Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Not sure I agree. It doesn’t have to be a mega selling game. It just needs to be critically acclaimed and pitched at the crowd likely to become early adopters. Ideally a “big splash” launch title acts as a tech demo.

In this sense Prime 4 is perfect - it could sell several million as a launch title which is probably its limit anyway and it wouldn’t be reliant on accumulating a large active user base asap (very difficult on a brand new console) like online multiplayer games need.

@Ralizah @Eel I did a ton of thinking and I'm not going to get a PS Vita or PS4. I did the math and for me personally it's too pricey for me right now and most of my stores that carry PS4's now only have PS5's (not a bad thing), I think I might wait to join the Playstation ecosystem when the PS5 disk version becomes ""cheap"". Instead of a new Sony console for me I'm going to get a Sony Boombox, specifically the Sony CFDS70BLK Boomboxes. I can afford it for one and I have a huge CD and cassette collection so no need to make other purchases. I found a middle ground it's a Sony thing lol.

I dare you to count all the I's

Sounds like a plan, @Kermit1 .... Assuming there is a "PS5 pro" next year, the current ones should drop a bit in price & become more easily available, along with more options for pre-owned & better bundles, etc

The Switch OLED doesn't have to be a super expensive upgrade. If you have a v1 you can sell it on eBay for $200 USD (I just checked sold listings, they range from $190 - $240). Which after fees is still $175 minimum.

Which makes the Switch OLED half price, $175, to upgrade to.

Having said that, if a new model is coming soon, it does make sense to just grab that. Which is why I mentioned it. But I'll say this- if a new model is coming, it's coming with Zelda. And if a new model is coming with Zelda, it's going to be announced by January at the latest (assuming Zelda doesn't get delayed to Holiday 2023).

This is why I got the OLED day one. Otherwise it ends up being a perpetual loop of waiting to see. If the next revision also has an OLED screen, I'll sell my OLED to recoup some cost.

If it doesn't have an OLED screen, even if it's a bit more powerful, I'll be keeping my OLED for all the games that already look and run top notch, where the benefits of OLED outweigh the benefits of a slight frametate or resolution bump.

@Kermit1
Vita was cool 10 yrs ago, but it's kinda like Wii U now. Nearly all it's notable games have been ported. Final Fantasy X/X-2, Persona 4 Golden, Dragon Quest Builders, Assassin's Creed III Liberation, Resident Evil Revelations 2, Borderlands 2, Rayman Legends and World of Final Fantasy were the biggest games Iiked on the Vita. All of them (and sequels) are now better played on Switch, many fixing detrimental performance issues the Vita versions suffered. It still has Uncharted Golden Abyss, Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 and Persona 4 Dancing. Which I'm not sure is worth buying an old Vita for. It also had serial issues with its overpriced memory cards corrupting. Mine has corrupted 3 times now. I've just given up on it.

@JaxonH You said OLED 8 times lol. Yea the memory cards are what drove me to rethink everything, Sony pulled an oops there.

@Kermit1
I dare you to count all the I's

You said OLED 8 times lol

You have a thing for counting words it seems 😀

I wouldn't mind the price so much if they actually functioned properly without breaking.

@JaxonH

check out the analysis of Bayonetta 3 second trailer

I've spent today catching up on this thread cos I've been busier than usual these past couple of weeks and had fallen about 15 pages behind, pretty unheard of, having been in this thread since Day 1. I had all these juicy points to make and now I'm finally here my mind's just deflated on me.

I think my main wondering was, when Nintendo launch a Switch successor, how weird/difficult will it be for you OLED junkies if it doesn't have an OLED screen and equal battery life, and if it does have an OLED screen and similar battery life, how will Nintendo differentiate the v2 of the Switch successor? 4K screen? Furry joy-cons?

Anyway, it's good to be back amongst the thread. Nintendo and Switch are ****ing killing me. Every time I think I've just about managed to catch up with all the games and hardware I'd passed on at Day 1, a ****-tonne more games and hardware are already dropping in every direction. I can't see this generation ever being surpassed, Nintendo are just battering us into complete financial submission - I may as well just add Nintendo's name to my bank account and give them joint control.

