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@jon128 I hope we all get one and don’t have to battle retailers nonsense for them!

If Nintendo follows suit to Sony, Xbox, and Valve then as long as you’re in the register, you’ll eventually get one.

Edit - also didn’t mean for it to sound like a brag, just an ADHD explanation of why I think/hope I’m qualified. And the moment I get an email I’ll post here, but especially if it’s earlier than May.

@Oracles_fanboi to be fair Sony did this at first with PS4>Ps5 games…. A lot of games required a purchase of an upgrade to get the PS5 version at first.

CDPR was the first company to step out and say “nah we shouldn’t treat customers like that”, and announced Witcher 3 next gen upgrades would be free. Some other devs, including MS, followed suit, and soon Sony was the bad guy for telling the devs to charge for upgrades. Lmao.

For simple performance boost upgrades I agree with CDPR and MS, it should be free of charge and part of the original price of the game.

If you want to charge an upgrade fee, then there better be value to back it up. Like in the switch case making use of the new features - camera, mouse, etc.

Those features take a lot more manpower to implement, whereas something like performance can be a quick patch that enables dynamic res and frame scaling, as well as quick adjustments to enable certain disabled / lowered features like volumetric fog and lighting.

One thing that won’t be possible with simple tweaks would be to take advantage of the faster SSD/Express transfer speeds.

A good example would be PS4 versions of games running on Ps5. You get better performance and more stable frames, and slightly faster load times. But without a bespoke patch you can’t take advantage of the NVMe ssd’s super fast transfer rate for instant load times.

@Hero-of-WiiU Yeah I saw that, but I’ve been surprised in the past when devs decide to reward existing owners. Kind of a pain, especially to the wallet, to upgrade all my Switch games.

Like that would be the new version of virtual console nonsense…, was painful buying say Link to the Past on Wii, then 3DS, then possibly Wii U if you were unlucky enough to not do a Wii>Wii U system transfer or lost your account info….

@Gummisaurus Same. I don’t want to accidentally take a pre-order that someone else could use, but at the same time I don’t want to miss out. It’s so odd that the pre orders open the same basic dates world wide, yet NoE went ahead and let people know they were GTG and could just await their invite. Then NoA makes us consult the magic 8 ball….

Truly hope this includes more than just first party…. Games like Hogwarts, MK1, Witcher 3, Doom, etc could use some performance patches for Switch 2.

@mazzel I’ll wish you the best of luck! And I get feeling left out, truly I do.

I’m not sure how bad scalping is in other countries but it’s a horrible issue here in the states. If eBay was anything to go by, about half ps5 systems were being bought by scalpers for resell at launch. Switch launch was nearly as bad, and continued for the first 2-3 years. PS4 and 5 here lasted about 2 years each before they were readily on shelves at stores.

Long ago, in Toys R Us and Babbages days, a pre-order was literally just that. You placed an early order and would receive your copy/system when your order came in regardless if it came in at launch or you just had to wait….

Now days all these retailers have allotted amounts that they can pre order, which is bull. It should go back to the way it was and there wouldn’t be a scalp issue except for in the small percentage that wanted whatever it was on day one. A large portion of us would just be glad to not have to battle scalpers, and to just casually place an order and wait for our number to come up. We gladly do it for restaurants/fast food, why not software/hardware?

@mazzel Your not exactly wrong…. But anyone who’s diehard fan will likely have the subscription.

Sony did the same with Ps5 after 4-5 months of letting the scalpers go ham…. I finally got a notification from Sony saying “hey, we saw you were subbed to Psn. For being a customer we’d (finally) like to offer you a chance to get a ps5.”

Heck with Xbox the only way I was able to get a Series X within the first 3 months without paying scalp fees was to do the Affirm credit option through Target as they had a separate piles of Affirm only Xboxes (this was nation wide and not just a Target thing, even offered on Xbox.com, I just happened to notice while at Target)

I’d have preferred Nintendo leave the sub part out (although it’s moot point to me), and focus just on the active players that have plenty of play time and plenty of purchases. Just like Valve did. Open to the people that have been registered owners with a valid active Nintendo account and have more than $50 in purchases. No sub needed.

