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5 hours ago, probotector said:

Can you play Giant Robo without the cardboard?

 

With the amount of games Nintendo are putting out (not many), they need to concentrate on bead and butter not bullshit like this.

 

Where is my Fzero and Wave Race FFS!

 

Fair play, dude. Word perfect satire. I would have just put 'muuuhhhh Wave Race!' but you nailed it. 

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10 hours ago, geldra said:

Well you’re in luck, Strikers 1945 2 is out next week. Zero Gunner 2 apparently just got released on the JPN store.

 

Zero Gunner 2 is out on the EU Store on the 24th (or the 25th) I believe.

 

Also, Dandara is out in early Feb, looks mint (remember thinking it looked great in the first Nindies Direct).

 

 

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7 hours ago, probotector said:

Yeah, the Splatoon, ARMS, Mario Kart triple hit was a big mistake.

 

If anything, they should have held ARMS off and released Smash instead.

 

ARMS would have done much better releasing this month...

 

If they released Smash D, MK8D and Splatoon, which was somehow confused by most as more of a 1.5 than a full on sequel, the internet (possibly including you) would be full of complaints that the Switch is just a rehash of the WiiU.

It was hard enough to get past those who were moaning about Zelda being a WiiU title (though despite that it out sold the actual console at launch!)

The needed to show new IP, and Arms was it.

I'm sure we'll see Smash Rehash at some point, but they are trickling out the WiiU rehashes, perhaps as a bit of fan service for people like me, who actually bought a WiiU.

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27 minutes ago, jiroczech said:

Pure Nintendo magic. Love how they want kids building stuff and are encouraging them to learn about coding and engineering through play. 

 

Not the first Nintendo (I know, Sega) game to use cardboard...

Let's_Tap.jpg

 

It was a decent, if a little low in content, game too from what I remember

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Switch sells 600k units in Germany, selling faster than Wii

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Nintendo sold more than 600,000 Switch units in Germany in less than a year. That‘s more than any other Nintendo home console sold in the same time frame, including Wii.
 

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Just roughly a year ago, the company launched Nintendo Switch, the world's first mobile TV console. It has sold more than 600,000 consoles in Germany so far, better than any other Nintendo TV console in the same period - and has thus also overtaken Wii.

The amount of succes the Switch has seen still baffles me. Is it merely down to the fact that you can play it on the go which appeals to people? 

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3 minutes ago, VN1X said:

Switch sells 600k units in Germany, selling faster than Wii

The amount of succes the Switch has seen still baffles me. Is it merely down to the fact that you can play it on the go which appeals to people? 

 

I will say why I think it's so great and to be honest my library after the first year (not a whole year mind) is probably almost half the size of my PS4 library already (granted there are quite a few indie titles in there) but it's so easy and simple to pick up and play. It's incredibly versatile, you could play in any which way and you aren't tied to that one spot in the house. When the wife wants to cuddle up on the sofa and watch tv with me, I can sit there playing my Switch, I can play it on my lunch breaks at work, I can play it on the toilet! It's the fact that all of a sudden I can play the games I want to play, because prior to that I had to set a good couple of hours aside where I'm not going to be disturbed so I can sit and play the PS4 or the PC.

 

Simply put I have found I have more time to play video games with this than ever before. Yup the 3ds filled that void somewhat, but now you can continue playing the game you were playing sat at home on the couch.

 

That said, there are so many good games coming out on it too as well as many of the good indie titles. It is fast becoming my favourite console, in fact I play it more now than my PS4 / PC combined.... I only really go on the PS4 now for battlefield 1.... Even though I have some great games sat there waiting to be played....

 

I picked up my first wrestling game since the gamecube yesterday. All I did was create characters for an hour before sleep (in bed)....

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I love that part of the switch - turn it on, and it turns the TV on for you.

 

You are literally into a game in seconds (if left in sleep mode)

 

Going back to PS4, and loading it up, and then loading up a game seems to take forever in comparison (yes, i do know that the PS4 has a sleep function aswell)

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51 minutes ago, VN1X said:

Switch sells 600k units in Germany, selling faster than Wii

The amount of succes the Switch has seen still baffles me. Is it merely down to the fact that you can play it on the go which appeals to people? 

 

Why are you baffled? It's an appealing package. Once you reach 1080p, you get diminishing returns with the mass market. Selling 4k only works to a point and a lot of people either don't care or don't have the ability to enjoy it properly.

The Switch is both a handheld and a home console. You play Zelda on the big TV, you pick it up, it's the same Zelda on the handheld in bed, on the train, in a hotel. You can't do that with any other console right now.

People look at the machine and get it straight away. The controller clicks on and off. The screen is the system. Zelda is good, Mario is good, it has loads of games that you can take with you and to no real detriment of the experience.

 

Right now, if you weren't an enthusiast (i.e. People like us) there's almost no reason to get another machine. You've got online, GTA, Destiny and Overwatch. I'd bet hard currency we'll see GTA, Overwatch and CoD/Battlefield on the Switch by the end of this year. EA isn't going to turn down one of the fastest growing platforms. Suddenly they'll talk about how amazingly easy it was to port Frostbite and there were never any concerns about the platform.

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I mean I love everything about the Switch but even with some of the aforementioned points it's absolutely crazy how stupendously successful it's been. Currently it's outselling everything right now which I don't think you can attribute to its portability factor alone? Merely taking a powerful machine like a PC and scaling it down to a laptop doesn't directly translate to succes. If that were the case the Vita would've set the world on fire but instead received a lukewarm reception no? The 3DS on the other hand was unstoppable. 

