In the end, who cares ? The information was given and it was the same. The situation won't change whether or not the information is given in 10 days or now. What is left from the "surprise" of a press event ? Fond memories ?
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Nintendo Switch Discussion Thread (Question of the Day, Countdown, etc)
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In the end, who cares ? The information was given and it was the same. The situation won't change whether or not the information is given in 10 days or now. What is left from the "surprise" of a press event ? Fond memories ?
Remember the PS3? Its first year lineup was a tragedy.
Switch has Mario Kart, Zelda, Splatoon, Smash, Mario and more all in the first year. More importantly, with all those names out of the way Nintendo is free to release new names. Very exciting times ahead.
Serenitynow
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But the person I was quoting said you don't simply add $40 or $50 to get the US price.
In thefro's model, 199 pounds translates to $203 before sales tax. Your model would suggest it translates to $250. So I'm confused as to which it is.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
As the resident Vitabro here, even I can tell you that's dogshit. Fuck those controls.
I'm done with GTA, i've given it several chances now and I just cannot get into those games for the life of me.
Now if they announce Red Dead for Switch I will be riding my christmas tree around pretending to shoot guns in the air making cowboy noises.
*high five*
I suspect many Vita owners will picking up a Switch for similar reasons. You are correct, remote play is adequate and has helped me play some PS4 games I otherwise wouldn't have but its far from perfect and the controls on some, like GTA are too wonky. I was excited to try and play Batman Arkham Knight through remote play but it was just not going to happen with those Batmobile controls. I'm super excited for Switch as the ultimate culmination of what I wanted out of Vita.
Keep the faucet running.
always crazy bacon
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Time to enter the stasis chamber.
Right? Right? I had such high hopes for that. Destiny worked OK and Resogun was good. But not good enough to really stick with me.
It is true, and I think Switch has a pretty decent amount of rumoured new games coming. You should take into acccount (from the perspective of the market and of Nintendo) that they are competing with systems that are in their prime (Xbox One and PS4 are 3 years old, usually the queue for a ramping up of great titles), so they have to do better than just okay for a launch lineup to be competitive I think.
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That's a fair opinion. I'm much the same on it currently. Simple solution is to just not buy at launch. I lean more toward waiting until 2018 or beyond to see if the game library is hitting the right notes, or if it would just gather a lot of dust like my Wii U and 3DSs did.
Unless the Switch version gets a huge enhancement, I could just play Zelda on my Wii U if I can't wait for it. Honestly, I'm mildly excited at best for it anyway as I'm not big on the artstyle and worry the open world will be boring given how barren I found the much smaller overworlds in past 3D Zeldas and my general open-world fatigue.
It's not like people are praising those and bashing the rumored Switch lineup here though (or if they are I missed it).
A mediocre Switch launch line up would be leagues better than those dreadful launches. Other than fanboyism, or wanting to play better looking versions of CoD et al., there was no good reason to own those systems until well into 2013.
Also very true. The Switch is likely to be $250-300 and going against same priced or cheaper PS4 and X1 Slim bundles. That can be tough sell for non-nintendo fans, less serious gamers who haven't taken the next gen plunge etc.
For Nintendo fans, sure. Is that enough to keep the business going as is? I'm not sure, but if that's the strategy they're going for I hope it is.
DrROBschiz
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Nvidia Shield?
Tablet? Laptop
I dunno
Maybe it could happen on Switch but Im not holding my breath
EDIT; Im also a VitaBRO! NEVER FORGET!
That Mirror reporter said he expects £299/349 after Argos listed it at £299. LKD said GAME will price it at £200/249.
Mathematically you wouldn't, but console manufacturers still do (as I said, the way they do it is not exactly rocket science). As I mentioned in my post, there are definitely reasons to expect them to lower that price difference so that the dollar and pound are closer in number (pound value decrease and low rumoured price of Switch hardware), but there isn't yet a precedent for gaming hardware to have the same price in pounds and in dollars/euros (at least not XBOX, Playstation and Nintendo hardware) as far as I am aware.
