The Nintendo Switch

there was a Walmart leak that listed Metroid Prime 4, wonder if that will be this year

Metroid Prime 4 will not release in 2018.

hey we don't know that... seems unlikely though

sure, we don't know, but I'd be surprised as heck if it did

they sent out deadlines for backer surveys for Bloodstained recently. i am getting it on Switch. wouldn't surprise me to see it at E3 w a 2018 release.

is that the castlevania-but-not game?

yeah.

BBxTAG demo with 20 characters out for this weekend

im garbage at this style of fighting game but can still tell this is a fun one

I gave it a shot for a while and yeah serious fighters are probably just not going to happen for me

was enjoying beating up other newbies with linne for a bit even though i have no familiarity with the game she's from but all the persona kids and sol badguy-alikes are boring to me. feel like i only have room on my switch for one non-smash fighting game and i doubt this is the one, my puny brain can't deal with the tag team mechanics.

"Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]" is an unimpeachable game name though

other wacky fighters heading Switch-ward this year - see Blade Strangers (crossover game of... random indie characters) and SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy

Under Night is pretty great! problem is it took three years for the last version to make it over here, and it released the week after Dragonball FighterZ

Backed Bloodstained belatedly (that make me a so-called "slacker backer"?) because now they're sending out that 8-bit retro game for free with it as well. Seems fun!

i bought a microSDXC memory card for my Switch and now i can't find a converter. i have several microSD to SD converters but they are too big to fit in the Switch! please tell me there is a microSD to whatever Switch compatible SD i can get (and what it's called)...

switch uses microSD

the port is behind the kickstand

hah omg there is! i thought i was going to have to fit it into where the games go

:O

yeah it took me a minute but i figured out what you were doing wrong

also, woah at the Bloodstained 8-bit game coming out in like 2 weeks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDq0FQS15o

Wow that actually looks pretty 8-bitty

played a bit more blazblue crosstag this morning, still awful at it but i'm enjoying it more now

xp inti creates does good work generally on these retro style games

yeah i'm actually becoming tempted to get blazblue xtag now that i understand what it's doing, auto-combos + the super-condensed control scheme are exactly what i want in a fighting game. still not convinced i need a trad fighting game though with smash on the way

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2018/05/sfgp.jpg

^

big if true

is that like diddy kong racing?

i guess? It's the rumoured new Retro studio game. Could be awesome if done well? They did Mario Kart 7... generally make amazing games...

A star fox racing game where you’re the pit crew leader and all you do is communicate to the driver via radio, and you have to be Pepe

lol

space racing is just space combat with no shooting

that logo is fake iirc but the rumor is still valid

Keeping tabs on nearly-baseless-rumor threads on ResetEra just makes me feel insane but I’ve stopped using Twitter so I don’t know what else to refresh all day.

ciderpress what is your friend code

SW-1126-4943-0808

i think that's right, if it's a yoshi egg avatar then it's me

i wonder if the Switch is powerful enough to eventually support a VR peripheral. the Switch has gyros, it has motion tracking, in both the screen and the joycons. it would surprise me if Nintendo does not eventually do something like that. or if not them, then it seems like someone might be able to fabricate a Gear VR-style holder for the Switch, Labo-style.

it is not powerful enough for VR

Also other companies are doing VR, so Nintendo won’t be interested since it wouldn’t be a point of differentiation for the hardware

Why would you want to add chunky peripherals to a system whose main selling point is being portable AND a console

good point. i would advise against using it while driving your car or taking the bus or being on an airplane.

ciderpress I’m the Kirby who added u

Today it’s Pokemon rumors, something about this year’s games being a revisit/reimagining of the Kanto region featuring Pikachu and Eevee versions.

Also the story mode for Mario Tennis has gotten more details in a trailer. Luigi gets kidnapped! Experience points and equipment upgrades!

Also fresh trailer for Octopath. The big thing there is as you collect the protagonists into your party you can switch whose story you are playing through at any time within your one save file.

Mario tennis looking less and less skippable... too many games to play this summer

Online test tournament June 1-3 for Tennis; I like these network stress tests disguised as free previews.

yeah they're good except sometimes they cause me to suddenly have another game i want to buy that i could have remained blissfully unaware of like the blazblue one

hah!

that's your fault for posting about in here I'll have you know. turned out to be my favorite fighting game I've played in ages, mechanically

also wizard of legend is out today, it's now the good roguelite