Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Fizza I'm fairly sure Nintendo haven't committed to adding games to NSO on a monthly basis in years.

Now they're content with adding a handful of games every six to nine months.

@Fizza @Magician There's some patterns:

• Mega Drive - April, June, September, December (they did have a March wave as well last year but there was none in March 2023)
• N64/GBA - At least 1 a month (e.g. this year N64 was January + April, GBA was February + March + May + June)
• NES/SNES/GB - A batch every few months

So it feels like July would have N64, August would have GBA and possibly NES/SNES/GB, September would have Mega Drive and GBA, October would have N64 and possibly NES/SNES/GB, etc.

Then again, there is the whole situation of the September 2022 general Direct. These are scheduled for 2023:

• Mario Party 3
• Pokemon Stadium 2
• Excitebike 64
• 1080 Snowboarding
• Harvest Moon 64

The current N64 schedule is not enough time to release those 5. Also it would be weird if we went through 2 consecutive general Directs where the only NSO content present is the Booster Course Pass.

What size sd cards do most switchs use. I'm useing 512 GB card but are 1 TB Cards reliable

@Ninfan Most use less than 512 GB just because the smaller ones have been cheap for a few years and most people don't even need more than 128 or 256. 1TB is perfectly reliable, they were just pretty expensive until recently. There are some bad ones sold, but the major brands have no issue.

I upgraded to 1 TB earlier this year and it's great.

Yeah I'm on 256GB but only have 15GB left or something. Will probably need to get one before the end of the year I guess but ATM I'm still not done with TotK. Odds are the day I order it is the day they announce new hardware and I'll end up never actually needing it

@Ninfan
I'd suggest 512GB ATM unless you know you're going to buy a huge library of games immediately. You still pay a premium for 1TB and by the time you've filled up 512GB you'll be able to get 1TB for less than the difference between 512GB and 1TB now. Less than 512GB you're not really saving much

Is anyone playing games like fortnite or apex legends or overwatch. Any FPS or TPS game on switch lite, if yes how is the view on the screen, can you see in the distance. Or how well does the switch lite work like this

MS acquiring AB is a massive deal, no doubt, but ppl talking all that monopoly nonsense don't have a clue. I studied micro and macro economics. For one, the market is an oligopoly. For two, Microsoft is in the last place position among the 3 major players. For three, they'd have to acquire about 30 more publishers before even having a shot at rising up one spot in the rankings vs their peers, much less reach 51% marketshare vs Nintendo and Sony, relegating them to <25% marketshare each, and even then that's still nowhere close to being a monopoly.

A monopoly implies an exclusive possession of a market by a supplier of a product or a service for which there is no substitute. In this situation the supplier is able to determine the price of the product without fear of competition from other sources or through substitute products. They'd literally have to put PlayStation, Switch and Valve out of business. And even MS doesn't even remotely have the money to buy the literal hundreds of publishers needed to corner the market. It's such a far fetched fantasy it feels dirty dignifying it with a response. Fanboy rhetoric that has no basis in economic reality.

I've already touched on the SE thing. There's not one iota of evidence the company is even looking to sell, not one iota of evidence Sony is interested, and it essentially all started from a false rumor from a Sony diehard using it as console war ammo trying to boast about something that hasn't happened, has no evidence it will happen, and doesn't even make business sense in the context of the gamers Sony/MS are fighting over. Lot of ppl trying to will this thing into existence.

I'm pleased to see Microsoft acquite Activision Blizzard. For one, I'm a Switch gamer, and MS has committed to bringing Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms for 10 years. That means Switch 2 and Switch 3. So we all win there. For two, with games like CoD, Switch 2/3 could pull in a lot more players Switch never got, which means 3rd party publishers could commit to even more big games on Switch 2/3 to sell to that audience. We win again. For three, every MS game = day one on Steamdeck. We win yet again. For four, every publisher that is now officially off limits to Sony's grubby mitts and backroom bribes, the better.

Just look at Bethesda. Sony bribed so many games from them on PS5, they had more Bethesda exclusives than MS despite MS actually owning the dang company! Deathloop. Tokyo Ghostwire. They were even going after Starfield. Thank goodness MS scooped them up when they did.