CharminUltra
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SWEET HYPE
Portugeezer
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Even if we had all the info, we'd still be seeing a lot of things for the first time which is always exciting.
Hopefully:
I just love Max Payne 3 and still can't believe it doesn't have a current gen port.
Serenitynow
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Ah I get it now, thank you. Lol when you first said, "it's not rocket science," I thought you meant, "it's not that hard to figure out" to me. You meant that there's no exact science to how they determine these prices.
Indeed. I mean, even though we had the teaser in the reveal trailer, I am thoroughly anticipating a gameplay trailer for that 3D Mario game.
Exactly. We know there will be a new Mario but that's little info. How will it look ? How does it play ? That's the most important part and something journalists can't leak.
Portugeezer
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Yep, I bought a Vita with this in mind, but a lot of games didn't control well, there was noticeable lag, and the image compression was quite noticeable in some games like AC4 with a lot of foliage.
CriterionDog
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wait wait WAIT
Rayman Legends is being ported to the switch?
What if...it's a new Rayman game?
Where did his rumor come from?
If the rumor is true, I hope for new content!
Rayman Legends is being ported to the switch?
What if...it's a new Rayman game?
Where did his rumor come from?
If the rumor is true, I hope for new content!
Aonuma
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If everyone just "waits until 2018" we'll have the Wii U all over again. People need to buy it before 3rd parties buy in too.
I wonder why they'd push this one back.
DecoReturns
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Looks like I've missed a lot of news today.
To avoid launch day madness, I'd think. There will be some big titles (Zelda and Skyrim) available most likely, so they won't want to just drop it in there, as it would just die.
Edit:
Laura has a nice and meaty summary of all her Switch leaks ever written down here, if you have time to catch up.
Director's summary: BG&E2 timed exclusive for 12 months, coming to XB1, PS4 and PC afterwards. Rayman Legends port Q2 2017. Rabbids x Mario RPG will land in September, and Zelda at launch more firmly determined by Laura.
TyMiles2012
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Which is exactly why I'm taking my chances online. I don't have time for that. lmao
Herb Alpert
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it's hard to keep up with the switchileaks! I wonder how much surprises will remain in 9 days...
Obviously because they have a proper Mario RPG for launch, from Super Secret Studio n°3.
Speculation. You missed a lot of speculation.
I wouldn't overstate the importance of such posts.
We had a bunch of Gaffers claiming they are waiting with Pokemon Sun & Moon due to the upcoming Pokemon Stars for Nintendo Switch.
Pokemon Sun & Moon broke sale records around the globe.
DecoReturns
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I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Nobody wants a Rayman Legends port. Makes no sense.
Anybody who ever wanted it bought it and was disappointed with it on another platform.
Anybody who ever wanted it bought it and was disappointed with it on another platform.
Serenitynow
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What was that guy's twitter handle who said Zelda was definitely coming at launch before LKD "confirmed" it? All I remember about his bio is that he's an Evo community manager? Anyways I just want to see if he's said anything else
Portugeezer
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I mean if it comes it comes, but it's nothing worth making a big deal about. Just another game people will be able to download on eShop.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
RIME confirmed for Switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMIdDAllGMM
AuthenticM
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Do we have any indication of the length of the event? I hope it's at least 100 minutes long.
Justice_Bolt
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Rayman Legends port? Why. I want my DK tropical freeze port Nintendo!
PadWarrior
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I like the way you think. This is the one game I really want to see this year
kunonabi
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Tough shit. They've made it clear the last year they don't want my money so im perfectly fine waiting until I find the form factor, price, and library to be acceptable. If the non wii u owners they're so focused on don't show up that's their problem not mine.
That said, I expect the switch to do just fine early on and it will be another worthwhile Nintendo console eventually. Even if it will probably stay hideous looking.
I probably would have been down for triple dipping on it until I realized that a Switch port of Legends would probably not have touch controls for the Murfy stages.
Bidermaier
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Nintendo still has not have Rayman Origins in HD, it was a Wii title. Of course I played on my vita but I would be happy to replay it on a (slightly) bigger screen *wink wink*
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