The Nintendo Switch

oooh! i'm trying that.

If you don't want to deal with 3D printing this guys sells them for pretty cheap on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/518147574/xbox-comfort-grips-for-nintendo-switch?ref=bestselling_by_query-1

my local library has a printer that's seldom used, so i'm taking advantage

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/10/30/korg-gadget-for-nintendo-switch-sneak-preview/

!!!

awesome

WANT

oh christ

YES

best console ever confirmed

yet another reason to skip the switch version of la noire

The download version of LA Noire on Switch doesn't fit on a Switch, which means you have to buy a microSD card to play it.

Meanwhile, you can't play LA Noire's Nintendo Switch game cartridge until you've also downloaded a 14GB digital download file.
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This file is "required", and contains gameplay data as well as the normal day-one patch fixes, developer Rockstar has revealed.

So how about the digital version? It weighs in at 29GB, which is huge for a Nintendo Switch game. It's so big, in fact, you need to buy a separate microSD card to install it on.

you should get a microSD card anyway if you plan to buy eShop games at all, the switch has very little internal storage. but yeah 3rd party publishers refusing to use a cart big enough to hold the game when they can just put half the game on and make you download the rest is going to be a thing to watch out for, there's already a few games that do it.

inclined 2 say that any piece of storage media approaches perfection the less of l.a. noire is on it

DOOM is out on friday - loved it on ps4, can't resist having it handheld

really loving this console. i went on a few plane rides last week and it was so nice to have. got to say at first i was skeptical of the controllers but i freakin' LOVE them now. until now i have only used an old Playstation controller. feels so good to be free of that huge brick and have these tiny, light controllers that you can just dangle off the wrists when you are chilling.

on the minus side between Mario + Zelda downloads i am almost out of space. i guess my next game will be a physical cart....

if you want to go digital just get a 128gb microsd card and you can fit a bunch of games

consoles coming with not even 128gb of storage is pretty bogus when u think abt it

Just had a flashback to buying 1MB ps1 memory cards for $15

I am in a wal-mart...

“I am going to buy 1000 1MB memory cards for $15,000 so I never have to worry about storage again!”

lol

I am in a wal-mart...

>buy memory card

Bought.

i'm guessing people put around 50-150+ hours into Zelda, depending on their completionist tendencies. what about mario? 20 to 30 hours?

these days i probably spend more time reading about video games then actually playing them. Nier Automata has been my main game for several weeks now, and i'm only 15 hours in (it rules btw). so if i play about 15 hours a month, i could maybe get by with nothing but mario and zelda for an entire year (180 hours). so if the switch + mario and zelda costs about $420 all together, i'm basically paying about $2.33 per hour of switch gameplay in that year. would i pay $2.33 right now to play zelda for an hour? yes i would. so what i'm saying is, economically, i basically HAVE to buy a switch and mario and zelda for myself this christmas.

$420

#blazeit

You don't have it/them? Yeah get them. Don't overthink it.

ill buy a memory card for sure but may not get another AAA game for a while (might check out some indie stuff like Stardew Valley tho). 128GB card is not very pricey and should hold a sizable games library.

Mario + Zelda is such a great pair of games to start a console with. Zelda is such a vast, deep, endless world to explore. Mario is no less explorable but in much more bite-sized chunks. these two games alone will keep me entertained for months maybe a year. eventually a new Metroid, Zelda, and/or Mario will come out, and this will be the only place to play them.

Mario takes under 15 hours to “beat Bowser” but almost certainly takes four+ times as long to “do everything”. In Zelda there’s not even really an “everything” that you can do. You could get every Korok seed (a fool’s errand) but more fun would be whomping on bad guys and collecting to upgrade all your gear and get maximum loving from the Great Fairies

Stardew Valley is an incredible bargain. Video games are underpriced.

mario and zelda have entirely justified my switch purchase. Golf story and Stardew and other lil oddball demos are icing. Wanna try Rabbids!

are there free demos on the eshop?

i bought one of these. first time i have ever owned a current nintendo system

Video games are underpriced.

― .oO (silby), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:46 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Video game prices have remained the same since at least the 90s, which means they're cheaper than ever!

I think we are very close to buying a switch. Wish us luck!

Video games are underpriced.

― .oO (silby), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:46 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Video game prices have remained the same since at least the 90s, which means they're cheaper than ever!

― Evan, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 9:57 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

about 10 years ago i was looking in my parents' loft and found some of my old NES games. Games from 1991 or thereabouts priced at 49.99 pounds. aka over 100 pounds in present day money considering inflation

there are free demos on the eshop. search for 0.00 to 9.99 on the price options.

Exactly

xp

manufacturing cartridges was expensive

Like Silby said, you can whisk through the Mario storyline very quick if you want (15-20 hours or less) but yeah, the non- and post-story content is something like 75% of the game, it's nuts.

Mario is really good. Zelda is... I can't praise that game enough. Easily worth buying the Switch for alone.

there was a Nintendo Direct for XC2 today, looks good to me but i have extremely high anime tolerance

Zelda is a goddamn masterpiece.

Anyone buying NTDOY?

(The Nintendo stock)

they've had a unprecedentedly good year for sure but the 2018 release schedule is still a giant question mark

still got kirby / yoshi / starfox to look forward to from nintendo next year right?

haven't heard anything about a starfox game, did they tease something? I like the Yoshi games but Yoshi and Kirby are distinctly part of the B team, and we don't have titles or release dates or anything yet

There’s been no hint of starfox. Kirby Star Allies has been announced for Spring and Yoshi for 2018. We’ll probably hear about more in a Direct in December or January. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on 12/1 is currently the last first party title with a release date I think.

hmm, i thought there was a starfox announcement but i guess not - wonder if the tepid reception of starfox on the wii u might have had an impact on any potential switch game

just remembered they did announce a new metroid prime tho, but i suspect it'll not be out next year

No way is Metroid Prime 4 next year. Pokémon is possible for holiday, they surely want it out then, but I’d be sorta surprised if it happened. Smash Bros. seems like a possibility, especially since they could probably get away with basically an enhanced port of the Wii U version. But yeah for the most part it’s just we don’t know and won’t know until they tell us.

Mario Kart for Switch is essentially a port from Wii-U, right? I'd be down with that for other titles. Given the disappointing sales of the Wii-U I can only assume plenty of people missed some stuff the first time around.