 

For myself though it's mostly been about being able to turn it on and play within seconds instead of having to sit through a boot up sequence and downloading the inevitable 14Gb patch or system update. I rarely play videogames outside of the house and if I do my 3DS is still the go to device for when I have to take a long trip somewhere. Even then I'd rather listen to music as gaming on a dedicated device on a crowded train, or bus *shudders*, is the most uncomfortable thing imaginable for me. I can't really focus on the game with loads of other things going on around me.

 

Based on that however I would've been all over the Wii U as well but despite its quality software lineup that wasn't the case at all. Its USP was a non-issue for me and the fact that it had such poor messaging behind it probably didn't help either. I guess the fact that I can just use the Switch as a regular console with a traditional controller is far more compelling than I initially realised. And the Switch is the epitome of what a console should be about: simple and focused. Whereas for some Nintendo's OS might be a bit too scaled back; I definitely prefer the less is more approach. Just looking at the UI for the PS4 for example makes my brain hurt!

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3 hours ago, VN1X said:

Switch sells 600k units in Germany, selling faster than Wii

The amount of succes the Switch has seen still baffles me. Is it merely down to the fact that you can play it on the go which appeals to people? 

 

Switch has been amazing for playing games with friends. It's the best multiplayer console around by far. My gaming friends hardly ever played anything together really. Now we all have Switches, and it's super easy. We just bring our Switches with us when we hang out. Online gaming has basically no appeal now in comparison, and we don't bother with anything split screen. That's been the real killer feature for me.

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Luseth

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I suppose when you think about it really, the Switch just has an appeal to everyone (which is probably why it's selling so well, there is an appeal for everyone)....

 

Multiplayer aspects for groups

Some great single player games i.e. Zelda, Mario

Nostalgia for many (Nintendo is best types)

It's portable

It has the smallest loading times and good sleep functionality for those with less time

Colourful and simple with plenty aimed at children

The ability to sit and play on a full sized tv

Even those who generally only really play indie titles will be getting their itch scratched with this

 

Plus it really supplements all other consoles quite well. So whilst I intentionally bought it as a second console to play when I have time, to take about and all that. It's unintentionally become my main go to.

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13 minutes ago, Alexlotl said:

Do not underestimate convenience. The iPhone isn't the most popular camera on Flickr because it's the best, or the cheapest. It's because it's a) always there, b) good enough and c) sharing is frictionless.

 

d) It also comes 'free' with the most popular mobile device sold, unlike a dedicated camera device. If the camera was a bulky faffy addon, like a Kinect for the iPhone, it'd be interesting to see if it would still be #1.

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3 hours ago, SMD said:

Right now, if you weren't an enthusiast (i.e. People like us) there's almost no reason to get another machine. You've got online, GTA, Destiny and Overwatch. I'd bet hard currency we'll see GTA, Overwatch and CoD/Battlefield on the Switch by the end of this year. EA isn't going to turn down one of the fastest growing platforms. Suddenly they'll talk about how amazingly easy it was to port Frostbite and there were never any concerns about the platform.

 

I like your confidence. I'm not normally a gambler but I think, much like the Wii, this doesn't herald some new dawn at present so that might be a wager worth taking the other side of the trade on. The big publisher online only/centric games which people play for hours after work don't need portability and trying to squeeze them down onto a mobile chipset device to cater to some hypothetical new audience which couldn't otherwise be convinced to just buy one of the platforms they already serve those games on seems a questionable assumption.

 

But then again, PUBG, the uber online only game of the moment is getting an actual official mobile phone port, so if that can happen, who knows, maybe mobile convenience really is the future, even for online games.

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10 minutes ago, mushashi said:

 

I like your confidence. I'm not normally a gambler but I think, much like the Wii, this doesn't herald some new dawn at present so that might be a wager worth taking the other side of the trade on. The big publisher online only/centric games which people play for hours after work don't need portability and trying to squeeze them down onto a mobile chipset device to cater to some hypothetical new audience which couldn't otherwise be convinced to just buy one of the platforms they already serve those games on seems a questionable assumption.

 

But then again, PUBG, the uber online only game of the moment is getting an actual official mobile phone port, so if that can happen, who knows, maybe mobile convenience really is the future, even for online games.

 

I'm pretty sure the folks who make Fortnite have said they want it on switch at some point to... and that's a better game than PUBG. ;)

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Are you from the future? Pretty certain the Switch hasn't moved that many just yet.

 

PUBG is an interesting one, it's getting a port to mobile because an awful lot of Chinese people don't game on PC/consoles but do own a mobile phone, which explains why Tencent can find massive success with mobile ports of hardcore games like MOBAs on mobile and why they've already cloned PUBG to mobile, before they did the deal to distribute it officially.

 

 

5 minutes ago, scottcr said:

 

I'm pretty sure the folks who make Fortnite have said they want it on switch at some point to... and that's a better game than PUBG. ;)

 

Sauce? Quick Google didn't bring anything but fan wishes on the matter, and this is the first I've read on a forum mentioning Epic have stated such wishes.

 

 

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I thought they had sold more Switch's than Wii U's when you compare how many months they have both been out for?

 

I don't think its sold 13.85 million yet has it? (I'm open to be proven wrong)

 

 

Switch has sold 10 million after a quick google check

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That 10 million figure was taken mid December (12th I think it was reported). Perhaps it's not 14m yet but their projection is something nearer 17m shipped (not sold) by end of this financial year, March in other words. 

 

It has overtaken Wii U sales in Japan, that's where the confusion is.

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