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Yup, I agree with the others.. anything claiming it can act as a dock needs to provide some kind of evidence that it won't brick the system.

However, as a portable speaker/stand it could be fun. I wonder if it's possible to adjust the viewing angle (otherwise it's useless in tabletop mode too).

@Stocksy Brick xINFINITY!!!

@Anti-Matter @Gs69 Comparisons of Dreamcast & PS2 software output are a little unfair considering how much longer the PS2 lasted in the market. In the short time the Dreamcast was around it had some amazing killer apps like Powerstone, PSO, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio and more.

Arguably, the PS2 benefitted greatly from the passing of the Dreamcast both in third party output increase & Sega moving into their platform.

Edit: Thinking about it, Sony really was gifted by the more established companies bad practices. The Playstation exists due to Nintendo's entitled attitude at the time & Sega gave up & packed away their console making more room for them to expand.

I loved the Dreamcast & played hours of Phantasy Star Online (which would make a perfect Switch game). I never really had an issue with the Dreamcast controller.

Personally, I wish they'd address the battery life of the VMU & possibly incorporate a redesigned VMU into the controller.

Mmm, zomboobs.

Unfortunately whenever I give my loved one a Valentine it's always hand delivered.

#crypticandgross

Odd really, while lots of people on Nintendo forums increasingly demand Nintendo make Pokémon more like Yokai Watch, Yokai Watch slowly dies.

Never been a fan of either the Pokémon or Yokai animé, played a little of the Yokai Watch games & got bored pretty quickly.

@NerdyBoutKirby Well, yes.. the school system does work differently here in the UK. In this case, it's just a one week break which is placed term. It allows teachers to catch up with out-of-hours work & training as well as letting the kids vent.

They might as well release it on the Switch, they sold 13 copies so it seems everyone that bought a WiiU owned a copy.. think how much it would sell on Switch!

I kid! I kid!

@tudsworth To be honest, I checked out the link and most of the games have sold out except for the ones on the pictures bundle and Bravely Second. I think Bravely Second is the only game still in stock which I both don't have & actually want.

@GyroZeppeli Actually, not all 3DS demos have/had play limits, notably the Pokémon demos. When the 3DS launched nearly none of the demos were limited.

@Heavyarms55 As others have said, this demo is for people that have been holding back.. not the people that were going to buy it at launch anyway. Personally if there had been a demo out before I picked up the game I'd have waited, the throw mechanics really do kill the fun for me.

@patbacknitro18 There you go, 3DS game. :'D

Well, I'm working on Community Day as with a lot of my friends so I'm missing out on shiny Swinub. I might be able to get those stones though.

Between EX Raids mostly landing on working days/hours & Community Days set on Saturday rather than Sunday.. anyone would think Niantic is deliberately trying to use up holiday hours in some sort of sinister scheme.

Considering the last huge dump we got from Capcom was Resident Evil Survivor*, I'm ecstatic with this news!

*Actually quite enjoyed it, but needed something there for the purposes of the pun.

@patbacknitro18 The game is still in development so it could look a lot better by the time it's released.

Plus the it looks a lot better than a 3DS game if you zoom in.. I think its the jagged edges making you think that.

@BulkSlash Actually the current blue shell does do something for me when I'm at the back.. it makes me feel better for a few seconds that the poor idiot at the front is going to suffer as much as me at the back.

@Octane Haha, my bad!

@Lionyone @KingBowser86 You are correct Lionyone, the use of the word spastic is considered pretty horrific here in the UK (So much so that Hasbro had place stickers over the name of thousands of toys they had named "Spastic" without thinking").

However, this is an online forum with lots of users from different countries. Unless someone is deliberately using it in an insulting way it's best to let it go.

I say this as the older brother/guardian of an autistic man who was abused with the word spastic as he was growing up.

Edit: And now back to the light-hearted "who do I fancy" comments.

I'm going to say Cynthia.. mostly because I'm over 30 & going on a Valentine date with most of the other (under 18) girls would be icky.

Visually, and from the description this game just strikes me as any other town builder you can find in abundance on smartphones already.

While I have confidence that Molyneux can bring his usual novel charm to the game, I'll take some convincing that I won't get board of it after a few weeks.

Plus if it's adverts about "We need a pool" I'm throwing it out the window.

