Nintendo Switch (Nintendo's next console)

CastorTroy · 22-02-2017 08:58AM

I'm due to get Siro the week after launch so will see how good the internet is then. :-) Hopefully it has better wifi than PS3/4

MilesMorales1 · 22-02-2017 09:16AM

fixxxer wrote: »

That's a shame. I think my wife is hoping the Switch will break my crippling Overwatch addiction, or at least free up the telly so she can watch her stuff again :-/

When Nintendo eventually add streaming media apps, she can enjoy the switch herself! :pac:

Somedaythefire · 22-02-2017 09:38AM

got the friday off. might have to go for my first ever midnight launch.

CiDeRmAn · 22-02-2017 10:01AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

When Nintendo eventually add streaming media apps, she can enjoy the switch herself! :pac:

Nooo!!

Don't open up the can of worms again!

"I must have Plex on my Switch or I'm cancelling my preorder!!"

MilesMorales1 · 22-02-2017 10:05AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Nooo!!

Don't open up the can of worms again!

"I must have Plex on my Switch or I'm cancelling my preorder!!"

I mean erm streaming, whats that? When I was growing up we had 4 tv channels and we never complained.

CiDeRmAn · 22-02-2017 10:12AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I mean erm streaming, whats that? When I was growing up we had 4 tv channels and we never complained.

"4 channels?
You were lucky...
Our dad would open curtains on a stormy evening, and expect us to watch that out the window, he'd interrupt the view every 15 minutes, with our Mam, with descriptions of shops down the road."

"Windows?
You were lucky....
We had to make do with DOS..."

kunst nugget · 22-02-2017 10:15AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

4 channels?
You were lucky...
Our dad would open curtains on a stormy evening, and expect us to watch that out the window, he'd interrupt the view every 15 minutes, with our Mam, with descriptions of shops down the road.
Windows?
You were lucky....

And we only had two games to last us 6 years between the 7 of us and it was all we needed to be happy. If the Switch doesn't replicate the happiness I believe I once felt due to the deceptive nature of my nostalgia then its a failure!!!

MilesMorales1 · 22-02-2017 10:17AM

I (genuinely) used to get one game a year, possibly two if we had enough money at christmas, and I had to make that last me for a whole year, if not more, and it was a fantastic time. Don't think I've ever gotten as good at games again as I used to be at those games I played endlessly again and again.

LeeroyJ. · 22-02-2017 10:34AM

Anyone going to Gamestop or Smyths midnight sale?

I took the Friday off and will be queuing up (if there even is a queue) for sure.
Can't wait to get my hands on Zelda.

FutureGuy · 22-02-2017 10:37AM

LeeroyJ. wrote: »

Anyone going to Gamestop or Smyths midnight sale?

I took the Friday off and will be queuing up (if there even is a queue) for sure.
Can't wait to get my hands on Zelda.

Have the Friday off (Switch and Logan releasing same day) and I still have my preorder. *IF* I do buy it, will get it in the morning.

fixXxer · 22-02-2017 10:38AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

When Nintendo eventually add streaming media apps, she can enjoy the switch herself! :pac:

We used to play together actually, but Little Big Planet co-op was nearly the end of us, so I play and she watches if there's an interesting story or visuals.

MilesMorales1 · 22-02-2017 10:41AM

FutureGuy wrote: »

Have the Friday off (Switch and Logan releasing same day) and I still have my preorder. *IF* I do buy it, will get it in the morning.

Logan is the 1st sure! You can midnight launch and Logan it up.

panevthe3rd · 22-02-2017 10:42AM

LeeroyJ. wrote: »

Anyone going to Gamestop or Smyths midnight sale?

I took the Friday off and will be queuing up (if there even is a queue) for sure.
Can't wait to get my hands on Zelda.

you say that now but just as everyone is getting ready you'll run in on your own shouting your name and grabbing the first switch

EDit · 22-02-2017 10:51AM

LeeroyJ. wrote: »

Anyone going to Gamestop or Smyths midnight sale?

I took the Friday off and will be queuing up (if there even is a queue) for sure.
Can't wait to get my hands on Zelda.

Me and the wife are planning on attending our local Smyth's midnight opening. Have no idea when to go as we've never been before (don't want to get there stupidly early, but also don't like the idea of joining the end of a long queue around midnight)

CiDeRmAn · 22-02-2017 10:55AM

When I was drawing a wage for the first time back in '90 I was buying maybe a game a month or so.
They were expensive!

