Nintendo Switch

1 2 Switch GOTY 2017

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 41.2%

  • Yes

    Votes: 20 58.8%
  • Total voters
    34
The Pro Controller has a D-Pad, the buttons are just for the two-player take anywhere gimmick.

Well I better get a pro controller.

SuperDoom said:
As long as this thing is backwards compatible with the Wii U, I have no complaints.
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It takes cartridges so I very highly doubt it. If it was backwards compatible they also wouldn't need to port MK8, Splatoon and Zelda. It also doesn't look like it has a touchscreen since the small screen can't be used at the same time as the TV.
 
SuperDoom said:
Hououin Kyouma said:
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hm.

I'm not really sure how to think about the lack of a dpad

else i guess they fixed some things people disliked about the wii u controllers as for example better button placement and asymmetrical sticks

looks better than expected though.
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IZ BRUTIFUL

The D-pad has been replaced with an N64 C-stick. As long as this thing is backwards compatible with the Wii U, I have no complaints.
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It's more like C-Buttons and in case you haven't noticed, the Switch is not backwards compatible with the Wii U or 3DS.
 
Maria Renard said:
SuperDoom said:
Hououin Kyouma said:
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hm.

I'm not really sure how to think about the lack of a dpad

else i guess they fixed some things people disliked about the wii u controllers as for example better button placement and asymmetrical sticks

looks better than expected though.
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IZ BRUTIFUL

The D-pad has been replaced with an N64 C-stick. As long as this thing is backwards compatible with the Wii U, I have no complaints.
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It's more like C-Buttons and in case you haven't noticed, the Switch is not backwards compatible with the Wii U or 3DS.
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I'm keeping both, then.
 
i'd imagine that there's some way to read stuff from your wii u and download game data you have on it onto the switch
at least i hope so, not being backwards compatible at all would be shitty
 
Or they might just have downloadable NX ports of Wii U games provided free of charge that owned the Wii U originals. That would work really well. They should work on remastering the GCN and Wii Mario games like Sunshine and the Galaxy duology for the NX. It is nice to preserve those games for the newer generations to come much like how we have the ancient NES, SNES and N64 games on the Virtual Console with tons of other retro systems excluding the PlayStation 1 and 2 which can be found on the PS3 and PS4.
 
While backwards capabilities would be nice, it is not a game changer for me. Mostly because I own a Wii not a Wii U. I say the those who change from the Wii U to the Switch might try to get rid of the Wii U somehow for full price or something then buy the Switch. The switch from Wii to Switch will be very easy to do, especially since it has more to offer more than what the Wii U offered different from the Wii.
 
So the Switch is conformed to have Unreal Engine 4, a popular and powerful game engine that many games use. This possibly means that big games like the Final Fantasy 7 remake and Tekken 7 could come to Switch. Nothing confirmed from any third parties yet, but the possiblitiy for this to have some good third party support, as well as being portable makes me hopeful that Nintendo will be back at it again.
 
remember when the wii u had great third party support and then it all died when no one bothered buying it
 
Whaddya mean "great third party support"?

Ninelevendo said:
So the Switch is conformed to have Unreal Engine 4, a popular and powerful game engine that many games use. This possibly means that big games like the Final Fantasy 7 remake and Tekken 7 could come to Switch. Nothing confirmed from any third parties yet, but the possiblitiy for this to have some good third party support, as well as being portable makes me hopeful that Nintendo will be back at it again.
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Hm, yeah, Epic Games Inc. is one of their partners.

I now imagine the Mario in Unreal 4 engine being reality. Heh. I can dream, no?
 
Wow, leave it to me to somehow completely miss the dedicated thread to this thing and post somewhere else entirely.

Anyway, as I said in the Nintendo news thread: I am cautiously upbeat about this new Switch thing.