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The last thing we need is more encouragement to publishers to NOT make physical versions.

Nintendo won't release anything that would fragment the Switch base. So any hardware revisions would be limited to either cosmetic, efficiencies of manufacturing that allow for a lower price point, efficiencies in CPU that allow longer runtime on battery, improved kickstand, etc. If they do put in a more-powerful CPU, it'd be limited to providing portable capabilities closer to docked mode. Like a new 1080p screen, and performance handheld like it would docked. They will NOT go beyond that... no extra RAM (although they could do more built-in storage), no performance boost that allows for games that would not run on the original Switch. And no version where the joycons don't detach... this is critical for many games.

There's a reason I refuse to buy anything made by Sony. Not just their gaming consoles.

Considering all the huge patches you have to download from devs who can't be arsed to not release buggy, unusable beta versions of their games on the physical cartridges, unfortunately even those of us who buy physical are forced to get massive internal storage.

USB network adapters that work with the Switch are like under $15.
Wired network connections are superior to wireless in a myriad of ways even if your wifi is as good as it possibly can be. Most people don't understand all the things that can slow down or interfere with wifi, regardless of what it says your connection speed is. You might think your wifi is "fine" but it's because you've normalized "sucks".

Excuses are lame. I ran a network cable to my AV stack by my TV and then put in an 8-port switch so that everything by my TV (Switch, Blu-ray player, Roku, Steam box and 2 different Raspberry Pis) can have a perfect network connection.

Yes please. And don't be jerks and arbitrarily exclude the game from cloud save backups. EVERY game should support this.

I have 50/25 Mbit/s DSL and I still refuse to hop on or endorse this insulting, consumer-hostile direction in gaming. I don't even like digital downloads since I can see more than a few months into the future and value things like game-sharing and reselling used games. The whole digital-only mentality is bad enough with users shooting themselves in the foot and ruining the future of retro-gaming, but this whole game-streaming BS is over the top. Devs can't be arsed to put in proper dev time for the most-popular console out now for over a year, so they throw us this BS.

Switch can't run something like Assassin's Creed? Bethesda already proved that to be BS so people need to drop that nonsense. Just scale the textures and lighting-effects down to Wolfenstein/Doom levels and it's MORE than good enough.

Not letting some games have cloud saves is utter BS. Nintendo is just being lazy. Sony and Microsoft already have this sorted out. I'm particularly furious about Animal Crossing, which is a game I want but I'm not sure I want to risk investing time on a savegame that I can still lose despite paying for Nintendo Switch Online which was SUPPOSED TO BE THE SOLUTION TO THIS VERY REAL PROBLEM.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/09/09/nintendos-explanation-for-limiting-switch-cloud-saves-is-baffling/

I'll accept that when Nintendo stops nerfing and handicapping a good thing, and instead gives us cloud saves for ALL games, not just some. My Splatoon 2, Animal Crossing, etc save games shouldn't be at risk from their shoddy product design just because Nintendon't what Sony and Microsoft apparently already figured out re: cloud saves and the associated risks. The other guys sorted out the issues, why can't Nintendo? I want ALL my data safe... Nintendo's lame excuse could be applied to a frightening number of current and upcoming games and it's just pathetic and arbitrary, and screams of laziness.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/09/09/nintendos-explanation-for-limiting-switch-cloud-saves-is-baffling/

No cloud saves = no purchase for me

Automatic upload = zero protection from corruption

We need the ability to do manual backups to MicroSD card ON TOP of cloud saves.

I've got 4 similar devices right here in my hand. What makes this one magically different than the hundreds of similar ones out there? An exchange of advertising dollars from innoAura to NL to masquerade as a news article instead?

Wake me up when one of these is 1) 100% guaranteed to not brick your Switch, and 2) makes the Switch operate in the higher-performance "docked" mode.

This both makes me sad and angry. Tomb Raider: Anniversary was one of my favorite experiences on the Wii... an unsung but amazing game that slipped under many peoples' radar. I've been anxious for another Tomb Raider game on a Nintendo platform.

@Dayton311 Not everyone wants to temporarily license their games at the whim of the people running the servers. Physical ownership has tons of perks, including longevity, preserving precious space on internal storage, ability to re-sell, and ability to loan to other people to play.

