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2 hours ago, joe bazooka said:

Bearing in mind the 3DS launched at £250 are we thinking Nintendo are gonna be selling two consoles, possibly similar in price? One portable and one a bit more portable? Yeah, right. Good one guys.

 

£230, not £250. And it was actually £200 or less at many places. Retailers set the price, not Nintendo.

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24 minutes ago, dataDave said:

I was on Ocarina again earlier (up to the Forest Temple now) and to this day, five years on, the first-person 3D motion-controlled viewer never fails to impress me whilst bringing a smile to my face. It's just magical. :wub:

 

It is. Although I did stop using the gyros all the time because the 3D would go fucked unless you hold the thing steady and turn with it.

But yeah, standing up and turning around to beat Phantom Ganon in 3D was proper next level Ocarina boss fighting amazing.

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I really don't get the 'Zelda on the bog' appeal. People are excited to stop the game, undock the Switch, attach the joycons, play 2 minutes of the game while squeezing one out, put it down, wipe their arse, wash their hands, take the joycons off again, dock it, and carry on playing again on the tv? 

 

I mean, whatever floats your boat I guess but I can't say I'm that desperate to play another two minutes of a big adventure game while taking a shit. Maybe if I suffered from chronic constipation or irritable bowel syndrome it might appeal. 

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Mine will almost certainly never leave its dock, and initially I was a bit pissed off that I would be paying for that additional screen which will never get used, but it's got Zelda at launch, so I had no choice.

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5 minutes ago, Majora said:

I really don't get the 'Zelda on the bog' appeal. People are excited to stop the game, undock the Switch, attach the joycons, play 2 minutes of the game while squeezing one out, put it down, wipe their arse, wash their hands, take the joycons off again, dock it, and carry on playing again on the tv? 

 

I mean, whatever floats your boat I guess but I can't say I'm that desperate to play another two minutes of a big adventure game while taking a shit. Maybe if I suffered from chronic constipation or irritable bowel syndrome it might appeal. 

 

Shirley you watch a youtube vid or have a game of angry planes on the bog, this is just the next level - we moved on from papers/mags >> youtube/angry planes and now its freaking Zelda time!

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4 hours ago, JimmytheMook said:

 

Argonaut crowd were their own worst enemies, massive bunch of pissheads. Good laugh though.

 

In a thread too full of dull stats and debates about whether Nintendo will run two portable consoles longterm, this sounds much more interesting! Elaborate, if you will. 

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15 minutes ago, Majora said:

I really don't get the 'Zelda on the bog' appeal. People are excited to stop the game, undock the Switch, attach the joycons, play 2 minutes of the game while squeezing one out, put it down, wipe their arse, wash their hands, take the joycons off again, dock it, and carry on playing again on the tv? 

 

I mean, whatever floats your boat I guess but I can't say I'm that desperate to play another two minutes of a big adventure game while taking a shit. Maybe if I suffered from chronic constipation or irritable bowel syndrome it might appeal. 

 

I'm with you on the taking it while you have a dump, that's the only time I get for Candy Crush ;p

Would be handy to take with you if you were having a bath though, I'll quite often sit there for an hour or so relaxing whilst listening to a pod cast, playing CC or something on the Vita, so that is a viable Switch! option I guess.

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11 minutes ago, Majora said:

I really don't get the 'Zelda on the bog' appeal. People are excited to stop the game, undock the Switch, attach the joycons, play 2 minutes of the game while squeezing one out, put it down, wipe their arse, wash their hands, take the joycons off again, dock it, and carry on playing again on the tv? 

 

I mean, whatever floats your boat I guess but I can't say I'm that desperate to play another two minutes of a big adventure game while taking a shit. Maybe if I suffered from chronic constipation or irritable bowel syndrome it might appeal. 


I don't (won't) play Zelda on the bog either.   But I will play in bed.  I will play on the sofa when someone else is watching TV.   I will (really) play on the bus.

The toilet is just a funny example of the possibility.   And if I had a job I'd appreciate being paid to play Zelda.

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2 minutes ago, spanky debrest said:

The whole playing on the bog thing is easily explained. Whilst video games are a multi-sensory experience, little has been documented about how smell can be used as an enhancement.

