Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I'll have bought... counts ...ten games this year after Pikmin 4. I... think I'm tapped out after July, unless something critically important releases.

New 3D Mario, Ace Attorney, or SMT game releases? I'll still grab that. Otherwise, I'm good. Probably for the rest of the generation, honestly. I have so much stuff to play in my backlog.

@Magician I mean, there's a small subculture of people who, I'm convinced, see indications of the coming Switch Pro/Switch 2 in their breakfast cereal in the morning. It's like QAnon at this point. Everything is a Sign.

@Ralizah if the rumors of IGN/VGC are true(that Switch is gonna have a light second half, we shoundt expect a big release during the holidays, since Nintendo EPD and it subsidiaries must be hard at work on Switch sucessor launch games.

@Giancarlothomaz I find it difficult to believe Nintendo won't have something mainstream for the holidays. Might just be more Pokemon, but it'll be something that does 10+ million copies.

I don't doubt they're otherwise hoarding a bunch of new projects for next-gen hardware, though. Seeing how successful Switch was, they'll want a packed launch year.

@Ralizah Sword/Shield was packaged with the expansion pass on the cart in 2020 so they'll probably do the same with Scarlet/Violet this year at the least.

DON'T TAKE MY NINTENDO!

@Ralizah but what could be the holiday release for this years, a 2D/3D Mario game i dont think so, since Nintendo would be saving this game for a Switch sucessor launch, Donkey Kong could be a possible holiday release, Nintendo seens to aim to make Donkey Kong a bigger frachise again(given that Donkey Kong will the franchise that will get a expansion in Super Nintendo World in Japan and Super Nintendo World in Orlando)

@Magician lack of parenting lead to this kinda of situation

@Giancarlothomaz you are not wrong.

I mean... if it came to it, you'd have to pry my Switch from my cold, dead hands. But I'm not sure I'd have got mine out in class to begin with.

@Magician the usual suspects.

@Magician WTH. Teachers need hazard pay. And body armor. I hope she is ok. So scary to have that be an outcome to something as simple as don’t play games in class.

Saw the video of the attack on Twitter. Absolutely horrific.

Tetris Effect just got an update that adds TATE mode to the Switch version, among other modes and changes.

That's pretty awesome.

Just tried some Kirby Return to Dreamland and two things struck me...

1) Merry Magoland, the mini-game theme park, has some seriously high quality mini games. It almost felt like waking from a dream. After playing bad mini games for so many years, I'd forgotten what it was like to play good, quality mini games. Sometimes a game releases that has mini games so good, it reaches legendary status. Super Monkey Ball is one of those games, I'd say. And now, I'd add Kirby's Return to Dreamland to that list. It's possibly more fun than the main game.

2) Kirby has way more moves than I give him credit for. After checking the menu for controls, there were like 5 moves above and beyond the ones I already knew about. Some very select, situational moves. Some more common. But I was taken aback at just how diverse the moveset actually is, and that was just for the sword ability. 14 different moves listed for the sword! Granted, some are "underwater only" or "while in midair", things like that, but still. 14 moves!

I take a lot of pics on Switch, which I dump every on my computer every Monday at midnight, all organized by game, and sometimes with sub-folders depending on the game (like Splatfest pics in Splatoon 3).

check out the 2023 Pokemon Presents

Well, no new Pokemon games for Switch on this year.
So I can focus on playing other games then.

Excited about the DLC's but surprised there will be no other Pokemon game releasing this year.
Guess they want us to focus on Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

I've had my Switch since August 2017, I think this year I'm gonna upgrade to an OLED model for my birthday.

@JadeKitsune
It's a really nice system. Once you get one you'll wonder how you ever made due with the fat bezel LCD model.

The top shelf screen with perfect blacks and proper kickstand alone incentivizes handheld and tabletop play. And as we all know from behavioral science, incentives drive behavior. Ever since getting my OLED I've played more handheld and tabletop, and as a result, I've spent more time playing games, and that at the end of the day is more bang for buck.