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Very interested to see what the new console is like based on all these rumours and how close/off the mark they are.
The biggest shame in all the rumours which I hope isnt true is the return to an LCD screen - that would be a shame after the beautful OLED model. As they mentioned in that video, the screen upgrade, to me anyway, actually felt like the internal hardware had been upgraded too. It made such a difference that when I got my steam deck LCD, I kept playing witcher 3 (blood and wine) on switch as the colours of Toussant just popped in a way they didnt on deck, even though deck was running with much higher overall graphics settings.

I really want to see Dino Crisis remade/remastered/something!

I'm surprised TotK is so low down in the sales chart considering how much hype there was around it - its been out 9 months and still sits below mario party, very interesting. Guessing Zelda is more a 'niche' franchise of Nintendo's?

Definately slowing down now as the graph shows, nice to see the figures and showing the peak of sales in 2021 - my assumption is this is what a healthy selling systems lifecycle looks like. Even though its slowing (which is expected), its certainly done well for Nintendo - its been a great system

@BoyfriendOfDeath I'm more curious if he'll be a customer at the Sushi restaurant

Ubisoft have had access to the Mario and Star Fox IP so a Zelda collaboration would be nice to see

@MrGawain That made me laugh, thanks for brightening up my morning

I remember when steam first appeared many years back and that had me worried for the PC gaming market as I did enjoy some of the amazing physical games back then (combat flight sim 2 and the mammoth manual comes to mind) but I’ve now accepted and am comfortable with steam. I think the industry will head this way as a whole as we’ve got Spotify, Netflix, Gamepass, Office 365 all offering services or media via subscription now. It will take time, and don’t get me wrong I’ll be sad to see physical games go, but I do feel change will eventually come. It will make me treasure my current physicals that much more.

For me airport hero hanaeda. Niche game but enjoyed on 3ds and delivers on switch. Also the superstars version that released a month ago on Play Asia is even better

Wow flashback 2 went down poorly

Really enjoyed replaying mgs1 after all those years, but I really do wish this was all n cartridge

Something odd happening, I removed the game from my switch but whenever a patch releases the icon reappears and starts the download - I dont even own the game cart anymore. Does anyone have any idea's how to stop this? Never happens for any other games

@Mach_Rider No problem, you mentioning you were a collector I didn’t want you to be disappointed when picking it up

@Mach_Rider just FYI only Asylum is on cart, the other 2 are downloads (not codes though)

@Dm9982 it’s not sabre unfortunately, I thought it may be as they did MK1. It’s Turn Me Up, looking at their site they’ve done some alright switch ports, I think it’s more a case of Arkham Knight is just too much for the switch to handle - maybe time and patches may improve things, hopefully so!
I am playing City at the moment though and really enjoying that, I’ve no issues so far with that port a few hours in

@Astral-Grain Oh for sure steam deck has many issues - an issue I had early on was that Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order (one of the reasons I got the steam deck) went from verified to unsupported literally weeks after I got the deck, because EA changed the Origin client to something else I believe.
I feel its abit of a lottery, where if a game is verfied get it played ASAP.
Same happened with Unity of Command 2 - I played the desert rats and the following DLC after that fine, then I bought the Don 42 DLC to continue with and voila! Game was updated and now it just gives a python error, game now being unsupported and cant play the Don 42 DLC I bought

With Switch I love that its simply pop thecartridge in and off you go, nothing can ever replace the console feel of simplicity.

And yes, backwards compatibility will be something I'm really keen for if that can achieve that, as I've some great Switch games yet to play that I've not currently time for.

@Astral-Grain I think now the switch is so far in its lifecycle that these impossible ports are now becoming more shouldnt be ported. For example I played arkham knight on my deck a few days ago to see how it was there and it ran on all high at a solid 30fps. Compared to switch its just simply technology moving on, I really feel Nintendo need to get the new hardware out sooner rather than later as the only games on switch I'm interested in now are 3rd party or Indy, the experience of the latest games on switch just isnt pleasant anymore.
A good example is hogwarts legacy, got that on switch and I just didnt enjoy it at all due to all of the cutbacks, so traded in and bought on steam for deck, a much better experience throughout.
I think its just natural that the switch is at the end of its lifecycle now, its a superb console and will always be fondly remembered, however its now definately in its twilight days/year. I must say though, what a great console its been!

@Astral-Grain I agree, I think ports should start slowing down now as the new hardware is being targeted. I was very disappointed with Arkham knight, they shouldn’t have even attempted that by the way it came out, got to feel sorry for the devs having to have a go at porting that.

@FredsBodyDouble agree, this directly contradicts what they said about the Hogwarts Legacy review, or lack thereof

@BulkSlash it’s such a shame. I’ve been looking forward to these since announcement, City most of all and thankfully that seems to be ok. I don’t think the porting studio turn me up should have taken on Arkham city, whenever I hear about it, it always seems to be a tricky game to run so trying to get it to do so on switch is abit overly ambitious I think. I doubt patches could do much to improve it

@BulkSlash I thought they did port the UE3 versions, as the lighting is same as origionals?

Edit: Actually they did, in the DF video Oliver mentions they're UE3, which isnt officially supported on switch

I didnt have high hopes for knight, and surprised they even decided to tackle it on switch. Playing City at the moment and really enjoying that though, I'm not precious about frame rates being mid 20's etc so it all looks good to me.

