The funny thing is I've used the HDMI cable for my current Switch on my PC and PS5 and its handled 4K 60FPS just fine, even did HDR. I don't think this is a new thing.
@Specter_of-the_OLED exactly. I have the 2019 Mariko Switch and as stated above, the HDMI supports 4K just fine.
@Edwirichuu I think it comes down to an individual level. I got my Switch about two years ago, but I'm perfectly happy to get this model for the screen upgrade. Since my current one is still in pretty good condition, I can make back most of the money spent.
For me, sometimes playing in handheld can be annoying due to certain text and UI in some games being a bit hard to see. The bigger size will alleviate that. Plus I have very fond memories of the PS Vita and it's screen, so getting that enhanced contrast ratio and colour gamut back (and probably better considering how old the Vita is now) in my portable gaming sounds brilliant to me.
For other people I understand wanting to wait and see what the next Switch brings though, it's natural to want to make your purchases last as long as possible.
I can imagine people who started with the Lite will be much more tempted to upgrade.
@russell-marlow I think the reasoning is because of the support for languages that aren't English, so for certain games you have to have the 50Hz version so French people can play in French and so on.
But just having the ability to swap between different regional versions like you suggest would be a more elegant solution for sure.
@CharlieGirl In this case, the N64 games are the main feature. You pay an extra fee for them. But it's not much of an issue, just log in to the US eShop and download that version of the app. Though I suppose not everyone would know you can even do that, which can be a problem.
@Markiemania95 you're correct in both of your responses. It doesn't matter if you download the other region versions with an account that isn't subscribed to NSO, because the console checks which account you use when starting them up.
@CharlieGirl No it wasn't a gotcha.
You made claims, I asked you for proof of them since I've never heard of him saying anything negative about those groups of people. Maybe from your perspective it was a gotcha because you just made up those claims and knew you couldn't back them up when prompted, so you ask me to do the work myself so you can wipe your hands of it all? Maybe, maybe not. But I couldn't find that proof on my own after Google searching, so that's unfortunately not a good sign.
Nothing about him saying things like: "I can't stand gay... people..." or "man I really hate black people"
Instead it's "everyone is entitled to love who they want"
Again, I would like to see some proof of his alleged bigotry. Maybe I was missing something on my attempts to find out, but you were confident in your comments of what he's like, so you must have better info than I, so please show me.
@CharlieGirl could you give us specific examples where he's spoken about his personal views on such sociopolitical issues? I assumed he'd never done so, but you seem quite confident he has, so l would love to see if my assumption was wrong.
@Clyde_Radcliffe Nah. Hearing Charles doing his Mario voice for 90 minutes in full sentences would probably get old fast. His performance is great for short catchphrases and grunts, not a movie.
It would have been cool if these packs also gave you a set of music. Like some Yakuza tracks when playing as Kiryu, or in the cases of these "characters" some songs from assorted Game Gear, Saturn and Dreamcast games.
Can't believe you guys gave Colours an 8/10 with the state that it's in. Same applies to most of the reviews for the game. It's even harder to take professional reviews of Sonic games seriously now.
@liveswired Sonic Colours Ultimate is also visually improved over the original to a degree not seen with Skyward Sword's remaster. SS is mostly the same, with some AI enhanced textures here and there and a new UI but it sticks pretty close to the original graphics, and I think it even uses the same engine. Colours Ultimate is on a new engine (original used some proprietary Nintendo stuff, ruling out it's use for a multiplatform release) and features new textures throughout, a modern lighting engine, some improved models, etc. I'd say the improvements put it almost on par with the graphics of Sonic Forces, which had a pretty half baked Switch port - 720p graphics that are worse than the PC's lowest settings, and it still couldn't do 60fps.
Ultimate however looks virtually the same as on PS4 from what I've seen, aside from the framerate, and there's no guarantee reducing the graphics would have achieved 60fps either.
@TheFrenchiestFry @Jackpaza0508 No, those costumes aren't in this version. The Japanese website says
*Yuri ‘Swimsuit’ and Fukaba ‘Gravure Swimsuit’ from the Wii U version are not included in this game.
@LillianC14 For the vast majority of games on PlayStation you get both versions.
For why it says both PS4 and PS5, but just Xbox on the press release, it's probably a platform holder thing, where Microsoft considers Xbox to be a family of systems, so it's not necessary to list your game as releasing on the One or Series, whereas Sony treats the PS5 as more of a separate console.
