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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 %

Really scummy company these days. Trying their best to make money off the latest console launch so they stay afloat for a bit longer. I'll put good money on this being the last Nintendo launch they get to take pre-orders for. They won't be here when Switch 3 comes around. Sad end to a once great retailer.

Really pointless stunt, but more fool them. No one will remember who the first people in line were, whereas the rest of us get 2 months in our own beds, the luxury of playing games at home and being able to just open the door to the delivery guy on launch day.

@Cathalm influencers and YouTubers. So long as they can earn ad money from just posting whatever nonsense stunt they're currently doing, they can afford to just camp outside in the cold and wet for months.

If anyone would like me to buy a UK Switch 2 and bring it to Norway, I'm well up for that. Especially if it's Tromsø or Bergen

@-wc- they may well have mentioned it on here before, but I don't read every article. I've never even come across the term on social media before. As I've mentioned in numerous comments before, I'm not a techie. I just play games.

HD version was superior, so yes.

It was always going to do very well with it's target audience, which is huge. But if you've never played the game, much of it will just be lost on you. Can't wait for the Zelda movie to smash this.

Won't happen since the buttons aren't on the Joy-Con for when you play in handheld mode. And you don't even get the buttons on the standard Joy-Con Grip, which is a ludicrous way to try and sell an extra piece of plastic that should be packed in as standard.

Companies need to realise they'll sell more at a lower price. This will easily shift 30m, and at that rate they absolutely can afford to make less profit per unit because in the long run they'll make as much if not more profit than if they sold less at a higher price.

Same logic with football clubs charging a ton for a match ticket and not selling out. Cheaper tickets, more tickets get sold, just as much profit made overall vs a stadium that isn't full. Shooting themselves in the foot as always.

Not sure I buy that when the Japan-only region locked one is so much cheaper.

You may want to start out by explaining to those of us not clued up on the latest tech exactly what a "Hall Effect" stick is, because shrugs

I think it'll be the Switch 2 feature which never gets utilised quite as much as the developers think, like the IR sensor on the Switch 1. For me personally, where I usually position myself to play on TV, I don't really have anywhere I can use a mouse. At least not with my right hand. So unless it works well rubbing on your thighs I doubt I'll use it

Gonna add my voice the the "yes, it does look a mess" crowd. Awful to put that block of text at the bottom, when it can be put on the back. It doesn't even need to state such a thing on the front. I would argue it doesn't even need to have the "Switch 2 Edition" strapline considering it has the big banner at the top, and could easily just be a much smaller caveat listed on the front somewhere. The big red banner vs the small corner square is also pretty ugly to begin with.

Should be free to at least NSO subscribers.

Really really annoyed I bought one of the yellow Nintendo SD cards a little while ago, since it was discounted. Intended to use it on Switch when my storage was full, but found I was able to still keep my current card a bit longer and it got to the point that I thought "the next console isn't far away, I'll just save it for that instead of inevitably buying new at launch"

Then they tell me it won't be compatible. So I have a rather large sized Micro SD that wasn't so cheap despite being discounted, which isn't getting used. I know I can find something to use it for, but I don't really have anything that needs such a large (micro) SD at the moment.

Errrr, just you mate. I never turn rumble off, don't see the point. Batteries are there to be drained, and can be charged up when you put the game down. So no, sorry can't relate to being surprised by how good the rumble feels on Switch 2 (when I get it)

Little bit surprised to see they've mixed old and new, when traditionally we get all new cups and then a bunch of retro cups too.