Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@SlashFuture there is a game but it's not included with the device.

@SlashFuture the add-on is like $30CAD and that game looks... Not great...

That was a Wii game before.
I noticed there were some Wii port on Nintendo Switch since from several years ago.
Some of them are really underrated Wii games.

@SlashFuture and for the price OOF

@SlashFuture I think it's actually a Wii game port oddly.

@SlashFuture
That was a Wii game before.

@SlashFuture Huh, and it was made by ZOO, the plot thickens. Good news, the laser is on sale now for $20CAD... Tempting...

@SlashFuture The world of shovelware truly does not end lol

@SlashFuture I think it's yet to come... It will be very different if my hypothesis is right.

@SlashFuture It's going to be from the inside (game devs) not the consumers this time.

@SlashFuture I meant more of like the workers and crunch and a walkout. It's only a hypothesis anyway it can change.

@SlashFuture I don't think game devs have a guild or a union (as in workers).

@SlashFuture I think things are going to hit a boiling point and then fizzle and get better. I think the same is also going to happen to CGI studios.

I think live service will eventually be the cause of a gaming crash, we're increasingly seeing studios trying to chase Fortnite riches and within a few years of launch (sometimes even less than a year) the games are already shutdown.

Pretty sure if Microsoft manages to acquire Activision, Jim Ryan's live service strategy (currently 11 Playstation Studios live service games by 2025) for Playstation will put Sony in a worse position than they were prior to PS4 launch.

@Grumblevolcano that's also a very good reason for a gaming crash.

One other scenario I can see happening for Nintendo is the next "Switch" system underperforming because it's too similar to what they already have and it's not worth buying a new one just for a new Mario game and a sports game.

@SlashFuture Watch this. This video is underrated.

To me, thats a failure on part of the VFX studio to specify in the contract for the director that any changes requested after the fact will be paid for by the customer, not the VFX studio.

This is common practice in manufacturing. We make aluminum die-cast parts for the auto industry. Customer submits a CAD model and print for what they want. We order a million dollar die to cast with. If the customer decides "oh, we wanna change this because our initial design resulted in porosity" guess who pays for it... they do.

I feel that's an amateur mistake to not have such a clause in your contract. You always tell the customer they must shoulder the burden of costs accrued to do any design changes requested outside the scope of the original agreement.

Playing through Fire Emblem Engage makes me want to replay older games after finishing it instead of going onto the next Switch backlog game but on the other hand there's probably a Direct soon which may have more Fire Emblem for Switch. Maybe a replay of the Tellius games as those are the least likely to appear on the Switch or any successor.

@SlashFuture We can continue it in the movie thread sometime.

@SlashFuture rad!