@TheFrenchiestFry And people still think they throw all of their franchises under the bus in favour of Sonic. But they've been giving Sonic budget games for a whole decade now, while other franchises like Yakuza, Persona, the western/PC studios have been getting bigger and bigger. It's not like the 2000s where we got 2-3 Sonic titles a year either, we barely get 1 a year these days.
@Alpha008 Though it's a double edged sword, since some of them are already expecting a disaster because it was a CG teaser with no gameplay, despite that being the norm for Sonic regardless of the quality. I think Mania and the 3 Boom games are the only ones that were announced alongside gameplay.
Some of the hardcore fans and "sonictubers" are a combination of impatient and nervous/pessimistic, not entirely their fault but they jump the gun too much imo.
But overall, yeah it would've been way worse if they didn't show anything.
"But in our interpretation of the scene, the kid is saying that his dad got him a Game Boy Color, and therefore LeBron can have his old, crappy, non-color one. That's still rather generous, but not the egregious error that it first seems."
It's not generous at all, that's literally what happens. The assumption that they mistook a DMG for a colour makes no sense, why would the kid give LeBron his new Game Boy? Why would LeBron throw it in the trash if it literally isn't his? It's so obvious.
@VoidofLight "This website teases seven different projects which will be revealed between September 2021 and Fall 2022" either the article fumbled it up and you're correct or it's accurate.
@VoidofLight Well the announcements are being stretched out until the end of next year, and they'd likely save the biggest for last. If Atlus really said that, that means 1.5 years of development time by the end of 2022, which is long enough for them to then make a more official announcement of Persona 6 I'd wager.
@TheFrenchiestFry Yeah, good point. It would be weird for them to reveal something that important to the game's visual identity so early, albeit under our noses. Whatever colour they go with in the end, it'll look slick.
@TheFrenchiestFry another thing to add, the 25 has all the colours of the five main entries plus white at the end. Seems we'll be getting a white theme maybe?
There'll probably be something for Switch. Either a port of an older game, or a new game such as a teaser for a multiplat P6, like the P5 teaser from back in 2013. Perhaps both.
It's also worth stating that screen burn in is not as much of a problem as it used to be. Even then, my OLED Vita, which uses one of those earlier screens, never had burn in after many years. Same thing with my newest phone, no burn in after a year, and that is with a newer panel. I wouldn't stress too much about it, especially on a handheld display - you won't be having the screen on for as much as you would on a TV.
@rjejr Oh-led is the common way to say it as far as I know, the other way is just a bit too clunky you know?
@SwitchVogel His contract was about to expire and the new Netflix series is going to have it's own original cast. It doesn't take much effort to come to the conclusion that the cast thought their time was up (it wasn't just Roger) - look at what happened with Sonic X. They likely decided to announce they were stepping back rather than let themselves get fired, but later behind the scenes things got worked out and the old cast was able to reaudition and get new contracts signed.
Specifically, the video description says these are a few of the improvements, suggesting there's more. We know about that amiibo thing of course, but I wonder if there's anything else?
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Re: Teardown Suggests The Switch OLED Dock Is 4K 60fps-Ready And 'Future Proof'
The funny thing is I've used the HDMI cable for my current Switch on my PC and PS5 and its handled 4K 60FPS just fine, even did HDR. I don't think this is a new thing.
@Specter_of-the_OLED exactly. I have the 2019 Mariko Switch and as stated above, the HDMI supports 4K just fine.
Re: Gallery: Feast Your Eyes On 21 Screenshots Of Bayonetta 3
@SwitchVogel I'd say 1 has a better climax.
Re: The First Switch OLED Comparison Video Has Surfaced
@Edwirichuu I think it comes down to an individual level. I got my Switch about two years ago, but I'm perfectly happy to get this model for the screen upgrade. Since my current one is still in pretty good condition, I can make back most of the money spent.
For me, sometimes playing in handheld can be annoying due to certain text and UI in some games being a bit hard to see. The bigger size will alleviate that. Plus I have very fond memories of the PS Vita and it's screen, so getting that enhanced contrast ratio and colour gamut back (and probably better considering how old the Vita is now) in my portable gaming sounds brilliant to me.
For other people I understand wanting to wait and see what the next Switch brings though, it's natural to want to make your purchases last as long as possible.
