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My Pokemon Go Plus survived the washing machine a couple of weeks ago. Wouldn't like to try it again but a change of battery and a day in a cup of rice and it was all fine.

@AhabSpampurse Haha, yea I managed to impress my older boy with my name being in the back too. Simple things,

@TheOneInYellow I was going to say that sfbags have a great looking case out. I have other bags from them and while not cheap, they are fantastic, well made and last. I don't have a switch, but when i get one, I'll have to factor in one of these bags for it.

More expensive, maybe. But not £10 a unit more expensive. This stuff needs to fall in line quickly. Consumers won't take the mark up for long. They'll pay it for first party stuff if it's good, and anything third party will go to the competition as it's £10 or more cheaper.

@chiptoon You can get a hard cover as well, still comes with the box. I got mine last week and it's beautiful. The hardcover and jacket has a regular print, whereas the box has the lenticular print on the outside. It's a great job and the communication throughout the kickstarter process was brilliant.

It's more the software shortages that I'd be concerned about than hardware.

Until I know the state of the VC on Switch, I'm not going to invest on anything more for the VC on the 3DS or the Wii U. I'd love a switch, but it's just not that compelling for a Wii U owner yet. My 3DS is half knackered, but it remains unclear what the strategy is there. If I knew I could transfer purchases from the Wii U to the switch (even if it is in 6 months time) I'd be OK with carrying on purchasing on the Wii U. But the silence really means lost revenue for them.

Got tickets for the Friday evening. Still probably going to cancel my pre-order though. More likely to pick one up closer to Christmas.

There are a bunch more games up on Amazon UK now. Some have realistic prices, others like FIFA for Nintendo Switch are advertised at £199.99. To be fair that could be EA's actual price.

I put a pre-order down but at this point I'm likely to cancel. It will cost £350 to play BOTW, or I can pick up the Wii U version for £40. Then really just

There is very little incentive for a Wii U owner here. Hoping the next few weeks will change that. The £270 isn't a ridiculous price point, but all the extras and current listing of £80 for a standard game makes it ridiculous. No sign of what happens to all previous digital games, VC in particular.

I can also appreciate paying for online, but again, there has to be real value in it. I'm sure there will be more info there to come.

@riChchestM I didn't feel it was great value. Thought last years was much better. There was a lot of tat there. Not sure i'd go all the way to Olympia again for that. If it came back to the O2 then maybe, but the kids were looking forward to it, and none of us thought it was good. Nintendo stuff was OK. A 20 minute Zelda demo and it would have made the trip worthwhile. The kids got their photo with Pikachu which was their highlight.

@SmallFryUnify Was that the one on at the house of vans underneath Waterloo? I went down there the weekend before last, there was no-one in the cinema screening of super Mario bros and only two other people on the consoles. Was a neat little display but I was surprised no-one was there on Sunday afternoon. No merchandise on sale, not even selling the Nintendo vans!

For £1.89, I've just purchased. Not sure when I'll get time to play it though!

I will definitely be taking the kids to this. They enjoyed the Nintendo booth at hyper Japan so this will be right up their street.

@rjejr It is indeed a real saying, generally meaning to arrive early for something. Also the name of a brilliant BBC sitcom from about 10 years ago, referencing those who would arrive early for pub opening in the evening.

@Weedy I went to purchase this for the GAME download code - had it in my basket last night at £31.99, only to find this morning they put it up to £39.99! No thanks!If I must pay that then i may as well go straight to the eshop. They obviously thought they could make a few more quid out of people. Probably trying to work out if they can charge you more before sending your code knowing them.

@G0dlike delfino square would be awesome, as would ngc baby park.

It's a shame, but perhaps there are a few words missing. Nintendo customers don't buy AC games at full price. As a case in point, I bought AC3 (less than 12 months after release) at £4.99. I've just bought AC4 (less than 12 months after release) at £9.99 in the digital promo. I have a great backlog on the Wii U so why would I pay £40 when I know inside 12 months it will be far far less

This must have been on the cards for a while. It must be a concern for Nintendo, but I think a bigger one for MSFT and Sony. Why? Because Skylanders are doing what EA will do and push more and more to tablets. An iPad mirrored to the TV with a gamepad thrown in for the annual FIFA will suffice a lot of people. Add in COD and in a couple of years this will be a major player in terms of volume and revenue. Nintendo has a fall back in that it hasn't given in to its franchises on other platforms, but they do need to figure out how to stay relevant. I'm sure they will, but I think the Wii U slump is coming the way of the other two, well, it might already be hitting MSFT.

