Nintendo Switch Thread

[Esoteric]

I put one in my cart, but decided against pulling the trigger from Best Buy.

I'll pick one up in a year from Kijiji when the price dips.

[photon]

My Best Buy order updated with a Canada Post tracking number, but the "Delivered Friday Mar. 3" has been removed so Monday I guess?

[photon]

Originally Posted by Esoteric

I put one in my cart, but decided against pulling the trigger from Best Buy.

I'll pick one up in a year from Kijiji when the price dips.

That's really what I should be doing, I should just cancel my order and get the WiiU version of the game.

I'm weak.

[SuperMatt18]

Same here...already have way too many games on my back log for PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U.

But I have a couple of 8 hour flights coming up and this feels prefect for that reason.

[CroFlames]

Is the jump from WiiU to Switch as big as the jump from PS3 to PS4?

I have a WiiU and was gonna surprise my Lady with the new Zelda, but now I'm wondering about upgrading to Switch. I think I wanna sell my WiiU since we hardly use it.

[RinkRat]

Same boat as photon...only went with bestbuy since I missed the ebgames stock.

So here I am with a pro controller delivered nice and early by ebgames

[photon]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Is the jump from WiiU to Switch as big as the jump from PS3 to PS4?

Not really no. There's a video with a graphics comparison posted above (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYofouY9smw)

The graphics are pretty similar.

[Canuck-Hater]

So I'm one of those guys that didn't pre-order and every single switch in Calgary is sold out. Its really annoying you would think Nintendo would produce enough systems to meet the high demand. Scalpers on Amazon are asking $600 plus! Eff that noise.

[ZedMan]

I don't see how anyone can be surprised at a Nintendo console shortage on launch at this point. It's practically their signature.

[Fire]

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

So I'm one of those guys that didn't pre-order and every single switch in Calgary is sold out. Its really annoying you would think Nintendo would produce enough systems to meet the high demand. Scalpers on Amazon are asking $600 plus! Eff that noise.

Nintendo wants people think there is a lot of demand for the console when that's not necessarily the case. It doesn't look good if they have a ton of consoles on the shelves a few days after the launch.

[RinkRat]

Well at least I have a tracking number for the switch.....but nothing for Zelda yet.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

So I'm one of those guys that didn't pre-order and every single switch in Calgary is sold out. Its really annoying you would think Nintendo would produce enough systems to meet the high demand. Scalpers on Amazon are asking $600 plus! Eff that noise.

All consoles sell out their day 1 allotments - so definitely not just a Nintendo dealio unfortunately.

[Resolute 14]

Yeah, the problem is not if day one stock is snapped up. The problem is if the supply chain can't replenish within a couple weeks.

[PepsiFree]

I'll be curious to start hearing CP reviews.

I'm interested by this, but can't ever see why I'd need the handheld feature and I'm worried it's going to be forgotten as quickly as it seems like the Wii U was.

[chemgear]

Make sure to get a screen protector. Looks like the screen is plastic not (gorilla glass). Just dock and undocking it is gonna do this:

[Resolute 14]

If true, that's a huge fail, actually.

[photon]

Yeah probably more like the 3DS screens.. which naturally have protection by nature of being closed, so maybe more like 2DS, good call though definitely need a screen protector since the screen is exposed during normal transport without a case.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by photon

Seems the best way to play Zelda is undocked, there's frame rate drops in docked mode. Speculation that the performance increase in docked doesn't meet the increased demand of the resolution increase.

Frame rate discussion starts at about 7:20

Give it a few months and the PC might actually be the best way to play it. The Cemu emulator already plays most of the high profile WiiU library with very few issues, and the developers will be aggressively working towards getting BotW playable. With that comes PC hardware pushing 60 FPS easily and allowing for 4K upscaling

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by photon

That's really what I should be doing, I should just cancel my order and get the WiiU version of the game.

I'm weak.

Let me know if you decide to stick with WiiU. After years of no replies my early 2015 Future Shop order of Zelda for WiiU appears to be shipping. I can't even see the order details or I get an error message, but I imagine it's pretty cheap and I could sell just for what I paid.

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Give it a few months and the PC might actually be the best way to play it. The Cemu emulator already plays most of the high profile WiiU library with very few issues, and the developers will be aggressively working towards getting BotW playable. With that comes PC hardware pushing 60 FPS easily and allowing for 4K upscaling

Really?

I mean it's one thing to emulate 20+ year old games you can't buy anymore but talking about pirating software that literally just came out isn't cool. There's other message boards available for this type of thing.