Gaming Official Nintendo Thread

[Mook]

Well shit. I might try Meijer and see if there are nerds lying in wait. Otherwise I'll just wait for Amazon to get some stock in.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

just buy a wii u and play it on that

 

[Mook]

Fuck that hunk of shit. I NEED THE BEST.

Ive already owned one. Not buying again. I want to be able to play Zelda while shitting and losing feeling in my feet for an hour.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Nintendo Switch....(to something else)

 

[Mook]

As soon as I beat Zelda, it will probably be sold...tho Mario is this year (I think).

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I'm glad Sonic went back to 2D. I tried to enjoy them as much as the originals but Sonic was never a game that transitioned to 3D very well.

 

[Fish]

IMO the Switch is going to replace the Wii U and the 3DS. The 3DS is a success and if the switch is just as popular as the 3DS, Nintendo will have a hit on its hands Im sure if they could sell a pereferal that would make the 3DS play on your TV, it would sell like hot cakes and print money. The next best thing, make a better handheld that can do that.

Id keep your Switch if I were you. I still have my Wii U, but will not be getting Breath of the Wild for it and will be waiting to get it on the switch.

 

[wombat]

I'm gonna check out my local best buy at midnight to see if the crowds are stupid. I really want to play the new Zelda but won't buy it for wii u.

 

[Mook]

The price on the U right now is insane anyway.

Im gonna hit up Meijer and best buy around 11 to check for lines.

 

[wombat]

The price on the U right now is insane anyway.

Im gonna hit up Meijer and best buy around 11 to check for lines.

Let me know what you see, I'm thinking of driving by walmart and best buy around the same time.

 

[Mook]

I'm betting Meijer will be my best chance at midnight. BB is likely to have a line. Target is opening with them at 8am but I'm not getting up at 7 just to stand in what I'm sure will be a line.

 

[Mook]

Damnit, I dont know which store to gamble on.

[UPDATE] Walmart has now confirmed that it will also have Nintendo Switch units available for walk-in shoppers at launch on Friday, March 3. 24-hour Walmart Supercenters will start selling the consoles at 12:01 AM local time on March 3. For stores that are not open 24 hours, Walmart said it advises people to call their local store to find out when units will be available to buy.

 

[Fish]

It is rumored there will be 2M worldwide. Not a ton, but IIRC more than the Wii and WAY more than the classic.

 

[Mook]

Not 2m at launch.

 

[Fish]

Thats the rumor. 2M worldwide at launch.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

[MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017...zelda-engine-to-prototype-breath-of-the-wild/

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/nintendo-switch-review/

(As a quick Zelda aside: though the Switch ditches the usual console optical discs and hard disk drives in favor of tiny, multi-gigabyte cartridges and internal flash storage, Breath of the Wild also features significant load times of 10 to 15 seconds after every death. At the same time, the game largely avoids further loading breaks as you traverse its expansive plains and mountains, though that graphical pop-in makes this a tad less impressive.)

Using the included dock to hook the system to a TV actually makes the graphical performance worse in some cases. When docked and charging, the Switch goes into an overclocked processor mode that's capable of sending a 1080p image for compatible HDTVs, rather than the 720p portable image. I can't say Breath of the Wild looked especially sharper on an HDTV than on its own portable screen (aside from the usual advantages of being on a bigger display). What I can say is that the game was much more liable to show dips in frame rate and stuttering when docked to the TV, apparently struggling due to the effort of pushing those extra pixels.

We've only got a single launch game to evaluate (other titles in the Switch launch line-up are far from taxing, even for the Tegra), and perhaps developers will learn to take better advantage of the Switch hardware as time goes on. Still it's not encouraging that a marquee launch game like Breath of the Wild already seems to be pushing the Switch hardware to its limits. It's especially worrying since this is a game that was originally designed for the nearly five-year-old Wii U, which is getting a concurrent version of the game that looks awfully similar in screenshots.

Ergonomics aside, one of the Joy-Cons also has a much more serious technical problem when it comes to its wireless bluetooth connection. Occasionally, the left Joy-Con will lose its connection to the Switch, leaving the player flailing for anywhere from one to three seconds before the connection comes back. I've only had this happen when the system is docked to a TV that is roughly seven to 10 feet from the controllers—it never happens when the system is merely propped on its kickstand, when the controllers tend to be much closer. In docked mode, though, the disconnections seem to happen once every couple of minutes, enough to be annoying and lead to a few unintentional deaths in Breath of the Wild.

holy crap, didnt realize how tiny the controllers are

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Good news is it seems like Breath of the Wild is getting excellent pre-reviews

 

[Mook]

Might just get a Wii U.

 

[Fish]

No. Just no. Unless you are gonna play Wii U games, just no. I have a Wii U and I am not touching Breath of the Wild until I get a switch.

 

[Mook]

Why? It's the same damn game. Aside from a bigger draw distance and a steadier frame rate, they're identical.

And the more I read, the less the switch is worth the 300+tax. It definitely seems like an unfinished console.

 

[Mook]

I can get a used U for 80 bucks without the gamepad, which you don't need for Zelda. Get a used pro controller + the game and have the same experience for far less.

 

[Fish]

Its not going to have all the features it should, but software updates can cure a lot of what ails it, which will happen.

Also you cant really compare a pre release console and game to a Wii U port. The controller alone is worth the switch. The game pad is lucky to get 3 hours of game play when I play.

 

[Fish]

This is all just opinion. I am not getting Zelda until the new console. They are supposed to have DLC in the fall as well. Will it be optimized for the Wii U? Doubt it.

 

[Mook]

You realize the switch undocked lasts at most 2-3 hours, right? Everyone who has the console is confirming it... So it's the same as the gamepad.