Razzy

Four of my five joycons developed drifting problems, one only a month after purchase. In some cases it was at severe that my character in Skyrim would run left at full tilt, stop when I moved it right, then instantly resume running left one i let go of the stick, multiple times in a row.

Blowing compressed air helped a bit, but temporarily, though for the newest one it helped for almost two months.

Ended up sending them in under warranty (2 year warranty here in the EU), they repaired one, said the other was fine, somehow, the launch ones are still in repair with the Switch.

"on the whole – it’s a solid, durable bit of kit"

The Switch is the only console I ever owned that I had to send back in for repairs during the first two years after purchase, and that includes several handhelds. It's anything but solid. And how in the hell did they manage to make to screen be pushed out in one corner by the digitizer cable? Phone manufacturers had this solved for years!

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Raziel-chan

It's a pity that the best licensed game ever, The Warriors, got released on the ps2, psp and Xbox, but not the gc.

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Raziel-chan

I picked one up. Not much of an upgrade capacity-wise over my 200 GB SanDisk, but my phone card died a while ago, so I'll move the SanDisk to my phone.

It's worth noting that this is a U3 card. Unlike many sites think, it's not the same as UHS III. UHS is the bus speed standard and the switch supports only UHS I, so buying anything beyond that is useless. But the U symbol is the card speed rating and it does indeed make a difference. Read speed differences aren't massive in normal use, but write speeds are, sometimes yielding three times shorter installation /saving times.

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Raziel-chan

My favourite ff game, hope they do it justice. I play it regularly on my psp and vita.

Hopefully they'll add options to change some settings for game mechanics. I found that the game gets much better if you get more magic with each draw, since the normal amount makes amassing magic a real chore.

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Raziel-chan

That feels less timeless and more smartphone to me. I'll stick with the multiple full fledged 3d neptunia games on my vita.

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Raziel-chan

Maybe they could surprise us and release a new patch for Skyrim that actually fixes the numerous game breaking bugs still left in the game. I had to restart my character 'cause an npc needed to progress one of the final missions in the Dragonborn dlc wouldn't do its fracking job! And that bug's been around since the dlc was first released!

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Raziel-chan

@BeefSanta Same, I didn't mind ask the scaled back graphics on Skyrim either.

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Raziel-chan

Yay, dragons!

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Raziel-chan

Now this is damn cool! I never liked Star Fox, but loved the original Panzer Dragoon.

Sega delivers.

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Raziel-chan

Nice, gonna get this one, didn't play it yet.

Though, let's be honest here, while the important character models looks good, everything else has been visibly downgraded, especially clear in that closeup with the tree and the bird.

Still, should be fun.

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Raziel-chan

Mmmm, can't wait to try the new Doom Eternal: Vaseline-smeared lens edition,

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Raziel-chan

The tiddies are reaching critical mas!

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Raziel-chan

Wow, and people were saying that Switch could totally run Re2make. XD

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Raziel-chan

Looks interesting, but looks really bad for a psx game.

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Raziel-chan

Well, no surprise there.

@Rafke Actually, the Switch has 4 high power and 3 low power cores, but the 4 low power cores are never used, possibly even disabled in the hardware. Out of the 4 high power cores, 3 are usable in games, while 1 is reserved for the OS.

The graphics and memory are vastly better, though.

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Raziel-chan

Wow, that total is so low.

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Raziel-chan

Whatever they showed couldn't have been scarier than the cgi pokémon in this movie.

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Raziel-chan

Sounds interesting. That blatant Jehuty ripoff, though...

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Raziel-chan

So the plot is bad and the effects are bad and nightmare-inducing, and people are surprised that critics who aren't wearing massive pokémon fan rose-tinted glasses aren't giving it a high score. Shocking.

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Raziel-chan

looks at the comments

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

The Tegra X1 SoC used in the Switch is designed to run at 1.9 GHz for the performance cores (power saving cores are disabled on Switch), so Switch is actually running underclocked. Removing some of this underclocking is not overclocking.

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Raziel-chan

Virtual Boy 2.0, then?

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Raziel-chan

If they're not horrible, then they failed at copying the originals. I mean, my 7 years old Vita, 12 years old psp, 5 years old 3dsxl and three years old 3ds xl never developed any analog drift, yet 4 out of 5 joycons I own have, despite enjoying several times the number of fans hours as the Switch.

