re: Super Mario Odyssey - Switch - Releasing 10/27

And I hear the co-op part of it is poop. But who plays Mario for co-op?

I've only played handheld. there are only 2 things that I can't do in handheld and one of them is if you miss your throw you can make it auto target nearest enemy/object. nice feature but not having it doesn't break the game

the other is throwing your hat in a circle.

oh look another kids game from nintendo.

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thought I heard in the quick look that it was optional?

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Not with the procontrollers.

JoyCons you have the option of Y or shake.

Youtube and Netflix are supposed to be coming in the near future. They've enabled a Japanese streaming app, NicoNico, on devices there, so the speculation is that, once they reach agreements with the companies. more should be on the way.

Here's an article about it:
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On a sidenote (and I know everyone else says the same): I can't believe how much I play this thing in handheld and how awesome it is to have that ability. My old gaming looked like:

1) Wife in living room, looking at her phone or laptop, television on.
2) Me in gaming room, playing.
3) Wife yelling at me that I don't want to spend time with her.

Then I stopped gaming much (for a variety of reasons) and our nights looked like this:

1) Wife in living room, looking at her phone or laptop, teleivision on.
2) Me, actually watching television on couch in living room with her.
3) Me wishing I could game on the television, but having to acknowledge that gaming on the television in the background drives wife crazy (even though she's hardly watching whatever is on the TV, but does occasionally comment on the show).

Now it looks like this:
1) Wife in loving room, looking at phone or laptop, television on.
2) Me, sitting next to her on couch, hearing same show in background.
3) Me playing the Switch in handheld.

Everyone's happy.

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but I don't know that you'll be able to download movies onto your switch

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It's a pretty standard feature on Netflix apps (phones, computers, etc) to be able to download something for offline viewing, so if you can't do that on the Switch then that would be a big disappointment.

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I think you can rotate the stick to do the spin throw, that's what I heard at least.

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It's been reported on that it works but not verified yet during testing

Nintendo fails on handheld mode for Odyssey

I've been all about Nintendo since I traded in my PSVR for the Switch back in March, this is the first fail from me.

How can you NAIL Zelda but then break your #1 cash cow and flagship in handheld mode?

You have a unanimous 10/10 game that is broken in the mode that the switch is touting as it's distinguishing feature.

Nintendo gonna Nintendo unfortunately...

Luckily I will probably not play it in handheld that much. I also hate splatoon in handheld, so I'm used to it

You can do the spin throw in handheld