This is also a forerunner for all the home consoles. When the major third parties think they will make more money in tablets then you'll see a drop off in all console support. Eventually that's going to hit Sony and MSFT harder than Nintendo. The annual franchises will saturate the consoles - if they haven't already - and profits will drop. Developers like EA will claim it's because the market is shifting to mobile where they will then focus attention. To a degree they are right, but the annual releases - with not much extra - for £40 is a huge part of the shift. The home consoles will then either be faced with a sub-par experience, or they will subsidise the publishers to get something on their platform. It might not look good for Nintendo now, but they have such a golden stack of IP, and a nice pile of cash, I think the long term looks very different. I do however wish Nintendo would make some decent sports games!

undecided on these, but if they offered custom amiibos of your mii then I think there would be an immediate family purchase. £25 for your custom made mii with the ability to transfer your mii game data. a free wii u app could help you build the necessary models and transfer data to a central server. that said I will probably end up getting a couple anyway.

Just about to download this. Looking forward to it. Enjoyed Mario Tennis, but it was missing something.

So long as its a full release and not just a gimped couple of courses so you feel you have to buy the DLC content then its good. Pikmin is a good example of DLC done right. I'm also hoping that MK8 has downloadable courses at some point. 32 courses in the original game, and then download retro courses etc.

Awesome device. 3 great years with it.

Wish it was on 3DS as well, but I'll be getting this. Love Advance Wars.

On a roll with 3D World at the moment, but SMK and F1 for me. £20 seemed a bit of a gamble, but £10 is a no brainer. Kind of think the original price should have been £15 and they would have shifted a lot more units. SMK on the gamepad will be very nice!

Nice! Its bugged me that my 3DSXL never had the cradle and was thinking of getting one. Just ordered a nice blue one!

Good price and I'll take it. As close to an F1 racer as we'll get on the Wii U. High price and forget about it.

Wii Fit U for sure, will be ordering the fit meter as well. Might take the RE:R 3DS as I sold my card of that before I had an XL. Would be good to have it on the go. Never played AC, but at £12 I might have to give that a little go.

I might take advantage of this now it's cleared up. Although a hard drive might be required sooner rather than later. This, w101, wind waker, plus a few eShop games like duck tales and I'm still under percent through lego city. Brilliant.

LM2 was a definite as I loved LM on the cube but after seeing footage of Lego City I caved in and got both. Had a quick go on each and they both look amazing.

@cornishlee yea I had that. I remember my folks bought me and my brother a game and watch each to shut us up on a flight to the states. It might still be at my folks house. Would love to see that again!

Amazon just put that price up to 250 and 285

@LEGEND_MARIOID when you go into your orders you should still see "Wii U - Black" but clicking on the description just gives the 404 page as they obviously took that down.

I wondered if this was some kind of experiment to establish the final retail price. Zavvi and Shopto listed it at about £280 so they could be gathering stats on pre orders at certain price points. I think Nintendo have concern that they said with the Wii price they felt it sold so well they'd priced too low, but with the 3DS they obviously got it too high. They could compare 3DS preorders to those who followed through with actual purchase to get realistic sales prediction figures at certain prices.

As to whether Amazon made a mistake, it does happen, but I seriously doubt it was a blunder. If it was then they'd have priced the black and the white one the same (like Shopto). also the release date was put at a date that no one believed. If it had been put at a date in the final quarter then I think that would have given a bit of the game away to the competition exactly when it will launch. finally by placing it on the black one only, where speculation is that it may not launch at release, amazon can pull the plug and say to anyone who pre-ordered that their supplier now got it wrong and the unit is unavailable therefore they don't honour the low price. If they'd done this to the white one - which is confirmed as a launch colour then they would get a lot of people calling their bluff on it.

I actually think the black one will launch (supply permitting). Looking at the nintendo japan site after E3 there was a lot of info and pics of both colours. Possible it would be Japan only I suppose. At any price i don't see any way they launch without the gamepad, it's the major USP, so not including one would be suicide.

I'd think the most true part of it was the 14th, And as UK releases are a Friday, I'd say either September 14th, or December 14th. Of course if Amazon was actually right, then i look forward to getting one on July 14th!

