Nintendo Switch

[Ginger_Yellow]

The Xbox Elite controller (v2 anyway) has pretty great battery life.

[Left_Empty]

Given its obscene price, I’m surprised it doesn’t play games.

[lordkosc]

Ten Dollas

The Nintendo Switch OLED Estimated To Cost Only $10 More Per Unit To Make

[Left_Empty]

That’s like 50% extra manufacturing cost. Nintendo doing us a bargain, overall!

[JoshL]

Finally, the Pokemon MOBA the world was clamoring for:

Pokémon UNITE | Pokémon UNITE official website

[Ginger_Yellow]

These numbers are bananas, especially Mario Kart’s. That’s on top of the 8m units it sold on Wii U. The attach rate for both consoles is ridiculous (42% for Switch, 62% for Wii U):

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

37.08 million pcs.

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons

33.89 million pcs.

• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

24.77 million pcs.

• The Legend of Zelda:
  Breath of the Wild

23.20 million pcs.

• Pokémon Sword/Pokémon Shield

21.85 million pcs.

• Super Mario Odyssey

21.40 million pcs.

• Super Mario Party

15.72 million pcs.

• Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!/
  Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!

13.57 million pcs.

• Splatoon 2

12.45 million pcs.

• Ring Fit Adventure

11.26 million pcs.

Unit sales for the entire Nintendo Switch family of systems declined by 21.7%
year-on-year to 4.45 million units. That breaks down to sales of 3.31 million
units of Nintendo Switch, and 1.14 million units of Nintendo Switch Lite.

• For Nintendo Switch, unit sales rose year-on-year despite factors such as
logistics delays caused by COVID-19 and the impact of the semiconductor
shortage on production, mainly because COVID-19 had a significant impact on
production during the same period of last fiscal year. For Nintendo Switch Lite,
unit sales declined compared to the same period of last fiscal year, when we
had relatively plentiful inventories for Europe and North America and unit sales
were high.

• Looking at software sales, titles released this fiscal year got off to a strong
start, with New Pokémon Snap (see note) selling 2.07 million units, and Mario
Golf: Super Rush posting sales of 1.34 million units. Sales also continued to be
strong for titles released in previous fiscal years. In addition to these Nintendo
titles, sales of titles from other software publishers continued to grow steadily,
with the total number of million-seller titles during this period reaching nine,
including titles from these other software publishers. However, since Animal
Crossing: New Horizons, released in March 2020, sold over 10 million units in
the first quarter of last fiscal year, software unit sales declined by 10.2% yearon-
year to 45.29 million units.

[thischarmingman]

@Ginger_Yellow

• Ring Fit Adventure

11.26 million pcs.

That is a LOT of hoola hoops

[eduardoleonidas]

[wisefool]

God I should rewatch that movie

[Rock8man]

What movie is it?

[wisefool]

The Hudsucker Proxy.

The running gag is “You know, for kids.”

You know, for kids

[Left_Empty]

I’m a huge fan of the Shisensho-Sichuan-Nikakudori variant of solitaire mahjong puzzle, and I get about any games about it.
Unlike the Shanghai variant and its infamous mountains of hidden information, it is actually a very deep, if simple, thinking solitaire, with (almost, depending on variants) the whole board laid in front of you. The goal is to takes tiles off the board if they are connected by a virtual line that can snap at 90% degree only twice. It sounds weirdly complicated describing it: it is actually very intuitive.
But having to skip around a huge board with a gamepad is a often big liability. 95% of the games are overall awful for a variety of reasons; sometimes there is the gem.

Shisen-sho NIKAKUdori is one such little diamond.

Shisen-Sho NIKAKUdori for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Game Details

Don’t mind the horrible title and logo. This is why I hadn’t bought it until now, thinking it might have been just some random phone game port.
The game includes layouts ranked by difficulty, score and time to aim for, optional hints and items, and rules variations. The tiles are extremely readable, and there is a lovely combo system with a timer going down that encourages setting up many moves ahead, while using your time in between tiles to plan the next one.
I have only played it for 20 minutes so far, and I already rank it amongst the top 3 best Shisensho games I ever played.
It’s also insanely cheap (4$), and goes on sale for 2 bucks all the time.

There is a catch: it’s only available in the US and JP stores for some reason.
There appears to also be a Playstation version.

[Rock8man]

Amazon has the Pro Controllers for $59 instead of $70. Hopefully this is a semi-permanent thing (or frequent sale thing) and not an opportunity I’m losing out on.

Amazon.com: Nintendo Switch Pro Controller : Video Games

Once my Switch OLED gets closer to release I should pick your brains on the best memory card to order too.

[Left_Empty]

Samsung, 256MB, pretty cheap and can’t go wrong.

[Thraeg]

@Left_Empty

Samsung, 256MB, pretty cheap

Well it damn well better be!

[Profanicus]

@Rock8man

Once my Switch OLED gets closer to release I should pick your brains on the best memory card to order too.

Can’t go wrong with Samsung Evo Plus 256GB. Good brand, good capacity, good price.

[CraigM]

I have the San Disk 256GB one myself, they even come in Nintendo themed ones. It was on sale so they were the same price. For $0 extra dollars I will pony up to have the one with Mario logo.

[Canuck]

Lol. I think that was the size of the CF cart i got for my Canon digital elph back in 2003.

[Tim_N]

If there is zero chance of using the switch while docked, is the switch lite the clear way to go? Tapletop mode does look good for 2 player undocked gameplay, but I think even that format would be used very irrelegulalrly if ever (covid + not many gamer friends in rl).

[dgallina]

I would still get the standard model if only because the controllers can be easily swapped when they break (and they almost certainly will).