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I'm not interested in the full version, but it is put together very well. I've been wishing for a fighting game that has no purpose but to train new players on the fundamentals without the pressure to learn thousands of idiosyncratic mechanics and Arms might just be that game. There's nothing resembling execution or combos but it instead focuses on such things as timing, punishing, spacing, and reading the opponent, all things that are universal to fighting games of every type. If it's played up right, it might just be a benefit to the entire fighting game genre even though it may not be a traditional one.

I also like how there's voice acting , but it's deliberately mixed quieter than the rest of the audio and deemphasized. The personality is there but it's not the most important part. Unlike certain other fighting games where the air has to be filled with both characters screaming at each other 100% of the time.

I'm not big on anything as a service, but in this case, it's the better strategy. Nintendo insisted on calling the Virtual Console a service since it began, and it never really was a service since it was really just another aisle in their download stores. I've been wishing for exactly this for some time so I am now convinced that I must be some kind of wizard.

My only questions are that since this is a subscription premium, how is it going to work when internet service isn't available when it's handheld? Nintendo tweeted that the games will be playable "anywhere," so is there a periodic authentication? Will save files from the Classic Game Collection be compatible with Virtual Console since they will theoretically have different enhancements? Will we be able to buy out individual titles from the collection to have once the subscription lapses?

Why?

"Embraced." I see what you did there.

Just once I want someone to create a hoax like this and then admit they did it because they want to harm the company. It's always, "I made this because I want it to be real and I love Nintendo!!" How about you just make one for the only real reason to do this, to reduce public opinion of a company that isn't making these reality.

@MeloMan Every time a new Ys game is announced, I hold out hope they'll return to the bump combat system I loved from the early games. Every time, I'm disappointed.

This kind of garbage is what turns me off to games like this. I hope Nintendo never stops hunting him down.

Zelda's English voice is better than her Japanese voice.

Remember the Neo-Geo X? It was basically like the Switch, a handheld with a TV dock, except this did it infinitely better.

People are recommending this adapter instead, which uses the same chipset as the official adapters. It's half the cost and 10/100/1000, though I'm not sure what benefit gigabit throughput adds for Switch right now.

All I get from this is that it's a dice roll whether you as an indie developer get any kind of response. For all the stories about how an indie talks up how easy it is to work with Nintendo and the hardware, it's good to finally see the other side. I've applied as a developer myself and I can tell you that I'm far from the only one antsy to get access to the thing already.

Independent game curation has been a problem ever since indie games first appeared on consoles and Steam, and nobody has solved it to this day. Every single proposal to date has either allowed all the shovelware or picked and chosen and inevitably hit false positives, or just doesn't attract the necessary star power to get the customer bases to rival the big ones facing this problem on the most public levels. I'm starting to wonder if there's any solution to it.

I'm still aggrieved that political pettiness from both the creators and players forced Tetris to live on only by taking literal second billing to a game that hasn't been around as long. This is the best official Tetris game to come out in years, and it's being used as a vehicle to get another game popular as opposed to standing on its own. The Eurogamer review took away points because this game completely ignores the innovations that Tetris The Grand Master, a game that last saw a proper release in 2005, brought to Tetris. They point out that 20G, the highest possible speed, is completely missing in this game. Even Tetris DS had that. In its place we get unintuitive piece spin rules and enforced concessions to balance with Puyo Puyo that persist even in Tetris-only modes. It's a real shame that a game missing a lot of fine-tuning that other Guideline games had is considered the best modern one. Tetris will never be as thrilling as it was in 2005 again. Thanks for nothing, TTC and Sega.

That's the right attitude to have. When you create your own project modeled after another's IP, you create something new when the IP owner declines your usage of it and make something nicer, not immediately give up, throw a fit and try to make yourself a martyr for a dead-end cause.

"Dare to stare" sounds like the credo of people who resolve to fight back against the lecherous stares they get on the street on a constant basis.

Now if only they could do something about that Wii U emulator.

Why?

Take a look at efforts to reverse engineer the dock. There's a lot more to it than most people are giving it credit for.

