#I like my tablet but god I miss all the features of ps on my laptop… OTL

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Art trade with @fowlaroundtown , who asked for Donnie and Shelldon hanging out 😊

I’ve never drawn Shelldon before, but it was a lot of fun! 💜

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The Switch Presentation

Yesterday Nintendo held it’s conference where they finally gave us much needed information about the new Nintendo Switch. So let’s get the price and release date out of the way first:

               Release: March 3                Price: 299$ or ~299EURs

The Switch is just right around the corner and you can buy one just in two months! Well if you preordered it at least two years ago because Nintendo just can’t provide enough units for us. Now if it’s because they don’t wish to rush the production of the system avoiding malfunctions or just the usual bullshit it doesn’t matter because we have much to talk about!

(In case you wish the see the whole thing for yourself)

The general conference was OK in my opinion, nothing that would take your breath wildly away. We saw a few games the JoyCons what can we kinda expect from the system overall OK. Now I heard people complaining about the price. Which is fair, who would want to pay less for something, but in my eyes the 299 is a pretty decent price point. I know that for that much money you could get a tablet that has much better hardware or an Nvidia Shield but the Switch build for gaming in mind. Again you can play on a tablet or on a Shield, but sometimes games can run horribly laggy on such devices and the lack of a physical input device has been always a huge issue (at least for me). So for the 299 you get 720p @60 FPS (60 from 1st party titles) gaming on the go or on the TV with games like Mario, Legend of Zelda, Please God a New Metroid would be nice etc etc... So if you are looking for a tablet that you are going to use explicitly for gaming than the Switch isn’t a bad choice at all.

Other than the price and release date we got introduced to the new gimmicky controllers the Joy Cons. They are pretty impressive and I can’t personally wait to try one out! Those little controllers have a new rumble technology inside them called 3D rumble, which as they described can imitate how 3 ice cubes behave in a glass of water (if you check the presentation that will make much more sense to you, trust me), has the usual gyroscopes for gesture recognition, some type or IR sensor for measuring distance and an NFC reader for Amiibos.

Technically phenomenal cosmic power in an itty bitty living space. I think they little overdo this part of the show. Nintendo really got into showing and wangling those things around. As mentioned before I really like the idea of those controllers. It would be really nice if developers could figure out how to use them properly. You could use them a light gun like the Move Controllers or the Wii Remote for rail shooter or for FPS games. With its new rumble tech you could imitate how something would feel in your hands. Hell maybe you could make a party game about boxes where you shake those boxes and trying to figure out what is inside those boxes or something else. There are a lot of potential in the new controller!

But I hope that developers are going to use those new features in a way that would make sense and won’t ruin the fun. I saw a lot of devs shoehorning in some gimmicky features into their games or twist the mechanics in a way that they can use it. I don’t want to waggle the controller to make an action that would be much easier and faster with a press of a button. Implement those features in a way that makes sense and please no glorified games that are just tech demos after a month after the Switch’s release. Please.

Now let’s move into something that was just faintly mentioned the online subscription fee. Nintendo moving to the Switch will ask you to pay 5 bucks a month for some kind of online subscription. What we know about it right now is that with this subscription you can play games online, have access for some kind of party system and you get a free game for a month.

It’s a real shame to see that even the Big N has given up their policy about free online games and I found it ridiculous that in 2017 we have to pay any cash just so that we can play online. I don’t mind paying for PS+ back in the PS3/Xbox360 era because it was a good deal, you bought the game you wanted you can play online with everyone in the World and if you wish to pay for this subscription we will give you some games every month. What a deal that was! But now I buy a game for 60 or hell even sometimes they charge more and I’ll get locked out of the online play sections because why?

Anyway back to the point. Charging for online play is bullshit and Nintendo hasn’t been a company that had a good and easy to use online system. I personally only have a 3DS and God the online interface is atrocious, not easy to use and key features are missing. As for the free game per month what we know right about it is that Nintendo will give you to play some game for a month and after the end of the month you have to purchase it if you wish to play them. And according rumours most games what we can get are old NES, SNES etc etc titles! Games that I could literally go to google search for Legend of Zelda NES rom and I’ll be able to play it for FREE!  So when it comes to online functionalities I would trust Nintendo. Let’s hope that they’ll act like according to this century this time.

(mlpsimta.tumblr.com doesn’t encourages using illegally downloaded softwares, but what is bullshit is bullshit). 

I nearly forgot about the games didn’t I? Let’s quickly talk about the launch titles and then move on to the others, shall we? On day one the Switch comes with:

               Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild                1-2-Switch                Skylanders Imaginators                Just Dance 2017

I often criticises the PS Vita with having the many games on launch day but this is the complete opposite. Having too many games for launch and you will end up fuck all in the upcoming month not to mention people have limited budgets, but launch you system with a few titles and why should I pick up the system on day one (not that you will be able too, because you know artificial sacristy) and day one sales are really important for literally showing off. Nintendo has already failed to build up a user base on the WiiU hence lost its 3rd party support, but with good launch titles comes better sales and with better sales developers are more eager to make games for you platform.

Of course other games are coming to the Switch such as:

               Has Been Heroes                Arms                Sonic Mania                Splatoon 2                Super Mario Odyssey                Skyrim                Mario Kart 8 Deluxe                etc...

It’s just a little disappointing to me to be honest with you. It would have been nice to pick up the system on day 1 and play something other the the BoTW. I’m really interested what games or going to be on the Switch. Are we going to get WiiU games, so that 90% of us who doesn’t own a WiiU can play those games? And how many inide games there are going to be? 

I won’t really talk about the games in depth, because I think there’s no reason about it, but seeing Skyrim will coming to the system gives me hope that this time Nintendo will have a console with a strong game line up. (Yes I know that the game is 6 years old, but still it’s looks promising).

In conclusion I’m really interested about the Switch. It looks like a solid gaming device and because of its portability I can see a bright future for indie devs in it, more precisely I can’t wait for the party games. I don’t have to carry around a PC, Laptop or a PS4, just something that literally fits into a purse, pull it out, hook it up to the nearest TV boot up Overcooked, Switch Sports (or 1-2-Switch if that is the Switch’s equivalent for Wii Sports), Mario Kart or some other party game and you have the best console when people are coming over!

As again thank you very much for reading my nonsense and I hope you enjoyed it.

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