Nintendo Switch Chat thread

I refuse to buy Skyrim a 5th time.

Clarkman wrote:Very excited to get both Doom and Skyrim this month...

I want to get these two as well, Clarkman. I’m keen to see them running in portable mode... I just hope that the text in Skyrim isn’t tiny.

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When moving between the Switch and the PS4, I’m finding that I always spend time initially pressing the wrong buttons because the select (A / X) and cancel (B / Circle) buttons are reversed .

Starquake wrote:Good stuff! I haven’t been able to play any more since last post due to dev work, but hopefully I can pick up over the weekend. What score would you rate the game?

It's a solid 3/5. It was suitably challenging, controls well, and I love the pixel art. Unfortunately I think it has balancing issues (especially with the gun upgrades), and an over-reliance on floating platforms and annoying flying enemies. The upgrades were also serviceable but not particularly inspired.

jawafour wrote:Looking through my friends list on Switch*, it seems that there is a pretty equal split between folk that use a Mii image and folk that pick a Nintendo character image. Gotta say that I prefer Mii images... in my mind I never link a character with a person.

It's all about the mii art B)

OrangeRakoon wrote:...It's all about the mii art B)

I must say that your Mii design is ingenious, OR .

How does it look when racing in Mario Kart, though? .

jawafour wrote:How does it look when racing in Mario Kart, though? .

Horrifying

Which is why I have a separate mii for that

Will Zelda BOTW (Switch) ever come down in price? It's still £50 seemingly everywhere.

Drumstick wrote:Will Zelda BOTW (Switch) ever come down in price? It's still £50 seemingly everywhere.

Second hand maybe, but I imagine it will be a very very long time until it does. I would also say it is worth every penny.

Yeah Nintendo games hardly ever drop, best you could hope for is them launching a Switch Selects line in a couple years


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My local Morrison's now sell Switch games can't remember them ever selling Nintendo games.

darksideby182 wrote:My local Morrison's now sell Switch games can't remember them ever selling Nintendo games.

My nearest Morrisons, quite a large store, has a small video game section that has been atrocious for several years now. They have a couple of games and formats that are mixed in alongside CDs. The last time I checked they had a handful of old games (360 and PS3 iirc) alongside FIFA and, yeah, no Nintendo stuff. I will check next time to see if they have updated at all!

jawafour wrote:

darksideby182 wrote:My local Morrison's now sell Switch games can't remember them ever selling Nintendo games.

My nearest Morrisons, quite a large store, has a small video game section that has been atrocious for several years now. They have a couple of games and formats that are mixed in alongside CDs. The last time I checked they had a handful of old games (360 and PS3 iirc) alongside FIFA and, yeah, no Nintendo stuff. I will check next time to see if they have updated at all!

Sounds similar to my local Morrison's generally a poor selection of games , music and dvds.

Got Splatoon 2 and digital copy of MK8 Deluxe for Switch, looking forward to playing mp on both with you lot as all other friends outside of GRcade. \o/

Errkal wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Will Zelda BOTW (Switch) ever come down in price? It's still £50 seemingly everywhere.

Second hand maybe, but I imagine it will be a very very long time until it does. I would also say it is worth every penny.

Yea, Nintendo games hold their value like a Golf.

Just bite the bullet.

Skarjo wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Will Zelda BOTW (Switch) ever come down in price? It's still £50 seemingly everywhere.

Second hand maybe, but I imagine it will be a very very long time until it does. I would also say it is worth every penny.

Yea, Nintendo games hold their value like a Golf.

Just bite the bullet.

I paid £35 for Zelda back in June when I got my Switch from Grainger Games. Was cheaper than the Wii U version

darksideby182 wrote:My local Morrison's now sell Switch games can't remember them ever selling Nintendo games.

I noticed that last night. My local had five - the three Marios, (Kart, Rabbids, Oddessy), Fifa and Lego =land. The Marios were £42-00 which I thought was not bad.

It has been confirmed that the cartridge version of WWE 2K18 will require an additional 24 Gb of micro SD card storage to run. Publisher 2K has opted to use the cheapest cart size available and offload the remaining file storage cost to the consumer.

This is becoming a concerning trend with bigger third party publishers. Personally I am gonna get Doom and suck up the additional cost, but I am loathe to do it for more games like LA Noire and WWE. Nintendo will have to do something about this if they’re to avoid publishers saying that “our big games don’t sell on Switch”.

jawafour wrote:It has been confirmed that the cartridge version of WWE 2K18 will require an additional 24 Gb of micro SD card storage to run. Publisher 2K has opted to use the cheapest cart size available and offload the remaining file storage cost to the consumer.

This is becoming a concerning trend with bigger third party publishers. Personally I am gonna get Doom and suck up the additional cost, but I am loathe to do it for more games like LA Noire and WWE. Nintendo will have to do something about this if they’re to avoid publishers saying that “our big games don’t sell on Switch”.

They wont, and publishers will drop it, the idiotic expensive media will be in the longer term the killer of the switch, if they having issues now at the start of its life how is it going to go in a few years when games get even bigger.

Errkal wrote:They wont, and publishers will drop it, the idiotic expensive media will be in the longer term the killer of the switch, if they having issues now at the start of its life how is it going to go in a few years when games get even bigger.

It certainly looks that way, Errkal. It is quite a barrier for the large publishers who are used to having 50 or so gigabytes to play with, at zero cost to themselves. I want to see the big, popular franchises on Switch but I won’t choose that version if it means having to buy a 32 Gb SD card on top of the cart price.

Out of principle I won't be buying any of these games that require extensive storage space. They might be saving some cash on using cheaper carts but hopefully they'll be losing out on plenty of sales. strawberry float 'em.

Drumstick wrote:Out of principle I won't be buying any of these games that require extensive storage space. They might be saving some cash on using cheaper carts but hopefully they'll be losing out on plenty of sales. strawberry float 'em.

They'll lose out on sales, but they'll say it's because Switch games don't sell and will refuse to accept it's because they're using cheap low capacity carts rather than paying for the more expensive ones.