Switch The Official Nintendo Switch Thread - Part 2

[Iceman]

Xbox makes 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo

 

[Sithborg]

Xbox makes 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo

This feels like a snub at Sony.

 

[Iceman]

This feels like a snub at Sony.

Yeah, and they just offered the same deal to Steam. Trying to pressure Sony to accept the same or look bad I guess ahead of meeting with regulators.

 

[metaphysician]

I think my preferred outcome is that Nintendo and Valve accept the deal, while Sony rejects it. . . and then Sony loses their FTC case, in part because of their obvious hypocritical behavior. Thus resulting in Call of Duty being available on all platforms *except* Sony, and Sony being forced to acknowledge that third party games *are not under their control*, and can't be just taken for granted.

 

[Sithborg]

Nah, the ideal outcome is that the sale is stopped until California has f\inished their investigation of Acti\Blizz, thus preventing them from using the sale to save their golden parachutes.

 

[metaphysician]

Porque no ambos? *eg*

 

[Sithborg]

I am looking forward to seeing more of Nintendo's release plans for 2023. Really don't have much past Zelda in May. And even then, the early part of the year feels a bit thin.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I am hoping they expand the Switch Online to include GB/GBA games and such in the near future. Maybe also add some other retro titles to the Genesis/NES/SNES side as well.

 

[Sithborg]

Going back to the original Hyrule Warriors, and I had forgotten just how much freakin content is in this game. And how long it will take to go through all the Adventure Maps.

 

[metaphysician]

Okay, why is so much text suddenly all white? Did they bork something in the latest update?

 

[Lily Adler]

Okay, why is so much text suddenly all white? Did they bork something in the latest update?

It got fixed.

 

[Sithborg]

I love my 8bitdo controllers, but this is mighty tempting.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I am hoping they expand the Switch Online to include GB/GBA games and such in the near future. Maybe also add some other retro titles to the Genesis/NES/SNES side as well.

Same here. I'm kind of hoping for the TMNT NES game to make an appearance. Mad Max was also another one I played as a kid.

I see GoldenEye for N64 is getting close to the online. So stoked!

 

[Albright]

Wait what? Goldeneye is coming to the N64 online?

 

[Sithborg]

Same here. I'm kind of hoping for the TMNT NES game to make an appearance. Mad Max was also another one I played as a kid.

I see GoldenEye for N64 is getting close to the online. So stoked!

I would not bet too much on seeing a lot of games from Konami, Capcom, and Square Enix, who love reselling those games. Still not sure how the deal with Microsoft is working.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Wait what? Goldeneye is coming to the N64 online?

They announced it back in September if I remember correctly. Someone has posted maybe a week ago that it could land on the switch this month. Could be just a rumor though.

I would not bet too much on seeing a lot of games from Konami, Capcom, and Square Enix, who love reselling those games. Still not sure how the deal with Microsoft is working.

Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.

 

[Albright]

omfg I don’t have the Switch online addition…but I need it then

 

[Sithborg]

Man, seeing all the discussion of Fire Emblem Engage's localization is exhausting. More gender neutral language and removing more romantic language with minor characters, how awful.

 

[Drizzle]

Friday. Friday! FRIDAY!!!

 

[Dave McFly]

just wish the online play was on the xbox too instead of split screen.

 

[Dave McFly]

played it not a fan of the control layout mainly the camera I think the xbox feels better to me

 

[Drizzle]

played it not a fan of the control layout mainly the camera I think the xbox feels better to me

The control layout on the Switch is terrible but this helped a bit:



Still, the fact that you have to change the controller layout entirely to achieve that is annoying. That aside, I've been having a lot of fun with it and it's brought back a ton of memories. It's probably been about 20 years since I last played GoldenEye. I still have it along with my N64 but they're trapped in a busted drawer that can only be freed with the help of power tools so playing it on the Switch was an easier alternative. I also forgot how much of a challenge those last five or so levels can be, especially Control. I could never beat that one above Agent difficulty as a kid.

 

[Sithborg]

Looks like Nintendo is bringing back the game vouchers, which, lets be honest, is about as good a deal you will get on Nintendo games as you can get.

Definitely something to think about with Tears of the Kingdom on the horizon.

 

[metaphysician]

Eh, you can regularly get a better deal by hitting stuff like the Black Friday sale. They just don't crash the MSRP a week after launch like some of their competitors prefer to do.

 

[Sithborg]

I see it is Direct rumor season. Alwasy fun.