The big difference is Nintendo has retail partners…. Valve didn’t share those same partners, or at least not in the same fashion. So they didn’t have to cater to them regarding the Deck release. Instead they released privately to the Steam members and are just now starting to slowly roll out to retail outlets.

I never felt like I deserved priority so to speak, just a guaranteed order to arrive within a year of launch that I wouldn’t have to pay a scalper fee for. I’d love a launch model, but as long as I’m not left to fend for scalpers like I was with Ps5, then I’m happy.

Fighting the scalp bots and such for ps5 was such a horrible experience that after trying diligently for months I finally gave up. By the time Sony offered me direct access I was like “meh”. Last year I’d finally saved up for a ps5 but ended up getting the Steam Deck instead. Made more sense to me, and still does.

@jco83 seconding this, Amazon has had notable issues with fake memory cards. Buy direct from Sandisk or Nintendo

@jon128 it opened around 9:30-9:45am CDT. I caught notice of it on Reddit about 30ish mins after the direct.

I’ll let ya know if I get a notification of any kind. Really hoping the may 8th is a typo. And I should qualify for all their requirements - active NSO since it started (I’m a family plan leader for NSO+ ever since NSO+ family launched)…. 900 hours a year average game time, with two peaks of 1400-1500 hours for Monster Hunter Generations and Diablo 2, and a very large collection of digital titles. So every box of theirs should be ticked.

@jon128 I’m curious the same. US here as well, and my friend from the Netherlands already got his notification “you’ve been selected” email. Lucky turd!

Curious if we’ll get the same here, or if we’re just gonna be twiddling our thumbs until May 8th (which is so flipping odd because the rest of the world will have been pre-ordering since Apr 8/9?!?)

Edit - Should be noted that I registered the moment the US website showed it.

@xenobladexfan It’s def against the law and you can get arrested and fined for scalping concert tickets. Truly a shame that doesn’t apply to toys/games/cards/etc and instead is considered entrepreneurial and part of the capitalistic way. Ugh.

Man I wish they’d let us in the US know if we’ve been selected / acknowledge the registration, so that we knew if we needed to shop around or we were good…..

@RupeeClock don’t fret yet. They’re probably going through thousands if not millions of registrants.

If I had to hazard a guess you’ll get picked. It may not be first wave, but this method virtually guarantees you’ll get a switch 2 and won’t have to pay a scalped price.

@RupeeClock it won’t, this is an anti scalper method. They’re basically checking to make sure that those that register are active members that actually play vs some rando just trying to buy and resell.

This is the same method Valve used for Steam Deck, and Sony ended up having to do for Ps5.

This is a consumer friendly approach to guaranteeing those that actually will play and use the system will get one. Let the scalpers fight it out at retail.

As someone who’s battled the scalper bots a time or two, and lost out during Ps5 pre-orders, this is a god send.

Wish the US program was like Euro & UK! My friend already got his “You’ve been selected” email. Now I wait for mine, which according to the site may not arrive till May 8th? Weird we gotta wait a month while Euro is getting notified by Apr 8th….

@AstroTheGamosian Small world! Springfield area here, just outside of it in a small town.

@AstroTheGamosian Ouch! Sorry to hear all that! IV shortage doesn’t surprise me with how many people i know that dealt with NV and COVID this few months..:: Yeah the wife lost 12.4lbs during her bout with it. She was retching for 2 days straight basically, and like you spent basically the entire time in the bathroom. We live in central IL, and luckily have Expres Care+ locations which is like a mini ER. They were treating mainly these super sick cases of NV like you and her had.

Glad you recovered tho! After witnessing it first hand, I could easily see this years NV take someone out with dehydration.

