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

You’d think that, but you’re bound to find other titles to absorb your time even if you spend most of your time on the evergreen titles like MK8 & Smash.

 

Alternatively, when it comes to the online service, see if anyone you know has a Family Plan with free slots- those can add up to 7 people on them. And if you want to divvy the price up from that with your friend, an even cut would cost you as little as $5 for the year (depending on how many people).

It's mostly the same game, but it has all of the DLC tracks included, 6 new characters w/carts & parts (plus a Splatoon outfit via amiibo unlock), a two-item inventory for regular races, extra items, super drift was added, increased TV play rez, a revised-and-proper Battle Mode (with courses and new sub-modes) and 3 types of driving assists for younger/less-skilled players (auto-acceleration, smart steering- stuff that you need to now remember to disable when playing because they are on by default!).

 

A new Indie World streamed yesterday:



TMNT confirmation (hells yeah!) and maybe Skuls and Aztech being the only stand-outs (though, with Skuls, while the head-swapping sounds cool, 90 seems like too many to me- and, honestly, every time I hear something described as "rogue-like" I tune out now). That labyrinth town game also looks promising or, at the very least, has an appealingly unique art style with a slight Where's Waldo-vibe.

 

Nothing on my wish list has a significant discount, alas (and only 2 or 2 circling around 20%). At this point, I have so many games unplayed (have almost filled my memory card, but I blame MK11, Fortnite and Apex for that mostly) I can't justify buying anything that isn't at least 50% off right now since I can obviously wait a long time if I need to.

 

After 2.5 years, Super Mario Party has received its second update (the first was a small patch last month), expanding online play options beyond the original select mini-games restrictions to now include the main Mario Party, Partner Party and Minigame Freeplay modes.



Includes Friend Match and Private Game (passworded). You can play 2-4 players with 1 player per system, r 3-4 players with up to 2 players per system. You cannot have 2 players on one system playing against 2 players on their own systems.

Considering how the game has been consistently kept within their evergreen advertising pushes over the past couple years- and how well its sold, it's not exactly surprising that it would get an update, but after so long it seemed highly unlikely.

 

Interesting and unexpected



Obviously there are more advanced options out there but should be a cute way to get younger potential game makers into trying things out.

 

Nintendo's Fiscal Year Report.

To no one's surprise, the Switch did crazy numbers last year. It passed the GBA in unit sales and only sits behind the DS, GB & Wii. And Nintendo expects it to pass the Wii this year. MK8D sold more copies last year than Ghosts of Tsushima or FFVIIR. AC was the top-selling title and came up less than 3m shy of dethroning MK8D in overall sales in just over a single year of release (top 20 games list is at the end of that article).

 

It does include bundles- so that would give it a holiday timeframe boost. But the game is consistently on the top ten sellers every month- and those charts usually don't include digital numbers (Nintendo only releases those during quarterly and fiscal year statements), which would presumably exclude bundles.

So, a secret desire to prevent MK9 from ever being released, maybe?

MK8D on its own is less than 2m shy of Mario Kart Wii's totals. Adding the extra 8-ish from MK8 on Wii U and, according to wikipedia, it's the 8th highest-selling game ever, across any platform. It's only behind Minecraft, GTAV, EA's mobile Tetris, Wii Sports, PUBG, SMB1 & Pokemon R/B/G/Y, ahead of Wii Fit and the original NES/GB Tetris.

I think it's just become one of the key 2 or 3 games that (almost) everyone has to own on their Switch. The local multi factor on a system that is designed to provide local multi even on the go. Plus MK8D's added helper features make it easier for kids who are even younger than usual to get into it, so a lot of those Switch Lites can benefit the game too. A piggy-back effect on Animal Crossing isn't out of the picture either- Lites and other systems sold to take advantage of the AC craze this past year? Might as well buy a Mario Kart for it while you're at it.


EDIT- Also, Nintendo, WTH?



EDIT 2-

SNL did a Wario-in-court bit this weekend, but due to some content we can't embed it. You can find it at this link, just NSFW warning.