General Switch Discussion

[Ashley]

Wouldn't it be funny if they announced the Switch Pro

[Ike]

At least if the TWW/TP ports happen, I will be able to finally put my Wii U away.

[Nicktendo]

16 hours ago, Ashley said:

Wouldn't it be funny if they announced the Switch Pro

You know what, that's not a bad shout actually. 

Maybe not a "pro" edition per se, but spruce it up a little bit internally, have a nice fancy limited edition design. Make the OLED screen the standard and discontinue the OG. 64gb storage. Same on the Lite, few new colours. $100 / £100 price drop for both models. Pack in a big hit or two. Finally kick of a player's choice range.

Congratulation, PS2 is dunzo. 10 million+ EZ sales. 

[Cube]

10 hours ago, Ike said:

At least if the TWW/TP ports happen, I will be able to finally put my Wii U away.

After playing the original Wind Waker again, going back to not having the Game Pad screen for that game is so frustrating. More so than losing the other changes. 

[Hero-of-Time]

Are we expecting a tweet/announcement at 2pm for tomorrow's Direct? If real, I can't imagine them just dropping the thing out of nowhere.

[Julius]

12 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said:

Are we expecting a tweet/announcement at 2pm for tomorrow's Direct? If real, I can't imagine them just dropping the thing out of nowhere.

Yeah, 14:00 GMT / 15:00 BST in the summer has generally been when they drop news of general Directs for a little while now, though if it's under different branding then it might go up at a different time – for example, last year's Partner Direct got announced at 22:00 GMT. So I guess we'll know by tonight at the latest, because I'm with you, I'd be pretty shocked if they shadow-dropped this. 

Before rumours of this started going around I was thinking they'd drop the Switch 2 Direct runtime sometime today, but I figure they'll just give it a little bit of lip service to close the Direct out if that's happening tomorrow? 

[Hero-of-Time]

10 minutes ago, Julius said:

Before rumours of this started going around I was thinking they'd drop the Switch 2 Direct runtime sometime today, but I figure they'll just give it a little bit of lip service to close the Direct out if that's happening tomorrow? 

Yeah, I imagine a little reminder at the end of tomorrow's Direct will show up.

[Julius]

Pyoro is back and saying that tomorrow's Direct won't be a Partner or Indie event:

That leaves general Direct or a Mini...

Worth noting that a number of Direct Minis have been announced the day of or shadow-dropped in the past. 

Edited Wednesday at 01:03 PM by Julius

[Dcubed]

Should be announced today and then happen tomorrow.

1 hour ago, Hero-of-Time said:

Are we expecting a tweet/announcement at 2pm for tomorrow's Direct? If real, I can't imagine them just dropping the thing out of nowhere.

Yup.  That's exactly what I'm expecting.

Edited Wednesday at 01:50 PM by Dcubed

[Julius]

Video on the Virtual Game Cards announced in today's Direct: 

If you're looking for a more concise explanation on how it'll work: 

[MindFreak]

I'm torn. It's either pretty smart or rather dumb but it solves the problem I had foreseen as I was planning on letting my sons get my old Switch when Switch 2 launches but I didn't want to lose my games or let them use my profile. This way, they can still play our games on the old Switch.

[Dcubed]

The fact that it doesn't require any sort of internet connection check-in is pretty killer; especially given the portable nature of the system.

Great for multi-system ownership.