TheOpponent

It must be nice to want things.

Don't forget all those songs that suddenly became real popular after Nintendo decided to use them.

The top comment on the video is a joke about using it in the toilet, and that's actually where I've been using mine the most. I had my doubts as to which mode of operation I'd use most, but I actually can't remember the last time I docked mine.

And the most sought-after games will still not show up as third parties scramble to come up with more fun excuses to add to their dart board of reasons they can't support Switch.

It's not a Zelda game because I can't rename the player character to "Zelda."

I kinda hope it never actually does get publicly released. They just keep putting out these teaser images and videos forever so we can watch the escalation of fan response as they go from excitement to confusion to anger to acceptance that it was all a wash from the start and possibly a hoax.

Nintendo has a strong, passionate fanbase, one that for some reason third parties still see fit to bully and taunt with game releases that they are withholding from them unless they do a song and dance for them. The longer this is allowed to continue, the longer the third parties will get the idea that they don't have to release anything at all on Switch, only the suggestion that they could to get their attention.

I just want companies that use this excuse to be upfront about it. If we can't have nice things, don't wait to tell us. Just be honest and transparent about it to the fullest possible extent.

A classic. The only real mystery is why ECAD decided to name their latest product DRACULA. I forget what it stands for.

I got around to playing the arcade game in emulation and I've gotten really into it. I'll definitely consider this when the price stabilizes.

I think it's good that they made no effort to improve the game's performance beyond what would have been possible on the hardware at the time. It would have been neat if they coulda given out a remastered version of some kind too, but I guess that will have to depend on the reception of the original.

Nintendo is giving more support to 3DS this year than Sony ever gave Vita for its entire existence. That might be part of why it wasn't successful in most of the world.

Aren't we supposed to hate this guy?

I'm sure a lot of people will think "Surely this should be a strong case to finish up their evaluation of the Switch" and start supporting them for real already. The explanation will change from "Street Fighter is a strong brand" to "Ultra was just an anomaly because it was a launch title for a brand new system" and they will hold Nintendo fans accountable for this failure somehow because that's the reality now.

@crackafreeze The last words of everyone who ever gets their accounts compromised.

It's baffling that Nintendo is now allowing two-factor auth but still limits passwords to only 20 characters and doesn't even allow spaces in them.

@RodSD64 Two-step authentication has no connection to privacy. It doesn't ask for any more information than you already provided when you registered. It asks that you install the Google Authenticator app, which constantly generates codes every two minutes that only you can access by virtue of having the secret key needed to make them. The concept is that even if your password is stolen or someone guesses it, they will still need the device that the authenticator is installed on to log in. At the same time, you're warned that your account was accessed by a device you've never used before, so you can change your password and take any other actions needed to secure your account.

In short, it enhances your security and there is absolutely no reason not to enable it if you have the means to use it. It doesn't even need to be on a phone, nor does the app need internet access.

@crackafreeze And why not? With all the news about people's accounts getting hacked left and right due to poor security practices on the part of the users, it ought to be.

Sounds like they're the new Retro Studios. Bet ya they're the ones behind Metroid Prime 4.

Bulls-eye! Bingo! That's a touchdown!!

This just makes me wish Nuclear Throne and Assault Android Cactus were on Switch too. More twin-stick games, more power.

How come people just can't be good at optimization and consideration of customers' bandwidth limits?

We prefer to call this "adding value."

There's plenty of other infringing fan games that have all somehow avoided litigation, like Zelda Classic and Advance Wars By Web. I have no idea how they're doing it and they don't show any apprehension either. Either way, I like that this guy has some backbone unlike the dozens of other games that get attention on site like this and I'm sure he has a plan in the worst case, like making his code open source so it will really live forever.

I never dreamed of it.

Whenever I consider what games ought to be on Switch, my first choices are the multiplayer games, because I've always associated offline multiplayer with Nintendo consoles. The game I'm coveting most is Duck Game, because that's a game that can both make the most out of the Joy-Cons and is seemingly designed for immediate multiplayer action any time with any controller that has enough buttons for it. Switch has all of these things, so I don't know what's keeping it from showing up there.

