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Really? Normally they don't let you preorder or put a note on the page if that happens, but looks business as usual on the product page. Edit: never mind, seen the note now.

Surprised you aren't agreeing with me on this...It's just not good. I'd pay for a service if it's worth it but what Nintendo are offering just isn't. Party chat through a phone, game rental for a month...What are they doing. £280 with no game packed in, more expensive than the current systems by far. What the fuck.

Something like a VC catalogue subscription! Not paid online for their 1 or 2 titles that you occasionally want to play online. Nintendo just don't have the kind of FPS games that you sink countless hours into online or the established friends lists to keep people there. Nintendo have always been the crappy online providers but people put up with it because it's free. Party chat is being done via a phone app for god's sake!

I just can't get over how fucking stupid everything we've heard is. The price...no games bundled...paid online. What the fuck have Nintendo done...

599 US dollars says hi.

Actually as I recall most PS3 users on here were already signed up to Plus so already paying for it before it became mandatory. Obviously free is better than paying but Nintendo's service sounds poor and I'm surprised they're charging.

Now watch as the people who complained about paid online start to justify it or at the very least sign up for it.

Yep...look back and people are usually saying £250 at most, but hoping for £230.

So in other words nothing to do with Brexit, just a good old-fashioned Nintendo stitch up. Milk the Nintendo fans, then 6 months later drop the price and do an ambassador scheme and they will forget all about it.

I think they've really cocked up the pricing here. I mean, it's £55 more than a PS4 slim is right now on Tesco. I'm not feeling the value for money here!

Then sell at a small loss. £280 is crazy.

Yeah they fucked up there. Seems it was 7AM and the timezone was a cockup.

Yeah, 1 per customer is a good way to combat scalper scum. I'm most interested to see if they sell out on Amazon and if so, how quick, than the presentation itself.

I spoke on Amazon chat who said they had the following information "Please be advised that Nintendo Switch will be available to pre-order from 06:00 GMT Friday, 13 January, 2017. Due to limited stock we are only able to offer one unit per customer per address. We will be fulfilling customer orders in the order in which they were placed." So it does indeed seem to be a 6AM preorder time and not just a mistake. Odd choice of timezone though.

I find it weird they're telling us in a timezone that isn't currently being observed.

One switch and two joy cons. You're sorted!

Nah...nah... Can sleep in and still get the news but preorders might pass you by.

Cool. Didn't see that when I tried it earlier...will get up a little before 7 then.

Just check amazon.co.uk and was greeted by this: So tomorrow. Doesn't tell me more when I click "Learn more" though. Maybe midnight, after the presentation, or later in the morning tomorrow then.

All about that Stardew Valley. Hope it gets confirmed for an early release...

Just finished reading this now, been working through it the past couple of days. Cracking read, really well put together. Really gives you an insight into the development of a groundbreaking game. My favourite bit was where some of the higher ups wanted to kill off all but two of your party members at the end of the game!

Whyyy are you giving GAME 50 pounds lol.

I remember Amazon sold out of their Wii preorder allocation in 7 minutes, and that was before it became a thing. Given the rumoured small amount of stock, do you think the same thing could happen here?

It's a shame that the dock doesn't have ethernet, given that it will just sit near the TV where wires going behind the unit are to be expected and of no detriment to the room. WiFi can be pretty unreliable for online gaming. Given this system is rumoured to be releasing with Mario and Zelda and is a handheld with low stock numbers to begin with, I can see scalpers getting hold of these.

Well, the ordering of the games is all automatic based on most recently played. If you have a manual system then it's fine for right now, but you would have to keep reordering the list yourself whenever you finish with a game and don't want it at the top of your list, or you get a new one. That to me feels like busywork. Anyhow, regarding the features at quick access, I wasn't referring to the quick startup (which is also a must) but rather the quick menu: A quick press and this loads up right away without totally covering the screen, with the most used features (and you can customise it). I would like the Switch to have something like this.