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@xjulianvel By definition, it's not news if it isn't new.

@RupeeClock Speaking as someone who has been a YouTuber since the dawn of YouTube, the new "handles" system has absolutely nothing to do with this. "Nintendo of America" has reserved @Nintendo. Heck, a channel's handle doesn't need to be the same as its name nor even be related to it, even for verified channels. It can be customized however you want. And by the way, this isn't even the first time YouTube has supported handles! It's been years since they went away, but there was a period when it was a thing.

Also, YouTube is and always has been a social media platform. Literally the entire point of YouTube is sharing posts (that happen to practically always be videos in this case) with other people and then getting a bunch of comments on those posts, with people sometimes following each other. And occasionally someone actually looks at your profile. It actually used to be way more similar to typical social media platforms than it is now. YouTube has gone through several major paradigm shifts.

P.S. They changed the channel name a month ago. Y'all are way behind.

@Sitheral You still couldn't take screenshots in spring in Royal. I took many a picture of the screen to share my endgame persona builds... I even started a 3rd NG+ and fast-forwarded to the point Traits unlock (which is all the way at the 2nd palace) just so that I could upload clips of damage calculation experiments to YouTube. I'm so glad I have a working capture card now.

@The_Pixel_King Keep in mind this was originally a PS3 game. The Switch is absolutely capable of running it uncompromised.

BTW, despite the article title, the Switch version is not a remaster. The only platforms getting a remaster are PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The rest are just ports.

As usual, Atlus doesn't understand live stream culture. Streamers will either ignore the restrictions or just not stream it at all if the integrity of their streams will be compromised. A ton of streamers just skipped the game due to the restrictions both of the previous times. Do you have any idea how much more free advertising the game would've gotten if the really big players in the community had streamed it? There is a proven relationship between live-streaming games and sales. Perhaps the biggest example ever being Minecraft.

Okay, there's no fancy way to put this... This guy is a moron.

@dystome It requires completing the C-Sides to unlock and is supposed to be harder than those.

Stop throwing around "officially licensed" like it actually means anything.

@Capt_N You can't use (or obtain) spirits online. People who primarily play in order to fight against other players aren't going to care about spirits, because they are given no reason to.

I only go out of my way to participate in the events that give extra gold. I don't need extra of anything else. Ever since I finished playing all I needed to of other modes (including online) in order to clear all of the Challenges, I never play any Smash outside of Spirits (no, really), so I barely get any gold normally.

I am seriously addicted to Spirits, and these events make me keep constantly checking back on the Spirit Board every couple of hours... so I can spend the next hour doing every single battle that pops up....

I might have a problem. I consider my Spirits stats under Records more important than every single other aspect of this game and can't seem to bring myself to even try to play any of my other games in the meantime.

And all this is AFTER I 100%ed my very first run of World of Light and then proceeded to start a New Game + just to unlock the 2 challenges that you need to do that for, stop in the middle of New Game + once I had done so, and then proceeded to set up camp on the Spirit Board.

So yeah, it works exactly the same as PS4 now.

The closest to me is a 4-hour drive. And I was just there a couple of weeks ago. Dammit, my timing was off.

Nintendo has a legal requirement to protect its properties. Because if you explicitly make an exception, you lose your rights to them. Official licenses are a separate matter.

Well then, in that case, I'm going to have to only ever play the game undocked. To this day I still can't get a Joy-Con to stay connected properly while my Switch is docked, even when under a foot away.

@DavidMac Okay, so, basically, anytime you play one of these NES games on Switch, you can invite your friends to join the game and give them extra "controllers." At any time, you can "pass the [player 1] controller" (actual quote) to one of your friends who are in the game at the time, and anyone without an active controller is a spectator. So it's essentially the new age online evolution of the party play we used to do back in the 80s and 90s.

Note Super Mario Bros. 3 has always technically been a 2 player game, but mostly all that ever entailed was player 1 is Mario, player 2 is Luigi, and they take turns whenever one of them dies. If one player goes to the space the other player is currently on, they go into a battle mode that is... really just the original Mario Bros. (not Super)

@Cosats The truth is not determined by majority rule. Nor is electrical engineering.

Most of the BS you see on the internet is just people repeating stuff they saw someone else say in the internet who was already doing the same thing, and they take it is fact simply because it was the first explanation they saw.

@rjejr The Switch is actually not USB-IF compliant. That's actually the problem. The official charger and the Switch itself both have things about them that are designed incorrectly, but those issues work together in such a way as to provide safe operation and suitably fast charging.

