Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@gcunit Cult of the Lamb it is. I played about an hour earlier this week. I get the hype. Gorgeous art, sim-management lite with a bit of action combat. Although on my first bootup, before even getting into the game proper...crash to dashboard.

Clearly, not all the performance problems have been ironed out, but at least I haven't encountered another crash since that lone one.

@Magician That's fairly promising to hear; appreciate the update. I picked it up a couple of months back but haven't got to it yet. I'm kinda numb to performance issues, but crashing is a different level, so hopefully it's an isolated case for you.

I'm still amazed how quickly joycon batteries lose their charge, in less than two months. These are my new joycons from the OLED, and I've been keeping them in a drawer. They clearly are perpetually in sleep mode, rather than shutting down.

Procons and joycons both need a shut down option, but I doubt we'll get that for next gen.

I'm guessing the game industry on a whole likes things the way they are. More disposable controllers = more sales $$$.

I recently bought cult of of the lamb and haven't had any crashes but a couple times it lagged so much I thought I was soft-locked. And the loading times are verrrry long sometimes. Overall the performance is still much worse than you would normally expect for a game like this but for me at least it's not quite annoying enough to get me to stop playing or take away too much enjoyment.

detailing how it will be the chipset that will run on Nintendo next hardware

@Giancarlothomaz There was a NintendoLife article on it a few hours ago:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/11/digital-foundry-dig...

Neat regardless though.

November 7th is the earnings report for July - September 2023, it'll be interesting to see how well Pikmin has done (the only 1st party games released in that time window that could be bought were Pikmin 4 and the physical version of Pikmin 1+2) and whether MK8 Deluxe momentum is still strong.

I'm curious about that detachable dual-screen system on that Nintendo filing. From what I've read about it, it sounds like it's a Switch and DS hybrid, in terms of its concept. Assuming that the first screen device can be docked, it also seems like you could use that second screen device as a controller, which sounds a lot like the Wii U... it kinda worries me actually, since the Wii U flopped hard. This is all speculation on my part, and we don't know exactly how old that filing is. I'm wondering... will the Switch 2 revisit that dual-screen concept in some way?

The odds that the patent is related to the Nintendo Switch 2 is very, very low. Deepest depths low.

The patent was made public, that means its now public knowledge.

That means anything currently under NDA....this aint it.

@MarioLover92 There's been a lot of discussion on the speculation thread: https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/rumor_new...

My personal assumption is that patent is not itself the Switch 2. People have suggested it could relate to a much later console or something related to a mini or a second fully-portable seperate from Switch 2 or it could relate to an accessory or it could just be yet another patent they are keeping for potential future use or to experiment with which doesn't hit the market.... there are a lot of options, some more realistic than others. I remember a few years back people briefly getting excited by a robot Nintendo patent.

@Haruki_NLI @FishyS Ohhh, gotcha. So it's pretty much Nintendo experimenting and things like that. Thanks!

I hate digital-only games.

@Fizza I agree. I always skip digital-only games.

It says the physical purchases will end as well. Likely music licensing expired. It happens. Does mean I have to buy dlc this month though so thanks for the heads up!

@Fizza I'm not surprised, licensed music always means music games have to stop being sold after a certain time. The game is 5 years old which suggests the license was 5 years.

Geez I have like 127 DLC to buy. Welp there goes my spiderman 2 and wario ware money. I do this to myself every taiko game. Buy the game day one, forget about the dlc, scramble to buy all dlc before delisting.

@Ryu_Niiyama Oh geez, I pray for you and your wallet XD

@Fizza It felt like Doomscrolling. I was like "eh can't be more than like 50...oh dear Hylia....that's over 100...when is the delist?" cries in first world problems

I'd been good and had not really bought many games after TOTK... all that growth as a person...rolled back by taiko.

That Drum'n'Fun drum bundle is about to jump in second hand value.

You can find them on Amazon for around $130 still.

I'm cool with my standard copy though.

@Ryu_Niiyama It says dlc will still be available. @Magician I happen to still have the drum edition sealed. I wanna open it.