@Dogorilla I'm pretty sure you can use a UK card within Europe but any transaction outside the UK will be subject to a foreign transaction fee, making the saving less and for games like the Neo Geo releases, not worthwhile. I highly recommend Revolut, it takes minutes to set up and it has its own app which is better and more modern than most banks. It seamlessly converts currency at real time exchange rates with no fee. To verify your account you need to top it up with £10 but you can then send that straight back to your bank account. It gives you a free virtual card for making purchases and once added to a foreign Eshop, it's saved on there for future purchases. Once set up the only extra step you need to make a purchase on the Eshop is to open the app and top it up with funds. It's very quick.
Other than for gaming, it has more benefits. Free worldwide money transfers,free receive and send payments to friends like PayPal allows and if you go on holiday a physical card that can be used just like a visa but will give you real time exchange rates, no foreign transaction fee and no ATM charges. For 18 years I've lived overseas and I've had no option but to use my UK bank for withdrawals and for every £300 I take out I get stung for around £20. With this card I will no longer have those fees. I make a lot of maximum withdrawals each month to run my business so it's going to save me a fortune.
I've heard that when it comes to importing games, on PS4 at least, that it often makes sense to import from Hong Kong rather than Japan, as they get most games that don't come west, and often have English subtitles that the Japanese versions lack (they have a higher number of English speakers since they used to be a British colony).
Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
Numbers in brackets are previous positions based on: 13/03/2018 (Unless they haven't moved)
1: Kirby Star Allies (NEW) 2: Rocket League (Up from 4th) 3: Stardew Valley (Down from 2nd) 4: Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Down from 1st) 5: Skyrim (33% OFF) (Up from not charting) 6: Arcade Archives: VS. Super Mario Bros (Down from 3rd) 7: StreamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt (50% OFF) (Up from not charting) 8: Cluster Truck (NEW) (Up from not charting) 9: The Sparkle 2 Evo (Up from not charting) 10: Celeste (Down from 5th) 11:WonderBoy: The Dragon's Trap (Up from not charting) 12: Super Bomberman R (50% OFF) (Up from not charting) 13: Sonic Mania (Down from 6th) 14: DOOM (33% OFF) (Up from not charting) 15: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Down from 10th)
The sales had an impact on Steamworld, Bomberman and Bethesda. Interesting. Guess people were hungry for those ports at a lower price.
Now Playing: Mario & Luigi Brothership, Sonic x Shadow Generations
Now Streaming: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
@ieatdragonz there was an article on NL about ubisoft. Ubisoft made almost as much profit on the switch as they did on xbox one despite having a much smaller install base.
I think the reason Skyrim & Doom have done well in the eshop sale is that currently you cannot get both cheaper anywhere else. For me Doom was released at the wrong time of year (I brought Skyrim and a larger SD card instead) with Christmas looming and all. I don’t but many AAA games digitally as the price is usually extortionate but for me £30 / 33.50 I would say is reasonable. I also realise that Doom will have taken up a sizeable chunk of SD card space, but my SD card is big enough.
@Farmboy74 Sometimes I do wonder if the schedule from October onwards could've worked better a little differently. So like:
October - Super Mario Odyssey
November - 3rd party month but only Skyrim from Bethesda
December - Fire Emblem Warriors
February - Bayonetta 1+2, DOOM
March - Xenoblade 2
April - Kirby Star Allies, Nintendo Labo
@Dogorilla I'm pretty sure you can use a UK card within Europe but any transaction outside the UK will be subject to a foreign transaction fee, making the saving less and for games like the Neo Geo releases, not worthwhile. I highly recommend Revolut, it takes minutes to set up and it has its own app which is better and more modern than most banks. It seamlessly converts currency at real time exchange rates with no fee. To verify your account you need to top it up with £10 but you can then send that straight back to your bank account. It gives you a free virtual card for making purchases and once added to a foreign Eshop, it's saved on there for future purchases. Once set up the only extra step you need to make a purchase on the Eshop is to open the app and top it up with funds. It's very quick.
Other than for gaming, it has more benefits. Free worldwide money transfers,free receive and send payments to friends like PayPal allows and if you go on holiday a physical card that can be used just like a visa but will give you real time exchange rates, no foreign transaction fee and no ATM charges. For 18 years I've lived overseas and I've had no option but to use my UK bank for withdrawals and for every £300 I take out I get stung for around £20. With this card I will no longer have those fees. I make a lot of maximum withdrawals each month to run my business so it's going to save me a fortune.
Ok, that sounds quite good actually. I'll look into it then
Thank you Nintendo for giving us Donkey Kong Jr Math on Nintendo Music
Personally, I can only really justify spending a certain amount of money on games annually - having bought the console itself (plus key accessories) and, more recently, a SNES Classic (fearing that it could be discontinued at any moment!) a larger-than-normal chunk of my 'gaming budget' was spent on hardware, rather than software, in the Switch's first year.