Edit - And yeah those Pedialytes are wicked stuff, 🤣. My daughter needed them a few years back (first covid round for us, 4 times so far, ugh.) And outta curiosity I tried it. We had grape, which tasted exactly like a Grape Flavor-Ice, but salted. Uuughh.

@umbreon_sylveon I mean I wouldn’t say no to that, but honestly I’d just be happy with a guaranteed ability to order at MRSP. No battling scalper bots or anything. Just go directly to Nintendo store, log in, and order directly. Also a guaranteed to arrive within the first 3 months. Happy enough with that, as I battled for months with Ps5 and finally gave up. Got an Xbox within 3 months of launch, and kept trying for Ps5 until right before Sony started sending links to Psn subscribers. Too little too late. Ended up getting a Steam Deck last year instead and can play all the Ps games I wanted to portable now.

@AstroTheGamosian ugh Noro was wicked this year! I luckily avoided it, think I’m some how resistant….. but my spouse gets it every year like clockwork, and this year it sent her to an urgent care+ facility to get IV hydration and a boatload of Zofran so she’d stop puking….

I still say they need to let NSO/NSO+ subscribers order directly so they avoid scalpers and guarantee an order even if it doesn’t ship/arrive on launch day.

Steam does it. Sony finally did it 6 months or so into the Ps5 launch. MS had the finance option/pre-order for S/X.

If they can all do it, so can you Nintendo! Please help us fans avoid retailer hell….

@HeadPirate Yeah the limitations suck. But honestly I’ve got quite a few games I’ve beaten or don’t have time for currently that my daughters want to play, and if I’m playing ANY game on Switch the moment they try to log into my account it boots em.

Considering I have 4 switches between myself, wife and 2 daughters, it’s not remotely feasible to try to swap around my primary access…. So I’ve left it on my main system.

And I get that not everyone loves digital. I hated it at first. Then the lazy side of me loved not swapping carts and having to grab my bag of games…. I’ve got over 80 physical and over 500 digital on switch alone at this point.

The truth is, thanks to transfer speed limitations and game assets becoming ridiculously large, everything will eventually be digital only. We’ve already hit the max blu ray could offer us last gen when games started installing like they have on pc for years. Carts are currently the only capable physical medium of hitting the necessary transfer speeds, and that’ll be hit within the next generation or so unless Sandisk or someone pulls some magic out of their backside….

@HeadPirate Yeah I know about the game sharing on Xbox and PS, this is vastly different, actually transferring the license (if only temporarily) to the other console. Exactly like popping a physical cart out and popping it in another console.

In this case the prime owner doesn’t need an account on the other console, nor does the second console need to connect to the internet to verify DRM (minus the first connection for transfer)

Xbox and Ps system fails if you remove the internet component, if the prime account signs on from another console and tries to play the game, etc etc.

Again, only Steam has done anything like this where it’s truly a license transfer and not just a “share as long as the prime account is on the system”

Edit - I did not know that game pass was shared, since I never boot my S in the sunroom / nor do my kiddos. That’s nifty!

The play anywhere thing I WISH I could take advantage of. Sadly it’s not an option for Steam Deck without dual booting windows…..

Edit 2 - You know what Nintendo should do to hop in the front of things? Start offering bulk/bundle licenses at a discount for family groups on multiplayer games like Splatoon or Monster Hunter. Most families currently buy one game copy and await for sales or a following month to purchase a second copy so the kiddos can play together…. The devs and publishers would stand to make more money initially if they offered say 2-4 licenses in bulk at a 20-30% discounted rate instead of that same family buying the first copy then waiting for half off or more for the second and beyond.

Thats probably the closest we’ll get to Download Play like they use to offer on GBA!

Absolutely huge news, especially for families. Like I don’t think anyone quite gets how massive this is.

To put in perspective, only Steam allows anything similar, allowing you to send licenses you’re done with to family/friends. Xbox and Sony def don’t do this, and I don’t know of any other digital store that does.

