The Nintendo Switch

Will be revealed at 7am PT/10am ET through Nintendo's official channels.

It's only a preview trailer. Substanstive reveal expected next week.

Remind me what this thing is again?

Nobody knows yet.

Hybdrid console/handheld. Good news is you don't have to choose between what Ninty platform you get, all games come to one place.

Bad news.. well, maybe it looks like a a Frankenstein monster. Expect to see the concept today and software lineup next week.

Gettin' ready for thread title change!

Seriously though the one positive thing (maybe) coming out from this is that it seems like it's been known about, in development for long enough where we might actually get to see something substantial in terms of info and real games tomorrow. The rumors have been for a March 2017 release date for ages.

The March 2017 date is official, from Nintendo.

I don't think we'll see much of games tomorrow since this is labelled as a 3 minute preview. The solid word on the street is a bigger thing next week.

But yeah, the March date was, in the words of Nintendo execs, partially to ensure a strong (1st party) lineup for the first year of this thing. Unlike the Wii U which relied on 3rd party ports.

Yeah that's a good thing unless it means "we're not expecting any 3rd party support at all this time around", which is probably does.

feel like at this point if you're still a Nintendo fan you just accept it :(
that said I skipped both Wiis so I might jump back in with this system

I don't really care about western 3rd party support on a nintendo console. And I don't think Nintendo's got much riding on it either. It's irrelevant. The DS and 3DS thrived without it. Nintendo needs to offer an alternative.

My PC already makes whatever MS / Sony console I reluctantly end up buying redundant in terms of your Call of Dutys and sports games.

Well actually sports games is the one genre still better on PSXbox than PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI

lol Nintendo Switch is a terrible name
Looks kinda dope tho

Name isn't so bad. Does look cool. But maybe that's just Zelda.

I'm totally on board, despite the pretty terrible name

trailer is v weird, thing itself looks p cool

Switch is a little dumb but leagues better than Wii or WiiU or GameCube

Terrible trailer o_O

Like the thing tho.

the first time the dude walked over and put the little controllers on and picked it up I whispered "what is this devilry?!?"

haha

i am into this!

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/

so, hardware-wise it's a really neat nvidia shield?

what does the core system come with tho? How much extra shit are they requiring me to buy?

agreed on dumb name, cool looking device. not sure about the detachable controller nubs but i like the rest

also why make a trailer where people are doing more fun things they would probably rather be doing than playing video games

also the DS had awesome 3rd party support, what you smoking. Even the 3DS's third-party support is way better than their consoles

I would guess it comes with the display/dock/controller wings and the standalone controller is extra?

DS and 3DS have great Japanese 3rd party support yes, not western. Because this is also a portable I believe they'll be able to retain Japanese 3rd party support, further differentiating their lineup from the competition.

Vanagon cameo

xp yeah I think the standalone controller is basically the Pro controller like on the Wii/U

Just consolidating 1st party output to one device is pretty huge, hopefully this means more variety as they don't need to work on 2 Mario Kart games at once for example

pending further information, i am into this. third party support is good from an adoption/longevity pov, Nintendo standards on a powerful handheld is cool (especially if it's more comfortably designed than the wii u tablet)

Cautious optimism

Has it been confirmed that there's no touch? People are surprised there's no use of that in the trailer...

is this likely to be region locked?

i skipped both wiis but i think it may be time to get back into this crap

xp

@ArcadeGirl64 53s53 seconds ago
As I previously reported in my September 2nd post, Nintendo Switch is 100% region free.

