Nintendo Switch

[Colonel Panic]

Waverace 64 has aged VERY well. Pilotwings 64's a bit more dated visually, especially thanks to it's aggressive LOD pop-in but also still incredibly playable.

[drmick]

2 hours ago, Fry Crayola said:

There's only one new tier. Unless you're talking about family and solo subscriptions?

 

Yes- solo and family tiers are now double the lower tier.

[Fry Crayola]

Got it.

 

It's worth noting that the family sub applies the N64, Mega Drive and AC DLC to up to eight people, not one, so that'll be why the increase is larger.

[Chopsocky]

6 hours ago, Stanley said:

 

Hopefully the catalogue will be expanded and we get stuff like Bangaio

 

If you haven't already try Bangai-o Spirits on the DS. Awesome little game! 

[deKay]

Anyone seen the new sub for sale yet?

[the_debaser]

It’s not available until the 26th. 

[the_debaser]

Says here the games will be at a higher resolution. Hopefully a higher frame rate too. 

[Strafe]

Dying Light on Switch runs rather well, all things considered 

 

 

[geldra]

5 hours ago, Strafe said:

Dying Light on Switch runs rather well, all things considered 

 

 

just watched this with the sound off so couldn’t hear any of the chat/criticism, but that looked bloomin’ impressive. 

[Strafe]

4 hours ago, geldra said:

just watched this with the sound off so couldn’t hear any of the chat/criticism, but that looked bloomin’ impressive. 

I’ve got a copy coming tomorrow!

 

I meant to message you - simply games offered a £10 part refund or return for the bashed up Metroid dread box. I did the latter but if you’re keeping it they’ll give you a few quid back.

[Stanley]

Is Dying Light a physical release then? Looks mightily impressive. 

[Dudley]

23 hours ago, Professor Puzzles said:

 

I thought I saw both Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo Kazooie on the new advert for Nintendo Online.

 

EDIT: Yep, Banjo Kazooie was in there at least.

 

Banjo was published by Nintendo, as was Donkey Kong 64 (And while we're at it, Goldeneye)

 

Perfect Dark was published by Rare.

 

I suspect this makes a big difference.

 

[geldra]

50 minutes ago, Strafe said:

I’ve got a copy coming tomorrow!

 

I meant to message you - simply games offered a £10 part refund or return for the bashed up Metroid dread box. I did the latter but if you’re keeping it they’ll give you a few quid back.

Same, £10 was a piss take. I told them that so they offered £15. Sent it back and ordered from Nintendo. 

[Stanley]

A rather incendiary video from Jim, and tbh I agree with him about Nintendo Online being a bit of a rip off, but I don’t agree with everything he says. It’s not an easy subject to just be for or against, there are good arguments both ways, but the idea that Nintendo shouldn’t charge for old ROMS because it’s easier and more convenient, not to mention cheaper, to just pirate them is, weird. 
 

I mean you could argue that with literally anything; books, movies, music etc. 
 

And no way are Kotaku innocent here either, with comments such as “thank God for pirates” in their “news” article on Dread emulation. 
 

Anyway, here it is.

 

[ZOK]

Good video!

[Strafe]

Dying Light looks to run pretty well based on a 5 minute go - I haven't hit the open world yet though so let's see. Not as blurry as Witcher 3, that's for sure.

[Exit Chamber]

2 hours ago, Strafe said:

Dying Light looks to run pretty well based on a 5 minute go - I haven't hit the open world yet though so let's see. Not as blurry as Witcher 3, that's for sure.

 

Very tempted to buy it, would be keen for further thoughts once you've managed to play a bit more.

[Strafe]

3 minutes ago, Blunted said:

 

Very tempted to buy it, would be keen for further thoughts once you've managed to play a bit more.

 

I'll give it a few hours this evening, hopefully. I've never played it before so hoping it will be good fun! Also comes with some stickers, a journal and a fold out map, all in a box (like Witcher 3, really). None to these extras should influence your purchase, mind because I don't really see the point!

[Sane]

It's a great game, I had a lot of fun with it in co-op on PC. Getting stuck outside in the dark and having to run for your life is terrifying.

