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 Switch is outdated and they could ofc do a lot better hardware, but it will still need a lot of work to run current-gen console games, and it would still not match them in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.

Don't waste the energy on replying the deconstructive ones who claim crime is right because Nintendo is the Devil or something because they don't give out their products for free. Just keep reporting their non-constructive messegages, they will be the only ones wasting their time that way.

lol, "pro-liberty", make money on other peoples work. I hope justice will catch up to this guy as well. You don't have to think of Nintendo as company of the year to realize how damaging these kinds of criminals are to the business. And yes, I think even non-violent criminals should go to jail if their crimes are seriouse. If someone broke into my home or stole my car, I would think it would be right to send them to jail as well.

And it's a big difference between a 15yo kid who download games illegally and a grown man who makes profits out of enabling piracy.

@ThomastheTankEngine

I actually think you're still totally unreasonable.

Your argument is still about 100% about the subscription service for the legacy games. It's a fair point, but you blow it up beyond all proportions to bash everything Nintendo does today, and does right with the Switch.

I mean, what is even this argument calling for?

"The Switch’s third party support relies on stealing PlayStation and Xbox games for the sake of portability."

If the Switch wouldn't receive any games that comes to Xbox and Playstation, I guess you would complain about that too?

"The only areas the Switch is really better than the Wii is its excellent form factor and gimmick, and the fact that its an HD console, which is expected with technology moving forward."

Well, you seem to base most of your argument on the ability to play legacy games. That is, to be fair, the only point I see in your argument.

"How about homebrew capabilities? This is more personal but Nintendo’s iron fist of control really annoys me and the Wii’s homebrew capabilities soundly trump the Switch which still can’t be hacked."

Switch got hacked back in 2017, right?

"Why shouldn’t I dislike Nintendo for failing not only where their competitors, Sony and Microsoft who allow purchases of classic games as well as backwards compatibility, but also fail in regards to their previous consoles?"

Interestingly, you still tend to ignore the facts about stuff like DRM and micro-transactions Nintendo's competitors been criticize for...but I guess that's only a negative if Nintendo does it? Or do you really only buy new game consoles to play legacy games, and it doesn't matter if you can't even play your new games because the servers for the DRM-checks are down? Or that Sony charges USD 60 for a single car in GT7? Why don't you, like, buy the original old consoles then if only the legacy games counts?

Man, you really don't like Nintendo

@Kienda

He's not some "little guy", he is one of the front figures for one of the most notorious pirate services since the original Xbox-days. Nintendo does send cease and desist-letters toward fan projects, yes. But they generally don't go after them, no.

@ThomastheTankEngine

lol, Nintendo does enforce DRM in said service NSO, they further more enforce DRM with second Switch-systems, like the Switch Lite often is to Switch-owners, but somehow they wouldn't know how to implement it otherwise? I simple think you pretty much just don't have any idea what you're talking about. Furthermore, they implement micro-trans in their mobile games, but not in their console games. Somehow, you mean they know how to charge for DLC-content, but they at the same time don't know how to charge for DLC-content? They don't have an online store in which they are able to charge for content?

It's pretty obvious to me they simple made the decision not to implement DRM it for offline-game content or micro-transactions simple out of the reason they wouldn't want the backlash, esp. as they aim their product for kids and families

You seem to be very anti-Nintendo, you really blow up the negatives about the company basically only based on their legacy content on the Switch...and somehow you even manage to get the positive sides of Nintendo to be negative because maybe they will implement the negatives in the future? lol, Nintendo really can't "win" any points in your point of view, you even criticize them for bad stuff other companies do but they don't

@ThomastheTankEngine

I think it's actually way, way worse to release unfinished games or making new single player games unplayable even on ones main system when their servers are offline, than which particular service they use for 20 years old games.

In the end, I think NSO is an OK service, I think it should be more worrying that you actually can't play many new games on Xbox when they have a service malfunction. Nintendo killing game ownership?...umm, Nintendo is actually the one company that still prioritize physical releases and doesn't do DRM-checks with games you buy and play on your console. You only mentions their legacy content, but you totally ignore the DRM-checks on New games bcause then you can put Nintendo in a particular negative perspective while you ignore the fact that Nintendo is the only company that doesn't enforce DRM-checks on games you buy.

Obviously, Microsoft didn't do a 180-degree turn on game ownership. They just moved it a console generation forward and this time skipped the information about it to the consumers...

As I said, I would be more worried about new games I actually play than 20 yo games. At least, Nintendo is open and honest with how the system works. Nintendo can be criticized for a number of reasons, including NSO-service. But the fact is, Nintendo hasn't pulled a DRM-stunt like Microsoft or Sony have done (Gran Turismo 7), they also haven't done any micro-trans mess like, once again Sony with GT7. Im happy as long as Nintendo at least lets me play cartridge games offline and don't charge 60 USD for one additional kart in Mario kart.

Nintendo isn't a particular consumer-friendly company. But I don't think they are worse then their competitors. Some things they do better, some things they do worse.

@ThomastheTankEngine

lol,
EA, Activision, Microsoft all pull way worse stunts than Nintendo does. Both EA and Activision, for example, releases one unfinished game after another. Not unfinished like just lacking some content at day one, but unfinished like being unplayable mess. Microsoft doubles prices on Gold for no reason, disabling offline play in single player etc. Nintendo isn't perfect in any way, but they haven't really done anything really bad towards consumers this generation.

@Kienda

lol, "little guy". You really want to make it sound like big evil Nintendo harassed an innocent blue-collar worker. In reality, Nintendo took a notorious criminal to court and he got a fair sentence.

40 month imprisonment isn't a harsh sentence for years of criminal activities. He'll be out long before that.

Switch for me feels like a much more complete product than the Deck. It includes the dock with very easy, intuitive dock-undock-ing, it boots super-fast, everything is easy to find in the menus cause there really isn't much to do in the said menus. All controllers and functions are included so you can with ease play Handheld, Docked, Table Top.

Deck on the other hand, messy Steam menus, slower boot, pretty much a gamble if the games will even work proper or boot up at all without the need of googling the internet after custom drivers etc.

It's pretty much just the regular console vs. PC situation, and as always, Im gaming on console.