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Once we start paying for online this fall, Nintendo will have no excuse for a lack of cloud saves.

Wow @ those horribly overpriced amiibo... Just wow. -_-

You can make something like this WAY cheaper and easier yourself.

Simply take a USB-C cable, plug one end into the port on the bottom inside of the dock, the other end into the bottom of the Switch itself, and voila! You can put the dock somewhere out of sight and simply lay the system itself down wherever you like, with just a single thin cable running to it. This works.

More expensive, yes, but surely not 10 Dollars/Euros/Pounds more expensive?

So because people aren't calling in to have it repaired the problem doesn't exist? Cool. I've encountered it a bunch of times myself but haven't contacted Nintendo because I know it's an issue and I know there's no fix for it (apart from taking apart the controller and fiddling with it, which they will not do).

Nice list!

On a side note NL; the Wolf Link description mentions a 'pit of trials' from Twilight Princess HD, but it's actually called the Cave of Shadows.

Bomberman 64 I'd have bought in a heartbeat if it was on Switch. That game is a classic, absolutely fantastic multiplayer and a great, challenging story mode! Here's hoping it'll come to Switch whenever Nintendo decides they want to bring VC over. :]

Good thing they persevered! Who knows how different the game might've turned out under Kimishima's new order!

How is a 6-10 hour long digital version of an indie game 45 Euros? That's ludicrously insane. The physical version of BOTW is 60 Euros and besides how much better it is and how infinitely larger its development costs were - I've spent over 50 hours on that so far, and have done/seen maybe 5-10% of the game.

This game will most definitely fail terribly. Ah well, too bad for them. You reap what you sow.

Excellent news!

It is and always has been a given these services along with other things like a web browser will come to Switch eventually. I never doubted it in the slightest.

Still, for panicky, worrying people, it's nice to know they're working on it.

I just got a large microfiber cloth which I put against the front part of the inside of my dock, held in place with simple rubber bands at the top and bottom.

I ordered a set of tempered glass screen protectors for launch, but they won't arrive until next week unfortunately. Still, even with that on my Switch's screen, I'll likely keep the protection inside my dock, just to be sure.

That's awesome. ^^ Didn't they also hide a message inside the NES mini somewhere?

I couldn't see it on my Pro Controller at first, but yeah, it's actually inside the thing and you need to shine a light on it. Very neat. ^^

Well. Seeing as this will get Pokémon and everything else on it, I can't see it selling less than 20 million at all. Probably much more. It will have every single Nintendo game on it, that's never happened before, they always had to split it between home and handheld systems. I mean, I honestly can't fathom a scenario where Switch is not a grandiose success. People like to boast about the incredible library of 3DS games, but Switch will logically be far superior because Nintendo won't have to spread themselves so thin across 2 separate devices anymore.

@Jeronan Yes I know that, but I was specifically asking if the eShop itself would be in English, obviously Japanese games would be in Japanese.

Will the Japanese eShop feature English text if your system language is set to English?

Saw this on Lamarr's channel a few days ago. So it's not Kit's birthday anymore!

Advance Wars? Omg yes.

Would be nice if they could give some sort of indication of when the game's due on Switch. :/ Surely they must have an inkling at least? This could end up releasing alongside the other versions, but I also wouldn't be surprised if this turned into a holiday release on Switch.

@Spoony_Tech I feel exactly the same way! With XCX I read reviews and comments all the time about how massive and long the game was and could take up to 60 hours to complete... I spent well over 200 hours getting there.

I just love exploring every nook and cranny, talking to everyone and finding everything.

That's convenient. Nice forward thinking on Nintendo's part.

We do know why; it's because humans are mostly water, and water is excellent at absorbing lots of waves and frequencies, especially weak Bluetooth ones like the Joycon use. Blunty on YouTube explains it well, like alasdair91 mentioned above. https://youtu.be/nJBAp33tnNE

Only solution seems to be Nintendo increasing the strength of the Joycon's Bluetooth signal... If that's something that can be done through a firmware update. :/

@TruenoGT Yes, surely that's the reason Nintendo didn't release a lot of VC games on Wii U - so as not to compete with all the marvelous new games they were releasing constantly. :/

Any word on improvements, graphical or otherwise? The loading was horrendous.

Nintendo are the gaming company with the biggest, broadest and all-round best games catalog in the entire industry, they're sitting on a veritable goldmine of old games, yet confusingly they seem reluctant beyond belief to make use of it.

It's almost like they're terrified of actually capitalizing on all that instant profit. I honestly for the life of me don't understand it at all. They have barren lineups for their systems, especially at launch, their 3rd party support is Dreadful to say the least, and VC could easily be used to remedy this, to an extent. Their fanbase and customers are basically begging to throw money at Nintendo for classic games, but the company's just like, 'meh, no. Maybe sometime in the distant future. But we're not talking about it'.

Just why?

@Pod Yes that would make sense. Although as for the modding part... I remember some info popping up on a retailer's listing of the game about it supporting 'PC-like mods' or something of the sort. Might be nothing, though you never know.

By all means, Switch should be able to run the original version of Skyrim very easily, that's not even up for debate.

And with all the recent reports about how Switch is a dream and the easiest to develop for and port to, I find it impossible to believe Bethesda would take THIS LONG to get the game out if it's simply a port of the old game (what with the Skyrim footage at last fall's Switch unveil trailer, I figured it'd be a launch title, or at least a launch window game).

