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@Littlemonster703 I am in the same boat you are.

I was planing to just order a copy and have it delivered to either one of our freelancers in the UK or my wife's job has an office in London.

But one was a bit of a "crazy fan boy" ask 😅😆 and the other has no plans to have that office open in July at this point.

So unless this comes to the US... The Pins at gamestop seems like our best pre-order options in the US. But I really want that origami set.

Maybe The Nintendo Store here in NYC will have something similar - If they open by July 🤔

"sadly-not-on-Switch Borderlands 3"

Well that is basically how it works on Switch. You get all the old stuff and need to go buy a console from Microsoft or Sony for the rest.

They should at a minimum announce 3 with this release. Even if for next year.

Same way, Switch owners should not also need a $300 PS4/xbox to know how Metro ends.

In 2019 would have dismissed it. But after testing both Nvidia's GeForce NOW and Shadow for the last 5 months I can say it actually works really well.

At least in NYC, Boston, LA. Where I have used it

I have made 2. A 6.2 inch with mobile network for when I am away for work and a 7 inch wifi only for when I am home.

Nintendo should definitely look into this for the Switch. Maybe even partner with Nvidia again to stream next gen games that have RayTracing to the Switch 🤔

Sure, done!. Love the Art!. This should have started with the Switch. Seems perfect for handheld.

Also, keeping the Switch behind the $28 tier when PC can get it at $15 seems a bit wrong.

Nowhere near as impressive Art Style. But Banner of the Maid was just announced for Switch. Pretty solid Strategy RPG that works well on small screens.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/994730/_Banner_of_the_Maid

Wish him luck. Sounds like he is a nice guy.

But when I can only play 5 games of the US top 20 on my Switch. Something is wrong over at "publisher and developer relations" 🙄

Great he is an Indie fan. How about we get a racing fan next?... No F12020, No Dirt5, No ProjectCars 3. Missing out on every racing game announced in 2020.

Get an Industry leader that knows all the top players.

It was ok... never met the hype.

Ended up playing it on PC Game Pass for my $5 monthly fee. More than good enough for me.

I guess we really need a Switch PRO. Year 4 and publishers still struggle on the Switch. Even a bigger gap soon

Oh wow. I want that.

If this does not come to the US I am having someone in the UK office get this for me. More than happy to pay extra for this game.

Love how they use the Origami concept in the game. But it reminds me how they made us do Origami in Catholic school to keep us quiet 😆

Trouble Shooter
XCOM: Chimera Squad
John Wick HEX
Phoenix Point
Gears Tactics
Wasteland 3

What does the switch get?... a port of 4 year old Xcom2 for $50. And somehow it is still set at "lowest setting"

Get both the old stuff and new stuff. This game was good, but so is the new stuff.

@JimmySpades Played it on my Shadow Box when it came out on Steam 5 months ago. Turn based games work perfectly on streaming services on the GO.

I did not even finish it, nowhere near the "gaming experience" of the real thing. I give Indies a chance, why I know lots of them are just fill.

If you really wanted to make the pro Indies/AA argument you would have mentioned Disco Elysium, Greedfall or A Plague Tale. I mentioned I was playing them in 2020 a few times here. Anyone who is really into Indies needs a PC.

@Zeldafan79 Luigi Mansion 3 is a fantastic game. That it is not on the list is a travesty.

My next game is Paper Mario in July.

@JR150 Neither included digital. So that is a wash

Yes... everything on the top 10 listed there sold less than the #19 XC2. That again begs the question, just how many units do you actually need to claim #1 in the physical chart right now.

@Zeldafan79 For people who do not play Animal Crossing like me. That would be 7 months ago Luigi mansion 3.

Or 6 months if you a pokemon fan.

Wait... It sold fewer physical copies than XC2 at launch that debuted at #19 in the UK but somehow that is enough for #1 now?

Borderlands Handsome collection #18
Bioshock Collection #22

Old ports not published by Nintendo are so irrelevant that NL forgot to mention them 🙄

But a 10 year old Wii remaster runs at 520p handheld and cost $60. And watch it sell better.

Anyway, played it on PC Game Pass for $5 ages ago. Good enough. Decent, a bit “meh” at times. Paper Mario can’t come soon enough.

@Unit_DTH Yeah, I figured. Regardless, your point of always finding better retailers is a good one. Always shop around.

"I'm more than willing to show them, via purchase, that I want their titles on my Switch"

Enjoy it!. Hopefully they will reward you with Borderland 3 also 👍

@Unit_DTH That was a reply to post #68. That said it was $90 at the PS4 store.

