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  3. Posted

    I was just thinking about Nintendo's appeal and which 3rd party titles would fit well and there are the odd ones that come to mind. They obviously need to get on board with the toys-to-life market again (could use the built in reader maybe?) but there are more recently some games that have a broader appeal that would fit well with a Nintendo system.

     

    Overwatch for instance is bright and characterful, basically the Big Hero 6 of video games. It's a strong multiplayer game and combined with Splatoon could really make way for a portable FPS market. Blizzard haven't worked with Nintendo since the failed Starcraft Ghost project (as far as I'm aware) but they have a huge amount in common. Now that Blizz are in the console game a bit more there is more hope for a happy marriage.

     

    Kingdom Hearts III: From a market point of view, this is perfect and Epic have already stated that they will be supporting Unreal on Switch. It would be a boon to have such a substantial game on the platform and S-E and Nintendo have a history with this franchise.

     

    Anything Starwars: Now I'm not expecting Battlefront to run on the Switch. I'd LIKE it to but I very much doubt it will. But the franchise has such a wide appeal that I don't think Nintendo can opt out of not trying to court it somehow.

     

    (I thought we had a separate thread for this but was having trouble finding it!)

  4. Posted

    Yes the joy cons are perfect for VR, the Switch is ticking a lot of boxes and is looking like 3 consoles in one. The only thing that seems to be missing is a camera, but knowing Nintendo there'll be some optional attachment or something.

     

    Don't forget the inevitable hardware revision. We wouldn't want to miss out on the Switch-Lite or the NEW Switch would we? :p

     

    I just watched this video explaining about how much bang for buck the switch hardware is going to achieve. Was interesting:

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    Nope, one off payment.

     

    Those investors make me laugh.

    "We want you to make a mobile game!"

    "OK fine, here's Super Mario Run! Now shut up!"

    "No, we want you to make a mobile game and give it away for free!"

     

    I mean, I'm no business tycoon, but I'm pretty sure even I can see the glaring problem here...

     

    Well the reason that I ask is that a big price like that on the mobile market at the moment is going to put people off. Whether the quality of the game can balance that is a different story.

     

    But from a business perspective, they've created a limiting format for the income on the game. As long as people play Pokémon GO there will be income from purchases but once all of the people who play Mario have bought it, there is no additional way to keep getting income from those players.

     

    I don't care either which way but I'm sure that the shareholders do.

  7. Posted

    I'm keeping an eye out on the FCC website to see if any information comes up but they do keep things confidential for a period. I'd expect some detail to pop up in Jan.

     

    They seem to confirm touchscreen, SD Card expandable memory, Gyro controls, two shoulder buttons on the Joy Cons and most interesting and exciting of all... Google Cardboard style VR potential. Plenty more too

     

    So the more I think about this, the better it gets. One of the major issues that I have with mobile VR is that the tracking goes of really easily but that almost no games have inputs.

     

    With joycons, you instantly have a fairly sophisticated input set out of the box that lends itself to VR. What if we should be expecting BotW in VR, which could be played from a first person perspective?

     

    Mario Kart VR anyone?

  8. Posted

    So I've recently got back into this in a big way after not being able to play for a while. I'm really enjoying it and looking forward to the Xmas Mei event.

     

    Has anyone played that much yet?

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    Don't expect it to play like NMS or an arcadey shooter. It's basically a space simulator, and will take you a bit of time to fully get the hang of it. There are missions but they're generated ones like fetch quests or "go to this system, find this guy and kill him", or community based ones where everyone pitches in to get an objective completed. There's mining, a stock market to trade on, faction based gameplay (not touched this part of it) and plenty of bounty hunting (in and around the asteroids of a ringed gas giant is my preferred locale for that sort of thing). The game tries to be as realistic as possible with a strong scientific foundation, so that means actual distances within systems. Traveling between places can be a bit boring, it's whether you have the interest or patience. It can be quite awe inspiring to fly around a system though, really makes you appreciate the incredible scale of the universe. All in all it's a great game, but don't expect a campaign or anything like that, it's similar to NMS's 'do what you want' style, whilst being very different in terms of actual gameplay.

