I could foresee Nintendo only carrying over digital games, with the physical carts blocked, especially since Nintendo, like all companies, make much more off digital and there isnt a resale market. Personally, I think they will prob continue physical cart BC, but pull a DSi and remove it on a later revision.
Man, I sure hope so. There is no excuse for charging full price for New Super Mario Bros U in the year of our lord 2024.
If they're discontinuing the titles to do a Greatest Hits line, that would make a lot of sense.
All of their cartridge manufacturing is in-house. If Microsoft and Sony both quit producing discs, Nintendo would continue manufacturing cartridges. They make excellent gifts for kids, and consoomers love to collect them by the hundreds. I'm sure there are a lot more carts that get sold and sit on their owner's shelves forever than wind up in second-hand circulation.
Region locking is pretty much dead as an industry standard and has been for a while. It simply makes no sense and is of no benefit to Nintendo themselves. Nintendo themselves made a big deal of point out that the Switch wasn't region locked. So I don't see region locking coming back in any form.
I think region locking was solely due to language differences, trade and license agreements conflicting in different countries, but by now the license agreements have been harmonized so region locking is no longer necessary and there's room to include all languages on the same game cartridge
I can't see blocked physical carts happening as the main Japanese market remains pretty much focused on retail even if digital has expanded pretty well over the years (roughly 30% of game sales overall in 2022 iirc). And folks like me who have nearly all their library on Switch in digital format seem to be rare thankfully. Pretty much everyone I know IRL who owns the console is prioritizing cartridges instead.
I was worried with the idea of region-lock reintroduced on the Switch 2, as a method to prevent the system to be heavily imported from Japan due of the yen cratering (and might go down even further this year) and Nintendo may not want to deal with a situation familiar to the PS5 scalping. A concern I'd rather be proven wrong once the thing is officially announced.
It actually arose as a result of technical differences between things like TV sets sold in different regions, at least initially. Technology has marched on, and those differences have faded away, making region locking obsolete.
Emulate that shit with Yuzu and set what you like
No offense but suggestions that involve using an emulator (particularly one which, being for a modern console, probably require a really top-of-the-line gaming PC overclocked all the way to next Tuesday) aren't likely to be helpful.
You are mistaken (or maybe run pretty old hardware) I run it on my shitty bedroom pc which is i7 3770 (2013) with ti 1050. It does have 24GB of RAM but its slow ddr3 1600 which I got for a few 10s 2nd hand last year. Thats about the level of a current i3 with some ultra basic or more probable no video card. Also you can just set it to 720p if you like. Switch is seven year or so old hardware it's nothing special. Try it. Or not you do you.
I might.
It sounds like a nice idea. This would benefit customers by not repurchasing a Wii as well as a "like new" copy of Kirby's Epic Yarn
The game wasn't meant to be played by moving with just a d pad. You can't have a full gradient of walking speeds with a d pad, nor can you fully tilt your shield or control your trajectory through the air in a full 360 degrees with a d pad. Or at the very least not the ones that the Switch's default controller comes with. The joy cons don't even have a d pad, just basic buttons.
Turn tap jump off, map tilt attacks to the right stick and keep smash attacks as a left stick direction + A input or vice versa. Have you actually tried remapping your controls at all? You can do it in game.
This is called buffering an input. If you input an action during a period where your character cannot perform said action, your character will perform the action on the first possible frame if you inputted the action within nine frames of said first possible frame. So for example, if your character gets attacked and is in their recoil animation, if you press the jab button on frame eight of eleven of that recoil animation, your character will jab on the first available frame once they finish their recoil animation. This is an intended mechanic so you don't have to be frame perfect to do certain combos and punishes. You can't turn it off.
A few of the stages are too distracting to me as well. I dislike Bayonetta's stage cause there's a bunch of distracting shit happening in the background even if it looks cool. Unfortunately as far as I remember there isn't a way to have a personal ban list of stages so if you're playing online you'll just have to get used to the stages when they come up more if you dislike them or play the competitive mode that doesn't have the whackier stages. The latter also happens to me as well, but only really when playing with eight players. You can try giving yourself a name in game so the little tag will sit above your character a lot of the time, but otherwise there isn't much to be done specifically about it.
The only 2D platform fighter I know of that's both competent and actually has a player base is Rivals of Aether. I don't know very much about it other than it looks like it plays well enough and looks appealing. MultiVersus (smash but with Warner Bros' properties) is currently dead but will apparently get a re-release sometime this year. Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 1 is dead and the sequel only has an active player base of about 150 people. I can't think of any others.
Is there a reason you need that kind of fine gradient control in this game though? Does it actually add anything? In my play experience, its more of a liability than a bonus.
I've made both of those changes, but they don't prevent tilt attacks coming out the normal way, which is the problem I often have--getting a tilt attack when it isn't what I wanted.
I actually do have the nametag thing on, but it doesn't always help.
That's more than I had heard of--the only other one I had heard of was BrawlHalla, which as the name indicates is meant to be like Brawl specifically... which is one of the Smash games I know little about.
i just wish that all the new characters weren't just sword fighters
