Topic: Super Mario Odyssey

Usually, I avoid anything regarding an exciting upcoming release, and even its franchise, for the week leading up to launch. The reason is not so much spoilers (couldn‘t care less about that and I already know all about Odyssey that I need/want to know) but the thought of reviewers and YouTubers already playing that game makes me feel, and I don‘t care how immature that might sound, jealous. Of course, these people need to do their job and I have nothing against that. Simply a bit of friendly jealousy in the vein of 'Oh, come on, man, I wanna play, too!'. Not seeing or reading anything relating to the entire franchise, in a way, is meant to ease the wait without reminding myself that there are already others playing it.

What‘s weird about the wait leading up to Odyssey‘s release (bit more than 77 hours CEST to go!) is that I have a craving for 3D Mario let‘s plays outside of watching Odyssey gameplay videos. I spend most of my days studying for an exam and binge-watching the Game Grumps and Peanutbutter Gamer play through 64, Sunshine and Galaxy.

Apparently Nintendo is taking down all the leaked footage

Pre ordered this today, couldn't resist. Used my discount from work and got it for £33. Bargain!

@SuperJoon It's been a good week for you. Three games for £33.02

@BLP_Software The surprise of the century

@OorWullie Hahaha! I know. Tis the only reason I decided to do it. £11 a game average. Not bad

@GoldenGamer88 Well you cant blame if people are breaking NDAs or street dates

@BLP_Software If I was to blame somebody at all, I‘d blame these stupid folks leaking footage, breaking NDAs just for a quick buck and the sweet knowledge of spoiling the game for others. Hopefully all of them are getting blacklisted from ever receiving a review copy ever again. But my comment above was not meant to put a blame on anybody, let alone on Nintendo. Ninty’s well in their right for taking down those videos and truth be told, I‘m surprised they were up as long as they were.

Those videos shouldn't be on YouTube yet in the first place, so they have every right to take them down. Good on them.

Part of it is also the broken street date in some EU countries.

Again.

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I've ordered the Fire Engine/Post Box/London Bus/Mario's Hat Red Joy-Con set and now suddenly this game feels very real.

I'm not usually one to indulge in too many trinkets or collectibles, but the chance of getting a proper red Switch, combined with owning three proper controllers (or one proper one and four dinky ones) seemed to good to pass up.

Soon I shall have the scarlet games machine of my dreams, and a dream of a game to play on it.

Red is always a great colour for consoles, they always look a lot better than the others, especially in terms of DS/3DS systems. I think my red classic controller that game with Xenoblade Chronicles is one of the best looking controllers that I have!

It's a shame that it's only the Joy Cons that are red though, if the actual Switch itself was the same it would be even better. Having the Odyssey map printed on it would have been even amazing!

@Kimyonaakuma I do wonder if and when we'll start seeing Nintendo being particularly inventive with the design of the Switch unit itself. They're clearly not 100% opposed to the idea, as we've already seen some subtle decorations added to the console for the Monster Hunter XX bundle:

However, it still retains its standard 'slate black' colouring, rather than trying anything too fancy.

My guess is that it'll be a while until we see the main unit in any other colour than its current colour way on account of the fact that, 'black goes with everything', and Nintendo will be more keen to push the mass consumption of Joy-Cons than attempting to flog off multiple systems to collectors (which they're having a hard enough time getting even single systems in a lot of people's hands).

Maybe when the system has matured a bit we'll start getting a greater variety of 'collector's editions' with more custom designs.

Given that the front of the device is mainly taken up by screen however, they're going to have a tough time making anything particularly unique looking from that angle.

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@Maxz I think Nintendo's main focus is to get as many Switches out as possible. That will probably happen for a while, so we'll just have to get new Joy Cons while we wait.

I would expect the front of the Switch to remain the same, coloured plastic around the front might distract people from the screen itself (it doesn't on the 3DS but I feel like this would be different, but I don't own a Switch yet so what do I know). The back panel could be swapped though and maybe have some patterns on it. I personally think that the Monster Hunter one doesn't look that great, I understand that the Switch logo was in the way but just having it off to the side isn't the best idea. The dock looks great though, it's subtle but also conveys that MH style.

Nintendo seems to targeting a slightly older demographic this time around so they might try and keep it black to keep it looking clean and simple. It's in that awkward place because most Nintendo consoles don't see too many variations over their lifetime, but handhelds see a large amount of different designs. I guess we'll have to see if the 3DS has a successor, I don't see a lot of people going back to a 3DS style console after buying something more powerful like the Switch, but parents might want something more durable for their kids?