Nintendo Switch Chat thread

Ad7 wrote:Do you know what would be reeaaaaallly great?

A full collection of those Sega ages 3ds arcade and megadrive ports.

OutRun 2 would be better.

Image editing showing the first party for the first year of Wii U versus the first year so far on Switch

The most shocking thing about that image is the November to June gap on the Wii U

Mafro wrote:They’ve confirmed to Eurogamer that it won’t have SnapMap and multiplayer will be an optional free download if you buy the physical copy.

They should apply that model to every version. The multiplayer stuff is utter garbage, yet you need to download massive patches for it.

Lazy Fair wrote:

Mafro wrote:They’ve confirmed to Eurogamer that it won’t have SnapMap and multiplayer will be an optional free download if you buy the physical copy.

They should apply that model to every version. The multiplayer stuff is utter garbage, yet you need to download massive patches for it.

Seems like a good model for other developers looking to port over other games to follow too.

Yeah, I don't see a problem if devastating put the whole single player experience on the carts and have the multiplayer as an optional download. I hardly play multiplayer games so if it saves me having to wait for patches to download and install when they have no bearing on the single player then I'm ok with this


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Interestingly that's how Call of Duty ships on PC, steam considers the multiplayer and single player separate, and you can install and uninstall them as such.

Okay, so we know that NBA 2K18 will require a Micro SD card to store additiona gamel data (circa 24Gb) but it appears that 5Gb of system memory (i.e. the built in memory, of which there is roughly 25 Gb free on a new system) will be needed for each save file . That really is quite a chunk, especially when you consider that all Switch games can only save data in the system memory... and that there is no way to backup or transfer that data.

It feels like this could grow to become quite an issue as bigger third party games launch and people own more games.

jawafour wrote:Okay, so we know that NBA 2K18 will require a Micro SD card to store additiona gamel data (circa 24Gb) but it appears that 5Gb of system memory (i.e. the built in memory, of which there is roughly 25 Gb free on a new system) will be needed for each save file . That really is quite a chunk, especially when you consider that all Switch games can only save data in the system memory... and that there is no way to backup or transfer that data.

It feels like this could grow to become quite an issue as bigger third party games launch and people own more games.

Might give Nintendo a kick up the arse to sort out it's save file location problem and being able to back up saves.

ITSMILNER wrote:Image editing showing the first party for the first year of Wii U versus the first year so far on Switch

Bloody hell, I had Pikmin 3 in my head as an already late June but it was even further after that! They really did improve tenfold with Switch's release schedule

Jazzem wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Image editing showing the first party for the first year of Wii U versus the first year so far on Switch

Bloody hell, I had Pikmin 3 in my head as an already later June but it was even further after that! They really did improve tenfold with Switch's release schedule

The whole "launch window" bullshit with WiiU was a joke.

jawafour wrote:Okay, so we know that NBA 2K18 will require a Micro SD card to store additiona gamel data (circa 24Gb) but it appears that 5Gb of system memory (i.e. the built in memory, of which there is roughly 25 Gb free on a new system) will be needed for each save file . That really is quite a chunk, especially when you consider that all Switch games can only save data in the system memory... and that there is no way to backup or transfer that data.

It feels like this could grow to become quite an issue as bigger third party games launch and people own more games.

wtaf is in a save file in this game

Not just your save file, presumably

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

Jazzem wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Image editing showing the first party for the first year of Wii U versus the first year so far on Switch

Bloody hell, I had Pikmin 3 in my head as an already later June but it was even further after that! They really did improve tenfold with Switch's release schedule

The whole "launch window" bullshit with WiiU was a joke.

Yes but it was a bloody brilliant game. Where is Switch Pikmin, where?!

I've been planning to get a Switch for Christmas for a while now and figured it probably won't get any cheaper than the £254 you can currently get it for on Amazon, so the console has been ordered in preparation. Christmas morning with Mario Odyssey is going to be so good!

SugarDave wrote:I've been planning to get a Switch for Christmas for a while now and figured it probably won't get any cheaper than the £254 you can currently get it for on Amazon, so the console has been ordered in preparation. Christmas morning with Mario Odyssey is going to be so good!

Ya know what, I was thinking exactly the same thing myself.

But with Metroid Legacy Edition and SNES Mini in the same month, I simply can't justify it.

jawafour wrote:Okay, so we know that NBA 2K18 will require a Micro SD card to store additiona gamel data (circa 24Gb) but it appears that 5Gb of system memory (i.e. the built in memory, of which there is roughly 25 Gb free on a new system) will be needed for each save file . That really is quite a chunk, especially when you consider that all Switch games can only save data in the system memory... and that there is no way to backup or transfer that data.

It feels like this could grow to become quite an issue as bigger third party games launch and people own more games.

5gb for a save! What the strawberry float are they storing!

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Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

Jazzem wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Image editing showing the first party for the first year of Wii U versus the first year so far on Switch

Bloody hell, I had Pikmin 3 in my head as an already later June but it was even further after that! They really did improve tenfold with Switch's release schedule

The whole "launch window" bullshit with WiiU was a joke.

Yes but it was a bloody brilliant game. Where is Switch Pikmin, where?!

Still being worked on apparently, I assume its will be one of the 2018 exclusives

Impressive, I thought they'd just port the PS3 version bit it looks like they've kept the current gen engine and just dropped the frame rate, texture quality and cloth physics.

SugarDave wrote:I've been planning to get a Switch for Christmas for a while now and figured it probably won't get any cheaper than the £254 you can currently get it for on Amazon, so the console has been ordered in preparation. Christmas morning with Mario Odyssey is going to be so good!

How do you get a Switch for £254 on Amazon?

the eponymous bollock wrote:How do you get a Switch for £254 on Amazon?

Use the discount code VG25OFF150 to reduce the console cost to £254. Clickety-click.