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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 January 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
this system will always be the Nintendo NX to me
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 January 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link
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!
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 14 January 2017 04:25 (seven years ago) link
Karl MalonePosted: January 13, 2017 at 9:23:31 PMthis system will always be the Nintendo NX to me
the bookmark
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 January 2017 04:29 (seven years ago) link
what has been made cannot be unmade
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 January 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
was has been booked must always be marked
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 January 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 January 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohfFIJ9M9XCUkE6Na/giphy.gif
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 January 2017 05:16 (seven years ago) link
mario makes that look really easy but what he's doing there is actually really hard to pull off
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 January 2017 05:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 14 January 2017 05:53 (seven years ago) link
Mario is the greatest parkourer in the world.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 January 2017 10:22 (seven years ago) link
Kept expecting him to stick a goomba with a hidden wristblade.
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Saturday, 14 January 2017 10:41 (seven years ago) link
Traceur. Or parkourist.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 14 January 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link
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 beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 14 January 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
the hardware seems to be reviewing very well, the rumble in particular which I was v sceptical about
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 14 January 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
man, ever see a 120 star super mario 64 speedrun? that shit is parkour out the wazoo
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 14 January 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
The TAS even more so, balletic even.
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 14 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
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
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Saturday, 14 January 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
here's the link if that version doesn't work:
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Saturday, 14 January 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 January 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Really don't like the look of Mario in a realistic city with regular shaped people. Booooo.
Mario Galaxy 2 was amazing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
Mario in a city does look a bit Sonic Adventure. But other than that, the game looks great.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Japanese historical game is either Romance of 3 Kingdoms or Nobunaga's Ambition, both out on Japanese launch with no western dates yet.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
i like Mario in the real world. in 10 years they will have a holographic AR Mario who does parkour around your house, this is the first step.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Reminds me too much of Grand Theft Auto.
When the talk was on the Chinese market I saw the Chinese gaming censorship rules and I can't remember them but it was a little worrying that all sorts of developers might change their games to fall within the rules. It's not just sex and violence, it had a lot of implications. Maybe it's over-paranoid to say there might be no more super-camp characters in Zelda.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
have you seen the new trailer for BOTW? some very campy looking characters briefly shown in that.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 January 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
wtf am i reading this right? Nintendo Switch's bundled Joy-Con grip doesn't charge controllers
you need to spend an extra £28 to play the switch on your tv and charge your controller at the same time?
― hunk of poo, big fart, girlfriend, and Dove soap (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 16 January 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
although i guess i shouldn't be that surprised since nintendo stopped bundling any kind of charger at all with the 3ds a few years ago
so if you buy a switch, an extra joycon and for the sake of economy just one charging grip you'll be spending the better part of £400 before even buying a game to play on it
yikes
― hunk of poo, big fart, girlfriend, and Dove soap (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 16 January 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
I'd be stunned if the Mario game wound up anything short of incredible
― frogbs, Monday, 16 January 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
it's nintendo, of course it's going to be great
― hunk of poo, big fart, girlfriend, and Dove soap (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 16 January 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
for the record I thought the "Sonic in the city" bits of SA were the best parts of the game. would be nice to see something really expansive again - while I do like it when games guide you a bit to prevent you from getting lost, Galaxy sort of forced it a bit; most of the game was "do this, then go here, then do this", almost no wide open spaces like what Sunshine had. not that Galaxy wasn't excellent though
― frogbs, Monday, 16 January 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
gritty open world mario reboot imo
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 January 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
and bullet time
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 January 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
the joycons seem painfully small to use, at least when they're in the split-off mode where you "share the joy" (lol) with someone
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 January 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
here, share the joy of using a gamepad with a joystick 6 mm away from the A button.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 January 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
ya thought the same
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 January 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
the first 3rd party controller has been announced!
http://i.imgur.com/FOcL1Lo.jpg
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 January 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
i wish the saitek p990 was still in production and that every game console was required to use it
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 January 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
InterAct HammerHead FX 4 LYFE, hatrz
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Monday, 16 January 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link
new idea for NX controller: the buttons are so close together that you must use "JoyPicks" - 10 mm long, 1mm thick steel rods - to "play" the joycon like a drum. for only $29 more per joyPick, add a motion-sensitive joybubble camera to the back and share the experience with your nintendo friends in the MiiVerse!!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 January 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
You're being funny, but the Switch XL is coming out in Q4
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
there would probably be nothing stopping them from releasing an updated "tablet" in a few years that can use the same cradle and joycon etc, aside from, you know, being nintendo and making you buy everything over again.
― just another (diamonddave85), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
xpost
yeah, and nintendo is really no worse with all the optional/mandatory purchases than sony or microsoft. i remember feeling unbelievably lucky when i somehow got my dad to buy a playstation 1 for me for christmas back when it came out and was crazy expensive. and then the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, soon afterward, when i realized i had to ask him for $20 to go buy a memory card so i could save the fucking game
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 January 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Do I remember right that the original X-Box controllers were hilariously large?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 January 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
yes you do
― just another (diamonddave85), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
the cynical part of me thinks they totally did that on purpose
― frogbs, Monday, 16 January 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
it's totally hilarious that Nintendo is releasing two separate, highly touted, nationwide campaign-abetted, national news-dominating video game systems within the span four months; and no normal person can possibly buy either of them
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 19 January 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link