MilesMorales1 · 22-02-2017 11:02AM

EDit wrote: »

Me and the wife are planning on attending our local Smyth's midnight opening. Have no idea when to go as we've never been before (don't want to get there stupidly early, but also don't like the idea of joining the end of a long queue around midnight)

The earlier you get there, the less time you'll spend there, if that makes sense. Get there for 8 or 9, and you'll be out the door pretty quickly after midnight, any later and the queue gets real long.

mayordenis · 22-02-2017 11:08AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Nooo!!

Don't open up the can of worms again!

"I must have Plex on my Switch or I'm cancelling my preorder!!"

Zune music or we riot.

CiDeRmAn · 22-02-2017 11:12AM

mayordenis wrote: »

Zune music or we riot.

I'm hoping for an AOL app

MilesMorales1 · 22-02-2017 11:39AM

Gah I wanna switch (ha) my pre order to symths now. Midnight launch and probably still get the neon console.

CastorTroy · 22-02-2017 12:04PM

May drive down about midnight to see if there's a queue outta curiosity. I really wish Argos advertised in advance

Tipsy McSwagger · 22-02-2017 12:30PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

May drive down about midnight to see if there's a queue outta curiosity. I really wish Argos advertised in advance

Same. What's pissing me off is I'm getting the Switch & Zelda through Amazon but the Switch on the 3rd and Zelda on the 6th, this means I have to pay two separate fees to Parcel Motel and I have no game to play on release day.

sligeach · 22-02-2017 12:33PM

1-2-Switch (Switch) - Boxing Gym

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipKZ7qA__o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipKZ7qA__o

This isn't proper boxing. It's garbage. What's the point of swinging both arms? Maybe there'll be an option to use a second set of Joy-cons.

22-02-2017 12:37PM

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Same. What's pissing me off is I'm getting the Switch & Zelda through Amazon but the Switch on the 3rd and Zelda on the 6th, this means I have to pay two separate fees to Parcel Motel and I have no game to play on release day.

Meet your buddy

I'm in the exact same boat, be nice if they bunged Zelda in there before launch...

If not I'll just have to wait it out...

fixXxer · 22-02-2017 12:46PM

sligeach wrote:

This isn't proper boxing. It's garbage. What's the point of swinging both arms? Maybe there'll be an option to use a second set of Joy-cons.

Do you not like the look of Switch 1 2?

MilesMorales1 · 22-02-2017 12:47PM

fixxxer wrote: »

Do you not like the look of Switch 1 2?

You know, I've got this feeling he doesn't, funnily enough.

Not that I think it looks specially amazing, but then neither did wii sports.

kunst nugget · 22-02-2017 12:49PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

You know, I've got this feeling he doesn't, funnily enough.

Not that I think it looks specially amazing, but then neither did wii sports.

At least Wii Sports came bundled with the machine…

EDit · 22-02-2017 12:49PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

The earlier you get there, the less time you'll spend there, if that makes sense. Get there for 8 or 9, and you'll be out the door pretty quickly after midnight, any later and the queue gets real long.

Oh dear. Was worried someone might say that as I kinda know the wife is expecting us to rock up at around 11:30, collect the Switch 30 mins later and be home shortly afterwards. Anyway, we live close enough to Smyths that I can pop down earlier and see if a queue is forming (and go home if it's not)

RobertFoster · 22-02-2017 12:53PM

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Metal gear's final song was Irish trad if I remember correctly.

Yep, The Best Is Yet To Come - translated into Irish by Bláthnaid :eek: I thought it was cool when I saw it on the album at the time. Play magazine said it was in Icelandic... I don't think I got many more issues after that :pac:

EDit · 22-02-2017 12:57PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

You know, I've got this feeling he doesn't, funnily enough.

Not that I think it looks specially amazing, but then neither did wii sports.

I'm with sligeach on this one TBH, I think 1-2-Switch looks awful and I doubt even my children would disagree

CiDeRmAn · 22-02-2017 01:29PM

But apparently it doesn't play awful.
And it's in the playing that it shines.
It is not a visual game, hard to represent its tactile roots in a bunch of trailers and some screenshots.
And hence why the typical online clickbait merchant can't spend the time doing anything other than slate it.
Arms is supposed to be quite good to spectacular, depending on the source who've played it, including a poster here.
So, I'd rather wait and see than judge it on, well, nothing.

Nintendo Switch (Nintendo's next console)

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