I can imagine people who started with the Lite will be much more tempted to upgrade.
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog Returns To The Macy's Parade, Almost 30 Years After Injuring Two People
Can't help but notice that original Sonic has two mouths.
Re: Uh-Oh, Nintendo Switch Online's N64 Games Might Be 50Hz In Europe
@russell-marlow I think the reasoning is because of the support for languages that aren't English, so for certain games you have to have the 50Hz version so French people can play in French and so on.
But just having the ability to swap between different regional versions like you suggest would be a more elegant solution for sure.
Re: Uh-Oh, Nintendo Switch Online's N64 Games Might Be 50Hz In Europe
@CharlieGirl In this case, the N64 games are the main feature. You pay an extra fee for them. But it's not much of an issue, just log in to the US eShop and download that version of the app. Though I suppose not everyone would know you can even do that, which can be a problem.
@Markiemania95 you're correct in both of your responses. It doesn't matter if you download the other region versions with an account that isn't subscribed to NSO, because the console checks which account you use when starting them up.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild And Splatoon 2 Will Get New Physical Releases With DLC Included In Japan
Just give us Nintendo Selects.
Re: The Super Mario Movie's Release Date And Cast Are Revealed
@CharlieGirl No it wasn't a gotcha.
You made claims, I asked you for proof of them since I've never heard of him saying anything negative about those groups of people. Maybe from your perspective it was a gotcha because you just made up those claims and knew you couldn't back them up when prompted, so you ask me to do the work myself so you can wipe your hands of it all? Maybe, maybe not. But I couldn't find that proof on my own after Google searching, so that's unfortunately not a good sign.
I did find this however.
https://www.insider.com/chris-pratt-defends-zoe-church-ellen-page-anti-lgbtq-2019-2
Nothing about him saying things like: "I can't stand gay... people..." or "man I really hate black people"
Instead it's "everyone is entitled to love who they want"
Again, I would like to see some proof of his alleged bigotry. Maybe I was missing something on my attempts to find out, but you were confident in your comments of what he's like, so you must have better info than I, so please show me.
Re: The Super Mario Movie's Release Date And Cast Are Revealed
@CharlieGirl could you give us specific examples where he's spoken about his personal views on such sociopolitical issues? I assumed he'd never done so, but you seem quite confident he has, so l would love to see if my assumption was wrong.
Re: The Super Mario Movie's Release Date And Cast Are Revealed
@indienapolis Yeah, he's just a regular Christian guy who's also an actor. Sad that for some people, it's enough to get them seething, but oh well.
Re: The Super Mario Movie's Release Date And Cast Are Revealed
@Clyde_Radcliffe Nah. Hearing Charles doing his Mario voice for 90 minutes in full sentences would probably get old fast. His performance is great for short catchphrases and grunts, not a movie.
Re: Switch Exclusive Chocobo GP Sure Wants To Be Mario Kart, Doesn't It?
@VIIIAxel 100 percent with you.
Other kart racers can be good too, guys.
Re: Triangle Strategy Has A Silly Name But Looks Great, Out In March
@Expa0 It doesn't make any sense because there aren't 8 different storylines.
Re: Bayonetta 3 Finally Gets A New Trailer, Out In 2022
@Bizzyb @Snatcher @Kilamanjaro It looked kind of like the protagonist from Scalebound to me.
Re: Bayonetta 3 Finally Gets A New Trailer, Out In 2022
@BlackenedHalo has to run at a smooth fps so that's fine.
Re: Bayonetta 3 Finally Gets A New Trailer, Out In 2022
Now you can all stop pestering Platinum and Kamiya constantly lmao.
Re: Rumour: Switch Will Reportedly Receive A Price Cut Ahead Of The OLED Model's Launch
@ModdedInkling very few games on the PS3 and 360 ran at 60fps. I wish they ran at a locked 30, let alone double.
Re: Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania 'SEGA Legends' Pack Brings Back Classic Consoles
The complete lack of any movement is odd.
It would have been cool if these packs also gave you a set of music. Like some Yakuza tracks when playing as Kiryu, or in the cases of these "characters" some songs from assorted Game Gear, Saturn and Dreamcast games.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 4th)
Can't believe you guys gave Colours an 8/10 with the state that it's in. Same applies to most of the reviews for the game. It's even harder to take professional reviews of Sonic games seriously now.