When the Animal Crossing hardware edition game out, I was taken as anyone by the aesthetic, but I resisted as I'd already got a v2. I rectified that omission a couple of months ago and got one in Like New condition but £100 cheaper, and it is indeed as beautiful as it looked in the ads, if not more so.

Then there was the Monster Hunter Rise edition. I actually ordered one of those from Amazon, along with the Pro Controller, having them delivered to a collection point, but because I'd only recently bought the Mario anniversary red edition, I just couldn't justify the £320 or so it was going to cost me (including the digital code for the game, which I didn't want as I'm physical-physical-physical), so I left the console at the collection point and it was returned to Amazon for a refund. I rectified this omission last week, getting one in Like New condition for £130 cheaper.

Then there's the white OLED edition, which I really want just for the white joy-cons as much as anything, and I've been eyeing auctions for them just recently, and Nintendo go and drop the Splatoon 3 edition announcement, so even if I bought the white OLED now, I'd still be feeling like my thirst for all the Switch editions I could possibly want would be unquenched. Mother-of-Mrs-Mangel, that Splatoon 3 edition is indecently desirable. Though, I do gotta ask, why are the back of the joy-cons a different colour to the front (like the Animal Crossing joy-cons), cos that kinda annoys me. And if they're going to make the back of the joy-cons the same colour as the dock, why can't the body of the tablet be that colour as well? It really would be nice to have a white tablet.

@gcunit
I prefer White dock because you can apply some sticker or custom picture on the dock to beautify the Switch looking.
White dock is universal model to be paired with any color of Joy Cons.

I went to go buy some eshop games then I got this

I guess I'm going to have to wait a while.

@JaxonH jeez, this year is packed

Have you tried turning it off and on again.

No but really, reloading helped for me.

@JaxonH Don't forget Pokemon Legends Arceus and Kirby and the Forgotten Land as well, probably the biggest Nintendo-published hits out of all of them so far this year!

@Fizza
There's so many I can't even keep proper track lol. Will edit in for reference

If a more powerful Switch releases, it'll be fairly expensive. At least $400. I can't imagine they'd saddle the most premium model of their hardware with LCD screens when the OLEDs clearly work so well with the system.

@HotGoomba yep that's the first thing I did, it worked first try.

On this discussion of OLED vs waiting for something new. I think my general rule with tech is to not wait for stuff because there will always be something new just on the horizon. If you wait for the next thing you'll end up just always waiting and never get anything. As for the possibility of the next Nintendo hardware not having an OLED panel, I mean it is Nintendo. If you think Nintendo wouldn't ever launch a new hardware generation with a SKU less polished than later revisions of its predecessor you don't remember the OG DS

In terms of where I stand now with the OLED model? I mean sure I could pick one up and yeah I could trade my old Switch in to get one cutting the price a tad. But I also have a launch Switch which I don't really want to trade in. 10 years from now I might want to go back and hack it and the launch Switch has that huge vulnerability. So I want to keep that Switch.... which means I would be spending the full price

And I can't justify the full price this late in the cycle. I know I'm saying it's possible their next hardware revision won't have OLED panels and I know it might still end up not being next year. It's also possible it won't be able to play current Switch games meaning upcoming Switch games will be best on the OLED model. But I think the best educated guess is that it is next year with an OLED panel and with full (and possibly enhanced) backwards compatibility. And if that happens? I'm more than happy to put up with the LCD panel for Pokemon and possibly Rabbids, play Bayonetta 3 on the TV and then possibly enjoy BotW 2 on the new hardware mid-to-late next year

But if my OG Switch was busted or I had more than a couple of games upcoming I was going to play portably? I'd probably consider getting the OLED. And it would definitely be the better move now if the new hardware was like two years away with no BC and no OLED panel

@Kermit1 Hi, I'm a Switch noob. I've only had my Switch for almost 3 months. Got it for my birthday near the end of April. I love the Animal Crossing games and immediately got New Horizons. I'm desperately looking for friends to play Animal Crossing with! Is it ok if I add you as a friend? I play Animal Crossing almost every night, all night. (I'm a night owl, but I do time travel a lot) You're more than welcome to add me. Here's my info if you'd like to add me!
Friend Code SW-7467-4560-0126

ACNH Info: Island: Celestia
Character Name: Luna
Dream Address: DA-7369-7001-9105