Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I got Kirby Star Allies, Paper Mario Origami King, Snack World last Monday, but my hype is still on Youtubers Life PS4.

@JaxonH That is their current setup of focusing on one thing and then the next. It wasn't however their setup for Splatoon 1 and 2:

• Splatoon 1 had announcement at E3 2014 and there was regular news about the game from the November 2014 Direct onwards.
• Splatoon 2 had announcement at the January 2017 Switch Presentation and had regular news about the game leading up to launch. There was even a trailer in the ARMS Direct.
• Splatoon 3 had announcement in February 2021 Direct and had the odd info here and there between the September 2021 Direct, February 2022 Direct and the twitter account. The February 2022 Direct segment just being a confirmation of Salmon Run returning was particularly odd.

But anyway we'll start getting more info in a week or so, this week's promo focus is all about Pokemon and MK8 Deluxe.

@Anti-Matter yea, but it seems like you only included specific games YOU'RE getting for the remainder of the year when I asked for an all encompassing list. No worries, Jaxon sent me the list I was looking for. Not really interested in any of those though. I'm looking at these purchases with a couple that might get axed in the launch window and pushed out til a later date.

• splatoon 3
• diofield chronicles
• nier automata
• mario + rabbids 2
• persona 5
• and Bayonetta 3

Also some smaller titles in the near future that are day 1 include...

• blossom tales 2
• cowabunga collection

I bought AAA Clock............... For the sole purpose of setting an alarm for the Pokemon Presents...

I don't own a cell-phone, don't judge me... I'm now a part of the 2% that owns this fine application

@NintendoByNature
In contrary, I don't even like those games from your list. (Except Mario + rabbids 2)
Well, we are completely different gamers.
I'm looking for obscure / niche titles that matched with my personality and don't have interest with kind of games from your list.

@JaxonH I'll probably end up making room for Mario + Rabbids, since the original is one of my absolute favorite games on the system, but everything else is boned.

Thankfully, I've already played P5R and NieR: Automata to death on the PS4, so I won't be missing out on much with those. No interest in Bayonetta 3 whatsoever, so that's another. I'm kinda interested in Harvestella, but that'll just have to be something I purchase at discount down the line. Same with Trails from Zero, Chaos;Head Noah, and Diofield Chronicles. I plan on purchasing Pokemon Scarlet for my nephew, so I'll have access to that, but I can't imagine it'll be more than a holiday curiosity for me.

By the time I'm done with this current crop of games, Breath of the Wild 2 should be on the horizon, along with whatever else Nintendo has lined up that they'll likely reveal in September.

@Anti-Matter🤷‍♂️ is what it is i suppose

I know exactly what I'm playing on Switch for the remainder of the year (along with going back to multiplayer games/retro NSO things):
-replay Sonic Mania
-Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
-Megaman Zero
-New Pokemon Snap
-Link's Awakening remake
-Splatoon 3
-Finishing Neo:TWEWY
-Omori
-Flinthook
-Yooka Laylee
-Golf Story
-Xenoblade 2: Torna
-hopefully No More Heroes 3
-one of the games I bought a while ago but haven't gotten to

I own the majority of these already but...yeah. It says how overwhelming how many quality games I want to play there are that I have these retro game collections and multiple times I'm like "I'll get to exactly one of these each in the next 5 months!"

But no way I'm playing Xenoblade 3 soon, and I am very glad I never got into Monster Hunter. Like genuinely, if I loved Monster Hunter, it would end me. I don't have time, that's impossible.

So this is my rest of the year:
August: Mario Kart DLC
September: Waiting for Bayonetta 3
October: Bayonetta 3
November: Pokemon
December: Wondering when Bayonetta 4 will be announced

@skywake
Ha!

We paid our dues. It's been 8 years since we got Bayonetta 2! That's nearly a decade. It doesn't feel like that long. But it has been. It seems like yesterday we were in the Wii U era, and Bayonetta 2 was one of the few blockbuster exclusives to look forward to on the system. I'd never played the series before. But my brother wouldn't shut up about it. So I bought the games when they released and ended up loving them so much, Bayonetta 2 instantly shot up to my favorite action game. I had played Wonderful 101 the year prior though and loved that, so I figured it was up my alley.

Bayo 3 looks so much better than 2 though. Graphically for sure, but I also like the style of Bayo in this game more. Her proportions are also less exaggerated which I think looks better, too.

Of all Platinum games, Bayonetta is the most pure. It's just raw Platinum action distilled down to response times and reactions. I love it for that. Those Platinum trophies are addictive (not the PS trophies, the in-game performance trophies for how well you do- you know what I mean).

