Nintendo Switch

[Smitty]

4 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

It's replacing a £130 handheld and a £250 console with a £280 handheld console combo.

 

You're not getting £250 worth of console there.

[Stanley]

I really don't understand why so many people have such hang-ups over the amount of titles available. Less is more people. 

 

I'd be happy with just Zelda, likely to be one of the best games this year. Then there's Mario Odyssey to look forward to, by the same director who made Mario Galaxy. It's going to be amazing and there will be nothing even approaching it's quality on any other platform. 

 

I'd rinse those two titles alone, and I'd probably get MK8 too. 

 

Anyone getting one moaning about the amount of titles available has too much money, not to mention time.

 

 

[Kevvy Metal]

As great as those three Gamecube Launch titles were - Luigi's Mansion,Super Monkey Ball & Wave Race: Blue Storm - Zelda : Breath of the Wind looks to completely crush all three combined in terms of gameplay, playtime and.. just everything!  

[rgraves]

As I said in the other thread - I could have a Switch with Zelda, Splatoon, Mario, and Xenoblade before the end of the year. That seems pretty decent to me regardless of what else comes along.

[Adrock]

Weren't we referring to launch windows with the other consoles last time round? If that is the switch launch window I'm happy.

 

Zelda, Mario, Splatoon and Mariokart in the first 9 months will do me.

[ridgeracer]

Er, where is Wave Race Switch?

 

 

[Nespresso]

3 minutes ago, Kiwi Cake said:

The launch lineup is small but there's a potentially decent set of games on the system come the end of the first "year".

 

I think I'm on board for this.

The more I see the more I'm like "ah fuck it, it's only money". 

 

Some of these games are looking very exciting and I really need to get my Nintendo fix again. Missed out on too many quality games during the Wii U's cycle. 

[Kiwi Cake]

We're probably all going to die in a nuclear war this year so why not buy a Switch?

 

They should put that on the box.

[pelago]

I like the way the Joy-Con wrist straps slide onto the sides of the controllers, which makes them look a bit more ergonomic. I wonder if you can use just the plastic part and remove the strap?

[the_debaser]

 

4 minutes ago, Kevvy Metal said:

As great as those three Gamecube Launch titles were - Luigi's Mansion,Super Monkey Ball & Wave Race: Blue Storm - Zelda : Breath of the Wind looks to completely crush all three combined in terms of gameplay, playtime and.. just everything!  

 

Maybe. Though monkey ball is a bona fide classic that had people enthralled for months. It's easy to forget that with the passage of time (and rubbish sequels).

[Not Thread Owner]

6 minutes ago, Kiwi Cake said:

 

The launch lineup is small but there's a potentially decent set of games on the system come the end of the first "year".

 

I think I'm on board for this.

 

There's way more than that in the first year. I posted them in the first post, but aside from the launch day stuff:

 

 

(Super BombRman wasn't known to be a launch day title when I made the image)

[Not Thread Owner]

Just now, pelago said:

I like the way the Joy-Con wrist straps slide onto the sides of the controllers, which makes them look a bit more ergonomic. I wonder if you can use just the plastic part and remove the strap?

 

Yes:

 

Spoiler

 

[Kiwi Cake]

Sorry, just stole it from Eurogamer cause I'm well lazy.

 

Even better, then!

[Not Thread Owner]

4 minutes ago, ridgeracer said:

Er, where is Wave Race Switch?

 

 

 

"Please understand"

[Not Thread Owner]

Just now, Kiwi Cake said:

Sorry, just stole it from Eurogamer cause I'm well lazy.

 

Even better, then!

 

Could have been even lazier and read it on the last page instead.

[daifuco]

OMG SNES battle mode

[HarryBizzle]

17 minutes ago, deKay said:

And remember the Game Boy launch in the UK?

 

Alleyway

Super Mario Land

Tetris

 

I don't know why bringing up consoles that launched more than a decade or two ago is somehow relevant. 

 

In other news, the gameboy didn't support voice chat or online play either. We're all spoilt!

 

 

Except now iPads and Playstation 4s exist and this thing has an uphill struggle without only having 5 games to show for itself.

[Professor_k]

PlayStation VR is 350 quid (I bought one and it's great) and Xbox One launched for £400 plus...   If the Switch is a 3DS and a home console replacement the price point is absolutely fine.  What isn't fine is that a peripheral like the PSVR had an absolute truckload of software on launch and the Switch has very little.

