Nintendo Switch

[Not Thread Owner]

Skylanders Superchargers was 16.5GB too!

 

Basically, if you download Skylanders and Just Dance on day one, you're fucked already.

[Chooch]

2 minutes ago, deKay said:

Skylanders Superchargers was 16,5GB too!

 

Basically, if you download Skylanders and Just Dance on day one, you're fucked already.

Because of your taste?

[Not Thread Owner]

1 hour ago, dataDave said:

 

Then, just get any old SD, and transfer whatever you're going to be playing to the internal space. That will work for anything that fits within whatever is left on there after the system updates.

 

SDs are, assuming Nintendo support UHS-I, faster than 500Mb/s. You'd be better sticking everything on the SD.

[Not Thread Owner]

4 minutes ago, Chooch said:

Because of your taste?

 

That too, but children exist you know.

[Shimmyhill]

Good news, Game give (after a cex price match) £31 trade in for a dual shock 4 - that's half a pro controller paid for!

 

No launch day pre order stock left apparently and phase 2 stock has an unknown date at the moment.

[MojoChin]

21 minutes ago, deKay said:

SDs are, assuming Nintendo support UHS-I, faster than 500Mb/s. You'd be better sticking everything on the SD.

 

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Has it been mentioned if the Switch supports UHS-II MicroSD cards, by the way? They're waaaaaaay faster than UHS-I cards - the fastest Samsung Evos (UHS-I) are around 90MB/s read, but the Lexar UHS-II cards are over 140MB/s.

 

So, which of your statements are true? 90MB/s or 500Mb/s? Oh yeah, that's right...IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER!

[Not Thread Owner]

18 minutes ago, *chin* said:

 

 

So, which of your statements are true? 90MB/s or 500Mb/s? Oh yeah, that's right...IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER!

 

You know 500Mb/s is 62.5MB/s, right?

[rgraves]

16 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

You know 500Mb/s is 62.5MB/s, right?

[Hitcher]

Probably going to end up cancelling my pre-order as I can't justify over £300 just for a game I can get on the Wii U and I'll probably not finish anyway.

[Nespresso]

2 minutes ago, Hitcher said:

Probably going to end up cancelling my pre-order as I can't justify over £300 just for a game I can get on the Wii U and I'll probably not finish anyway.

I never liked you. 

[Shimmyhill]

Just to keep you lot updated, I'm not cancelling mine and I'm looking for a solution that will let me sleep until 3rd March, hmm I do need to be awake on the 9th Feb too and we're golden.

[rgraves]

Yeah, just to shock you all, I'm not cancelling mine either. I'll be playing Zelda on the bog, then Splatoon on the beach, then Mario on the plane.

 

I'm also going to milk a virtual cow while staring into the eyes of my 8 year-old daughter. I am a sick man, but she'll love me for it.

[MojoChin]

46 minutes ago, deKay said:

You know 500Mb/s is 62.5MB/s, right?

You know 62.5MB/s is not 90MB/s, right? (Which is why I kept the case of the MB/Mb for pedantic shits.)

 

You know what else? IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER!

[HarMGM]

Well, so much for my microSD with readspeeds of 10 MB/s...

[Not Thread Owner]

15 minutes ago, *chin* said:

You know 62.5MB/s is not 90MB/s, right?

 

Yes, which is the point.

[g wings]

38 minutes ago, *chin* said:

You know what else? IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER!

You sure?

[Larsen B]

My own order update: I had the standard problem with Amazon after changing to a gift card so I cancelled that order and moved to Argos.

 

Unfortunately, I've since cancelled that order*.

 

*^{Because, since I found out that the neon colours are reversed from the individual JoyCons, I'd like the ability to have all red or all blue so I re-ordered it from Argos in a different colour.}

[Not Thread Owner]

43 minutes ago, g wings said:

You sure?

 

So long as he has his pocket full of cheese, let him be.

[mushashi]

3 hours ago, deKay said:

 

The 3DS only officially supports SDHC cards up to 32GB.

 

In order to make bigger SDXC cards work, you have to reformat them to fat32, as XC cards usually use exFAT, which Nintendo haven't paid the licence for.

 

Which means that this time, much like the Sony gets all the Blu-ray licensing money meme (they don't, not by a long shot), Nintendo are going to be paying Microsoft to use their patented technology (but at least this one is way more true, exFAT is a Microsoft product which they solely control)

 

 

5 hours ago, deKay said:

 

If the device supports UHS-I, it supports UHS-II. Just not to it's full potential.

 

That's certainly one way to look at it I suppose, UHS-II has an extra row of physical pins over older SD cards, so it is by design backwards compatible, nothing to do with forward compatibility in the host device. You're just stuck at slowpoke UHS-I speeds, even if the physical memory is capable of going much faster when connected to a modern UHS-II interface device.

[Hitcher]

2 hours ago, VN1X said:

I never liked you. 

I just get bored of them after so long and never go back. The last one I completed must have been Link to the Past.

[Jonny5]

Can someone make a new thread for all the SD card talk please?

 

My Argos pre-order is still in place and interestingly I just noticed that they haven't charged my card yet.  I paid with PayPal so expected it to go through immediately.

[Shimmyhill]

7 minutes ago, Jonny5 said:

Can someone make a new thread for all the SD card talk please?

 

My Argos pre-order is still in place and interestingly I just noticed that they haven't charged my card yet.  I paid with PayPal so expected it to go through immediately.

 

Sometimes with PayPal it doesnt go through straight away, one of my DD like payments is via PayPal and that doesnt go as soon as the bill is raised for some reason.

[g wings]

18 minutes ago, Jonny5 said:

Can someone make a new thread for all the SD card talk please?

 

My Argos pre-order is still in place and interestingly I just noticed that they haven't charged my card yet.  I paid with PayPal so expected it to go through immediately.

 

Yes, less SD card chat and more talk about Argos pre-order PayPal payment charges.

[Girth Certificate]

time for someone to make the usual pre-order / shipping thread

 

of all the Ninty franchises I really want a new wave race. The kind of water simulation they could pull off now must be proper impressive.

[mushashi]

21 hours ago, HarryBizzle said:

 

Do you have a source for this?

 

I assume he is assuming that it will inherit the same hardware feature set as the base TX1 SoC which does have support for both 4K output and HDR, but as 4K video requires paying a license fee to the HEVC licensing companies, who knows if Nintendo will have decided to foot the bill or got it customised out, as neither feature is required or supported by the portable screen mode so a bit of a waste of money to support it I would think, the dev briefing removed mention of 4K that was in the spec leak.

[Captain Kelsten]

1 hour ago, Jonny5 said:

Can someone make a new thread for all the SD card talk please?

 

My Argos pre-order is still in place and interestingly I just noticed that they haven't charged my card yet.  I paid with PayPal so expected it to go through immediately.

 

Can someone make a new thread for all the "I have/haven't/cancelled preorder" talk, please? Oh wait, there is one. It's called"are you buying a switch at launch"! 

 

 

 

[daifuco]

If you feel like reading  Kotaku's last article on the Switch is an interesting one.

 

I agree with the idea that the Switch does not need that much of a focused demography. Because it is the perfect fit for lower budget games. A bit like Steam

I guess that is the reason why the Switch feels like the perfect fit for games that are not necessarily expensive to make (requiring massive returns)  Games like Arms, I am setsuna, or Super Bomberman R.

 

 

[Nespresso]

[hat]

Analogue triggers aside, the Joy-Cons would be ideal as VR controllers right? I'm vainly hoping that's secretly where Nintendo's focus has been for the past two years.

[MikeBeaver]

Quite a good article from Kataku, well worth a read