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Instant Sunrise posted:i'm sure that whatever it is, breath of the wild is going to be super polarizing with a lot of people loving it and a lot of people hating it. BOTW confirmed to be a video game
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Spellman posted:I would wait until we see what's up with the Switch, our Nintendo accounts, and the Virtual Console before we make any rash decisions like selling a Wii U WiiU is pretty dead no matter the success of failure of the Switch. Its not like they will go back to making WiiU games. Instant Sunrise posted:also, the switch doesn't have native backwards compatibility with the wii u or 3ds But this is a good point if that matters to you.
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Jimmy Hats posted:BOTW confirmed to be a video game Spoiler that poo poo man!
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Jan 23, 2017 19:17
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Instant Sunrise posted:also, the switch doesn't have native backwards compatibility with the wii u or 3ds Ah, so I can't plug in my Wii Speak? I guess it makes sense then that voice chat has to run on a phone instead.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:18
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I'm probably going to sell it because it will finance my entire Switch purchase plus some. I only have ~$30 worth of games on VC anyways. I do think it's really, really dumb that Nintendo just wouldn't keep a list of what you downloaded on your Nintendo account and let you simply re-download from system to system. I remember the Wii to Wii U transfer for VC content being hilariously bad.
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Bombadilillo posted:WiiU is pretty dead no matter the success of failure of the Switch. Its not like they will go back to making WiiU games. No, but assuming Nintendo goes full Nintendo with the Virtual Console, if you bought a bunch of VC games on your Wii U, and no longer have your Wii U to do a system transfer, you'd probably have to repurchase Switch VC games at full price. Again, that's assuming that Nintendo goes full Nintendo on the Switch.
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Instant Sunrise posted:No, but assuming Nintendo goes full Nintendo with the Virtual Console, if you bought a bunch of VC games on your Wii U, and no longer have your Wii U to do a system transfer, you'd probably have to repurchase Switch VC games at full price. That's assuming someone has a VC library, Or was smart and bought physical games with great resale and can get a whole new and shiny system financed.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:20
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Thom P. Tiers posted:I'm probably going to sell it because it will finance my entire Switch purchase plus some. This isn't a bad reason to sell it. I just am on the side of avoiding selling consoles if you can avoid it. And the Wii U is so unique that we may not see ports of many of the great games. Or some of them. Well, one of them...maybe.
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Spellman posted:I would wait until we see what's up with the Switch, our Nintendo accounts, and the Virtual Console before we make any rash decisions like selling a Wii U Bombadilillo posted:WiiU is pretty dead no matter the success of failure of the Switch. Its not like they will go back to making WiiU games. I mean with regards to how they handle our online accounts and ownership of our software. The situation could evolve here with the launch of the Switch. Right now game ownership seems to be tethered to the console they exist on, rather than floating up in a cloud waiting to be deployed into any system that we own.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:25
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Instant Sunrise posted:No, but assuming Nintendo goes full Nintendo with the Virtual Console, if you bought a bunch of VC games on your Wii U, and no longer have your Wii U to do a system transfer, you'd probably have to repurchase Switch VC games at full price. I don't think a system transfer will even be a thing for Wii U -> Switch. The lack of backwards compatibility means there's nothing to bring over, and your NNID already tracks what you've bought on the eShop if they do the VC-discount thing again.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:37
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Waltzing Along posted:I have to say that as a person of non-Japanese descent I find it very offensive that people call the country Japan. That's insensitive to the folks who actually inhabit the islands. They call it Nihon. imo its weird that Britain just decided to call some countries whatever they wanted instead of what the native people named it and we just still do this.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:37
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Decius posted:Rime is dumpster fire Sony pulled their money out of after having been strung along for 3 years without anything to show for and now suddenly it is finished (for multiple platforms no less!) after already being declared dead. I expect absolutely nothing from it. Eh, that's shame. The trailers made it look really interesting. I guess I'll see what it's like after a few reviews, it might not be awful. But that does sound pretty damning.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:49
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Do we have any information on loading times for cart versus downloaded?
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Jan 23, 2017 20:44
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I don't see why they'd be any different in this case.
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Phantasium posted:I don't see why they'd be any different in this case. I don't imagine there would be, guess looking for confirm.
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Jan 23, 2017 20:48
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Nephzinho posted:Do we have any information on loading times for cart versus downloaded? Unless there's an additional asset download (ala Xenoblade Chronicles X) then there shouldn't be a difference.