     

    Yeah that's a pretty good summary, although I'd say that there's plenty of depth to keep pulling out of it, unlike NMS. For instance, you're likely to start earning money mostly by combat based missions which are fun but you'll start to want for something a bit more substantial.

     

    So you might look into exploration and mapping and there's a whole different ship layout for that kind of thing.

     

    Or you might want to have a look into the faction gameplay where what you do starts to shift the balance of power in the galaxy. There loads of local small factions that you can tinker with to and there's lots of benefits/cons.

     

    And if you break into enemy space and assassinate someone, I can guarantee you that space travel gets interesting quickly. If you have any real value in cargo on you or you have a bounty on you, you get pulled out of space travel by people with tractor beams (called interdiction) and you're kind of forced to fight. Can get pretty hairy!

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    I've been looking at the vid again and I'm starting to wonder how rugged it's going to be. I'd say that was a given for Nintendo but the 3DS certainly has changed that reputation with that crappy hinge.

     

    Specifically, I'm anticipating issues with the joypads and where they attach to the screen. The contact area seems pretty small and I'm wondering if a reasonable twist would break them.

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    It's a different kettle of fish though.

     

    To get it on the Switch, they are essentially creating a new emulator for each game, tweaking it again, QA again and, most importantly, licensing again. That is costly. It's a lot different to how Steam is.

     

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    Yes it's a completely different kettle of fish. They are upgrading to a platform which has hugely more RAM and CPU than required in most cases. A single platform which has a fixed (mostly) hardware set, which they have a deeper understanding of than anyone and they are porting games from platforms that they have a deeper understanding of than anyone.

     

    PC games have to deal with significant OS updates, complete changes in CPU and graphics architecture and the same game has to run on an enormous range of hardware types.

     

    So explain to me who has the more difficult job?

  14. Posted

    If there's extra work put into the Virtual Console like there was Wii -> Wii U, I'm fine with upgrade fees.

     

    Sony have done the same before. Why is it an issue when Nintendo do it? :p

     

    Well it's really about screwing everyone in the purchase proposition surely? If you buy a game, you feel that you should get license to play that for a reasonable amount of time and always on their most current console. Can you imagine what Steam would be like if you lost your library if you changed PC?

     

    Nintendo are about to do this to everyone for the second time because of their piss-poor excuse for a centralised system, which has been a concept in games since 2004 (maybe even earlier). Not to mention, do it to all of those people that actually bought the Wii U. It's hugely anti-consumer.

     

    Justifying charging everyone again is a business decision only and a poor one. If you have the virtual console and you charge people a premium price to not go and easily pirate your entire library, the you should support them. That means updating the game to fit modern standard without charging people.

     

    Look at Skyrim HD and how many people go that for free, look at the content that gets added to PC games. There are many more pro-consumer efforts going on there. Hell even SEGA's PC versions of the DC games are pretty damn well priced. It costs me more for a SNES game than for that! You can even look at the value that people got for the Uncharted Collection and that Sony themselves have regularly put it on sale and then compare that to releasing TP and WW remakes at the prices they did.

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    I'd hope that there's a multiplayer game ready for launch. They need something to promote the benefits of the system, hope the online and community functions will play. I cant see anything other than Splatoon, MK or Smash doing that.

     

    Plus those games keep giving unlike the single player games that leave a droughty kind of feeling.

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    Based on Wii, 3DS and Wii U, I think you don't need to worry here.

     

    It'll probably allow up to 128GB SD cards. Obviously as it's a portable, it can't have a HDD, and SSDs would jack up the price like crazy so don't expect more than 64GB of onboard memory

     

    There's room for an SSD in the dock. Maybe you can store your library in there and copy to the tablet what you want to play right now.

     

    As for the system as a whole, I'm optimistic but not yet convinced. As with everything Nintendo, the potential in the hardware is there but that pitch can be ruined by some small but important realities. I'm thinking very heavily on the original Wii videos.

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    I think you've fallen for your own echo chamber thing here. Haven't all sales statistics indicated that VR has fallen rather flat? Not bad, but not amazing at all.