The only thing here is that it’s a timed thing so far, only allowing for 2 weeks at a time and having to be local. A full license transfer to a family member or friend would be the next step (and best course). But this opens the door for that.

Seriously huge.

Edit - to further clarify, this is a temporary transfer of license, not just game sharing. Currently as it stands on Xbox and PlayStation you are account and internet bound. You either need the prime account on the system playing or access to the internet. This requires both for the first transfer and then not again for 2 weeks. The secondary switch needs never to connect to the internet to verify DRM after the fact. This is quite literally the virtual version of handing someone your game card for a couple weeks, except you don’t have to worry about them breaking it.

This paves the way for digital full transfers of licenses - sending your friends or family the copy of the game permanently while revoking your license. Much like being able to sell or trade a physical copy. This also can pave the way for doing such things on a digital front.

Again, neither MS nor Sony do anything like this yet, and I’ve only heard of Steam being able to (and I think that’s either friend or family bound).

This also can open up the possibility of being able to purchase digital titles to send to your family and friends. Possibly a way around Nintendos very strict purchase system - something only parents may know of. I went to buy my daughter a copy of Resident Evil 5 so we could play together, but due to her age on her Nintendo account it will not let me. It’s a strict set on her eShop profile that cannot be changed. Other systems will ask me, and even switch will, for her to play T or M rated games. Even purchase T rated (got her MHGU not long ago) but they have a strict no sell of M titles to anyone that isn’t 18+. No matter what I do to parental controls or her profile. Check Reddit, I’m not the only parent/person to come across this issue. And even Nintendo support can’t change it.

I gave it an outstanding just because they listened and gave us Switch owners with families and digital libraries a super nice way to game share without having to mess with Primary and Secondary account nonsense.

One step further would be full transfer of license to a family member for a title you’re no longer playing. They’ve now become the closest to Steam in regards to digital rights sharing. Bravo Nintendo! Bravo!

Really not sure anyone realizes just how huge this is.

@Olliemar28 I just wanna say THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for including CDT in here! Seriously! This has got to be the first article I’ve read in years from any site that gave CST/CDT. 99% of the time it’s just PDT + EDT and us jack wagons in the middle just gotta figure it out. 🤣

(I ALWAYS forget if a zone is 1 or 2 hours ahead of or behind my location. But oddly enough I know the Netherlands is 7 hours ahead…. 🤦🏼‍♂️)

There’s a reason the “tree fiddy” meme exists…..

I’m still leaning toward June. A handful of Nintendo consoles have released in and around June, so it’s the most likely month, logically and historically speaking.

That’s if they decide to launch this summer. With Nintendo you honestly never know, and it’s possible that April direct will announce a fall release, though I hope not! I’m personally hoping for June or earlier.

I’ve been playing MH Wilds (Xbox) this week, slowly working my way through, only HR4 so far, but hopefully I’ll break into high rank this weekend.

It’s making me want to go back to Rise and finally start Sunbreak, so I cleared some room on the 1TB and started downloading RiseBreak and GenU (both on Switch ) for good measure.

Also cycling through some D2 on Switch, and Diablo 4, Tokyo Xtreme Racer and Ghost Trick on the Steam Deck.

@KingMike that’s right! It’s been awhile since I’ve played it and got the two mixed up. It was a Hudson soft developed game released through Jaleco in the west. I played the hell out of it as a kid with my mom. Eventually when SNES and Bomberman came out we started playing that together, although today is the first time I’ve learned that RW was a part of the Bomberman series (RW was titled Bomber King in Japan).

Thank you for connecting those dots for me! Awesome stuff!

If you were a kid in the 80s and 90s and went to the arcades a lot, then you know a lot of the arcade ports to NES/SNES were developed/published by Acclaim. Acclaim Etertainment was an absolutely HUGE supporter of Nintendo back then giving us access some amazing games for the time like NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, Narc, Simpsons, WWF titles, and more or less every movie tie in like Aliens and Terminator titles….