@Athropos I think asylum and city will fair well, but big question mark over knight

@NintendoByNature Enjoy it, its a great game!

@NintendoByNature I completed it a few weeks back and really enjoyed revisting it after 25 years since ps1. I thought it was really quite a short game, when i played it back in the day the game seemed massive to me. Shows how times have moved on

Company of Heroes needs adding to this list - been playing it to death lately. Good port and control scheme works really well/well thought out I think for a console

same company as recent skull island rise of kong - how on earth are they getting the licenses?

I tried my mega drive/genesis pad for the 2 sega entries and the certain buttons wouldnt function. I have the 3 button pad, of the 3 buttons it would swap between which button wouldnt work so the controller is ok. i.e. a would shoot, b jump but c wouldnt select weapon. Change mapping and a wouldnt select weapon but b would shoot and c jump for example. Hopefully they fix that as it'd be nice to play with mega drive/genesis pad

@Vexx234 I’m hoping it’s not the case with the Arkham trilogy but we’ll see

Trading my physical in to CEX as its such a pointless physical release. Just completed MGS1 and going to wait for a deep sale on the digitals - more fool me!

@Banjo- haha so we did. Having read the books, I don’t know what you think but in the future I really do feel they could remake them closer to the books, quite a lot of differences, the lost world quite drastically so (biosyn and Dodgson having a role)

@Mauzuri I thought World was ok as a redo of JP1 for modern times, it worked for me.
I’d like to see a prequel to JP, issues they had creating the Dinos (like mutations etc), deaths during the parks construction on dinos escaping to the mainland that were mentioned in the books. Could add a darker, sinister tone to it all.

I own a deck but more and more I’m seeing games I’d like to play not supported, some saying minimal graphics settings don’t go low enough. For current owners probably not worth picking up, but for anyone considering a deck it’s a great proposition

The number of consoles sold would have to be factored into these figures also though, you could then work out the % of games sold to systems sold i.e. for TotK 132 million switch's sold and 19.5 million TotK so far mean only around 14% of switch owners own TotK so far

@Chaotic_Neutral I quite enjoyed BotW and picked up TotK, however despite the new features in the game I've only lasted about 10 hours in it before getting bored. Shame as its a well crafted game and I'll probably return in time

@Heartless666 I am as I was only 9 when these released, being a big fan of JP and being some of the first video games I ever played I have fond memories of them. I just hope rose tinted glasses don’t disappoint from the reality of the games now though

I played abit of mgs earlier, but my eyes felt a little weird looking at it, dont know what you call it but sort of a shimmering effect it seems to have
P.S. its after you leave the water btw

Very vague but a common sense approach - it is a little tick in a list of boxes that may confirm libraries come over. The Switch successor reveal trailer will hopefully answer this question

@WhiteTrashGuy Really looking forward to Arkham. They had the display box in Asda (UK) a few days ago, tried to buy it but didnt have it in store - worth a try

If the new King Kong games anything to go by....

@aresius I saw that pause feature in the options menu and think that’s really handy, as you simply can’t move around the UI as quickly as you can with mouse and KB

@The_Elite_Institute its a great RTS for sure, but it is more complex than Command and Conquer (Im a huge fan of those). For example there is an emphasis on cover mechanics, units have secondary abilities which you need to activate such as throwing grenades.
I cant remember if armour on tanks is modelled accurately here i.e. you have to flank/attack the weaker armour at sides or rear
Another big feature which I thoroughly enjoyed at the time was the destructable environments. For example, if enemies are garrisoning a building call in an artillery strike/use mobile artillery to just level the building!
It was great on PC but I'm wondering how this will be with a controller.

Curious how this will play with a controller. Definately picking up, I've 100+ hours in both 1 and 2 each, so think I'll get £20 worth of milleage out of this

@gcunit I thought that as I read the Mario 3d world plus bowsers fury review a few days back and they said the below, which is similar to the previews above.

"Super Mario 3D World is testament to modern Nintendo’s unusual and democratic creative process, which gives every designer’s ideas a fair throw. The result is a cascade of playful ideas that appear, shine brightly for a level or two and then vanish again to make way for more."

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/feb/10/super-mario-3d-world-bowsers-fury-review-nintendo-switch

I think its just nintendo being as creative as they can be with these games. I guess it means you can say its not more of the same as there are many unique ideas at play.Wont be getting the game as I've still yet to play 3d world so cant justify getting this

@CurryPowderKeg79 this should get you started, good YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/KiFiZ5LZK0k?feature=shared

@Baler I was But its well worth it for (hopefully) a quality product!

I’m disappointed about this as was really looking forward to it. On the flip side a more polished experience is my preference.
It must be issues with City and/or Knight as this close to release I imagine the physicals are already manufactured and probably on container ships heading to different countries

@SerpenterrorThere are many games with crime in now on switch, the recent wartales being an example and even games like Lego dc supervillains.
A long while ago I would have associated Nintendo as being a platform for a younger audience, but with switch it seems a very balanced platform to me in terms of game genres available which surely can only be a good thing - people buy what they want, not what they are forced to

i must admit im enjoying the story mode in the game, though the graphics are a big letdown

@ChromaticDracula One thing I’d really love myself is for the GameCube versions to come over, was it dual snakes?
I love the first game, but honestly just not sure if I could play it this day and age because of the graphics - the GameCube version looks good though and would love to be able to play that