     

    I was referring to general interest and cultural relevance, rather than sales as I was replying to what Ronnie was talking about. VR particularly has been widely covered in the normal media.

     

    Not sure what Youtube and Netflix have to do with anything? Ditto WoW (really?) or Overwatch. VR maybe, though I think it's very niche culturally speaking and will die down very quickly once the initial buzz subsides and people have their fill of the tech and lacklustre launch games.

     

    You were talking about cultural interest. People only have SO much time and money after all and for most, Netflix is a better choice to spend they're money on.

     

    What you've just said about VR being niche is also exactly what everyone has been saying about Nintendo consoles for years.

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    What does this "Nintendo aren't relevant" thing that keeps getting trotted out even mean? Pokemon Go, the E3 queues for Zelda, Super Mario Run making a bigger online splash than the PS4 Pro on the same day. As for NX, I suggest you look again, there's a massive amount of hype and anticipation. If no one cared we wouldn't get a new "leak" every other day and Papa John's wouldn't get "NX?" tweets in reply to their monolithic pizza box image.

     

    EDIT: sorry! Didnt see how many people had replied to you already!

     

    I think you may be effected by the echo chamber of the internet. My impression is that culturally Nintendo have had specks of relevance with things like Pokemon go but the wider audience doesn't care what's happening with Nintendo. Most people who are vaguely interested will have their ears prick up when the news comes out but definitely won't wait for it. This is classic Nintendo, get everyone excited and then let the market go stone cold.

     

    Many more people are focused on VR, big PC games like WoW and Overwatch, Youtube, Netflix, the world being SO expensive right now.

     

    Nintendo have a lot of noise to compete against.

  21. Posted

    Not everyone has a phone though, or a new enough phone.

     

    Pretty sure that more people have the latest model of iphone compared to the combined userbase of the wii, Ds, 3DS and Wii U. It would make for a reasonable business decision.

     

    Honestly I want to see Nintendo have a return to form. Quit trying to invent problems to fix, and just make a console people want. There is no shame in them looking at what their competitors are doing successfully. Actual online infrastructure that doesn't get shitcanned every generation. Party chat, because if they truly want to push the social aspect of gaming that is a huge thing. Steady games, if not first party publish third parties even better, actual real timely third party releases. Not months after, not years old ports, same day games. So of course power is also important.

     

    Agree on all points!

  22. Posted

    The pack mentality here is disturbing though. I've raised issues with you and a few other members myself and personally I think Ronnie is being bullied, frankly. Who can blame him if he gets frustrated and fights back when he has three or four people going at him at the same time, calling for him to be banned etc.

     

    Maybe having this conversation by PM would be more appropriate? Also you cant go calling people a hypocrit for derailing the thread and then continue driving it off track either. And you both are talking about Ronnie in front of him like hes not here.

  23. Posted

    Ive been asking myself this question a lot and I cant really settle on and answer. One thing I do want is fpr it to be a far more cloud based offering. If it turns out that Nintendo still cant provide an online system that isnt directly tied to hardware ids then I may give it a miss. Ive got tired of feeling like im getting robbed any time a buy a VC game as they are top expensive in my opinion anyway and then to be robbed again when they essentially delete your library next gen.

     

    I like the hybrid idea but I'm staying to wonder if the handheld part should just be a phone. Everyone has one and it would massively open the audience.

  24. Posted · Edited by Jamba

    5+ months to release so any day now. If you loved that godawful PS4 Pro event, which I believe you somehow did, the NX one should be incredible by comparison.

     

    Most of that 5 months will be jam packed with the clamour of new releases around xmas. Honestly, the sensible time I see for Nintendo to announce would now be late Feb, after the xmas hubbub has died down. And that's why I'm now expecting a release being delayed to later in 2017.

     

    And as an aside, you need to chill big time. It's a forum, you should have got used to people liking different things to you a long time ago. You don't need to go digging your heels in and derailing this thread all the time. What youve just said to drahkon was completely unprovoked. I have no idea why you're being like that.

     

    EDIT: well apparently not directly unrpovoked but still. I dont think I know what thats about.

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