One year of Nintendo Switch

[Yoshi178]

What I really don't like about the Switch tho, is its Wifi reception. It's simply poor. I have to bring it within 3 meters of my router to get any reliable signal at all.

you sure it's the Switch wifi reception that's poor and not your router's signal that's problem?

personally my Switch and router are on opposite sides of the house with walls in between them.

 

[Yoshi178]

However, it does have me wondering if there really will be anything on that piece of crap worth playing for an old F-Zero, Rogue Squadron, Wave Race, GoldenEye, 1080 fan like myself that avoids Mario and Kirby and Zelda like the fucking plague.

Nintendo doesn't own Star Wars or James Bond. ask Disney and Activison.

as for non Mario, Kirby and Zelda stuff. there's always Xenoblade, Splatoon, ARMS, Fire Emblem, Metroid, Pokemon, Smash Bros etc.

 

[American Tanker]

Xenoblade,

Nope.

Splatoon,

Nope.

ARMS,

Nope.

Fire Emblem,

Nope.

Metroid,

Nope.

Pokemon,

Nope.

Smash Bros.

Brawl ruined Smash for me.

So yeah, nothing interesting here. Maybe you could have used the games I mentioned in my post as a guideline of things I like?

 

[McElroy]

Best memes of this console generation.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Best memes of this console generation.

Besides Karen?

 

[Hawki]

F-Zero,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_RMX

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Yea Nintendo is a pretty particular taste, and although many people like the games, it's not for everyone. Personally, had a great time with the Wii, but that's still a different kettle of fish with the whole motion controls, party game thing.

I've had my eye on the Switch since before it was officially announced, but I've kinda grown out of the Nintendo games. I usually wait until there's 5 games minimum on a console before I pull the trigger. I already 'wasted' my console quote this gen on an XBONE, to play Forza games, which has been a blast. And it looks like I'll be getting a PS4 finally soon.

Games that would make it worthwhile to get a Switch (for me):
1) Bayo 2
2) Odyssey
3) New Fire Emblem (not Warriors, I got it for 3DS already)
4) New Animal crossing (my wife was super addicted to the 3DS one)
5) New Mario Kart? Or maybe MK8, even tho I played it to death with a friend on WiiU 4 years ago, whatever. Maybe if it's cheap

So of those, 2 are already out, and the other 3 I'm still waiting for. I'm not enough of a Zelda fan to get BotW, besides, massive open world games are a one, MAX 2 a year affair for me.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Best memes of this console generation.

I still like

Spoiler: Creepy Mario behind the curtain.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

What I really don't like about the Switch tho, is its Wifi reception. It's simply poor. I have to bring it within 3 meters of my router to get any reliable signal at all.

you sure it's the Switch wifi reception that's poor and not your router's signal that's problem?

personally my Switch and router are on opposite sides of the house with walls in between them.

Like i've said in my full post: every other device has no problem at all getting strong reception at longer ranges. It's just the Switch that has this issue. I basically have to be in the same room or I get zilch. A quick google search revealed poor wifi reception is apparently a common problem for many Switch owners.

 

[sXeth]

I'd have a massive fucking nerdgasm if I ever saw, like Super Mario RPG, Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country, and everything thing else that was on that Super SNES that no one could FUCKING GET! So please Nintendo, as someone who grew up on the NES and SNES. Release those games for the Switch. (Also make your pricing a little reasonable, you've got two or three NES games on the E-Market but eight dollars is a bit much. I think five would be more reasonable, maybe eight for SNES?)

I don't actually know how Big N got some of those titles on the NES/SNES classic, but that's not entirely in their hands with some of them. Link to the Past is Nintendos, but Super Mario RPG is tied up with Square, and Donkey Kong Country (prior to Tropical Freeze) was a joint thing with RARE (who ended up attached to Microsoft post-N64). And I can only imagine what teeth pulling it took to get Konami to let Castlevania out of the basement.

 

[Yoshi178]

Xenoblade,

Nope.

Splatoon,

Nope.

ARMS,

Nope.

Fire Emblem,

Nope.

Metroid,

Nope.

Pokemon,

Nope.

Smash Bros.

Brawl ruined Smash for me.

So yeah, nothing interesting here. Maybe you could have used the games I mentioned in my post as a guideline of things I like?

i'm not going to spoonfeed you suggestions. do your own bloody research.

your "guidelines" were pretty crappy anyway. all you said was that you want 5 very specific franchise's, 2 of which Nintendo doesn't even make in the first place, and that you avoid mario kirby and zelda.
i just gave you 7 suggestions and the only of those suggestions even relates to mario, kirby and zelda is Smash bros and that's a Nintendo all stars fighting game, not a specific mario/kirby/zelda game. and you're not even happy with that.

if you aren't interested in Nintendos first party offerings then that's fine. but don't ***** and moan when there is PLENTY of non mario, kirby and zelda stuff on the Switch, and if you don't care about that other stuff then that's your problem. deal with it.

