Mike86

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

zero

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

Decker

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.

Decker

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

Obi-Wanma

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

pinata242

Yeah, fuck Microsoft for changing Nintendo's layout.

Music

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

Adam Tyner

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.

starseed1981

.....no. Just no.

fumanstan

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.



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!

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

Mike86

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.

mattysemo247

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

Decker

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.

bluetoast

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

zero

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

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

mattysemo247

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

clappj

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

fujishig

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.

Mike86

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.

edytwinky

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?

Mike86

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.

bluetoast

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.

Mike86

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.

zero

Mario Odyssey by a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG mile.

bluetoast

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.