With (relatively) limited gaming funds to spare in the last year, I felt I had to be quite picky with the games that I purchased - so limited myself to just a handful of AAA's (with a healthy sprinkling of Nindies to bulk out my Switch's fledgling library a bit - and 1 PS4 game!) ..unfortunately, that meant that I had to prioritise - and haven't yet bought a third-party AAA game for the system
I fully intend to though - with no hardware to buy, my 'software budget' should receive a healthy boost this year - so I should be able to treat myself to some of the wider delights that the Switch has to offer! There have definitely been a number of third-party AAA's which have caught my eye over the past few months - with some great reveals in the recent Direct as well - and with E3 just around the corner, hopefully plenty more to come! ..my current selection of games should comfortably tide me over until E3 - at which point I'll be earmarking games for future purchase - and, with a healthier budget this year, I'm certain that a number of third-parties will make my shortlist
I think your release schedule would have allowed Skyrim and Doom more room to breathe as I’m sure both games canabilised each other’s sales to an extent, might have also benefitted Xenoblade 2 as I’m sure first party wise Mario Odessey was Nintendo’s big Christmas release.
I here what you are saying about your gaming budget, all my budget went to the Switch at the expense of my PS4! And even then i’ve had to leave games like Pokken, Xenoblade, Mario Kart, Bayonetta & Resident Evil on my wish list!
At this point I have a serious gaming backlog and not enough time to play everything.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
I here what you are saying about your gaming budget, all my budget went to the Switch at the expense of my PS4! And even then i’ve had to leave games like Pokken, Xenoblade, Mario Kart, Bayonetta & Resident Evil on my wish list!
At this point I have a serious gaming backlog and not enough time to play everything.
Haha! Yeah - in Year 1, I decided pretty early on that I was going to prioritise getting the key bases covered, just so I'd have something for any occasion - so I made sure I picked up a good single player game, a good online multiplayer game, a good local multiplayer game and a good local co-op game - and a sprinkling of others to suit different moods (a racer, a sports title, an adventure game and a shooter)
I felt that that'd give me a nice solid platform to build on in Year 2 - and I'm pretty happy with the balance ..and, like you, I've definitely got a healthy sized backlog to dip in to if I'm yearning for something new!
The SNES Classic is keeping me nicely topped-up at the moment though - might even tide me through to E3 - at which point, I'll take stock and map out the rest of my gaming year depending on which announcements and reveals get my ol' heart pumping!
I've been pretty impressed with the third-party effort up to now (several in my backlog) and the Direct had some really tasty looking titles - and, who knows, maybe the best is yet to come? (E3 hype!!! ) ..either way, I'm pretty confident that I'll be adding a few third-parties to my collection before too long - especially if they bring something to the table that Nintendon't! (eg. Wolfenstein II, provided the port isn't a mess, is an almost certain purchase for me - more games in that sort of ballpark would be most welcome!)
Some gameplay from Urban Trial Playground that comes out next week. It's looking pretty good I think.
Just noticed this one on the Eshop called Masters of Anima.It releases on the 10th of April. It looks like it might be a good one. A bit like a fantasy Pikmin. It releases across all platforms on the same date so no reviews available for it yet.
@OorWullie The Urban Trial game looks to be another bike game with overly simplistic animation. These games always seem to lack any flourishes in terms of the person on the bike moving around to aid immersion, likewise for any sign of tyre impact on the ground. Just looks like a wooden toy floating just off the surface.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
Square announced the Switch version as the first confirmed game for the system in 2015! Which means they knew UE4 would be fully supported.
UE4 got fully supported in May 2017, but they told us nothing until late 2017 when they said their version of UE4 was outdated compared to the oldest version that supports Switch (So just like if Nintendo uses outdated tech that causes issues, they cant even use new tech it seems!) and some things changed in Blueprints (Coding).
They would have known that since at the LATEST, May 2017. That's assuming Epic and Nintendo at no point gave them an upcoming feature list about the new engine update, like they do to everyone else, which means they likely knew a little bit sooner, probably around March when Epic announced that the upcoming revision would include full Switch support, along with all the changes being made. They do blog posts and notification emails for crying out loud!
But apparently, even now, they are still having issues. We have seen games like Sonic Forces, made on a custom engine that began development long before Switch was even a thing to anyone outside of Nintendo, get released day and date with three other versions. We have seen UE3 games ported, and they aren't even officially supported. We have seen games from GameMaker, an engine only just added, appear like wildfire, instantly. Other custom engines like idTech6 have made the leap in good time.
Yet Square Enix, for some inconceivable reason, is having trouble updating their game to run a newer version of fully supported, fully and openly documented on the internet middleware, due to some changes to the engine, even now, over a year after the engine began seeing games ported to the system, which they likely knew about before we or the wider development community did.
And they started work on this in 2015. And the game isn't coming until 2019 in Japan at the earliest.
Do they have one guy converting the game? Is there just some poor old man locked in an office? What's the hold up. UE4.x that they use is really NOT far from UE4.y that Switch uses as a minimum. Port it over, redo some of the Blueprints, yes I know they are annoying, but it doesn't take that long Square.
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