Gaming Smack My Switch Up: The Nintendo Switch Discussion Thread (was: NX)

My random guess is that Skyrim will probably be after E3, that they'll announce a launch date there. Probably something to pass the time until Odyssey is ready.

There's a 8 Deluxe trailer, but no date so not sure it'll be ready in time for launch. I would hope by summer it would be ready, but who knows at this point. The trailer on Youtube looks nice but nothing too new, just the same good Mario Kart action.

 

Jeez, a port of a relatively old Wii U game isn't coming out until over a month after launch?

I'm excited for the Switch, but given the distinct lack of launch content it really feels like Nintendo are forcing the system out too early, expecting Breath of the Wild to be enough to win people over.

EDIT: Apparently Nintendo stocks fell 6% during the conference. Ouch...

 

For some reason… elements of Super Mario Odyssey reminds me of Mario Is Missing SNES game and also the pole swinging move from the Donkey Kong '94 GB game.

Also, there is LEGO City Undercover for those that never played the Wii U version. The game is great fun.

 

Good news: it launches on my birthday!

Bad news: not really excited about the launch games. Not the biggest Zelda fan, so I might just hold out for now and not buy at launch.

 

I thought I was the only one who remembered that, what was the term, edutainment game. Something about the sight of a Mario brother running through a city did remind me of that ancient game. Just with less silly trivia questions. And more Mario of course as he was missing in that game and instead it was Luigi running around. Not that was exactly a good first game for Luigi to star in.

 

I admire what Nintendo are going for with this console, but at launch it feels like an incomplete product. We have a bare minimum of good launch titles (Zelda being the saving grace) while the Switch equivalent of Virtual Console won't be ready until late 2017. I'm not feeling the urgency with this console. It sounds like a very nice Christmas gift above all things.

 

It does. Mainly because I'm confident in my belief that the original plan was to have a Christmas release. Skyrim, Mario Kart 8, Super Mario Odyssey, Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Splatoon sounds like a pretty good launch month. But it makes for a barren launch year.

I've been hearing from a few places that Nintendo brought the release forward at last minute so that the Switch would release at the end of this Japanese financial year. This would also explain little things like making the underwhelming looking 1, 2 Switch, a game that looks like it was intended to be bundled with the console similar to Wii Sports, a fully priced launch title.


I think I'll be grabbing a copy of Zelda, before it flies off the shelves and becomes difficult to find, and waiting to get a Switch.

 

Mario Odyssey looks so good.

I hope Playtonic can get Yooka Laylee on Switch by holiday.

 

If these ports do exist, and are slated for a 2017 release, then they might be announced on the Treehouse livestream.

It seems that, Skyrim and BotW notwithstanding, Nintendo wanted to focus on Switch exclusives at the main reveal event instead of making it look like a hardware revision for the Wii U.

 

Yeah a combination of nothing to assuage fears of lukewarm mobile participation and nothing to suggest a legitimate reversal of fortunes in coordination with third parties will do that. If I'm a stockholder at this point I'm maybe getting frustrated they keep participating in the dumb console race game rather than getting them sweet pachinko dollars.

But I'm not, so for me there are enough interesting titles I'll be keeping my eye on it, at least.

 

The only thing I'm unsure of is relying on the analog stick being the primary movement. I got myself a Wii U a couple of months ago and I've mostly been relying on the D pad over the analog stick. I guess using the Switch's Pro Controller will alleviate that.

 

I found it rather telling that Princess Peach is Bowser's cell phone wallpaper.

BotW continues to look like a killer app. Unfortunately, I won't be able to afford BotW on either platform anytime soon, though I never get hardware on launch anyway.

 

Hmm, not sure about either of these:

Neither of those is good - especially the memory, which is where Nintendo failed on the Wii U and they look to be repeating it again - 32GB with downloading games is nothing and saying you can expand with micro SD card misses the point that it should be more.

 

All right, I'll eat my humble pie: I'm into this.

Give me a good Metroid game now.

 

I've been doing some more reading, watching some more YouTube videos and doing some more thinking.
I will now go as far as saying that Nintendo have totally dropped the ball with this launch. When the very first 3DS was launched, I was underwhelmed by the selection of launch titles. By comparison, the 3DS' launch is outstanding compared to the Switch.
Seriously, this is Switch for 2017 (unless there are surprises ahead):

There are some terrific game in there that I look forward to playing. But again, you are looking at 2017. The Switch is a Christmas gift, even for a Zelda fan because once you've played Zelda, then what? There won't be a virtual console at launch.

 

For me, if I were to get the Switch around Christmas, there's a few games that could occupy my attention. I count at least three. But anyway, I'm probably going to wait til next year.

True. When the SNES came out, only "Super Mario World" and "F-Zero" were available at launch in Japan. The US version also had "Pilotwings", "SimCity" and "Gradius III". The third Zelda game only came out a year later, in both country's. By the time I got my SNES in December of 1992, there was already a diverse line-up of games.

 

I suspect I'll be vulnerable to a Switch XC2 combo at substantive price drop.

I know some of it is due to rights issues and legalities and so forth, but I don't think Nintendo really tapped the full potential and promise of the Virtual Console - there could have been far more games on it than they did.

 

Waiting for the Mario Odyssey bundle this holiday. Depending on how March ends up looking, I'll either play the Wii U version of Zelda or just wait to play it after Odyssey.

 

Those really aren't analogous as Sony and Microsoft have a much easier time guaranteeing access to future third party titles to consumers than Nintendo does. If you bought a PS4 or Bone you were basically set for anything that was coming. The Switch has nothing until we get shown otherwise.

This won't really affect launch sales (which will sell out, albeit possibly due to Nintendo shorting retailers, as they do) but they're going to have to keep a rolling list of upcoming stuff promised if they really want people to buy in. They simply cannot coast through a weak initial lineup the way the other two can.