If this is WayForward's idea of a costume DLC, instantly putting all other games' costume DLC to shame, would would be their idea of an expansion pack, I wonder? A new mode that is actually the entire game library of the console you purchased it on but with the main characters of each game replaced with Shantae?

I have a 400GB card in my Switch at the moment. No regrets.
I'm ready to go well beyond my current stock of 31 all-digital games at a moment's notice.

P.S. The Switch's card reader isn't really capable of performing beyond UHS-1 anyway, so that really shouldn't hold anyone back.
Seriously, the 256GB UHS-3 card I had in mine before upgrading to the 400GB UHS-1 card that's in there now didn't perform any faster.

This kinda defeats the purpose of going digital though if you're going to be needing to carry around multiple cards to have your game library with you. You're really just changing the type of card you're carrying.

@DrTofu If that were really the case, they wouldn't allow you to update them wirelessly to begin with.

Nah, I'm pretty sure Nintendo is smart enough to have them not run the update when low on battery to begin with. Like everyone else who does these things.

By the way, it wasn't Nintendo who said that. It was this article. Thus pretty much invalidating this entire topic.

That said, yes, Nintendo does have a way to know if you have the Joy-Con on a charger. The Switch console is fully capable of detecting whether or not a Joy-Con is currently connected to power. Obviously.

"if you have more than one set you'll want to connect them in pairs"

I just turned all of mine on at once and hit "update controllers." It went through every single Joy-Con I had (all the left Joy-Con first, followed by all the right Joy-Con) just fine. Not sure why you'd need to specifically connect them in pairs. It's not like they need to be physically on the console or anything.

@Mattiac Yes, but I also have played the real Chrono Trigger something like a billion and a half times, so even if it's a slight bit off from 1:1, even if the casual player won't notice it, I definitely will.

Does Chrono Trigger's special sound chip emulation work? Because, if not, putting Chrono Trigger on there is not worth it. Note Nintendo put special software modules into this thing for all the special chips in the various games, and since Chrono Trigger happens to also have a special chip that they probably didn't include a module for... yeah, it's probably not much better than the broken experience you would get playing it on any other emulator (I have still never seen an emulator that could run Chrono Trigger 1:1).

@ValhallaOutcast I'd agree with you if not for the fact that Best Buy is the only company with a US online game retail presence that this consistently happens with. Amazon, for example (who only very recently started using their own in-house courier service, they exclusively used UPS and USPS for years) always managed to have preorders arrive exactly on the correct day, no earlier, no later (barring shipping delays due to extreme inclement weather).

And, as someone who has handled plenty of shipping himself, I can tell you no, it is definitely not the courier. It is actually very easy to have packages arrive on an intended day. Best Buy is quite simply not bothering to set scheduled deliveries in the first place.

Also, the language Best Buy uses on their preorders is that the release date is a "receive by" date, as opposed to, again for example Amazon, where it is a "receive on" date.

I'm one of those people who got his Best Buy preorder 2 days early. Best Buy actually does that a lot. As in for pretty much every online preorder they ever do. Which is why, if getting something as soon as possible is more important to you than saving on shipping costs, it is always better when preordering from Best Buy to have it shipped to you instead of doing in store pickup. Well, the other reason being their in store pickup system puts these impossible to cleanly remove stickers on the item, so if you like to collect the box of this particular thing for any reason...

@thatawesomedude I know. After all, there is still apparently the issue of needing to be on 1.0.0. However, I have seen literally every article about this on every site reporting that it is not possible to manually set the time on the Switch after it has been connected to the internet for the first time, and that is simply not true.

"The catch here is that the Switch's time synchronisation is handled server-side, so if you've already connected your console to the internet there is unfortunately no way of fooling it with a bogus date"

You know you can go into the settings and disable server time synchronization in order to manually set your own time whenever you want, right?

I assume you still have to hit the reset button on the console itself or something similar to bring up the system menu like on the NES Classic? If so, I don't see what the problem is. What you really need is a long HDMI cable (unless you're like me and are using your NES Classic on your PC monitor and saving the fancy full TV for the modern consoles with their fancy graphics), not a longer controller cord. Considering how often you actually have to hit that reset button, a long controller cord gets in the way during proper use of these things.

