Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

GAME Elite worked rather well for me, I saved more money than the membership cost back in reward points and discounts just from the insane Nintendo lineup of holiday 2017. But whether I renew really depends Nintendo's E3, they'd need a similarly insane holiday 2018 for GAME Elite to be worth it which I doubt.

I've seen some conflicting reports on the GCU. Even some saying it's not going but being revamped. They may go to $30 per year or $60 over 2. Until anythings official I'm not going to worry about it and enjoy my next 18 months still having it.

I to have spent a good deal of money at BB and will also have far less incentive to shop there if they in deed do away with the program. One things for sure I'm not going back to GameStop and I'm not going to spend money on Prime just to buy video games. All good things will vome to an end at some point but hope they know this will hurt them more then help. I always thought the program was too good to be true anyways so happy I was able to do it for 4 years.

OMG! Getting a Nobunaga and/or Seiken Densetsu game would be so awesome! I have not played a Nobunaga game since on my Apple Macintosh. Fortunately, a Seiken Densetsu title did make it to Xbox and I played so much of it.

Never played the DQ Heroes series. I stuck mainly to the core rpg games.

It's probably because of online retail that places like BB are stopping their programs.

If you add in the Prime shipping discount to the preorder discount, you're looking at a pretty nice sum.

@Pazzo-ZaFool Yeah but BB offers free delivery as well and you can always pick it up day one at any store. Free delivery you need to qualify for but in my case I do but I like picking mine up in the store.

@Spoony_Tech I never took advantage of the BestBuy program (small town, heheh...), was it a large discount?

@Pazzo-ZaFool It was $30 for 2 years and 20% off all new games and not just pre-orders. Plus 10% off Amiibos as well. I got both Labo kits there also for 20% off. This also included sales as well as long as it was new it didnt matter. Black Friday deals were the only things excluded.

I'm really hoping it'll just get me expensive or something. Or even limit it to newer games like Amazon, but don't get rid of it completely. It's the only reason I shop at best buy as much as I do. If they got rid of it, I'd rarely ever go

I liked the members program before they switched to a paid membership program. I've gotten several $20 gift cards through that program!

@Spoony_Tech
20% off amiibo, not 10%.

20% off all new games, 10% off all used games, 20% off all collector editions, amiibo, even games bundled with season passes or controllers.

That $10 preorder reward bonus for games like Smash Bros, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Mario Kart was just icing on the cake.

Coupled with 6% back with BBCC as Elite Plus member and 4% back double reward points, I averaged $42-45 per game, day one. $32-35 if it had the preorder reward bonus.

Idk how they made money off that program. I literally saved over $1,000 on GCU discounts last year.

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Biggest GCU score was when Wolfenstein The New Order dropped. On top of all the usual 20%/6%/4% off, they offered $20 back in rewards for preordering instead of $10. That effectively brought price down to $22. THEN, they offered a small Panzer robot Nazi dog toy for preordering, and BestBuy didn't send me one. So they credited $5 toward my purchase, making the total cost about $17 day one.

And it came in the mail 2 days before release.

Yeah, I'm surprised it lasted this long. I imagine they weren't making much profit if at all on each game sale. But then again, the death of GCU will drive away game sales too. This is why I think they should've just upped the price or cut back to 10% off new games etc.

unrelated to Best Buy. but, any indie game that i would love to see from Wii U to Switch, would be Blocky Bot. because that game is Amazing. (imo)

in other news (depends on how you see it) Nicails offered Ikaruga to be announced in a Nintendo Direct.
but Nintendo said they were simply "not interested"
https://nintendoeverything.com/nicalis-offered-to-have-ikarug...

@Aozz101x I didn't even know it was coming to Switch. I have good memories of that game!

Ikaruga deserves a physical release. Not sure why Nicalis, king of retail releases, isn't giving us one despite publishing the game, which being digital only, basically just covers development costs and PR.

I want Sin and Punishment 3. Even a port of Sin and Punishment 2 would be hype.

@JaxonH Nintendo brought back Metroid...twice...so you know, anything is possible.

If Nintendo fancies throwing some cash at Treasure or another developer to do something S+P related, it'll happen.

I don't know why Ikaruga specifically deserves a physical release. It's just a random re-release of a game from like 15+ years ago.

How noble of them to offer Nintendo to share their biggest PR machine with them.

Directs are pure gold for Nintendo. They can tweet one image and turn the internet on fire. Not many companies have successfully launched a PR campaign so well.

@JaxonH A physical release might happen later. Weirder things have happened.

The Messenger is looking good. Real good.

@kkslider5552000
But it's not just some random game- it's more than that. It's a cult classic and one of the best schmups of all time.

That deserves a physical release. Especially when the company publishing it does retail releases for way smaller indie games left and right

For those who like having full games on the cartridge, it seems Mario + Rabbids Gold Edition is being released for retail and the DK DLC is coming out by the end of June.