Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH Cheers! My Switch has an annoying problem where it sometimes crashes whenever I try to use the 'Send to Smart Device' option so I was worried these new rules would get rid of the only other way I had been sending them along XD

@Fizza When I've posted screenshots & clips from my Switch, I've used postimages and youtube.

@Fizza
You want SwitchBuddy app.

It makes sending media from Switch to phone a breeze

Just scan the barcode the first time and done. They're in your phone. No need to scan twice and all that jazz the official method requires.

https://switchbuddy.app/

@JaxonH i cant wait to replay this masterpiece(Metroid Prime) in my Nintendo Switch) yay Nintendo listened to one of my complain, and now Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is gonna have more enemie variety(Redead confirmed yay, i hope my controller rumble like crazy when they do it scream attack) now confirm tradicional Dungeons and underwater exploration, they confirmed undeground exploration, and i will be a happy Legend of Zelda fan and will buy this game day one)

Just an FYI, Zelda TotK collector edition is live on Gamestop

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/nintendo-switch/products...

check out the analysis of Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom second trailer

"Metroid Prime Remastered: recently started by 3 friends"

I find this unacceptable

This number needs to be waaaay higher!

JaxonH is the kind of person who's continually optimistic and always finds something to get excited for, I've rarely if ever seen him criticize anything Nintendo's done.

Again, they do focus on the near future, but they always have something a little further out to announce. Confirming 0 titles past July is not their usual MO.

Incorrect. February 2021 was the only time we had a game announced for the following year, but with the exception of the April 2017 Direct (which was sandwiched in between the Switch presentation and E3, both of which had tons of huge announcements), every Spring Direct in the Switch era announced a new game for the Fall.

March 2018- Teased Smash Ultimate
February 2019- Announced Link's Awakening, which later released in September
2020- Nothing, but there were no full Directs this year
2022- Announced Xenoblade Chronicles 3 which released in September

We at the very least have gotten something announced for September and E3 filled out more of the Fall schedule. Again, we don't have that. Aside from previously announced DLC, the schedule past July is one big blank. That is extremely unusual.

It's unclear if Monolith or Bandai Namco owns Baten Kaitos so I can't really count that, and if Prime 2 were ready for September, we'd probably have heard about that now as I pointed out with Nintendo's history for Directs so if that's even happening it probably won't be that soon. September looks like it might be a big fat nothing at this point.

2020 style shadow drops don't really make much sense outside of the pandemic. When you have the ability to do a Direct, that gets you more attention. They mainly only shadow drop stuff that isn't expected to sell that well. I suspect that if anything Nintendo will have a Summer Direct to announce some smaller titles and further DLC waves to fill out the rest of 2023 and in place of the September Direct, they'll announce the new console some time in the Fall.

Great direct.

Stealth reveal that ToTK is actually a farming game (Link riding a tractor) must be the most top level trolling that Nintendo has ever done. If they’d focused on that more heavily it could have been “1st Wind Waker trailer” level legendary.

@Bolt_Strike Some of September is still summer and regarding Prime 2, I figure that if Nintendo announced it in the Direct as a separate release from the shadow dropped Prime 1 then the release would be overshadowed by backlash over pricing. Kind of like what happened to Tropical Freeze.

As for announcement strategy, in 2018 where the first half of the year was very port/remaster heavy they got the ports out of the way first with a January Direct Mini and then did a March general Direct with a heavier focus on new stuff. If Pikmin 4 is the last new game of 2023, I could see them just announcing each unannounced 2023 game separately and have a Partner Showcase for June.

Love this post. We should all now recognise and remember for evermore, the fallout from a Nintendo Direct is never over until Jaxon's brother has had his say.

@JaxonH Presumably in Metroid Prime Remastered, if you flick the right joy-con then the morph ball jumps...?

I was surprised to see @JaxonH slagging off the new Pokemon games as it's unlike them so does that mean those games really are that bad or maybe his chipper side is covering a darker edge?

@Bolt_Strike
While I certainly don't have a proclivity to complain, if you've never seen me criticize anything Nintendo's done, you've simply never spent much time in this forum, as anyone here can attest. I literally just complained about the price of Zelda 12 hrs ago, not that I need to submit a quota to prove legitimacy to you or anyone else.

It's a common tactic I've seen ppl use to try to relegate my opinions illegitimate (well if he never criticizes how can he be trusted?!) but it's just not the case.

When something truly upsets me, you'll hear about it. But 99% of the nitpicky nonsense most harp on about, you probably won't see me partaking in that.

Some people don't care to complain. Glass half full scenario...the pessimist sees one thing and the optimist another. I think a focus on what you enjoy is great.

Anybody know anything about Stolen Realm? It is in early access on steam but is coming to switch.

Hear hear! And thank goodness he told me that because I was genuinely kinda bummed out they came so close to nailing perfection, but couldn't quite get there. Come to find out, they did nail perfection, I just missed it was all.

Btw you don't flick the stick, you press X to jump in Morph ball mode (only works once you acquire the Morph ball bomb). This was a nice hack Dolphin added so it's cool seeing it in the official remaster.

@jump
I wouldn't say "bad", but... the performance definitely soured me on them. I'm sure they're perfectly fine games underneath. But until they're patched up, I have too many other, better, higher quality games on the menu.

There's sooooo many masterpiece titles dropping lately (Xenoblade 3, Portal Collection, Splatoon 3, Nier Automata, Persona 4 Golden, Persona 5 Royal, Crisis Core FFVII, Fire Emblem Engage, Metroid Prime Remaster, etc etc). Who has time for mediocrity and/or games struggling to hit bare minimum expectations of performance? Not I.

I posted the upcoming Switch games from Nintendo Direct Japan since nobody even care with this game but me.

Depends on your definition. In terms of sales/marketing, Labor Day is generally considered the end of Summer, so Nintendo would probably regard September as Fall.

They don't seem to care that much. I mean, they already bumped up TotK to $70.

Sure, that sounds viable too.

Larger point is having only 1 unannounced 1st party game shadow dropped after the Direct strongly implies they have next to nothing else planned for the year and development is shifting to next gen. If you plan on supporting the Switch for another 2+ years I don't think you can leave the schedule this open, this is a Wii U tier schedule and they're not going to be able to sustain interest in the Switch for much longer with that kind of lineup (that's a large part of the reason the Wii U flopped). If they were still making games for the Switch we'd probably see another game announced for Spring and something announced for September. Instead, the light schedule seems to be signaling that next gen is on the horizon, I'd be shocked if we get to the end of the year and we don't hear something from Nintendo about next gen (bare minimum a statement "We're making new hardware codenamed ____").

Goodness, this Metroid Prime Remaster goes far beyond what I originally expected.

Just seeing it side by side is like... wow.

I don’t think the shadow drop of Prime is a hint in any way that we’re getting a switch 2 this year.

It’s been suspected to have been “ready” for a while now. More likely the sudden shadow drop is about spacing out Metroid releases into separate financial years. Prime 4 could be a winter release or March 2024 (which would work with a Switch 2 release better than winter 23).

I really wish Nintendo would port the Mario and Luigi games over to the switch, I only tried one of them and I loved it so much, why did it have to go the way it did. And it sucks because they just can’t port them, they used the ds double screen, and alpha dream is gone so I’m not sure they can just remake it, sigh.