Now that this developer has made games in both Metroid and Castlevania, maybe they can come up with a new term that combines elements of gameplay from those two series that doesn't needlessly link them to those two series.

When the first full-scale games showed up as downloads on the other consoles, the debate was why they cost the same as the hard copy versions when they don't have costs associated with physical production. The argument was that the downloads should cost cheaper, but I argued that the downloads should cost the same and the hard copies be made more expensive. People called me anti-consumer and other weird terms, but I choose to look at the opposite side. If nobody is making game development less expensive to justify average game cost reductions, then the only realistic solution is to accurately reflect those costs in game prices, and making one option cheaper based on naive perceptions of game development isn't the right way to handle it.

With all the scares about bit rot with optical media only a few decades old, compared to cartridges that have lasted much longer, I think it's worth it in the long term as silicon prices drop. Discs suck, and it's not like the other consoles use them at every opportunity either seeing as they install them to internal hard drives anyway. That said, the ideal (if unrealistic) solution would be for third parties to just stop making their games so big. It's harder for everyone, not least of all the people who choose or have to download all their games at a time when internet data caps are being debated so hotly.

More ports, more power.

For the jokes that were made about how the best feature of Switch is that it can be played on the toilet, I find that I actually am playing it there the majority of the time. I can't remember the last time I played it docked for a long period.

Nintendo owns all the content published on Miiverse. There's no telling what will happen once the people archiving it all get around to publishing it after November.

I thought whoever designed the architecture on the Wii U was fired since they haven't updated any of it for the demands of 2012 and the Switch looked like it did, but they just won't let go. Supposedly all of this will be solved once future updates allow for fine-grained data management, but it's been six months now and there's still nothing like that. I remember when older consoles also took time to have features like that, but come on now.

That said, this could all be linked back to fears of illegal game copying, but at some point it stops being worth it. I don't think Nintendo is at that point yet.

Nintendo should just let them keep it. Texas kinda needs the money right now anyway.

@Menchi187 So this is what Atlus meant when they said their games are a perfect fit for Switch!

On the greeeeeeeeeeen.

@Ps4all I didn't realize so many people have multiple HDTVs in the same room.

@Kalmaro The worst of these is the MSU-1 hack of Super Metroid. There's a demo video showing the intro sequence and all the musical cues are wrong because the songs have lead-ins that the game audio didn't, and much of the drama is lost because of it.

I'm real wary of these patches being called "enhancements." Some of them just stomp all over deliberately paced musical cues and replace them with arrangements that didn't need that pacing just because they're on CD.

Who cares about those losers? Where's the Samurai kid?

@Oat 1v1 me in real life.

How many games from the last showcase have since been released?

So this is why Nintendo ordered the Internet Archive to take down its public library of Nintendo Power magazines.

Guess we can kiss third-party support goodbye now. Those testers at Capcom are already writing their dissertations on this failure.

I like Voez but I'm really hoping they'll get around to porting Deemo to Switch. That's a game that looks more like the traditional rhythm game experience I've been looking for.

Japanese rooms don't usually have that much clearance these days anyway. Why make the cords super long? It'll just make storing the controllers harder for them.

Do you honestly expect Nintendo to ever learn anything? This site and every other major gaming news source regularly censures Nintendo on practices like this month after month and nothing ever changes. I'm starting to wonder why any of them are even bothering at this point.

That said, I lucked into my pre-order at Best Buy care of NowInStock.net. I happened to wake up just in time to get the text.

The Pro Controller D-pad isn't that great for Tetris or other 4-way games either. It rolls too easily, so an accidental drop can happen if you press on the left or right directions too hard.

What would be the more interesting piece of trivia: The last Wii game, or the last Wii U game?

@setezerocinco Three years is plenty of time to analyze data and alter business plans accordingly.

@setezerocinco Is there any evidence at all of those survey results influencing their releases? Because I answer all those surveys too and make sure to mind where the questions are written so as to suggest a response they want as opposed to actual consumer opinion and I have yet to see any real changes where I think they should look.