@Ralizah
For sure, not having to worry about Persona 5 Royal and Nier Automata helps. Even if I had played Persona 5 through though I'd still be there day one just because it's Persona 5 on Switch. The thing ppl said would never happen. I'd pay $60 just to support it. But I haven't played it beyond 10 hrs or so, so there's that. Never got into Nier Automata either. Back when everyone was raving about it, I couldn't understand why ppl liked it more than Bayonetta, which seemed to be more pure combat which is what I like. But I didn't give it a truly fair shake. Switch will change that. All I know is Nier Incarnation didn't do it for me. But Automata is better than Incarnation from what I remember. Just being able to play handheld on the OLED will go a long ways in helping me stick with it.

You never did like Bayonetta. I was always taken aback when you'd say you liked Nier more. I've always preferred Bayonetta and viewed it as a near perfect video game. I'm quite sure Bayo 3 will end up in my short list of fave games of all time. The question is, will Nier Automata also land somewhere on that list.

I think next year will be full of surprises!

Welcome @Mick65 !

I've been playing a lot of MH Sunbreak, having so much fun playing online. Can't wait for the free title update coming soon, if anyone ever wants to play together let me know

Also can't wait for Pokemon, excited to see what they're gonna show in the Pokemon Presents today 😍

Man, I was researching something else at the Wikipedia page on best selling video games when I realized Mario Kart 8 sales (Wii U + Switch) are probably going to exceed the previous second best selling Nintendo title Super Mario Bros (NES + GB (Deluxe) + GBA (Classic NES Series) + Wii VC + Wii U VC) by the end of the year at the latest. That's just insane.

That puts it only behind Wii Sports, a pack-in title on an insanely well selling system... And it could still possibly (though it's unlikely) catch that by the end of the Switch's lifespan.

check out the second Pokémon Presents of 2022

That Pokemon presents was kinda meh, but that Scarlet & Violet trailer was pretty good.

plus real shiny Pokemon

@NeonPizza Nice shout. I'll have to grab Power Slave if the gyro aiming is that solid. I've been wanting a good shooter for my Switch, but I also can't abide stick aiming.

I know the original impressions weren't good, but has anyone been using the Switch's built-in bluetooth audio, and is it really as terribad latent as it originally seemed?

I like to use bone conductors with my Switch, but the pair of wired ones I got for switch is starting to wear out terribly with the seam splitting and exposing the wire. I was going to buy more, and, unfortunately they don't make the wired ones anymore since the world ditched wired anything (thanks, Apple!)

Might have to use bluetooth. I know Switch only has SBC, but the bone conductors only use a2DP, no APTx or anything there either so it doesn't matter. So it mostly is a debate between wireless sucking too bad to use, or not.

@NEStalgia
It's horrible.

Bluetooth was never designed to transmit full audio. Even the cutting edge codecs capable of higher bandwidth have latency, and the ones with lower latency come at the cost of audio quality.

Go wired. Not only is the signal not degraded, but all the good headphones are wired. Even the best Bluetooth headphones are a waste of money as the signal quality is bottlenecked by the Bluetooth codec itself.

@JaxonH Bah, darnit! Thanks. I'm not too fussed about SQ, it's bone conductors, SQ is compromised by nature, plus Switch headphone audio isn't spectacular to begin with, but the latency being bad is an obvious problem.

I like bone conductors so I'm not isolated from my surroundings if I'm playing handheld. But this race to get rid of wired everything has made it rough. Since bone conductors are aimed at the trendy fitness crowd, it's all modern (wireless) now, they only made the good wired ones for a few years and then stopped. I found one or two off brand generic Chinese wired ones, but I do question their actual quality vs the Aftershokz brand which does the best you can do with the nature of the tech. I expect it's like the old orange Gen 4 "Sport" Aftershokz model I had back during 3DS which sounded like tin cans and string, and a big step back from the ones I've been using that are falling apart.

I built a phone setup with a Kishi 2 for streaming from the power consoles locally which is nice, but I'm also stuck with BT there since the Kishi clamp blocks the headphone jack (it's an older phone that still has one) and the USB is power-only.

I'm kind of lukewarm towards Scarlet/Violet though every mainline Pokemon game since Sun/Moon (I'm including Sun/Moon here) has shown me that if you're at all interested in playing a mainline Pokemon game in its first few months you need to preorder and buy day 1.

Sword/Shield especially had gigantic stock issues in its first few months.