Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Magician cool! I tend to go on price and release date. I’m not as into physical as I used to be so whatever is sooner and cheaper is what I go with.

Fae Farm is 60 bucks? I will wait on reviews.

I'm literally only halfway through my very first Fire Emblem (Blazing Blade on NSO) and am already heavily considering picking up both Three Houses and Engage, WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME

GameDriver is coming to Switch

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230822638745/en/Game...

@Fizza

Literally everyone I've introduced Fire Emblem to, and who has played through a significant chunk of one of the games, has stuck with the series, or at least explored further in.

@Ralizah I've had so many people tell me I should play Fire Emblem to the point where I now feel exactly like Squidward in that one episode where he tries a Krabby Patty for the first time.

@Fizza One of us! One of us!

Gotta get back to Engage (and 3 Houses) after Octopath II....but Age of Empires 4 just dropped on xbox soooooo...I will likely be over there for a bit.

for my Switch Lite, im quite busy this year with these

Ni No Kuni III
Paper Mario Origami
Zelda Skyward Sword
Xenoblade 1. still have the end boss to do still
Xenoblade 2. pretty much the whole game. PLus still need to get the DLC stuff

then the digital games
Bravely Default II
Tales of Vesperia
Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil Revelations 2
Monster Hunter Rise. still have regular Rise. dont have the new DLC stuff yet

Excitebike 64 is the next NSO game coming August 30th.

Excitebike 64 is coming to NSO in august 30th

Is there another Switch/Switch Lite system update going on or something that I dont know about?

Before I could get back into Zelda Skyward Sword, my switch lite had a message saying that there was an update yada yada so had that taken care of.

Whats up with these recent system updates not just for the Nintendo Switches but also for the Playstation 4?

@XandertheWise
It's just how modern development cycles work. Same deal with day 1 patches for games and other such things. I know the gaming community more broadly is nostalgic for the "good old days" of everything being "finished" when they buy it but.... nobody works like that in software anymore

At my work we have a two week minor release cycle probably with a dozen or so issues fixed each time. A lot of the issues are behind the scenes, stuff clients wouldn't have been aware of, maybe edge cases we've picked up internally. Sometimes it's just a change to make the code more manageable or even just a straight up performance improvement

Why the short cycle? Well, because testing needs to test. If we had a longer cycle, and we used to, you end up with a huge releases and a massive testing backlog. If a client comes out with an issue? Well if it's not a breaking issue then they're probably waiting a month or two for it. Which isn't exactly confidence inspiring. Also smaller and more frequent releases mean there's less stress on everyone when the release goes out

So yeah, smaller and more frequent releases? Everyone wins

yeah whatever.

Im tired of these annoying system updates.

Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch Lite had like 1 or 2 updates which got annoying.

Now there's another 1 or 2 updates so far this late of the month.

Enough is enough already

@XandertheWise
What's the negative here though? That the system has to power cycle once every few weeks? Hardly the end of the world. But the thing they're patching behind the scenes? It might well be. And now they've patched it you're not going to stumble into it unwittingly

The only reason you don't see the benefit of regular updates is because you're getting regular updates. If they didn't have regular updates I can pretty much guarantee that you'd be on here saying "I keep getting this error code in Mario Kart every time I start a match and Nintendo Support just keeps responding that they're aware of the issue"

I mean from the Wii and before it the only way any software on Nintendo's hardware got updated was when they re-printed the game. If you brought the game on day one and there was a game breaking bug in it? Tough luck. Try to avoid it. Good luck!

@Rambler
Yes, you're right. Although if we're being pedantic it technically wasn't a patch it was a save game update tool. Fairly sure it was the only game on Wii to have anything along those lines, excluding WiiWare I guess

edit: Also I remember encountering a bug in Red Steel 2. You'd progress in the game in a certain way and you could end up stuck in a loading area with no way to progress. Lost a couple of hours of progress. And because there was no way to patch the game that bug just was there for everyone. Not good

@skywake well frankly Im tired of system updates whether its for the Playstation 4, X Box One S, or for the Nintendo Switches.

Just had like two to three updates for Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch just last month and again this month.

ENOUGH ALREADY

understand why a holiday launch for Nintendo next hardware, is not benefict for no one

@XandertheWise for some reason, after the most recent update for Switch, i noticed some games that have framerate isseus, seen to have run better, my Bayonetta 3 is runing 60fps nearly flawless

I've never taken issue with the frequency of Switch updates.

On PS5 it's annoying because I barely turn the system on twice a year, so every time I do there's a gaggle of patches and system updates waiting for me. Takes like 30 min just to get everything up to date and by then I forgot why I even fired it up in the first place.

Windows gaming PC is the worst though. Especially since I never use mine anymore (Switch OLED = 95% game time, SteamDeck ÷ 5% game time). I'll fire that baby up and have a massive Windows update waiting for me, then another one after that. Will also have Nvidia GeForce updates, on top of Steam client updates, and then 100+ games that start updating within Steam. Oh, and let's not forget the half dozen random apps and programs that need updating too.

Like, SteamDeck isn't that bad. Even though I don't use it frequently, when I do turn it on usually it has 1 system update and about 20 or so games that start downloading updates, and that's it. Because it's a handheld with limited storage (I say "limited" but I did swap out for a 2TB SSD and have a 1TB microSD on top of that, so 3TB total), it holds far fewer games, therefore the total number of games requiring updates each time I power it on is rather manageable.

@JaxonH the problem with Switch updates is contant improviments updates, and no updates that give us requested features such as themes/folders, is always improviments patchs, not features that would be good for the console