>they're not going the XBL and PS+ path and giving you permanent games per month if you keep paying for online

>they're confirmed to be revoking them after a month and forcing you to buy them regardless

yeah no fuck you nintendo, fuck the switch

as always, you cunts have to have the most consumer unfriendly garbage fucking business practices and lag behind all the other options

just gonna pirate botw for Wii U and skip odyssey then you fucking shitty company

i find it hilarious that they're finally adding some legitimate netplay to NES/SNES games but then are going to try to get everyone to pay for them -again- because the free period is only a month

It's such bullshit.

Literally every other console gives you free shit with the monthly online to make it suck less, sometimes high quality games too, and they don't expire.

Meanwhile Nintendo decided to just dick everyone over and combine the worst of both worlds.

are you kidding me? I bet their servers will still suck ass too.

I don't really give a shit about online luckily

Nintendo Network, 9.99 a month, this month's FREE GAME: Balloon Fight

Next month's free game: Donkey Kong Jr. Math

$10 a month is comically ludicrous

Nintendo Network costs more than fucking Netflix, yeah no thanks

gr8 business model though, after 2.5 years you will have paid for the console twice

i already would have to shell out 500 canadian pesos for the console, dont expect me to do 15 per month after that.

im not buying.

Gas, gr8 business model. In 2.5 years you will have paid for the car twice

i already would have to shell out 500 canadian pesos for the console, dont expect me to do 15 per month after that.

im not buying.

when's the joycons shaped like the top and bottom of south park canadian heads

Gas, gr8 business model. In 2.5 years you will have paid for the car twice

Yeah this is the exact same thing and it's exactly as sleazy

Actually I take that back, it's more like if Chevron made your car

Actually I take that back, it's more like if Chevron made your car

It doesn't look much bigger/smaller

and honestly, thats fine

Fire Emblem direct incoming, 1/18

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/stat...1422059521

No idea if it has anything to do with the switch but whatever it's news and it could be something

This post was last modified: Jan 14, 2017 at 6:54 PM by mit.

i am back from the thing that i teased like an idiot, which was the switch private event. i never saw anyone else discussing it so i had no idea if we could or not. it was in a private location and everything

etika, D1, and nairo were there and it was surreal seeing them a bunch of times when i was walking around the booths. ono was also there

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i played all the big games they announced on-stream except for 1, 2, switch. i didnt play many of the “smaller” games either. they had skylanders, disgaea 5, just dance, etc but i mainly focused on games i’d be more likely to get

i played mario kart 8 DX, a little bit of zelda, snipclippers, arms, sonic mania, splatoon 2, super bomberman R, and i think thats it. details are after the cut

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mario kart 8 DX is what everyone expected, its really fun and the new battle mode is great. im curious to see what new courses were gonna get, should we get any at all. it also wasnt exactly clear in the trailer but the boo item still steals an item from another player

zelda i mostly played to get a handle of the switch unit itself. i’m waiting to play zelda in full when it launches and it doesn’t seem like the kind of game that benefits from being demoed, as its huge and open world and you can go wherever you want whenever you want. that being said the controls were nice and combat was simple and fun. im glad swordplay got dumbed down a bit in favor of being craftier with how you fight by using different materials and items at your disposal

speaking of the unit itself, the switch is pretty handy. there’s little buttons on the back you hold down to “unlock” the joycon from the unit, and to put them back you just slide them back in. the joycon itself is pretty versatile, i like it way more than the wii remote in contexts where you have to hold it sideways. the pro controller was also pretty comfy, though obviously price is an issue as usual. ive got 2 extra joycon on the ready though because those i will have a use for

arms requires 2 sets of joycon to play local 2 player, which makes sense. arms is surprisingly fast paced and not as intensive as wii boxing which makes it overall easier to play. the mechanics are pretty solid and i’d like to see more of it

snipclippers is like a boyfriend/girlfriend game. if youre not really young its something that’d be kinda awkward to play with anyone else

splatoon 2 is neat, i mean its basically the same base splatoon game as of right now. i played a few rounds and tried the new splat dualies and i can’t really have an opinion on them right now since i was playing with the unit wired down, which made the gyro controls harder to handle

sonic mania is FUN, im glad its coming to switch. i was able to jump right in and found a bunch of cool new pathways in both green hill and studiopolis. no mirage saloon, though. the cool thing about the switch is that they joycon are 2 different controllers, so by default you can play co-op right out of the box

bomberman is bomberman. it was fun to see all the different colors have the unique personalities and things got heated even when playing with strangers. i forgot how fun a good bomberman match can get

when we left we got a spiffy pin and switch logo cookie. overall a fun time. didnt have to wait on very many lines, which i guess comes with it being a private event

Oh wow the size is like identical to a gamepad. That's gonna look awesome with a 720p screen up from 480

How did the controllers feel to hold? One of my main concerns is that the joy cons are too small to hold comfortably.