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It's highly unlikely that Nintendo will implement a web browser or support for third-party peripherals. That would destroy all the stability Nintendo has worked so hard to achieve. Basically, it becomes more open-ended to hacks like a PC.

@FragRed Nailed it.

Where is the part where you kill stuff? This doesn't look fun...

Tried the Facebook connection... Still no friends. I hope my son grows up knowing more people than my wife and I.

The D-pad would cause a bit of a flaw with split joy-con play, but the virtual console is a must. It needs to be something stable, not rental. Who in the world wants to create saved data just to throw it away?

Watching Nintendo sue is like watching your parents fight when you're a small child.

But what about the terrible rap music we had in X? Can we turn off the music and make it playable if they laced the game with that disaster?

This update caused my microsd card to quit working. This has happened before with another SD Card.

Anyone know if it is easier to find rooms on this version compared to the pc version?

@gaby_gabito Xenoverse 2 has a story, so I would certainly vote for it as a single player game.

This isn't really an issue compared to in-game purchases or subscription based games. Had the memory been included in the Switch, it would have been heavy and expensive. This is part of it's modular design that allows us to choose how much memory we need instead of forcing it in the package. I see this as us having more control over our product.

@ThatNyteDaez Whatever happened seems to have hit all consoles. I think the lack of parts could be an issue though; perhaps the screens. There will probably be another spike with Mario+Rabbids and then a huge one with Mario Oddysey. Every month there is another game that makes the Switch a must.

@FX102A That or just about everyone there already owns a Switch. lol

I'm loving the fact that we get a AAA Nintendo title about every month. Nintendo games are on an entirely different level than third-party titles or other system exclusives considering other system exclusives are really just third-party titles. Being made for Nintendo by Nintendo couldn't be better. Now let's keep this going and move in the old titles like Super Mario RPG. Perhaps they could talk about resurrecting Suikoden. That is how you win a console war really quickly.

The commercial states: "Our controller feels just like an Xbox or PS3 controller." hmmm

The Steam controller already does this for all games on PC. I don't see anything on the "All Controller" that would make mouse movement easy. Mapping a mouse to a joystick still provides the poor joystick aiming. The best choices are touch and gyro.

I've came in with the highest score at every online game so far, but my 12 year old niece picks Ninjara and destroys me with teleports and grabs. I've noticed his grab looks like it's 14 feet wide at times when I fight him in single player.

@chriiiiiiiiiis That is probably true. The people here in America like to say not so nice things to each other while playing online. That is something I've enjoyed on the Switch. Not everyone plays COD, the community is friendly, and its more diverse.

Imagine how popular it would be if Nintendo's voice chat solution was better.

Brilliant ingenuity compared to Switch's method of communicating or having social interaction.

This is one of the silliest concepts I've seen in a long time. I love the Switch and hope to goodness they don't ruin it. I've never owned a cell phone, and don't plan to. I find texting pointless, and I don't want to talk to anyone while I'm doing things. This app just creates an extra layer of steps that I would have to use a clarpy tablet to win a match, because everyone else has an organized team.

Considering the only Internet Service Provider in my area provides a network connection that drops an average of 20 times a day. It doesn't look like I'm going to get to play. I've already pre-ordered the game too.

The whole thing looks a bit greedy to me. Someone is taking Smash and slapping a "Free-to-play" sticker on it in hopes of squeezing more cash out of people than Smash. I can't support or play "Free-to-play" on any grounds; especially not on Nintendo where Iwata tried to protect us from it the most.

Why in the world can't anyone just leave things the way they're meant to be. If a hacker wants to do something write something from scratch in C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic, HTML and PHP. We have Unreal 4, Blender, Ogre, and many more all for free or a very small royalty with no cash upfront.

All I want on Nintendo are Nintendo games. I could honestly care less about third party games unless it's IntiCreates. I play Third-party games on PC so it guarantees the definitive editions. Nintendo games are better than anything when they come. Even those third-party games that look amazing usually aren't that fun for me, or don't have any RPG/Story mechanics to keep me hooked for long.

@FragRed Not behind in technology, just a different approach. They chose effeciency.

@Priceless_Spork Sadly, that is often the case, but they still manage to price gouge people for tons of money proving they're very popular.

Guys the scarcity isn't joke. I saw tons of new boxes in GameStop and thought it wasn't selling. It turns out they were all display boxes and they didn't have a single unit. As soon as they get a shipment people line up at the door to buy them all.

Anyone notice the Switch is the only console that actually uses gyro, NFC and any exclusive features when they have an exclusive games. They even go as far as to use it in non-exclusive games. PS4 has gyro, but no shooters use it; yet, I think Splatoon proves its far more effective than the joystick. I feel like its either learn to use it or get splatted.

Yay, my friends list won't say COD all the way down the line like Playstation 3-4 since it came out. Now I might get to play some games with friends for the first time since ps3 launched.

I would much prefer having my save data on my SD card as to having it in a cloud. The cloud is great, but you can never tell what may happen to servers you don't own. At the same time, I hope the security on that save data is very tight. I don't want to see hacked saves, but I think that is what all that stability is for.

This is one of the best games on the Switch.

