Discussion (13 September 2022) Nintendo Direct roundup: What to look for, what to skip.

[Vosgy]

To start playing a Switch game I just have to turn on my TV and push the home button on my Switch controller to resume where I left off.

I can say that this never has worked for me, I press the home button on my pro controller and it does bum fuck nothing, I always have to go press the power button on the switch itself. Fucking odd.

 

[Narmy]

I can say that this never has worked for me, I press the home button on my pro controller and it does bum fuck nothing, I always have to go press the power button on the switch itself. Fucking odd.

Weird, I use a pro controller too. You put it into sleep mode and didn't power the whole system off right? Also sometimes it doesn't connect the first time for some reason and you have to press it again.

 

[Vosgy]

Weird, I use a pro controller too. You put it into sleep mode and didn't power the whole system off right? Also sometimes it doesn't connect the first time for some reason and you have to press it again.

Can't power off if it is in a dock as far as I am aware, and yes it is always in sleep mode. No Issues making the controller connect once the system is on, just won't wake the thing up.

 

[YakuInTheFlesh]

sadly it seems they'd rather go bankrupt than make PC ports

Nah. Investors pressured them into making smartphone games. If a dedicated system doesn't make them money anymore there is a good chance they'll look into it

they make my hands cramp up in like 10 mins

For the Switch I can highly recommend the Hori Splitpad. It made the Switch much more comfortable for me (The + and - Buttons are made of Rubber though if that's a deal breaker).

It's just less of a pain in the ass to play on a console

It always depends how it's set up tbh. The first 2/3 of your description for PC is a you problem. I have a PC hooked up to the TV, TV uses the last used HDMI port (which is my PC). I turn the keyboard on (never had cutouts. Is your receiver in a bad location?) which at the same time is a controller (Rii RK707 not the best, but also not the worst).
There is no suspend as on handhelds, that is true, but how bothersome is it to start the game and press continue? From start to in-game it takes me less than 60 seconds.

Switch has is physical media

Not a big fan of digital myself and hate how on Sony and XBox most games won't even start even when physical without installing a patch or having to update the console first (360 games had the console update on the Disc if it was required, that's how I used to get updates for my system). Had and Internet outage and was just "shit out of luck". Both turned into

 

[Migi]

There certainly isn't much to be excited for these days, but I don't think PC is the answer either. To start playing a Switch game I just have to turn on my TV and push the home button on my Switch controller to resume where I left off.

To play a PC game comfortably I have to first connect the HDMI cable to my TV since it is too short to leave connected all the time, then I have to change my TV to a different input since it doesn't auto detect that like it does with consoles, then I have to power on my wireless keyboard and PS4 controller which don't always have as reliable a signal as a console controller for some reason so they cut out or do weird things sometimes, and I have to start whatever game I want to play from the title screen since I can't just leave it in sleep mode like I can with Switch. And besides all that some games don't even have a PC version available in Japanese and I don't play localizations, so in that case I have no choice but to play the console version anyway. Or if they do have a Japanese version it still uses the western button layout where X is accept and O is cancel, while also using Xbox button prompts even for a PS4 controller.

It's just less of a pain in the ass to play on a console.

You could just do what I do, use your PC for everything, even as a replacement for cable TV. I'd rather do this than support a future full censorship.

Sales is what matter, not a bunch of nerd online raging about censorship, which is mostly all that seem to happen and barely anybody stands behind their
word of vote with your wallet. "Just out of curiosity, did they ever fix the joycon drift?"

I understand why you think this way, but I did want to clarify some things. As I explained in the OP, I started this thread because I didn't want to read news articles rounding up the announcements when I can just post them here. Even the games I recommended I did so with hesitation - Zelda has localization gaffes and Bayo 3 replaced her VA (and there's Viola to worry about, which I should've mentioned). I'm keen on Ryza 3 but I know that's coming to PC as well.

It bears mentioning that I was also the one to post the Gamuzumi news that Hex linked earlier. Censorship is a serious issue and I don't play favourites. The only advantage the Switch has is physical media. If I must choose a platform where I can physically own my games, then I'd rather Nintendo over Soyny and Microsoft. But if you don't care about that, then obviously PC is superior in every way.

I just think it is out of place to making a thread about look forward to Nintendo releases while in the meantime this publisher is censoring or banning games.
I personally do take a hard stance on censorship and even the bad translations, by not buying any of them and just pirating the games I want to play.

Physical doesn't mean much these days, seeing as eventually even with an online service a game can be made obsolete, just look at PS4 kill switch that
only got patched after one person mentioned the major flaw. They made the console's battery tied to an online connection. Funny thing is that morons
think it was actually fixed while in the future when there is no more online support you wouldn't be able to update your PS4 to get the patch in the first place.

 

[Ebicentre]

I just think it is out of place to making a thread about look forward to Nintendo releases while in the meantime this publisher is censoring or banning games.
I personally do take a hard stance on censorship and even the bad translations, by not buying any of them and just pirating the games I want to play.

Well, this is a forum for weebs and weebs play games, so if I was going to talk about them anywhere it'd be here.

I agree that sailing the high seas is more than a valid option - we've all done it - but unless there's a translation mod or you're fluent in Japanese, there are still going to be issues.

Physical doesn't mean much these days, seeing as eventually even with an online service a game can be made obsolete, just look at PS4 kill switch that
only got patched after one person mentioned the major flaw. They made the console's battery tied to an online connection. Funny thing is that morons
think it was actually fixed while in the future when there is no more online support you wouldn't be able to update your PS4 to get the patch in the first place.

Which is why the Switch will most likely be my last console before I fully dive into PC. Because you're right - the always-online kill switches are going to devastate gaming archives and collections.