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@Scottwood101 We have 22 switch games yet my son has over 200 hours of Arms. He plays it none stop. For those that like it, it really racks up the hours

I just picked up doom (again!) on the sale. Being able to play in bed at night has given me time to have a go at nightmare level so I can unlock ultra-nightmare!

From still has a new release due very soon. I hope DS gets enough support for the switch to get in on what ever that is

@BanjoPickles I'd really like to see a remaster of II where they atually finish the game. Not the game play but all the bare empty areas where they ran out of time to finish. the game play loop is still great but it really does not stand up to 1, 3 or Bloodbourne in enviroment

@AlexOlney I white list this site and others to support sites I like but I have had to turn on adblock on mobile a few times lately just to be able to use the site. I think your mobile site CMS templates need a good looking over.

I really like the switch as first call for indies but for the first time I saw nothing that caught my interest in this showing. Still looking forward to getting my hands on Hollow knight and flipping death. Going forward it seems the switch will be first target for many indie studios so will be looking forward to finding those hidden jems

The combat looks interesting, It will battle if its taking on BoTW but if this is combat focused then I'll be keeping an eye on it

Am I the only one who saw this and thought great, Netfilx on the switch!

It seems like a segment of the american population are so terrified of the world around them they can not cope with the idea they may meet someone who does not look/think/sound like they need guns to give them the courage to face each day. So instead of facing up to their owns fears they look for scapegoats to reassure themselves that they are not cowards. Enter Video games, the perfect patsy

The next switch update will use a custom SOC. The X2 makes little sense, either in use nor to maintain production. With Nivida focusing its standard SoCs on AI (and their Jetson boards are great) as well as the switch being a proven hit they will migrate to a custom SoC. Expect better power consumption and solid 720 / 1080 resolution. Better than a base model ps4, just short of pro. But not going to happen until mid 2019

It does my head in all those complaining about multi-platform releases and shouting port, boo-hoo, port. Its almost like some people are more concerned about having games on the the switch others can not play rather than looking at what is available for them to enjoy on the switch.

What you see with the news channel is only 1/5 of the whole. Content management, language and localization, distribution, subscription and user preference, publishing and verification all need to be taken care off on the back end. Those 4 or 5 people where worked to the bone

Getting Linux to run on a arm processor means nothing in its self. It is in fact fairly trivial. And it will not run switch games. The switch runs a BSD variant kernel, similar to PS4, With Nintendo and Nivida building a library set against which games are developed. In order for installing a new OS onto the hardware to mean anything you would need the ability to port the libraries over to the new OS. This is not a trivial task. The other option is to emulate the existing environment but this has overhead so you can not emulate on the same hardware that is already being pushed to the max. It is in fact far simpler to find a exploit in current code sets that would enable you to bypass any authentication checks. When we first heard of a unpatchable exploit it sounded interesting but if this is it, its just nonsense anyone who has access to a SPI programmer, a day or two of spare time, a switch they no longer what to play games on and background in hardware development could have achieved this from day one. Personally until the switch drops in price a lot I if I wanted a arm based Linux tablet there are much cheaper android tablets I would hack it into first.

@Crono1973 yep, you got me there!

As long as it is p2p and no decent party or chat I'm not interested. Last time I wanted to play 30 year old games was 25 years ago so zero value there to me. I'll probably get a bit more splat2on in over the next month or so and trade it in.

Not working here either

I played a bit of this on the pc, it felt almost like a 2d bloodbourne. I don't like playing on the pc much so never put in many hours but have been looking forward to getting this on switch since I first saw it was coming. I did expect to see it a long time ago though. At least I hope after all this time it will run smoothly

I think those who see price as a issue don't have kids. A mid size lego is £70, it gets built, lasts a week and ends up in the lego box. Next week the kids want more lego.. Never ending. I get a shiver in my wallet every time i pass the lege box knowing the £Ks that have been spent to fill it.

my 11 year old was just asking if he could take to ir camera out of a joycon and use it in his latest robot, guess that will be a wait awhile now. At least we should get to take a early look at this as we where number 180 to book a spot at the london testings next month.

old outdated engine, not expecting much from this

I'll go again, its been many years and I would have picked this up whatever the platform it was remastered on

Souls 1 is great, 2 not so much but 3 again is great. I do think bloodbourne is the best of the bunch though.

Meltdown will not affect the switch, or at least it is very very unlikely to. The X1 has 4 A57s and 4 A53 cores. (See https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update) None are effected. To date most ARM processors effected are those Designed by Apple and Apple has taken many short cuts in its chip design with the intent of avoiding paying licence fees. You also need to run code on the system to exploit, so another reason not to expect, or want, a full browser on the Switch.

Just had a gut feeling that from software is going to release the "shadows die twice" project on switch and its going to be announced at the next direct...