 

If Nintendo launch the definitive edition of a new Pokemon game on this they're looking at a lot of sales but in the meantime they have to get some games out.  I've got my "minute one" pre-order in because I've been following the Switch and it suits my needs but I'd hate to see this thing die a death due to a lack of games.  It seems absolutely bizarre that a console that has been in consumer consciousness for over a year and release details held back/delayed doesn't have games like Splatoon and ARMS at launch.

 

Anyway, despite my moaning I'm hyped and can't believe I'll have one in my hands in 7 weeks.  Rad!

[hmm]

41 minutes ago, MikeBeaver said:

All of those apart from BF4 & Black Flag are shit, and Black Flag was on previous gen

 

I really hope you just didn't see Resogun in that list, otherwise there's going to be biiiig trouble.

[Retroid]

Ok I must admit the prospect of bringing back everyone's favorite terrorist and having 2 controllers to play it with portably is pretty cool. I actually think Bomberman may be the secret star of the Switch the more I think about it.

[Thwomp]

Amazon have shit all games up for pre-order. I guess there are none coming out then.

[daifuco]

Just now, HarryBizzle said:

 

Except now iPads and Playstation 4s exist and this thing has an uphill struggle without only having 5 games to show for itself.

 

To be honest the growth of tables and consoles has stopped.

Tablets control are a joke. PS4 are not mobile.

This is the right time to bring something like the Switch imo.

[Alex W.]

1 minute ago, daifuco said:

To be honest the growth of tables and consoles has stopped.

 

Right, and the Switch is competing in both of those areas. And it's a handheld console; the growth of handheld consoles reversed years ago and shows no sign of recovering.

 

However you rate its chances, the Switch is moving into two saturated markets and one imploding one. That's a tough sell. It'll be interesting to see if Nintendo can make sure people understand that this is somehow more than all of those things put together.

[Alex W.]

4 minutes ago, sir shrew said:

Switch Go - A portable tablet that also uses the same joycons and shares the OS / Software library so software/saves and user profiles are interchangeable. Lower spec than the home unit to keep the cost down.

 

I hinted at this earlier, but there's a lot of shit in that box. You've got the console, two Joycons, a Charge Grip, the Dock, two wrist straps, and quite possibly a charger and an HDMI cable. Those accessories will account for a great deal of that £280 price, even the cheap crap. Without lowering the spec or having to manufacture anything new, Nintendo can take all that shit out, sell the console and two Joycons, and probably knock £50 off the RRP.

 

I will be very interested to see what Nintendo is selling at Christmas once they burn through the early adopters who buy this "complete" box.

[HarryBizzle]

@sir shrew That is a bloody terrible idea. The first of those is called the Wii U.

 

If you don't ever care about using this outside you're missing the point and secondly, if you want to play Nintendo games that badly that you're happy to buy an underpowered console that plays nothing but Nintendo games, then £80 isn't going to deter you. 

[Barnard]

23 minutes ago, VN1X said:

The more I see the more I'm like "ah fuck it, it's only money". 

 

Some of these games are looking very exciting and I really need to get my Nintendo fix again. Missed out on too many quality games during the Wii U's cycle. 

 

The 4am presentation blues. I'm glad people are getting out of that funk. 

 

:-P

 

[Alex W.]

The Nintendo official site treats "Joy-Con" as the singular and plural. Can't even.

[Camel]

9 hours ago, DC07 said:

It's no Candy Crush Saga but will have to do.

 

 

 

'Will have to do'?

 

Madness.

[Strafe]

13 minutes ago, sir shrew said:

There should 've been two SKU's.

 

Switch Home - The base console, joycons and pro controller chassis. No screen or battery. Launches first at a sub-£200 price point.

 

Switch Go - A portable tablet that also uses the same joycons and shares the OS / Software library so software/saves and user profiles are interchangeable. Lower spec than the home unit to keep the cost down.

 

Possibility of pairing to use the Go as a second screen for Wii U ports.

 

Switch refers to the transferable software and shared user accounts. Games are scaled to both specifications in the dev stage. Games can be tailor made exclusively for either format. 

 

This way people who want a home console at a competitive price aren't paying shitloads out for a device they won't use outdoors, vice versa and completists can buy both.

 

 

The problem is, only people on video game forums would get it.

 

There wouldn't be an angle, the former just being a low powered console.

[Alex W.]

If shrew really wants what he's describing, Nintendo could just pack in the home console business and sell games on the PS4 with cross-buy to the Vita.