I was mentioning it is $28 for both ($14 each) on Amazon right now - so no reason to pay $90 for them.

@ncb1397 No reason to pay $90 for digital when you can get both for PS4 at Amazon for $28.

@graysoncharles well they did "try"... I thought the 1st (or 2nd) patch tried to deal with it XC2.

"I believe that they need to change the engine to something more tried and true on the Switch like UE4 or massively optimize their own"

100%. If they can't make it work without taking down the Switch. it is time to move on or spend a Year just optimizing the engine. Same thing EA needs to do with Frostbite on Windows.

@JimmySpades wow, I was thinking the exact same thing about your last to replies (but just in general)... so many things we agree on. Is that you Tim? 🙃

Really hope this means they bringing XCOM: Chimera Squad to the Switch.

These games are perfect for handheld play.

@JimmySpades Always cap FREE, XCOM and STEAM. Just like a cap EPIC, EGS, CONTROL and METRO. Mean nothing by it.

But Happy to edit for you (there you go) does not change my point in any way. Happy to help

@Anri02

You are the one who thinks that is "nefarious"... I call it for what it is.

"They trying to hide lazy optimizations with the dynamic Resolution"

And chances are they will do the same thing as every publisher that release badly optimized games on Day 1. Collect the initial cash and then use the money and extra time to patch it to where they know performance should be.

1. The Upgrade to "remaster" was Free for everyone who owned the originals on Steam.

2. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection was the Free PS+ on PS4 in June 2019

3. Gearbox let people play Borderlands: The Handsome Collection for Free during the Borderlands 3 launch

Unless you have been in a videogame coma for the past decade. You have gotten Borderlands (and Xcom and Bioshock) for Free already

Release Borderlands 3 on Switch that is still a $30-$50 game and has 22,000 players a day on Steam (make it cross progression like Witcher). And this will not happen.

No CodeMaster so time to give up on a Late F12020 or Dirt 5 Switch announcement.

Would be Amazing If SE is the date for Bravely Default 2

After an awful start of 2020 I have Paper Mario and Captain Tsubasa to look forward on my Switch. Little by little.

@Anri02 Yes, and "it is needed" because something is bogging down the hardware and can't hit the target FPS.

This is a port made exclusively for 1 hardware on an engine also made for 1 hardware. But not only are you starting at 520p to hit 30fps. You also need dynamic resolution to keep it there.

Either the hardware is weak and cant deal with the game they made, or it needs more time being optimized. Seeing how you have other games on the Switch that can hit 30fps at higher resolution easily - I doubt it is the hardware.

Physical for me. Why my PC will never replace my consoles.

Being able to Rent games at GameFly or trade-in games I finished for credit at Amamzon helps keep cost down.

Lets me buy more games on Day 1 in a year 👍

@Anri02 What do you think Dynamic resolution is for?... When the game engine is about to tank in a hardware it kicks in to try and save performance. It is an emergency valve.

They barely got it to run at 520p - and just tossed in an auto Dynamic Resolution range down to an insane 378p for any bog down after that. It is not even starting at base Switch specs.

Just another overpriced rehash port on Switch - with the same convenient excuses. They trying to hide lazy optimizations with the dynamic Resolution

Keep my $60 for Paper Mario. Looks amazing, I bet it will run great and it is 100% NEW!

Lets hope it is a better idea than selling a "remix" of a $15 iOS game for $50 on Switch. Use that FF7R profit for something good.

@JimmySpades Where does it say SONY said they could not do it?

Nobody stopped Mega Baseball 3 or Call of Duty: Warzone from doing crossplay with PS4 in 2020. Just like Minecraft got the green light last Dec. SONY's position since Oct 2019 is that publishers can do crossplay.

I am not blaming Nintendo for Mortal Kombat 11 skipping Crossplay on Switch (it is only for Xbox and PS4). They simply do not want to do the work just like Atlus.

"You can't play with friends on PS4"

Would be a hard sale to convince anyone I know with a PS4 to play this in July regardless.

It also debuted at #19 in the US and vanished. They probably thought PS4 crossplay not even worth the effort with the # of copies out there.

@JR150

My comment @sixrings about what I thought of his post on 520p games in 2020 was also not an attempt to change anyone's viewpoint here. Or an invitation for anyone to try and change mine.

It is a gaming comment - If that's s not how you feel, then simply get the game. Either way, people will post their decision here.

Nice!... Only had Wasteland 3 for August so perfect launch time.

@sixrings

Yep, it is 2020. Players can expect both graphics and gameplay. Especially for a full price $60 game.