I think 99.9% of you are getting excited one way or the other for nothing. In fact I think the only person here who is going to get anything out of this is @JaxonH due to his uncanny foresight

@SimplyCinnamon53 yep, it only take one thing, china and there goes 20 million

Nicalis release does not really count as a physical release. They are a collector specialist. I fully understand the frustration over price and availability brought up by @SLIGEACH_EIRE and @OorWullie but I don't think any game picked up by Nicalis would have had any other path to physical release.

e-shop for me was snipper clips and death squared. It was great to have some casual cooperative games from the family. The only time we ever dock any of our switchs is to play these two.

Like others the main reason to play FIFA is to play with friends. Without that its of no interest. Glad i cancelled my pre-order

This game raises serious questions for the future of the e-shop and I think it was well thought through for nintendolife to bring these issues up in the form of a review and not just a rant editorial piece as we have seen else where.

@GC-161 Do you know when the graphic is from? thx

Thing is this is gone and patched. No going back on versions, the switch uses a fuse burn every major update number to prevent backward compatibility . As the number of fuses are limited you can be sure that every time we get a full number update it is to close a number of security holes in the system. Seems Nintendo are doing a good job staying ahead at this point. I would presume that they would also compile in run time errors and auto updates within game code on all first party software. The current security system in use is a lot more up to date than that used on the Wii U and 3DS so I would not expect those levels of system compromise achieved on those, but time will tell.

@DizzyDee81 1500 is the max workable

So 1500 is the max standard MTU Packet size on none gigabit Jumbo frame networks. The reason it is set at 1400 is tunneling may be used within the multiplay environment which adds an extra 4 bytes to each packet. This means each packet is split into two and then requires reassembly. This would add lag with multiplayer. While it is not sure that tunneling is used it is common within distributed platforms, Defaulting to a uncommon 1400 is due to a reason. Changing this setting does nothing, and has nothing to do with WiFi signal strength, just packet size. As someone who contributed to the network stack used in all modern OS I would strongly suggest if you play any multiplayer NOT to change this above 1476 if at all

as others have already stated, don't expect much more on other platforms, my ps4 pro had a hard time this and i bailed after about 90 minutes. This was always a very poorly coded release

I played about 30 hours before I put it down to play something else but this is the kind of game i will pick up again and again through the years and go though the motions of mastering a new fighter. I would think over the next 3 years I get a good 200 hours of play. If we have some quite release windows at least

You do know that doom guy is really Link, awakes each time to fight off Ganons' hell spawn.

If Tencent get the china distribution deal it will top 100 million in 2.5 years. Nintendo is the only console maker at the moment that produce first party games that fit with china's view of social responsibility talk is 50/50 chance of it getting approval.

We already have 3 in our house. I would have liked an option without the dock as we only have two tv but my son sometimes takes the spare to his mates house so its not a big issue. We also only mainly buy physical games so we can share although we ended up with 2 copies of mario kart we still like that better docked for multiplayer as the banter is better.

@sword_9mm For me its the fact we have 3 switches in our house and we share our games. My 11 year old and his mate wrote a little Android app that lots of kids in their school use to share PS4 games and keep track of who has what. Good luck doing any of that with your downloads.

I'm fine with how doom did it, after all when the servers are gone you won't need the multiplayer anymore and all the single player is on the cart. L.A.Noire not so much. Was not going to pick up this one anyway. Never did much for me the first time round

Skyrim on the go. This is why I bought a switch. My last play though was 200 hours and always wanted to replay in a different style but I never had that kind of time. But on the go I do. I just hope it lives up to the rose tinted view I have of the past

Funny thing is the Wii will probably get a JD 2019 while this is very likely the last ever Wii U game release.

Good news day for all switch owners, the better the switch does the better the support will be, the more switch owners will get to enjoy. Its like the polar opposite to the Wii U. Even better for those of us that skipped the Wii U I think we will get the best of its games though next year.

@Moshugan Mario also seems to use the same base engine and if we look at the two different play styles both working so well I think we will be seeing a lot of it over the next few years.

@Noonch It was released in the southern hemisphere so "summer 17" is just getting started in New Zealand.

I would much rather they release the dlc when and only when its fully finished and they are 100% happy. We have enough content being released in a buggy mess due to meeting marketing or other scheduled requirements in the games industry as it is. Nintendo has been on point with most its core releases this year and now is not the time to drop standards to meet shipping date of amiibo. With so much to play right now I like others would be happy to wait till next year.

"I'm not one to use hyperbole lightly" and old men don't shout at clouds

Mario took down metacritic, old man shouts at cloud and wins!

I have 3 switches in the house hold, so digital is not the why to go for me. Only downside is my sons fighting over who gets to play which game and the fact I will have to wait until they are in bed before I can get a go.