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yeah just saw the break down here: https://my.nintendo.com/news/3b6f1b22f4f656fe "If you pay £40 for a game on Nintendo eShop, you’ll receive 200 Gold Points. Next time, you’ll be able to use those points and save £2."

From the site: Starting in early March, you’ll be able to spend any Gold Points you’ve accumulated in My Nintendo when purchasing Nintendo Switch software from Nintendo eShop on your device, or even via this website! You can pay for the remaining balance with Nintendo eShop funds, or any other payment method available in Nintendo eShop. I guess it all depends how much Gold Points are worth but the fact that we can finally use them for Switch software now is good news.

I wish they were keeping the online gaming part free to play and just charging a subscription for some extra perks, like being able to send messages to friends, auto-invite and access to old games etc.

As much as I wish they'd supported the Wii U a little while longer, it was completely understandable that they didn't considering the sales it had. But looking back to their more successful console,the Wii, I felt like they abandoned it by the end of 2010. From there it was just a waiting game for Skyward Sword which only came out as late as it did due to several delays. It's weird to think the Wii came and went during the 360's lifetime and the 360 was still having a healthy amount of releases longer after. At least now it seems they will not completely move on once 4-5 years has passed

Yeah completely agree. For example I didn't get my Xbox 360 until early 2010, which was a good 5 years into that consoles life cycle. Not only was it still going strong at that point, it still had some of its best years ahead of it. In the end it was supported for more then a decade, which was fantastic. I like that Nintendo are going this route with longer support and it seems to be working out well with the 3DS.

I'd be very happy with that. For the past year or so anytime I've listened to gaming podcasts i've noticed that a lot of them seem to want the 3DS to be killed off and seem bothered that Nintendo are still releasing games for it but I feel the total opposite. I think its great that it gets supported after all these years and is a great budget handheld now. If in 6/7 years time the Switch is in the same situation I think that would be a good thing.

I play Splatoon 2 quite a bit but I'm not sure that'll still be the case by September, so I guess I'll see. I also think this date will slip again.

A bunch of new rewards were added to the My Nintendo program today. Still nothing for the Switch though... https://my.nintendo.com/news/66ac5989bcb539d6 Edit - seems they came out ten days ago, my mistake lol

i was thinking about doing the same but I normally regret it afterwards. I guess at least now, even if I end up disappointed with the Royal Rumble I have a month to watch through all of their old content on their network though. Last year I ended up watching through everything WWF did in 1991

It seems Miitomo is being shut down. Final day is May 9th https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2018/0125.html

I was thinking about re watching those Enterprise episodes again as well. I only saw them around a year and a half ago but I've forgotten everything about them already. I was wondering if we'll see any of the actors from Enterprise in Discovery at some point, like the Mirror version of Hoshi.

It didn't dawn on me at first but when Micheal was asked to pick a Kelpien slave by the Emperor

I had roughly the same experience. No disconnections and I did well when it was Action vs Action (which was around a third of the time) but yeah, most people in team Comedy were level 50 or close to it and most of the time we were outmatched lol Team Comedy won the Splatfest but I made it to Action King and reached level 42.

Impressive!

I'm loving thew new costumes. The online mode looks like it'll be fun too.

I saved a couple of clips myself:

I made the mistake of registering one of my games and getting gold coins for it already and at this rate they'll expire before I can even use them on anything for the switch.

I'm not sure if anyone here used to read Digitiser in the 90's (the Video game pages on Teletext ) but today marks it's 25th anniversary. To mark it there is a new edition and there will be one every day this week: https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/25-years-of-digitiser-day-one I absolutely loved Digitiser growing up so this has made me very happy. As an extra treat they've set it up so you can view it the original way you would have on your TV as well: http://teastop.plus.com:8080/?page=470

yeah that was a blast, enjoyed every second of it. Thanks for the games everyone and Happy new year

i think this one will be my last for the night

that was great lol

ok back now

I have to drop out for 15 minutes, i'll rejoin if you are still on after that