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[umiman]

Also didn't Ubisoft just work with Nintendo on that XCOM-style game?

[SOLDIER First]

Mario Rabbids Kingdom or whatever

[Sean Mirrsen]

Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and yes. Also they're releasing South Park: The Fractured But Whole for the Switch. And Uno. And Just Dance 2017/2018. And I think Rayman Legends is one of theirs. And Steep, maybe, eventually. And smaller stuff like Hex Heroes and Starlink: Battle for Atlas.

Ubisoft's doing pretty good by Nintendo.

[SOLDIER First]

The Nintendo rep doing the direct had to (got to?) say the phrase "the fractured butthole" out loud on an actual broadcast from the company, twice

[Sean Mirrsen]

The Nintendo rep doing the direct had to (got to?) say the phrase "the fractured butthole" out loud on an actual broadcast from the company, twice

He was audibly attempting to enunciate the space inbetween the words, but(t) yeah.

[IronTomato]

Fun for the hole family

[Antioch]

I am thinking of buying a switch because I really want to play mario Odyssey and BotW, but these are basically the only games exclusive to the switch that I am really interested in.

Feels kinda expensive to buy a console for 2 games......

[Egan_BW]

PSA: BotW is on the WiiU, too. I've beaten it.

[SOLDIER First]

It is!

[wierd]

Indeed.  I have the WiiU version as well. Beat it more than once.

Personally, I wont get a switch until a working homebrew scene appears.  I need a more modern replacement for my old PSP for doing portable retrogaming that actually has some OOMPH to it, and the Switch looks poised to deliver, as soon as the gate to the walled garden comes down.

Being able to play Skyrim and pals on the go/on a road trip would be a nice bonus, but mostly I want a portable with enough guts to play PS2 games reliably.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Indeed.  I have the WiiU version as well. Beat it more than once.

Personally, I wont get a switch until a working homebrew scene appears.  I need a more modern replacement for my old PSP for doing portable retrogaming that actually has some OOMPH to it, and the Switch looks poised to deliver, as soon as the gate to the walled garden comes down.

Being able to play Skyrim and pals on the go/on a road trip would be a nice bonus, but mostly I want a portable with enough guts to play PS2 games reliably.

a) I really dislike that logic, a "working homebrew scene" as a reason for purchasing more often than not just means one intends to never pay for any game on the platform that he can get away with.

That said, b) you may want to step up your purchase plans if you want a working homebrew, chances are a revised hardware version is either soon to be rolled out, or has already been sneakily rolled out, plugging the only known still-working exploit (the Tegra bootrom exploit) that would enable homebrew on Switch units patched past FW version 5.0.

Also c) if that's really your only purpose for a handheld gaming system, you may as well get a GPD Win 2 and play just about any indies on the Steam library as well as any emulators up to the Wii (and a tiny bit of WiiU).

[Aklyon]

Yeah, waiting on buying something for the homebrew just means you'd have to find an old one instead, which'll probably cost more anyway.

[BigD145]

At this point you can also make a tablet out of a Raspberry Pi.

[wierd]

You might be surprised how bitchy it is getting good PS2 emulation going. It had some pretty quirky hardware that is painful to emulate. (Then again, WiiU emulation is just as painful. CEMU does a good enough job most of the time, but harsh games that pushed the console, like BoTW, need a freaking i7 behind it, which is something you are NOT going to get out of a handheld.)

I looked at the GPD WIN2 on amazon-- Not a fan of the controller layout. It just screams "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" at me.

Now, this guy looks potentially promising, but the choice of android is a deal killer.
https://www.amazon.com/JXD-Singularity-1920X1200-Handheld-10000mAh/dp/B071JVWTDT/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1522077264&sr=8-15&keywords=gpd+win+2

I would have to hack the damn thing (To use actual linux) just to get WINE installed on it.

[smjjames]

Has anybody played 'of mice and sand' (not sure if the one on nintendo switch also has the -revised- part in it)? I'm wondering because there is a PC port of that coming out in a few days http://store.steampowered.com/app/785780/OF_MICE_AND_SAND_REVISED/ and I'm wondering how good it is.