Nintendo Switch Catch-All 2.0

So I made a Japanese account to redeem some preorder DLC for Super Robot 30 and now all the news on the splash screen is in Japanese.

JohnKillo wrote:

So I made a Japanese account to redeem some preorder DLC for Super Robot 30 and now all the news on the splash screen is in Japanese.

Yeah that happened to me for Monster Hunter Gen demo years ago. Had to remove account to get rid of it.

Or maybe when I got new ACNH system I didn't transfer that account. Something like that finally made it go away

I’m having to send my OLED off for repair. It stopped detecting wireless networks about a month back. I googled it and apparently the wireless device in the system is prone to easy damage. Putting it out there as a PSA in case anyone else has the issue.

My right side joycons are not getting recognized as attached to the system. More so the launch gray set, which doesn't even get noticed in the Ring Fit ring now. But I've seen my red/blue set do the same on the system a couple times. Both will still charge just fine. This is a specific issue that has a Nintendo support page for repair requests.

Yeah, I have 8 joycon total, 4 with defects. So I’m gonna take the opportunity to send those 4 out for repair also.

Breath of the wild 2 delayed until spring 2023

Launch Timing Update for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel

In news that surprises absolutely no one hehehe. I was pretty sure this would be the case.

brokenclavicle wrote:

In news that surprises absolutely no one hehehe. I was pretty sure this would be the case.

Pretty much. I was thinking at the release calendar, and it's probably Splatoon 3 in the summer, Xenoblade 3 in September, Pokemon Scarlet/Violet sometime this year (which they haven't announced but is almost assuredly their holiday blockbuster), and then Breath of the Wild 2 which could also have been the holiday blockbuster. They surely weren't going to release both in that same slot.

Really? I think 5 years is long enough for them to have put out a sequel. It is kind of ridiculous at this point to me.

farley3k wrote:

Really? I think 5 years is long enough for them to have put out a sequel. It is kind of ridiculous at this point to me.

Dunno about that. BotW2 looks pretty ambitious, and who knows how many systems and mechanics have come and gone in the meantime. It stands to reason that they would want to make sure that the follow-up to one of their biggest games ever passes muster and then some. They likely also don't want their big players to compete amongst each other, and as Miyamoto has stated - and I am not quoting verbatim here - a delayed game is eventually good.

I think the pattern was there for a good bit now. Since last year, they've been dropping little to no info on the game. It's not even a drip-feed. So one of two scenarios were likely: the delay to 2023 or a sudden avalanche of game content making the media with a surprise reveal of an end of year release date. The latter of these seemed less and less likely, nevermind that it is rarely something Nintendo does.

...we will have to agree to disagree. I think it is BS that they can't get it done.

Horizon: Zero Dawn came out the same year and it's sequel has who knows how many systems and mechanics.

God of War came out a year later and it's sequel is being released this year.

Resident Evil 7 came out in 2017 too and it has had numerous other games in the franchise with wildly different systems and mechanics.

Certainly there are games that have not had sequels in that time but I do not think a five year turn around is unreasonable.

I love my Switch, I have loved every Nintendo system I have had but they have a corporate culture which is not good with getting games out the door.

farley3k wrote:

...we will have to agree to disagree. I think it is BS that they can't get it done.

Horizon: Zero Dawn came out the same year and it's sequel has who knows how many systems and mechanics.

God of War came out a year later and it's sequel is being released this year.

Resident Evil 7 came out in 2017 too and it has had numerous other games in the franchise with wildly different systems and mechanics.

Certainly there are games that have not had sequels in that time but I do not think a five year turn around is unreasonable.

I love my Switch, I have loved every Nintendo system I have had but they have a corporate culture which is not good with getting games out the door.

Nintendo is well known for having very different design philosophies than other studios. It is in keeping with the Nintendo style to take far longer than others. I am of those who think this is better in the long run because it tends to ensure a better game. That's not to discount any other studio being able to put things out quicker, but there is a certain level of polish that is rarely found outside of Nintendo's first party offerings, and there is the strongest argument in favor of their way of doing things.

Again, not saying one way is right and another is wrong, just stating what has been historically shown to be Nintendo's way of doing things. It has worked for them over the decades and there has been little to no reason for them to stop following that M.O.

brokenclavicle wrote:

Again, not saying one way is right and another is wrong, just stating what has been historically shown to be Nintendo's way of doing things. It has worked for them over the decades and there has been little to no reason for them to stop following that M.O.

Very true. There is no incentive for them to change and generally I would just work through my backlog but I am excited for BoTW2 and Metroid Prime and both seem to just always be out of reach.

farley3k wrote:

Very true. There is no incentive for them to change and generally I would just work through my backlog but I am excited for BoTW2 and Metroid Prime and both seem to just always be out of reach.

Oh, I feel your pain, especially with Prime 4. It is quickly becoming a kind of white whale for me. The longer its development goes on, the more I fear a cancellation.

farley3k wrote:

Really? I think 5 years is long enough for them to have put out a sequel. It is kind of ridiculous at this point to me.

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Breath of the Wild 2 is using the same engine as the first game (probably with some modification, but still).

Majora's Mask would be a more appropriate comparison.

*Legion* wrote:

Breath of the Wild 2 is using the same engine as the first game (probably with some modification, but still).

Majora's Mask would be a more appropriate comparison.

Except that for MM, Miyamoto didn't actually want there to be a sequel yet, so when Aonuma pushed to make one, he was given a 1 year deadline. Big difference there, and one that heavily influenced the design of the game (timey-whimey mechanics). Nevermind the difference in scope of the games and the systems they are developed for. For BotW2, from what I can think right now, the only real deadline is the viability of the Switch as a console in the current market, and this is something that doesn't seem to worry Nintendo very much; the install base is huge and unlikely to move on from the system until Nintendo decides to announce/release their next console in the next year.

