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Postby CBear3 » Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:20 pm

The Switch Lite is going to kill a lot of the joy for me. With the fixed controllers, the gyro's in the JoyCons become worthless because you're developing for both "systems." Mario Party Superstars for instance won't use the Joy-Con movement functionality.

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Postby Morkle » Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:29 pm

Why does Nintendo seemingly take steps back with their system refreshes well, systems in general. Such weird design choices based on how the rest of the world has gone.

They could make a better next gen type system and sell mega bucks if it could compete with the rest. It's like they aged our their home runs and are OK with letting them slowly die.

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Postby nocera » Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:30 pm

Nintendo hasn't cared about being at the forefront of hardware tech since SNES. That's not what sells their consoles.

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Postby skullman80 » Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:33 pm

Nintendo still makes money hand over fist. As @nocera said they don't care about being latest and greatest hardware wise.. they know the fanboys will buy anything that is zelda or mario basically. Can't really blame them to be honest.

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Postby NAN » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:01 pm

Nintendo is far from dying a slow death. They've had some duds, but they've hit homeruns as well with the Wii, Switch, DS, etc. And their first party games will sell a lot of systems as well. Nintendo has gone a different route than Microsoft or Sony. And it works extremely well for them.

I've been hearing about the death of Nintendo since the Gamecube. That was 20 years ago.

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Postby nocera » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:06 pm

Physical consoles will die long before Nintendo does.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:06 pm

My favorite Nintendo tidbit is how they slap down content creators from streaming games or press events. It's like they are stuck in 1980 or something. That's how games are marketed and hyped; let the fans do (most of) it.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:17 pm

Some smart companies are getting Twitch and YouTube streamers to play their games in paid advertisements. Probably way cheaper to pay a streamer a few grand for a couple hours than pay for ads on TV

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Postby NAN » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:33 pm

My favorite Nintendo tidbit is how they slap down content creators from streaming games or press events. It's like they are stuck in 1980 or something. That's how games are marketed and hyped; let the fans do (most of) it.
Meh, I don't mind if they smack them down. Some creators are literally developing games using their charactors etc that they have invested a ton of time and money on. I don't blame them for smacking down people stealing Mario to build their own game or stream an existing game. Those IPs are worth a crap load of money to Nintendo. You start allowing people to use them freely, I don't think that helps them what so ever.

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Postby NAN » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:34 pm

Some smart companies are getting Twitch and YouTube streamers to play their games in paid advertisements. Probably way cheaper to pay a streamer a few grand for a couple hours than pay for ads on TV
Now this is a good idea IMO.

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Postby skullman80 » Wed Jul 07, 2021 12:28 pm

So I bought the PacMan 1up arcade.. now I have to figure out where to hide it until Saturday. Didn't think about that haha.

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Postby skullman80 » Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:38 am

So my wife didn't really get mad at all. She still said she didn't "need" it haha.

Need to find the matching stool for it at some point. Put it between the Turtles and NBA Jam machines. I also need to find some sort of Arcade sign to put above the machines, but haven't found anything I liked yet.

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Postby dodint » Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:58 am

My soul needs that NBA Jam cabinet.

I just happened to watch this the other day, it's a dissection of the NBA Jam rubberbanding:



Pretty cool seeing the stuff you 'knew' was happening when you were a kid being explained. It doesn't explicitly cheat, but it makes a bunch of parameters and puts them in play so the outcome is pretty predictable.

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Postby skullman80 » Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:01 am

My soul needs that NBA Jam cabinet.

I just happened to watch this the other day, it's a dissection of the NBA Jam rubberbanding:



Pretty cool seeing the stuff you 'knew' was happening when you were a kid being explained. It doesn't explicitly cheat, but it makes a bunch of parameters and puts them in play so the outcome is pretty predictable.
My niece played the NBA jam cabinet this weekend for the first time...and by the 3rd quarter she was like "This game cheats!"... I just chuckled and walked away.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:38 pm

skullman, that is an awesome setup :thumb:

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Postby eddy » Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:10 pm

Dreamcast was awesome. Excited for Skyward sword on switch next week.
:thumb: Own it for the Wii, but that is the only Zelda game for the consols I never played. I'm just going to pick it up for the switch and play it on there.
I really enjoyed it for the Wii. I remember the controls being kinda cool, but I thought you could play on pro controller as well
Pretty sure you had to use the wiimote, nunchuk and motion plus.

I hope the new controls are good, I'm just skeptical knowing that the game was specifically made to take advantage of the motion plus.

Hopefully yinz report otherwise.
https://www.polygon.com/22576057/legend ... ntrols-wii

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Postby the wicked child » Wed Jul 14, 2021 10:06 pm

Neat. I'm not going to bother with it, but hopefully it's enjoyable for yinz.

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:26 am

Mass Effect 2: None of the guns seem to impact much damage. I have to shoot everyone about 350 times to get them to die.

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Postby NAN » Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:27 am

skullman, that is an awesome setup. Now I want to buy.

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Postby Kane » Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:16 am

My reaction, too. Imagine having your Steam library in your hands while waiting at the DMV, lol.

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Postby skullman80 » Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:48 am

Makes the OLED switch seem like a childs toy basically.

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Postby count2infinity » Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:07 am

Stupid question here... can you play games offline on it? Like if I wanted to take this on a flight or something?

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Postby Kane » Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:08 am

Especially since you can uninstall the SteamOS (Linux based) from it and install Windows instead. It's straight up a micro PC.

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