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Raziel-chan

Well, where else can you dump a mobile game and charge full console retail price?

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Raziel-chan

@0muros Hah.

Still, I used to play a lot of Super Mario Land 1 and Wario Land 1, 2 and 3 on my gameboy colour back in the day, I even bought them again for the 3ds, though I couldn't get into them as much as in the past. Newer Mario games simply don't do anything for me.

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Raziel-chan

Never liked Mario Kart, so I don't have it. Actually, I have no games involving Mario in any way on my Switch. XD

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Raziel-chan

Well, yeah, I mean, if there's a communal dumpster for mobile ports, why not use it?

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Raziel-chan

Who is seriously surprised? It's a Japanese company, even if a Russian branch, and in Japan the superior is always right and the person on the lower rung of the ladder should just smile and nod and do what they're told.

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Raziel-chan

If they lower the resolution to, like, 240x160 and downsample textures to 64x64*8bit, it should run at ~20 FPS just fine.

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Raziel-chan

I knew the joycons would turn out to be useful for something other than staying forever attached to the console!

boing boing boing boing

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Raziel-chan

Well, obviously. Nintendo says we all want NES games, so we all want that. If you don't... Well, then you're wrong, you want NES.

I don't play on home consoles, so I won't get to play these games unless they come to switch.

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Raziel-chan

Dunno why, but the term Nindies keeps annoying me. We don't call indie games on other platforms Stindies, Mindies or Sondies, do we?

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Raziel-chan

>USS and USM have everything that the base games have and more.
>Are listed several places behind the base games.

Seems legit.

But I have to appreciate not blatantly shilling the newest games out.

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Raziel-chan

Hahah, ethics. That's a good one.

Mmmm-Mmmm, Nintendo moral panic brigade on the case!

@HatosBlack *It's not very effective.

Ftfy.

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Raziel-chan

Finally unglued myself from yet another MGS Peace Walker playthrough and now Digimon Cyber Sleuth: Hacker's Memory is eating up all my time.

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Raziel-chan

Great game, I've enjoyed it on pc (original) and Vita, don't need a third version.

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Raziel-chan

RTX ON?

I think they'll miss their goal by a large margin, with the lackluster year they've had.

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Raziel-chan

Only ever bought one amiibo, Shulk, nothing else ever caught my interest, especially that they're quite expensive for their quality.

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Raziel-chan

Wow, such great offers for the current hot consoles! /S

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Raziel-chan

Not interested in either, to be honest. Never could get into Smash and these baby's first pokemon games are too dumbed down to enjoy.

Now if they released a Metroid Prime collection for Switch...

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Raziel-chan

looks at the Pikachu Welp, hello my wake up screaming nightmares for the next month or two.

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Raziel-chan

Still not creepy enough to match the nightmare-inducing uncanny valley CGI.

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Raziel-chan

SP edition, aka "We set some intern down in front of a pc and had him play the game, then save stated it" edition.

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Raziel-chan

Hard pass. I hated gyro controls for puzzles in BotW since it forced me to get up and flail my console around while I was playing in bed / lying on the couch, I'd hate them here too.

Looks like a cheap upressed reuse of 3ds games' assets, simplified to the point of absurdity (I mean, c'mon, the original games were for kids too, so that's not an excuse). Gonna wait for the main series title.

Plus it has that distinct mobile game feel to its looks.

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Raziel-chan

Terrible news, he was a legend.

At least I can still read the comics and play Maximum Carnage on the Mega Drive.

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Raziel-chan

Ah, great, decisive victory! 2 gone, 14574747576668+ to go.

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Raziel-chan

I wonder what percentage of Crash sales was on the Switch. Maybe they simply decided it's not worth the effort to work on the Switch version for at little return.

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Raziel-chan

Wow, that looks awful. Creepy, uncanny valley-looking pokémon that look horribly jarring next to live action.

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Raziel-chan

I'm doing what I've been doing for a week now, playing throw Metal Gear Sold: Peace Walker again, this time on my Vita, with a plugin to enable full dual analog controls and increase framerate from 20 to 30 FPS, feels like a new game. Currently doing post game stuff, completing Zeke modules and design specs.

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Raziel-chan

I fully expect it to be at least as good as the CD-i game cutscenes.

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Raziel-chan

Well, I'm sure the three to five people who used it will be devastated.

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Raziel-chan