The Nintendo Switch

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.

i'd kill for switch ports of both mario galaxy games

Also coming next year is the paid online service which is going to come with some sort of rotating classic game access, so possibly more announcements on the back catalog strategy in general

Were the Wii-U Galaxy games themselves fancier ports of the Wii Galaxy games?

both Galaxy games were on Wii, Wii u was just back compatible.

there weren't wii u versions of the galaxy games - i just want handheld versions of them on the switch!

super mario 3d world on the wii u was great tho, i'd happily take a switch port of that too

basically i just want every nintendo game ever easily-available on the switch, nintendo pls don't fuck this up the way you usually do

god i had a good time playing starfox in 1994

basically i just want every nintendo game ever easily-available on the switch, nintendo pls don't fuck this up the way you usually do

― with your tight body and horrific androgynous monster face (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:51 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The thing is I am pretty sure the enshrined prime directive of Nintendo's global strategy is "protect the average selling price of Nintendo games as long as possible", like the Disney vault but it's a century+ old Japanese company. There will never be a way to easily and cheaply acquire every Nintendo game ever for whatever the current platform is. Super Mario Bros. costs $4.99 on the Wii U/3DS virtual consoles and I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo is trying to figure out a way to get more than $5 for it on the Switch's virtual console equivalent

yeah, no doubt - i've bought super mario world at least four times from nintendo (snes, wii, wii u, 3ds) and i'm sure i'll send up buying it again for the switch

fuckin' nintendo and their stupid peerless back catalogue of exceptional videogames :(

apropos of nothing, I want to see a new art style for the next 2D Mario, the NSMB aesthetic is kinda tired

it’s going to be interesting to see how they try to persuade people to pay for the online service. The only thing that would really get me would be access to a netflix style VC service (which was vaguely hinted at some point I think?). A gamecube VC would be awesome as I haven‘t played most of those games, Sunshine can’t really be that bad, right?!?

they've confirmed the online service will come with a (rotating?) selection of old games

nintendo has yet to do a subscription service a'la PS+ and XBOX Gold, right?
I know their strategy has always been to sell them at unreasonable per-game prices but I for one would pay ten dollars a month for a rotated curated back catalog of NES/SNES/64/gamecube/wii games on the switch. i gotta figure at least half the install base would do the same... so figure about 4 million customers pumping 10 bucks a month into the Nintendo coffers? That's a half-billion dollar a year market if they just get their shit together.
lol xp well there you go

they shd put all the games in the cloud

https://i.imgur.com/SHKFO0Q.png

They’ve announced the price of the online service as $20 a year

well that's a no-brainer

charge me more! give me more content!

otm

i'd kill for switch ports of both mario galaxy games

― with your tight body and horrific androgynous monster face (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:45 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They really ought to release those Wii-U "HD" versions for Switch, too. I want to play Wind Waker...

too bad they got rid of miiverse, the coolest addition in HD wind waker was you could put miiverse messages in bottles and they'd wash up somewhere in someone else's game

oh god i think i might need a stardew valley intervention

new stardew patch idea:

a terrible disaster strikes your farm and the village. 90% of the game economy is destroyed for 3 days - shops are either closed, destroyed, or only stock an item or two, items on the ground are hard to find, and you desperately need heavy equipment to repair your farm. additionally, you are now very sick or injured and need a doctor with very specialized expertise. there is only one person in the village with access to heavy equipment, and she died in the disaster. her two children are separately vying to become the owner of the lucrative family business, and won't rent out the equipment until a pending lawsuit is resolved. but the judge also died, etc

would play

oh, i meant to mention - the game's economy only very slowly ramps back up to 100%. it takes several game years. and during that time there is a greater than 50% chance that another terrible disaster will strike. the disasters are occurring more frequently, and it's all because of the crops that you're choosing to grow. the only way to fix everything is to quit the game and uninstall it. the patch adds a man who wakes you up every morning by telling you to quit the game and uninstall it and save the village.

I think the PC version can be modded, KM

Pretty certain that's Alundra.

not sure "uninstall the village" is a great message for this allegory

it's an intervention patch for bizarro. in the future, every patch is optimized for individual consumers

Didn't know JojaMart had any locations in Central America

would def play karl’s stardew valley: apocalypse dlc

weirdest announcement for me is the port of skyrim - like there's a sizeable community of hardcore rpg fans who have nonetheless been holding out for nearly six years just for the opportunity to play it on a nintendo machine

― hunk of poo, big fart, girlfriend, and Dove soap (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 January 2017 13:23 (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

downloading skyrim to my switch now fyi

I think Skyrim just costs far too much money on Switch. That said, I’ll almost certainly crumble and buy it, despite already having it on PC. What is this voodoo you do, Nintendo?

this is my first opportunity to own Skyrim, but I dunno.

skyrim is a decent game but i wouldnt pay full price for it in 2017

i have still never played that game, i shamefully admit

i bought it yesterday, for $39, on PS4. i don't know why, but it's still as addictive as all get out

has it been available on a handheld before?

i think there are probably millions of people who no longer have time to sit in front of a television or monitor and play something like skyrim, though they might have half an hour to play a quirky party game with family members in front of a tv, and who have significant dead commuting time in which to get into something like this given they can press one button to shut it down and again to wake it up when they get on or off the train -- i'd say probably about at least 1.5 million of them in japan probably

personally i'm holding out for a dragon quest

yes, when the increasingly-less-evitable DQ installment comes out for Switch I will be a very happy 40-something

I'm stalling on Skyrim because I've hardly dipped a toe into Zelda yet (shame face)

How’s the farm Tombot

after overcoming the immediate, palpable sensation of sweaty, red-faced guilt over your question, I went and crushed the first couple of weeks of Summer; my session last night ended on a sour note, as my sluggish, exhausted avatar made his way to the saloon just before closing time and bought a beer with the intent of getting just enough energy to stumble home. I then failed to notice the old drunk lady was STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO ME when I hit the "drink beer" button, meaning it became the "give gift" button, so she drank the beer instead of me, and the saloon closed up shop before I could buy another one, and ended up fainting on the road to my house.

lol

itt tombot writes a springsteen song