The people whose leaks have been most accurate e.g. Emily Rogers have been saying that it will be region free, and Iwata said on a few occasions that they were thinking about it. This console has got to have some big dumb thing wrong with it tho so it could be that :/

holding out for the big mario party announcement

I'm going to end up having to buy two of these.

i was also surprised that apparently there's no touch-capability.

i haven't had a nintendo console since the wii (which i attempted to mod and ended up bricking within 2 years), but i'm not sure this is going to be the one.

the whole gimmick where you can transform it into a handheld and go off to the williamsburg party and play videogames on the rooftop at the bbq - that's kinda cool in theory but i know i would never do something like that. when i walk my dog in the early morning, i like to just sit on the bench and pay attention to her, i don't want to resume my dragon quest at that moment. and after getting beaten down IRL 2v2 basketball underneath a bustling highway, i know my bros aren't going to want to play nba 2k18 with me. they'll probably be mad at me for being bad at basketball irl, 15 minutes earlier. i don't play games on public transport either. i'm just not a handheld person, so i feel like the main purpose of the system design isn't aimed toward me.

kind of raisin' an eyebrow at the cartridge thing, although maybe these days cartridges can handle resource-intensive games? either way, i guess it has to be a cartridge so that you can Switch(tm) your game into mobile mode so you can level up while you're eating brunch and windsurfing in the afternoon.

whoooa, that came out way more negative than i meant it to be, sorry. i'm sure this will be a cool system and i will be jealous of all people getting to play the nintendo 1st party franchise sequels, for real.

solid state storage is fast in a way optical media will never be, and I get the impression that the Japanese market wouldn't be about a download-only platform. Also yeah carrying around an optical drive would work about as well as a discman.

(a discman that needed to stream textures to the GPU without skipping.)

idk i think the portability is actually pretty interesting/compelling. the best thing about the Xbox one right now is how it integrates into the windows 10 ecosystem. i can play it on my pc in my office, on my laptop in bed, or on the TV directly from the Xbox in the usual way. this limited portability is pretty awesome, and extending the possibility to take the game with you anywhere is a logical extension and seems pretty cool. Xps

yeh I play handhelds mostly at home, in bed etc. playing an Atlus game while cycling is on TV is my jam!

Kind of funny that there were no kids in that video, unless I missed something.

I think the average age of someone playing video games is now around 30

goin' for chill hipster demo?

going for that disposable income demo for sure

I would like to see all the cables involved for connectivity ie power/recharging etc

The WiiU is a monster for too many cables, I don't want to go through that again.

i can play it on my pc in my office,

oh is that a thing? like, via remote desktop or something? this makes me pretty glad i don't have an xbox.

you are thinking of Kenny Baker

thanks to spyro reignited i am recalling how joyful and engrossing spyro 1 is and how utterly shit 2 and 3 are

I was making a dumb joke, but honestly the first thing that popped into my head was a conflation of Verne Troyer and Kenny Baker.

Haha I just finished Spyro I as part of Spyro Reignited and was looking forward to the others (also, never playing Tree Tops again) :/

tree tops is… an experience

(sorry to tread on existing conversation btw)

tree tops hate is a more important topic than me rambling about JRPGs tbh

ciderpress my body craves your JRPGs of the decade retrospective

might pick up super mega baseball II

xp i have like 8 games left on my to-play list before i issue any such thing, including a few that are getting switch rereleases next year

oh i forgot that super mega baseball was coming to switch, that's a must

my dear friend is drawing a sick as hell comic as she plays Fire Emblem btw (spoilers)

http://spooky.camp/~arielle/threehouses/cover.html

josh, Sekiro will be $25 at Target on BF

Ah! That's a pretty good price! Thanks!

Just looked, might be that cheap at Best Buy, too!

That's a lovely comic your friend's writing, silby!

creating, sorry.

any other hidden gem picks from the sale ?

lots of stuff on sale right now. i got captain toad treasure tracker for my younger kid (not downloading it until xmas) and i'm thinking about super mega baseball 2 for me. what are you getting on sale?

nabbed SMB2 - it's aces

$15 for cuphead might do it for me.

man i love the cuphead aesthetic but i have no patience/time for "hard" games at all. same reason i'll probably never get around to hollow knight.

i was thinking about overland too but reading more about it made it sound not so fun

man i love the cuphead aesthetic but i have no patience/time for "hard" games at all. same reason i'll probably never get around to hollow knight.

