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I'm serious about beating trade-in prices for anyone thinking about this! I still wanna fill out my collection for Wii U and missing some obvious ones like Yoshi's Wooly World, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Colour Splash, Captain Toad, DKC:TF, Hyrule Warriors, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, TP:HD(maybe), Super Luigi U, NES Remix...maybe one or two others I've forgotten too! May actually post over in the Trades in case anyone else has the same idea... Anyway re:online I still think more than £20 is too expensive for what it's offering from what we know so far, it's just not the same value as the competition from what I've seen so far. I'd be more interested if, as someone said earlier, you could do it on an equivalent month-by-month cost rather than committing to a whole 12 months at that. @Retro_Link - re emphasis on the TV <=> handheld. I think they're taking the right approach. Don't crowd every advert, have a different focus for a different market with each. They NEED to have a good advertising presence that has the variety of ads being exposed to most people though - that's a good way to do it imo. First you like it for the 1-2 switch ad, your interest is piqued - later at home you heard the Switch noise and see an advert about handheld mode at home - BAM! Even more excited. You forgot the expensive DLC characters too, especially in relative context to that online pricing Also flip the argument to apply to the first part - digital distribution costs less than retail distribution; surely that saving should go somewhere right(just as the argument online infrastructure cost should be passed onto consumer) - why aren't digital download titles cheaper than their retail counterparts as a result eh! (this one's not really a question I want a response to, btw) Since when has this service been £12-24 a year? I thought the figure I've seen people mention is £25 - that's definitely outside of the range you quote if so. I hope you're right though £12-£20 should be about the limit imo. Maybe £18 for a round monthly. To most they're offering more value with their service too, though. I don't mind the price if the service is worth it - but from what we've seen I really don't think that it is. It's good to see you understand why so many of us are worried about the potentially bad decisions Nintendo make, then. The ones that cost them money, and sales...such as high prices that don't offer enough value in consumers' eyes... Completely not on topic but did you know they're remaking Duck Tales this year...with David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck! EDIT: @Retro_Link - dat duck tales wii u joke. So absolutely on point. Lost my shit.

Literally the conversation of 3 posta above you :p I'd say if Amazon are sold out on their pre-orders either keep watching them in hope, go down the official lines as @Ike suggests - or otherwise consider any of your other favoured online retailers who have it in stock. I'd be wary of going for a company I'm unfamiliar with if I wanted this on launch; but I don't/haven't ordered so much for speed in the last few years. Everywhere I look seems more expensive than Amazon! What's the official download price when it's released? That same as the official store's retail price?

Definitely. Mario Kart 64 was still great - and possibly a bit more fun in the multiplayer stakes but I wonder sometimes if that's just because it was more ubiquitous too. DKR - with its single player mode, overworld, bosses, and most of all secrets(secrets, in a racing game, wat?!) really was more than just a racer. It was almost as if they tried to take some platformer/SM64 inspiration but make a racing game from it instead. They did very well in that attempt, imo. I'd love to see another like it with a wider range of items/weapons/tracks variety/vehicle variety/mechanics etc. I've said it before and no doubt will again, but can you just imagine what the Rare of the old days could do with the power of the modern era in their hands?

One of the first things I did the day after the Switch reveal conference was pre-order a copy on Amazon; knew demand for it was about to shoot up. Could be worth seeing if any folks here end up double-dipping or buying from somewhere else?

I got you brahs(I think); Time to Switch : [countdown=03/03/2017 0:00 AM; Switch is here!!!]Countdown:[/countdown] (may work in a sig, never tried, but don't say I never encourage the hype if it does )

I'm quite happy with LBP myself - never really got the hype around the series at the time, even though I borrowed/played one of them for a bit. Hopefully it'll be something I get more into this time round.

I don't want to shit all over the good advice of this thread, but thinking about it there's probably only one real solution. Punch him in the face. (btw every time I see this thread I want to try and string together a hilarious sentence full of Soap related puns but I can't because I've realised I would have to quite rightly punch myself in the face afterwards) EDIT: Oooo, grab his hands and punch him in the face with THEM then tell him to stop hitting himself whilst you do it!

Like a Mario themed one with the Red/Green joycons similar to the mockup from before? I can certainly see it tempting some...possibly myself included!

What sort of game though? That's the thing I'm hoping for with Playtonic - it won't just be characters in similar games; but hopefully a wide variety of genres utilising/starring various characters and maybe even having cameos etc. I never played Bad Fur Day so I don't know/can't say how it compared to Banjo Kazooie/DK64 considering they were all platformers, but I'd like to hope they were still rather varied. I felt as if DK64 and Banjo-Kazooie were sufficiently different in a number of their mechanics and design aspects.

