Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano Thursday is the day the eShop updates.

Obviously it's them preparing for digital only

@Grumblevolcano interesting. Maybe they'll be cheap eshop releases then instead 🫠

So the 2nd half of the year is completely empty.

Seems to give credence to the rumors of a Direct in April. It's weird though, as April almost feels too early to be revealing the holiday release in November, but a June Direct would arguably be too late for revealing a July game.

I'm guessing we'll get a Direct Mini in April, and not a full size general Direct.

@IceClimbers 2017, 2019 and 2022 were a situation where the holiday lineup was known before June but actual specific release dates didn't come until June/July. So they could announce a bunch of games for "2024" in April and then give them October/November/December release dates in June/July.

Alternatively they could announce a July game on its own in May and then have a 2021/2023 type setup where a June Direct fills in the gaps for post-July.

@Fizza I don't think I can play at that time, sorry. Pretty soon there's gonna be a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournament (it's for North America only) and I've been planning on playing in it. But I can play with you afterward, either tonight or tomorrow, whatever works for you. My apologies once again, but Happy Mario Day nonetheless!

@MarioVillager92 Ah gotcha. I'll be free pretty much all the time from July onwards so we could probably organise it for later in the year! And Happy MAR10 Day to you too!

@Grumblevolcano Endless Ocean is May 2... a week that starts in April. So seems close enough to me to not draw any conclusions given there is another May game. Maybe one of the two was just delayed slightly. Peach is late March so it isn't exactly a huge gap.

Not that I would complain if there were an April direct...

@Fizza Ok cool. Thank you... I hope I do good in the tourney! Been a month or two since I last played. Hope everything's going well with you by the way, I did see that you were gonna be taking exams.

@FishyS It's worked both ways before. For example:

Not missing a month

• January 2023 - FE Engage
• February 2023 - Metroid Prime Remastered digital, Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• March 2023 - Bayonetta Origins

Missing a month

• May 2022 - Nothing
• June 2022 - Mario Strikers Battle League, Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes
• July 2022 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Considering there's no July release currently and 3rd party support has mostly dried up after April in terms of specific release timings, it does feel like Nintendo would do a general Direct in April and hence have a shadow drop because that's what Nintendo does with Directs.

It is entirely possible that they have another Partner Showcase to handle 3rd party stuff and have a July game announced by itself in May though.

@JaxonH
For some reason you're assuming it would be specifically this card of this capacity and only this card. Rather than having internal storage of some capacity with this card as expansion. And I'm not entirely sure why.....

They needed USB-C to push a Display Port signal over a single connection so that's not at all surprising. And the "support for capacity" thing is a bit of a myth that won't die

SDSC was upto 2GB, SDHC was put 32GB, SDXC is upto 2TB. SDUC is next and supports upto 128TB. Switch supported cards above 32GB at launch therefore it must support SDXC and cards upto 2TB. That's not any foresight on Nintendo's part, that's just the standard

Any device that claims to support anything but 2GB, 32GB, 2TB, 128TB is either due to the manufacturer only reporting cards available at launch or because they've implemented some odd filesystem on-top that has its own restrictions

Right on! Paper Mario coming in just 2 months! And Luigis Mansion right after that. Bet. Ive been waiting a long time for this. I remember playing TTYD on my Win 2. Trying to get saves to swap back and forth with my desktop. Enough of that. I can't believe we're actually gonna have Thousand Year Door AND Mario RPG remake AND two Mario Rabbids srpgs on one hybrid system. It's mindblowing.

Unicorn Overlord is so insanely good btw.

@skywake
No, I'm assuming it will be capped at this capacity, since that's what the article stated.

It's just not fitting the bill for other potential hypothetical handhelds. Timing doesn't line up, size doesn't line up. I concede it could be a thousand other things, but Deck 2 and MS handheld ain't one of em.

It appears that unanimity has been achieved, as 100% of the participating voter concurs with my perspective.

@JaxonH
The article didn't say that though. It's an announcement of the first card. A 256GB SD Express XC microSD card rated at speeds of upto 800MB/s. By definition any device that supports that card will support any microSD card upto a capacity of 2TB (XC) at speeds upto 985MB/s (SD Express)

The capacity and rated speed of this specific card is irrelevant to the devices that'll support it. Other than the announcement of that capacity at that speed now existing. I don't see how the capacity of this specific card somehow rules out portable XBox. And I'm not sure how you've come to the conclusion that, if used, it would not be for supplemental storage in addition to some more durable internal storage solution

@skywake Much like with my job, I should just keep to myself, because trying to input anything just ends up backfiring

Nintendo's revealed the Switch TTYD box art.

Mustn't grumble, I know, but... the voice work for Mario at the start of this video is.... *shudders

Can they not just AI Charles Martinet's voice in perpetuity and save us from this nightmare? It sounds like they just pulled in someone from the street to have a go.

LM2's boxart has been revealed.

Welp rolled end credits on Unicorn Overlord and got both endings. I don’t know what day it is.

@Ryu_Niiyama Sounds like you really no-lifed that game lol.

So there's multiple endings?

@Ralizah ugh I didn’t even mean to. It just turned into “oh I’ll play a little while I do laundry…or in between washing dishes.” And since I had liberated most of Cornia in the demo I was on a good pace.

I had really optimized my team so I went to a a stronger part of the map (didn’t realize that until I got there) and accidentally over leveled. Plus since I was obsessed with posting guards i got lots of supplies that I kept turning In which made getting honors easier so I could max out my squads. But what got me was the coliseum. I used that to figure out best builds for my squads and how to grind (you don’t get exp there luckily) so by the time I beat the grand champion I had also found the best stone sigil. Which gives out 50k exp each time you beat it.

So then I got curious as to if I could beat the boss. I did but found out that was the bad end. But you are allowed to keep your clear data so I just did what was needed for the good ending. Aside from a few story complaints it was a good run but I have towns to liberate and weapons to unlock and upgrade.

Problem is this is the closest I will ever feel to a hangover. Everything is blurry today. But I can’t take off. Whoops.