@PlywoodStick The business with E3 not being important anymore is something I see in all gaming forums. For whatever reason, probably just that people are used to getting gaming news 365 days a year from websites as opposed to monthly or just from the big shows, people say E3 will soon be a thing of the past. Until E3 comes around. Then all the talk starts about how this year's show stacks up to past years and who "won" E3 like it's a contest, and all the big trailers and the frame-by-frame analyses on YouTube and Reddit make everyone forget what they said just months earlier.

I've been taking screenshots like a fox but actually using them is a minor pain. Posting to social media only allows for one picture at a time, whereas both current options allow 4 or more. And if one was to remove the microSD card so they could post these pictures themselves and tell a story with them, the system has to be fully powered off.

I would like USB-C storage support in the handheld mode to get around this. Plug in a flash drive with the USB-C connector into the charging jack and transfer screenshots that way. If they're committing to using this standard, they ought to get the most out of it.

Also, I have a hunch that the lack of background music is part of what makes the interface so fast to load. Less data to keep in memory and all. I do miss the quirky eShop music, but it's a small price to pay for even easier and quicker accessibility to it.

That's a touchdown for the Legend of Zelda!

Dang. I shoulda bought a stock.

More like Sonic Farces

And once Nintendo patches this out, the kids will just invent a Switch case with a built-in Wi-Fi signal blocker so they can play unmonitored forever.

@KIRO You cracked the code!

@John_Dark Neither do hundreds of thousands if not millions of others. Did those 7 million people just forget every other launch of a new technology?

But that one video about all the technical problems has over 7 million views! That means there's 7 million defective Switches out there!

I've always said that the best way to answer concerns of download games costing less than boxed games isn't to make the boxed games cheaper, but to make the downloads more expensive. And people called me anti-consumer for thinking this way. How else is the business to succeed at all without this kind of parity?

I hope the eShop gets a UX update. It's going to get cluttered fast if there's no sorting options.

@Danpal65 There's going to be much more demand for low-cost replacement docks than there were for video cables for a standard that wasn't common at the time. There will be much more effort going into reverse-engineering a primary component such as this.

I suspect that the circuitry in the dock has protection, and once it's undone, third parties will undercut it big time.

It's mildly nutty how a bunch of indie developers are coming out talking up how easy and cheap it is to develop for Switch and here's Tom Happ going on about how he's apparently the only one who's been left out in the cold.

What I get from this is Nintendo really, really doesn't want people to save scum. I imagine it's especially a big problem for online 3DS games. Then there's all those security backdoors on the previous consoles that involve tampering with save data to get arbitrary code execution.

Y'all are overreacting.

I expect that the dock contains circuitry with some kind of protection, which is how it's able to command such a high price. I also expect that before too long, some third party will clone it and sell their own docks for less than half the price.

The unfortunate implications of casting a Jamaican superstar as a villain are breathtaking.

The color edit feature and a separate mode with a character with status you build up remind me of Guilty Gear Isuka.

People didn't like Guilty Gear Isuka.

The day Nintendo does VR for real is the day I gag.

They should have made the camera spin with the Tatsu like in Jazzpunk.

I had a chance to try out this controller yesterday at the event in Washington, DC and I really liked it. It's better than the Wii U Pro Controller, even if the analogs aren't level anymore. This is much more important to me than how pretty it looks, because who actually looks at their controller while they're using it?

If they honestly expect Switch players to have a smart device for voice chat, then they would also think they could do web browsing and other media watching on the same.

[interest intensifies]

Robe and wizard hat not included.

@rjejr Tyrannosaurus!

@KiWiiU_Freek For what it's worth, Nvidia does have a GPU switching solution for laptops they call Optimus.

I think this is the most compelling and clearest sell of the Switch's concept yet. Not five seconds into the commercial and you're playing the game immediately, and for all hours of the day after that. Nintendo's marketing department found a clue since last generation. Good selection of music too, "Believer" by Imagine Dragons, which I can't help but think isn't coincidentally titled.

I still wish I could hack the game so its title is I Am Goldman.

@IceClimbers It really does feel like Fire Emblem Heroes is launching on Android first to make up for Super Mario Run not getting a release date until just now.

Just do whatever it takes to get dat framerate.

You select the airplane icon so you can fold it up and throw it to the next player.

Only if they got the loading times of the original behind bars.