@Zergling CRUSH3D Demo shows up as 627 blocks

You would kill the holiday sales by announcing a new 3DS now. They aren't that stupid. I hope.

New colours, new games and maybe more Wii U stuff.

I wonder if this is in preperation for the Wii U. This could extend the Wii brand to casual gamers who wouldn't buy a Wii U (not for a long time) and never owned a NGC. So from a marketing point they would try to eek out a low price Wii to casual customers (wii fit/sports etc) and then have the Wii U as the premium. That way they try to keep a foot in both camps until the Wii U really takes off. I think there is little doubt that if you cared about the gamecube, you already have a wii. no doubt there will be plenty of stock of the old SKU's through to next year.

I think i paid about £180 on launch day. I'm surprised the drop is so much, but as I've played it nearly everyday since launch, taken it on four overseas trips and the wife had stolen my DSi, I'm OK with it. Looking forward to the 20 free games, and all the goodness that is on the way in the final quarter. I've checked Amazon a few times today and it's been nice to see the 3DS climbing towards the top of the all format video games list. Currently only Wii Zumba is holding off the Blue and black 3DS respectively with OOT in 4th. I paid a price I was happy to, and now others are paying a lower price they are happy to. I just want the system to be successful so we can get years of great gaming out of it. When the system is very popular I'll be pleased I was on this ride from day one, even if it cost me a few more quid.

There's an update on the UK site that if you missed the ambassador programme you can still get in. Seems to cover any one who missed the online way, or any that go wrong.
Link Here: http://tinyurl.com/3ehco43

I could see Nintendo spinning up a small division - kept seperate from the core franchises - which could develop new IP for existing mobile platforms. That way the development doesn't get in the way of the core Nintendo audiences, whilst being forced to stand on it's own two feet from a commercial view. I don't think that many companies really make that much money by releasing games on these platforms. I don't see Nintendo putting Mario on an iPhone, not in the traditional platformer sense at least - and I don't think they should.

Amazon UK is in at £115 as well.

@Infernapeking well I gess MSFT and Sony do give away stuff, but more on the fact they usually make a loss on the sale of each console they sell for the first year or two. Nintendo make money on hardware from day 1. Maybe thet means they can do stuff like this? I wonder how many people in the audience will buy a 3DS since they got given OOT?

@CJ_Vick I loved the music in the first one, but I can totally imagine Luigi walking round the house whistling the ghostbusters theme.

@JesusSaves True, I forgot that. Hopefully the eShop will take care of that one. I actually originally bought a DSi hoping to be able to download original GB games on it. Took me a while to find something good on the DSiWare .The GBmicro size make it such a non-issue to transport extra.

@Raptor78 @JesusSaves, GBMicro, £20 on ebay. I picked one up a few weeks back for exactly that reason. plus it is there if the 3DS battery does run out - but so far that hasn't been a problem.

I got one at launch, but if I didn't - I'd be straight on Amazon (UK), A black 3DS for £159.99, and Streetfighter, Pilot Wings at £19.99 each. Other launch games are also down a bit too. Those two plus 3ds - face raiders/AR etc and an eShop next week for under £200, i think thats good value.

Amazon UK have both the Sports resort pack and MK pack for under £100. I can see a few XBox or PS3 owners picking it up at this price just for Mario Kart. The new pack looks to me like it's firmly aimed at gamers who may "dismiss" nintendo, but everyone loves MK. At that price I can see a fair few picking it up.

Over the easter period Amazon UK were selling the Wii with Sports Resort bundle at £99.98. Would be a great price point to have all of the time. Even £129.99 is a good price.

I don't see why everyone thinks it's running late or has to be there on day one. Surely Nintendo's initial objective is to sell out the console stock. That will happen without Mario or Zelda, and it will happen without the eShop. Plus if you've just shelled out for a system and at least one (probably more) 3D game, you're not so likely to go and spend money online as well. Secondly I think the update is bound to be more than just the shop. My bet is they knew the system would be hacked as soon as its out the gate. So delay an update until it's out in all regions and has a good little run in market - then update to break the hacks. An update which has little other benefit is likely to be ignored, but an update with the eShop is something people are going to want, so more likely people are to take it and thus get ahead (for a day or two) of the hackers.

My two cents.