Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@FishyS I know it's out of the blue, but is it OK if I add your Switch friend code?

Of course. I leave it in my signature so people can add me if they want.

@FishyS All right I just sent it. You'll know it's me when you see it.

anyone else forget that Tales of Xillia HD remaster is being released for the Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 handhelds on the 31st?

@JaxonH

noticed over on the Switch 2 thread that Switch sales finally seem to have passed DS sales making it officially the best selling portable console.

Feels worth a little mini celebration on this thread.

Anyone want to share a good Switch 1 memory?

I always had a great holiday time with my older family members playing silly party games on Switch.

@FishyS From what I could tell upon looking it up, not quite yet. As far as I know, the Switch has sold 154.01 million units as of now, while the DS has sold 154.02 million units. It's very, very close though!

As for good Switch memories for me, I liked playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons with friends. I liked playing Super Mario Odyssey for the first time as well. Breath of the Wild was a pleasant surprise for me too... I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.

The published number was only up to Sep 30. It's scattered, but we know from local sales data and general trends that far more than 10,000 Switch 1s were sold in the last 5 weeks, making Switch 1 pass DS. The actual event happened on some unknown day during the last few weeks. By the time Nintendo gets around to publishing it in 3 months, Switch 1 will likely be a million sales past DS.

@FishyS Ah I might have overlooked that then. In that case, that is impressive for sure... congrats to the Switch 1 for being the best-selling Nintendo console!

I suppose that it's always possible that Nintendo will find a few million more DS sales from somewhere to delay the inevitable, rather like Sony did with the PS2.

@Matt_Barber Why would Nintendo do that to itself 😆

After the nonsense with the untrustworthy increasing PS2 numbers I've decided it's not even worth it to compare to PS2. Maybe Switch beat it or is about to, maybe not, but either way Switch is the highest selling portable console, hybrid, Nintendo device, etc.

@FishyS There are lies, damned lies and accounting.

Seriously, I don't doubt Sony's most recent number. It's just that they don't do the same as Nintendo and account for every console manufactured in their financial reports, so we only got to find out the true figure a decade after production ended.

At least between the Switch and the DS they should be comparing like with like, and I fully expect the Switch to have taken the lead. If, for some reason though, they find a bunch of DS units that were unaccounted for, they might have to correct the record. I don't think it's too likely.

Pre-Switch, there was quite a prominent NL article commenter that went by the username Quorthon. They were quite the bore and went on endlessly about Nintendo's days being over, that the Wii and DS were just anomalous fads, Nintendo should just go third-party etc. etc.

Thankfully, they stopped commenting in 2016, but I was a strong believer in the hybrid concept and was asking for something like Switch before NX was revealed, and I've never forgotten how strongly Quorthon seemed to feel that Nintendo, as a hardware seller, was done, and I've long looked forward to this point, where Quorthon's onboxiously pessimistic take would be well and truly kicked in the knackers by the Switch's success.

I could go on and on. That joker was relentless and their comments history is a goldmine of Wrong. The pay-off of finally getting to quote that spanner's baloney in the face of Switch becoming Nintendo's best selling hardware, and Zelda selling 50+ million units on Switch, is so sweet.

@gcunit Honestly, before the Switch was announced, I've been wanting a console like it as well. The 3DS and Wii U had a lot of games that were similar to each other (like Super Mario 3D Land and 3D World to name one example), and it's been telling that near the end of its lifespan, the Wii U was basically going nowhere. The 3DS in general had more games to pick from, too. As a longtime Nintendo fan, I liked the Wii U and I did want it to succeed, but it just didn't happen. It may have failed hard, but I'm certainly happy that they're in a much better spot now that the Switch became a massive success. And with 10 million units sold, the Switch 2 looks like it's chugging along nicely as well.

Ok to be fair, for at least a year or two this forum was filled with people who thought the Wii U was going to be a success, which is at best, an equally embarrassing take in hindsight.

I can say for myself I thought Wii U was going to be 2nd place until that became obviously impossible. (so probably around the NX announcement)

Behold the Switch Lite OLED, with touchscreen support!

That 6" OLED screen looks so good when outputting docked image

DOOM Eternal

Xenoblade Chronicles X

Dragon Quest XI S

Immortals Fenyx Rising

My dream fulfilled. A pocketable handheld with Portal 1/2 in HD 60fps OLED screen 5.5 hrs playtime with gyro aiming. The very reason I bought a Vita 13 years ago, expecting the games would be ported over (but obviously never were).

Test results are in. It says, "You are a horrible person". That's what it says. We weren't even testing for that.

@gcunit
Wow, that's a name that I havent heard of in quite some time.

Quorthon's last comment was in June 2016:

Nintendo has done a fantastic job of showing the gaming world that they do not matter.

9+ years later, the Switch is Nintendo's best-selling game system ever, the Switch 2 is the fastest-selling game system ever, and most Nintendo IPs are the most popular they have ever been (including and especially Zelda).

@westman98 😆

@JaxonH Congrats on the dream fulfilment, sounds sublime. What was the upgrade cost, if you're happy to share?

Anybody own the Banner Saga Trilogy physically? I’m reading that the third game isn’t on the cart, which is dumb but whatever. But does anyone know if it will let you run the first two games from the cart without downloading anything?

I accidentally did something a few minutes ago that made me really mad. Ever since the version 21.0.1 update came out, I intentionally held back on downloading the update. This meant I had to say no to the update every single time I logged in to Animal Crossing (pain in the butt 😡). But this time, I accidentally pressed update... because the fricking update prompt just refuses to go away.

I've been playing things out in my head for a while now, and my current idea is to buy a Switch 2 sometime early next year assuming I land a part time job soon, then transfer everything over to that system, then factory reset my old Switch 1 and turn it into a completely offline machine with as few updates installed on it as possible.

So the gist of what I'm saying is... I'm not really thinking of doing too much more online things on my original Switch. If, at some point, I disconnected my Switch from the internet, would I not get any update prompts at all until I reconnected to the internet? And what if I connect to the internet one time after a new update can be installed, then disconnect from the internet again?