The Nintendo Switch

in my industry ppl talk about using it to do remote repairs + shit

im not about to stumble blindly through my living room swinging my hands around, so why does that seem to be like the UX that all these vr games have?

Drunkey Kong

ya its funny the vr ppl assume ppl want to actually move around, seem p obvs to me that if it ever succeeds players will still be sitting on their couches holding controllers

...with their doors locked

my idea for the VR hackathon at work was to create a fake "calibration" app whose purpose was to make the user look as ridiculous as possible to onlookers by having them do stupid shit to "calibrate" the headset. no one wanted to work on that with me

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/iBrpj61.jpg

yeah my brother got one of these and it was like 5 minutes of setting up 'boundaries' and what not, the whole duck n' weave aspect is neat but I don't see how video games + exercise is gonna beat plain ol' video games

plus I'm pretty sure people are gonna get seriously injured thanks to these things. someone's gonna hit a well and fall awkwardly since they have no semblance of where they are. or step on a child or a dog or something. god forbid.

does seem like there would be some cool applications in arcade-style settings though. already hearing talk of roller coasters using these which seems absolutely terrifying, but also great. that said I also have been hearing about VR conventions where everyone ends up with pink eye, so lol

have a library of all the popular games of past generations available on the new consoles, whether via backward compatibility or the ability to download new copies of existing titles you owned on old consoles. if people want to create technically uncomplicated side-scrollers reminiscent of mario or classic mega man, encourage them. the opening up of consoles to have online markets that are similar to steam has led to a bunch of games that are retro-seeming but also very innovative

― mh 😏, Friday, January 13, 2017 10:34 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is approx what I had in mind, have a library in perpetuity, sell console hardware that maintains the same architecture and hardware features Forever, charge people $X to play online, every 1p Nintendo game that doesn't require special hardware available forever on one platform, make their money off Amiibo margins, don't play the Console Generation game against Xbox and Playstation

slightly torn on Switch but leaning no, or waiting until the holiday season.
as said above Mario and Zelda look great but do I want to pay $300+60+60 for 2 games
not to mention the accessories/extra controllers you need (def would get a Pro controller, another $70-80)
and Scorpio comes out in the winter. never got an XB1 so that's tempting (plus backwards compat on that one i think?)

yeah basically, the gap between this console gen and the previous has never felt justified in terms of advancing tech, and the fidelity of TV images is probably exceeding the capacity of human eyes to process that shit anyway

DoA

― self-clowning cozen of ILX (cozen), Friday, January 13, 2017 8:58 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the killer app for VR is concerts/sporting events.

"Blown away by visuals" is at best orthogonal to "enjoying playing this game", though.

the mario preview just makes me think of sonic adventure

hahaha as soon I read that the song from SA2 started up in my head

GOTTA FOLLOW THAT RAINBOW!!!

shit man that was like 16 years ago, the last time I really cared about video games

https://twitter.com/williefitz/status/819788898180087814

lol

Was trying to think about what the hardware team is doing now. Normally I'd assume they devote time to finishing up the next DS thing, but then I realized they just did that.

So what's the next Nintendo portable: a little all-in-one Switch with better battery life?

oh i'm sure, especially as components get cheaper they'll keep making new ones. hell DS/3DS got how many different versions? felt like one almost every year

They just sort of made the new portable, is my point. The product lines have converged.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohfFmccsVpGkoIwZq/giphy.gif

this looks sick.

if they aren't making games for a separate portable console then that is good news! it would double the software available on Nintendo machines! all those remasters and cool things like Zelda a Link Between Worlds that came out on 3ds can now be produced for this HD console/portable hybrid.

are they really gonna kill the 3DS? i thought that was successful

now i can't stop thinking about combining the game mechanics of mario 64 and tony hawk's pro skater

3DS is super successful. it did come out 6 years ago tho!

i wonder how far they will go with the tablet functionality. it uses the same kind of touch screen as iPhone, so maybe you will be able to play your iPhone games and apps over your Switch? is Apple close at all with Sony or Microsoft? lol wait forget i asked about Microsoft.

Switch uses a capacitive touchscreen - like a modern phone, allowing for gliding motions and light touch - whereas the Wii U had a resistive, pressure-sensitive touchscreen, requiring the use of a stylus. this is a good sign.

this system will always be the Nintendo NX to me

I didn't say kill the goddamn 3DS you infuriating morons

I just meant if you're the chief of new hardware design at Nintendo, are you working on a new handheld cartridge-based console right now? Not likely, you just made one!

Karl Malone
Posted: January 13, 2017 at 9:23:31 PM
this system will always be the Nintendo NX to me

the bookmark

what has been made cannot be unmade

was has been booked must always be marked

993 01:29:57,100 --> 01:29:58,767 Has the bookmark been destroyed?
994 01:30:13,241 --> 01:30:14,282 Negative.
995 01:30:16,994 --> 01:30:18,829 the mark remains.
996 01:30:21,541 --> 01:30:24,876 I repeat, the mark remains.
997 01:30:29,257 --> 01:30:31,258 Call the other planes back back.
998 01:30:31,342 --> 01:30:34,469 The others might have more luck. We shouldn't give up!
999 01:30:34,554 --> 01:30:36,596 I said call them back!
1000 01:30:39,434 --> 01:30:41,601 -Abort. -Abort mission.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohfFIJ9M9XCUkE6Na/giphy.gif

mario makes that look really easy but what he's doing there is actually really hard to pull off

I'm extremely impressed by the hardware but they really should have shown us more games considering the Wii U drought. Just show me two seconds of a Kirby thing at least.

Mario is the greatest parkourer in the world.

Kept expecting him to stick a goomba with a hidden wristblade.

Traceur. Or parkourist.

And you could not convince me that the sport wasn't inspired by 2D platformers of which SMB is the undisputed granddaddy so your statement is entirely true

the hardware seems to be reviewing very well, the rumble in particular which I was v sceptical about

man, ever see a 120 star super mario 64 speedrun? that shit is parkour out the wazoo

The TAS even more so, balletic even.

full mario trailer, looks pretty bonkers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlqIGmiNV1U&t=78s

unfortunately this isn't coming until the end of the year. zelda and some of the other games don't look quite as exciting

here's the link if that version doesn't work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlqIGmiNV1U&t=78s

ughh.... sorry everyone

mario youtube link

plus I'm pretty sure people are gonna get seriously injured thanks to these things. someone's gonna hit a well and fall awkwardly since they have no semblance of where they are. or step on a child or a dog or something. god forbid.

― frogbs, Friday, 13 January 2017 19:23

This sounds like a scary possibility. I bet Nintendo would be reluctant to go the VR route for these reasons.

I've seen clips of a Switch game that looks like a Japanese historical fantasy thing, anyone know what it is?

I'm surprised by the high prices. When the console was announced they were saying it was created mainly for the Chinese market whose gamers mostly can't afford regular consoles. So they could dominate the Chinese market. Didn't they also make out it wasn't supposed to be considered their next big console? Maybe they ditched all these plans?

Really don't like the look of Mario in a realistic city with regular shaped people. Booooo.

Mario Galaxy 2 was amazing.

Mario in a city does look a bit Sonic Adventure. But other than that, the game looks great.

Japanese historical game is either Romance of 3 Kingdoms or Nobunaga's Ambition, both out on Japanese launch with no western dates yet.

But no regions!

I just realized I might be able to get a Super Robot Wars title on this thing that's worth playing. Please?

...

Alternatively, the lack of region lock might mean very little 3rd party IP wherever international rights are messy.