Nintendo Switch

[Strafe]

14 hours ago, Strafe said:

In case anyone missed it:

 

https://www.shopto.net/en/swovdl-overwatch-legendary-edition-3-month-membership-p180647/

 

overwatch switch for £24, including 3 months online.

Shopto are shit. Order not showing on the website, no one answers the phone and you have to raise a ticket on their website which is ridiculously convoluted.

[Nobuo's Organ]

Your body may be ready, but do you have a minute to talk about how to make your soul ready?

 

[Benny]

Oh shit, I ordered Link's Awakening limited edition from ShopTo

[Spiceymike]

I'm trying to get my head around how the ring-con thing works? I didn't think a standard joycon would detect pressure from something like that? Or is it detecting the pressure due to how you connect the joycon to it like some sort of expansion port?

[Girth Certificate]

or it's just assuming the pressure based on how much it jiggles

[dug]

49 minutes ago, Benny said:

Ignoring the massive ring chat for a moment - I've been considering getting Iconoclasts on Switch - is it a recommended buy?

 

I really liked it, but then I'm a sucker for any metroidvania type game. Others with perhaps more discernment than me found it to be average.

[DeDeDe]

1 hour ago, Benny said:

Ignoring the massive ring chat for a moment - I've been considering getting Iconoclasts on Switch - is it a recommended buy?

 

I loved it, although it should be noted that it's a Metroidvania game styled after Metroid Fusion rather than Super Metroid. The game also has a very opinionated design and story, which might not appeal to everyone. 

[rgraves]

21 minutes ago, Mr Combo Breaker said:

or it's just assuming the pressure based on how much it jiggles

 

No, Nintendo had a patent way back in 2014(!) that showed how this was working (or at least an earlier version of it) - it was properly measuring the pressure. I'll try to find it.

 

EDIT: Here it is: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/04/this_nintendo_patent_for_a_u-shaped_fitness_controller_is_actually_cool

[Benny]

11 minutes ago, DeDeDe said:

 

The game also has a very opinionated design and story, which might not appeal to everyone. 

 

Opinionated story?

[Not Thread Owner]

It's something I'd certainly like to have an adventure fitting in my ring etc.

[Not Thread Owner]

4 minutes ago, Benny said:

 

Opinionated story?

 

There's some political/moral stuff, and religious commentary. But it's just a game.

 

A very good game, in my opinion.

[momomo]

This guys look is intense (American Pscho Jr).

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

 

 

[Benny]

10 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

There's some political/moral stuff, and religious commentary. But it's just a game.

 

A very good game, in my opinion.

 

 

In the same way that Mein Kampf was just a book? Or a bit milder than that?

[Not Thread Owner]

19 minutes ago, Benny said:

 

 

In the same way that Mein Kampf was just a book? Or a bit milder than that?

 

Ha, no. It's no more "opinionated story" than Dishonoured or Skyrim or something.

[Not Thread Owner]

Well Nintendo have fucked the branding then.

 

[Barnard]

1 hour ago, momomo said:

This guys look is intense (American Pscho Jr).

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

 

 

 

All those interviews with Ed Kempner will do that to a man 

[Oh Danny Boy]

And I thought Nintendo were done making shit gimmicky controls  

 

They are still hoping that the long gone wii market is still around. This won’t be a popular opinion but I hope this bombs and stops them considering wasting their talent on novelties. The Switch has been great so far because (Labo aside)  Nintendo have been concentrating on the games and not the gimmicks. 

[Benny]

I hope this becomes the most wildly successful thing they've ever produced. With a massive ring in every home and celebrity endorsements.

[R0b]

Gimmicks have come around every Nintendo generation, it's part of what makes them great and indeed successful in the past with the Wii and the DS. The Switch is full of gimmicks, from HD rumble to it being dockable - it's just the latter is a successful one. 

[mdn2]

Nintendo have always done gimmicks. Remember Odama with the microphone and Donkey Konga on the Gamecube? 

 

This is being made by the same people who did Labo, so it's not like they've pulled resources away from other teams. 

[TehStu]

I'm up for this Switch Ring Fit stuff. Part of the charm, innit. 

[R0b]

I'd prefer a Labo VR 2 over this though. 

[Shimmyhill]

4 hours ago, grindmouse said:

Finally a game which will appeal to any remaining Wii Fit fans AND hardcore RPG fans. 

 

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This won’t appeal to either.

 

Nintendo’s market research team are off their heads.

 

This peripheral would most suit a Nintendoland style game, where players take turns to compete locally.

 

But not this.

 

38 minutes ago, Oh Danny Boy said:

And I thought Nintendo were done making shit gimmicky controls  

 

They are still hoping that the long gone wii market is still around. This won’t be a popular opinion but I hope this bombs and stops them considering wasting their talent on novelties. The Switch has been great so far because (Labo aside)  Nintendo have been concentrating on the games and not the gimmicks. 

Bloody hell, two Nintendo seals of approval - this is gonna sell like hot cakes!

[Oh Danny Boy]

9 minutes ago, Rob Rule said:

Gimmicks have come around every Nintendo generation, it's part of what makes them great and indeed successful in the past with the Wii and the DS. The Switch is full of gimmicks, from HD rumble to it being dockable - it's just the latter is a successful one. 

 

The Switch still primarily about software. It’s gimmick being its console/handheld hybrid which hasn’t humstrung its software with its control input unlike the Wii/DS. I’d also argue that market just doesn’t exist anymore, Labo’s sales were poor, I’d have thought they’d learn their lesson there.

 

[Alex W.]

I kind of want this dumb thing for my winter work-out. And it won’t need to occupy the TV like Wii Fit did.

[joffocakes]

I'm really excited about it. I hope it's not too late for Mario & Sonic Olympics to take advantage of the ring. I'd love if a new Pilotwings was built around it.

[sir stiff_one]

6 hours ago, joffocakes said:

Heres the new video for the mad hoop:

 

 

Apologies to him but that guy looks like pure evil. Like when he speaks it looks like he’s ready to switch on you (ho ho ho) and slice up your family. 

[Alex W.]

I thought he was bad in the still but he's genuinely un-nerving in his intensity in the video. The bit where his face just peeks in the edge of the frame while the woman is talking is like something out of a horror movie. I don't know whether he reminds me more of Norman Bateman or Dennis Reynolds.

[Wonderm]

Historically- much to the wife's dismay- I have been known to buy any old shit Nintendo pump out, even down to the fucking Virtual Boy till it gave me two migraines and I shifted it (at a profit!) 

 

I might draw the line at this weird wank hula hoop though, I must be honest. 

 

Let's hope the little man doesn't see the video.

[bradigor]

He looks like the killer on a Channel 5 afternoon straight to TV movie. He was the kindly fitness instructor, but it turned out he had been watching her the whole time.