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This Week in Games - The Switch Is Upon Us!

Because it was?

Limited ammo is the point of survival horror.

Pick and choose your fights.

And the puzzles and item hunting were a big deal as well.

I wonder what the games are going to look like. It's almost like games are DL'd through the stores. I guess there might not be anymore games to buy for us.

It seems like this is nothing more than a pretty good gaming tablet that comes with a controller (which can be split into 2 mini-controllers for some games) that could compete with say the NVIDIA Shield (interesting since NVIDIA makes the Switch's processor) but trying to be a console and a replacement for the 3DS at the same time? I don't think so. When a product tries to be too many things it ends up potentially not being very good at any of them. 32GB internal storage upgradable with a card is OK for a tablet or hand-held but for a console it's pathetic. Based on it's size I don't really see it replacing the 3DS since the 3DS can fit in a pocket but the Switch certainly won't, especially not with the controller(s) attached.

Given that the presentation was pretty awful (even people who like the Switch are saying that) and the utter lack of games at launch it's easy to see why many online critics are wondering if this will flop like the WiiU did. I may possibly be in the market for a console (or three) in the near future but I doubt I would be buying a Switch-at least not for a while. I might look into getting a Wii or WiiU cheap after it comes out though, but I will almost certainly get a handheld (New 3DS XL most likely) first.

You will literally run out of ammo in the very first section if you try to kill every enemy there in Resident Evil 3, especially on hard.

You're supposed to run past them or use just enough ammo to knock them down.

That last sentence sounds really close to "this video game is too video gamey"

A big part of the puzzles was also inventory management. Balancing healing items, ammo, and other items.

The games never became mow every enemy down until 4 where some doors literally would not open until you kill every enemy and you had a traveling merchant selling weapons and ammo.

Chrno2 wrote:

I wonder what the games are going to look like. It's almost like games are DL'd through the stores. I guess there might not be anymore games to buy for us.

Like, physically what are the games gonna look like? The switch uses cartridges, like the DS.

Barbobot wrote:

Chrno2 wrote: I wonder what the games are going to look like. It's almost like games are DL'd through the stores. I guess there might not be anymore games to buy for us. Like, physically what are the games gonna look like? The switch uses cartridges, like the DS.

Ah. Thank you for that update. Because when they first announced the Switch they never told you or showed you what the games were like. They just gave you this brief trailer of what the system does. But this does sound like an interesting concept. Because now you can have big titles on a cartridge that can be played anywhere. It's like they created a portable with the power of a big console. I think the Nintendo Switch is going to do far better than what the WiiU tried to do. But people still like portability.

Now I wonder if it will be backwards compatible with DS games. Like what the Super Game Boy did for the SNES. It's almost the same concept.

I may have to get intouch with some academic libraries that collect games and see if they are going with this technology as well. Because then the question would be should we create a backlog for DS games. As some academic libraries do collect them.

Honestly, as someone who has owned every Nintendo console/handheld, the Switch is the biggest disappointment I have ever seen from Nintendo. I was beyond excited when it was first announced as it would be the best way for Nintendo to merge their successful handheld line, with their failing console line.

But nope, Nintendo goes and makes stupid decision after stupid decision, making it the biggest money grubbing console release I have ever seen. $70 just for a pro controller??

Wii, and/or GameCube.

It seems like this is nothing more than a pretty good gaming tablet that comes with a controller (which can be split into 2 mini-controllers for some games) that could compete with say the NVIDIA Shield (interesting since NVIDIA makes the Switch's processor) but trying to be a console and a replacement for the 3DS at the same time? I don't think so. When a product tries to be too many things it ends up potentially not being very good at any of them. 32GB internal storage upgradable with a card is OK for a tablet or hand-held but for a console it's pathetic. Based on it's size I don't really see it replacing the 3DS since the 3DS can fit in a pocket but the Switch certainly won't, especially not with the controller(s) attached.

What makes that 32GB HD an even bigger joke, is that it has no usb ports, and only takes mirco SDXC cards for memory upgrade. Those things are relatively expensive, and that seems like a pretty gimped move, but I guess right up Nintendo's alley.

Here's the problem with this idea that many people still aren't getting. By merging their handheld line with their console line. Nintendo is essentially putting all their eggs into one basket when the reality is they have zero reason to do this and when the risk is simply to great.

They kill the 3DS line and bring it's games to the Switch what then happens if the Switch bombs?....We already know if that happens Nintendo isn't making consoles anymore but what of handhelds? They stop making those too?