So, this is a thing that’s coming soon…
Yes folks, I’m getting a Nintendo Switch for my birthday. Yes I could had bought a Rift S or even a Vive (or a GTX 2080 to replace my RX 580), but I decided I really want to try out the Switch.
Now I’m not going in blind, I’ve been looking into actually what I’ll get once I get it, and it only makes me excited for it; being able to ‘switch’ and play games on my TV. Sadly I read there’s no real way to play it on my computer. But I wonder if the same setup I have to play PS4 games on my secondary monitor.. would work with this. Definitely something to experiment with.
Now the reason why I want to get a Switch, is to play the new Super Mario Maker 2.
Remember when I said I was getting hooked from Dashie’s videos of Super Mario Maker? Well it seems that’s for the Wii U and not for the Switch. With SMM 2 now for the
Switch, I really want to play it. And all day (in Gamefly) I’ve been looking up some games for it. However as much as I want to play SMM 2, I added Super Mario Odyssey at the top of that list (as I want to play that more).
Both are at ‘Medium Availability’, but I got it set to wait a week (longest I can go) before they send me the highest available game on the list (that’s higher in the queue, which is currently Yoshi’s Crafted World).
Now (at the time) I had no idea how renting games for the Switch would even work (as there’s no CD unlike the PS4, plus I hear you can also download games to the Switch). But from what I’ve seen (that the below pic shows)…
These ‘Game Cards’ as they’re called, look like SD cards. I was almost envisioning the old cartridges from the original Game Boy, as what they’re using. Heh. So, that’s probably how they’ll look when I start getting them from Gamefly.
Tomorrow, I’ll be sending a just over 7-month rented game from the PS4, back to them to get the ball rolling (that is, once they get it which could take a few days).
EDIT (8/5/19): Tomorrow is now today, and there’s been an update..
Looks like I’m getting it a lot sooner than previously stated. Now I would be
happy.. except I still see the Gamefly envelope that was supposed to go back to them, still in our mailbox (as in, the mailman hasn’t picked it up yet). So that means when the Switch arrives tomorrow, I’ll have no games for it.
Horray. :/
However I’m not out of luck. Sure I’ll have to wait for games from Gamefly, but like when I got the PS4 (before I even got my Gamefly subscription going), I was able to play a few free games. And the same is available on the Switch as well.
So, yay! I’m not screwed afterall!