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Seems pretty reasonable to me, successor to a wildly popular system, backwards compatible, significant power bump, pricing of the console is fine compared with the other handhelds, etc etc

I doubt it will have much impact at all but I think it would be nice to have abit more of a roadmap for exclusives, DK, Mario Kart are great but not sure how interesting Kirby Air Riders or Hyrule warriors will be to many people

At first I did struggle to see the appeal but in the UK the price difference between proper carts and the game key carts is pretty mad -

You can buy Sonic X Shadow Generations for £38.85 or Yakuza 0 for £39.85 which is a big difference compared with the full cart games like DK Bonanza or Rune Factory Guardians for Azuma which are £66.85 and £59.99 respectively

If sonic cost nearly £30 more but was on a full cart I just wouldn't buy it at all I have to say haha

Great review, looking forward to playing this one - Do you know how long a playthrough is? Seems abit mental that it has 100 endings haha

The website for Raidou Remastered seems to imply that the Nintendo Switch 2 version is launching the same day as the console

If that is actually true then that would definitely be another launch game for me (As long as it is all on Cart)

I suspect this version will be 60fps like the PS5, etc version, but other than that can't see it actually being that different (Resolution boost too I guess)

I really hope Yakuza 0 has a physical release

I have an inconvenient meeting that runs from 2pm BST to 4pm BST, how could they on Switchmas of all days - Hopefully will grab a link so I see no spoilers after the fact

@omno It's (probably) somewhere between a PS4 and PS4 Pro but with modern tools and hardware advancements available that the PS4 did not have access to (Like the Series S), so I don't think it's just a case of if it didn't run great on PS4 so it won't come to Switch 2

The 2026 date on this and Tomodachi Life is absolutely bizarre, but I'm here for both of them

Can't imagine either will sell well haha

I've not played everything (obviously), but it is definitely Stories from Sol: The Gun Dog for me - Wow what a game it is

How long is it? Quite tempted to get the European physical release from Clear River Games

I'm considering moving my OLED Switch on, but I'd like to know more about the Switch 2 first. Like the screen and if there are legitimate boosts to Switch 1 games (Quicker loading or maxing out resolutions/framerates to their caps)

If first party Switch 1 games (And maybe some of the big third party games) get optimisation patches for Switch 2 then I do struggle to see when I'd even use my OLED

Great review, excited for this one - Even though I haven't been crazy about Yugioh for some time, this era is very nostalgic for me

Particularly looking forward to playing (Or replaying I think) the two World Championship Tournament titles included

I hope it gets a native Switch 2 version as well (Or just improvements to the Switch version when played on 2). Would rather play it on switch 2 than on a Switch or Steam deck if possible!

Astro Bot is very good, but I like it more as a fun collectathon rather than a platformer

Astro's moveset really is quite limited and basic compared to the 3D Marios makes it alot less fun to actually platform

I love Matt Lees, fantastic YouTuber!

@secret333 Okay this is where a lot of misinformation about this stems from, effectively the servers were open for 5 hours. 1 of those being last night did not work. Every reviewer who has talked about the game has said the servers have been flawless. So why suddenly is everyone saying the game will be broken at launch? Look at all facts and what you are saying doesn't really add up.

You can but Splatoon hats on Nintendo's UK store too! Pretty interesting headgear haha

Kirby is honestly worth the £25 price tag, better value than Captain Toad and I don't see that dropping in price

Preordered Codename Steam, so just that for me this week

Hopefully should be able to play it this evening! But revision is my priority for now

What did i just listen to? Dear lord NOA........

@Captain_Gonru Pretty sure they explicitly said they would be free updates in the UK direct. I wouldn't expect any less seeing as some of those stages that are held back have been in trailers since January. Be pretty shady practices if they charged

The pricing model for Splatoon is ridiculous at the moment, $60 in the US? What extra is being sold seriously it just points to how out of touch NOA are and are only pushing Splatoon towards failure. I have preordered here in the UK for £25, that's like $38!
Also Yoshi appears to be the same price DKC and hyrule warriors etc at being £30 or around $40 dollars here

@Inkling In an edge interview they confirmed there would be more game modes in ranked battle. Going by your train of thoughts though there should be more modes for regular battle too, as else its just turf war.

Really looking forward to this! By the way has anyones copy been dispatched yet? Mine hasn't so i'm assuming i'll get to play it on Friday

Just Kirby physically for me. Really hope it does okay sales-wise because I would quite like to see another Kirby game on the Wii U, I'm assuming judging by Nintendo's silence on the matter that it didn't perform particularly well in America and Japan

@AyeHaley 100% agree, its becoming way more trouble than its worth. When a massive fan is saying that, you know something is being done very very wrong.

The whole amiibo situation is utterly insane. Nintendo don't you understand that you would make more money if you just met demand instead of other people leeching off the unneeded scarcity of certain amiibo? This guy is out of touch, actually Nintendo is out of touch. This is clear to see when the fans, the people who would actually buy these things literally can't. These amiibo do not exist in shops. The ones no-one wants can occasionally be found like Peach, DK and Diddy but thats it really. Not acceptable.
Sorry for the rant but i couldn't get the amiibo i wanted from wave 4 (except Lucina), gonna try in stores later today.

Not really surprised that Southampton isn't there haha!

The triple pack is already sold out? What haha

Edit: Got the boy and the girl preordered from shopto (if other UK residents are interested, they just went up) Don't really want the squid, not even really sure what it does? I presume the same as the boy and girl, either not bothered about getting that one

This is really pushing it Nintendo, I thought you were learning to do DLC correctly and now this comes up. Guess we will just have to wait and see what happens when it is localised

This is great news! So splatoon, codename steam and Kirby all in May? Fantastically scheduled Nintendo, good job

Club Nintendo doesnt really work for me so i cant order this :/ i dont think im gonna get the smash 4 soundtrack/mewtwo either :/

I would quite like mine to be dispatched today Nintendo seeing as some people already have theirs so excited to play Monster Hunter and Majoras mask

I've been able to just pre-order the ones I want with no problems really. Got 9 so far, another 4 on the way so I guess I haven't really had the same problems a lot of people have had

Pre-ordered the Metallic blue xl with the limited edition game with the figure all for the same price as the xl and limited edition separately so pretty good deal personally

Awww I'm in an exam at two

Hopefully wooly world will be the next retail game for the Wii U
Crosses fingers for March release

Wii u: Tropical Freeze
Wii U eshop: Stick it to the man
3DS: Triple deluxe
3DS eshop: Shovel knight
Overall: Tropical Freeze

Shout out to Hyrule Warriors which was the biggest surprise of the year, awesome game

@andyg1971 I bought my link and samus figmas for around 50 pounds each, I'd imagine it would be the same. Really awesome quality posable figures mind

@Tsurii897 the weapon for Zelda isn't a new weapon like the spinner though apparently, that was a mistranslation I think

Already pre-purchased the MK dlc really looking forward to that, might buy stealth inc 2 this week as well

I like how people expected a metroid game to be announced weren't two confirmed to be in the planning stages at E3? Surely you are just setting yourself up for disappointment

@andrea987 Ba-dum-tish nice one haha

Very quiet on the retail side of things

I'm excited about the three free playable characters, but not sure if I will buy the dlc packs yet, I'll wait to see the price for all of them together

I'm a youngen and I know stuff like this

Teslagrad and that Wii u demo. Been waiting for teslagrad for what feels like ages xP

That's a nice attitude to have