Topic: Switch Physical Boxed Games List & Release Dates (US & CA)

@RupeeClock wow I haven't even heard of a single one of these games. I'm just surprised. You guys know what's best though. I've got some homework to do (re: these games, not actual homework)!

Apropos of nothing, I finally caved after 4 years and asked for a refund from first press! I'm on email 2 of chasing them down. They tried to get me to change my mind by pointing out a Q2 2024 release date of... All of my games?? But I'm sticking to my decision. Wish me luck!

@Hamstrman
Curse Crackers is a pretty recent release, it caught my eye with it's level of polish and proper GBC aesthetic. It's in my backlog but haven't got to it yet.

C.A.R.L. is a game made by Nintendrew, which runs a pretty good YouTube channel on retro Nintendo collectables and trivia and whom I once (jokingly) described as "Chadtronic's evil twin" in a Nintendo Life article comment, which I think might've even led to a little exchange they had.

As for First Press, yeah I've got far too many titles on backlog with them, including the GBA physical for Goodboy Galaxy. The only thing they've been able to ship me at all in the past couple years were a couple of Bub and Bob plushies, and they couldn't even supply the version that was supposed to include a speaking voice.
I really want that physical for Chained Echoes, too. I'm holding out still, because I'm of the assumption that they're tight on funding to even follow through on any of their current promises.
This unfortunately seems to be the trend of any boutiques that like to put too much stock into the little trinkets and collectibles and not just the most important part: the physical game package.
First Press does this thing where every single game has collectible coins available in bronze, silver, or gold depending on what you're buying. That's probably hurt them a lot when they didn't hit sales targets.

@RupeeClock - Yeah, lost due to the order happening before I moved, so the changes didn't get communucated to mailing or something.

Long story short; The game is out there somewhere and no one is able to track it.

Old news, but I enjoyed Void Bastards enough to at least have an interest in this studio's next game.

Wild B@stards.

I like the art style but the enemy AI seems...unengaged.

My most anticipated delivery of 2024 is finally enroute, King of Fighters XIII CE from Pix'N Love. Their shockbox release for Samurai Shodown is one of the cherished items in my collection, so I'm eager to have KoF XIII alongside it.

In an unexpected turn, Super Rare Games has announced they're doing a 4000 print run of Wargroove 1+2, with an earlier than usual reveal of their first and second titles in their 33rd Switch triple-bundle.

The other title announced is Nightmare Reaper, which is an interesting looking retro styled boomer shooter (Doom-like) with looter-shooter and roguelite elements. This looks like a solid addition to the SRG catalogue too.

I was surprised to see an email from VGP (VideoGamesPlus in Canada) this morning saying they have standard editions of Unicorn Overlord on sale for only CAD$49.99 for NSW/XB/PS.
That is a bargain, if you ask me!

Edit:
Aaaand the Switch standard edition is sold out already.
Honestly, I think they could have sold out of this restock at the list price (CAD $79.99) since the game is in demand…

@Magician Is Void Bastards complete on the cart?

@RupeeClock Which reminds me that I need to check on my preorders from SRG. I'm fairly sure I'm in on PB#31 and PB#32, but their shipping cadence has been elongated ever since they've branched to platforms other than the Switch, so my orders from them are taking longer than expected to arrive. But bundling Nightmare Reaper and Wargrove 1+2 in one PB already makes it an offering I'm quite eager for.

@GrailUK

I can't remember off the top of my head. I'll check my copy after work in a few hours and let you know.

@Magician You, are doing the lord's work sir!

@GrailUK - I can recall it. Outside the latter updates, small bugs and all, all content is complete on cart and pretty playable.

@Paraka Thanks guys

@Magician
It used to be that SRG would have the stock ready in-house to ship when they opened their pre-orders, but that seems to have changed now as there's usually a couple weeks waiting time for fulfilment.
It's never unusual for their collector's edition or multi-packs to take longer though.
It's entirely bearable when you compare it to whatever's going on with Strictly Limited or First Press.

So for anyone that wants a complet version of Pokemon S/V. The JP Amazon is selling ones with 004 carts, essentially being the ones with BOTH DLCs.

Mine arrived yesterday, so I am going to confirm that tonight.

Looks as though the physical release for Papetura has fallen through.

I thought it was a little suspicious for Feardemic to only ask for $16 shipped (or whatever it was).

Oh well, for the price of a McDonald's Big Mac, I thought it was worth a gamble.

@waveboy - Rather wait the 6 months and have any day one patches or content potentially added (See: Celeste, Kaiju Combat, Cult of the Lamb). As opposed to getting is 2 weeks and still have to patch it cause the day they launch the title the game has some random bug that breaks it. Like Outbound Ghost.

Sorry for a double post; figured this could be good news for anyone mildly interested in Pokémon.

Tested SV with the DLC cart today. The ones with "004" on the cart is up to version 3.0.1. Meaning this has the latest DLC coupled into the cart.

No update needed.

@Paraka Do we know if 004 carts are only in Japan? I have the launch NA version of Violet+DLC but I haven't opened it yet.

@Aurumonado - 004 carts are probably going to be just Japan right now. The NA release only did one run before the Indigo Disk dropped. So it is practically guaranteed to not be as updated.

To top that off; I ordered when I knew 003 was from JP, and shipped with 004.