Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@FishyS Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Pikmin 4 are both games I thought had a good chance of getting DLC, since NSMB2, NSMBU, and Pikmin 3 got paid DLC (and Mario Maker 2 got many major updates) and since those are all the same developer team, it'd make sense that Wonder and Pikmin 4 would get DLC. I guess we'll have to wait and see, I'd love to get some DLC for both games, both some of my favorites on Switch!

I think this is an interesting space to explore. Not necessarily bringing these games over as-is but possibly exploring these ideas again. It's been my view for a while that Nintendo could re-visit the second screen idea of the Wii U but via a software solution instead. It's something that others already do via a web-app but I think you could get better results from a dedicated Android/iOS/Windows + a Switch native app

Could you reliably do the live, low latency video feed to a minimum standard like you did on the Wii U? Possibly not. Could you do the physical controls? Also no outside of a second Switch. But you could certainly achieve something interesting. I believe it was Pokemon Battle Revolution on the Wii which allowed you to use your DS as a controller to select your moves between turns. That could be done on mobile. The "find Mii" games in Nintendo Land? You could achieve something like that with an app. And I think the same is largely true for the kinds of things they were doing in Mario Party 10, WarioWare and StarFox Guard

StarFox Zero but.... just do a new StarFox

@skywake It'd be interesting yeah. I absolutely adore Nintendo Land, and it's the primary reason my Wii U is still set up at this point. But I don't see Nintendo really pushing that at the moment after how bad it flopped before.

Really though, Nintendo Land could theoretically work as is on most game if you had the 'asymetric' player be playing a Switch in portable mode, while the others play on the TV. But that basically makes the game only playable with two switches so...

@PikminMarioKirby The Pikmin stuff is definitely weirding me out at this point. They're advertising so hard still yet there's no sign of any content? New content popping up? It seems like the Pikmin advertising is in fact ramping back up right now, rather than down. If they aren't planning DLC I have no idea what the deal is.

To be clear I'm not necessarily talking about Nintendo Land directly here. I'm more talking about a game takes some of what Nintendo Land did and reworks it for the Switch. And within that you could have one or two mini-games which use a second device, either optionally or required. And then possibly have some others that use the JoyCon in some way

Plus when you look at what Nintendo Land did how much of it really needed the asymmetrical gameplay? The adventure games, they could've largely done a similar thing with just regular controllers. The solo games could largely be done in tablet mode. The only place really where you needed the GamePad were the competitive games which, admittedly, are the only reason I ever bring the game up. But as one mode in a collection I don't see why you couldn't do it

@link3710 I really like Nintendo Land too, but I think it’ll have to be a very different game to come to Switch. Having 2 Switches is something some games do on the side (like Super Mario Party) but I can’t see an entire game needing 2 Switches.

As for Pikmin DLC, I am very curious that if we don’t end up getting DLC, why they continued to market it for so long.

@PikminMarioKirby Nintendo seems to have approached things such that there's a steady stream of announcements post-Direct. Like Splatoon 3 Grand Fest + amiibo and Emio would've been perfect fits for the June Direct but they chose to have July standalone announcements instead.

Maybe it's so that Nintendo discussion doesn't devolve into endless Switch 2 speculation and rumours?

@Grumblevolcano We got Famicom Detective Club at a Direct a few years ago, so the June Direct would’ve been the perfect place to announce Emio.

Splatoon completely missed the June Direct, and I’m pretty sure Splatoon has been in every general Direct the past couple years so it was weird that it was just absent this time. Grand Fest and the amiibo could’ve easily been at the Direct, but they chose to announce it later.

That being said, it seems like an intentional move that they waited to announce these things, so your theory about trying to avoid Switch’s Successor being the only Nintendo topic people talk about seems plausible.

I expect a Pokemon Legends Z-A trailer/Pokemon Presents in August (the release day, if revealed, will likely cause a lot of Switch Successor speculation), so I think the best place for Pikmin 4 DLC would be either before August or to fill in early October or December.

@PikminMarioKirby I still highly doubt Z-A is coming to Switch 2. GF are notoriously late adopters of new hardware. I won't say there's no way it's a cross-gen release, but I doubt it.

@link3710 Yeah if Nintendo wants to show console power, then avoid having a Pokemon game near launch XD

I expect it to be backwards compatible but not cross-gen. Wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo WANTED this to be another low-quality game to emphasize the strength of the next console.

