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Nintendo: General Discussion

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,211 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Played a bit of both GTA 3 about 20 minutes and Vice City 30 minutes in handheld mode gta 3 very clunky controls were frustrating Vice City not much better I lasted longer as the radio stations are full of great music Honestly if you have any other way of playing the trilogy either original format or xbox or playstation get them on that otherwise wait for a sale on the eshop as its not worth the price it's currently at even with the patches it's a very poor emulation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,211 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Anyone know where I can find an idiots guide to switch file sharing or profile transfer. My Switch is on the way out and I'm getting an OLED to replace it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭skerry


    If you have both consoles it walks you through it on the console and isn't too complicated. Make sure all your game saves are backed up to the cloud. Some games like Dark Souls, Splatoon 2 and Animal Crossing can't transfer saves to cloud so need to be transferred manually console to console. Animal Crossing saves island to your console so you'll need to download island transfer tool for that.

    I have multiple accounts and always forget passwords for them but if you can't remember them the console will display a handy QR code to sign in to each, I think your phone needs to be logged into the relevant account but chrome remembers my passwords so that made it much easier.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    I've played though 3 and Vice City in handheld mode and would pretty much agree. 3 was a bit of a slog to get through because the gameplay elements have aged a lot. Really enjoyed Vice City but there was still a good few issues. If it was going cheap I'd recommend it but it's not worth the current price.

    On the flip side I don't know if performance is any worse on the switch and I liked having a handheld version. I didn't have any issues that made me want to quit. Worst thing for me was the draw distance for other cars could make it annoying when driving at speed



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    I think this is a really cool story, it shows dedication, hard work and it's environmentally friendly too. 


    Young Chilean buys a Nintendo Switch with pure cans



    "This young man from the commune of Lo Prado, Santiago, decided to obtain the money in a very ecological way. That’s how he collected, crushed and sold almost half a ton of cans. Specifically, 495.13 kg were treated, and the task of gathering them took him nine months."

    And he didn't waste his hard earned money either. His first game is only one of the greatest of all time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Nintendo has purchased a new plot of land


    It's next to their Kyoto headquarters in Japan. It's cost them 5 billion Yen or about €36.7 million. They're building a 12 storey "R&D reinforcement", which won't be finished until 2027. Seeing that floor area, I'm curious to see what footprint their current building has for comparison.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld





  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,004 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    13 Sentinels is out today. Played and adored it on PS4. Really unique experience and it's perfectly suited to the switch.

    I need more people to play and appreciate this game!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,099 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Switch Corner YouTube channel gave it 10/10 (only their 3rd in 400+ plus reviews). It does look very good.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,004 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    If you like a good sci-fi story then give it a go. Don't be put out by the comparisons to visual novels. I hate VNs and loved this. There's just enough interaction to make it really interesting and story chapters and split into digestible 5-10 minute segments. You'll just want to keep on going just to find out where the plot is going. And I really liked the battles.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    Switch Double Pro++ incoming!!!!



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,086 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭skerry


    About 15 hours in on PS5 at the moment. Would have definitely held out if I knew there was a Switch release on the horizon. Really enjoying it so far but giving the story sections more attention than the battles, except for when I have to battle to progress the story



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Don't feel so bad, I jumped into Xbox land mainly to play Ori 2, 'cause it just wasn't possible on switch according to the developers, and then it appears on Switch at 60 FPS no less.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Sony, Nintendo pledge 'roll-over' gaming contract changes in Britain

    It's a dirty, underhanded, greedy tactic that goes on a lot in other entertainment fields. It'll be interesting to see if Nintendo make this change worldwide, or if it'll just apply to the UK. Europe would probably be next to force them anyway and the negative publicity might not be worth it for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Young boys find lost Nintendo Switch, return it to owner's porch

    Fair play to them.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,645 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Decent folk are out there, alright.

    Just don't think there are too many of them.

    We used to get the occasional post from people looking for a price of replacement for their collection that had been stolen following a break-in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    The Super Mario animated movie from Illumination Entertainment/Nintendo/Universal Studios has been delayed into next year. It was supposed to release during the Christmas holidays.





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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,645 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I don't really care, tbh...

    Having watched the last attempt of a Super Mario Bros movie on release, that particular car crash of a movie means that this one is of mild interest only, until they get a trailer out there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,364 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    But it was because of that film I heard Almost Unreal which I liked. Though the video for it just means I always hear the "Daisy!" "Luigi!" exchange. And how could we forget the dancing goombas and koopas (that totally looked like goombas and koopas) on the elevator. Classic moment. 😁

    I am curious enough to watch again since saw it as a kid on TV and want to see how bad it really was. Don't think I saw it in the cinema



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Well, it's time for another episode of "set the sliders to the lowest settings and call it a day" for Switch ports; today it's WRC 10. I had heard the port was pretty terrible - but yeah, this looks like another Zero Effort job. And with games like Grid it's not like racing games on Switch can't look pretty. I wonder was it a lack of time, money or direction.




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,645 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    It seems like more laziness on the part of developers.

    In fairness, most consoles have seen this kind of thing, I remember Bayonetta on the 360 being fantastic but the PS3 version being relatively lousy, yet the Switch edition is probably the definitive, the 360 being the target hardware, the PS3 a lazy port and the Switch version rebuilt from the ground up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    How good is Shovel Knight Treasure Trove ?

    Still seems to maintain a relatively high price for a 3rd party game.

    Thinking of getting the physical version.



