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@CT2401 ... cause you want to play Nintendo games? You can read my previous responses to see where I am on the subject of Joy Cons. I think it’s clear.

So responding to those reading my back-and-forth with Donkey Kong Fan. Nintendo makes great games and historically great hardware. It’s expensive and you need to prepare that your controllers might break. Drift is a common issue. Budget for it. Nintendo will fix Joy Cons for free but you can be without a controller for weeks. A Pro Controller fix is $40 which is $20 less than a new one on sale. And despite the nasty comments you can enjoy Nintendo games and recognize their flaws. We can all enjoy their games without pedestaling them or fanboy vitriol. The gaming world is a big tent. I hope people will continue to support each other here, celebrate Nintendo and all the excitement its games bring us, and that mods will nix any fanboy behavior that resorts to name-calling and accusations. We don’t need that here. https://xkcd.com/386/

@Donkey-Kong-Fan Awww you got me! How did you figure it out? I MUST just be a TROLL. You are so CLEVER.. My 2 Pro Controllers didn’t have drift it was all in my head. Or maybe it’s my fault for playing Splatoon. Yep, I was doing it wrong. No one else has this problem. No seriously don’t Google it. You don’t need to.. I made it up for kicks. The other accounts here that mention drift are clearly all just mine. This is what I do for my free time. Right @Synecdoche ? And, yes, deep down I desperately want my two pairs of Joycons to keep drifting because then I will have nothing to complain about! I only complain about Joy Con drift to feed my empty husk of a soul. Nintendo is DEFINITELY going to address this any day now. I mean they didn’t in 2017 or 2018 or 2019 or 2020 but it’s definitely happening soon. Good Golly! (I am feeling kinda snarky right now. It’s unfortunate that gaming site forums are so full of vitriol. I don’t deal well with being attacked for talking about my experience and sharing my ideas. Sick of negging.)

@Zidentia agreed. It’s been 3 years so probably they just don’t care. I need them to fix their “Pro” controller as well. Drift sucks.

I have 3 Switches (one original model, one newer model, one Lite) and two Pro controllers. I play Splatoon 2 and I have four other family members playing on them. In the past year one Joycon and both Pro Controllers got drift (I am amazed that journos never mention that the Pro Controller has the same issue. I contacted Nintendo and a Pro Controller repair was $40.) Is that end of the world? No! That’s the rest of 2020.. But did I expect two $70 “Pro” controllers to malfunction after 1-2 years? No. To replace them all would be $210 ... and the new controllers could still fail. It’s hard to make that kind of investment. And this bug makes every game worse. Splatoon sucks when you randomly can’t aim, but you live in fear in Animal Crossing that you might accidentally tell an animal to get off your island. Same with many other games. Some Joy Con drift choices can be devastating. And there is no third party equivalent to Nintendo controllers because only Nintendo controllers can power on the system, have the rumble and motion controls, and NFC. They won’t allow 3rd parties to have feature parity and actually compete or I would get an 8bitdo.

headline: “consumers and scalpers buy limited edition Mario game ahead of Nintendo’s artificial deadline”

Here we are end of June with almost no 2020 games scheduled. And Nintendo/GameFreak is announcing mobile games. Yeah, a lot of Switch owners don’t like that. What’s coming in the Fall Nintendo? Anything?

I thought Pokemon would at least match BOTW for graphics since it came out years earlier and was originally designed for a less powerful platform. But Gamefreak’s titles still act and look more like DS titles in 1080p. They are trying to make too many games and they need to step back and retool their entire pipeline.

I use it for Splatoon battle stats and that is about it. I would rather not use it. Just make this info accessible via the game or a Switch online portal page accessed via the console or web.

Nintendo online is still a clunky mess even though we use it daily.

I mean predictable, yeah, but not boring. I wouldn’t say the transition from 3DS to Switch was boring!

I think the new SSD could lead to massively reduced loading times (1-2 seconds?) which if accurate could mean the removal of level loading screens/elevators/crevices. That alone would be shocking. Imagine a game world that just is. BoTW that doesn’t disappear for 30 seconds when you teleport. That would be fantastic.

Also the new power will lead to easier game development (UE5 as an example where devs don’t waste time “baking” lighting) and I suspect, indie games will be able to use features AAA mostly won’t because they have simpler geometry and textures (120fps, 8k, ray tracing eg Minecraft), and Sony and Microsoft continue to innovate online (cloud computing, subscription services, sharing features).