Crazy is, that you asking why it is running at 520p is somehow asking for "ultra mega hyper realistic super graphics" 🤦‍♂️

It is just another example of weak hardware that has no headroom to deal with lazy optimization.

Basically they just letting Dynamic Resolution fix the problem zones in the game.

@Retron I have my copy in the closet so I can play it on Dolphin with the HD pack. Runs well on my PC.

Problem is, the faces still look like the original. No mod fixes that.

378p - 540p... good god. Hopefully it has some really good AA.

Wish someone would hire them to port Wasteland 3 or even Trouble Shooter.

Love the genre. Have Gears Tactics and XCOM: Chimera Squad on my Shadow Box that I can play on the GO (I found they the best type of games to use with streaming services). But I have no need for a 3rd copy of Xcom2.

@JimmySpades I clearly wrote "should be both" so I had already included that group.

"Revenue maximizing corporation" would target every player they can. and They would "maximize revenue" from all their games. Not just the old ones. So even by your logic... makes more sense to release both the old and new.

@WiltonRoots Both are silliness... that is my point. You can cherry pick data to arrive at the opposite statement just as easily

Ok, great. But again "support" should be both. Old stuff in the series and the NEW game.

• If you release old XCOM1 release XCOM: Chimera Squad.
• If you release old Borderlands 1 release Borderlands 3

It Can't just be stuff like Bioshock I have gotten for free 2 times now. Time for less talk and show some effort on Switch.

You can also say 80% of the USA top 10 in April can’t be played on the Switch 😉

I bet they can actually play Wonderful 101 with Anti Aliasing on them. It is 2020, how is there no AA on Switch.

"Boring Hardware" is being skipped with DIRT5 and F12020 and stuck with GRID Autosport - for yet another year. And plain crazy, is pretending FromSoftware (and others) have not made a game worth playing since 2009!

People will buy a "status quo" Next Gen hardware from SONY and Microsoft so they do not miss out on 3rd party games that will never come to the "Ground Breaking" Switch (or take years for a port).

It is that simple. "Better Graphics" is just gravy.

Great, what publishers need to do.

Tons of publishers are just spending their time porting the old games in a series to Switch and not releasing the new Stuff.

Meh, got Yooka for $7 and impossible lair for $15 at GreenManGaming on PC last month

They just "OK" at best. Gad I did not pay full price.

DONE!, awesome. Thanks for the links! 👍

Make sure I get my physical copy. Paper Mario games are one of the few games I never sold back.

@JimmySpades Those are the games that launched in the time you contradicting me. They Old games and $5 PC rental fills everywhere else... befalling is your argument that skipping them on Switch is based on bad quality evaluation.

Same insanity as someone arguing with me that Metro 2033 Redux barely has 300 people playing it on Steam because of "bad quality evaluation" 🤦‍♂️... No, it is called an old irrelevant game most do not care to turn on their PC and play in 2020. Trying to elevate them on Switch just shows how titles there has been the last few months.

So Why are you replying to a comment I made to another member?. It had nothing to do with you. If you do not care, ignore it.

@JimmySpades yes, it’s has been months of rehash and 2nd tier games. Tokyo Mirage, Metro 1 (not even Exodus), DMC3, Saint Row, WarFace, ... Microsoft dumped Street or Rage 4, moving out, two point hospital and indivisible into $5 a month PC Game Pass. Shows How little the publishers cared About that stuff. And now time to pretend rehash BioShock Collection (that Sony just gave away for FREE), Borderland 1 and Xcom (that new XCOM Chimera Squad is out) are the next Switch games “worth playing”. Again, there has been Animal Crossing and now Paper Mario. Rest are rehash and filler.

@JimmySpades

Seeing how my Steam/PSN/closet are full of all the old ports people gush about when they finally end up on Switch - I doubt that is the reason.

More like my "quality evaluation" is not limited by what is available on Switch. If not on Switch, it gets benched and I figure out a way to play it elsewhere.

Same way I wont be playing a random 2nd tier game or 5 year old port on my PC when a NEW Paper Mario is out on Switch.

@Moistnado

"I need them to make good on my investment in this console before buying another one"

Yep. Last game I played on my Switch was LM3 next one won't be till Paper Mario.

Everyone who does not play Animal Crossing has been looking at tons of old ports or 2nd tier games for months now.

After paying $300 in 2017 for a Switch. I am also now pay $12 a month for SHADOW to play 3rd party games on the GO while I wait 🙄

Debated what version to claim for months. Glad I went with PC now. Was not even about performance, just did not want to loose it again