Re: Random: This Lucky Switch Fan Received A Physical Copy Of Sonic Colors Ultimate One Week Early
@liveswired Sonic Colours Ultimate is also visually improved over the original to a degree not seen with Skyward Sword's remaster. SS is mostly the same, with some AI enhanced textures here and there and a new UI but it sticks pretty close to the original graphics, and I think it even uses the same engine. Colours Ultimate is on a new engine (original used some proprietary Nintendo stuff, ruling out it's use for a multiplatform release) and features new textures throughout, a modern lighting engine, some improved models, etc. I'd say the improvements put it almost on par with the graphics of Sonic Forces, which had a pretty half baked Switch port - 720p graphics that are worse than the PC's lowest settings, and it still couldn't do 60fps.
Ultimate however looks virtually the same as on PS4 from what I've seen, aside from the framerate, and there's no guarantee reducing the graphics would have achieved 60fps either.
Re: Now Suezo From Monster Rancher Is Confirmed For Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
@Dr_Lugae @SPM Different characters in Monkey Ball have different stats, so they do control a bit differently.
Re: Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania Will Have Hello Kitty Paid DLC
@sanderev Yeah, because a remake of a packed game like Super Monkey Ball Deluxe isn't complete because you can't play as Hello Kitty out of the box.
Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water Adds New Character Costumes On Switch
@TheFrenchiestFry @Jackpaza0508 No, those costumes aren't in this version. The Japanese website says
*Yuri ‘Swimsuit’ and Fukaba ‘Gravure Swimsuit’ from the Wii U version are not included in this game.
https://www.gamecity.ne.jp/zero/maiden/
It's in Japanese but you can Google translate it, it's near the bottom of the page inbetween the two cero d ratings.
Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water Adds New Character Costumes On Switch
@KayFiOS They're different costumes.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Expansion Mod Adds Age Of Calamity Boss And Mammoths
@nessisonett Boots taste exquisite, apparently.
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog Singer Tony Harnell Teases Possible Return
@SalvorHardin It could just be him being coy, like a "maaaybe " response. Time will tell, eventually.
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog Singer Tony Harnell Teases Possible Return
It'd be nice if there was a new version of It Doesn't Matter for the 2022 game.
Re: WayForward's BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites Sinks Its Teeth Into Switch Next Month
@LillianC14 For the vast majority of games on PlayStation you get both versions.
For why it says both PS4 and PS5, but just Xbox on the press release, it's probably a platform holder thing, where Microsoft considers Xbox to be a family of systems, so it's not necessary to list your game as releasing on the One or Series, whereas Sony treats the PS5 as more of a separate console.
Re: Legendary Composer Jun Senoue Joins Sonic Colors Ultimate OST Remix Line-Up
Sonic Colours but it sounds like Sonic Adventure 2.
Re: Netflix Is Reportedly Working On A Live-Action Pokémon Series
What happened with Legendary pictures having the Pokémon licence? Detective Pikachu did well so it's weird that they may not have it now and the rights moved to Netflix.
Re: Respawn's F2P Shooter Apex Legends Gets A New Character On 3rd August
There's no such thing as a coincidence.
Re: Takashi Iizuka Admits The Sonic 2022 Reveal Was Probably A Bit Too Early
@TheFrenchiestFry And people still think they throw all of their franchises under the bus in favour of Sonic. But they've been giving Sonic budget games for a whole decade now, while other franchises like Yakuza, Persona, the western/PC studios have been getting bigger and bigger. It's not like the 2000s where we got 2-3 Sonic titles a year either, we barely get 1 a year these days.
Re: Takashi Iizuka Admits The Sonic 2022 Reveal Was Probably A Bit Too Early
@Alpha008 Though it's a double edged sword, since some of them are already expecting a disaster because it was a CG teaser with no gameplay, despite that being the norm for Sonic regardless of the quality. I think Mania and the 3 Boom games are the only ones that were announced alongside gameplay.
Some of the hardcore fans and "sonictubers" are a combination of impatient and nervous/pessimistic, not entirely their fault but they jump the gun too much imo.
But overall, yeah it would've been way worse if they didn't show anything.
Re: Random: The Internet Is Dunking On Space Jam 2's Game Boy Cameo
@HamatoYoshi Or the nun from 1971's 'The Devils', a film so controversial the uncut version still hasn't been released 50 years on.
