The Nintendo Switch

i may never fully recover from nintendo of america's decision to appoint one 'doug bowser' as their president btw

comparison stuff
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/compare/

Loving that lemon-yellow & white color scheme; it looks delicious. Also WTF @ the apparent existence of Switch games that don't support handheld mode?

The inability to have game data reside on more than one switch is still a show stopper for us, I think.

We’ve barely used ours in handheld mode, maybe two times tops?

Ours spends 99% of its playing time in handheld mode running Splatoon 2. If I could transfer the data from the old one to a Lite model then that might work.

xp theres like 3 or 4 party games that dont support handheld becuase they use the joycons in a specific way that requires them to be detached e.g. 1-2 switch, mario party

i'd be tempted to double up on a vita-sized switch but this isn't that much smaller than the existing one. like the colors and the real dpad though

Tombot all games support local wireless data migration between two switches and i believe if you pay for online any games with cloud saves will synchronize.

Anyway I Want It

Hopefully the fact that one comes in all turquoise will help lead my 8yo to the RIGHT DECISION and I will be able to finish my play through of The Octopants Travesty

One of the reasons I rarely play handheld is screen glare, tbh.

Ooh, I may get one of these. I've been holding off for a price drop and also Do Not Own A TV, and so was anticipating that I'd be playing mostly handheld anyway.

While using a non-primary console, you must have an active Internet connection to play downloadable content.

So ... if you have a Switch and you want this Switch lite to just play on the go, you can't? Unless you switch the primary account on your Switches?

I don't get it. It doesn't switch. It sames. The nintendo same.

Shush he's a caveman, etc

if you have a switch you already have a switch that can play on the go

We already have a Switch but that’s “we”; sometimes more than one of us wants to play something, or someone is traveling alone, etc

Some comment from NoA President Doug Bowser in some outlet today that there will be a better story around bouncing between devices but who knows what that’ll actually look like.

swatch

i will buy the miku-colored switch if they make that stuff easier

xp

SWATCH!

Shamwitch

Switch, Please

commonly known by its nickname "switcharito," which means "little switch"

picked up RE4 in the EU sale... still a spicy price

mmmmmmm tank controls. lovely

fire emblem getting very positive buzz from the journos that have it already

yeh can't wait, have been mapping out the next few months
Fire Emblem July 26
Astral Chain August 30
DQ11 September 27
then maybe Outer Worlds October 25 pending reviews

the mythical "switch pro" turns out to just be a revision of the base switch with longer battery life

that's good - it needs a longer battery life

stealth upgrade without a separate model? interesting, not very Nintendo-like

they changed the box and added -001 to the model number, it's not a stealth upgrade

Can anybody vouch for Dragon Quest Builders 2 on Switch? I'm on the fence; I played through the demo and enjoyed it, but the choppy frame rate put me off a little. The PS4 version isn't an option for me.

I think I am enjoying RE4

hell yeah @ switch port of super mega baseball 2

out next week??

waht ?! YES

port begging redeemed

@tracerhand

when does the FE OT go live

I want to get a Switch! Possibly going to look for s/h though to keep costs down. I don't know much about the machine at all other than I'm intrigued by some of the indie games like Baba Is You, and also I'd like a really good RPG to play so as to fill the Chrono Trigger-sized hole in my life.
Is there anything I need to watch out for if buying s/h? Any features or pitfalls? Are they all more or less the same?

a new model with longer battery life just dropped. so weigh that against any s/h discount. Would also play it with joycons detached to check for signal or drift issues.

the newer model doesn't have detachable joycons or TV output, and the screen is a tad smaller, but it's $100 cheaper and has much better battery life, so tradeoffs

by TV output, you mean you can't plug it into a TV?

also, will it matter that my telly is from like 2005

you're talking about two different "new models." the new "nintendo switch" has longer battery life, the new "switch lite" is the one nhex is talking about.

How very confusing. So the Switch Lite is just handheld I take it; like a Game Gear. The new Switch has better batteries and stuff.

I\'m not sure I GAF about batteries really - I'd mostly be playing it at home.

the better battery one will be out in September it's identical to the current one otherwise

it's not a new model they're just updating the current one