For all we know, the BotW engine might be a nightmare to modify for the devs (just speculating wildly here). I want this game yesterday, but am aware that Nintendo's development cycles have ballooned exponentially over the past 3 or 4 console generations. At this point, as a byproduct of the prolonged dev cycle, I will be expecting nothing short of perfection from BotW2 or I will likely feel terribly disappointed.

farley3k wrote:

...we will have to agree to disagree. I think it is BS that they can't get it done.

Horizon: Zero Dawn came out the same year and it's sequel has who knows how many systems and mechanics.

God of War came out a year later and it's sequel is being released this year.

Resident Evil 7 came out in 2017 too and it has had numerous other games in the franchise with wildly different systems and mechanics.

Certainly there are games that have not had sequels in that time but I do not think a five year turn around is unreasonable.

I love my Switch, I have loved every Nintendo system I have had but they have a corporate culture which is not good with getting games out the door.

This gets a GIGANTIC yikes from me given everything we know about work culture around the development of video games these days. Jesus.

farley3k wrote:
brokenclavicle wrote:

Again, not saying one way is right and another is wrong, just stating what has been historically shown to be Nintendo's way of doing things. It has worked for them over the decades and there has been little to no reason for them to stop following that M.O.

Very true. There is no incentive for them to change and generally I would just work through my backlog but I am excited for BoTW2 and Metroid Prime and both seem to just always be out of reach.

*Advance Wars fans check in

Too bad?

DSGamer wrote:
farley3k wrote:
brokenclavicle wrote:

Again, not saying one way is right and another is wrong, just stating what has been historically shown to be Nintendo's way of doing things. It has worked for them over the decades and there has been little to no reason for them to stop following that M.O.

Very true. There is no incentive for them to change and generally I would just work through my backlog but I am excited for BoTW2 and Metroid Prime and both seem to just always be out of reach.

*Advance Wars fans check in

Too bad?

The Advance Wars sequels are called Tiny Metal and Wargroove.

Seriously, both are excellent spiritual successors.

Jonman wrote:
DSGamer wrote:
farley3k wrote:
brokenclavicle wrote:

Again, not saying one way is right and another is wrong, just stating what has been historically shown to be Nintendo's way of doing things. It has worked for them over the decades and there has been little to no reason for them to stop following that M.O.

Very true. There is no incentive for them to change and generally I would just work through my backlog but I am excited for BoTW2 and Metroid Prime and both seem to just always be out of reach.

*Advance Wars fans check in

Too bad?

The Advance Wars sequels are called Tiny Metal and Wargroove.

Seriously, both are excellent spiritual successors.

Totally. I'd love an official Advance Wars, but I can wait patiently. We've been patiently waiting for some time.

The BOTW 2 delay is something I thought was a cert, I couldn't see it coming out this year. They have to follow up one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time, if it's any game that needs those extra months to hit an almost impossible level of quality it's BOTW 2.

I do expect this to be way more than BOTW 1 with a few refinements & the land of Hyrule slightly altered. I think they'll go all out & layer in a couple more systems that will interact in unique ways with the magnesis, stasis, cryonis etc of the original. The islands in the sky would be a fairly big change, especially if there's an organic & fun way to get upto them & not just a loading screen.

I'd love this to be a cross gen thing that's on the Switch & it's successor Switch Prime but I know that's extremely optimistic

DSGamer wrote:

This gets a GIGANTIC yikes from me given everything we know about work culture around the development of video games these days. Jesus.

I honestly have no idea what the culture at Nintendo is. I haven't seen any articles about it. If it was like some of the terrible ones we have heard about I am all in favor of slowing it down.

Work culture in the gaming industry is such that I think it's safe to assume that any particular company's is terrible unless there is a specific reason to believe otherwise.

You put that together with Japanese work culture in general, and....

Jonman wrote:

The Advance Wars sequels are called Tiny Metal and Wargroove.

Do either of these have simultaneous turn resolution? As much fun as I had on Advance Wars and other turn-based-strategy games decades ago, I really cannot stand I Go You Go gameplay much anymore whether tabletop or digital. I need sides to complete their actions together, similar to Into the Breach but without knowing the moves beforehand. (I also suck at real-time strategy so there's only a sliver of strategy games I enjoy anymore.)

Nope. They're both very straight Advance Wars clones.

Multiple articles with Reggie and with Bowser saying that Nintendo doesn't crunch. They hire contractors or delay games, which we've seen repeatedly through the years.

Stele wrote:

Multiple articles with Reggie and with Bowser saying that Nintendo doesn't crunch. They hire contractors or delay games, which we've seen repeatedly through the years.

And they saved Retro from imploding due to a crunch mindset after Prime 1.

Stele wrote:

Multiple articles with Reggie and with Bowser saying that Nintendo doesn't crunch. They hire contractors or delay games, which we've seen repeatedly through the years.

Hmm. But virtually every other publisher says that crunch is literally unavoidable, an inviolable law of nature like gravity. Are you saying they're wrong or... gasp... being less-than-truthful?

Stele wrote:

Multiple articles with Reggie and with Bowser saying that Nintendo doesn't crunch. They hire contractors or delay games, which we've seen repeatedly through the years.

If you mean, a very narrow definition of crunch, where overtime is significantly increased above the norm for a short period of time to meet a specific deadline, then you may be right. However, Japanese work culture sucks, overtime is mandatory, ALPs are left unused without compensation. Nintendo is nothing special in this regard.