Mathias_Wolfbrok

I just wish this worked on the Switch and/or we could edit the Miis that are on the Switch. I have no interest in editing the Mii associated to my NNID.

@gatorboi352 Hey, at least you can open VLC in the background ^^

OK, now the additional download makes sense.

It still sucks, but it makes sense.

It's probably just the Octo Expansion release date, with the "shock" factor coming from a same day release.

@QwertyQwerty He did, but let's be real, nothing's at stake here aside from pride

Well, the problem right now is not that the Virtual Console branding is not going to be a thing.

The problem is that the Online Service "Alternative" only has NES and is presented as "it will only ever have NES games". No SNES, GB, GBC, N64, GC, GBA or DS games whatsoever. It makes the future of retro gaming on Switch very uncertain right now.

It gets even weirder when you consider that they did get GameCube games running off of a Tegra, but keep that discovery only for the (inexistent) Chinese market... On the NVidia Shield.

Well, I wouldn't be surprised to see Gorochu concepts in every fangame starting from now...

@Damo Nice, thanks

What do these numbers become if we add Ocarina 3D and Majora 3D to the mix?

"Numerous GameCubes"

Now you're speaking my language.

> My personal goal is to continue hacking Pokemon games on the Switch

Which is exactly what I fear the most.

Can I have a Pokémon game I can actually play normally without having to worry about the million hackers who're going to ruin the online experience day 1 even ONCE in my life please?

@MH4 Sure, but Splatoon heavily, heavily relies on the Gyro ^^ Way more so than, say, Mario Odyssey

@SonOfVon Nah, they're wired controllers, but you can replace the wire if yours wears out

@MH4 No Gyro

This is nice and all, but let's be honest, nobody's going to buy the Splatoon one for obvious reasons.

No EU release?

Come on, Nintendo, don't pull a Capcom on this one for f***'s sake please.

@Geeks4Life Yes, you got points from the game you registered last month, but you got less points from registering it before the program was a thing. How in the hell were we supposed to know that one year ago?

And yes, that is absolutely money thrown out of the window for Nintendo. It may not be much, but it still pisses me off nonetheless.

@Baker1000 It may depend on the countries. I consistently got pretty good physical hauls from Club Nintendo, and I'm in France.

Although I do reckon that we had the same items.

@Geeks4Life Screw digital at one point! I like my cartridges!

But that's not even the point. Not everybody can spend 500 € PER YEAR in games just to get a 5 € discount! Plus the fact that all year 1 purchases are also heavily devalued, and that the program launched 1 year after the Switch, making all March 2017 games (So Zelda) unredeemable due to the unreasonably short expiry date.

This program is just lying somewhere between unreasonable and pure disrespectful. It's just about as usable as Brawl's netcode. Which also means it's probably also costing money to them to even maintain this service. They should have used that money in developing stuff that are actually usable, like solidifying the eShop, investing into cloud saves servers or even allowing us to turn our Switch Home Screen green!

@Geeks4Life I mean, to me this is pretty much the same thing as nothing.

Well, even if that doesn't work out, he still owns the name "Tony Hawk"

At this point I feel like I could create a bogus Linkedin account, write something random and everyone would start reporting on it...

Really getting sick of those "leaks" and "rumors".

I totally expect that feature to come to the Switch eShop as well, with both comment databases being merged. (Also, Europe please)

Can't wait to see these ones scalped, I know I'll be a happy victim

@mordecai It depends. In Europe you can get away with getting an OG SNES at a used games store for 50 €. I know in the US retro gaming is infinitely more expensive than in, say, Japan or Europe for that matter.

And yeah, OSSC is nice on paper because it supports any console (At least ones with RGB support) I want to invest but I have a hard time finding one and I'm not 100% sure it does SCART

@GravyThief Yeah, "best" is always subjective.

But I do personally think it's probably the best way to play the games, but not necessarily to experience them. Plus a EU retro-gamer will tell you that despite NTSC hardware being superior, the PAL experience (AKA Slowed-down Sonic for instance) will always be what they've known and therefore there's a sentimental attachment to those versions.

Well, of all the entry points they could have used, I didn't think they'd go for the Joy-Con Hard Connection.

So, not a big deal for mainstream but holy damn you can be certain every single competitive Pokémon player is gonna buy one in the coming months. Pokémon Switch isn't even gonna last a day.

Can't wait to see this played in tournaments Kappa

@Ogbert They'll probably sell the software digitally as well. I can see how it could help being able to swap these Labo sets on the fly.