[Stanley]

Is Dying Light physical only, or a staggered digital release or something? It’s nowhere to be found on the eshop, not even in the coming soon section or by searching. 
 

edit. Ah 

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Dying Light on Switch is unavailable to buy digitally in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, meaning players in these regions can only purchase the game physically if they want to play. That's because Dying Light is banned in Germany, where the Nintendo eShop for Europe, Australia and New Zealand is registered, meaning that the eShop can't sell the digital version

https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/why-you-may-not-be-able-to-buy-dying-light-on-switch-digitally

[Clipper]

the point of the video is buried a bit but it is a good one.

 

If you make it easier to legitimately get hold of stuff, more convenient and decent price with good features then people won't bother with the faff of pirating. The point about NEtflix etc is well made, it worked and people paid for it and pirated less - I certainly did. Now the video market fragments it is about which of the streaming services to pay for and missing out on stuff and hey presto piracy will increase.

 

 

[Stanley]

the bundling of Animal Crossing DLC is a bizarre decision. Asking you to pay for something you can’t even access unless you’ve bought the full game outright is one thing, but also making that the only way you can play N64 games is just ridiculous. 
 

And I don’t care about licensing costs or whatever the claim for it being expensive is, either soak it up or don’t do it - it’s not like they’re being forced to offer Megadrive games or whatever. 

[Sarlaccfood]

I broadly agree with the Sterling video when it comes to retro games, but not sure her argument works for more recent releases (Literally one of the arguments was that the devs got paid for their work back in the 90s).

Also I’ll probably need a bit more convincing that one of the biggest videogame websites announcing you can emulate a game won’t affect sales than because it just won’t.

 

[ZOK]

Well how is he going to prove it one way or the other? It’s his opinion, and I agree with it.

 

The fact is emulation of something like that is strictly for nerds who can be bothered with it only, and they will make up a tiny fraction of the copies that end up in circulation, compared to people who will just buy it because they want to play it on a Switch and that’s what you do to play it on a Switch. Most people just cba with piracy when it comes down to it, even if they have the know how…and the majority don’t even have that.

[Oz]

[Sarlaccfood]

2 minutes ago, ZOK said:

Well how is he going to prove it one way or the other? It’s his opinion, and I agree with it.

 

The fact is emulation of something like that is strictly for nerds who can be bothered with it only, and they will make up a tiny fraction of the copies that end up in circulation, compared to people who will just buy it because they want to play it on a Switch and that’s what you do to play it on a Switch. Most people just cba with piracy when it comes down to it.

Yeah you’re probably right. I’m not sure the arguments quite coalesced convincingly between emulating old and new games though, especially if you swapped out Metroid for say, Sable or Silksong. 
 

Also pointing to Spotify as a good example of anything other than screwing over the people that made the content is shakey ground too.

[Lyrical Donut]

1 hour ago, Stanley said:

the bundling of Animal Crossing DLC is a bizarre decision. Asking you to pay for something you can’t even access unless you’ve bought the full game outright is one thing, but also making that the only way you can play N64 games is just ridiculous. 
 

And I don’t care about licensing costs or whatever the claim for it being expensive is, either soak it up or don’t do it - it’s not like they’re being forced to offer Megadrive games or whatever. 

 

They would've had to pay MS for Banjo Kazooie too.

Also, assuming they're coming - Wave Race and 1080 have licences attached to them, for example.

[Quest]

They stripped the Kawasaki logo out of Wave Race's Wii release and then put it back on Wii U, so could go either way. 

[Lyrical Donut]

11 minutes ago, Quest said:

They stripped the Kawasaki logo out of Wave Race's Wii release and then put it back on Wii U, so could go either way. 

Ah, so they did- good point.

[ZOK]

48 minutes ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Yeah you’re probably right. I’m not sure the arguments quite coalesced convincingly between emulating old and new games though, especially if you swapped out Metroid for say, Sable or Silksong. 
 

Also pointing to Spotify as a good example of anything other than screwing over the people that made the content is shakey ground too.

I agree, but the point is still sound - who is going to bother pirating if you can get everything for a tenner a month? A minority.

 

What is then the issue is how much do we value art, and do we think we should own art automatically on one format if we’ve paid for it on others. I pay for Spotify for example, but I hardly listen to anything new on it, except by accident. I’m mainly paying to be able to get music I already own somewhere easily on to a device where it isn’t. I’m not saying that is universal, but a chunk of people I’m sure.

 

As for indie titles (which I’m guessing Sable/Silksong are), I wonder if they are as impacted by piracy? In my mind I expect the sort of people who want such titles are more likely to want to pay for them anyway (based on nothing more than it sounds plausible to me).