Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Got my sparks of hope pre-order in from best buy and they gave me a $10 gift card for pre-ordering it. Not sure if that's nation wide or not though.

@Ralizah
[Salivates...]

It looks sooo good in handheld, especially on the OLED. This port couldn't possibly have turned out any better. It's essentially the PS4 version on an OLED in the palm of your hands.

@NintendoByNature
Ya they've had that deal since the game was announced. But Gamestop offers an exclusive steelbook with the Gold version, so I ordered both. Plan to sell the Gold version on eBay to recoup costs. Already buying the Gold digitally anyways.

@JaxonH gotcha. I didn't realize that, so I was pleasantly surprised!

And Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope handheld footage.

Gosh dang we've reached the pinnacle of this generation. Switch games looking better than ever in handheld mode.

IDK if anyone cares but this is cool... GBG is starting to get really really cool and not many people really care sadly, this year people found a way to make 3D models with animations something once thought undo-able with the game's limited engine, and now more people are creating really good looking and playing games, this week I saw someone made a skate boarding game based on SKATE 2 and it was great. I feel this game is going to have a quiet death before people call it a "hidden gem" or "cult classic".

Anyway here's a cool video showing off HD Rumble.

@Kermit1
The only reason I didn’t get the game is because you can’t search up community games. That would be my only use for it, since I am to stupid to code anything.

It's unbelievable how excited I am to play Persona 5, a game I've already completed twice, on the Switch this Friday.

The Switch has already given me some of my favourite games of all time (Mario Odyssey, Fire Emblem Three Houses) and has for years cemented itself as my favourite system of all time.

But this is something else. Up until now, Persona 5 has been my favourite game unavailable on a Nintendo console. So excited to experience this on the OLED.

People complained and made fun of the "port begging" for many years. But in the end we're getting yet another 10/10 generation-defining experience on the hybrid.

Crazy how the Game Awards 2018 saga is nearly at a close. It started with rumours of Metroid Prime 4 and Metroid Prime Trilogy Switch info which didn't happen but instead we got Joker in Smash Ultimate setting up nearly 4 years of Atlus trolling Switch owners over Persona 5 not being on the Switch.

Remember P5R and P5S?

And fans speculated the P5S was a Persona 5 Switch reference? Then it turned out to be Strikers, which was also for Switch, but ppl lost all hope and said it was never happening...

Pepperidge Farm remembers

@JaxonH Still a shame that Strikers came out over 1.5 years before Royal on Switch, given that it's a sequel. It might've slipped under a few people's radars (or they might otherwise have been put off) for that reason.

I do hope newcomers to Persona 5 move on to Strikers when they feel ready. It's an excellent game and a deserving sequel.

@Rambler survey give us a stimate of a specific topic

@Rambler If you want any YT recommendations for GBG I can help.

@Rambler I'm subbed to all of them so just ask me when you want them.

Lookie lookie... 😀

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@Kermit1
What can I say. We Switch fans may not socialize much outside our parents basements, but online we're like a cranked up Jesse Pinkman

It strikes me that mainline SMT and mainline Persona haven't shared a console since the PS2.

Come to think of it, other than Soul Hackers 2, Switch now has all of the major HD Atlus releases. Catherine: Full Body? Check. Shin Megami Tensei V? Check. Persona 5 Royal? Check. Persona 5 Strikers? Check. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim? Check. And, what the hell, checkity check on Tokyo Mirage Sessions as well. We're missing one reportedly mediocre spinoff and some dancing games. That's it. And they're probably coming at some point anyway.

Same deal with Platinum Games. We're missing two decent seventh gen games, but otherwise, everything worth playing that they've produced as a company is on Switch now.

@Ralizah Both studios have signed big exclusivity deals with Nintendo on a lot of those series though, haven't they? SMTV was Switch exclusive alongside P5Scramble (also alongside Atlus having a major presence at two of Nintendo's Partner Showcases) and Nintendo's got the entire Bayonetta franchise wrapped around their finger. We know Nintendo for being very in-house focused as a games company (probably more than any of the other Big 3 in Sony and Microsoft) but I'll be damned: they have been extremely savvy when it comes to 3rd Party exclusivity. Reminds me of when they got Capcom to do a whole host of games exclusive (though that should be in quotation marks with today's day and age) to Gamecube/GBA like Okami, Ace Attorney and, of course, RE4.

@Ralizah Star Fox Zero and Guard would be nice. Sure it's unlikely given they weren't that well received and Star Fox appears to be dead after Ubisoft's Starlink flopped but I found Star Fox Zero and Guard to be fun games.