@PikminMarioKirby I think Legends Z-A will only get a trailer in an August Pokemon Presents if it's releasing in Early 2025. If it's later on in the year, I think they'll save next info for February Pokemon Presents. Maybe they have Switch content being a NSO drop, there's still some GB/GBC/GBA spinoffs not yet on NSO like the 2 Pinball games and Puzzle Challenge (Switch doesn't have a mic so N64's Hey You Pikachu wouldn't work).

@PikminMarioKirby To be fair, I've been replaying Legends Arceus and while it might not be a powerhouse in graphics, the art direction in that game make it quite pretty to just play (unlike ScVi). Another Legends game could end up being very nice looking... or not at all, who knows.

Anyways, I don't think it'll come out until November next year anyways, so I doubt it'll show up in August. I think most people are expecting Gen 10 to be timed to be announced for the 30th anniversary (and to give GF another year to develop them thank goodness), so holidays seem right. Though Spring would put Z-A halfway between Indigo Disk and Gen 10 releases so I suppose that's not off the table.

@Grumblevolcano @link3710 I’m expecting a H1 release for Z-A, although depending on the route they take, H2 is still in the cards. Gen 10 will most likely be November 2026.

I could definitely see more Pokemon NSO additions this year (probably side games like @Grumblevolcano said), but I’d love to see Gen 1-3 on NSO at somepoint. February 2026 isn’t a bad guess, but I could see GameFreak and Pokemon Company not wanting those on the service at all.

@PikminMarioKirby I think they'll show up. They had Let's Go in the work and rereleased RGBY on VC, I don't think they see the original titles as threats.

Frankly, I could see up to Gen V being available by on NSO by the end of next generation. (VI and VII are unlikely even if Nintendo adds 3DS BC to NSO next gen IMO)

Got the 1.5 TB microSD during the Prime Day deal. Problem is, my laptop doesn't have enough free space on the internal drive to complete the transfer (only a 256 GB SSD). Sooooo it looks like I'll be doing it the tedious way and redownloading everything.

I should probably start clearing out some of my Switch backlog given that Switch 2 is almost surely within a year from now. Even though I expect it to be backwards compatible and maybe even have games that run better on Switch 2. Even so, might be hard to backtrack to Switch once we have shiny new things on offer

Currently ~30% of the games I have on Switch can be finished and are unfinished. A lot of those are little indie releases but there are some big ones in there. Certainly better than where I left the Wii and obviously better than the state of my PC backlog. But much worse than where I left 3DS, DS, Wii U

...... I think if I can finish off Luigi's Mansion 3, Prince of Persia and Metroid Prime Remastered I'm in a good spot. And definitely Metroid Prime Remastered, I really do need to play through that before I can justify to myself picking up 4

edit: also, speaking of microSD cards. The most recent card I got was a fairly cheap 512GB card. SanDisk but cheap. I might need to get a better one because the load times off this card are just brutal. Learnt my lesson there, don't cheap out on the SD card. Whether or not I do this before Switch 2 or not? Don't know. I can probably live with "cleaning out the fridge" for now

I'm giving myself until the end of next year, since there's basically no way I'm getting the Switch 2 before then even if it launches in March like last time. And even then I'm still gonna play it in handheld sometimes after that so I don't even feel the need to finish my backlog, I just want to finish the games that make the most sense to play docked (so mostly AAA games and certain N64 games on NSO).

Right now those games would be, Xenoblade: DE, Xenoblade 3, Super Mario Wonder, (doing the remaining shrines in) TOTK, Pikmin 4, No More Heroes 3, at least the two original Kirby platformers, maybe Captain Toad, maybe Warioware, Paper Mario:TTYD, Doom Eternal and Alien Isolation. And some games I'm just too inpatient to wait another year and a half to play anyway even though I'd be fine playing them only handheld.

I'm very worried about needing to play two Xenoblades in that time after 2 took me 2 1/2 years (even if that was because I took several long breaks, but it was still 250 hours including Torna).

What if the official Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Charger was made so you can still charge your Joy-Cons even if they don’t fit on the Nintendo Switch’s Successor?

What pro controller should i get? All of them ive found say they have drift after a few weeks/months.

@sucineGX I quite like my regular Switch Pro Controller... just regular cleaning with compressed air tends to fix my sticks. However... the d-pad isn't great and tends to have random up inputs in games which require finicky d-pad control. That wasn't even drift, it just started like that. There are only a few games I've played where it makes a difference so I tend to swap to joycons for those games.

@sucineGX I suggest the Zen Pro Controller.

https://www.gulikit.com/productinfo/925509.html

I find it better then Nintendo's own pro controller. I've had mine for about a year now and haven't had one issue with drifting. It's also about 10 to 20 dollars cheaper then Nintendo's, depending on where you go.