Re: Random: The Internet Is Dunking On Space Jam 2's Game Boy Cameo
"But in our interpretation of the scene, the kid is saying that his dad got him a Game Boy Color, and therefore LeBron can have his old, crappy, non-color one. That's still rather generous, but not the egregious error that it first seems."
It's not generous at all, that's literally what happens. The assumption that they mistook a DMG for a colour makes no sense, why would the kid give LeBron his new Game Boy? Why would LeBron throw it in the trash if it literally isn't his? It's so obvious.
Re: Rumour: Metroid Prime Trilogy For Switch Ready To Go, According To Industry Insider
@Joeynator3000 You are correct.
This is at least the third time in the last few years this exact rumour has come up. I'm pretty sure this site even reported it.
Re: Atlus Has Seven "Project" Reveals Planned For Persona's 25th Anniversary
@VoidofLight "This website teases seven different projects which will be revealed between September 2021 and Fall 2022" either the article fumbled it up and you're correct or it's accurate.
Re: Atlus Has Seven "Project" Reveals Planned For Persona's 25th Anniversary
@VoidofLight Well the announcements are being stretched out until the end of next year, and they'd likely save the biggest for last. If Atlus really said that, that means 1.5 years of development time by the end of 2022, which is long enough for them to then make a more official announcement of Persona 6 I'd wager.
Re: Atlus Has Seven "Project" Reveals Planned For Persona's 25th Anniversary
@TheFrenchiestFry Yeah, good point. It would be weird for them to reveal something that important to the game's visual identity so early, albeit under our noses. Whatever colour they go with in the end, it'll look slick.
Re: Atlus Has Seven "Project" Reveals Planned For Persona's 25th Anniversary
@TheFrenchiestFry another thing to add, the 25 has all the colours of the five main entries plus white at the end. Seems we'll be getting a white theme maybe?
Edit: @KayFiOS ninja'd lol.
Re: Atlus Has Seven "Project" Reveals Planned For Persona's 25th Anniversary
@TheFrenchiestFry It has been almost 5 years since P5 launched, so I think it's not unreasonable to expect some kind of announcement at this point.
Re: Atlus Has Seven "Project" Reveals Planned For Persona's 25th Anniversary
There'll probably be something for Switch. Either a port of an older game, or a new game such as a teaser for a multiplat P6, like the P5 teaser from back in 2013. Perhaps both.
Re: Team Sonic Racing '30th Anniversary Edition' Listings Surface Online
@Clyde_Radcliffe Yeah, same. It's quite underrated.
Re: Should I Buy A Switch OLED? Which Nintendo Switch Is Best For Me?
@ModdedInkling You can kind of do that. Switches get sold on ebay for near full price.
Re: Nintendo Switch OLED Screen: Why Is OLED Better Than LCD?
It's also worth stating that screen burn in is not as much of a problem as it used to be. Even then, my OLED Vita, which uses one of those earlier screens, never had burn in after many years. Same thing with my newest phone, no burn in after a year, and that is with a newer panel. I wouldn't stress too much about it, especially on a handheld display - you won't be having the screen on for as much as you would on a TV.
@rjejr Oh-led is the common way to say it as far as I know, the other way is just a bit too clunky you know?
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog's Voice Actor Reassures Fans He's Here To Stay
@SwitchVogel His contract was about to expire and the new Netflix series is going to have it's own original cast. It doesn't take much effort to come to the conclusion that the cast thought their time was up (it wasn't just Roger) - look at what happened with Sonic X. They likely decided to announce they were stepping back rather than let themselves get fired, but later behind the scenes things got worked out and the old cast was able to reaudition and get new contracts signed.
Re: Rumour: There's Supposedly A New Donkey Kong Animation In Development
Zippo? Yeah, okay. Whatever.
Re: Game Builder Garage Team Took Inspiration From 'Idol Groups' For Nodons
@Ryu_Niiyama I look forward to it if you manage.
Re: Game Builder Garage Team Took Inspiration From 'Idol Groups' For Nodons
I like to think that Teshima must have been listening to the likes of Hinatazaka46, Perfume, Twice and BiSH when he came up with that.
Re: Here's How Nintendo Is Improving Zelda: Skyward Sword HD Over The Wii Original
Specifically, the video description says these are a few of the improvements, suggesting there's more. We know about that amiibo thing of course, but I wonder if there's anything else?