"Unfortunately Nintendo hasn't seen fit to grace us with the ability to use wireless headphones with our consoles, so you're stuck either using these with portable mode only"

Or do what I did (for several reasons, not just this one) and set the Switch dock up right next to me instead of, like, behind the TV or something, for easy access, plus get a really really long audio cable (I got a 2.4m cable from Amazon, which is more than adequate for my needs, considering, seriously, the Switch is right next to me) for plenty of freedom of movement without so much restriction. Then you can use headphones just fine when it's not in portable mode.

I just plug said cable into the wireless headset I was already using with my PS4, and I'm golden.

Also note: if you're using the Switch docked, you could totally just connect some headphones to your TV. I would highly recommend that, in fact. I use my Switch on a different TV that I just use for gaming, but on the TV my family, you know, watches TV on, we always use headphones with it for everything. The experience can't be compared between that and watching TV without them. By the way, our TV doesn't support Bluetooth either (although the Bluetooth standard wouldn't even be adequate for how we use it anyway, so that doesn't really make any difference). We use a Sennheiser dock-based system that plugs into the headphone jack on the TV.

@NintendoVideoGa A "dealbreaker" is something which causes someone to NOT want to buy it. It "breaks" the "deal."

"Improvements to prevent unintended HDMI input change with certain TVs while the console is docked in Sleep Mode"

Holy crap, it's about damn time!!

I can finally just put my Switch to sleep when it's docked and I'm not using it instead of powering it down completely, as it was designed to be used.

@BornInNorway81 A Type-A to Type-C legacy adapter cable can be safely and properly designed to at most transfer 5V / 2.4A / 12W, and that's using proprietary tech that they'd have to license from Apple. Standard implementations would be capable of much lower than that. You can make a Type-A to Type-C cable that can do 5V / 3A / 15W fairly easily (all you'd need to do is put the wrong resistor in the Type-C end [which is (at a basic level) how basic Type-C client ports detect what sort of cable is plugged in so they can know how much power they can safely try to pull, basically if you put in a resistor that tells it that this is an actual Type-C cable and not a Type-A to Type-C adapter cable, it will try to treat it that way]), but it would be pretty risky to actually plug it into things. The reason being, when you boil it down, is that USB Type-A was simply never designed to do that. Type-C has been heavily engineered and future proofed to where the devices on both ends are supposed to do a handshake at the beginning to decide things like how much power to send (and in which direction), but Type-A ports are nowhere near that intelligent, it just, you know, kinda does its thing and assumes everything will be alright.

"Highly durable, USB A to TYPE C cable that stretches 6 feet long to charge your Nintendo Switch."

I would just like to point out that it is completely impossible to make a Type-A to Type-C legacy cable that can transfer enough power to power the Switch without completely ignoring all standards of electrical engineering and making something that is more likely to cause your Switch to explode (or whatever source you have it plugged into on the other end) than consistently charge it properly. Of course, tons of companies (mostly shady Chinese bootleg brands) have been doing this for a couple years already (ever since Type-A to Type-C cables started becoming popular), but that doesn't change the fact that, well, WEBSITES LIKE THIS SHOULD NOT BE REPORTING ON ANYTHING AS IMPORTANT AS AN ELECTRICAL CABLE WITHOUT DOING THEIR RESEARCH FIRST. Most of the stuff out there is improperly made, and it is often, as in this sort of case, not that difficult to find that out. And yes, I'm being completely serious, the vast majority of cables you can find online are wired just plain wrong.

But seriously though, stick with the OEM Nintendo adapter to charge the Switch. The chip that handles the charging on the Switch is actually ITSELF improperly engineered (seriously), and only the OEM charger is actually completely safe the use with it as a result (which itself is improperly engineered). It's a ridiculously stupid situation, but it's one manufacturers have been putting us in since the beginning of electronics.

@cfgk24 You can get one that works exactly the same with the exact same chipset (the only difference is the outer shell's appearance) from AmazonBasics or Plugable or the like for less than half that price.

"The fact that the Switch is region-free is good news for JRPG fans, it would seem."

> Then proceeds to immediately list 2 games that aren't JRPGs.

@Marxally You would absolutely lose badly if you tried to depend on this online instead of just racing the AI on easy mode (notice he also said in the video that he got last place every time on the harder difficulties), but regardless, both the assisted steering and acceleration can be allowed or disallowed in online tournaments according to Nintendo back when it was first announced.

@Anti-Matter No, more like, BotW minutes are seconds, and hours are minutes. So basically, 1/60th time.

Yo, you actually get the "of the Wild" armor set items for completing all 120 shrines.