For anyone needing a refresher of just how prolific Acclaim was back then….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acclaim_Entertainment_games

Was one of the few games companies I felt their loss when they went defunct. Another being Data East….. Robowarrior will be forever locked on NES I think

Edit - Change Data East to Jaleco. Thank you @Kingmike for the correction!

Why must you remind me of two things? That I’m old, and that the Switch needs its successor last year…..

They’ve got the naked arnie fight, I’m sold, day one for me! 👍

@-wc- np! Feel free to message me if you have any questions. There’s a really good website called ProtonDB that has info on most games, if they run, how they run, and what the best settings typically are for performance and/or battery life.

I will warn, don’t be fooled by the “Steam Deck Verified” on the Steam store. There’s a bunch of games, mainly new releases, that get that branding but don’t work well or need tweaks. Yet there’s ones listed as Unsupported that work perfectly fine outta the box, like Resident Evil 5 Gold.

Avowed is listed as Playable, and it is, but it’s def not as stable or pretty as its Xbox version. Still needs some SD specific tweaks to be verified, but I know Obsidian is working on it.

@-wc- main reason I grabbed an SD was because I was debating between it and a Ps5. Everything that’s on PS4/5 that I wanted to play like GoW/GoWR work on SD nicely and I’ve even managed to toss Baldurs 3 at it - granted this one takes specific setting adjustments, and disabling HDR to get a stable 30fps. But it and RDR2 can look nearly as nicely as they do on my Series X, just not as many fps.

Hair effects/looks is a big one that without the proper setting dialed in for SD, they’ll look noticably ugly compared to modern console counterparts.

Not sure how your laptop stacks up, but it may be worth it to grab an SD OLED at some point.

I got it mainly because I knew I’d never get God of War on Switch or Xbox, and I wanted something that was capable of portable gaming, especially for mature games, as I’ve got kiddos. SD made more sense than Ps5 and a Portal combo.

Also loving pc exclusive titles like Sims 1&2 Legacy Collection, soooo nice being able to play those again!

@-wc- It’s def a wild statement as anyone owning a switch for the first time would have to buy games for it. With Ps5 you either have to buy ps5 games or own ps4 games previously. Only Xbox has maintained BC all the way through the original Xbox, and that was a prime selling factor for me with Series X - instant access to OG Xbox, 360, and XB1 games I’ve purchased over the years.

Steam Deck was a harder choice for me, however, grabbing a few bundles like the Bethesda Collection for $30, the Borderlands Pandora’s collection for $15, and the XbPlay app for $6 (works sooooo much better than the official Xbox app for streaming/remote, and actually allows you to remote 360 titles - official does not for some weird reason.) made it an easier pill to swallow. Ended up getting the SD last Sept, and aside from spending $50 so I could place an order for the SD without getting my order auto kicked back with their anti scalper system…. I didn’t own any pc games at the time. Now I have over 100…. Lordy…

@-wc- You’d be correct, a Steam Deck is also a full fledged Linux PC. The beauty of it is it can be as simple as a console to operate, or you can get into the nitty gritty of it and modify files to your liking.

If you purchase a game from the Steam store, it’s no different than eShop or other consoles - buy, download and play.

But for advanced stuff, like in the case of the recent Early Access release of Tokyo Xtreme Racer, you can edit ini files to better suit the system. At Early launch the game was defaulting to a 1920x1080 res that was bogging down the game on SD, and wouldn’t properly stay there (even if you set the game to force boot into 1280x800, the SDs resolution) . A simple tweak of the config.ini file adjusted that.

I own a Deck and love it, I also still own and love my Switch. Much like generations of the past with Xbox and Ps, my Deck has become my second console and my first time back into PC gaming in about 15 years. If it weren’t for how easy it is to use and operate - plus the track pads - I would have never gotten back into the pc space.

