FredTheCat

Why this collaboration? Easy enough, the Tokyo Olympics is next month, and Tag are usually the sponsored timekeeping.
Over £1,000 for the most basic Tag, although mine is still going strong after 20+ years (and I'm a clumsy person)

@MeowMeowKins
I'm sure that your little brother will love you much much more for getting him all the sets, rather than a few home printed stickers! Can you be my sister too??

Stop whining children!
If Nintendo had released all of the additional functionality on Day one then you'd all be whining that there's nothing else to do by now.
Some kids are never happy!

Of course older games had problems, I'm old enough to remember!! There are more note, but let's face it, games are massive in both size and complexity compared with NES/SNES games so it is hardly surprising that even the best testing can miss some faults. At least we can now have them fixed easily unlike Wii generation backwards!

@Tonyo
Sorry to call you out, but you've been rude to people ever since you joined (your second posting was to insult someone who liked a game you didn't), hence why I suggested you look back at your behaviour. The vast majority of your 62 posts have not been in response to anyone else being rude to you, but you seem to take pleasure in resorting to insulting anyone who has a different opinion. You are just coming across as a thoroughly unpleasant troll, I'm hoping this is not the type of person who you really are. After all Australians are supposed to be the nicest of nations.

@Tonyo
Why do you feel the need to insult every person who has a different opinion than you? It is unpleasant and uncalled for.
If you think you don't do this, then look at your comments you submitted under your profile. Please be a nicer person

@gopher1369
Very well said, games used to be about playability and enjoyment, not numbers of pixels and frames.
Most people cannot tell hence the reliance on a developer saying the resolution and frame rate. If they all lied and said 60fps and 1080p most of the obsessives would be happy and not whine!
I only ever notice if a game suddenly dips in performance, a stable 30fps is much preferable.... After all the best FPS ever ran at practically 1/2 that (bring back Goldeneye on a Switch VC for N64!)

I think a lot of people need to calm down about this, and less whining!!
Lego has never been a company which makes consoles, so why would it make a working NES? This is a set designed for adults, which can be displayed (like many other sets)
Lego could easily have done a basic cheaper version with a couple of hundred bricks; however this will be a collector's item, over 2,000 pieces with a high level of detail which AFOLs will appreciate. Sets like this take a couple of years in development.
If you want a working NES go and buy a classic or an old one and old CRT TV!!

@MrBlacky
Lego are repositioning a lot of their sets so it is clear when a set is aimed at adults rather than kids. Is pretty much a rebranding of the Creator Expert sets (which were 16+)
It started with the Star Wars helmets and Haunted House.

@Dark_Magician
That would be great for gamers to get it for £20; however why would Nintendo (or any company) sell the game for less than they can for it?

"creator Lorne Lanning had previously stated that he had "no faith" in the Switch, believing that it would flop just like the Wii U."
Then 'faith' was restored when he realised he could make shed loads of money from porting old games with little development effort.

Ok, so it's a bit but than a quid, but Grim Fandango is currently £2.87. Nintendolife gave it 9/10 when reviewing at the full price of £11.49, so atm this is a steal (until 16/1).

@0muros
Absolutely, Teslagrad for that price is an absolute bargain!

Come on NintendoLife, please do a review of some (if any) that are worth picking up! There have been some games I've not wanted to pay full price for, but happily picked up when heavily discounted. A game with a low score when priced at £20-30 might have a much better rating when a couple of quid.

Does anyone else try not to nod off when trying to read a comment longer than a novel??

When GAME 'merged' with Gamestation, they should have adopted the latter model (and their expertise). They might today still have been a profitable company. Overpriced, poor range, poor staff knowledge, zero customer service....hardly surprising they are dying.

@huyi
Subscribe to Amazon Prime and get unlimited next day delivery for free (including during a 1-month free trial). The other thing to remember for Prime users is that if you're not in a hurry then select saver delivery and you get a £1 or £2 digital discount code which can end up making Prime free during the year.

@Bunkerneath
The £5 off only applies to games (or anything else) which is sold & dispatched by Amazon, so third party sellers are not included. Look for "Dispatched from and sold by Amazon. " on the page if you're unsure.
I've looked and its listed at £42.99 sold direcly by Amazon and then the £5 discount will be available.
Hope this helps!