I did my best..

@GrandSparkster Well played with that GIF. :'D

@DartBuzzer I disagree with your analysis that the buzz behind VR has been bigger this time around. On VR's first go of the wheel we had game shows, movies, changes to our language and rolling news reports depicting how VR would revolutionise our world - this time around (even 2 years ago) most of the news around VR was in tech news & looking at how it could bring sales to the gaming industry.

I do admit however that my comparison to 3D TV was based purely on the cyclical nature of VR & not to it's usefulness. VR has had some practical uses such as keyhole surgery - though most of your other examples have been concepts since the late 80s/early 90s.

You may be correct about the Google Glass concept however! I will never discount any vision of the future OR assert that I have any better foresight than anyone else.

I'm old enough that I was around the first time VR took off & there was much more of a buzz. I'm pretty sure there is a place for VR in gaming.. but I doubt it will ever be the "next big thing"

Much like 3D TV, VR will pop back up every few years claiming to revolutionise gaming & then slink back into the shadow, taking people's hard earned money with it.

@Gen0neD Haha, I wish it was that easy predicting who'd win! I was on team Pancakes and barely lost a match.. won one of them with 84% of the turf to 7%.

@Matthew010 Oddly enough, in real life it's always the waffles that are battered.

@SMW Its a great feeling isn't it, I managed to bag a screenshot of my team on the Splatfest screen outside the lobby.

@SwitchForce As I stated I have my official right Joycon for NFC in single player.

@thesilverbrick Oh, indeed! I understand it's more complicated than simple screen layout. However, there are much more practical complications behind a "3DS slot" (many of which you have in your reply) than the number of screens. I just hear number of screens brought up too often when it's a non-issue.

And let's not forget another important reason that Nintendo wouldn't add a 3DS slot to the Switch.. why sell one console when you're already happily selling two?

Hmm, something tells me that the same people demanding Nintendo release more first party games are the same ones also demanding more support for the 3DS.

@thesilverbrick Technically the 2DS only has one screen. I suppose you could hold the Switch lengthways & the Switch could display one screen in top of each other.. but that would be super uncomfortable to play with.

@BigMac1204 But Ive not finished Splatoon 2 yet!!

@dystome I don't get what you mean? I'm old enough the have played on a ZX Spectrum & none of my other beloved 80s franchises have been ruined. Except Ninja Turtles, Transformers, She-Ra, ReBoot..

@ryancraddock What? No sponsored link? The ONE time I was going to buy something from this site..

@MysticGengar Poor Shenzhen Jieruihong Electronics Co.!! Nintendo get flack for the Joycon being too small, and now Shenzhen Jieruihong Electronics Co. are getting flack for their faux Joycon being too big!

To be honest, I don't need most of the features listed in the article for the faux Joycon such as NFC.. that's only really useful in single player & in that instance I have the official right joycon.

Give me a d-pad & wireless functionality & I'm good.

Oh and maybe skip the default colour options as we kinda have those already.

I find it odd people are asking for "more quality first party games," this is a self-contradiction. Any developer can pump out okay games at a rate of knots (except EA who struggle to squeeze out the odd lootbox machine reskin), meanwhile Nintendo prefer to work on their games until they're good enough to be considered classics.

Hopefully Nintendo can wind-down the 3DS a little more quickly & put more resources into Switch development.

Considering that 2 years ago a lot of people on NLife didn't see Nintendo even HAVING hardware to sell past winter 2018, I think they've done pretty well.

@RandomNerds Technically he didn't say the cart would get updated, he just stated he'd use the cartridges to update the games. The quickest way to update a game is to stick the cart in the slot.

Patches are stored on the SD Card.

@rjejr To be fair, it was the third party docks causing the bricking issue. While it's true Nintendo didn't use standard USB-C coding to run the Switch in docked mode, it was up to the third parties to research & test their products thoroughly before releasing them.

@LegendOfStewart Just a nitpick on this one, but due to the type of storage Nintendo are using on the Switch, game storage sizes are considerably smaller than they are compared with other consoles. Take Doom.. it's 73GB on the PS4, 13GB on the Switch.

While I agree that the Switch could probably not run RDR2, I doubt the game would take up anywhere near the same storage space that it did on PS4 (especially with all backend changes that would need to be made to port it).

