Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Fizza that’s disgusting, it’s co-worker not coworker which is made all the more sickening after they were using long-distance!!!

@jump Oh I do love me some Father Ted.

It would be cool if for mainline Pokemon the near future was:

• Sword/Shield - The competitive one, gets update adding the missing Pokemon and the new ones from Legends Arceus (a way for Gen 9 to be not held back by esports)
• Legends - The new direction one, gets DLC over the coming years
• ILCA remakes - After BDSP either head forwards to Gen 5 (Unova) or backwards to Gen 2 (Johto), Gen 3 (Hoenn) could get a HD remaster of ORAS

@Fizza it’s almost as good as Mrs Brown's Boys which we all know is Ireland’s greatest ever telly show!!! ;p

@jump Fun fact: One of the cast of Mrs. Brown's Boys taught Drama classes once a week at my school (not saying who for privacy's sake).

@kkslider5552000
I still keep watching over Chocobo GP situation until the game has been released in physical.

@Fizza did they make the children dress in drag and shout out swear words?

I'm thinking of buying a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, so I'm wondering if the d-pad has been fixed at all

@DevilMayCry
It's been revised, and, at least from my experience, all 5 Pro controllers I've bought after launch had nothing wrong with the d-pad. While the two I bought at launch misregistered inputs.

So while nobody can guarantee anything, I think, statistically speaking, you're pretty safe, and even if it did by chance have that issue, just exchange it.

@kkslider5552000 I have more affinity for S-E characters than Disney characters. I'm all-in on Chocobo GP and fairly lukewarm for Disney Speedstorm.

I really hope the Portal collection gets a physical version. Of course I prefer physical versions in general but I also think Valve deciding to release a game on a platform that isn't Steam nowadays is a really big deal in a similar sense to FFVII being released on cartridge.

@Grumblevolcano
But Portal 1 & 2 already have physical release on PS3 & XBOX 360.

@Grumblevolcano I'd like to see a physical release too but it's still day one either way for me.

I'd imagine the hiccup for Valve is they aren't use to releasing physical games anymore so rather than trying to sort out the details they are probably just happy for a digital only release unless someone like Limited Run Games steps in.

@Anti-Matter Isn't that also the case on PC as well? When they came out originally at least.

I seriously doubt Portal Companion Collection will get a physical release. Valve is a digital PC platform. They may have released physical back in the day for consoles but that was before digital took over on consoles also. Especially at a $20 price point.

I don't care. I just want the games on Switch.

They can just do an LRG launch in a few months to juice the physical-only people.

@Anti-Matter Valve stopped releasing games on console after the PS3/360 era, the Portal collection on Switch is the first release on a console since 2012 which means a lot. Perhaps more older games come like the Half-Life and Left 4 Dead games for Switch or Half-Life Alyx for PSVR2. Maybe even Half-Life 3 becomes a real thing and releases before Mario Kart 9.

@CactusMan
How would it have been Deck exclusive if it's already on PS3 and 360, and currently playable on Series S/X via Back Compat? Not to mention, playable on any other PC as well.

I imagine they're releasing it on Switch specifically to promote the Steamdeck. Same reason Xbox puts some games like Ori on Switch. They see a massive market that has overlap, and wants to entice them by showing them a sample of the amazing games on offer.

There could be a few reasons. I'd like to hope it's because they are starting to take up game making again and doing a port to another system which isn't a rival (publicly anyway) is just them stretching before they get to work on a brand new game. If they are serious about Steamdeck then a few exclusives like new Team Fortress, Portal and Half Life and Counter-Strike would make people consider it.

Valve during the 00s were bloody amazing and run as good as anyone else's so I'm ignoring all other speculation as I want it too much to happen.

Valve already said Steamdeck would not have exclusive games of any kind.

They could make Steam exclusive games though. And I don't doubt they are, after Half Life Alyx.