Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@jump Yeah, you're right. I researched it after I posted and corrected it. Oops.

I used it a few times in hotels, but it wasn't a great app. Still, kind of a pity to lose game-related stream-watching on Switch. It didn't last too long.

the sixth e final DLC of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will come to Nintendo Switch in novembre 9th

With wave 6 confirmed for next week, there's a large 1st party December gap present where the only thing happening so far is Splatoon 3 Chill Season 2023 starting on December 1st (the update goes live on November 30th) which is much quieter than usual.

In terms of already announced things that could fit in that gap, the only possibility is Scarlet/Violet Indigo Disk DLC (currently scheduled for Winter 2023). But as for other possibilities, they could shadow drop something at the Game Awards or it could be that it is just the Splatoon 3 season but that season is much bigger than the typical Splatoon 3 season like if a brand new mode was introduced.

There it is, the reason wave 6 was announced yesterday is that Indigo Disk is announced today for release on December 14th:

@Grumblevolcano this was certainly one hell of a way to learn this information XD

Guess I've got my Christmas gaming schedule sorted for this year:

• Week 1: Kirby's Epic Yarn
• Week 2: Indigo Disk
• Week 3: 1080 Snowboarding
• Week 4: Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition

Get hype! My excitement for this was a bit on the low side before, but it's literally a Persona version of Mario + Rabbids! Really hoping this style of SRPG takes off more and more.

@Fizza That release date being close to Christmas Day gives me flashbacks to a decade ago. For some reason The Pokemon Company thought it was a brilliant idea in 2013 to release Pokemon Bank on Christmas Day in Japan. Unsurprisingly Nintendo's servers completely collapsed for a few days (it was finally fully working again on December 29th).

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/12/nintendo_acknowledg...

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/12/nintendo_apologises...

This month is going to be tight with money since the last thing for a bill or whatever i have to pay is renter's insurance

then end of the month nintendo game that i might buy is either Star Ocean Second Evolution remastered or Super Mario RPG Remake for my Switch Lite.

I'd love to buy both games but ill have to stick with one new game when i can the end of this month.

@gcunit Cult of the Lamb it is. I played about an hour earlier this week. I get the hype. Gorgeous art, sim-management lite with a bit of action combat. Although on my first bootup, before even getting into the game proper...crash to dashboard.

Clearly, not all the performance problems have been ironed out, but at least I haven't encountered another crash since that lone one.

@Magician That's fairly promising to hear; appreciate the update. I picked it up a couple of months back but haven't got to it yet. I'm kinda numb to performance issues, but crashing is a different level, so hopefully it's an isolated case for you.

I'm still amazed how quickly joycon batteries lose their charge, in less than two months. These are my new joycons from the OLED, and I've been keeping them in a drawer. They clearly are perpetually in sleep mode, rather than shutting down.

Procons and joycons both need a shut down option, but I doubt we'll get that for next gen.

I'm guessing the game industry on a whole likes things the way they are. More disposable controllers = more sales $$$.

I recently bought cult of of the lamb and haven't had any crashes but a couple times it lagged so much I thought I was soft-locked. And the loading times are verrrry long sometimes. Overall the performance is still much worse than you would normally expect for a game like this but for me at least it's not quite annoying enough to get me to stop playing or take away too much enjoyment.

detailing how it will be the chipset that will run on Nintendo next hardware

@Giancarlothomaz There was a NintendoLife article on it a few hours ago:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/11/digital-foundry-dig...

Neat regardless though.

November 7th is the earnings report for July - September 2023, it'll be interesting to see how well Pikmin has done (the only 1st party games released in that time window that could be bought were Pikmin 4 and the physical version of Pikmin 1+2) and whether MK8 Deluxe momentum is still strong.

I'm curious about that detachable dual-screen system on that Nintendo filing. From what I've read about it, it sounds like it's a Switch and DS hybrid, in terms of its concept. Assuming that the first screen device can be docked, it also seems like you could use that second screen device as a controller, which sounds a lot like the Wii U... it kinda worries me actually, since the Wii U flopped hard. This is all speculation on my part, and we don't know exactly how old that filing is. I'm wondering... will the Switch 2 revisit that dual-screen concept in some way?

The odds that the patent is related to the Nintendo Switch 2 is very, very low. Deepest depths low.

The patent was made public, that means its now public knowledge.

That means anything currently under NDA....this aint it.

@MarioLover92 There's been a lot of discussion on the speculation thread: https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/rumor_new...

My personal assumption is that patent is not itself the Switch 2. People have suggested it could relate to a much later console or something related to a mini or a second fully-portable seperate from Switch 2 or it could relate to an accessory or it could just be yet another patent they are keeping for potential future use or to experiment with which doesn't hit the market.... there are a lot of options, some more realistic than others. I remember a few years back people briefly getting excited by a robot Nintendo patent.

@Haruki_NLI @FishyS Ohhh, gotcha. So it's pretty much Nintendo experimenting and things like that. Thanks!