Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

the possibilty of GTA VI coming to Nintendo next console

I’m not going to watch but the answer is no.

Trying to play Kombat League for Mortal Kombat 1 tonight but other people online are ticking me off royally. they keep doing insane nonstop combos and not being considerate that Im struggling.

My win/loss is pretty bad and i need some damn wins for once but aholes online are total psychos where they keep doing bunch of nonstop stuff

@XandertheWise
Isn’t that kinda the point? No one wants to intentionally lose just to bump up your win/loss ratio. Besides standing and doing tiger shots in sf2 is a completely valid strategy. Cheap yes. But effective.

@FragRed Yeah I don't think any current gen is gonna like running that beast

GTA VI is slated for release on Xbox Series S.

NG Switch won't be on par with XSS, but if the port is pared back enough, it could possibly happen.

Never say "never".

It would kind of depress me if one of the first things we got on Switch 2 was a sub-par port of GTA 6, thus going right back into the 'Nintendo hardware is too wimpy to run things' cycle.

I would rather Switch 2 have a good port of BG3 and maybe just skip GTA if it's not going to run well.

100% agree. I think a defining moment of the Switch's life cycle was the announcement that near-perfect ports of both DOOM 2016 and Wolfenstein: The New Order would be coming to it within the console's first year on the market. The Switch being a port machine is pretty much something we all take for granted these days but you have to keep in mind that from around the middle of the Wii era all the way to the end of the Wii U era, major 3rd Party support all but vanished from Nintendo's home consoles (unless you were Ubisoft), so having extremely recent (at the time) games that released to mass critical acclaim be available in a portable manner? It was pretty much the exact moment the Switch escaped the stigma of people believing it would flounder from a lack of 3rd Party support just like the system before it.

And all of this was brought about because of how damn good the ports of DOOM and Wolfenstein were, running near-flawlessly on a much weaker system despite being just over a year old at the time of their release on Switch. I'd imagine Nintendo are definitely going to yoink a massive title from the past 1-2 years for the Switch 2's launch window (similar to how they flaunted Skyrim in the very first trailer for the Switch) and, while I personally don't think it'll be anything from this year like Baldur's Gate 3 (or anything from the next couple years like GTA6), I could definitely see another title with a similar level of pedigree being a big 'yep, you can play this on Switch 2' moment in the same vein as DOOM/Wolfenstein from all those years ago (my personal guess would be Elden Ring).

Sora amiibo now has a release date, February 16th:

Also from January 2024, there'll be 4 new Smash Ultimate events with new spirits:

Huh? My Switch just downloaded the trial version of the Watemellon game automatically?! What the heck?

Edit: After reading my post a third time I think I wasn't clear enough. 😅
What I mean is that I was not on the E-Shop. I was playing a game and a message on the top left said it was ready to play. Now it's on my homescreen..
I'm asking because it's a little concerning. Like maybe someone has access to my account?

RE: GTA6 and Switch 2. The game is coming to Series S so will need to scale down to that degree. But I think Switch 2 is going to fall a fair bit short of Series S. It's certainly possible. If it does it's probably going to be rendered at sub 720p, possibly with DLSS pushing it to 1080p-ish at with a 30fps target. And they'd want to be turning a lot of the RT stuff off. It'd be a very different looking game

I'm not holding my breath. Also let's get the new hardware announced before we start cashing in on third party title speculation. We need the hardware first, this discussion is worthless without it. Because while it's probably not happening on Switch 2 it's definitely not happening on Switch

I keep banging on about the need for new hardware. This is why. Not for 2023 or 2024. For 2025, 2026 etc. The industry is just going to keep rocketing past the Switch spec. As fans of Nintendo's stuff we might be all about "gameplay not graphics" but.... you've still gotta keep within spitting distance

@skywake I think the lack of Switch announcements last night/early this morning at TGA is a good reason why Nintendo needs new software. Not saying most those games would run on it, but the fact almost nothing of note was announced says a lot.

