Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Haruki_NLI
TPC are laggards. Just about everything they do doesn't really make sense to me. Them thinking that the Switch wouldn't land and betting instead on the 3DS remaining the platform to target for as long as they did doesn't surprise me in the slightest

The Stars bit always made sense to me as a thing TPC would do. It always sounded like a "we'll just throw this over here for Switch just to help out". Obviously once the Switch did what it did the idea that never made much sense really didn't make sense

To be fair, there was a LOT of early skepticism regarding the Switch.

Quite amusing, in hindsight.

@skywake I do find their attitude odd. Like the platform has to prove itself before the biggest brand on the planet jumps onboard.

As if Pokémon doesn't sell hardware.

Then again they also don't let anyone use their Smash amiibo for anything.

I have a problem with charging the left joycon on the Nintendo switch either the left joycon will continue to charge without stopping or it will stop charging and we'll be stuck at 2/3 full the right one is fine what is the problem and what can I do to solve it? That doesn't appear to be any visible issue with the connection on the left joycon but as I've said it will not charge and I didn't it as I've said it's having charging issues and I don't know why this is it started the last time the charged it which would be like a week ago or so.

Wow, has anyone tried making a new switch user icon through the NSO app on the Switch? Last night when I went to create a new icon, the whole interface was painfully slow just to select or scroll through icons I already own. I guess that whole interface for selecting NSO icons you've collected is web browser based? Maybe I'm the last to realize this? Anyway, I couldn't believe how painfully slow it was.

@WoomyNNYes It also chugs if you have a large game open and it even warns you to free up RAM.

This is actually a big reason why (outside of security reasons) consoles don't have browsers anymore: RAM usage is too damn high even on bespoke ones. Webpages these days are just fat.

@Haruki_NLI My games were closed!🤣 And I've never seen NSO user icon chug this much. Going point mentioning whether games are open.

@WoomyNNYes There was an extremely long NSO maintenance a few days ago. Maybe related? I just went in to test make an icon and it was super fast in most menus, though a bit laggy in my animal crossing one which has 300 character options.

@FishyS Yeah, maybe that's the issue, the number of icon elements for a particular game. I was editing my splatoon 3 icon. I have 156 character options in that, where as for other games, I only have 15-33 character options, which mostly fit on one screen. Having that many icon elements collected for a game is more recent for me.

edit: I just tried using it now, and the icon editor in the app is slow, but not as slow as it was the other day. I wonder if that's a nintnedo server traffic issue.

@WoomyNNYes A lot of parts of the Switch UI are ultra fast for a certain amount of entries and then suddenly get agonizingly slow if the list gets too long.... like how the eShop was fast in the very early mostly empty days or how your wishlist turns into molasses if it gets long. I really hope they fix that type of behavior in the next console.

@WoomyNNYes For the record, both the eShop and NSO app are entirely browser based.

Is anyone playing the Reynatis demo?

@Ryu-Niiyama

Feels about the same as Crystar or Crymachina.

Just a solid PS2-era action/rpg. Thoroughly AA and serviceable.

@Magician Thank you! I definitely felt the old school vibes, but that is a good thing and I am enjoying the combat. I don’t know if I will pick up day 1 but it is on the list.

As for Nintendo published games on Switch, I usually end up only really caring about 2 or so of them each year (I know, fake Nintendo fan). However, 2023 is pretty much an outlier for me. We got so many awesome games that year. Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, Pikmin 4, Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Super Mario RPG are all legendary status games and some of my favorites on Switch. I enjoyed WarioWare: Move It! quite a bit as well. Not to mention the wonderful Super Mario Bros. Movie and some Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC added on top of all of it. That's like 6-7 games which is a very strong for just one year. Out of my top 10 favorite games on Switch, 5 of them are from 2023. That's half of my top ten! Maybe I liked this year so much since it had a heavy focus on Pikmin and Mario, and we even got a Kirby game!

for 2024, I already have Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and I'm sure Super Mario Party Jamboree and Mario and Luigi: Brothership will make it among my favorites as well. No Nintendo games in 2025 interest me that much so far but I bet that'll change once they announce more games (since there's only 3 confirmed so far)

Anyone else think 2023 was a really strong year for Nintendo? I know a lot of people consider 2017 to be the best year for Switch, but personally I'd put 2023 over 2017.

@PikminMarioKirby It's too early to rank 2024 considering there are 3 pretty major games remaining, but I suspect it will be somewhere in the middle for me. Ignoring 2024, 2019 is my favorite Switch year and I think 2017 and 2023 are a tie for second for me.

There was a thread ranking the Switch years a few months back:

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/rank_ever...

Next year will be an interesting question since it will be a mix of two devices, but considering there are already two potentially amazing games on the docket even before 3D Mario etc. are announced, I suspect it will be a pretty remarkable year game-wise.

@FishyS 2019 was a pretty good year, especially with Super Mario Maker 2 and Luigi's Mansion 3.

2025 will be such a good year if we get 3D Mario (which seems really likely), can't wait to see what Nintendo has in store!

It seems pretty much inevitable regardless of whether Switch 2 comes out in Spring or Fall. Pokemon Legends and Metroid Prime 4 might be amazing games but they will want multiple big Switch 2 exclusives also. Considering there is also DK remaster, likely Zelda remaster, probably some Kirby since it is overdue.. I may buy far too many Nintendo games next year.

@Novamii I think the next 3D Kirby has no shot for 2025 but I'm expecting a smaller Kirby game. Honestly Forgotten Land was already perfect, I don't know if more power would even help but I am hoping for a sequel-- maybe 2026?