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Yeah it doesn't bother me to any major extent, I'm just slightly worried that I'll be really immersed in the game and then a derpy-faced cutscene will break the immersion.

Ok, my copy is in Grainger games, they wouldn't let me have it today of course but I'll pick it up during lunch time at work tomorrow, then be on later in the evening. HYPE!

The marionettes look drastically better than the derpy XCX faces.

I just kept the 4GB card in the New 3DS and transferred wirelessly, took just less then an hour and didn't have to unscrew, swap, put in a PC or anything. I'll not really buy much digitally so I'm ok with the 4GB, I had plenty left of the 2GB one on my old 3DS.

I must say, this Majora's Mask Edition console is one sexy bit of kit, it's lovely! I'm trading my old 3DS in tomorrow and will be picking up Bayonetta 1&2 and maybe a couple other games. Then MH4U on Friday!

So anyone with iPhones will just have to host the voice chat lobbies..? Also, this game looks SO much better on the New 3DS!

Indeed! Although I must admit, I'll be paying particular attention to MH4U from Friday... but I'd LOVE to squeeze some LM2 in there too! I couldn't do next Tuesday or Thursday unfortunately.

I'm fairly sure you can do it from the app, is this not correct..?

You can have 4 people Skype groups on the mobile app right?

Just had a text, it's being delivered between 11:20 and 12:20... I cannot control my hype!!!

Seeing this thread has just skyrocketed my hype!

A statue of him was put up in Timperley, just across the road from my old local...

And here's the Legend in action in his home village, which is my home village too.

Just got the confirmation mine has been sent, I'll have it on or before the 13th! YES!!! EDIT: Just got a text from The Hut Group telling me it'll be delivered tomorrow! FUCKING YES!!!

Hopefully I'll be getting an email shortly as it wasn't saying it was out of stock when I ordered it and it was relatively quick. Thanks @Shorty! My Nintendo Store page now says awaiting despatch as opposed to awaiting stock pick, as it did prior. Well that's for the New3DS, still awaiting stock pick on the power adaptor... they'd not ship separately will they? I'll have to wait for the adaptor to be in stock and then they'd be delivered together(expected despatch is 17/3), right?

For me, I don't think MK voice-chat would cut the mustard. Don't forget, it's lobby chat, and that isn't a substitute for in-game chat. I hope you can group up in teams prior to matchmaking too, surely this will be in..?

This should probably be stickied @lostmario..? What gets me most is that Nintendo seem to be a games company that puts fun first and foremost as the main thing in their games. When it comes to multiplayer, local multiplayer is always best because of the laughs to be had between yourselves as you game. Nintendo seem to know this as their adverts (when they existed - Wii) always showcased this. However, local isn't always something people can play as regularly as they'd like, if at all in some cases, and so online playes a big part here in catering to multiplayer gaming at practically any time. The thing is, what makes local gaming so much fun; the social element, is then missing when online if there's no voice-chat. All of a sudden part of the fun is taken out of the game. Sure, I get that a huge part of the fun is the game itself, but a game is only more fun when you can enjoy it together with your friends, talking, laughing and giving each other grief as you play. Nintendo does actually understand this, as seen in their adverts with local gaming on show, so then why do they exclude this part of the fun from their online experiences? It's beyond me. Multiplayer centric games like MK8, Smash and Splatoon would be all the better for voice chat. Unfortunately I'm finding both MK8 and Smash a little lacklustre and soulless because I can't share the laughs I have on them. It's disheartening and upsetting. As a side note, those that want voice-chat, what applications on people's phones/laptops might people have to workaround the issue? Skype, I imagine, is the go-to app? MUMBLE has been touted as another.

Those numbers dropped drastically though don't forget. At Xmas there was always the huge bump in players but not as many play all year round like we used to. As year-round figures 28k on Wii was the norm and 1k for WiiU. Man, those CoD Wii days were amazing! We had such laughs and owned so much. I hope this is replicated on Splatoon!

CoD had a decent enough community on the Wii. MWR, BO and MW3 had anywhere between 22k and 30k online during their quietest/busy times. 28k was a regular number, sure it's not like the figures the other consoles would get but they were numbers that always ensured you'd get a decent game at any time. If the Splatoon community can get like that then it'd be great. If it does get voice-chat between friends it'll make it all the better.

CoD Ghosts has around 700/800-ish people online at a time, sometimes as low as 500 and around 1,000 at most. It's slightly better for Black Ops 2 but not much, around 1,200 at most but more people play regularly. The numbers tend not to be as low as Ghosts might go. "A few thousand" on either game at any time is rubbish, it's never happened. It's been a couple thousand at the busiest time on Black Ops 2 and it never got to that on Ghosts. You get games but can wait a bit if you're searching for better connections.

Yeah, let's start complaining again! :p Unfortunately I'm not interested in the single player for this. I think it just looks so-so, the multiplayer looks like it could be really good but without being able to talk to each other, for me, it loses something very important. I do hope chatting with friends is in.

Well I downloaded it but didn't end up putting it on, haha.

Doesn't look like a release day delivery...

The thing with those numbers is that it doesn't really tell a set story. The market is just a pool of people that buy the consoles and it doesn't really extend much beyond that pool of people. The fact the Wii was so cheap and due to the controls, the thing sold like hot-cakes to the point of saturation within the market and so it was bound to stop selling anywhere near as well. The fact the 360 & PS3 had legs is because they didn't saturate the market and then price drops made them more readily affordable so there was still room for them to keep selling. If the PS4 sells 85 million in 4 years, the telling thing would to then see it's sales thereafter for the following 4 years. I don't imagine it doing much better than the Wii, if at all, as the market may well have been fully saturated by that point.