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ditto -- i think gave up on hollow knight after like 30min

nothing crazy but happy to pick up Bomberman for 10 bux and rocket league for 10 bux

Getting new soup bros amd probably skyrim finally

man, cuphead is fun!

Love Cuphead, the design makes the defeat go down easy.

Hollow Knight isn't that hard - admittedly I got stuck on the 2nd boss for six months. But for the price, there's tons to play before it gets prohibitively difficult (I never finish games anyway)

I did give up on Dead Souls though

The Gogol book, and also the game Dark Souls

yeah, me too

u should go back to the gogol tho it's great

You should go back to Dark Souls *and* Hollow Knight, which are both difficult in much the same way, but which both become really, really satisfying the better you get at them. At least until "Hollow Knight" goes all platform hell on you (which comes after you finish the main part of the game).

Only Switch game on sale I picked up was "Darkwood," which looked cool (despite mixed reviews?) and only set me back $10.

Civ 5 is cheap. Anyone tried it?

not on the switch but ~61 hours on steam where i remember it being a good (but not groundbreaking) entry in the series

I kinda want to pick up Dragon's Dogma for $20, but I'm ambivalent. Everyone has good things to say about the gameplay, but the setting/art direction just looks so painfully boring. Anyone here can vouch for it?

Well, instead I decided to grab Turok 2 for $7. Time to blast some dino-soids!

pretty sure lots of things happening to me in new mario bros aren't fair. is there a hotline i can call?

after hanging out with my younger relatives all last weekend, i can tell you that there is, and the number is 1-800-BUTTHEAD

*runs around the house in ecstasy*

thanks, i will make my feelings about the non-cheep-cheep auto-scroll levels and the spinning star platforms known

Digital Foundry dude makes the case that "Alien: Isolation" sometimes looks and plays *better* on Switch than on other consoles, with exceptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kvSGUwAyc&feature=emb_logo

i recently fell in love with Wonder Boy VI: Monster World IV so i can't wait to play Wonder Boy VIII (?): Monster World V: Monster Boy I: Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom over the holidays

new SNES & NES games being added next week, all good picks imo
SNES - Star Fox 2, Super Punch Out, Kirby Super Star, Breath of Fire II
NES – Journey To Silius, Crystalis

oh and I finished FE3H, well one of the routes anyway (Black Eagles).
they added a lot of ancillary stuff to the game between battles which worked well for the most part, Persona type events to level up relationships between characters, learn abilities, fishing & gardening etc etc. I felt it ran out of steam in the last 10 hours or so though, became far too repetitive and I found myself skipping a lot of it to get to the next story-driven battle. also I played on Hard/Classic and found it far too easy, the limited rewind function is a good idea but I barely had to use it.
a good but flawed effort to update the FE formula then, hope the next iteration nails it.

salute on those retro picks!

Alien: Isolation seems kinda expensive for what it is and for how long it’s been out. 35 bucks for Switch and 30 on PS4. Feel like I’ve been consistently thinking about buying it over the past five years and not doing it because it seems more expensive than it should be.

Also lol 10 dollars doesn’t mean anything but it’s weird how that will be a dealbreaker for buying a video game sometimes.

I got it on sale a few weeks back for PS4, and it was $11.99.

My cut-off for impulse purchase is about $20, anything at that price or below. Most games I've bought for Ps4 have probably been somewhere between $10 and $20. But keep an eye out, because certain titles go on sale almost cyclically, while other titles (like Resident Evil 2, or the From games) seem to go on sale much less often, or for much less off.

Price is def. the reason I have trouble pulling the trigger on a lot of Nintendo games.

Have the same 20 dollar max for impulse purchases I think. Also I get this “who the fuck do you think you are?” attitude when I see newer, better games that are cheaper right next to it.