The Nintendo Switch

Just had a flashback to buying 1MB ps1 memory cards for $15

I am in a wal-mart...

“I am going to buy 1000 1MB memory cards for $15,000 so I never have to worry about storage again!”

lol

I am in a wal-mart...

>buy memory card

Bought.

i'm guessing people put around 50-150+ hours into Zelda, depending on their completionist tendencies. what about mario? 20 to 30 hours?

these days i probably spend more time reading about video games then actually playing them. Nier Automata has been my main game for several weeks now, and i'm only 15 hours in (it rules btw). so if i play about 15 hours a month, i could maybe get by with nothing but mario and zelda for an entire year (180 hours). so if the switch + mario and zelda costs about $420 all together, i'm basically paying about $2.33 per hour of switch gameplay in that year. would i pay $2.33 right now to play zelda for an hour? yes i would. so what i'm saying is, economically, i basically HAVE to buy a switch and mario and zelda for myself this christmas.

$420

#blazeit

You don't have it/them? Yeah get them. Don't overthink it.

ill buy a memory card for sure but may not get another AAA game for a while (might check out some indie stuff like Stardew Valley tho). 128GB card is not very pricey and should hold a sizable games library.

Mario + Zelda is such a great pair of games to start a console with. Zelda is such a vast, deep, endless world to explore. Mario is no less explorable but in much more bite-sized chunks. these two games alone will keep me entertained for months maybe a year. eventually a new Metroid, Zelda, and/or Mario will come out, and this will be the only place to play them.

Mario takes under 15 hours to “beat Bowser” but almost certainly takes four+ times as long to “do everything”. In Zelda there’s not even really an “everything” that you can do. You could get every Korok seed (a fool’s errand) but more fun would be whomping on bad guys and collecting to upgrade all your gear and get maximum loving from the Great Fairies

Stardew Valley is an incredible bargain. Video games are underpriced.

mario and zelda have entirely justified my switch purchase. Golf story and Stardew and other lil oddball demos are icing. Wanna try Rabbids!

are there free demos on the eshop?

i bought one of these. first time i have ever owned a current nintendo system

Video games are underpriced.

― .oO (silby), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:46 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Video game prices have remained the same since at least the 90s, which means they're cheaper than ever!

I think we are very close to buying a switch. Wish us luck!

Video games are underpriced.

― .oO (silby), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:46 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Video game prices have remained the same since at least the 90s, which means they're cheaper than ever!

― Evan, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 9:57 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

about 10 years ago i was looking in my parents' loft and found some of my old NES games. Games from 1991 or thereabouts priced at 49.99 pounds. aka over 100 pounds in present day money considering inflation

there are free demos on the eshop. search for 0.00 to 9.99 on the price options.

Exactly

xp

manufacturing cartridges was expensive

Like Silby said, you can whisk through the Mario storyline very quick if you want (15-20 hours or less) but yeah, the non- and post-story content is something like 75% of the game, it's nuts.

Mario is really good. Zelda is... I can't praise that game enough. Easily worth buying the Switch for alone.

there was a Nintendo Direct for XC2 today, looks good to me but i have extremely high anime tolerance

Zelda is a goddamn masterpiece.

Anyone buying NTDOY?

(The Nintendo stock)

they've had a unprecedentedly good year for sure but the 2018 release schedule is still a giant question mark

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