The Nintendo Switch

I’ll echo the benefits of the switch in a one tv household. They should’ve had me cuddled up with my wife playing my switch while she watches Bravo instead of that loft party in the original commercials.

timespinner is getting a switch release next week. it's a nice little castlevania-like that i enjoyed, the story is a bit obtuse but it got the atmosphere just right.

so this sale nintendo is currently doing...
http://i.imgur.com/soNN8hO.png

hrm

oh, ha; figured it out: i was at nintendo's argentina gamestore!

anyways i finally got mario/rabbids for $20; will report back

is this the first sale for stardew on switch?

now only $846

I think we can assume there's no more Nintendo first party games left to announce through the end of 2019, but now the only thing we know for next year is Animal Crossing.

This looks like it could be killer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egzb6_HCqQw

Assuming it's not based on the movie ;P

Link's Awakening at $60 is youth.

Youth=youch.

saturdays=youch

the music in the botw 2 teaser... god damn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcup-mRDjmA

$60 for video games remains an absurd value, there are indie games I’ve paid $20 for that I wish were $60

I don't wish anything cost more, but there are def. indie games (like Hollow Knight) that seemed impressively underpriced. I think the issue is that Zelda is a re-release (remade or no) being priced at a AAA premium. Yet something like Red Dead Redemption II retailed for $60, and I don't think anyone would compare the cost of making something like that to the cost of making this Zelda remake, or the "value" of a massive state of the art open world game to a much shorter story. And yet even something like Red Dead gets massive price drops down the line which Nintendo seemingly doesn't really do. Now, you can argue that something like Red Dead or whatever was *underpriced* but I think that's pretty moot. It really is simply a matter of Nintendo charging more, sometimes to a ridiculous degree. For example, again, when Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze came out, it actually cost *more* than it cost on the Wii-U, which was pretty lame.

TL;DR: You want value, I would much rather buy two (or three or four) AAA titles for my PS4 than one for the same price (and often lower specs) on the Switch. It's honestly the reason I haven't bought Wolfenstein II yet; it's literally twice as much on the Switch as it is on the PS4. There are def. games I would buy for Switch if they were $20 cheaper, so I guess my value point is just lower, as I'd rather save my money than overspend for no afaict good reason.

Excited about the Zeldas. Still no Wind Waker tho :/

xp nintendo has had their hooks in you with these stories since your 8 bit youth. it costs money to protect these brands, and they don't wan't to devalue them by saturating the store with a bunch of lower priced stuff. you also need to factor in how many people will buy the remade zelda vs red dead redemption. you are greatly simplifying everything. We probably spend $60 per month on terrible kids meals when we eat out once a week. A $60 good nintendo game seems like an extreme value by comparison. I just don't have any time to play it.

Switch is sweet home and commute gaming ambrosia. Throw your ps4 into the ocean.

i dont mind paying the full 60 for a complete game, however i will not be playing the links awakening remake anytime soon as i've played the original a hundred times and there are like 50 other games coming out in september that i want to try

The Treehouse section about Astral Chain has convinced me to buy the game, had no idea there was a "investigate the crime scene, solve the crime" side to it. Also like Nier Automata it starts with a shmup section, the director of both games said it makes it easier to have lots of exposition that way lol.

Josh you could always attribute the purchase incentive to the fact that Switch is portable, if that helps make it less painful when there are cheaper versions elsewhere to consider. Just purely from a consumer benefit perspective.

Yes, but you also have to apply the Controller Comfortability Factor, which is 1.25 for PS4 and between 0.52 and 0.85 for switch, depending on which controller you use

Well, the bigger consideration that keeps me from justifying portability is the often big decline in performance and graphics. At least when it comes to ports. When it comes to premium Nintendo titles, the proprietary stuff, I am just being cheap. You talk about value in general, and yes, video games by and large are great values. But if a product is $40 on one system, and $60 on another, for the same game, then clearly the $60 one is less of a value.

And speaking of switch controls, I am one of the many people that have been problems with drift on the left joycon.

i hope you posted that with your left joycon

The left joycon was the source of almost all of my typos, before I completely stopped making them

And if your left joycon causes you to drift, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your Switch than for your posts to have typos.

Don't throw it away. Put it in a new pot and (this sounds crazy) add a little apple cider vinegar.

but don't forget you have to add a lid with tiny holes in it so the gnats can get in but can't quite find their way out after they fix the left joycon

I did hear that if you freeze it first it works more efficiently.

yeah astral chain showed pretty well on the treehouse segment. it's very much got the nier automata dna in that there's a lot of different gameplay styles jammed into it

fire emblem also looked really good after a lot of kinda sketchy previews, the school management stuff is really in-depth and i'm glad they're just being straightforward about the timeskip rather than trying to hide it as a twist

They needed to reassure people that your MC would only be allowed to marry a former student

Astral chain did look fun. It reminded me of Okami (dark pockets with fights (except some are really expansive)). It also reminded me of Bayonetta in the the fast/varied combat moves department. And the battles were more strategic than most fast combat games. I haven't played Nier Automata yet.

The Mario Maker 2 treehouse was pretty solid. I’ve considered buying a Switch just for that (initially) but I’ve been holding out for news on a Switch console upgrade.

might be soon. news that production has started.

Is Crypt of the NecroDancer any good?

Down to about £3.50 in the sale

it's quite good if a rhythm roguelike sounds like your thing, but the zelda one is coming out today if you'd rather that

I've wanted to try NecroDancer for a while, but the flashing tiles hurt my eyes, not even joking. Cadence of Hyrule looks less visually aggressive on that count, so I might try that one.

pretty sure you can turn off the flashing tiles but not 100% sure

theyre showing off cadence of hyrule on the nintendo stream rn, looks great

that game sakuna: of rice and ruin that they showed off looked cool too. cute sidescrolling beat-em-up + rice farming sim by a jp indie dev

^^ this looked really good, like a 2.5D vanillaware game but made by just two guys

my joy-con is starting to drift to the left. i don't know if it just needs to be cleaned out inside or if it's messed up from my kids throwing it around. anyone else deal with this?

yeh my left joycon started drifting upwards, fixed it by giving it a spray with contact cleaner using the method in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6kek06vRv8

thanks, i think i have some contact cleaner around

same
xp

yeah most stick problems are some sort of dust or plastic residue getting stuck underneath

that seems to have fixed it, thanks

hm I should do that