These things push Nintendo forward and that’s great for us.

I think ultimately though it will depend on the developers to take advantage of the new power — just like always.

I love the game. And these ideas. AND I want more! And DLC virtual ammibo ($2 each?), Blathers defaults to assessing all fossils, crafting stations can hold supplies, diagonal paths, meteor shower weather predictions, regular saves when online (had a disconnect last night and our family lost an hour of wishing on stars, our trades, purchases, and watering flowers), fix the way online works so everyone doesn’t freeze when players enter/exit online, make it so I can place items when people are online (let’s design places together), and ... I really want Gulliver and the Ghost to have more meaning (maybe an evolving story? something?). Help me like them. I think people are trying to push Gulliver overboard.

I don’t want physical-digital toys that clutter my house. I don’t want cards. But I would gladly pay $1 for a specific character in a digital form. I don’t understand why Nintendo who is awful at predicting or meeting demand continues to make physical products when they don’t have to. I think they like the free marketing they get when supplies are exhausted. It’s amazing their lawyers can freak out so much about people making YouTube videos narrating a game, but don’t care about the constant scalping and price inflation of their own products. This is a perfect use for DLC. Wake up Nintendo.

option for separate islands on the same switch to avoid family infighting. or disclose this issue on the front packaging.
eliminate the weird starting and stopping of multiplayer (eg when someone is coming to my island I can’t do anything).
batch crafting and purchase. yes, please.
fix the RNG (for the stringfish, etc)
oh and make input more forgiving.. so many times I try to enter a door and just slightly miss or try to spread fish bait and get an error. devs should read this thread by Celeste devs https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/fhzw5f/developer_of_celeste_shares_some_cool_gamefeel/

@sanderev imagine my son wasn’t playing Pokemon but the save is locked to that Switch. That’s where your dvd player metaphor breaks down. Kick someone off their movie — so you can transfer a license file — to watch your movie on a different tv?. It turns out when you have multiple systems, games, and players it happens a lot. I try to buy cartridges to avoid some of the chaos, but even they have expansion packs and free updates. The fact remains that travel offline with the secondary or multiple secondary Switches sucks with digital purchases. Nintendo could lengthen the checks to 24 hours vs 3. Most streaming services do many, many days. They could offer family sharing a la Apple and Google. They could use Switch Cloud Saves for Pokemon, Splatoon, and Animal Crossing. It’s not hard and they have the cash. Demand more. We can love their games and demand better from their legal (stop suing diehard fans) and sales departments (do I really need to pay $180+ to play Splatoon with my kids?).

@sanderev. I agree that my money is mine and I can choose to vote with it. I am big Nintendo fan and have been for three decades which is why I read this site. What I think your response — as well as most game journalists — missed is how the current Switch policies impact families. I think this is because most reviewers just use their own device. But the Switch is not JUST a personal device. It is a hybrid console-portable and Nintendo is struggling to merge their console and portable systems in a way that makes sense for families. I have five family members and three Switches — two which look identical. Do you know what sucks? Kicking one of my kids off a Switch so I can do a save game transfer so another child can play Pokemon. Or leaving my “Primary” Switch behind so my kids can play a particular game and not being able to play what I want to play. Or even having to think about which system is the “Primary” (eg the “real”) system versus the inferior. This is friction and it is annoying. You can make the argument that I should just give each person their own Switch and games and I wouldn’t have that problem. Just spend more money. And, yeah, that is a choice. But let’s be clear the Switch is marketed as both a shared family device AND a portable system that you can play anywhere. And it falls short of that. And I reacted to this article because my daughter wants Animal Crossing and I dread the day her brother is playing on that system and she can’t play on her island.

There is no technical issue here. These are deliberate choices by Nintendo and the press should call them out on it. Again and again. Nintendo wants homes to have multiple Switches but the secondary Switch is an inferior system under current Nintendo policy because of (1) this — save games that don’t easily or apparently won’t transfer (2) lack of any kind of family sharing policy that works for multiple Switches and accounts and (3) weird online checks every 3 hours to see if you still own a digital game. I tried flying last week with my secondary Switch and I couldn’t play any digital game I had legitimately purchased because I had no internet. Nintendo claims you can game anywhere and the Switch is close to delivering that, but then you get these freakish experiences and it sucks. Come on Nintendo, it’s 2020. Fix your policies. Press, call them on it over and over.