 

[Yoshi178]

What I really don't like about the Switch tho, is its Wifi reception. It's simply poor. I have to bring it within 3 meters of my router to get any reliable signal at all.

you sure it's the Switch wifi reception that's poor and not your router's signal that's problem?

personally my Switch and router are on opposite sides of the house with walls in between them.

Like i've said in my full post: every other device has no problem at all getting strong reception at longer ranges. It's just the Switch that has this issue. I basically have to be in the same room or I get zilch. A quick google search revealed poor wifi reception is apparently a common problem for many Switch owners.

my Switch and Xbox One are in my same tv cabinet and my laptop is even further away from my router than those consoles in my house is.


the only internet issue i've had with my Switch is i was able to connect online and do software updates and eshop purchase's fine. the only thing i had trouble with was matchmaking with other players. i called Nintendo customer support and they told me my issue was Routers security type setting which was NAT type B. once i contacted my router provider and had them provide me with a Static IP address to open up my NAT type for my Switch, i was able to play matches online with others perfectly fine.

is yours a similar issue?

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Ghost Squad [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz13lrqEgh4]

The Virtua Cop Series [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_e1OphrpEQ]

Time Crisis Series [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGs13patH4] (who here remembers going up against Edgey and Tiger in Crisis Zone [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJL0oXhLp4]?)

Carnevil [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvbQvNTXkI]

The House of the Dead [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLo79nQOmZQ] series (Holy Shit do I love House of the Dead Overkill [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0E8_KDIWQY])

This is what I'm waiting for to make the Nintendo Switch one of my top three favorite consoles of all time. The Revival of Light Gun games. Yes, they won't be strictly Light Guns, they'll relay on the Gyro function. But Splatoon, BoTW, and Resident Evil Revelations have shown that they can do it well. Nintendo would have to do relatively little work (in terms that they don't have to make resources other than a programming map to use the Gyro function instead of the IR blaster of Arcades Long Gone) to make a quick buck... which would make a lot of us light gun game fans happy.

Hell, I'd pay good money for a 3DO Interactive Multiplayer pack. Just for the cheese of playing with friends.

But yes, I'm very happy with my switch. This summer is going to have me in transport for almost every month. Planes, trains, and automobiles. And I'm going to be enjoying every second of the travel.

And thanks to the Hulu app, I just might watch something on a bigger screen than my phone. Never like the channels in planes.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

What I really don't like about the Switch tho, is its Wifi reception. It's simply poor. I have to bring it within 3 meters of my router to get any reliable signal at all.

you sure it's the Switch wifi reception that's poor and not your router's signal that's problem?

personally my Switch and router are on opposite sides of the house with walls in between them.

Like i've said in my full post: every other device has no problem at all getting strong reception at longer ranges. It's just the Switch that has this issue. I basically have to be in the same room or I get zilch. A quick google search revealed poor wifi reception is apparently a common problem for many Switch owners.

my Switch and Xbox One are in my same tv cabinet and my laptop is even further away from my router than those consoles in my house is.


the only internet issue i've had with my Switch is i was able to connect online and do software updates and eshop purchase's fine. the only thing i had trouble with was matchmaking with other players. i called Nintendo customer support and they told me my issue was Routers security type setting which was NAT type B. once i contacted my router provider and had them provide me with a Static IP address to open up my NAT type for my Switch, i was able to play matches online with others perfectly fine.

is yours a similar issue?

No, my problem is that my Switch fails to connect to my router at all, citing weak signal strenght as the reason. I've fiddled with my router settings, included trying a number of fixes posted online. None make any appreciable difference. I have to proverbially shove it up my router's ports to get a workable signal.

You can keep going on about how the fault might lie with my router if you want, but the evidence points otherwise, since, and I repeat, no other device I've ever had had any problem whatsoever getting a strong connection anywhere in my house. And that includes a number of other Nintendo products (DSi, Wii, 3DS XL). The sole exception is my New 3DS XL, which also has poor WIFi reception, but not as bad.

I could try getting a different router or maybe a wifi repeater, but fuck that. It's 2018. I should not have to jump through hoops to get that shit working, especially when nothing else I own requires it.

 

[Yoshi178]

What I really don't like about the Switch tho, is its Wifi reception. It's simply poor. I have to bring it within 3 meters of my router to get any reliable signal at all.

you sure it's the Switch wifi reception that's poor and not your router's signal that's problem?

personally my Switch and router are on opposite sides of the house with walls in between them.

Like i've said in my full post: every other device has no problem at all getting strong reception at longer ranges. It's just the Switch that has this issue. I basically have to be in the same room or I get zilch. A quick google search revealed poor wifi reception is apparently a common problem for many Switch owners.

my Switch and Xbox One are in my same tv cabinet and my laptop is even further away from my router than those consoles in my house is.


the only internet issue i've had with my Switch is i was able to connect online and do software updates and eshop purchase's fine. the only thing i had trouble with was matchmaking with other players. i called Nintendo customer support and they told me my issue was Routers security type setting which was NAT type B. once i contacted my router provider and had them provide me with a Static IP address to open up my NAT type for my Switch, i was able to play matches online with others perfectly fine.

is yours a similar issue?

