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I think it looks interesting but I’m going to wait until reviews hit before I buy into it.

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The very idea screams Nintendo, and I'm definitely interested.

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Nintendo fuck you for putting the X, Y, A & B buttons all in different places than the Xbox has them. After a week of Switch games, I went back to Batman Enemy Within on the XBX and kept dying because I kept pressing the wrong buttons during Quick Time events.

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I still don’t see what the house does or how it uses any of the Switch functionality. Am I missing something there?

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A,B,X,Y have been in the same place on Nintendo controllers since the SNES.

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Yeah, fuck Microsoft for changing Nintendo's layout.

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No, fuck Nintendo for not bowing to the supreme leader.

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Sony does something similar in Japan and reverses it for the U.S.

In Japan (and maybe other parts of the world?), O is confirm and X is cancel. Here, it's the other way around, with the button placement of cancel/confirm the same as what Microsoft does with the Xbox as well.

If you ever import a Japanese PS4 game, it can take some getting used to. But, yeah, it's Microsoft and Sony that reversed the buttons, not Nintendo.

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.....no. Just no.

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Nintendo's layout is now weird to me too, but maybe that's a circumstance of getting used to Xbox as well as reading left to right. A plus my hand naturally landing on the A button more towards the middle so it feels right that would be the primary "confirm" button.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...89/537/2d6.jpg

Genesis controller also went A, B, C from left to right, along with Saturn, Dreamcast, and now various PC controllers following suit.

I remember posting a poll about this a year or two ago! :p

https://forum.dvdtalk.com/video-game...on-layout.html

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I guess I’m used to both layouts. Once in a while I screw up but I’ve actually fallen into the Switch controls pretty easily.

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Yeah, Nintendo's button layout always fucks with me too. I'm constantly looking down at the controller for QTE.

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Didn't realize that. This is my first Nintendo console, excluding the Wii which I barely ever played. I guess the 3DS has the same button configuration? That never bothered me though.

Yeah, reading left-to-right is the reason that having Y before X and B before A is so counter-intuitive.

I'm always backing out of things instead of confirming them on the Switch. Takes me twice as long as it should to play a battle in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle because I keep hitting the wrong buttonYes! OMG, I had trouble with X before but now I'm totally lost (and I never even had a Gamecube; didn't realize they moved the X button again). QTE's have become a total confusing nightmare for me. I have to look down all the time.

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:lol:

Also, the Xbox’s face buttons feel like someone cut marbles in half and glued them onto the controller.

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Hmmm, taking this with a very tiny grain of salt...

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gam...r-release-date

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Insignia Switch dock on sale at Best Buy for $35. Less than half the price of the official Nintendo one.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insigni...?skuId=6065700

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Ordered one. Really hope these don't have the same problem as the Nyko ones that were reportedly frying some peoples systems. 🤞

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From all accounts they aren't frying systems (yet... there is some question on whether it has enough ventilation). The one caveat seems to be that it's a tighter fit, so you may want to at least have some kind of screen protector if you're nervous about screen scratches. Plus some reports that colors/output is slightly different, but others have no issues.

I bought a dock when Target had a sale last Xmas so I'm ok for now, though man is that piece of plastic and chipset expensive.

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In ways I could see a spare dock being nice but I tend to think if I’m not at the location of mine that I’d just be playing in handheld mode.

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I haven't bought a game in a while and am debating between Rocket League and Mario Odyssey. I've never played either one and just looking for something to blow some time when I have a little free time.

Which one would you get?

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I haven’t played Rocket League but I’d say Super Mario Odyssey is the definitive game on the Switch so far aside from Breath of the Wild. Completely different games though obviously.

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I haven’t played much of Odyssey yet, but Rocket League (I have it on PS4, but same thing) is more of a play a game to pass time type of game.

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I mean Mario isn’t very story intensive either really. There is a story but you can just find moons for a while and then shut it off when you’re ready.

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Mario Odyssey by a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG mile.

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I haven’t played enough of it yet, but am still getting the hang of the controls. I imagine I’ll do more of quick playing after that. Love that they pretty much perfected the move set in Mario 64, so most 3D Mario games just build off that.