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Nintendo Switch: March 2017
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-Full streaming and sharing features: Enough with the YouTube witch hunts, Nintendo. People are going to stream your games no matter how much you fight it, so accept it already and let us share our highlights in an easy and convenient way.
-Achievements: Debate it all you want, but it's been obvious for two generations now that people care about Achievements/Trophies. Stop forcing developers to shoehorn in-game achievements and adopt a universal method already.
-No more Friend Codes: there was an argument to be made about the safety of friend codes maybe ten years ago. But when literally every other social-enabled device hasn't had a problem with traditional friend invites, it's time to retire this unnecessarily obtuse policy. There are millions of kids playing games on their phones or Minecraft/Overwatch on PC instead of your consoles, and they seem to have no problems with random friend invites.
-Story Mode for Smash Bros: cutting out a successor to Subspace Emissary was the single worst decision you could make for Smash 4. You can't make a crossover game with Cloud, Ryu, Pac-Man, Shulk and Bayonetta and not have a hilariously over-the-top fanservice story mode included. You include this in the re-release and you do it right goddamn now.
-Expand the VC Library: I don't know how third party licensing works (I could have sworn Nintendo had full control and distribution for anything that's released on their consoles), but even sticking to their first party offerings, they can still add a significant bit more to the Virtual Console. Gamecube games, N64, NES, SNES, even the goddamn Virtual Boy just for nostalgia's sake...just dump it all in there.
-Expanded Miiverse: Miiverse was the one social thing I really liked in the Wii U, so I would love to see it come back. Just add a few extra features, like extra colors and an easier way to share fun drawings/messages.
-Cloud Saves: If I'm going to be bouncing back and forth between the handheld and console modes of the Switch, I want to make sure I don't lose my progress because I forgot to charge the handheld/controller back to the dock. Periodically backing up saves to a cloud would immediately solve this problem, as well as the problem of having to get a replacement device.
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Because Super Mario Run does
It's made people a bit nervous
Admittedly I haven't added a friend in the Wii U in forever, so I might be misremembering. I could have sworn you still needed some sort of code ID to add people.
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Only on 3DS, no codes on Wii U. Last I checked, you could add Wii U friends by name in the friend app, or also through Miiverse, which is easier and more user-friendly.
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Still, there is a difference between single game friends and account-wide friends. My friend list should show up on every account enabled Nintendo console I own.
But, IRIC, it doesn't work like a Friend's Request like any other system.
Two people still have to manually add each other, right?
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
No, Wii U has friend requests.
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Tons of mobile games have friend codes / IDs, it doesn't mean anything.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
I don't think most people are confused. You said you hadn't added anyone in forever, so you didn't remember. It's been this way since the Wii U released.
Additionally, the cross-device thing will matter less when they have one single device, though it'd be pretty cool if the Switch can directly pick up any friends you already have via Miiverse/Wii U.
I'm of two minds on cloud saves. On one hand I like it and see no good reason to complain about it if it's there. Of course, Cloud Saves would absolutely necessitate having Nintendo Accounts that are not limited to specific machines. So the cloud save argument could be used to lean into all the other points of contention people have about Friends Lists, Virtual Console stuff, and so on. Figuring out an infrastructure that would enable Cloud Saves would in turn give the baseline for building other major features that people are baying for.
But that's just not going to be out of the box. Or, if it is, it's going to be, shall we say, 'unanticipated scale of demand' and the like.
Without wanting to sound TOO glib about all this, I do want to meekly advise that the Switch is a cartridge based system, allowing saves on the very games themselves, and the SD slot on the Switch itself certainly should help with things like this also. Which doesn't entirely eliminate the scenario and solution of 'asshole took all my Nintendo gear but maybe, once I get all that equivalent gear back, I can download all my saves from the Cloud,' but it helps.
That looks pretty slick.
the bolded is what people are kind of irritated about though. They don't have to figure out cloud saves and singular account tie ins, that stuff has been figured out for years already.
I guess they could call up Microsoft.
They're happy to sell software and Amibos themselves, but a quick check shows they still don't sell the hardware themselves.
Goddammit. I'm going to have to get in line at Gamestop, aren't I?
Yep it sucks. I'm going to call my local Gamestop and see if they're going to be doing preorders for the Switch tomorrow.
I think it's too early to say that My Nintendo won't be limited to a single Switch the same way Nintendo Network ID is limited to a single Wii U and 3DS.
It's not My Nintendo. It's this.
Ah, and there's going to be an ice storm in my area tonight. Wheee!
That's the same thing! I wasn't aware My Nintendo wasn't the name for that whole thing, but that's the same account that's used for it.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. Haha.
Know what would be better?
If they had all that shit sorted on day one.
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I'll be excited on you're behalf.
I'll still watch it, of course. See what happens.
Oh, I quite agree. But I'm basing my assumptions on past behavior, if you will. So while I would LIKE to expect this kind of development from Nintendo, I'm not going to be shocked or upset about these things not being there again.
There is a good argument that cloud saving is hardly new at all. But, again, Nintendo-as good as they often are with product design, they are quite loathe to use stuff they didn't come up with themselves. So they've got wheels to reinvent and all that. Because that's what they do.
Like, they wouldn't be silly enough to do that artificial scarcity thing they're so fond of with a new console, right?
I'd say the Switch has much more in common with that then the NES Classic, in terms of price range, market, and and so forth.
Then again, a lot, though not all, of "internet scarcity" feels like overblown rumors nowadays. I remember seeing PSVR's on store shelves the day after launch, then the week after launch.
Unless the thing becomes Wii popular. If so, god help us all.