Nintendo Switch

[MidWalian]

7 minutes ago, Ant73 said:

So - I saw a Switch in the wild today - someone sat beside me on the Tube playing Zelda.  He got off at Stockwell if anyone wants to stalk him...  

 

Playing Half Life 3 I suppose.

[revlob]

It was probably my Dad, on his way to his job at Nintendo.

[Ant73]

I promise it was true.  And y'know - what would I gain by making it up?  But whatever.

[SpagMasterSwift]

Did they look happy or indifferent?

[MidWalian]

It was probably some hipster with an original Atari Lynx.

[Nate Dogg III]

32 minutes ago, Ant73 said:

So - I saw a Switch in the wild today - someone sat beside me on the Tube playing Zelda.  He got off at Stockwell if anyone wants to stalk him...  

 

What did he look like? Well up for a bit of game-journo Guess Who. 

[jonamok]

It's only a few hours to embargo Nate. Spill the beans. Preorder justified?

[Nate Dogg III]

Yes. 

 

[joffocakes]

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[joe bazooka]

Richard Leadbetter's (digital foundry) take on the Switch's GPU/CPU + shaders

 

https://ugc.kn3.net/i/760x/http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--O5XbJ72i--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/c9yroy8gnuo7t3eikdk4.gif

[MidWalian]

[Shimmyhill]

10 minutes ago, joe bazooka said:

Richard Leadbetter's (digital foundry) take on the Switch's GPU/CPU + shaders

 

https://ugc.kn3.net/i/760x/http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--O5XbJ72i--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/c9yroy8gnuo7t3eikdk4.gif

 

You're my new fave poster, best film ever combined with best console thread ever - what a hero 

[Shimmyhill]

54 minutes ago, Ant73 said:

I promise it was true.  And y'know - what would I gain by making it up?  But whatever.

 

If only we lived in an age where one carried a device that could take static pictures of interesting things, if only

[Jonny5]

To be fair I wouldn't bust my phone out and take a photo of a stranger on the tube either. 

[freezycold]

14 minutes ago, joe bazooka said:

Richard Leadbetter's (digital foundry) take on the Switch's GPU/CPU + shaders

 

https://ugc.kn3.net/i/760x/http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--O5XbJ72i--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/c9yroy8gnuo7t3eikdk4.gif

 

??

[MidWalian]

Another game coming to Switch. This is by the TowerFall peeps:

 

 

(Also coming to PS4 and PC).

[joe bazooka]

Just getting you ready for Eurogamer's take on it. He's gonna compare it to a PS4 Pro. Telling you.

[Wiper]

3 minutes ago, MidWalian said:

Another game coming to Switch. This is by the TowerFall peeps:

 

 

(Also coming to PS4 and PC).

 

Looks like it's taking a slightly tweaked version of the Towerfall movement controls and applying them to a particularly challenging platformer. Not necessarily my genre of choice, but I'm interested simply due to the fact that Towerfall is utterly brilliant.

[Shimmyhill]

8 minutes ago, Jonny5 said:

To be fair I wouldn't bust my phone out and take a photo of a stranger on the tube either. 

 

I'd have said hello and asked for a selfie, with the switch not the hipster obv

[Not Thread Owner]

6 hours 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?

 

Game cards can be essentially as big as you like, capacity wise. 64GB ones have already been confirmed. No reason, bar price, they couldn't go to 2TB.

[Not Thread Owner]

According to Retro Gamer, the ARCADE GAME SERIES (all caps, apparently) series that's already on the PS4 (and presumably Xbone) are coming to the Switch too. Did we know that already?

[macosx]

The more I see of these additions to the Switch library the more my resolve wavers. Not the kind of stuff I want to play

I steadied myself by ordering an official case and listening the the Breath of The Wild trailer.

 

[jonamok]

How long til Ninty have to release a D-pad left Joy-Con?

[cassidy]

48 minutes ago, Nate Dogg III said:

Yes. 

 

Aw bloody hell I can see me heading to Argos next Friday.

 

No I've not preordered but Impulse bought psvr and the pro on their launch days I don't doubt I'll be able to do the same next Friday.  

[joffocakes]

34 minutes ago, Wiper said:

 

Looks like it's taking a slightly tweaked version of the Towerfall movement controls and applying them to a particularly challenging platformer. Not necessarily my genre of choice, but I'm interested simply due to the fact that Towerfall is utterly brilliant.

 

Yeeeep. Towerfall is one of my favourite multiplayer games ever. One of my favourite games ever, even.

 

Celeste does look like it's built on Towerfall's tight movement as you say. The animation is beautiful and those shadow clone chases are very much Exactly My Kinda Thing.

[Coolcongo]

so hope that we get Super monkey ball and lugi's mansion on virtual console at some point. 

[Alex W.]

Super Monkey Ball with HD rumble would be pretty great.

[the_debaser]

Monkey Ball would be great. 

 

Metroid Prime with the pointer controls too. 

[daifuco]

It worries me that the Switch image  could get hit by so many indie games.

Nintendo should really push some third parties to make big games. Even enhance ports like Skyrim.

[joe bazooka]

27 minutes ago, daifuco said:

It worries me that the Switch image  could get hit by so many indie games.

Nintendo should really push some third parties to make big games. Even enhance ports like Skyrim.

What?