  • Posts: 18,962 [Deleted User]


    Grid was originally an Xbox 360 game so not really surprising that something developed 2 generations back originally works well on the switch

    Something like WRC 10 has the PS4 gen as a base level really and something like that just won't sell much on switch in the first place so not worth putting much cost in (dev time)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    RUMOR: Mario movie info leaks (plot, characters, musical numbers, redesigns, and much more)

    The GoNintendo article is fine to read, it's just light information. There's much more spoiler information contained in the video below, starting at 1:02:50. Which I will be avoiding myself.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,099 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    But that doesn't explain why, according to Switch Up at least, WRC 9 is considerably better looking than WRC 10.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Posts: 18,962 [Deleted User]


    Can't say

    The most likely explanation would be that the new or upgraded WRC game engine to cater for PS5 level graphics just can't run well on a low wattage 2015 tablet cpu and/or that it just wasn't worth extensive work to make it work better

    Especially given that the WRC developers would know very well the sales figures on Switch of previous versions (8 and 9). This sort of game is never going to be a big seller on switch from the start and even more so given that it's a "number series sequel series game in short order" (8,9,10 all released in a short timeframe of 2 to 3 years)

    Putting significant dev time (e.g. money) into overcoming the big challenges would be simply setting money on fire for effectively a vanity project and companies don't last long doing that!

    Whereas Grid Autosport is based off a game released in 2014 that ran comfortably on the Xbox 360, the sort of software which the Switch handles well enough as more demanding re-releases from that era on the system have shown (e.g. Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands etc)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Switch hits 107.6m as Nintendo claims its ‘highest annual software sales ever’


    Lots of interesting information. Metroid Dread has sold 2.9 million copies as of the end of March, it's possible it's crossed the 3 million mark since. The game deserves far higher sales.

    They sold 23 million Switch units for the year and project to sell another 21 million this year.

    Software sales grew by 1.8% year-on-year to 235.07 million units, which is the highest annual software sales figure ever for a Nintendo platform. 39 titles sold over 1 million copies during the year.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,645 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I suppose, while we all rightly love the franchise, the great unwashed were never that interested in the Metroid games.

    And that is a real pity, as you say Sligeach.

    Fingers crossed the long delayed releases of Metroid Prime Trilogy remaster and MP4 will ignite interest finally among the more casual Switch player.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭dominatinMC


    What an unbelievably success the Switch has turned out to be. One wonders where they'll go from here.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,645 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Well, following the success of the Wii they followed it with a console no one wanted.

    Let us hope we don't have a repeat of that performance!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭dominatinMC


    Well said!

    I guess the Switch "brand" is so ubiquitous now, it would make sense for them to build upon that with a Switch 2, 3, etc. a la Playstation. It's long been rumoured of a Switch 2 with updated graphics, higher resolution, etc. but, if following Nintendo for 25+ years has taught me anything, they never do the obvious thing!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    I still think the chip shortage will delay any thoughts of a new console for a few years. Latest estimates from Intel big wigs is that it'll be 2024 before we see things starting to ease there



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,645 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn




  • Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Agree. Earliest for a reveal I can see is maybe E3 time, or just before it, 2023 and a release for 2024.

    Current Switch has too much momentum still going to pull the rug out from under it just yet.

    Though if history is to repeat its time for a failure console. It’s been that cadence since Gamecube to Wii to Wii U to Switch :)

    Although in the handheld space it’s always been success after success so maybe the next system will find a happy medium.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Well, yeah. Why get in your own way when your existing product line is an unqualified success? The market says the Switch is still an incredibly popular console; despite its increasing lack of technical parity, clearly this isn't an issue to those purchasing the thing (though I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jealous of some releases existing on other consoles).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Yep, Nintendo doing very well. Also, remember they hardly/rarely discount their software either, so it's $$$$ for them.

    The next Switch will probably be as powerful as the Steam Deck.

    I'd like a home console Switch, that just plugs into the TV, small, quiet, up to 4K, but 60 FPS as standard on all first party games, including BOTW2.

    So, opposite of Switch lite, maybe like half an Xbox Series X in size... (But they can't call it GameCube 2). 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,364 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Next one they'll be talking about how they want to interact with the player more and get them more involved. They want to engage with them, you could say.

    So it will be called Nintendo Gage.

    😁



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    I used to do mobile app development in a company before iPhone changed the world. We had all the quirky Nokia devices, but the N-Gage really took the biscuit. Awful phone and gaming device.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,645 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I had the thing, still do, as well as the Nokia phone around the same time, the Nokia 6630, running on the Symbian series 60 OS.

    It was quite a phone for the time, I remember getting some emulators on there, including Picodrive



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    If anybody is looking for some more BOTW magic and hasn't tried Skyrim, I'd say give it a go.

    Not sure how it plays on Switch (good reviews on Switch), but it's definitely given me a lot of the relaxed exploration and wonder vibes that BOTW did and then some. I've played on Xbox.

    But, probably best to wait for a Switch sale.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭safetyboy


    I tried Skyrim, I think goat simulator would be better controls



  • Registered Users Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


    Absolutely crazy sale happening in GAME stores in the UK currently, people are grabbing Zelda Links Awakening for £14 unfortunately nothing in Newry yesterday I did get Game Builder Garage for £7 and Kingdom Hearts for £4 some barstard got Pokemon Shield with the expansion pack for £18 ahead of me.


    Anyone else breaking out BOTW tonight before the lunar eclipse at 4:30am The blood moon rises once again.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭jos22


    anyone got Switch games off amzon UK (sold/dispatch by amazon) only to receive an empty case with cart missing,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    What game? Amazon do sell codes in boxes for some releases.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭jos22


    I am aware of that, but either way the box was empty. it was the switch card version of breath of the Wild

    I just used the amazon bot chat thing, it just auto issued a refund. looking at reviews from switch games it seems to have happened to a few people



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,539 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Yep, I often find the low ball reviews are because the cart was missing/stolen from the case.



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