Perhaps the full special edition isn't doable, but I'm confident that whichever version releases will have major improvements beyond the original release.

@Sanangelo89 Yeah definitely. A 99 Dollars/Euros (or less, in time) New 3DS with a pack-in game, along with budget classic titles like the Nintendo selects would kill it at retail I think!

I think 3DS will become a budget system aimed at casual late adopters and young kids this year and beyond. It'll probably stay on store shelves for a good while to come, not dissimilar to how Apple positions its older iPhone models as budget options right alongside its expensive new flagship phones.

No way I'm going to be downloading anything for my Wii U/3DS when Switch launches in 11 days and there seems to be absolutely no way purchases will carry over.

Is that cheap for a development kit? Seems so... But I have no idea. How much do these things usually cost?

Maybe this is all we're going to get from Nintendo. They might think the info we got up until now is plenty. I don't think they're of the opinion the way the UI or eShop look matter, and the eShop/VC will very likely be extremely bare-bones and barren... So they probably don't want to emphasize that area. :/ Also, anyone expecting their software purchases to be carried over from 3DS/Wii U to Switch should probably realize by now that's not happening.

I'm expecting tons and tons of footage from early switch arrivals this coming week.

World of Goo was a lot of fun, completed the PC and later the Wii version... But don't think I'll get it again on Switch, unless there's new content (which shouldn't be hard to do, right? I'm surprised they never made a sequel on add-on pack).

As for the other 2... I'm not sure they're actual games, they haven't caught my eye.

Well... I'm rather okay with this. Let's see how the additional content turns out. I just hope the new stuff will be integrated seamlessly into the overall world, things like the additional story and dungeon portions. It would be awful if they were things you just select in a menu and then go there. Like the cave of shadows thing in Twilight Princess HD. :/ A seamless open world and experience is the main draw of the game, after all, as Nintendo themselves have been stating constantly.

Don't care about it, 'cos I'd never use any of such apps. A browser would be redundant imo, I don't believe anyone who says they'd miss one and claim they make great use of it on current systems. XD

Netflix and such I'm not bothered about since I have a smart TV, but before I owned it I would use my Wii U to watch Netflix, and I know people who do so with their systems currently. Same goes for YouTube I guess.

Well that basically confirms there'll be upgraded/different versions of Switch eventually, just like Nintendo's handhelds. Not that there ever was a shred of doubt in my mind about that.

They don't have the resources to support 2 machines. Heck, seems like they can barely sustain one, looking at the Switch's absolutely barren lineup. :/

@DiscoGentleman Yeah so true. Although I honestly fail to see how anyone could get their hopes up reading the actual comments made by Platinum. Then again, most people just skim articles or read just the headlines. :/

The only thing this tells us is that the guys at platinum simply do whatever they're paid to do. To be honest the joking comment about a SNES version only makes it less likely a Switch port is in the works - it would be entirely up to Square Enix.

I'd definitely prefer a Bayonetta 3 over this NieR game anyway, and I'm sure a lot of others would too.

That's crazy expensive for such tiny cards. Who would even buy a 32GB card these days, let alone a 16GB. What is this, 2006?

@rennandovale oh dear, butthurt much? Haha you're hilarious. x'D

Pretty obvious thus isn't coming out. Just have the guts to say so. :/ Everybody knows what's coming, anyway. Just announce the inevitable Switch port already.

If the purpose was to provide exactly the same experience, then why did they improve the resolution and make the environmental sound effects better on Switch? This is just PR speak for 'sorry, developing and implementing accurate HD rumble into our most expensive and elaborate game ever (by far) would've cost too much time/effort/resources'. Which is understandable and perfectly fine, of course.

Well that's nice and all, but I'm not going to spend money on eShop games for my current Nintendo systems, when they're about to be made obsolete by the Switch, and Nintendo have not made any effort to let us carry over our downloads. :/

The reason Nintendo didn't emphasize it is the same reason they insist on calling Switch a home console, and the reason they insist 3DS has a long life ahead of it; on the off chance Switch fails, they want to leave to option open to launch a new handheld system (which would likely heavily focus on touch controls).

Well an early arrival would definitely be nice, seeing how barren Switch's launch lineup is. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed it to like November.

@kevfrei Just get a grey one, and then you can buy the colored Joycons separately, or the other way around. That way you can change it any way you like - the Switch system itself is the same with either version anyway.

Crap. Seriously? This was honestly the thing I was most looking forward to ever since hearing the Japanese voice work in the latest trailer! D: That really really really sucks. If the different audio is apparently already in there, why not make it available to gamers? They did it with Xenoblade!

@Grawlog moving games between a harddrive and the (portable) system itself is the exact opposite of ideal, whatever your personal opinion may be. If it were a stationary home console, then you'd have a point.

And yes, 2TB cards will be very expensive, but they're overkill anyway, and the ones with less storage will be cheap. I have a 500 GB harddrive for my Wii U and I've downloaded tons of full retail and smaller eShop and indie games over the years and I still have tons of room to spare. Nobody will need 2TB of storage, it's just that the option is there.

USB harddrives would make zero sense though, right? Given the Switch's portable nature. Besides, with Micro SD card support of up to 2TB, why would anyone need them...?

As for streaming services... Weird. You'd think they'd have them. Even Wii had them. Just get Netflix at the very least Nintendo.