Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I just bought Skyward Sword and the Loftwing amiibo for cheaper than buying the game at full price. Add an Oshawott plush and my total was $70.00

I can't wait to start playing Skyward Sword for the first time! If there's anything I should know @ me.

@Kermit1 Enjoy! I just realized that you can play this game without having a certain someone remind you of low wii remote batteries like 70 percent of the game, so that is a good starting point.

should i play Bayonetta 2 to prepare myself for Bayonetta 3?

Um, I just found out a chunk of the devs for Star Wars: Hunters are based in Ukraine right now.

@Kermit1 Yikes. Thoughts and prayers to them. I hate what's happening there.

Mario Odyssey icons are now from the Snow Kingdom, with July it was:

• Week 1 - Cloud Kingdom
• Week 2 - Lost Kingdom
• Week 3 - Metro Kingdom
• Week 4 - Snow Kingdom

So there'll probably be 1 final month of Mario Odyssey icons in November (first month was March, 2nd month was July) covering the final 5 unique kingdoms.

@TheMelodiusRose I got the Switch version with the Loftwing amiibo. I'll give all the play styles a go to see which one I like.

This seems like it could be really exciting

Atlus shared the results of the survey and unsurprisingly the top 4 is all Persona:
1. Persona 3 (P3/FES/P3P)
2. Persona 2 (Innocent Sin + Eternal Punishment)
3. Revelations Persona
4. Persona 4 (P4/P4G)

Can't read the whole list but I can tell 3 of the others from the boxarts:
7. SMT IV Apocalypse
8. SMT IV
9. SMT Digital Devil Saga

So I've been looking into Capcom Fighting Collection as part of the Capcom Fighting Bundle to see what it's all about (how the game's run, which ones are the best, etc.) and I noticed something from one of the pre-release previews that filled me with a horrible realisation: the title announcer is the same one from Honest Game Trailers.

@Fizza It's a suitable voice for that kind of colorful and lighthearted fighting game though. I don't see an issue. I would feel more weirded out if he's voicing Mortal Kombat's title screen.

maintanace for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is schedule for july 28th

I can barely tolerate playing DQXI S on the dock anymore. Everything looks so washed out.

I guess I'll need to invest in an OLED monitor at some point.

That's the price paid for upgrading your A/V expectations. Suddenly what was perfectly adequate in the past is magically rendered inadequate.

@Ralizah this is the issue I had the first few months with the OLED... Suddenly my TV wasn't good enough! Optimising the saturation and contrast has helped to a point, but I'm still waiting for the day that I have a spare £1000 for an OLED TV...

Wait, so the OLED version of the Switch makes your non-OLED TV look worse than if you used the old non-OLED Switch? Glad I didn't bother then. I'm not gonna buy a new 4K TV just for Nintendo. My 4K TV wasn't even bought; my Singapore ISP provided it for free when I upgraded my Internet subscription contract.

@Maxenmus, I'm assuming playing on TV is the same no matter whether you're using a normal or OLED Switch, it's just that the OLED screen looks so good they don't want to go back to playing on an LCD screen (Playing docked on a normal Switch would look just as bad to them now).

@RR529 Ah, right. lol My mistake. That makes more sense, an LCD TV screen.

It's hard for me to invest in an OLED because I usually play my Switch on dock, and my 4K TV already looks good enough playing the Switch with no visible issues.

I was a bit annoyed at first though that the retailer who sold me the Switch told me it's the latest Switch model when I bought it, only to have the OLED model released a few months later. I went back and complained but he gave me a line about how there's very little difference or something. I can't remember what exactly it was he said. I think he was just trying to cover his butt for the screw up he made. Not that I could refund anyway because of misinformation like this.

Let it go bud. It's not the retailer's responsibility to give you advance notice of hardware yet to be released.

@gcunit True, but lying is lying IMO. I asked, "Is this the latest Switch model? No other Switch models would come out anytime soon, right?" And he said "Yes." I'm not savvy with gaming news, so I asked. Maybe I should've done my research, but he should've just said "I don't know" if he didn't know. I would've bought the Switch anyway. It's either that he didn't know about the OLED model and gave me bad advice, or he did know and lied about the existence of upcoming Switch models and tricked me into buying an older one because he wanted to make a sale.

Furthermore, while I said earlier that the OLED model came out "a few months later," I might've been mistaken and it might've been even sooner after I bought my Switch, like a month or less later, which was why I felt like I got tricked. Unless you're telling me Nintendo kept the OLED model secret a month or two prior to its release.

Also, it might not be his responsibility to give advanced notice of upcoming consoles... but he sure loves to act like it is his job description anyway. He would usually tell his customers about upcoming models even if we never asked, acting like he knows his gaming. Apparently not... I mean, I guess that's what salespeople are supposed to do, influencing you to come back and buy more upcoming consoles and games, even if some of their pitches are based on false information.