The Nintendo Switch

Some neat looking games coming out lately, like Don't Starve and Little Nightmares, but the prices seem waaaay too high. The former is $20, but the latter is $30. Again, could better be justified if they weren't significantly more than the same product on other systems (unless I am missing something?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDG_siAbPQE

Kept waiting for "Last Resort" to pop up, dark music, and one guy eating the others in the wilderness.

Ok I went out and bought Hyrule Warriors, have never played a musou before, this game is like delicious button-pressing popcorn.

musou games can be confusing until you figure out that they're really just RTSes where you play as a single unit rather than as the hand of god

What is this weirdness with Resident Evil 7 coming to Switch ... as a Japan-only streaming title?

An experiment, presumably.

Anybody else pick up the Korg Gadget? It's been criticized for missing some features (it does suck that there's no built-in way to export audio) but it's a fun little collection of virtual synths/musical scratch pad.

I paid for it on iPad so haven't seen a good reason to buy it again. It's pretty cool, but kinda stuck between a diversion and something actually useful for making music.

Is there any gameplay or other difference between buying the cartridges and the download codes for Zelda and Mario Odyssey? The cartridges seem out of stock everywhere and I may have access to the system this weekend.

no difference other than you need enough space for the digital download. the system's internal storage should hold those 2 games though if it's not already been filled by other things

(or you can put em on a microSD card if you have one of those)

Thanks cider

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/bloodstained-curse-of-the-moon-switch

can't believe this is coming out tomorrow!

Excited! Kicked in to the kickstarter to get it.

I tried playing Death Road to Canada with one of my kids. It was fun and clever and silly, but I've got to say, getting kids to appreciate retro 8-bit style games is as uphill a battle as making them sit down and watch a hyper stylized, intentionally stilted academy ratio B&W drama.

I'm actually sort of getting bummed with my Switch. I was so excited at the start, but I'm quickly getting sick of delays, or things coming to the Switch late and/or last, or massive cuts in quality to even get stuff to run on the Switch in the first place. And then when a title finally comes to the Switch it's often significantly more expensive than it costs on other consoles. I dunno, just frustrated. I sort of was thinking of my kids when I got the Switch, but I see all these neat looking titles on, say, Playstation and feel a little disappointed, esp. when hyped upcoming Nintendo titles are things that just don't interest me (like Mario Tennis, or Pokemon). The Dark Souls delay hurt most, because I was so excited to finally play that and now ... it's awol.

If you are mostly interested in brand new 3rd party titles the Switch is not the place for you. Plenty of indie titles are gonna be day-date on the Switch as time goes on; sorry the stuff you were jazzed for is taking a long time.

Anyway I have been playing Hyrule Warriors and I got to admit there’s some fun challenge in the time management and running all over the battlefield to rescue your dipshit captains and I’m not really an action game person so even pulling off the “hit B five times” combos is pleasant.

kinda in a holding pattern right now (really only toad and tennis on the horizon and they're both hardly system shifters.)

holding out for a solid E3 (metroid? next zelda tease? pikmin? a.n.other?) but don't underestimate the propensity of nintendo for fucking it completely

third parties will come on stream into Q1 2019 I'd expect, now they've seen that the system is doing numbers

It's not just brand new titles is the thing! Take Doom, for example. The game is a year and a half old, and it is currently available for Playstation and Xbox for less than half the cost of the Switch version, while the intentionally downgraded Switch version (which I am still enjoying) is riddled with slowdowns and stuff. Or, yeah, Dark Souls, which is 7 years old. Or Hollow Knight, a year old, or lots of other games that are trickling down to the Switch that have been on every platform from Xbox to iPad (which is the case with many of the indies, many of which for that matter are just retro 8-bit wonders).

Don't get me wrong, I'm getting my money's worth with stuff I have, and I still haven't started Mario Odyssey or Zelda (!). But I stand by my assessment that calendar year 2018 has been pretty lame, and there are as yet no heavy hitter confirmed release dates to look forward to. I guess Wolfenstein, assuming no delays and that it actually works on release?

