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Given that this year has a new Zelda (and one of the best in nearly 20 years) and a critically acclaimed 3D Mario, it's hard to say "absolutely not" to this year to be honest! I do think Smash Melee is one of the best ever games though.

I agree that the "baseline" level of Mario is low (minimum number of stars required to advance to the next level), same with a lot of games with these checkpoints (e.g. musical notes in Banjo Kazooie). It's in the maximising and completitionism that the true difficulty often lies.

ResetEra eh? This guy. This fricking guy.

I wonder if this fixes the crackling sound on Stardew Valley.

You can also get a fiver free credit for topping up your Amazon account with £25. You can then apply that to an existing order. I did it and got another fiver off Mario Odyssey, effectively making it £35. Follow this link to see if you can get the fiver off.

If this place dies then surely there'll just be another place catering to hardcore gamers. Feels like when they banned certain torrent sites...more just popped up to take their place.

You've played 132 hours 10 min across your 3 characters. link

oh right cool, I thought it let you record 30 seconds from that point. Not so bad then, but I really hope they get moving with the cloud saves (these should definitely be here at least by the time paid online kicks in).

Nintendo doesn't believe in OS-level anything.

This is actually really disappointing...just 30 seconds of video capture and you have to manually trigger it, so no capturing anything neat that already happened. No cloud saves which is what is really needed, just a save transfer option which has niche applications. If this is a main numbered update I hate to think what the lesser updates will be like!

Can't really call it humble anymore can they.

How are people getting this 15 days before release?

Shiiiiiiiit.

Glad to hear you did well. And yeah, pulse grenades are definitely the way!

Well it's still available digital. If the demand is there, people still have access to it.

You're right, in this case it's probably due to extreme stock shortages. That said, if stock weren't a limit, I still think it would sell far less than on the other consoles and that would very much be due to the online and feature set versus the full fat versions.

The things I was just talking about are at the OS level, which people already knew about.

It's not really surprising, you can't even send a message to a friend on Switch, let alone form a party outside a game. A fair chunk of people with a Switch probably have a second console, and if they're remotely into FIFA that's probably where they'll buy the game. Of course, some people will still double dip or be Nintendo only.

Well the "poor" part was when you talked about the high number of PS3 and 360 systems out there to justify the low Switch sales, because install base of those last-gen consoles doesn't matter anymore (360 has 84 million units sold for instance, but only a miniscule fraction of FIFA 18 copies will have been on 360). It doesn't work that way. A better justification of Switch sales would be short supply, which seems to be an issue here.

That's a bit of a meaningless statement though, as the vast majority of people who bought PS3s/360s aren't playing them or buying games for them anymore. Overall it is a very poor percentage for the Switch, and I can see why third parties don't always treat the Switch the same as the other consoles.

100% due to Nintendo, developers shouldn't be responsible for coding in an online friend matchmaking solution every time. It should be implemented at the system level as on other consoles. Any time online features are missing blame Nintendo and their silly choices when making the system.

Wut. Haha that's amazing if true. I got TPP dirt cheap but that's great for people who have yet to pick it up.

Well no, because if it was breakfast in his house he wouldn't have a receipt to claim back now would he? More likely it was him having to get up early to travel and so he got breakfast while travelling, something I've expensed many a time.

No way, RDR2 please.

Honestly one of you should just say you're going to ask people to join you at a certain time on a specific day and the first 5 people to join get in. Watching a few of you say you can't do this day and that day and then put it off is slightly killing me. You've got to be a little bit more ruthless when trying to arrange these things or they never happen (and I say this from experience). [emoji14] I say this in an inebriated state by the way, but it doesn't make it any less true.