Nintendo Switch Hype Train: Rumors and Such...

*notices the peach screen saver*

New Zelda gameplay on Switch with techy commentary about the graphics and performance.

Really interesting, 720p on handheld mode is very decent and will be ok graphics-wise. 900p while docked isn't that great but eh, wasn't expecting much anyway.

A little bit of information for my friends (Anyone who is reading this):

The "grip" that the Switch comes with is different than the "Charging Grip." The grip the Switch actually comes with doesn't charge the...Joycon things so they can run out of juice. The "Charging Grip" actually charges them via USB cable (from my observations). It has to be bought separately for 29.99.

There are several articles about it if you want to see for yourself. I'd avoid Forbes though. They've been on a warpath for the last couple of days.

im pretty happy with this setup, something i dont think people have noticed which is absolute genius on nintendos part is that strange cutout in the back of the system above the usbc hookup is actually there to help you easily line up the system to the charge port on the dock, so you cant dock it unless its properly aligned, since its completely digital storage theres almost no moving parts in the entire machine besides the fan, and that means no winding up for anything, no power lost to spinning up a hard drive, no power lost to a disc drive, they packed a bunch of tech into the controllers and the pro controller has all the tech thats in the joycons so you dont run into forced systemwide control schemes like wiiu and wii (doesnt meant games wont come out that require specific control schemes like 1-2 switch, but its not being forced onto game devs like wiimotes were)

i like 1-2 switch, its the perfect proof of concept game and that its a party game means people who dont have a switch can pick it up and play it easily which will help drive sales in the longterm (im torn as to whether this should be a packaged game though, if it was packaged it means everyone has it but the cost of the system would increase, not having it packaged means i can put that 10-30 price increase toward a multiplayer game i would play like bomberman or mario kart)

that arms can be played with motion controls or classically shows nintendo means it on the no forced control schemes, and between the 1-2 switch showing that games are not wholly dependant on you facing the screen and arms use of motion controls (along with the patent vr headset concept) is a HUGE red flag that vr is coming to the switch eventually

snipperclips looks deceptively fun, dunno how much staying power itll have but a coop puzzle game is a welcome addition

ill probably comment on more, but this is a good lineup, things are spaced out throughout the year and games that would come out on 3ds will start coming out on switch so no droughts and it ensures that supply has time to build up for each major 1st party release like mario kart 8 mario odyssey and splatoon2, more announcements coming up till launch and beyond like the fire emblem direct and 3rd party devs can now start announcing games means the focus will stay on switch without needing to inundate people with ads, and im betting more ports will start getting announced as well to pad out the switch lineup leading up to launch

The Nintendo Switch might not be able to support dual VAs for its games. In an interview with Eiji Aonuma he says Breath of The Wild will not have dual audio because BoTW's games language, text and audio, settings are tied to the consoles language settings.

The only way to play BoTW with japanese audio is if you change the consoles language settings from english to japanese, but then it would make the games text japanese also. This is something that might end up being applied to all the games released on the console.

But this could also be beneficial to the console as it could make playing imported games easier to enjoy. The same interview states that even if you import the japanese version of the game if your Switch settings are set to English the game will be in english, including the audio. So maybe importing japanese only games could result in, at the very east, the text being translated by the system.

I hope nintendo realizes people would pay for Japanese VA and subtitles as a DLC at least... me, I'm fine with english, as long as it is well done... though the overacting of Zelda's english voice has scared me a bit...

still, like many here I have preorded and will get the Switch and Zelda around my birthday