I'm not a particular fan of Xbox and in truth, I'm not entirely confident they'll manage studios well. But at this point, I'd stil rather see that risk taken with day 1 Steamdeck releases and Switch support vs Activision continuing to ignore Switch, selling games on their own PC storefront (and when they did finally dump the last 3 years worth of CoD on Steam they're all booked on SteamDeck), and Sony having a field day with the pick of the litter paying for all kinds of exclusive games, content, excluding Gamepass and delaying Steam releases.

@gcunit
I didn't find Pikmin 4 demo to be tedious at all.

I kind of feel like Pikmin fans just expect, "game start" > begin like the old games, because the old games did very little explaination-wise, and they were much more straight forward. But that's rather dated game design nowadays that does nothing to onboard new players, provide explanations, world building, etc.

Pikmin is actually a fairly complex game if youve never played before- even more so for Pikmin 4 with Oatchi, item use, commands, upgrades, and just integrating an improved, gradual tutorial on ramp for new players that should have been done in past games.

It really only stops and starts for the first 30 min or so as it gets the story cutscenes out of the way, teaches you basic gameplay mechanics, the hub world and how to move bases, how to use Oatchi, shop, items and upgrading, with some cute little story lines and scenes thrown in.

As soon as you hit the real first day and get past it to day 2, it's basically like normal Pikmin. Yes, it still occasionally pauses to explain something new as you encounter it or what have you, but that stuff is appreciated.

It's so good though. I got about 4 in game days in before hitting 1500 sparklium and I was devastated I couldn't keep playing. Highly recommend

New tech / gameplay video for EA FC 24.

I usually don't go with simulation futball games, but I admit I am mildly curious about this entry.

P.S.

@JaxonH

My biggest hope with the Activision Blizzard acquisition is MS's willingness to dig into the Activision back catalogue. Normally AB are mostly about Call of Duty and not much else. But hopefully this lays the groundwork for the return of some classics. MechWarrior? Tenchu? Vigilante 8? True Crime? Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines? Gun?

Some upcoming Switch games according to play-asia.

@JaxonH will MS are at all this, they should get rare to make some more games , the battletoads release was 99%, only for no online play.

@JaxonH I think people like to say the word 'monopoly' when really they mean 'potentially anti competitive' or sometimes just 'large'. For Microsoft, clearly they aren't a monopoly in the gaming sphere, but since they own a large percentage of the world's operating systems and internet infrastructure, they have a lot of power.

They could put out an automatic patch to simply block Steam from most computers. They could screw with PlayStation's online services which are hosted on Microsoft's cloud. Clearly they won't do these things because they are both illegal and illogical, but there is a general sense that when the second largest company in the world (by some metrics) takes a relatively large bite into an industry, you should at least take note.

You also neglect the fact that the Activision acquisition will allow Microsoft to use Candy Crush to subliminally mind control all the grandparents out there to buy only xboxes for their grandchildren.

Really wish they would add these to SNES emulator:
TMNT turtles in time
Sunset riders
Zombies are my neighbors
NBA jam
Wrestlemania

And these to Sega
Royal Rumble
nhl 94
King of monsters
WWF raw
Desert strike

Any chance Nintendo takes requests? Haha

@Triezy4023 Since you can actually buy Turtles in Time on Switch now in the Cowabunga Collection, it seems unlikely they would add it to NSO.

Not confirmed for consoles yet, but I assume we'll see this on Switch sometime next year.

Bayonetta 3 Trinity Masquerade Edition back in stock on Nintendo UK Store:

https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/bayonetta-3-trinity-masquerad...

Seems Nintendo delisted The Last Hope (the bad TLoU clone) from the eshop.

@Grumblevolcano I was actually morbidly curious in grabbing it myself purely to see how bad it was but it's probably for the best that it got struck down.

@Grumblevolcano How often does that happen? I mean there's a load of rubbish on there, why bother going after that one and not all the ones with hentai in the name? It's technically not breaking any rules, right?

@TeaCatherine It's likely Sony forced Nintendo to take it down, a case of copyright protection. Mario clones where the main character looks like Mario have ended up on Playstation before and Nintendo's forced Sony to take it down. This time, it was Ellie from TLoU ending up in The Last Hope.

speculating/predicting the final DLC of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the Pikimin 4 review.