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NerdShamer said:
Fuck off with the NSO price hike
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"T-t-t-that's just means the service will be improved!"
 
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CaptainAutism69 said:
I remember when new console generations were exciting...
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The N64 launched with just Mario 64 and Pilotwings. Both great games for their time, but can you imagine a console having two playable games for three months today? There would be riots.

Some launches are just lackluster. They don't really seem to correlate with how well the console itself does. The Wii U had a ridiculous launch - probably the best of all time, or at least close - and it failed pretty miserably.
 
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Megaton Punch said:
The N64 launched with just Mario 64 and Pilotwings. Both great games for their time, but can you imagine a console having two playable games for three months today? There would be riots.

Some launches are just lackluster. They don't really seem to correlate with how well the console itself does. The Wii U had a ridiculous launch - probably the best of all time, or at least close - and it failed pretty miserably.
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3DS was pretty rough too, but we all know how it rebounded. Worst case scenario, same thing happens to Switch 2 though I doubt it'll have the same issues.
 
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Megaton Punch said:
The N64 launched with just Mario 64 and Pilotwings. Both great games for their time, but can you imagine a console having two playable games for three months today? There would be riots.

Some launches are just lackluster. They don't really seem to correlate with how well the console itself does. The Wii U had a ridiculous launch - probably the best of all time, or at least close - and it failed pretty miserably.
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I got Starwars, Mario and Pilotwings on release, followed by Waveracer. And it was a fucking exciting console to teenaged me
 
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Switch Virtual Console was the original plan.​

Switch Virtual Console (Clipper)​

Yes, Switch Virtual Console was originally a thing! It was codenamed “Clipper”, development seems to have started around 2015, and continued from there. It was seemingly a collaboration between iQue and M2, possibly others like NERD but they get barely mentioned so I can’t be certain. Do you guys actually remember the original announcement of Nintendo Switch Online’s retro game service? It used to say this:
Subscribers will get to download and play a Nintendo Entertainment System™ (NES) or Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ (Super NES) game (with newly-added online play) for free for a month.
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This, for me, is the relic of what it used to be. I believe the original plan, was basically Virtual Console, but with one free monthly game for those who pay for NSO. It was confirmed it was paid games after that, at least by the press. iQue took their NES emulator from the 3DS, which was okay, it wasn’t bad, and N64 would continue from Wii U N64 VC, which already had terrible reputation.

If you started a game on Switch VC in CRT mode, you would see an animation where a CRT TV would be turned on, complete with TV noise, and even caring enough to record the sound of the power button for both the Famicom and NES seperately. Nintendo cared to have a very descriptive animation. There was actual testing for NES Switch VC, listing tons of the usual first party game and also third party games such as: Final Fantasy 1 & 3, Mega Man 2 to 6, Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri dōchū, Star Luster…

I don’t know whether it was going to be part of the final product, but they seemed to test games with different game speeds (Slow, Normal, Fast), and they do report bugs in relation to that so I don’t know. Also they did make it important to have online netplay in it, with different ideas for implementation. One of the ideas that was given as a fun mode was a way to automatically shuffle controllers between up to 4 players every 30 seconds, with a countdown until it says “SHUFFLE!”, as well as premade messages (such as emojis and “thx”, “sry”, “plz”, “cya”).

For SNES, I saw a mention of “Street Fighter ZERO 2”. I don’t have the full context but it sounds like M2 was responsible for SNES Switch VC initially? M2 was very involved at the very least. I did see a bunch for N64, but a lot of focus were on Wii U VC, specifically for games like Banjo-Kazooie (yep), Blast Corps and Ogre Battle 64. A bit of off-topic in regards to Ogre Battle 64: It seems they tried to fix a bug that also happened on original hardware, which also happens to lock up the entire system. Unfortunately fixing such bugs isn’t easy.

And then around May 2017, I don’t seem to see too much about Clipper. And that would make sense, because in June 2017, Nintendo announced a change about how they would deal with classic games on Nintendo Switch Online, with what was originally called “Classic Game Selection.”
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The problem with switch 2 is its just launching into a much more competitive environment with mobile PCs such as the steam deck and others on the market which are way more powerful but also more expensive. Nintendo advantage is their IPs, brand recognition, and price point. Part of the huge success of the the original switch was the portable nature which really didn't exist in any other way in 2017. You could pick up some great indie title and play it on the go or at home. I am not sure what the average person thinks but when I see switch 2 at $400 with an LCD screen, I ask myself why dont I just go an extra $150 and get a Steam OLED that plays more games and does more things than the switch except for the nintendo exclusives.

The only thing that will get me to buy the switch 2 is must have exclusives and Metroid prime 4 isnt really going to do it for me. At least not right away. So I predict a slower first year or so for switch 2 as people have more options and I think a shocking amount of people are content with their switch 1. I think it will be simillar to DS to 3DS. The 3DS really had a weak gimmick, but as it picked up more exclusives it sold as well as any other handheld. Switch seems to have pretty much no gimmick aside from being a better switch.
 
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Boohoo they're raising prices like everyone else and only giving me a Mario platformer, a new Mario Kart, and a new Metroid. Why won't Nintendo wipe my ass too since I'm such a fucking baby?
 
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Its Microsoft, might be no physical at all. You have no idea how fucked the remnants of their ecosystem have become.
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or worse, they could let Limited Run handle the physical copies.

NerdShamer said:
Fuck off with the NSO price hike
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Member when video game companies would re-release the games a year later at a cheaper price under a special label (Platinum, Greatest Hits or whatever)?
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
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"T-t-t-that's just means the service will be improved!"
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Oh boy, I can't wait for N64 emulation to somehow magically get even worse than what a Project 64 emulator would give you 15 years ago. I ain't paying for Nintendo Switch Online, period.
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The only online I would even bother trying out would be for Smash, but I'm too old to get invested in the grind anymore. I'd much rather throw myself into a Prime 4, or Mario, or *fingers crossed* a remake of a classic Fire Emblem.
 
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