 

You could be onto something there, however I can't see Sony ever porting Knack to the Switch!

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4 hours ago, pelago said:

Regarding the pro controller, do we know:

  • Will it have any motion control sensors?
  • Will it have rumble, and if so, is it normal rumble or HD?

 

4 hours ago, BarryL85 said:

 

  • Yes
  • HD Rumble yes

That's actually pretty neat, then. I'd still rather pay around £40 than £65 though.

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4 hours ago, Stanley said:

You're Nintendo's first point of contact. You're like me, you'll buy it because it plays their games, it doesn't matter what format it takes. Looking further afield though it's obvious that Nintendo isn't really that interested in competing in the home console market. Just look at Wii U for evidence of that.

 

Also, the reason there was no pad-less Wii U is because the games required it. Switch has been designed to avoid that happening again. There will be no games that require use of the TV and screen at the same time, in fact it would be functionally impossible.

 

...though oddly, there will be games that presumably require Switching to portable mode for touch screen mode though...

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4 minutes ago, Freeman said:

 

 

...though oddly, there will be games that presumably require Switching to portable mode for touch screen mode though...

 

They talked in Edge about how the developers had to scrub a bunch of touchscreen stuff from Breath of the Wind because they can't count on it in the Switch. Very curious about how that's going to work as the touchscreen has to be there for more than menus. 

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1 minute ago, Stanley said:

Doubt it, kinda defeats the whole point of the thing.

 

I guess they could have included the touch screen for internet browsing or something, but that doesn't seem very Nintendo.

 

Perhaps we'll see a controller 'centre' that you can mount the joycons on that has a DS4 style touch pad on it, but I doubt that too..

 

Pointers (i.e. the joycon IR cam) aren't really a good replacement for a touch screen!

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Nothing to stop them including touch controls but it would have to be simple menu select type stuff, keyboard input and so on. But generally console type controls don't translate well to touch screens so it will probably mostly go unused.

 

Also, I doubt they'd save money not having a touch screen, so might as well include one.

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7 hours ago, JPickford said:

But I will play in bed.  I will play on the sofa when someone else is watching TV.   I will (really) play on the bus.

 

He shall play on the beaches; he shall never redock. And if its battery last for four thousand mAh, men will still say, this... was his finest hour.

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13 hours ago, Freeman said:

 

 

...though oddly, there will be games that presumably require Switching to portable mode for touch screen mode though...

 

I wondered about when they first unveiled the Switch and it wasn't obvious whether it had a touchscreen or not. On one hand you'd expect a tablet-type device to have a touchscreen, but on the other it would mean any games utilising it would have to have some way of playing on the TV. If they didn't, and could only be played one way, it would go against the concept of the Switch.

 

When it was rumoured that one of the Joycon would have an IR sensor in it, the suggestion was that it would be utilised as a pointer on the TV, like the Wiimote. This could work with some touchscreen games, but not all, and would still be clunky regardless. However, Nintendo haven't mentioned anything about it being used that way, so they're either keeping that as another one of their secrets, or the feature doesn't exist.

 

All the Tomorrow Corporation games work well with a touchscreen, so it will be interesting to see what kind of interface they use. They could be controlled with a cursor moved with an analog stick, but they wouldn't be that good for it.

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There is already an announced game coming soon after launch which makes full use of the touch screen in tablet mode only, and it also implements the IR camera feature, Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII with Power-Up Kit:

 

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The Switch version of the game will offer a new officer creation feature using the Joy-Con controllers’ motion IR camera. When pointing the motion IR camera towards a target, various officers will be born based on things such as the target’s form and feel. Additionally, the Switch version offers intuitive touch-based controls. You can utilize the large screen to zoom in, zoom out, and swipe, move your units during battle, and activate officer strategies.

 

 

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24 minutes ago, JPickford said:

It always amuses me when americans say "The World" when they mean USA.

He'll be gutted if Shopto send mine out a day early.

 

Anybody who attends a midnight launch in the UK will have theres before he does. 

 

He obviously hasn't thought of the likes of Australia/New Zealand either. 

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