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Well exactly. He's cherry picked to make his argument, and with cherry picking you can just as easily topple that argument. Arguments around screenshots in his case are usually pointless affairs in which he has picked whatever unrepresentative screenshot necessary to make a point.

So defensive Ronnie. Always out to defend Nintendo at every opportunity. Don't understand the complaining about the visuals of this game in relation to Mario. Did you see Mario Odyssey? The city in that looked like it was ripped from a sonic game circa 2000.

Have a great birthday!

I have a 48" in a living room of so-so size. I'd say 55" could work for sure.

Because they only want to make it appear scarce and not actually scarce (since actual scarcity means lost sales). By making it seem scarce at the peak of its hype when it was revealed, people who might not otherwise have got on board at launch have put their preorders down. Once they've got their preorder down, they're reasonably likely to keep it. It's why there's always such an emphasis for game stores to get preorders in.

I don't see that being the reason. Amazon know how many units they have allocated, because Nintendo told them. If someone cancels their order on their website then 1 unit is freed up and Amazon would immediately know this. That 1 unit would be available to buy again on the site. Most likely it would go to the next person in the order queue who wouldn't have been getting his at launch. The scarcity of the system around the announcement was real, not just on Amazon but at lots of places. Nintendo always knew the absolute maximum number of consoles they could make by launch so I don't see this as 'they found out they could just make more by that time'. But hey, it works for them, people think it's scarce and so logged their preorders in early.

Maybe they won't show it because many of the features are coming in a day 1, Wii U-style patch.

Both versions sold out for launch delivery on Amazon very quickly. Nintendo must have initially given very low numbers to stores to make it seem like it was the next thing in demand. They must have known the absolute maximum they could make by launch even then, accounting for high demand. Now you can easily get both versions (the colour version only on Nintendo's store, but the grey version went from sold out in many places to readily available).

See goafer's post. And have a think before you reply. In the space of a couple of weeks? Nah, they limited the stock initially to create that feeling of scarcity.

It's a flagrantly bullshit comparison table; using dots instead of ticks for when the Wii also has that feature (such as 'plays Wii games').

Switch isn't sold out. I think probably Nintendo limited stock allocation initially to make it seem like something in demand. Now, almost mysteriously, Nintendo has the Neon unit in stock for dispatch at launch.

So then everyone pays for online through added game costs, even if they have no intention of playing online.

Undertale is a great game.

Online play being free doesn't increase profit for the console companies though. Look at the PS4 with the paid for Plus subscription and the profit Sony makes. So long as companies stand to make more money charging for online than if they didn't charge, they will charge.

lol. Smash 4.

Then let me ask you a question - are servers free to run?

It means you buy it on one system (e.g. Vita) and you can download it on another for no extra cost (e.g. PS4). In terms of Plus games, it means you get it on both systems.

I'm wondering how durable the Switch will be for taking out and about given it's pretty much a flat screen. I'd like to buy a case but the official one seems a bit overkill.

It's weird how cool the Switch looks, yet slot the joy-cons into that controller and they look ugly as sin.

Yeah I'm surprised to see a few here say they didn't back it. For some reason I thought nearly everyone here would be backing this.

I backed the digital PS4 version for the princely sum of £15.

Nope, see the PlayStation Vita.

That's nonsense from that guy as Amazon always tell you when you order it what day it should be coming. If a preorder, it should always say arrival on release day.

Yeah. There's also the case on browser where clicking those small arrow icons to jump to the last post of a thread brings up a magnifier window just to 'make sure' you definitely wanted to click that icon. Happens with other small hyperlinked objects too. I quite like Tapatalk but it is missing some features. Spoiler functionality like Bob said, as well as compatibility with some other tags (twitter tags don't display properly). You can't unthank people you accidentally thanked either. The timeline/new posts feature is very good though (just an ordered list of posts as they happen).

LA Noire was...pretty meh to be honest. I just remember it being pretty frustrating as the body language didn't always seem to match up with the correct choice to make.