@TossedLlama Just put on at every coffee shop table. They will accept it like a new caff planted in with a mother cow.

@Turbo857 I hope Xenoverse 2 has better matchmaking than it does on PC. I'm curious to see if Nintendo has Dimps correct the issue where you can't find games. So far, I'm very impressed with Nintendo's netcode. I have terrible internet and have yet to experience lag in Mario Kart 8 or ARMS.

I'll tell you why the Nintendo Switch is my favorite console right off the bat. The games generally don't look overly realistic and depression inducing. I have seen so many shooters and games that focus on the dark side of everything that it is wonderful to see a sunshiny, happy, progressive, story-driven load of RPGs with co-cop and online play. When you use a lot of horsepower in a console,the games are always pushed to be so realistic they all wind up looking the same. We need to remember that games are an art; not a duty to replicate the real life that we want to get away from so badly. Nintendo was one of the first to have stories in a game; a vital aspect, and they Switch games so far have the smoothest online play I have ever encountered.

I'm a bit concerned they're hiding a crappy game under colorful words and overblown females like Duke Nukem. It reminds me a bit of kids dropping the f-bomb all the time to be cool, and can be a bit nerve-wracking.

@123akis Indeed, these aren't games of Bejewed you swipe around on a few minutes at the doctors office. Data needs to be secure.

They better find a way to back that stuff up unless they want to blow a perfectly good system. Not much use in having data you can't keep. This a Virtual Console is sketchy. Fix those and its pretty much a perfect system.

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Give it a few. I'm sure it will be here before Worlds is finished. Capcom is just playing hype games. Monster Hunter World plays entirely different with drop in/drop out multiplayer. I doubt it has that same MMORPG like feel.

It's hard to say there is any excitement beyond Mario Odyssey, because we have been talking of Splatoon and Arms for a long time. If they focus on these two games for E3 I think it could be a bit of a disappointment. I hope a shock us with tons of AAA Nintendo titles we have no clue about. I need something with a grind to it.

I would call this moderately interesting, but this isn't something that is a long lasting game or integrates story. Leveling up is great, but there are no new skills to achieve or places to go. I think E3 needs to be much bigger than this. I figure there will be a Smash Bros DX, but I don't think they should even mention Splatoon or Arms at E3. There is already plenty of news about those.

It is sad that we miss what Nintendo used to be so much that we are convincing ourselves that losing the last free online console left and getting rental games without the option to buy is ok. I am guilty of doing the same thing. It's like the acceptance stage of death because we have no choice. I've been through grief and denial already. Twenty bucks isn't a big deal, but no owning the games doesn't give a sense of accomplishment and I doubt $20 will stay the same long.

@JaxonH As it stands, it sound like they plan to handle it all on a server, which would mean no virtual console at all. I think we need to express are dislikes toward this as much as possible before they make a really bad decision like "Playstation Now."

I love the console, but if I can't own the classic games I can't continue to own a Switch.

1. It makes me feel like game progression is pointless.
2. This is a mobile device, so if I leave the router I will have no access to the server these games are on. Similarly, I use cheap phone service, and have no need for a fee like 4g if they would integrate that.
3. Streaming is detrimental to game quality; sometimes even unplayable due to connections.

Please listen to the customers Nintendo. You're the last different option out there in the console world.

Ubisoft really upset me when they killed off Desmond (who naturally feels like the main character of Assassin's Creed) to severe a story tie that would allow them to make and sell loads of games. I think there is a case of money killing the story.

I played this game when I was very small and thought I was the only person who even knew what it was before the internet came about. I play this as much as Mario Kart 8 & Zelda, and I usually won't touch anything that feels 8-bit. It seems the rest of the world just found this game if they didn't back in the early 90's.

I just want Nintendo + Square Enix to bring back the Super Mario RPG line instead of paper and Luigi.

If we based all of the consoles on power, there would be no reason to own anything but a PC. The key things that consoles offer are unique features, anti-hacking measures, and exclusives. I think Nintendo easily takes all three of those categories since they're the only console not focused on being a PC. We have a touch screen, modular controls, portability, just enough power to push to a resolution where things begin to become indistinguishable, etc for features.

When it comes to exclusives, we have some of the best ever made. There are many years since the 80's where Nintendo made exclusives that can be vamped up today, so there is the potential for 100's of 1000's of exclusive games that actually use these features. For instance, Wii and Switch actually push for the use of motion controls, very little PS4 and Xbox games utilize these features even though it makes aiming as superior as a PC mouse. Once I played with the gyro in the Steam controller and Wii U gamepad, I couldn't bear going back to the dualshock or xbox controller.

@Firebird360 If this has a touchscreen, it could possibly emulate both screens on a single screen. I can't see Nintendo throwing away a library as huge as the 3ds or the virtual console. There is such a small handful of Wii U games, I believe they could all be ported, so I have high hopes for the future.

My biggest concern over the lack of info is unknown backwards-compatibility. I've got quite a few games stored on an external hard drive that has an average lifespan of 4 years, and I would really like to know they're safe. I'm not even sure if I should be buying anything from the Eshop since everything there could be short lived. Lastly, is Xenoblade Chronicles X's servers going to shutdown, because the game won't have many players if it isn't ported?