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Wiper

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17 minutes ago, Freeman said:

This is also me.  I'm privileged enough to have an actual games room, with another TV, and I feel guilty spending too much time in there, so the Switch will allow me to play Zelda in the living room whilst she watches The West Wing for the 50th time.

 

Are you actually me? 

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DarhkFox

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33 minutes ago, Luseth said:

 

I haven't played it personally but overcooked on steam would be an ideal fit at first glance :D 

 

Plants vs zombies games....

Broforce?

Worms games

Borderlands

Trackmania

 

 

I suspect these are games that have been considered already ^_^

 

The next star wars battlefront games?

 

Yeah some of those would go down well. I can see why the PvZ games might suit it and of course Trackmania. Worms could be neat, although perfectly playing on one system.

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Presumably everything has to fit their cart spec? Unless they go download only for some titles.  So wouldn't that put us in the unfortunate situation of the console being  able to run - say - Destiny or Witcher 3 with some bells 'n' whistles disabled, but being prohibited by the capacity?  Or am I way off base and the carts can be gigantic?

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3 minutes ago, Treble said:

Presumably everything has to fit their cart spec? Unless they go download only for some titles.  So wouldn't that put us in the unfortunate situation of the console being  able to run - say - Destiny or Witcher 3 with some bells 'n' whistles disabled, but being prohibited by the capacity?  Or am I way off base and the carts can be gigantic?

 

Problem is the carts are read only from what i understand. You would definitely need an SD card - i am not sure how much space destiny/witcher3 takes up for all its downloads.

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Yeah, the ol' Googlemobile tells me the cart sizes look to be around 16GB standard.  Witcher 3 seems to be 35GB.  CoD Infinite Warfare 90GB.  That's an outlier, sure, but game sizes are rapidly getting ludicrous.  

 

It won't impact Nintendo's own stuff, their third parties or indie ports, but if it stops something brilliantly optimised like DOOM getting ported (50GB) that'd be a massive shame.  Hope i'm barking up the wrong tech tree here :) 

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Luseth

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6 minutes ago, Treble said:

Yeah, the ol' Googlemobile tells me the cart sizes look to be around 16GB standard.  Witcher 3 seems to be 35GB.  CoD Infinite Warfare 90GB.  That's an outlier, sure, but game sizes are rapidly getting ludicrous.  

 

 

Though that's the case with limited cart sizes. But games these days can have a tutorial / 1st mission access while you download / install the rest of the game. So maybe they could have the first section of the game on the cart and then it downloads the rest of the game. A bit dull for those with slower internet connections but it would allow the option of larger sized games. 

 

Even then with so many of the newer games it sometimes makes me wonder if when downloading some of these "patches" we aren't just redownloading large chunks of the game anyway.

 

@Darhkwing how would the read only be an issue? Aren't PS4 discs technically read only? I would say what @Treble has said would be the biggest stumbling block to larger games, but it wouldn't be impossible.

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1 hour ago, Darhkwing said:

What games do you think would work really well on the Switch, being portable and all?

 

Chu Chu Rocket? The single screen format and Joycon layout would work pretty well. :) 

 

Or maybe Pac-Man Battle Royale :P 

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Kevvy Metal

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20 minutes ago, MidWalian said:

An actual unboxing of the Switch:

 

 

 

That's official Nintendo no?

Also I've noticed that these Treehouse presenters are a serious shower of cunts, bred to do nothing but infuriate. 

It's like the video producer has told them to never ever, ever shut up. Not even for one second. Not a single millisecond of dead air. 

It's like that in the Treehouse game demos "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAAAAAH".

 

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1 minute ago, Kevvy Metal said:

 

That's official Nintendo no?

Also I've noticed that these Treehouse presenters are a serious shower of cunts, bred to do nothing but infuriate. 

It's like the video producer has told them to never ever, ever shut up. Not even for one second. Not a single millisecond of dead air. 

It's like that in the Treehouse game demos "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAAAAAH".

 

 

Nintendo provides plenty of dead air throughout the year.

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28 minutes ago, Luseth said:

 

Though that's the case with limited cart sizes. But games these days can have a tutorial / 1st mission access while you download / install the rest of the game. So maybe they could have the first section of the game on the cart and then it downloads the rest of the game. A bit dull for those with slower internet connections but it would allow the option of larger sized games. 

 

Even then with so many of the newer games it sometimes makes me wonder if when downloading some of these "patches" we aren't just redownloading large chunks of the game anyway.

 

@Darhkwing how would the read only be an issue? Aren't PS4 discs technically read only? I would say what @Treble has said would be the biggest stumbling block to larger games, but it wouldn't be impossible.

 

Given the severely restricted space on the Switch, I can't see Nintendo approving sale of a game that requires, not only an internet connection to download part of your game, but also an SD of an appropriate capacity to be bought and in the machine already.

PS4 games play off the HDD following an install, or stream install as required as I understand it.  Updates are downloaded to the console and applied on thee too.  The ps4 games with 500GB or more pre-installed though..

 

The carts are presumably some sort of SD card in a magic funky casing, with proprietary connections, like the 3DS ones (I think!)

Surely, the obvious answer is that there will be a bigger version of the cards which will cost more now, but cost less in a years time or something, and could be something that a firmware update could be used to read, or resurrect the old "2 disc games" scenario, though the duplication of assets on those must be crazy...

 

 

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1 minute ago, Jonny5 said:

I think they've said game cards can be up to 32GB currently.  I'm sure they could go bigger if they really had a title that needed it.

 

Or you just stick the basics on that then it downloads an update before letting you play with the rest of the game.

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