You should probably ask @Pestneb - I only dare wonder how many hours he's clocked up on this by now! Personally I ended up with at least 100 hours playtime out of the original. I recall one day when I think Moray Towers came out, me @Cube and @Goron_3 were on for possibly half the day in and out lol - don't think any of us attended to the plans we actually had for the day! That was cool, though we were skyping at the same time which helped. You have to consider though - that's 100 hours for me despite some noticeable flaws in the game. i.e not being able to change loadouts without leaving lobbies, then waiting to get back into games(especially if trying to rejoin friends) and the 'rotation' of modes and limits of maps to 4 hourly intervals, the kick at the changeover time, balance for uneven teams etc. The slow trickle of content, whilst initially receiving mixed reactions, eventually wasn't too bad for me personally. It added some sort of new dimensions and freshness to the game when new weapons came out and the meta slowly changed. One of the things I loved about Splatoon actually was just seeing how the meta of it slowly changed over time! I'm a bit of a nerd for stuff like that though. Splatwoon is probably one of the things that would make me really want to get a Switch when I think about it atm - as long as the weaknesses have been addressed. Every time I see this argument made I ask the same question - why the need though? Why not just use the WiFi hotspot feature that basically every common smart device has in it? It's already possible anywhere WITHOUT an app in that context. I'm personally hoping for far more from an app than something that we can basically already do without it. I've thought the same since the Wii U and can't fathom it really. It was really enjoyable when we did manage to Skype/VC whilst Splatooning, but it could sometimes be a bit of a faff getting it together; especially when there was quite a few of us!

Ha! Another thought we have in common! I'm really excited for this in case it re-captures the ol' Rare magic and pushed Playtonic into making a whole range of games of varying genres but set within the similar universe. To think that the seeds of Banjo and Conker were essentially just in DKR and they opted to expand them out is quite interesting. Speaking of which I don't know if I've made it up but weren't they supposedly thinking about games from the other characters too?

Tbh I'd say that if you're going to be happy with it at £280-300 at Christmas then I absolutely agree you might as well jump in now for the joy of having it at launch, and playing BoTW on Switch, for what's gonna be like an extra fiver a month if that. It's basically just sort of renting a Switch for that price if you're going to get it anyway - and that's a price I think anyone would jump at! The only thing is how long you might end up waiting for stock allocation to catch up to you though - did they give you any sort of impression on when it might be if not on launch? Don't know if @Clownferret might be useful too given he said he only just did his GAME pre-order pretty much? Although I dunno if being in NI would make any sort of difference to stock availability.

General point not meaning to single anyone in particular out: Can we please try and stop comments like this please. It's the sort of reason the 'Other' threads end up happening - someone makes a point not in favour of the console and they're 'moaning'. The 5 year consideration point is as legitimate as one about a higher price difference for a game. If one is 'moaning' then so is the other. It believe it's a rude and dismissive comment to make and I'm rather convinced it's the sort of comment that contributes to the tensions on here. If your consider the quoted text by itself - it actually contributes nothing at all to the thread. There's no reference to Switch' date=' no context at all related to it. I don't want to have to start censoring everything I feel falls into that category. By all means feel free to a public right to reply to this - [b']but do it on my wall.[/b] I am making this point but will NOT let it derail the thread, and I will delete further responses to this if they have no or limited on-topic content in them. If anyone wishes to reply, do so on my wall (or via PM if you prefer, but I'm not aiming to stifle the discussion if needed, just to not have it derail the thread).

You make me wonder sometimes as to whether you actually read the thread before posting :p Deffo agree, and it's most certainly better than Rufus Hound's bloody bread and butter shit they put out there. Still, have to wonder if it's really going to do much or appeal to people to really get uptake. Still feels a bit of a Wii crowd chaser and whilst it all looks so fun and games in the video will anyone from back then really drop dime on this when they're dropping hundreds on smartphones etc instead? The economic climate is still rough for a number of people, and I'd daresay especially younger adults(personally seen much more unemployment in my social circles in the last 5 years than beforehand). Stuff like THIS is much more appealing to me! Ofc I realise I'm probably not the target audience for the video liger and Serebii posted but you do have to consider that I'm a consumer that they've already got a foot in the door with rather than something fresh JUST looking at an impulse new product. I think they should attack from both sides and market to both - there's many a lapse Ninty fan(espesh after WiiU) that they could potentially turn to sales where the thing's already got a mental presence for them. Hahaha, ok that's quite embarrassing. But it does highlight something I did think in watching the video - why not give your actors the actual real thing as a prop when filming? It's easy to see the acting side(for me) and I think if they asked them to act AND gave them the actual thing to play with in doing it, you'd get a much better and genuine feeling video. I realise it might carry a bit more work/cost and they probably don't want too many people to see it blah blah blah - but I won't be the only one getting that slightly fake vibe of the advert - and that won't necessarily sell to other such folks; maybe even do the opposite. EDIT: They didn't waste much time, vid's been pulled already.

why hello there mr gibbs ! Though out of interest why selling the 3DS, do you have another or thinking Switch will simply replace it?