Am I the only person who DOESN'T like the look of Daemon X Machina?

Then again, I didn't really like the look of Skyward Sword or the character artstyle of BotW (background and scenery were ok). Played both, of course, but I wasn't in love with the visuals as much as I could've been if they had been less "flat".

If you DO like DXM, that's totally fine and I'm glad you have a game that visually appeals to you... I just wanted to rock the assumption that "different" = "preferred by most". Sometimes there's being different just for the sake of being different, which isn't always a good thing. Then I think sometimes devs champion and spin a simpler artstyle as "better" because it's "different" when really it was just easier for them to put less effort into the textures and models that way.

Resident Evil?
Tomb Raider?

If this is just the e-Shop photos and not the game itself, I have no problem with that.

Wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to ultimately get the fully-patched version on the cartridge. Instead, now your "physical version" is nothing more than a hardware DRM key for temporarily-downloadable software and of no value later in life when the servers are gone.

Doesn't the Switch already have built-in Bluetooth technically that could be used if Nintendo would simply allow it?

Not happy about them taking out touch control for the Switch version. I understand you need to add in traditional controls for docked mode, but leave the touch option since it's already there and the Switch has touch available in portable mode.

@kirbygirl You're assuming that Nintendo's solution will work a certain way because that's how others do it. I'm guessing it won't because there's far more precedent in Nintendo's past behavior for them to NOT do things the way that others do it OR the way that we'd want. USB/SD backup (or lack thereof) was just one example. There are no shortage of others (Voice chat? Organizing games on the home screen? Bluetooth headsets? The list goes on and on.)

So not only is your stance of of others do it a certain way "evidence" either, but the ACTUAL evidence out there (precedent) points to the likelihood of you being wrong.

@kirbygirl You asked, "On my other systems, manual backups are an option. Is there a reason to think this would be different?"

And my point was, "We can't go by what other consoles do to give us confidence as to what Nintendo will do." and gave an example as proof.

@kirbygirl Yes, because on other systems you can also back up to USB/SD while on the Switch you won't be able to. We can't go by what other consoles do to give us confidence as to what Nintendo will do.

So here's my question re: cloud saves:

When something (a game bug or otherwise) corrupts your save file, and then that corrupt version gets synced to the cloud storage and overwrites your intact one, are you screwed?

This is one of the reasons I was more of a proponent of backing up to SD card, where you can control "when" and keep known-good older copies.

Since this old article has been bumped/reposted, I'll repost my key points:

1) Considering PPPoE defaults to 1492, a default of 1400 makes sense. Setting it to 1500 in this instance would cause worse performance due to fragmentation.

2) Required reading: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2224654/cisco-subnet/mtu-size-issues.html

3) So you crank this to 1500 and MAYBE get better performance on YOUR network, but then you take your Switch elsewhere and an MTU of 1500 causes network performance to tank.

There are VERY good reasons this is set to 1400. Don't mess with settings you don't understand. Reading this NL article isn't "understanding"... it's deceiving.

People should be taking Nintendo to court for violating the USB-C PD specification.

https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/2CUPZ5yVTRT

Admittedly, I did install the Homebrew Channel on my Wii at one point. But I'm being 100% honest that it was never about piracy. I wanted to do things like backup ALL of my savegames (Nintendo had a stupid rule that you couldn't back up to SD any savegames from games that had online play), and to play around with the random, quirky, cool and useful homebrew apps people came up with. I had a lot of fun with it.

Point being: homebrew and hacking has legit purposes, and not everyone is interested in piracy. A lot of you all are way too knee-jerk with your attitudes towards this.

While not Nintendo-branded, I've only been using popular, known name-brand USB-C chargers and USB-C cables with my Switch and luckily I've been ok. I guess I can rest easy.

Glad we're getting a Switch version at all, but the hottest gaming platform for over a year should be this token afterthought which gets last place in prioritizing. There's no excuse for this.

Too expensive. Buy physical games whenever possible. Support the used/resale game market and also lets you loan to friends/family.