Get production going even faster, release the Switch in a dockless SKU, make Pokémon on Switch good, done. 40 million sales in 1 year. (In 2019 because I'm 99.9% sure Pokémon is a 2019 game and the Dockless SKU will come in 2019 as well when people will be fed up with buying Switches at 300 € with a dock every single time)

And maybe, just maybe that will motivate Netflix and Google and Blizzard and stuff to put their software on the machine...

@nab1 I mean, the problem is less so the true gimmicky stages like Ribbon Ring, Cinema Deux or [NAME REDACTED] and more so the fact that they appear in Ranked (Thank God they at least removed Snake Park) Gimmicky stages can be a lot of fun in a casual environment.

Hence why the community (Or at least the occidental community, that is not influenced by Nintendo) narrows the stage list to somewhere between 5 and 7 stages, just like in Smash Bros.

@NinjaAceTrainer Well if you're thinking that, you're being misguided.

The lifeblood of the game is its deep and intricate gameplay, its various modes and its very un-Nintendo-like online structure (Lobbies? Ranked Battles? Spectator Mode?)

More seriously, it's all mindgames and mixups and getting to read and outplay your opponent, learning how to punish accordingly, how to use the stage to your advantage... It is as deep a game as you want it to be, just like Smash Bros. or Tekken.

@Lukeim64 Most people use controller, and it works like a charm You don't really get much advantage by playing Motion.

You should totally rebind your buttons though. Default has L3 as guard, so most players just rebind that to either L or R

@crackafreeze Yay! Double Dragon!

Then again, I already have Wulverblade on Switch and Double Dragon on my PC...

Wasn't VS Super Mario Bros. supposed to come out as well? Or is it only Japan?

@Angelic_Lapras_King You could buy them and download them later. Plus when it comes to the Switch, that thing has an archive system that's pretty useful.

@Mr_Horizon Well the conversation was about how Zelda isn't a launch title but Mario is in Korea

@Rika_Yoshitake Makes sense, Korean localization is already done in Odyssey, but Zelda requires all of that voice-over dubbing work. Plus, that game doesn't really have what you'd call "A small amount of text"

I'm gonna predict it right now: Splatoon 2 is gonna be insane in South Korea.

Too bad it'll launch after all of the content updates...

@Alikan Especially considering that an iPhone X2 is probably coming in 6 months.

Plus wasn't the iPhone invented like 10 years ago to begin with? XD

@Prizm I mean, it would probably sound less painful if we actually got the damn game in the west to begin with... Or even Detective Pikachu Episode 2 in Japan

@Menchi187 And takse up the most space too. It's double the size of the XB1 version

@Monado_III ARMS is actual new content though. So that's pretty nice.

Splatoon 2 benefits from having most of Splatoon 1's content almost already ready for release and just having to be fine tuned as they're released. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case back in Splatoon 1 though... (At least for any set that has an actual new main) But I might be wrong.

@gortsi IMO Smash wasn't even a mess up for the most part, people tend to forget how much development and licensing cost for one character in a fighting game.

However I'd agree that those Mii Costumes prices are outright ridiculous.

@thesilverbrick TBH if it weren't for the patch, I'm pretty sure that this game would litterally be dead now, because all of the levels posted were passing through Miiverse. Which means without the patch there would have been no levels no more, just like in Mario VS Donkey Kong Tipping Stars or Pushmo for instance

OK, gimme Killer Instinct and Cuphead on Switch, then help Daniel Fornace with his Rivals of Aether Nintendo Switch porting.

Oh, and get the RARE NES, SNES and N64 games on whatever replaces the Virtual Console.

@daveh30 Especially since Rockstar still applies the Switch Tax on the LA Noire cartridges.

Like, Switch Tax + Additional Downloads for a 1P game? No thanks. I was interested in the game but not with that kind of b*******.

@bluedogrulez Sure, but even then that's one game. Not your whole library...

@bluedogrulez Well, they said multiple systems. You could still share cartridges.

@Spoony_Tech Not just the dock, the hardware has to be made more... Handheld, and more kid-friendly. Most notably in anticipation for Pokémon. Like, think 2DS on that one.

> We don't do things the same way everyone else does

Well that's kind of the main problem with the online service right now...

I mean, I'd be Nintendo knowing I don't know how to do online communication, I'd just partner with Discord to get it working on an OS-level... And then we're done. The end. Problem solved.