The Nintendo Switch

xp no joycons for me, ever, from now on. unless they want to drop the price to $19

Fab capacity being meted out like senior and junior water rights

Tempted to bite just because the battery would be the upgraded one from 2019, over the launch version. And the OLED screen does sound nice.

Unless the nicer bigger screen means more power being drawn which means even with the 2019 battery you end up no better off than you were with the original model? I can't remember the specifics with OLED tech though, possible it's actually more efficient rather than less.

Anyone tried skyward sword yet?

Playing it now. It's fun! Even though the tutorial stuff is interminable - my son got frustrated with the sheer amount of reading and exposition - I've read this has been toned down from the original which is a bit o_O.

Overall so far it's very much a classic Zelda with added 3D and motion controls. You can absolutely see the seeds of BOTW in it (in sometimes frustrating ways, like it has a paraglider only you can't steer, just descend straight down, and the early shields are appalingly fragile) but it's not BOTW. The main thing is it only gestures at being open world – you definitely have to some locations and tasks in a particular order.

It’s famous for being the most linear of all the zeldas. So much so that I could see it being a major wake up call to reset and make true open world work in the spirit of the original, resulting in BOTW

here we go again

Tune in 9/23 at 3 p.m. PT for a #NintendoDirect livestream featuring roughly 40 minutes of information focused mainly on #NintendoSwitch games launching this winter. pic.twitter.com/feHBEKfHPG

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 22, 2021

please lord i know i havent been good but a breath of the wild 2 release sometime in the next six months seems like not too much to ask

as always i want to see monolithsoft's next game where is it nintendo

other than that i have no clue, i think every active nintendo franchise is on the switch now, or has an approaching release date in metroid's case. bayonetta 3 is still mia but i dont care about that. show me something new

It's been so long since I played my Switch I literally forgot what I had bought for it. But if/when I beat Sekiro I think I'll finally try Hades!

I did briefly consider the new Wario Ware game, since iirc one of my kids liked a previous version, but if ever there was a game I will not pay $50 for it's that one.

they're expensive, the games

then again you probably regularly spend more than that on a much shorter experience that ends up in the toilet

I don’t know, I still shit for free and I’m too old to change

i get paid to shit

#paymentforpostbodymatter

i want to sell my switch but all my games are downloads and i have 3 broken joy-cons, all of them the left one, the one with the analog stick i have to press all the time to win

*press analog stick to win game*

*zach presses stick and loses $30-50 again*

what game even uses the stick button i havent played one in ages that did

let me tell you, i'd be super monkey ballin on Oct 1 if the dang stick worked

nintennuendo

plenty of stuff I'm going to play coming up so not really bothered if they announce much this time
(unless they announce a SMTV delay lol, then I'll go full on whingelord)

Any chance of news on the Golf Story sequel?

hah you and my friend have been avidly awaiting that for so long

yeah i have more than enough to play for the next couple years so i'm basically only getting hype for a major new rpg or mario game or equivalent

post-apoc kirby

did they say star wars: knights of the old republic is coming to switch?

they did say that

oh sheeeit

i was never a playstation kid so i never played

or xbox til 360

stoked for actraiser!!!

animated mario movie by illumination = yikes

where's bob hoskins

splatoon 3 looks dope

OMFG that Mario cast...what even is reality

fred armisen IS cranky kong

sure is

all in for that Kirby game, something I never thought I'd say

Jared Leto as that annoying hawk guy from BOTW

— uruk-pilled beer dad (@broom_error) September 23, 2021

That Square-Enix MarioKart ripoff looks so trash!

the PS1 chocobo kart game was already trash

Ocarina on Switch finally! Maybe I’ll actually finish it now

Good luck, that's a tough one. It IS pretty cool if you get to the best set pieces admittedly, but woof, gameplay and controls are rough compared to ... most other Zeldas

da fuck. Ocarina is a god damned masterpiece.

Ocarina is 'influential'

Man there were a lot of old games announced at the Direct. N64 titles, GAMEBOY ADVANCE titles! Jus milkin it.

Shockingly low amount of people online considering that the cast of the Mario movie likely to be human characters "trapped" in the bodies of the SMB characters they were announced to be playing. All this fretting over Chris Pratt's ability to do a Mario voice...

I'll bet you 5 polyphonic-coins that doesn't happen

i'm hoping for a return to gruff brooklyn accent mario