Nintendo Switch News and Discussion Thread

[the8thark]

Also, 35 $ for 8 people.

Only if you are a US citizen. Those outside the USA as usual pay much more the same service.

 

[YIGAhim]

Only if you are a US citizen. Those outside the USA as usual pay much more the same service.

Ah

 

[DarkestLink]

Also, 35 $ for 8 people. Does your switch have 8 accounts? No, it doesn't. It probably has 3 or 4. That means your friends, or even family could go in with you on paying for it with you, cheapening it dramatically

Oh I guess I misunderstood. I thought all accounts had to be on the same console.

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...ccessor_is_nintendo_switch_online_says_reggie

Horror of horrors. I mean, maybe as a gift, when the next console releases, they tell us that if we've paid for the past five years of Switch online, we can actually download any of the classic games they've released online for free? I'm counting on it.

 

[YIGAhim]

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...ccessor_is_nintendo_switch_online_says_reggie

Horror of horrors. I mean, maybe as a gift, when the next console releases, they tell us that if we've paid for the past five years of Switch online, we can actually download any of the classic games they've released online for free? I'm counting on it.

Oh, they'd better.

This will terribly limit what we can purchase for "VC" and won't give us proper selection. I do believe however, that they will all be free

 

[the8thark]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGQznGKXdM&frags=pl,wn
Switch Mobile Mode Analysed in Unprecedented Detail + Video-Out Mod Details! - from Digital Foundry. Very detailed, worth watching.

 

[the8thark]

Another Nintendo Direct rumour. The rumour is it's coming in a few days and will talk about the paid online service and other things.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...o_air_tomorrow_switch_online_details_incoming

 

[Spirit]

Come oooooooon Zelda ports

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

Wow, Nintendo has something special in store. They've been mum this entire time about the online service and now, hours before they were going to tell us more, Furukawa has made some Faustian bargain with the oni of seismic activity to stall for more time. We won't know anything until it comes out. Well played, Big N.

 

[Quin]

^
Hah, you (me) wish!

Anyone paying up?

I sure am not. I haven't have seen such a bad deal from Nintendo in a long while. Well, except maybe the pokemon lets go price tag.
I rushed trough all the Generations ultimate in a week so I wouldn't have had to pay to see the new monsters.

 

[Spirit]

So I got the 7 day free trial of Switch online, of course there's no discounts on the eShop with it being a free trial but something has caught my attention as far as the NES games go...

It may be a slow rollout but i honestly think we'll get at least Snes and N64 games like we have with the NES right now.

Thing is i think each tims theh put a new console out there i think the price will go up too. I cant say how much by but i think in the future we'll be able to buy in tiers.

I hope when Snes and N64 roll out that we still get the option to pay for the base NES package. That'd be quite good.

It's just with the NES games taking up a tile like a normal game on the homescreen does it feels like Snes and N64 are no brainers.

I just hope it doesnt take them years to do it, like how WiiU got folders a month before it bottomed out completely...

 

[the8thark]

It may be a slow rollout but i honestly think we'll get at least Snes and N64 games like we have with the NES right now.

There is evidence to suggest this might just happen. Dataminers of the Switch v6.0 OS found that each controller has it's own little icon in the OS. A SNES controllr icon is there.
https://twitter.com/shadowninja108/status/1035416386460246016

Also there has been a trademark for a similarlydesigned N64 controller image by Nintendo of recent too.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/nintendo-64-classic-edition-console-trademark-2017-7?r=US&IR=T
Everyone is jumping to conclusions that it's a for an N64 classic console. That could be the case but it could also be for future N64 games on the Switch online service.
I personally think the N64 on Switch idea is more plausible than the N64 classic console idea is. However both ideas do have prior history to make them plausible.

 

[Fraxinus]

I guess this is better than nothing. May consider periodically subscribing just for the backups.

 

[the8thark]

I guess this is better than nothing. May consider periodically subscribing just for the backups.

Here's an alternate video for those who hate gamexplain.



His source
https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/0...-after-your-switch-online-subscription-lapses

 

[Spirit]

Reggie says that Metroid Prime 4 is "well into development".

I hope we see something of it at the Game Awards so I can see if Suckamoto has made a mess of it.