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@Ironcore

Well, on consoles, bare minimum accaptable will most likely stick to 30 fps the coming generation as well. I myself think it's totally fine in slower, non-competetive games. But no doubt about it, it would in some cases been nice with a Pro-console that could do online games like Fortnite and Apex at 60.

No, not to me. Im having just a good time with my Switch now as back in 2017, and I haven't really noticed any significant development in the general gaming business since then that makes the Switch feel obsolete.

@Ironcore

30fps isn't even an obsolete standard, PS5 and Series X still gonna have plenty of 30fps games. "Can't play below 120fps" is in my experience more a thing among gamers who thinks playing any game on anything other than oon their 3000USD gaming-PC is a crappy experience.

November 2023 with a Q1 2024 release would be just fine.

I really don't see anyone paying 400 USD for a Android tablet for streamed gaming, when you can get a Switch for 299 or a Steam Deck at 399.

It's on my watch list. Buying it at minimum 25 % off

AI art is basically the same thing as an un-talented person makes art by copying talented artists and just whopping it around for a bit at random. I think it's about as exciting as going on a vacation to Paris in Facebook Metavers.

It's actually kinda interesting. We today basically got all the tech available to pretty much do most of the the sci-fi stuff from the book/ movies from the 50's-80's...just to realize those times "fantasy-tech" just isn't exciting at all in real life...

Im more or less sure by now that almost every game can run on Switch, as almost all games is targeted for PS4/Xbox One. It's just a matter of making the right cuts. Just see how that Ark-game were onsidered "too much" for Switch to handle back in 2018, just to be handled just fine when they tuned it with the 2022-re-release...

I think 2023-2024 gonna be the Golden Years of the Switch. The very last 1-2 years of it's life-span is beginning now, and with it comes the slow-burned developed highly-awaited games like Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Advance Wars, more Fire Emblem, Metroid Prime etc. It's gonna be a great year for Switch-exclusives, so I personally don't care much if it dries up for real this year with third-party support.

@anoyonmus

Probably...so boring. I would like to see Call of Duty 2 or Black Ops 1. The series really became uninteresting for me at the time of MW release.

I think it's a very positive thing for us Nintendo fans, that Microsoft actually brings a series like Call of Duty back to Nintendo platform. Im not interested at all personally, cause I really dislike the newer CoD-games. But still, it's nice to see that Microsoft brings the series over to Switch too.

@Moistnado

Cloud games on Switch are not even running good, I wonder what server tech they're using, cause RE2 cloud version, which is the only cloud game I've tried on Switch, lags way worse than the PS4 native version.

That is, the times I even get to play it as they have a waiting list to play the cloud games. lol

Why does it always has to be that disclaimer for a fairly harmless game??

Game looks decent, will be very interested to see how the switch port plays out, feels beforehand it will either be No man's sky "OK" or a blurry mess. But there's always that tiny chance of a "magic port" like Dying Light...

I hope the whole industry moves towards Hall-Effect sticks the upcoming console generation. Not only to resolve the drift, which is not an Nintendo-exclusive problem, but also so we can finally get rid of or at least greatly reduce the dead zones for aiming.

With that in mind, I have personally only had drift on one single joy-con since 2017, which I fixed myself. So it has not been a mayor problem for me personally.

@ga3tr0n

They should just do it like with that Ark-game. Scrap this version and make a new one from scratch. This version seems just o be too far away from decent for a couple of patches to fix it. It's probably a mess.

@Ade117

Makes sense.
I can't really get it how some still don't understand Switch is a handheld. You can't even get PS5 level of performance on a Steam Deck released 2022. Switch is outdated and they could ofc do a lot better hardware, but it will still need a lot of work to run current-gen console games, and it would still not match them in resolution and frame rates.

There is actually a harsh physical limit on how big a GPU can be on a mobile SoC, and how much performance it's possible to get out of 5-10 watt.

@Greatluigi

I prefer the Switch online for N64 games. I need a subscription anyway to play online with switch, and actually buying N64 games is not worth while just to discover most of them are not fun to play nowadays.

