Calvirick Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Gentlemen and Ladies, we must discuss the interest thing that is the Nintendo Switch! This thread will focus on talking about anything relating to the Switch! *obligatory switch noise that sounds like a snap* We can talk about the pricing, culture exchange, tech specs, usability, the fact that it's so strangely proportioned and cumbersome! I'm literally looking for people that find this piece of gaming goodness a worth while topic to discuss. Whether or not you have bought it, there's already an opinion arising in your beautiful heart! Because this is modern technology and a mark in history of gaming. That is so spectacularly cool to me to think that I, no, WE get to experience this console while we're alive! Lets talk! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_jaga_genius Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 I don't even like Nintendo, but let's get the ball rolling here. Just took a look at Unity's website, apparently Unity 5 supports the Nintendo Switch, and so does the Unreal engine to some extent. So now I wonder how easy it is to code up a game on one's PC and get it running on the Switch. I think out of the last dozen downloads I got from IndieDB, more than half of them were Unity-based, so I wonder if there would be a way to just download a demo off of there, stick it on a flash drive, plug it into the Switch and play. If that happened, I wonder how Nintendo would react if someone coded up, say, a Pokemon fan game in Unity and ported it to the Switch. Actually, I've seen stuff about an NES emulator, coded in Unity, that takes the previously 2D games and gives them voxel-style 3D graphics. Now THAT'D be interesting to see on the Switch. (Just found it, here: https://geod.itch.io/3dnes) Also, I know people use Unity for virtual reality games as well. I know Sony fired up their own PlayStation-specific brand of VR recently, I wonder if Nintendo might follow suit with VR gear for the Switch. And if they ever did, I wonder how many indie devs would use Unity to port their VR goodies to the Switch. Quote Avatar by Nicholas Anderson (NickonAquaMagna)My blog: The Jaga's Nest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDPsi HAN Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Wary. I don't own Nintendo products anyway but hearing and seeing all the problems that are design flaws of the Switch is just more affirmation of my doubts from before the Switch even launched. Quote AΨ 94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pohatu: Uniter of Stone Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 From what I've seen it has a lot of potential to be an excellent system but its got a bunch of hardware flaws that keep it down. (Dead pixels, backwards wrist straps, charger port is on the bottom, the dock is trash.) Hopefully they'll be fixed in due time. Quote I HATE SCORPIOS ~Pohatu Master of Stone, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane-gerous Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Literally only one worthwhile game on the system right now, possibly more later on but maybe not. Lots of hardware issues, some have been making weird mosquito noises before bricking, Zelda actually plays WORSE while docked for some people. Yeah. It's not looking good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noxryn Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 A number of my friends own the system and, to my knowledge, none of them have experienced any of the hardware issues or problems described here? Then again, I honestly can't think of a released console where lemons did not exist. Either way, the system itself looks like fun. The portability is nice, the variety of controller set up is nice, a lot of the games look enticing to me (Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8, Fire Emblem: Heroes, Disgaea 5, etc... ) I'd like to pick one up eventually. As of now, they're pretty much sold out everywhere and Amazon mostly has an army of scammers selling them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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