Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Didn’t Nintendo say they want a new Mario and Zelda game out each year? Would DLC count as a new game? And how many people that bought Mario Odyssey, still own it and not traded it in? The longer the gap between launch and DLC the less I’d think people care about going back to the game. There’s too many other things to play now that’ll take their interest.

I've never felt Switch joycon to feel cheap or "break in my hand". I'm quite sure I could chuck my joycon at the wall and they'd be just fine. Their one flaw is lifespan of transducer contact pad in the analog, and that's not something I've ever experienced.

Nonetheless, I have decked out my joycon

1) Custom shell with Basstop d-pad, far better than that weird curvy ExtremeRate d-pad and definitely better than stock buttons
2) Swapped pastic latches for aluminum to prevent wear, so joycon don't push off rails
3) Hall Effect Sensor analog sticks. I said I've never experienced drift, but I intend to keep it that way with these Hall Effect Sensor analogs that just released.
4) Fosmon analog caps to add bumpy texture and just a smidge extra height to the sticks, which actually makes a massive difference in using the right analog. So much easier with these caps on.

Rjejr used to joke with me about my Bionic Wii U. But I kinda feel like these Bionic Joycon have surpassed it 😀

Once I get my Hall Effect analogs installed, I'll post some pics of the new, fully loaded Bionic Joycon

@FragRed Well the only Zelda we got in 2022 was Majora’s Mask on NSO so Mario Party 3 on NSO would count for Mario in 2023.

@Grumblevolcano Zelda: Kingdom Sad 😢 was originally meant to be a 2022 release though so maybe the intention was/is to have a yearly Zelda something game out but a game delay could muck it all up. The best laid plans of mice and men and all.

@Grumblevolcano That’s true though I do think that was because the initial plan was for TotK to release last year then for whatever reason they didn’t want to or couldn’t get a Zelda port out like Wind Waker or Twilight Princess.

@IceClimbers Nintendo must have a lot of high profile games, if they are planing on increasing Switch production this fiscal year.

@JaxonH The most notable joy-con flaw, in my own experience, is the routing of the ribbon cable for the rail buttons (SL/SR) and lights. I've got a few that have non-functional rail buttons & lights. I haven't established why some suffer from it and others don't, but the ones that do, it's because the ribbon is bent and squashed by the shell, resulting in breakage. That's my only major gripe.

@FragRed Mario Odyssey was a gigantic release. A DLC expansion would be VERY popular.

@JaxonH Joy-Con is very fragile, i Luckyly that 4 years since i have my extended battery Switch(i cousin bought this Switch to me in 2019, when he went to USA in novembre, but when i use my Joy-Con it made a lot of clicky noise, but Luckyly i dint sufered the dreadful Joy-Con drift, but many friend of mine has sufered this).

@Grumblevolcano the revision i could imagine Nintendo could release this year is a OLED version of Switch Lite and some themed Switch OLED for some games like that rumored Switch OLED for Tears of The Kingdom

The odd part is that Odyssey is 5 years old and there are more recent Mario games to promote like 3D All Stars and 3D World + Bowser's Fury. Promoting Odyssey specifically is strange if there is no further content planned.

I do suspect it's more likely late DLC than a sequel. This seems like it might be a similar situation to MK8D, Nintendo doesn't seem to have been interested in a sequel, but the game was popular and the fanbase still is, so they'll go back and throw in some extra content while they work on the next big thing for Mario on the next gen console.

@Bolt_Strike Ninty definitely seems to be warming up to expanding the life of their older games by infusing them with DLC. Personally, if they do that, I hope it's an actual new campaign like Bowser's Fury and not just "BTW if you pay [x amount of money] you'll have access to three new worlds!"

@Ralizah The fact collecting every unique moon doesn’t give you enough moons to get the 999 moon ending bothered me. I’d be really happy with content added to the current campaign such that you can get 999 unique moons. A XC2 type outcome where that’s the earlier waves and the final wave is a new campaign would be preferable though.

@JaxonH I honestly prefer those Analogs over Nintendo's. I have a Zen Pro Controller that uses them and they just feel better then Nintendo's sticks. I am seriously considering buying a pair to swap the ones in my Joycons with.

It's kind of hard for me to envision a new campaign or side mode separate from the main adventure. They could do another Bowser's Fury open world mode, but then they'd have to explain why these kingdoms are connected to each other and the original ones were separate. Most likely I think it'll be closer to the latter, possibly even divided into waves like Smash Ultimate and the Booster Course pack with one new kingdom every few months. And really I'd be fine with that, for the most part all I want from an Odyssey 2 is more kingdoms and captures and DLC can satisfy that just fine. It would be nice to see some other things too, such as making Peach and Tiara playable and/or an extra Bowser battle where Bowser captures Peach (this was originally planned and scrapped, but with Bowsette's popularity they could circle back to this), but IDK if we'll get that.

@Bolt_Strike it would not be strange if in 6 years after the release of Super Mario Odyssey, the game got a DLC, considering in late 2024/early 2025 the Switch sucessor could release and one of it launch games could be a 3D Mario game.

@Giancarlothomaz The same could be said for MK8D, and that got DLC too.

Does anyone have any proof of the Mario odyssey email? I keep seeing it mentioned, but haven’t heard of it up to this point.

@blindsquarel This was from one person that I follow on Twitter:

It's pretty much a screen cap of the SMO email, going over the stuff you can do in the game.

@MarioLover92 i received a similar e-mail as that in the news section of my Switch(i got so confused, why Nintendo is advertising Super Mario Odyssey now, the game will be 6 years old this octobre, are they doing this because of the Mario movie? problaby yes)