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Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

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Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

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Post by 5d8767c68926 »

bitdestroyer wrote: post #16
lake_vincent wrote: post #10

Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing? I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much. Goodbye everyone!

Same, and I have a Steam Deck arriving today… Also, never play Dyson Sphere Project. It ruined me worse than Factorio. Jokes aside, it’s a fantastically beautiful and well done game.

DSP is amazing. Even with some of the rough in-development edges, I really enjoyed that experience. Evidently, I somehow sunk 60 hours into that game inside of two weeks.

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

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Post by Emma_Goldman »

Even though it is many orders of magnitude simpler than the real-world equivalent, I find that there is no better way of grasping the logistics of modern civilization than playing Factorio.

In fact, it's probably in the Goldilocks zone: easy enough to play, but complicated enough to convey the kind of resource, energy and transport logistics involved in scaling a multi-step production process. It is like an illustrative toy model.

The aliens even give the game a satisfying environmental and political dimension, though the mechanics in this respect are more straightforward, i.e., just kill the aliens. Though emitting less pollution with solar also helps.

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

#103

Post by kbenson »

lake_vincent wrote: post #21
yabones wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is tragic news. In the future they will point to this as the pivotal moment that lead to the downfall of my career, relationships, financial security, etc. Is there a 12 step program for infrastructure maintenance survival horror games?

Dear Diary, I sold my Switch today. I had to do it. I'm devastated, but it was my only choice - I had to protect myself, my career, and my marriage. It was the right call, but I can't believe I didn't even get to say goodbye to all my Animal Crossing villagers. I feel like I betrayed them, but if I kept it, I would have been betraying myself... I'll never forget you, Lord Bootycheeks. Please forgive me.

Obviously, this is how the age of gods ended for humanity as well. Henry Ford, Godslayer. Err, Goddistracter, at least.

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

#104

Post by duskwuff »

fredley wrote: post #29
louwrentius wrote: post #20

I have a 10 year old i5 and it struggles with my 10,000 SPM mega base. So I don’t think a switch is a device for building mega bases (Factorio points this out themselves).

Perhaps there's a higher percentage among the HN readership, but the number of people who make it to 'just' a 1kSPM base is very small indeed as a fraction of the playerbase. Only 18% get as far as launching the rocket according to Steam stats!

> Only 18% get as far as launching the rocket according to Steam stats!

One caveat is that Steam achievements are only granted to players who don't have any mods enabled. There's probably a nontrivial number of players who have only completed the game with mods.

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

#105

Post by karlkatzke »

bitdestroyer wrote: post #16
lake_vincent wrote: post #10

Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing? I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much. Goodbye everyone!

Same, and I have a Steam Deck arriving today… Also, never play Dyson Sphere Project. It ruined me worse than Factorio. Jokes aside, it’s a fantastically beautiful and well done game.

I liked DSP but it was a bit lacking in complexity once you got past the point of dedicating entire planets to pumping out, say, sphere structure. There's only so large you can build a sphere.

Now, Workers & Resources, Soviet Republic still stays challenging...

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

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Post by willis936 »

dakial1 wrote: post #40
lake_vincent wrote: post #10

Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing? I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much. Goodbye everyone!

May I also suggested City Skylines on the switch? It has a great addiction management feature called high RAM usage, so when your city reaches 200k citizens the game will force close repeatedly on you.

I'm willing to bet any more than two city blocks will crush UPS on the switch.

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

#108

Post by KaoruAoiShiho »

totoglazer wrote: post #45
bitdestroyer wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, and I have a Steam Deck arriving today… Also, never play Dyson Sphere Project. It ruined me worse than Factorio. Jokes aside, it’s a fantastically beautiful and well done game.

DSP’s best feature is that it’s windows only, so playing on a Mac is low key terrible. That’s helped keep me to only 200 hours played.

I played 150 hours of it on Mac through Geforce Now. Used the free tier's 1 hour limit addiction management feature.

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

#109

Post by clowen »

nargas wrote: post #30

Would it be possible to not pay the full price if you already have paid the PC version ?

For some background on why not.

Nintendo didn't make any money from the PC sales, so it needs to have revenue from this launch.

And for Factorio itself, the effort of porting to the Switch, and then the effort of going through validation with Nintendo. Even if they didn't want to charge you again, the company would need to cover the cost of dev kits, extra engineers, and a whole extra channel for development/release.

Re: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

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Post by teolandon »

dakial1 wrote: post #40
lake_vincent wrote: post #10

Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing? I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much. Goodbye everyone!

May I also suggested City Skylines on the switch? It has a great addiction management feature called high RAM usage, so when your city reaches 200k citizens the game will force close repeatedly on you.

They stole that from Dwarf Fortress.
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