Over a year later, we should be finally getting savegame backups. With a x.0 firmware release, it would suggest something massive in the updates which should definitely include savegame backups. So, it's almost guaranteed this won't have savegame backups... because Nintendo.

#SaveOurSaves

Physical or no sale. Everyone make sure you email Capcom re: physical and on Twitter

I care far more about savegame backups than any of his wishlist items. #SaveOurSaves

You know, if any other person had shown you Labo before Nintendo did, it'd be on this list...

There's no way this should've taken 4-5 people a year to make. It's very disheartening when I think of the other things we desperately need on the Switch and are overdue, and would be more complicated than a "news channel" (while realistically not really being "complicated")

@Thermoclorn I'm all physical too (whenever possible), but these huge patches, including day-1 patches, are going to kill me. I have a 128GB card.

Per account, or per console?

If it's not per console, we're going to have issues.

There's a big difference between owning a 4K TV, and sitting close enough to perceive the difference between 1080P and 4K. Most games aren't even using full 1080P and y'all often cry how a Switch/PS3/Xbone game that is just 900P or 720P is "perfectly acceptable". Wake me up when all games are 1080P then maybe I'll start caring that Nintendo isn't doing 4K.

So yeah, I'm cool with Nintendo not chasing the 4K gimmick. They're not trying to get everyone to replace their perfectly-fine 1080P TV like the TV manufacturers are... guess who's championing 4K? 3D, curved screens, 4K... it's all been pushed for the same reason.

Plex, please. Y'all might be ok with the fickle beast that is Netflix but they get rid of more movies and shows each month that you care about than they add, so we use Plex where once we add something it stays. Used DVDs and blu-rays are cheap.

@DanteSolablood They can encrypt them. Simple. The restrictions I'm referring to was the nonsensical inability to back up savegames for any game with online play.

Crazy unfounded speculative thoughts pulled out of one's posterior, masking as "news"? Sure, why not.

1) Savegame backups to SD without any boneheaded restrictions like we had on the Wii
2) Cloud save backups (different than #1), perhaps tied into the online service
3) Folders
4) Better eShop interface allowing for better/easier discovery and searching
5) More non-game app services besides Hulu (Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime video, Plex)
6) Bluetooth headset support
7) Some of that "Nintendo charm" added into the OS UI. All the little fun touches that made the Wii and Wii U UI special and enjoyable. The background music for each section. The quirky fun channels that provided all sorts of simple engagement outside of the games themselves. I really miss that.

I installed the homebrew launcher on my Wii. Number of games I used it to pirate? Zero. What I DID use it for: a number of useful, legit and interesting things, such as being able to make full backups of ALL of my savegames (vs. just the limited subset that Nintendo wanted to allow us to back up to SD).

Those of you SJWs who yell "homebrew equals PIRACY and is EVIL" are utterly clueless and totally missing the boat. If you don't understand what homebrew really is, please STFU. Seriously.

It's not like it really got a physical release in the USA anyway, since RE2 was a download. What a BS scam. I don't even want to give Capcom my money at this point.

@FinalFrog Time to brush up on your networking:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2224654/cisco-subnet/mtu-size-issues.html

Basically, MTU is a case of people needing to not fiddle with knobs and buttons they don't understand.

Considering PPPoE defaults to 1492, a default of 1400 makes sense. Setting it to 1500 in this instance would cause worse performance due to fragmentation.

@electrolite77 The same game this article is about? FIFA 18

Sort of defeats a big reason to go digital. FU, Rockstar. How about not putting a game on the cartridge until you've actually finished it?

I buy cartridges to relieve the need for internal storage. Not because I want some sort of physical DRM key while still having to download the full game.

A junk version of a game with limited appear to begin with, that then has savegames that are almost the size of the entirety of Super Mario Odyssey? Gee, I wonder why sales suck.

EA are idiotic, incompetent and are just trying to divert blame.

This is interesting and I fully support it for all of those who care about it. Unfortunately it's of no use to me as we sit way too far from the TV to deal with wired controllers. The wireless Switch Pro controllers are expensive, but SO nice.

Does the fact that a mere SAVEGAME is almost as big as the ENTIRETY of Super Mario Odyssey count as a "major issue"? Because that's ridiculous, inexcusable and intolerable.