Nintendo Switch hype thread

[Zachrulez]

So this is a bit unrelated but Nintendo announced that it plans to discontinue the NES classic. It was apparently never a long term plan of theirs to sell the system.

I have no idea why they seem to hate money... or how clueless they apparently are at how much power nostalgia can hold. I am just scratching my head.

[Annadog40]

They should re-sell some gamecube gameson their shop

[inte]

uh oh guys

somehow i never saw video footage of botw until tonight and now i want it

i want it bad

me 2 i'm watching my friendo play it constantly and it makes me angry i can't

[Gamma Emerald]

There's a SNES classic coming

[chamber]

puyo puyo, so hyped.

[Zachrulez]

They'll probably realize that they should have priced the NES classic way higher and the SNES classic will be like 200 dollars.

[xRECKONERx]

i got a switch.

botw is fucking astounding.
i can't stop playing it.
it's frustrating as shit at times. feels like the 3d equivalent of link to the past. no hand-holding, just an open world to explore and figure out what the hell you need to do.

also snipperclips! snipperclips is great.

[Ranmaru]

Wow Reck that makes me so Hype, I love link to the past. Getting jorb, maybe I can get a switch.

[Annadog40]

I got Link on WiiU and it is great.

[Zachrulez]

I got Link on WiiU and it is great.

This is me. (Well I don't have the Zelda game yet, but when I do it will probably be on the Wii U.) I don't see a reason to get a switch until at least Xenoblade Chronicles 2 comes out.

[hiplop]

I might buy one when Mario comes out

[Annadog40]

The new mii options shoud go to miitomo

[inte]

nonstop botw oWo. put like 20 hours into it rn

my only gripe is the constant reminders that the switch is underpowered by the slowdowns i get. sometimes you get like 25 fps in areas

[Annadog40]

I play that on the Wii U, works great.

[Charles510]

Has anyone tried to run the Zelda BOTW emulator on a PC?

[Gamma Emerald]

They have one already what

[Charles510]

Yeah, its actually a Wii U Emulator that runs BOTW with 4K resolution. I'm trying to download it now.

Here's the torrent if you want to try:

[url removed - nexus]

[Gamma Emerald]

I have the Switch version so NO THANK YOU

[chamber]

nonstop botw oWo. put like 20 hours into it rn

my only gripe is the constant reminders that the switch is underpowered by the slowdowns i get. sometimes you get like 25 fps in areas

Playing in portable mode I only got slow downs in 2 locations. Wont say which because spoilers. I heard there was more when running at 1080 instead of 720 though.

[xRECKONERx]

nonstop botw oWo. put like 20 hours into it rn

my only gripe is the constant reminders that the switch is underpowered by the slowdowns i get. sometimes you get like 25 fps in areas

Playing in portable mode I only got slow downs in 2 locations. Wont say which because spoilers. I heard there was more when running at 1080 instead of 720 though.

yeah i got like one or two moments of slowdown but nothing serious, even then it caught back up to full FPS pretty quickly

BOTW (not really spoilers but just to be safe)

Spoiler:

I probably put 30-40 hours into it... did half the shrines (60ish), all four Divine Beasts, completed all the memories, got the Master Sword, etc.
was disappointed by there not being a final dungeon, but it really kinda makes sense.
i literally thought the castle was inaccessible until you got all four Divine Beasts... the fact you could just go there from the start was mind blowing.

anyway I'm pretty excited at the prospect of DLC. another dungeon is coming later this year. for now we get a Trial mode where you have to survive 45 waves of enemies but you get a perma-upgrade sword if you do. also Hard Mode. I will probably return and finish the rest of the shrines at that point.

[hiplop]

It's illusion of choice

[chamber]

I'm surprised you did that all in 30-40h. I did like 100 shrines before getting bored with them, but I easily put in over 100. I guess I dicked around more.

[xRECKONERx]

I mean I don't actually know of a way to check.

I guess it could've been more than that? Probably like 5 hrs a day on the weekends (two full weekends) at 20 hours, then about 3 hoursish on the weekdays (another 15?) puts me at 35 hours. It's possible I played a little extra, but I can't imagine I went over 50 hours.

i dicked around a lot too though. like i spent several hours just doing the bowling minigame to make money + going hunting in the snowfields to get gourmet meat.

[hiplop]

Yea I believe I was around 50 hours for finishing the game.

[chamber]

Maybe I suck at video games. You can see your in game time from the switch menu.