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As far as I know it’s the only way (apart from e-shop cards) too add money / pay if your bank card doesn’t match the region.

You need to spend it unfortunately. I’d recommend buying something cheap and topping up (over $2.19) via PayPal if you need to.

9 out of 10? Makes me wonder what a 10 looks like in "Shane's" books

YOU'RE DONE!

I started the New Year as I mean to go on! Beat Shovel Knight (main quest) on the plane back home last night. Lucky that I was on a plane as it prevented me from blurting out a tirade of expletives on the final boss. Two days gone, one game down My Switch backlog of 80+ games will hopefully take a hammering. But I'll be happy if I manage to hit 50, a game a week seems fair. Xenoblade 2 is (still) almost done and I picked up a lot of shorter indie games over Xmas, so here's to a strong January start

As someone who’s moved around a bit, the process is pretty painless and easy to do. You basically have two choices: 1) Make a separate account for each region. You can have up to 8 on one Switch, I think (You’ll need a separate JP NSO sub to download the NES / SNES apps this way, if that’s what you want to do AFAIK). 2) Change your region on the My Nintendo website. Next time you log into the shop, you’ll be logged into that region’s shop. I’ve done this loads over the past three years, switching between the U.K., Russia and Latvia. Gold coins are tied to your region but don’t disappear. So if you have, say 600 gold coins in the U.K., you can’t spend them in another store, but you also don’t lose them, so they’ll be there when you switch back. Option two is better in my opinion as you’ll still only have your main account on the Switch and everything will be tied to only one Switch / My Nintendo account. Edit: The e-shop is completely determined by your region settings, not your physical location. Card payments must be made in the local currency, but PayPal is also supported if you don’t mind losing 2-4% on a pounds > local currency conversion. Super edit: NSO sub transfers between regions, so you might actually be able to download the NES / SNES app with method 2. I’ve never tried it.

Couldn't agree more. How much of your shoulder blade being in front of the defender actually constitutes gaining an advantage? There should be a blatant advantages in my opinion, visible immediately on VAR - daylight or no? This way we won't need people with a higher maths degree spending 25 minutes looking at lines and angles and Pythagoras equations. And the refs / assistants need to call it immediately or let it go. None of this IT guy sitting in a room saying he might have seen something the ref might have missed.

VAR seriously needs binning. Ruining the game. The equivalent of a left testicle hair is a ridiculous measurement for offside. It should be daylight between.

No spoilers. I'll reveal my top 10 of the decade (along with @londragon and @nekunando) in our Jan 9th edition of N-E cafe Tune in !

Goodbye wallet.

I think three models is right on point. A powerhouse, a cheaper model and a “disc-less”, maybe streaming only, model as you said. I think this is the sensible way to go for the gaming industry. Scaling is easier to do now. “Generations” being replaced with a more iPhone style cyclical approach where the oldest models gradually drop off out of support seems much more sensible and profitable than having a new expensive system (and incremental half-gen upgrades) every 6-8 years. I’m hoping the Switch will follow this too. The fact we’ve had an un-switchable Switch hints they are maybe doing it, but Nintendo gonna Nintendo. Who knows what’s coming next. Microsoft’s approach is genuinely intriguing. I never thought a “Netflix for games” style system would ever work, but here I am complementing dipping into Game Pass on PC. As someone who’s only interested in a few select games on Xbox One (namely Rare stuff and Forza), the fact they’re adding select original Xbox and 360 games to it makes me want to pick up a cheap One S. Interested to see where this leads and how it affects AAA development. I’ll always prefer to own my games physically, but I went from ignoring MS to considering becoming a subscriber. Personally, I think they are onto a winner and fair play to them for leading the way and striving to innovate in a new direction.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

I'm surprised no-one's guessed the transition tunes this week. The game has been laughably cheap on the e-shop a few times. It's one of my most played Switch games, I know @londragonhas put in a load of time. @nekunando has it as well but hates it . Game is out on PS4, Xbox and Steam. Indie smash-hit.

The amount of hype I have for this game is unreal. That trailer was fantastic. Loved the Bait and Switch with the Ni No Kuni style anime. I don't care if the gameplay is average, love me some Travis Touchdown.

The best thing to do is check after it updates every Thursday. There’s usually only 20 or so games added a week (still too many!). Just add anything interesting to your wishlist and then you can see when a nice discount comes along with relative ease. The fact you jumped in after almost three years means that you will have to go through the sea of shite (tm) to find what you want, but I’d recommend having a look online at “the top XX e-shop games” and adding them manually. My wishlist is now a very healthy 60+ games 🤦🏼‍♂️ This certainly helps when it comes to wanting something that looks interesting but not wanting to bite the bullet at full price. Wishlist is pretty decent though, make use of it.

Is the exit poll at 10pm GMT or 11pm? Im two hours ahead so probably not going to pull an all nighter like I did last time. But I might wake up early and try and catch the end of it. I moved away from Labour in the last couple of years, given up my membership, but got my mum to proxy vote for me as they’re the best chance of taking the seat away from the Tories where I used to live. It’s very close, think there was only a 2% margin in it last time. I’m much more to the centre right now, but I absolutely despise everything about this Tory government and Johnson is a car crash. Easily the worst PM we’ve ever had. I hope he gets the boot he deserves. The country needs fixing not even taking Brexit into account.

I liked a lot of the stuff in that direct. But I won’t spoil it here... Listen to the podcast on Thursday to find out [emoji6]

Yeah, I've seen this game on sale loads of times @drahkon. I got it on Steam for less than a euro, but would definitely pick it up again on Switch for that lovely portable-ness.

This seemingly happened to a lot of people!

I picked it up as well as the original Halo is one of my favourite games of all time. Can’t wait for the remaster of Combat Evolved. Outside of that I’ve only played the multiplayer of 2. I’m Enjoying Reach. Apart from the sound issues, it’s seems to be a nice remaster. Runs at a butter smooth 60FPS in 4K. I’ll be up for some MP when I get used to the game again 😅

The e-shop is a mess. And all the good sales finished a few days ago, there’s nothing decent on sale at the moment unfortunately. Welcome to the club. [emoji106]

Two years ago it was mega. I might be busy this new year, but I’ll certainly try and be present for some games.

When I lived in Russia they switched to an OTT streaming service for the PL a couple of years ago. It is amazing when you can sit and choose any match you want to watch from all the 3pm kick-offs. They had next to no analysis, but it was so easy to pick a game to watch it in TV-like quality and then stick on the highlights of the others when you had the time. It is absolutely the future, and the Premier League should think seriously about adopting this model and just cutting the middle-man out. It looks like F1 is slowly going down this road as well and while Sky's PL coverage is generally good, it is vastly overpriced.