Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Haruki_NLI and capping it all off with Fast n Furious to finish the summer!

Did anyone find the latest switch update slowed down mario kart 8 deluxe.

@Ninfan
What do you mean by slow down?
Loading time for offline playing or online playing?

@Anti-Matter when playing the game .

@Ninfan
How slow did you mean?
The loading time or the vehicle speed when playing?
If you mean by vehicle speed, pick 200 cc if you want the fastest speed.

@Ninfan Honestly, the game still runs just fine to me. The gameplay's still fast and smooth as butter. It does tend to take a tiny bit longer to load everyone's race ratings before an online race, but that's really it.

Looks like gaming-related livestreams are dead to me now outside of the occasional Nintendo Direct. Playstation's State of Play broadcasts have been a waste since the beginning, whatever "Summer Game Fest" is supposed to be is completely uninteresting to me, and I think I'm done with The Game Awards. Hours of boredom aren't worth the possibility of seeing a Nintendo-related announcement happen live, and it doesn't even have the occasional chaotic energy that made certain E3 stageshows a glorious mess to behold. Besides, 90% of the stuff I play and actually care about will get snubbed entirely anyway.

Even E3 in its compromised state last year was still more entertaining than Keighley's events.

Oh well.

I just noticed that this thread originally was called "What do you think the NX is poll?"

Bummed there's no E3 this year. You think Nintendo will still put out a E3-style Direct around the middle of June?

Has any publisher ever published three top-tier exclusives in as short a time as Nintendo has in Q1 2022 with Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Triangle Strategy, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land?

@mjharper Probably. It's a tradition, if nothing else, and Nintendo hasn't technically been part of E3 for a while.

@Ralizah Hm... that's a tough question. Mega Man 3, Final Fight, and Ducktales by Capcom in Q4 1990?

@Ralizah Blue Dragon, Halo 3, Project Gotham Racing 4 and Mass Effect by Microsoft from August 28th 2007 - November 20th 2007 comes to mind. Sure Mass Effect became multiplatform later on but the same will happen to Triangle Strategy (you can pretty much guarantee that's going to PC around March 2023 and perhaps even Xbox given Octopath).

@mjharper

No worries there. Nintendo will most likely broadcast a Direct in June, as per usual.

@Grumblevolcano Fair enough. That's a LOT of good exclusives in three months!

Makes me nostalgic for the days Microsoft was actually a really strong competitor with top-notch exclusives.

And yeah, Triangle Strategy is 100% going to PC in a year or so. It'll be nice to have a 60fps option.

@link3710 Mega Man 3 and Ducktales are both pretty good, yeah.

While it's a longer space of time, Capcom had a pretty good five-month run last year with Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Resident Evil Village, and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.

@Ralizah
Mid April to Mid July will see:

• Nintendo Switch Sports
• Mario Strikers
• Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes
• Live A Live
• Advance Wars (would have been anyways)
• Splatoon 3 (maybe)

And to sweeten the pot we get House of the Dead Remake and Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak in that 3 month window also.

@JaxonH I'm guessing Splatoon 3 will be the major release in August, and AW is kicked back to late 2022 if we're lucky.

Which means April, May, and most of June will be a nice breather period before the next onslaught of games starting in late June.

Which is good, because, honestly, I have so many games to play as is.

Gamecube launch had Luigi's Mansion and Pikmin and then Smash Melee weeks later. But considering they had two systems, Nintendo did put out Animal Crossing in September, Metroid Prime and Fusion at the same time in November, and then Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland. Though this makes the Gamecube launch even crazier, with Advance Wars and Golden Sun on the GBA. And IIRC, those games' sequels came out around the same time as Warioware and slightly after Wind Waker.

Admittedly the closest non-Nintendo example I have is the original Xbox launch (Halo/Project Gotham Racing/Munch's Oddysee).

Started Banjo-Kazooie and completed the first world. First time ever playing this.

Why on Earth do you see the game over screen when you save and quit? Seems like a thoroughly bizarre design choice.

@kkslider5552000 Really strong launch lineup for the GameCube.

@Ralizah Probably so players wouldn't have to waste time losing all lives to watch the scene. They did put quite some work into it.

@BrazillianCara It's an easy way to confuse players, though, and seems to imply that there is something wrong with saving and quitting through the menu.

Not the end of the world, but... eh. I don't get it.