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Jan 23, 2017 20:58
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Louisgod posted:Unless there's an additional asset download (ala Xenoblade Chronicles X) then there shouldn't be a difference. I assume downloaded means running off a microSD, in which case we need to question how fast data can be loaded from a normal cart. MicroSD cards can only read data at around 50-80 MB/sec. I would bet that Nintendo would never reveal this information, so we would have to wait until the Switch is actually released to do empirical tests.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:00
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If you order from Nintendo Japan, you can customize your package for different combinations. Want both joy-cons to be red? No problem. You even get gold coins for your purchase, in the unlikely scenario that you need to use them.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:04
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Nalin posted:I assume downloaded means running off a microSD, in which case we need to question how fast data can be loaded from a normal cart. MicroSD cards can only read data at around 50-80 MB/sec. I would bet that Nintendo would never reveal this information, so we would have to wait until the Switch is actually released to do empirical tests. Okay, so, is there any noticeable loss of or improved speed on a New 3DS? It can both run games off of a miniSD and the proprietary cart. Anyway, yeah, I'm sure people will test it but I'm guessing the difference is marginal, if anyt.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:16
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I would imagine the carts will be slightly faster but by the tiniest, most negligible amount. And you're loading off both anyways since all your save data is on the SD.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:34
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Jimmy Hats posted:I would imagine the carts will be slightly faster but by the tiniest, most negligible amount. Wouldn't a cart be considerably faster as well as better on battery life?
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Jan 23, 2017 21:43
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How the gently caress are Bomberman and Binding of Isaac 40-50 dollars? I was actually considering picking them up at like $20 each. Also don't sell your Wii U now. It'll probably be worth more in a year or two and you can hack it to play GameCube games natively over HDMI.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:46
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IIRC back when the Vita came out tests showed that carts loaded faster than reading off the memory cards, but then again I have no idea what the read speed on a Vita memory card is vs. the speeds of SDXC/etc. The difference was like 2-3 seconds tops.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:47
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Really my thought comes down to whether I should buy Mario Kart digitally this time around, as the Wii U was much slower on disc (and was also the game that most consistently had me swapping discs) with loadtimes that added up over long sessions.
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The half a millisecond longer it takes for it to load off a micro SD card is countered by the several seconds it takes to change game carts.
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Nephzinho posted:Really my thought comes down to whether I should buy Mario Kart digitally this time around, as the Wii U was much slower on disc (and was also the game that most consistently had me swapping discs) with loadtimes that added up over long sessions. Buy physical so you can sell it when the paid online is no bueno
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Real hurthling! posted:Buy physical so you can sell it when the paid online is no bueno I have bought 100% physical all things gaming, this is literally just to shave a minute or whatever off my Mario Kart 8 run time.
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SeANMcBAY posted:How the gently caress are Bomberman and Binding of Isaac 40-50 dollars? I was actually considering picking them up at like $20 each. BoI includes 2 $10 expansions at least.
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Rexroom posted:If you order from Nintendo Japan, you can customize your package for different combinations. Want both joy-cons to be red? No problem. You even get gold coins for your purchase, in the unlikely scenario that you need to use them. Meanwhile, the Nintendo online stores in other regions dont' even have Switch pre-orders. This is kind of crap. 
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Policenaut posted:IIRC back when the Vita came out tests showed that carts loaded faster than reading off the memory cards, but then again I have no idea what the read speed on a Vita memory card is vs. the speeds of SDXC/etc. The difference was like 2-3 seconds tops. Would it be different with the larger games on a standard console? MicroSD cards are slower than a 5400 rpm hard drive.
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SeANMcBAY posted:How the gently caress are Bomberman and Binding of Isaac 40-50 dollars? I was actually considering picking them up at like $20 each. If Bomberman was online only I'd see it being 20$.
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https://twitter.com/arthur_parsons/status/823557664949075968 Lego Worlds, the Minecraft-like construction game, is coming to the Switch?
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Rexroom posted:https://twitter.com/arthur_parsons/status/823557664949075968 A Lego Dimensions that cuts out the portal switching puzzles would seem like a lot of lost content but honestly I'd buy such a version because that poo poo gets tiring hella fast after the fiftieth or so time.
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Waltzing Along posted:I have to say that as a person of non-Japanese descent I find it very offensive that people call the country Japan. That's insensitive to the folks who actually inhabit the islands. They call it Nihon. hi i'm posting from the future to say you don't get to decide that
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SeANMcBAY posted:How the gently caress are Bomberman and Binding of Isaac 40-50 dollars? I was actually considering picking them up at like $20 each. BoI Rebirth with expansions is close to $40 on Steam. Super Bomberman R is not a multiplayer-only XBLA budget title.
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As good as Wind Waker HD was, I wish they had waited for the Switch to port it over. I had a dream of playing it on a portable device way back in 2004 and playing DQ8 on my 3DS made me realize that I'm nearly in my dream's future.
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Detective No. 27 posted:As good as Wind Waker HD was, I wish they had waited for the Switch to port it over. I had a dream of playing it on a portable device way back in 2004 and playing DQ8 on my 3DS made me realize that I'm nearly in my dream's future. I think there's a good chance that any game worth playing on the Wii U will get a Switch port at some point. Nintendo's really big on avoiding dry spells now, and some kind of Windwaker/Twilight Princess 2pack for the Switch, or just individual budget releases, would probably be fairly low effort for them to make later on. And it would easily fill a lot of those gaps to do that kind of thing. Same goes for stuff like Super Mario 3D World.
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