I’ll still get a Switch 2 at launch, the only deciding factor there was if it was going to be BC with Switch 1 because my library is just too massive to drop Switch 1.

Nintendo needs not worry at all, there’s plenty of room in the gaming space for these systems.

@Dazman Couldn’t find anything definitive on the Steam page, however, the screen shots show getting xp for certain actions like destroying a bunch of blocks. So I’d hazard a guess there’s some sort of leveling / skill tree type thing. Just unsure if it’ll be an actual rpg with leveling and gear, or if it’s just skills/abilities in a tree. Since it’s mainly listed as action platformer, it could be that it’s a “go anywhere” type of MV with ability gates locked in a skill tree and you effectively can choose which path to take based on your skill selection. I’ve seen those pop up a bunch in the MV Reddit the last couple years….

Can confirm, ex-GS employee here. We got black market Switch 2’s from China back in 2013. But best we could do was tree fiddy! And we had to walk up hill both ways to give that tree fiddy!

@Late Yeah, I honestly think it was just an early access glitch or something. Was so weird. I was either wanting to dive in head first at Antiquity, or play a tutorial scenario like they had for Civ 6.

It only allowed me to pick Explore or Modern, went with Explore then was giving me the standard tooltip hints along the way, with out explaining much. Like it told me I had a General that needed a promotion, but didn’t tell me how to access them. Lmao. I was very confused.

@Late hmmm ok I’ll have to check the Civ I picked. I knew of the decoupling - which is odd, but honestly I’m fine with. I know I chose the earliest age, which I guess is Antiquity (sorry my 42 yr old brain doesn’t work like it use to, and I confused it for ancient. Lol). And I know I chose Ben Franklin. But I can’t remember which Civ, haven’t picked it back up since launch day (early access launch day). I wanna say I chose Greece, but not positive.

I may have chosen Exploration age…. I know I was offered only two ages at the start…. Modern and another. I’ll check in an hour or so when I get back to my Switch.

Edit - Ben, Norman, and indeed chose Exploration Age. Need to restart this game lol

@Late I chose Ben Franklin and Ancient Era, as I’ve always loved starting from a bare bones Civ and building into a great country. If that’s the case of it auto generating some cities in ancient times then that kind sucks….. I’ll have to adapt I guess.

@SteveDaSteve I started in ancient age and with Ben Franklin. Def an odd start.

Granted I was playing the early access edition, so that may have been it. Lol

Game / engine is running smoother than Civ 6, that’s for sure.

But the start and lack of an opening tutorial (it’s a tutorial as you go instead so far) has me a bit thrown off….

I’m use to starting Civ as a settler and picking my starting location. This one just gave me 2 cities right off the bat…. Meanwhile Napoleon, and 2 other civs have 4 cities starting out….

Also started with a lot of units….

It’s almost like I’m playing a scenario, but all I did was hit new game. I truly hope this isn’t the “streamlined” process I’d heard about…. Was trying to keep Civ 7 news and such away and give myself a spoiler free experience….

Anyone else just get giddy over the thought of a CDPR collab to help make a Star Fox Adventure 2? We’d get the brilliant RPG systems and writing from CDPR, with the thoroughness and charm of Nintendo.

I’ll take that or a dark toned CDPR & Nintendo made Zelda RPG.

@Soroush I hope Nintendo takes the approach that Microsoft did where standard graphical enhancements via patch should be provided free of charge for current owners of a game - FO4/Witcher 3/Cyberpunk are just some of the few I know received free patches to enhance games frame rate, resolution, and next gen abilities. All free of charge.

Meanwhile on the Ps side, originally those same enhancement types were be charged an upgrade fee originally. I remember my friend in the Netherlands complaining about it on God of War and Final Fantasy 7R. Thankfully that is no longer the case, but at the time it is what made me decide to go Xbox over Ps this Gen.