Initially yeah, but if you think about how poorly the WiiU's done I can imagine with its supply going even further through the floor it might actually end up appreciating within a year or two. What happens is some silly sucker with some money decides they fancy buying/playing a WiiU? How easily/at what price will they be able to find one?

How though? You can have two women with rather similar physical builds but different breast sizes. That isn't so common in men though, is it?

(originally I was only going to post that one but then I saw an FMA one)

Seeing that pic of all the partner-character themed ones made me think how cool would it be if those existed and when you bought/pre-ordered your console you didn't actually get a standard joy-con set with it but instead you got to choose which ones you had? Obvs it'd take a bit of work from Nintendo and possible cost in guaging stock/demand and working with retailers - but the idea of avoiding paying £70 for another set but getting the ones you want with the console...damn. Missed trick imo.

Random how? Nothing major is procedurally generated in this, is it? Like you wouldn't have a different experience to me or yourself even if we took the exact same route each time, would we? Though a Zelda with that level of variety.... 4.5 weeks ! Need to go get my Wii U soooon!

Ha! I guess I kinda see it, but I'm from that kinda asian background where the plastic would stay on your new chairs for years :p The weird thing is I don't think I'm terribly clumsy - but sometimes I do have epic fumbles or do really stupid stuff. Having said that at the same time I also sometimes have like weirdly epic reflex catches to things when they're falling - it's just usually shit stuff that ain't worth no money and all my valuable shit hits the deck instead!

Ahhh yeah could well be that - I believe the earpiece speaker as it were on this is doubled-up into the loudspeaker too so that does kinda make sense it'd have the big magnet for that near it -like a fool, I only considered it from the perspective of looking at it from the back. Ahhh! A man after my own heart! That's why I didn't get any super fancy/expensive phone. I probably use mine more than yourself(do do a lot of internet browsing) but I'm a 1GB a month man and I don't think I've broken that to date after very many years! Calls, texts, whatsapp/messenger - and just general small things. Tbh I think the most usage outside of that for my phone is browsing and then sending stuff to my Chromecast!

I wasn't feeling keen to chance my hands on a SIM card with scissors, not to mention it being my main number in case I mashed it/my new phone up! Luckily the men of my family tend to have a habit of having all sorts of randomly useful crap and tools no sensible person generally tends to own - and ofc my brother naturally had a micro sim cutter when I asked last night lol. Whipped round there and grabbed it, cut a test SIM(which I'll put in as SIM2 later, is a super old number) and then cut my main and thankfully it worked! Need to get me some decent adapters in case I ever need to step back up again though. Phone's up and running and I'm liking it a lot so far! The size is a bit crazy and holding an older phone now seems quite weird due to the size difference. I think it's just nice having a phone that isn't half-riddled with various problems and that's actually quite fast and slick etc. After a few tries/removals I managed to somehow get Whatsapp to NOT restore from my google drive and from the old phone's microsd card - so I've got messages up to about 2/3 weeks ago which is what I wanted most and they weren't in my google drive. Hadn't realised that this version of android incorporates individual app permissions so I'm very happy to see that as a built in android feature now. My old phone had it as it was a Cyanogen cutom ROM i put on, and it's something I quite appreciate when I see apps asking for all sorts of crazy permissions. Sadly less detailed from what I've seen so far, but still better than not being there at all. My old phone had more than 2 main screens and I had a lot of crap/clutter that I liked having - but I'll get used to that. Just realised you can add more screens! The lack of actually sort of hard buttons at the bottom but being on the screen is a bit strange but I'm sure I'll adjust to that too and if it saved me a bit of money or allowed them to pack a bit more into the phone then I don't mind at all. EDIT: erm....what's with something magnetic in the back near the camera? Just found a pin stuck to my phone and was confused! Do you have any sort of case or screen protector for yours @bob? I know you've got the plus model so I assume it might not be quite the same size etc, but I feel like I really want some sort of cover/protection on this thing. Worried I'm gonna break it already somehow. Not average as in you use it more than most people, or less so? Just curious!

Ah, for that one I was meaning two physical sources of sound - as in if voice chat's running through the phone but system/game sounds are running through the Switch it might be physically/mentally confusing directly in two seperate ears. Having said that I guess it isn't all that different to being on the phone whilst doing something/playing a game - I've managed to take a call and carry on playing PS4 at the same time with the voice chat in my ear, phone in the other, and TV coming out too. If I can find me a set of earbuds I might actually try it out at some point! EDIT: Was meant to merge this next bit in last night but my wifi went wild so I fell asleep instead :p Ahh yeah I know how you mean and what @Jimbob's saying. I got party/chat invites on my phone but I don't know which app it was through and obvs can't check with it being broken now :p If there's a communities app like Jimbob says that takes care of the same things I was saying on the PS4 side that's pretty fair enough. Possibly even more the reason for Nintendo to try and incorporate similar or superior functionality in on their system too.