty ramps up sharply and there doesn’t seem to be the same compelling through-line of progression that LH hade and made it so addictive for me.
I am thinking of picking up Wrestling Empire, to recapture the fun of the old wrestling games I played when I was a kid/young teen, but I see it was recently 50% off and according to Deku Deals it goes on sale pretty regularly, so I dunno whether to wait. It is still a budget game at full price, but I dunno if I wanna spend 20 quid when possibly in a few weeks later it’ll be a tenner, but then knowing my luck it won’t go on sale for like another year.
Oh and the one thing I forgot, I am still grinding SPLATOON 2: I think this game could become super tedious super quickly, but I am just playing a couple of rounds of PVP and then jumping back out and that is mostly keeping it enjoyable. This is what makes it suitable for the Switch, to me. I am not usually a PVP guy, but I actually think the PVP mode is the best part of SPLATOON 2 (why does my iPad always autocorrect that to all caps? I can’t be bothered to change it). Like it still has some of the usual issues, but I feel like it’s probably one of the best balanced online PVP experiences I have had. No one weapon seems to stand so clearly above any other, you aren’t just automatically crippled if you play with strangers and the way they have balanced objective with fighting is just some of the best I have ever seen. I am so used in PVP games in being dropped in, no skill based matchmaking so you’re dropped in with a bunch of vets who can shoot around corners and are basically unkillable because they have all this OP gear they grinded for and you just have level one crap, you just get totally reamed and then either never want to play again or stick around long enough to become frustrated enough at other noobs joining your team, refusing to play the objective, so you lose despite playing your soul out. Maybe ranked will have that issue? But the casual playlist seems free of it.
@Pizzamorg ranked battles in Splatoon are strictly skill based match making. Only fight people in or around your rank. Win enough, you rank up, lose a lot, rank down.
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Now Streaming: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
@StuTwo
I don't think anyone expected PS2 levels- even the most optimistic didn't go that far.
I expect 2-3 more solid years, counting from March. If 2 years, even 20-20 gets them within 15 of the record. They could trickle their way there afterward, with 8-7 once Switch 2 releases and shortages abound. If 3 years, then it's in the bag. 20-20-15 all day.
Exciting times. I kinda want to see it happen just for all the folk who were mockingly laughing saying it was the worst console idea of all time.
@Pizzamorg
Splatoon is just fun to play. A lot of games rely on grinding to addict you. But for Splatoon, leveling up was always secondary for me. I just loved playing. I couldn't get enough- back when Splatoon 2 released I must have put in 200 hours, easily. And my brother love love loved Salmon Run. It's all he ever wanted to play. I still feel proud I got my brother into Splatoon 2. He wasn't really into Nintendo much at the time, but Zelda BotW, Mario Odyssey and Splatoon 2 changed that in 2017. Now he's become a pretty big Switch fan.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
2022 is happening. Either XCX or XC3, which I’m actually leaning toward XC3 because there were rumors and, the last XC release was a port, and I’m not sure they’ll do 2 back to back. But I do think it’ll come, one way or another.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Magician i expect Nintendo to anounce the rumored medieval game Monolith Soft is developing since 2017 or a Xenoblade Chonicles 3 to release in holiday 2022.
Monolith Soft is a fairly huge development studio now (five different teams). I thought I read rumors of a new game outside of the XC series coming from them while they're developing BotW 2 and XC 3?
Switch Physical Collection - 1,536 games (as of December 14th, 2025)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
Fully expecting a Yoshi's Woolly World port in 2023. Not sure why but people always seem to forget about that game when talking about Wii U ports even though it's a pretty major game. It's not like Splatoon or Smash where the Switch entries made the Wii U ones redundant; Woolly World and Crafted World can coexist on Switch.
Other stuff for 2023 will be a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Fire Emblem (I think it gets revealed in 2022 but doesn't get released until 2023).
The Fall/Holiday season will be headlined by Metroid Prime 4, a 2D Zelda, Pokemon Gen 9, and whatever Next Level Games is currently working on.
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