"intentionally downgraded". the switch must have half the power of the PS4 no?

I agree 2018 has been a total wash out so far (barring what? celeste? which is multiplatform anyway)

I still haven't started Mario Odyssey or Zelda (!)

get these played you absolute mad man

Ha it is pretty silly to be disappointed with the switch if you haven't touched the 2 best games ever (not just best on switch). I do agree I want more big games on that calendar though.

yeah third party support will happen with time. game dev cycles are much longer than the year and change the console has been out, and wii u being a big flop meant that all the third parties were taking a wait and see approach and have to play catch up now.

and in the meantime, we get to enjoy ports of 5 year old games at full price 😶

octopath traveler is a pretty substantial 3rd party exclusive on the way, as was Mario & rabbids. it's not like there's zero support. E3 is in a few weeks.

$60 is a pretty fair price for a lot of video games, imo. The “I can’t believe I’m paying full price for a late port” thing just doesn’t make sense to me.

Anyway go play Zelda Josh what the hell are you waiting for

in unrelated news there's a demo of sushi striker up on the eshop today, been hearing good things about it

My daughter is playing it right now, and I'm in the middle of a couple of other things. But titles like Mario and Zelda, they are totally familiar to me. I mean, I love them, but I get it even before I start playing them. Honestly, Nintendo exclusive titles like that are why I have a Nintendo. However, stuff like Doom, that was totally novel to me. I've never played a game like that before. And when all these other games like God of War or whatever come out for other platforms, I watch a few clips and think, boy, they look really cool!

Speaking of power, why is Nintendo obsessed with releasing underpowered consoles?

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$60 may indeed be a fair price for a title. But when it is $60 only on the Switch, and $20 everywhere else, that's sort of bullshit. I appreciate the fact that the Dark Souls remaster, whenever it comes out for Switch, is priced the same across the consoles.

uh you don't know this Zelda though

best game ever seriously

They make more money releasing “underpowered” consoles. They tried releasing a console with competitive processing power with the GameCube, and it was not a smashing success. They have not tried to compete on specs ever since. The AAA console experience is on PlayStation and Xbox now and that’s where it’s likely to stay. Nintendo doesn’t need those customers to be successful.

yeah I've played almost all the zeldas, but this one is unlike any other

the switch isn't underpowered for a console that can run off a battery, it's actually quite impressive. i think people will be surprised at the quality of graphics it can push once devs have had more time with it. im expecting metroid prime 4 to get some 'wait, the switch can do that?' reactions when we finally see it.

oh yeah, I forgot octopath. I'll play that

Honestly, another reason I didn't start Zelda is because I was expecting to start Dark Souls. But I guess with Dark Souls off the table for who knows how long, maybe it's time for Zelda.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17383104/nintendo-switch-dockless-bundle-japan-price

^ Pokémon is coming

I'm actually sort of getting bummed with my Switch

I still haven't started Mario Odyssey or Zelda

i think we've found your problem

I am very late to rocket league, but I don't know if I'll ever get tired of it. I might throw my switch against a wall, though.

I bought my Switch about five months ago, have pretty much only played Zelda the entire time, and am very, very happy.

I got Odyssey in February, played it a couple times, it's nice, but Zelda keeps wanting to be played, and I'm still loving it.

Another reason I haven't played Mario or Zelda yet is that I know they are awesome, but right now, if I played them, I've got nothing waiting in the wings ...

bite the bullet and buy a ps4 my man

I got the new Zelda on preorder but haven't had time to spend with it until this week

it's fucking amazing and I know of nothing of ps4 that compares

Josh I don't think you realize how much time both of those games can take... doesn't matter much what's waiting in the wings when you're living in the Zelda universe or collecting endless moons.

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

Miss those days

such artless terms of abuse

I'd buy a pretendo 69

“microdumbsoft xterriblebox”