@FragRed To be fair, Nintendo barely exists at this show anyway unless they're nominated for something. Been that way for a while. Never forget one year they were top of the industry and all they had was an ad spot showing off games they had. One year they turned up and announced Cranky Kong for Donkey Kong Country. Sure there was the times they had Smash reveals but even then....Nintendo just does not turn up for this show and I kinda understand why.

Plus, it's the same every year. Games get announced, most don't come to Nintendo hardware, rinse, repeat.

Yippee !!

THREE brand new titles are now available for the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service: Harvest Moon 64, 1080° Snowboarding, and Jet Force Gemini.

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It's been quite awhile since I bought a physical game. I'll go all digital in the next console if Nintendo lets me. On Switch some games were physical-only, most famously Ring Fit Adventure and Labo. Yeah, I understand that you need special peripherals for those games, but I still would have preferred an option to buy it with a download code rather than a cartridge so that the game itself would be on my account and I could buy a backup ring or whatever separately if I needed a replacement.

@NeonPizza I would be totally up for the next console bringing back Labo in a new fancier way. Between the originals with, as you say, junky peripherals and then the offshoot game Game Builder Garage which was potentially amazing but Nintendo basically forgot about it after two days, it seems like the franchise (franchises?) still have a lot of potential.

As for Ring Fit Adventure, fundamentally it's just an exercise game with a couple cute gamifications built in. Personally I think Nintendo should keep doubling down on the exercise games even if they are mostly aimed for parents who don't necessarily play many normal games. If I could ask for one thing from the next console, I would like some type of improved sensor capability so games like this could track movement better. That and not requiring physical cartridges.

And agree about Mario 3D All-Stars. There have been some other games which got removed from the eshop for various reasons, but Nintendo itself doing it with Mario is just weird. I'm predicting they will re-release it on the next console (maybe in 2025?) but they definitely lost some sales in the years inbetween (and annoyed people) for no reason at all.

Just counted it out. Excluding the "digital only" titles only about 30% of the games I brought on Switch were physical. On the Wii U it was 85%, on 3DS it was 75%. Also I haven't brought a physical copy of a game on Switch since late 2020. For me it just doesn't really make much sense to go for physical copies. They take up space, are less convenient and cost more so really, easy choice

I mean sure, you could argue that the used market is a reason to go physical. And if you're going to play that game then it probably is. But I know personally I'm never going to sell any of my gaming stuff so that means nothing to me. Preservation? I mean sure. But it's not like there's a shortage of people doing that

No, to me the only reason I was still buying physical copies of games at the start of this generation was because the Switch had 32GB of storage and BotW was a 13GB game..... but at the tail end of the generation you can now get a 500GB micro-SD card for less than the price of a new game. So that one reason left disappeared. I don't expect to go back for the next generation. With that said, I still don't think there should be a digital only SKU. There's still a market for physical game sales. And at the very least I'd want it for backwards compatibility

Digital is good except for sharing your games with the kids. When I buy a cartridge, it can be used by the whole family (of course, not at the same time). If Nintendo would allow a family library of games then the digital option would be much better.

The advantages of physical outweigh those of digital for me. Primarily it's just a lot more cost-effective to buy physical - the games themselves are usually cheaper (at least in the UK), you can resell them if you want to, and you don't have to spend as much on SD cards.

I assume you mean multiple Switches since you can already do that with multiple accounts on one Switch?

It would be neat if the NSO family plan allowed you to do that over multiple Switches, but there is no real hope for that since Nintendo allows people in totally different households to be on the same family plan.

@Dogorilla reselling is definitely a big difference but getting a large enough SD card is super cheap nowadays, especially since you can archive games temporarily if you own a ton. Plus the next console will have more space. In NA at least, most games go on better sales digitally.... though Nintendo exclusives are obnoxiously sometimes an exception.