Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Also, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater & Crash Bandicoot, for a couple of examples off the top of my head, @link3710 ....

@BruceCM Vicarious Visions (who did Tony Hawk) was made a Blizzard support team starting with Diablo 2. Toys for Bob (who did Spyro Trilogy and Crash 4) was made a Call of Duty support team following Crash 4. There aren't any more internally developed games coming in those series (well now there might be but as things were...). Since every Activision team is now CoD only.

Edit: Yes I am salty about Activision deciding to end Spyro, Crash and Tony Hawk in quick succession, before anyone asks.

MLB The Show 22 coming to Switch is a huge win. Its also on Gamepass, and will have cross play and cross save between versions, so I can buy once on Switch, and play handheld on the OLED with Series X on the TV on a single save file, without double dipping.

I was a baseball fanatic as a kid. Still have an entire basement full of Cards, rookie cards, signed balls, etc. Was on a Little League team all throughout my childhood, too.

I've been waiting on a good baseball game but, so far we've only seen mediocre attempts. This was the only one truly worth its salt.

@FragRed I mean, it's possible, but it's extremely unlikely.

Considering acquisitions like this take months to come to fruition, Sony buying Bungie isn't some sort of reactionary move to Microsoft buying Activision. They likely did this to leverage Bungie's expertise in GaaS multiplayer titles in exchange for funding and allowing them to make Destiny a multimedia IP (TV/film adaptations).

Yeah, MS buying them might well help with getting on with other games, as well, @link3710 .... That'd be good news for a lot of people, I think

Anyone else find themselves thinking a Pokémon Legends version of Fortnite could be fun? You get dropped onto a land mass, and then have to race to farm resources, craft pokeballs, then battle other players. Last man standing wins.

@gcunit
That would be fun.
But instead of Pokémon battles, you send out the Pokémon you catch and they attack the players like the wild Pokémon do.

@gcunit I'd just like to battle other players in Legends.

Been playing Afterparty for a few hours.

It's crass, lewd, not very politically correct...and I've enjoyed every minute thus far.

$50 eShop Credit for $45 at Newegg (10% off) with promo code on page. Limit 3 per customer.

https://www.newegg.com/nintendo-50-00/p/N82E16832074004?item=...

see the financial report of Nintendo until end of 2021(Switch surpassed Wii/PS1).

@Giancarlothomaz So that finally happened. Guess no surprises here for anyone, i bet

Uh oh. Bad news… for once Nintendo aren’t behind the times and it’s in a bad way

I just want to know, what will look like if the games have NFT on it especially if the games have physical release?

Nintendo hint that Switch sucessor could have backwards compatibility with Switch.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-has-reporte...

@Anti-Matter I don't think you understand as most likely it will just be owning the digital asset like a model or some music from the game the same way you can own a prop for a movie. There are games that accept Bitcoin for microtransactions or is used to exchange rare items between games but Nintendo aren't likely to do either of those but I suppose they could use it for something like in Pokemon to prove ownership of a Poke or prove it's a legit/non-hacked Poke.

People don't like it because it's leaves a bad carbon footprint especially cryptocurrency with has led to some countries banning coin farming, it's not much different to just owning a copy and it's very capitalist greed.

There's a link below so you can understand it better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token#Games

@Solaine yes and i believe Switch will become the third best selling hardware of all time after the console surpass PS4/Game Boy, at the end of 2022/begining of 2023.

@FragRed
That's corporate speak for, "suuuure, we're totally looking into it- get off our butts"

@JaxonH I am hoping that’s all it ends up being and nothing more. Last thing we need is Nintendo trying to get in on the whole scam.

@FragRed
Even if they did it wouldn't be in a "scam" manner. There's plenty of positive ways the technology can be used on the backend. Just like any technology. Just because a bunch of stooges are minting jpegs and cashing in on tulip Mania doesn't mean that's the sole and proprietary use case for non fungible Tokens.

Having said that, they made it abundantly clear in their statement, "we don't see a use for it to make games more fun". That pretty much buries it right there.