Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

The pixel remasters would be a sweet addition.

The final Mario Strikers update releases on Wednesday.

Nintendo anounce the third and final update of Mario Strikers Battle League coming in dezembre 13th

Wow. Looks like we're about to have access to FF 1 - 10 and 12 on a Nintendo console.

Other than FF7R, those are pretty much all of the Final Fantasy games worth owning.

@Ralizah
FF 1 - X, X-2, XII, XV Mobile, Crisis Core, World of Final Fantasy, Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon, Chocobo Racing (but we dont talk about that one) and likely, eventually, Tactics Remastered.

And sure, XV wasn't the best, and the mobile version is a lesser version of it, but it's still a fun enough game and the mobile version is actually pretty good if you can get past the art style.

Crisis Core, X and XII are the big ones though.

@JaxonH III - VI are shockingly good games for their time. It'll be so nice not having to dig out old handhelds to play them now. Especially with the improvements S-E has made on some of them.

I just hope SE doesn't drop these releases piecemeal like they did on mobile/PC.

Why can't we get remasters like these of the DQ games? I - III are on Switch in a form (with atrocious visuals, but still), but IV - VI have been MiA on everything but mobile for years now.

@Ralizah Don't forget 15 Pocket Edition (or whatever they called it)

@Kermit1Pineapple I've been trying to, tbh.

@Ralizah me too lol

@Ralizah Dragon Quest 3 is gonna return in modern consoles(hopefully Switch too) in the form of Dragon Quest 3 2D-HD remake.

@Ralizah
Never understood why they didn't remake the classics in HD-2D like Dragon Quest III.

Unless they're saving for ground up remake, but the expense of that compared to an HD-2D remake is likely many multiples more, while the sales would barely be double.

Why does the Switch fan run more as the Switch ages?

One year later with the OLED Switch. When it was new, the fan almost barely runs, or I amost couldn't tell if it was running. If it ran, it as slow & minimal. It's so quiet. But in recent months, the fan runs more. It maybe started around the six month mark. I can hear the whoosh. It still sounds like the fan is in good condition. But why does the fan run more as the Switch ages? I play docked. And the Switch only comes out of the drawer when I'm going to play it. So, this isn't a case of being left out needlessly to accumulate dust. (Perhaps playing hundreds of hours on it, is a factor?)

It was the same deal my launch switch in 2017 - the same fan behavior changes over time.

@JaxonH These HD-2D remakes still seem to take a decent amount of time to develop (three years for Live-A-Live, for example), so it's not the best option for making all of these classic games available in a timely fashion.

Although some of the pixel remasters did go further than others in certain respects.

Really love what they did with the opera scene in FFVI, for example:

Just holding out hope for 13 series to get ported.

@Ralizah
That's true, but I think that's due to team size allocated more than it is volume of work. If they had a team the same size as they did for FFVII Remake, it likely would have been a 9-12 month project.

@WoomyNNYes
Hmm... hard to say. None of my Switches have ever been loud with their fans so Idk. Could be dependent on the game being ran?

@WoomyNNYes my second Switch is only 2 months or so old and the fan is randomly revving for no real reason, I even tried the canned air trick and it's still doing it. I can't exchange it since the 30 days are up and my only hope is to send it to Nintendo for repair. Right now my only Switch is a Switch lite with drift, I tried to fix it but one of the screws inside was stripped sadly.

btw my old V2 Switch I gave to my brother is running perfectly, with 0 problems, and it's 2-ish years old.

@Ralizah My thought is that they are testing out the DQ III remake first and will then go to at least 4 and 5 given their popularity. But there are a lot of DQ projects on deck right now. Infinity Strash is still not out, I think there is another mobile game on the way, 12 is in development, 10 Offline is being worked on as they add in the campaigns and then thearhythm is on the way. and that doesn't include maintenance/patches for existing games like treasures and the mobile games (I think there is one for Dai out right now). So they have a lot on their plate and the rest of squeenix is working on other games too like the FF7 remakes/remaster (crisis core) and they just put out a bunch of smaller games. I say give it a year or two more.

@JaxonH I mean, it's both. HD-2D remakes do seem to be full remakes, which entails a lot of work.

I'm satisfied with the Pixel Remaster approach. These games will be very clean and sharp on the Switch's display. HD-2D is fine for certain games, but it's already at the point where it feels like SE is starting to oversaturate the market with games in this style.

Besides, I don't know that I want to pay $30 extra per game and wait years between entries just to have some modern visual effects that'll blur up the image and cause the game to run at a lower resolution on the tablet.

@Ryu_Niiyama Remakes of IV and V would be brilliant. III - V is arguably the best stretch of games in the series, but they're so inaccessible if you don't want to play on a phone.

It'll help that DQIII HD-2D seems to be multi-plat from the start. Fine by me. As with Fatal Frame, I want them to make every possible cent on these remasters/remakes so that we can keep getting them.

@Ralizah @JaxonH Obviously it's too early to tell, but I gotta say that XVI looks like one of the best entries in a while.

Love seeing the high fantasy setting/themes that the game is using. Much better than whatever XV was supposed to be imo.