The Nintendo Switch

more than can be said for the press family

don’t even speak to me about the in chicagos

you have achieved the goal of every parent - your child has exceeded you. go to the grave peacefully

i mowed the lawn for my father. my sons will harvest lynel hooves for theirs.

this yoshi demo is impressive. won't be a difficult game, but very pretty and fun.

the new fire emblem game doesn't look very fire emblemy

still hype about astral chain i think thats surpassed fire emblem as my most anticipated switch game

... according to Nier Automata director Yoko Taro, Astral Chain director Takahisa Taura’s nickname is “USB” or “Ultimate Sex Beast.”

hmmmmmmm.

hmmm what's this Tetris 99 thing *two hours later* shit where did the time go? best Battle Royale game (highest I got was 4th)

nintendo's antisocial approach to online multiplayer is the best

i like how in mario kart or tetris99 there's almost always a user named "dad" that i'm competing against

This looks like the most horrifically addictive form of Tetris.

Sufjan otm, ppl bitch about voice chat or whatever but like I don't want to talk to randos online I just wanna verse them

useful tips for tetris99 players:

When your garbage blocks are the ones that push another player over the edge and into the game over screen, you’ll get credit for the kill with a “KO.” This is where Tetris 99 gets really interesting. Every KO counts as one “bit” of a badge. The first two bits gives you one full badge. After that, the number keeps going up: four bits for the second badge, eight bits for the third badge, and 16 bits for the fourth badge, which is the maximum number of badges that you can have.

These badges are crucial because each one increases how much garbage you can send to opponents: 25% more for the first badge, 50% more for the second, 75% more for the third, and 100% more for the fourth. You can get pretty far without them, but at some point when there are only a few players left, you’re going to be fighting an uphill battle if your opponents are dumping twice as much garbage on you as they’re getting in return.

While you earn a badge bit for each KO, you also get all the badges of the player you just defeated. As a result, you’ll want to target players who are either near death, or who have a lot of badges, or ideally both. Just like in a traditional battle royale like Fortnite or PUBG, you can pull off come-from-behind victories by taking out the right person at the right time and stealing all their power ups.

Finally, the garbage you send to other players and that they send to you doesn’t go into effect immediately. Instead, it’s on a timer and will show up on the left side of the screen, giving you a rough idea of how much is about to hit you. During these periods, any garbage you generate will just go toward canceling the incoming attacks. While it can be fun to try to play offensively, there’s also value in keeping your pieces stacked well enough that you can always pull out a tetris to defend if need be.

https://kotaku.com/tetris-99-doesnt-have-a-tutorial-so-heres-what-you-need-1832626364

do i have to play Tetris 1 through 98 to understand the story?

you just have to perform a t-spin 99 times in one session, then the secret is revealed

(the secret is to believe in yourself!!)

very weird how i'm much worse at tetris after drinking!!!!!!!!!!

yesterday evening was regularly getting in top 10 of T99, this morning barely scraping into the top 30. why did everyone suddenly git gud? then I looked at the names of those placing above me - ah, japan is awake now >.<

Wumbotize's T99 streams are just nuts.

lol i was taking clips of triple t-spins from his + hard drop's streams to try to wrap my mind around wtf is going on there spatially and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i got 12 wins in 200(!) games

goose game delayed to late 2019

NoA president Reggie Fils-Aime retiring in April, to be replaced by Doug Bowser (really)

the rare corporate executive who is also a well-liked pitchman who is also someone seemingly without a reputation for being a sociopathic dickhole

Doug Bowser? (Really?)

really!

will miss reggie being the face of nintendo at events, thats the only real change here from a fan perspective

That's the most ridiculous case of nominative determinism i've heard for some time.

RIP Reggie Era

what would all do if Reggie started hyping PS4 releases, kind of like when the "can you hear me now?" guy switched phone companies?

For some reason, I picture him as more a Microsoft guy.

surprised there hasn't been some chatter on here about the rumored xbox/nintendo collab

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/why-putting-xbox-games-on-switch-isnt-as-ridiculous-as-it-might-sound/

Here at Ars, we tend to be skeptical of the regularly recurring rumors that two major video game competitors are going to be merging or teaming up in some way. From the early 2000s whispers that Microsoft would buy a struggling Sega to suggestions that Apple should buy Nintendo, these rumors often reflect wishful thinking at least as much as actual insider knowledge.

That said, we're still intrigued by recent rumors that Microsoft could be bringing certain Xbox One games—and a version of its Xbox Game Pass subscription service—to the Nintendo Switch and other consoles.

As the current scuttlebutt has it, an Xbox app to be released for the Switch would let players with an Xbox Game Pass subscription play a selection of Xbox One games on Nintendo's hardware. High-end games would work on Nintendo's lower-end hardware thanks to streaming via Microsoft's recently announced Project xCloud. Meanwhile, Microsoft would also sell certain low-end first-party Xbox One games, like the Ori series, to the Switch directly, according to the rumors.

These latest reports originate with a video from Direct Feed Games, who cites "several" unnamed sources creating "teasing and hinting [that] has reached a point to which I can no longer ignore it." The Direct Feed Games channel is mainly known for extremely basic gameplay videos, though, and it has a spotty history of accurate rumor reporting. Last March, the channel confidently but incorrectly stated that "Call of Duty will come to Switch in 2018," for instance.

But Game Informer also cites its own sources as saying that Xbox Game Pass on Switch could be announced "this year." And the usually reliable Windows Central says that they've been "hearing for almost a year that Microsoft was aiming to put Xbox Game Pass on Nintendo Switch, and even PlayStation 4."

i'd believe it, Microsoft doesn't really seem to care about console exclusivity anymore as much as just selling their subscription service. they want to be gamer netflix

what's the best jrpg on switch? should i just wait for dq11?

consensus seems to be octopath traveler for the old school style action
DQXI looks amazing and you know what you're going to get

note that i haven't played either

i think i read a bit too much about octopath traveler before i got a switch and bought into the backlash. i should probably just get it b/c i like old grindy jrpgs

do you want turn based or action jrpg?

DQXI is more old school than octopath gameplay wise, theres not really anything in it that couldn't have been in a 90s game other than the graphics. whereas octopath's combat system builds off of mechanics from more recent stuff like persona and bravely default, it feels a lot more modern to play even if the presentation is retro

i think they're both good not great games but if you want a standard turn based jrpg they're the options

theres also the actual best jrpg on the system, xenoblade 2, if youre open to something much weirder

i will eventually play octopath. unfortuanately i will never play xenoblade due to the battle sounds/speech. holy shit, not for me. it's too bad because i've enjoyed the small bits of the xeno series that i've played

i prefer turn-based, but i'm open to weirder combat systems. a terrible aesthetic will ruin the game for me, though, which is why i'm hesitant to buy xenoblade 2. i suspect i will think DQXI is a great game. i love persona 5, played through a lot of it on a friend's ps4

dont think persona has much bearing on anything else here, its in a different school of jrpg

Shin Megami Tensei 5 should be coming later this year, I think it is the only game from the initial Switch reveal that hasn't been released yet?

oh and Valkyria Chronicles is currently on sale for €9.99/£7.99 in EU eshops, well worth playing if you haven't already

I don’t think there’s any particular reason to expect SMTV this year

shh I'm being optimistic!

any atlus announcements will happen late march at sega's event thing

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— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 26, 2019