Global Hardware 21st Sept 2019; Switch Lite launch numbers!

[Ganoncrotch]

OTBWY said:

Ganoncrotch said:
That's some amazing launch week for the Lite, I'm sitting here re-downloading 400GB of games onto my New Switch V2, not sure what that would be called... the one with the better battery lol, Nintendo are killing it with the switch both in hardware and fantastic software, it's rare to see a week pass without a title on the Switch in the high 80s or into the 90's even on meta. Unifying their games vision from 3DS+WiiU into all the Switch has made for an amazing system for those who are jumping on board with it (EA just dropped an utter turd of a Legacy Fifa2020 on the console which just sold 600k in a week, so good job them) However.... I am going to say one negative to the current boom, actually... it's a sort of 2 for one deal ye can take away from it what you want. All of their eggs are in one basket (a basket based on an Nvidia shield which was not new hardware when Nintendo put their logo and breath of the wild on it) and also... when you're riding so high like this, there is but one way to go. (it is rarely further up).

Phenomenal week though, I mean when you hear about a few cases of people having issues with their Switch lite's coming out of the box it kinda sets minds at ease when you consider that even if 1000 of them came out of the box and exploded into tiny shards of metal and plastic... it would still be a failure rate of 0.2% of the systems, which is well in line with industry norms, it would actually be a fantastic low amount of them dying on launch.

Now..... I'm gonna get back to trying to bend a paper clip for my OG Switch.... for no reason what so ever.

I went through the exact same procedure about two weeks ago when I got my Mariko Switch. Had to transfer first my accounts and hope everything went well. Then download all the digital games which was close to 400gb, and then pop every physical game in a update them. I have about 200 or more titles in total.

This is probably only going to impact a tiny number of people as well... but why is there no real download queue control, also the download queue seems limited to what... about 30 games at a time? With no error message to alert you that games after that aren't added to the list.

Also you might want to check out games with dlc, I had a few like Superbeat Xonic and Tetris 99 which only downloaded the DLC but not the games needed to play them I had to navigate to Tetris 99's own page... on the US store to be able to download it (the EU store where my online account is just says the game is purchased with no option to download) the thing is, I work in IT support and teaching IT support and I'm running into issues with this, the average kid is just gonna be crying his eyes out and thinking he'll just start a new Nintendo account on it instead and dad can just buy him the games again on that, it'll be easier.

Why don't they just let you hop the SD card from one Switch into the other and rebuild the game DB like the Vita got so perfectly right... I mean if your system is less friendly than the Vita's one you're in trouble.