WiteWulf

A really well written article covering a real problem in Nintendo’s first party games.

+1 from me, though, for those that have already mentioned visual impairments. I’m colourblind and long sighted and often have difficulty with small text on the Switch screen, and anything that’s colour coded. Other developers, again as already mentioned, go to amazing lengths nowadays to cater for people who aren’t perfectly able. Nintendo just carries doing its own thing, like it always does

I just got a Steamdeck, and I'll be honest, it's the machine I've been wanting for some time with respect to the Switch's shortcomings. The price and availability (5 days from order to delivery in the UK last week) makes it a no-brainer compared to the Aya devices.

Strewth, 3D Monster Maze on a ZX81!

#old

@BionicDodo the PSVR element of Tempest 4000 was complete and ready to go, but Atari specifically told Llamasoft to take it out for release. No reason ever given, as far as I know. Jeff was absolutely gutted about it.

Is Nintendo Switch Online required for multiplayer?

A nice feature that'll almost certainly never be used outside of the game dev studio due to the high cost of admission.

You can add Civilization VI to that list. One of the first games I bought when I got my Switch Lite and, sadly, pretty much unplayable for me.

I’m very surprised that Nintendo didn’t make it a compulsory design feature for games going through QA for Switch to have either font scaling, or automatic switching when in docked or handheld mode. The flip side of this is that some games designed with handheld use in mind don’t look their best when on a big TV.

I picked up a brand new WiiU pro controller in January (off work with a broken leg for three months so planned a play-through of Breath of the Wild). The left stick was drifting by mid-March, admittedly after 5-6hrs of use a day, 5 days a week. I'll give this guide a go and see if it makes any difference to that device.

Bought this based on early previews I saw, this review, and the launch discount (it was cheaper than on PS4!). I liked the way that some puzzles have more than one solution, but the core mechanic of the game and the most enjoyable part, the perspective puzzles, seem to run out towards the middle of the game. I found myself frustratedly trying everything in the room by trial and error to continue, which spoiled the flow of the story somewhat. The "message" is pretty nice and shouldn't really offend everyone, and it's pretty predictable, to be honest. My one real complaint is that the framerate is pretty poor in some places on my Switch Lite, a docked Switch may fare better. It's fun, challenging in places, but a little too short. 7/10

Do these codes have any sort of expiry date? Got Sword for The Boy for Christmas, so obviously he's not going to be able to play before the 25th...

They want us to share memories, but I'm guessing anything involving copyrighted material will be swiftly C&D'd in classic Nintendo fashion? :-/

The only compelling factor right now is being able to continue playing online games that I already have (Splatoon 2, Mario Kart and ARMS). Big old bait and switch (ironic!), awful behaviour from Nintendo, imho

@Damo fine by me, you need your beauty sleep more than most

Curiously the /r/PS4 has gone absolutely balistic on this topic overnight, but barely anyone on /r/NintendoSwitch seems to be bothered. I'm guessing the latter have Switch as their primary/only games platform and the former have Switch in addition to PS4?

@NinjaWaddleDee don't do that! You'll lose all your progress and it still won't work. Once you've linked a PSN ID to an Epic account, even if you unlink it, it will never be able to be used on an Xbox or Switch.

@Damo really needs to update his original post to make this clear or ppl are gonna lose their poop...

@NintendoFan4Lyf yup, a few ppl on reddit saying the same (after having gone through this previously and unlinking a PSN ID to try and play on Xbox). Once your Epic account has been linked to PSN it can never be used on Xbox or Switch. Utterly ridiculous...

I'm absolutely furious with Sony for being the instigator of this, but also quite annoyed with Epic for not making it clear when I linked our PSN ID to our Epic account that this locking would take place and we'd not be able to access progress or paid-for content on non-Sony platforms. The Epic web page on unlinking accounts prophesies doom and destruction should one take that path and says:

"Platform Locks on Fortnite cannot be circumvented, even by replacing one connected account with another."

I'm waiting to hear from someone who actually goes through the process of unlinking their PSN account, moving to Switch and seeing what's left intact afterwards.

This is the right decision. The full fat version on Steam is a great game and updated regularly but the PS4 version is absolutely shocking: buggy (worse than the Mac port!), hard to see the UI on a TV screen and driving it with a joypad is an exercise in futility. I can't imagine a Nintendo port being any better.

This'd be worthy of a few good laughs if it weren't for the fact Kanye's obviously got mental health problems.

Easy target, Mitch :-/

Good to see this finally out on the Wii. Very popular game in our household but, as we've already spent £17 on the PC version and £5 on the iOS version unfortunately I can't justify what will probably be another £20 on the Wii U.

Now if they'd managed to do it in 3D on the 3DS I'd have been queueing up to buy...

FAST Neo Racing, Steamworld Heist and Terraria, in that order. Too many good new games to be spending on for this time of year, especially as I got the discounted Xenoblade 3D last week, too....

Gotta have it...this will be my early Christmas present to myself

If I were to go back in time 20 years and suggest there'd be this much love for Sega on a Nintendo site I'd have been laughed off the Internet

Booo, still no Dreamcast love for us?

#needwantmusthave

If this ever gets release it'll be the final nail in the coffin of my PS3, which only ever gets powered on for Wipeout HD nowadays

I'll definitely give this another go now. I loved the game initially but the long wait times were really hacking me off...

Another for Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies, here. Rhythm Thief and Pilot Wings still get a lot of play on my system, too...