@personauser0893 So Nintendo's parents were going through a divorce?

Lol, sorry.. sounded like you were describing my school life there.

@Silly_G @sikthvash I can't see Nintendo doing something like this with their mainline games at the moment, if Nintendo want to squeeze customers for cash they get a third party to develop a mobile version so they can wash their hands of it.

On their own hardware however, Nintendo is still one of the few companies that doesn't remove content to sell it to you later. Compare SSBU to most other fighters.. SSBU has 74 unlockable characters built in, meanwhile some of the recent fighters from other companies start with 6 & don't even hit 30 after spending £40/50.

@Haywired I think Nintendo's plan is to eventually have all the main fighters from Smash have their own Amiibo. The only issue here is the order of release. I don't think there is any issue with slots.

Unless you think Nintendo should have changed the roster of Smash JUST to give a character an Amiibo?

Do I want another Isabelle Amiibo? Yes.
Could I have waited? Yes.

The main update I was after was the ability to play online through Vodafone.. so frustrating wanting jump into a game when out & about but having the wrong network provider!

I only got into Splatoon 2 mid-last year? I'm absolutely loving it! If anyone on NLife are looking to make a team, count me In!

Not a fan of Assassins Creed, I played the original & found it pretty poor. I kept being told it got better from AC2 onwards... but the comments I'm reading here lead me to believe that AC3 and onwards are bad?

Does that make AC2 the only good Assassins Creed game?

@Heavyarms55 Very true and just imagine, the Lord of the Rings trilogy filmed three movies back to back before the first one had been released.. even MORE arrogant!

I get what you mean though, if you're not looking forward to a movie (and I definitely didn't like the LotR trilogy) then it can seem dumb to film sequels in advance of release.. but it happens all the time.

Sometimes it makes sense to risk moving too quickly (especially with a young cast).

*Edit: on the "something new" part of your comment, it's based on a top selling game from a smash hit franchise. Movie series have been based in less.

Yes, this is why I am bad at Fortnite... that and the fact I'm nearly 40 & don't play it much.

@hihelloitsme I use mine all the time, but only for Splatoon 2 when I'm out & about. For some games that rely on motion controls the feeling between console mode & handheld mode is just far too different... when I'm at home with my Pro Controller I can get 12 Splats (kills) a match, on handheld I struggle 2-3. The playstand elevates the screen into a more "tv-like" position allowing me to use the Joycon grip freely.

@Klingki I'd personally add "when you're at a coffee shop with a good net connection but the tables are wobbly & you don't want to trust your £250 console & gamesave to the kickstand." The Hori stand is pretty rock solid.

*Edited for Samsung spellcheck madness.

@WarpSpawn That's a bit harsh on @ryancraddock as I'm sure the "manufacturing" comment was just a joke. However, you are correct that none of the Soulja devices have been re-skinned. I believe one of the original Soulja handhelds received a sticker on the outside of the unopened box.. but everything else is just straight from China.

Whatever legal action that's been threatened, needs to take place. It's clear Soulja Boy doesn't care about/is too dumb to understand the law.

Just comparing physical sales is completely unfair on Ace Combat... obviously the game is mostly cloud based.

Planely speaking of course.

Finally, the game we've been looking for... one that screams "that'll do".

@dugan That kind of intuition is probably what earned you your nickname Headless Detective Dugan.

@Heavyarms55 Exactly. My point was that Nintendo have removed the booklets but are still in the "stick in in the manual" mindset.

Seems to me that being pushed to keep up with the modern age, they're making silly mistakes.

@Heavyarms55 I think it's simply something that would have been in an instruction booklet back in the dark days of the 90s & early 2000s.

I think Nintendo's removed the instruction manual & forgotten we still need the information one way or another.

Somewhere, somewhen, Andy Serkis is plotting to take Ryan Reynolds down, no one takes a mocap role from Serkis. Not his job.. his.. precious!

Unfortunately "mass exodus" is so vague there's no real way of telling what it means. To me it brings up:
1) Staff quitting, maybe pay/conditions?
2) Staff jumping ship to other studios.
3) Staff cuts linked to overseas sales.

Because "mass exodus" is so vague, I'll take it with a grain of salt as people tend to make vague guesses so they can seem right no matter what the truth is.