As you said, typically Nintendo has done a “Deluxe” route with stuff like MK8, New Mario U, etc. But at least with those it wasn’t just a straight up graphical upgrade, and included more stuff. Their deluxe editions are like a “Remaster 1.5”. Not a full Remake for sure; but a def a cut above graphic update and Remaster. Typically including extras and cut content.

I truly doubt we’ll see any up charging even from third parties for just flat graphical updates, as that type of patch doesn’t require that much man power and time to achieve. But we may (likely) see Deluxe, Director Cut, or Special/Anniversary editions from all parties, including Nintendo, which is fine as long as it provides extras or at the very least packages in any dlc for free. Skyrim anniversary was like playing an entirely different game. So many new items and quests from the start!

@Soroush I doubt Nintendo would be the type to charge for upgraded versions, most of the industry has gotten away from that.

As far as difference between scaling and bespoke patch, see the difference of something like Witcher 3 or FO4. Both had simple FPS boosts on Series X, but then got 4k next gen patches with ray tracing and such. So likely Switch 2 would just provide a stable frame rate / stable res (for dynamic res games) out of the box, but Switch 2 specific updates would allow the game to take full advantage of the hardware likely being able to increase capped resolutions / capped fps.

Only Nintendo and dedicated third party companies like CDPR would likely issue bespoke updates like that however. And some of the better indies as well. The rest would be up in the air on whether or not it’s worth it to revisit the game and update it for the folks that already own the standard Switch version.

Make no mistake though it def isn’t outside the realm of possibility for certain (third party) companies to purposely sell two skus of the same game, like EA might do with FIFA title or something. The standard Switch version costing say $50 and the S2 version $60. But it’s unlikely we’ll see upcharges for patches which do the same thing. Gamers rebelled on that with PS4->Ps5 patches and industry bent the knee….

@Soroush There’s a fairly decent chance that MOST games released in the last couple years have coding built in to take advantage of better hardware day one. Much like Series X and FPS boost/upscaling for 360/XB1 titles.

I think a few games have actually proved it (like Scarlet/Violet) via data mining. A lot of devs were expecting a mid gen refresh around 2021, but we got the OLED instead. Before that even there was an article on here where Nintendo had been telling its partners to make their games with upscaling in mind.

So I think it’s a really safe bet that a majority of retail titles you purchase on Switch now will benefit from Switch 2 even without proper patches.

I understand this completely. Originally I was studying to become a game dev, grew with computers and games so it came naturally to me.

Then in my twenties I took a job at GameStop.
After working there a year I quickly figured out that I enjoy games as a fun past time, to escape reality and have fun in a virtual playground. I worked with games all day, and wanted to play them all day long, but by the time I got home and was able to, the last thing I wanted to do was play games.

So yeah, I get the thought completely. If id have developed Witcher 3 or BotW the magic behind those would have been ruined completely for me.

I’ve said it before, easiest way to combat it is direct guaranteed sales to subscribers exactly like Sony and Valve have done.

Valve took it a few steps further and made it so you had to be a member of Steam for at least a year and over $50 spent on the account (this was for pre-orders and first year sales) in order to be able to place the order. If those two criteria were not met it would auto cancel your order.

Just need to make enough for retail/retail pre-order and also allow NSO subscribers a guaranteed order. Doesn’t matter if it’s first, second, or third wave…. Just a guaranteed order and MSRP price. Doing this would allow many fans to just place the order and wait for the arrival instead of having to try to fight for pre-orders online or at stores, nor result to having to buy from scalpers should they fail to snag a retail pre-order.

Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying NSO subs should get the first wave of orders. No. Just a guaranteed order at normal price. Exactly how Sony did after 6 months of insane scalping for ps5. Psn members got an email saying they could place an order directly so they didn’t have to battle for retail units or pay 3-5x on scalped prices.

Nintendo should do that from the get go though, not wait 6 months to see how things pan out….

@Spider-Kev