For The Podcast

This week we discuss Samsung’s 8K TV, Apple’s upcoming September event, video games we’re playing and looking forward to, MoviePass (duh), and Searching.

Pre-WWDC discussion

We’re back! This time we discuss Google I/O, Android Wellbeing, Google Duplex, MoviePass (again), God of War, Assassin’s Creed Origins, 99vidas, playing video games on easy difficulty.

Three weeks in a row!

• Follow-up
  • Jason’s AirPod impressions
    • Sugru mod
• Will’s Nintendo Switch impressions
  • Price
  • Console or handheld
  • 1-2 Switch = Warioware?
  • Third party developer support
• Ranking America’s Fast-Food Chicken Nuggets
• MG Siegler’s The Voice

Nintendo held an event to reveal more details about its upcoming Switch console, so we had to do a special FTP episode: Nintendo Switch edition!

• Console details
  • What’s included, release date, price
    • Should they have hit the $249 price point?
  • Is it more of a console or a handheld?
  • Aside: Overcooked
  • Paid online service that includes a free NES/SNES game (Update: … with a catch)
  • Play styles: console, tabletop, handheld
  • Battery life
  • Aside: Mike and Jason preorder their Switches
  • Social media sharing
  • IR sensor
  • HD rumble
• Game details
  • 1-2 Switch, ARMS, Aside: Terrible translators, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Third party developer games
  • Should game ports incorporate Switch-specific functionality?
  • Quality of graphics
  • Third party support
  • Apple as a possible competitor
  • Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • Will there be a point when graphics don’t matter?
• Nintendo Switch accessory pricing
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  • Battle Course 2