Baker1000

@B3RTAY Stealth is well known for his over analysis. It's tiresome

It was never that stuttery for me in the first place

Caw alright show off!! My order from Nintendo has been dispatched, so I'll be playing with power tomorrow

Had my Switch since launch in 2017, and it's still going. Not going strong mind, the battery is pretty knackered and the console switches off without warning after a couple of hours (even after I replaced the battery myself). I've got a Switch Lite which I use for travel since it's easier to pack and I don't need to use the docking feature. It accompanied me on my first trip to America. Speaking of which, my fave Switch memory happened on that trip when attending a wedding in Las Vegas. The best man had his Switch upstairs in his hotel room and before I knew it, we were playing Mario Kart on the same screen in table-top mode in the bridal suite. No other console would that be possible, but that's the magic of the Switch.

It's the first console where I haven't been able to keep up with all the releases I've wanted to play, creating an actual backlog which is something I hear gamers complain about all the time. There are several games I've eyed up and still not picked up, so I'll likely still be buying games well after Switch 2 is out. And a few I've still not gotten around to starting. I'm still very much invested in Xenoblade Chronicles X and so I'll still be playing Switch games even after Thursday. I can't remember another console where I was still playing it right up until the next one launched. That just shows the strength of the console. I feel like it still has years left it, honestly. So farewell, you little dream machine. It's been a blast.

That's all the ones that have been sold out the back door to friends/family and anyone willing to pay enough to make it worth someone risking it. This is how they end up in the wild before launch.

Wow, the price of that collectors edition seems high for what you actually get. Well I'll be getting the Switch 1 version unless there's anything really significant that the Switch 2 upgrades. No point buying a key card version if they're both gonna be the same.

Boucher Road is where exactly?

(before anyone shouts at me, I did google it, it's in Belfast, but that's not the point)

None in Wales, or south west England and the Midlands, is poor. Actually, only 5 across the entire country is pretty poor but who bothers with a midnight launch these days anyway? They obviously can't justify a nationwide opening

Rarely remember to check the app, I see everything posted on here and social media anyway. So I can see why they've done it.

How does Stealth40k manage to get all his videos straight from the Directs or straight from Nintendo's twitter page to repost on his own within seconds? He must use some sort of capture software to do it. This won't stop him.

Finished it ages ago but it was such a pain not having the mini medal manor as a zoom location and finding my way to the well every single time.

They only started naming them with a number from MK 7 on the 3DS anyway, so we only got 2 numbered entries. I guess Mario Kart Switch 2 wasn't so catchy

Does it suck though? Does it really? Because I managed to get one on day 1 when Nintendo UK put out the invites. A much better system than previous launches and rewarding players who were loyal to Switch 1. Sucks for anyone that wasn't eligible and had to fight for one at retailers I guess.

Gives hope that we will get one in Europe at some point, if they're expanding this quickly

@abe_hikura exactly! Pretty much like a CD case. They probably could've redesigned the whole thing to be just like the jewel case you get CDs in, but I guess it was easier to just use the existing mould with a red dye

Well at least they're not bigger, because that would've been silly. But they could definitely have been smaller, made into a square.

Nintendo are missing a trick not having one of these in Europe. Doesn't even have to be in the UK, I would fly to another city for the sole purpose of visiting (and just an excuse to be a tourist in a foreign destination) but going all the way to New York or San Fran for it isn't feasible. We haven't yet had confirmation Super Nintendo World is going to be at Universal Studios when it arrives here. We need a Nintendo Mecca to flock to in Europe. It would probably be in Germany where the HQ is tbh

Really need to get one of these in Europe

We've not long had Pikmin 4, I'm sure 5 will be on the way and most likely in development already.

Hope these are available separately. Not bothered about spending £150 on a hulking great Mario Kart I have nowhere to display but a little dinky Blue Shell would do just fine.

@Misima neither of these 3 are particularly easy compared with today's Mario Kart games. Super Circuit you had to finish in the top half or race again so it's not like you could even finish the cups if you weren't good at the game.