So, in other words, Im buying it at christmas when it's all patched up and ready to be played.

I don't think it matters at all. All I want is the open level design-formula from Odyssey and SM64. The "Odyssey"-bit is just the transport hub between levels, I don't think it matters if it's a space ship, a train, or just paintings in a castle hub world.

@Ryu_Niiyama

Yeah, every time I play Skyrim, there is at least 2 or so quest lines that will glitch so I cant finish them.

Nice. Im actually playing Skyrim again since a couple of days back, haven't noticed the framerate problems so far, mb now I wont have to notice it in the future neither

So, I'll buy it at sale in 6 month time, when it's patched and ready to be played.

@FatWormBlowsASparky

We are getting old, right?

@Would_you_kindly

DF these days are mostly aimed for players who spends their time playing on paus and 250 % zoom.

@JayJ

Most games are more or less not optimized at all to run on the Deck. So no mystery it might run even more stable on Switch, as developers probably put more than 12 month of optimization for this version.

@Timptation

Well, it still will need optimizations of games to work well. Many developers on PS4 and Xbox more or less skipped compression and left loads of bloat-assets/code and stuff in the games to save time.

There are lots of way's to make big games work on Switch, and on Switch 2, as long as they don't just try to push full-size PC games on there like on Steam Deck. It will just be as today, when Xbox and Playstation receives a new game, we Switch players get to wait 3-6 month or so for our release. I think it's worth that "trade off" to get good working portable versions.

It was pretty great.
New main-line Fire Emblem
New Octopath Traveler
Goldeneye 64
Great-looking Story of Seasons

@sanderev I don't agree, looks gorgeous

@sanderev

Nope, this looks absolutely amazing!

30fps is good for singleplayer games, esp non-shooter types. 60 fps is becoming something of a good minimum for online games.

Choosing blue just bcause Shiver looks like a hot emo girl

Good on them, gotta hate cheaters in online games

Im pretty sure Nintendo had better margins on the Switch to begin with than Sony has on PS5

@Magician

Well, EA has cancelled several talented studios in their past, like Westwood and Bullfrog.

@mariomaster96

Im glad.
Better they buy EA than touching a decent developer.

Well,
that's a deal that I can't see making it for the better or the worse. EA and Amazon is two equal awful companies.

@Ara I think it's an odd statement to make, to bring in sexuality in a game like say Splatoon. Esp as it's pretty much aimed at a young audience and is pretty much only a competitive action game.

@Specters

"Hateful" by regular opinions that like 99% of the general population agrees with? You're too stuck in that tiny extreme narrativ bubble, it's nothing hateful by what i write...

btw, what on gods green earth is "intersex people"??

lol
Why does people (or gaming characters) "identify" these days? Why not just say that "she is a woman", or does that count as hate speech in 2022? xD

I for one would be very glad to see the emulation-piracy go down or made significant harder to achieve.

WR64.
Sometimes, simple is better. That's why I tend to have more fun with good ol' Goldeneye 64 compared to more modern and complex shooters..

Next up, I want San Francisco Rush, Cruisin' USA.

Nope, I don't think we need it at all. Developers can just put on a demo on the eShop. Download play is pretty much a 2005-era thing when internet was slow.

No rush, as long as the Switch version gets good, meaning not 360p, nor cloudversion. Something in the style of the Witcher 3 port would be just fine on my part.

1 Splatoon per console generation, and make it live service like Mariokart 8

@Specters

General combat is better in Botw too. Esp. as you can freely mix things up with using the environment within combat. In a game like Witcher 3, every non-boss fight is the same and you can't even sneak. Makes me just run away from most encounters as the 10-30 sec of dealing with enemies in Witcher 3 is so damn repetitively.

@moodycat

Nope, other way around. They shouldn't be afraid to let there be empty spaces in a open world game. It doesn't have to be stuff everywhere, there can just be beautiful spots to explore. In Botw 2, Id actually want to see a bit less wild animals and hidden seeds, hunting animals for meat and furs should include an actual hunt, not that you only have to move one meter into the woods to be overwhelmed by wildlife.