No, my problem is that my Switch fails to connect to my router at all, citing weak signal strenght as the reason. I've fiddled with my router settings, included trying a number of fixes posted online. None make any appreciable difference. I have to proverbially shove it up my router's ports to get a workable signal.

You can keep going on about how the fault might lie with my router if you want, but the evidence points otherwise, since, and I repeat, no other device I've ever had had any problem whatsoever getting a strong connection anywhere in my house. And that includes a number of other Nintendo products (DSi, Wii, 3DS XL). The sole exception is my New 3DS XL, which also has poor WIFi reception, but not as bad.

I could try getting a different router or maybe a wifi repeater, but fuck that. It's 2018. I should not have to jump through hoops to get that shit working, especially when nothing else I own requires it.

just seems strange to me that it's not working for you. the Switch should pick up a wifi signal with no trouble from my experience.

have you tried testing if it connects with like a mobile phone hotspot from the same distance? if that works then it's probably your router that's the problem but if it doesn't work then yeah it's probably your console and i would probably get your Switch replaced under warranty.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

just seems strange to me that it's not working for you. the Switch should pick up a wifi signal with no trouble from my experience.

have you tried testing if it connects with like a mobile phone hotspot from the same distance? if that works then it's probably your router that's the problem but if it doesn't work then yeah it's probably your console and i would probably get your Switch replaced under warranty.

Yes, I have tried a phone hotspot. It's how I linked my Nintendo Account and downloaded a firmware update. Connection range is about the same. Actually a little longer if I angle the Switch and phone in a specific way.

It seems a sizeable number of other people have reported the same problem, so I suspect a portion of consoles have been shipped with a faulty WiFi antenna, or perhaps some design flaw is causing it to not work as intended. Gonna try hooking it up directly using a USB-ethernet adapter, see if that works. Not a real solution for me, but it'll at least rule out the culprit. If it is the console, I'll get a replacement. If the problem still persists, that may point to a larger issue.

Honestly, the WiFi is the only issue I have with the thing.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

i'm not going to spoonfeed you suggestions. do your own bloody research.

your "guidelines" were pretty crappy anyway. all you said was that you want 5 very specific franchise's, 2 of which Nintendo doesn't even make in the first place, and that you avoid mario kirby and zelda.
i just gave you 7 suggestions and the only of those suggestions even relates to mario, kirby and zelda is Smash bros and that's a Nintendo all stars fighting game, not a specific mario/kirby/zelda game. and you're not even happy with that.

if you aren't interested in Nintendos first party offerings then that's fine. but don't ***** and moan when there is PLENTY of non mario, kirby and zelda stuff on the Switch, and if you don't care about that other stuff then that's your problem. deal with it.

That's my favorite kind of complainer: the one who claims to want a Nintendo system as long as it has no Nintendo games. That's paradoxical

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

i'm not going to spoonfeed you suggestions. do your own bloody research.

your "guidelines" were pretty crappy anyway. all you said was that you want 5 very specific franchise's, 2 of which Nintendo doesn't even make in the first place, and that you avoid mario kirby and zelda.
i just gave you 7 suggestions and the only of those suggestions even relates to mario, kirby and zelda is Smash bros and that's a Nintendo all stars fighting game, not a specific mario/kirby/zelda game. and you're not even happy with that.

if you aren't interested in Nintendos first party offerings then that's fine. but don't ***** and moan when there is PLENTY of non mario, kirby and zelda stuff on the Switch, and if you don't care about that other stuff then that's your problem. deal with it.

That's my favorite kind of complainer: the one who claims to want a Nintendo system as long as it has no Nintendo games. That's paradoxical

Not at all - all the games Tanker cited used to be on Nintendo consoles. It's just that Nintendo hasn't had that kind of relationship with third parties since the N64, give or take.
And contrary to thus stated, Yoshi *was* spoonfeeding suggestions. It's just that they're not very good.

 

[American Tanker]

Not at all - all the games Tanker cited used to be on Nintendo consoles. It's just that Nintendo hasn't had that kind of relationship with third parties since the N64, give or take.

And contrary to thus stated, Yoshi *was* spoonfeeding suggestions. It's just that they're not very good.

Yeah, I'm still of the opinion that Nintendo's last good console was the 'Cube and no one here has yet convinced me otherwise.

*sigh* If Fast RMX is the only decent game I could get for Switch(Sky Rogue aside, as I've already got that for PC with a shitload of mods), I might as well not bother.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Not at all - all the games Tanker cited used to be on Nintendo consoles. It's just that Nintendo hasn't had that kind of relationship with third parties since the N64, give or take.

And contrary to thus stated, Yoshi *was* spoonfeeding suggestions. It's just that they're not very good.

Yeah, I'm still of the opinion that Nintendo's last good console was the 'Cube and no one here has yet convinced me otherwise.

Definitely its best system, second only to the SNES. If Capcom hadn't backstabbed it like that it'd be up there with the PS2 for me.