A heavy dose of nostalgia on those MK64 votes. It's certainly not "outstanding" by any modern metric. Aged very poorly, but was revolutionary for it's time. Super Circuit is criminally underrated. Admittedly the first one I owned and played fully, so perhaps nostalgia goggles on. But challenging and hard to master. Nice to see they've brought back the feature where you need to finish above the cut off point to continue, in MKW.

@Michael0916 leaks early in the year suggested they were both taller and wider, which seems nuts to me. They're already too big for the tiny cartridge you get, without any supplementary material inside the case either. They should be made square and a similar size to a CD case imo

Still no measurements though. Not being funny but I've got maybe 1cm spare at the top of the shelves I keep my Switch games on, so if these are taller than that I need to find something else. The rumours are they are actually bigger, it would be nice to get official confirmation.

@sanderev either way, there were two variations at launch but only one this time around

It would be pretty dumb to only put part of the story on Switch 2, this is a given imo

@sanderev well then that's two isn't it, since grey is a colour (and was the option I went for)

Completely forgot this was a thing, and surprised it was still in use. Considering the rise of smartphones it's easier to just get people to download an app and not deal with keeping track of and maintaining physical units

Oh wow, we're taking aliexpress as a source? That site is renowned for being littered with cheap imitation and fake products. It really is the wild west of just sell anything that can be mass produced and sold for pennies. Nothing on there is legit. Nothing.

That being said I'm shocked the controllers are launching in just one colour combination. Not just the interior colours but the outside. After the Switch 1 was so focused on brightly coloured Joy-Con that can be swapped about, now we just have black and any colour is tucked away inside.

Honestly good. Did they think they could get away with it? It was a completely ridiculous situation where we had seen almost everything about the console but still no official confirmation from Nintendo. Really killed the hype of the unveiling because it was just confirming everything we already knew.

I called this, and there's a tweet of mine as evidence, before they announced the original date. Absolutely inevitable it would be delayed

Very rarely tbh. All it seems to be is a new video or 3D model of something. The lack of push notifications to alert you something new has dropped is a huge under sight imo

There's an official magazine still?

The man who gave us Smash Bros, he should be given one of the first off the production line!!

But but no one's buying it right?

Just put it on Switch already. Or even better, create a smartphone version.

I've not even seen any cards bigger than the 256gb Nintendo are offering

Well this is a complete mess. But let's not forget some of (or all?) the Pokemon games also didn't let you use cloud saves. All games should support it, I don't see why they wouldn't.

@Metazoxan even that is a bit lame though if it ends up replacing a traditional feature that's been there from game 1. But maybe I'm just a purest.

Feel a bit uneasy about the rewind feature, feels cheap. But at least it doesn't rewind the entire race so you can't skip back to before you took a shell or slipped on a banana so you can avoid it and keep your place.

Maybe it's been discovered already, but is it gonna be possible to use the GameChat function without the mini-screens at the bottom of the screen, so it's just voices? Because I don't really want to have my screen size reduced or see other players screens if I'm just talking. That'll be really annoying in handheld mode

Mira definitely feels smaller after playing BOTW/TOTK's Hyrule, and yet it feels so much more alive and full because of it.

Well the embedded video won't load for me. Probably not the best idea to use Tik Tok tbf

@FishyS That's the first I've ever heard of that being possible. It's probably more likely a lot of people don't know rather than just ignoring the feature!

So can you boot the games up from this or do you still need to go into the individual console apps? Hopefully you can just access it all from this one menu

Surely any press would register as an input on games that don't need analog? Rather than having to press it fully to click the button? I suppose that opens up the issue of accidental pressing though

Now that is poor. Perfect chance to sell it as a "definitive" edition of the game. As if the higher price tag for some relatively minor Switch 2 enhancements wasn't enough, you have to pay for the DLC on top. Anyone would think Nintendo didn't make much cash from the last generation.

Yeah these guys won't outlive Switch 2

I'll never forgive them for touting Age of Calamity as a prequel to BOTW only to make it more fan fiction than a canon story. Highly skeptical about this tying in accurately to the events of TOTK.

I'll keep saying it, this was perfect to include in the NSO privileges

Bravely Default will be on one, and I do really want Bravely Default, so y'know...

Invited and ordered. We all got told last week we’d be one of the chosen. I’d love to know the threshold for hours played to get you in the top %