@SwitchForce
If you are going to try insulting my grasp of my first language, then
1. You might want to learn about punctuation
2. Learn the difference between, and when to use, "your" or "you're".

@SwitchForce
,.....and in English?

@Lionyone
Scrapping the dock from the console would only save a few pounds (about £5-6 in manufacturing), but that decision would immediately scupper the major Switch selling point of being able to dock and become a 'home console'

WARNING for anyone who is tempted by redeeming points for the money-off vouchers!!
I cashed in for a £5 voucher for the NES controllers; however after a week of trying, the second Nintendo store which is the only place to be able to order these controllers will STILL not allow me to enter my correct address (despite the normal store being OK for the last decade!)
As I can't enter my full address and it is likely the controllers would therefore go missing, I reluctantly had to ask Nintendo Customer Service to refund the £5 voucher. THEY HAVE REFUSED.
A rude 'customer service' guy refused point blank saying that as it is a reward scheme they won't and don't have to refund the £5 back to me. I'm awaiting a callback from his manager as there was no-one else in the building that I could speak with - as the guy couldn;t even give me a likelihood of when the callback would be, I'm not expecting this.
He also couldnt explain why the main Nintendo store would offer free delivery but these controllers they charge additional money for (a company called Best Way??? Not a UK company!)

I've been a Nintendo fan since buying the first NES and Gameboy consoles, after 30 years I expect a tiny bit of customer service from them when they can't reliably deliver a controller to my address because their own website is so screwed up and launched without any testing. (Rant Over!)

WARNING for anyone who is tempted by redeeming for the money-off vouchers!!
I cashed in for a £5 voucher for the NES controllers; however after a week of trying, the second Nintendo store which is the only place to be able to order these controllers will STILL not allow me to enter my correct address (despite the usual store being OK for the last decade!)
As I can't enter my full address and it is likely the controllers would therefore go missing, I reluctantly had to ask Nintendo Customer Service to refund the £5 voucher. THEY HAVE REFUSED.
A rude 'customer service' guy refused point blank saying that as it is a reward scheme they won't and don't have to refund the £5 back to me. I'm awaiting a callback from his manager as there was no-one else in the building that I could speak with - as the guy couldn;t even give me a likelihood of when the callback would be, I'm not expecting this.
I've been a NIntendo fan since buying the first NES and Gameboy consoles, after 30 years I expect a tiny bit of customer service from them when they can't reliably deliver a controller to my address because their own website is so screwed up and launched without any testing.

I bet if you develop a stable 30fps game and tell people it is 60fps then 99% of people won't notice. Somehow we have become obsessed with the number of frames per second - I'd much rather have a stable game running at 30 than one which tries to run at 60 and slows down massively on occasion.
Maybe I'm getting too old, all I care about is 'does it play well and is it fun'? Some of the best games of all time have fps at less than 20 (looking at you Zelda OoT & Goldeneye!)
A
side from this, really looking forward to seeing what Bethesda/Panic Button can do with a game which is developed from the ground up, bearing in mind what amazing jobs they've done with their previous ports.

What a surprise, once again people are whining about SD cards. You can pick up a Sandisk or Samsung 128gb card for £32 on Amazon. Even if every download is 20gb, that is still only £5 per game.
The reality is most games need nowhere near that....my 128GB card has 6Gb left and I have over 50 games on it - ranging from Resi Evil Revelations 2 at just over 20gb, and many indie games taking up very little space. So that card has cost me 50pence on average per game.....hardly a problem for anyone in reality!
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I'm currently downloading Wolfenstein, I want to play the game and I'm mature enough to just buy it rather than throw toys out of a pram because some memory storage will be used up!!

Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten I'd bought Oxenfree when it was on sale and never played it. Now just need to find the time.

Very simple answer for MK being back in the charts. Nintendo has been running TV adverts for the Switch featuring MK8 (with a bit on the end highlighting that MK7 & 2DS bundle is available)

Yet again people are whining about storage. Amazon are selling a 200GB Sandisk card for £54.99, which for even the largest games makes it less than a fiver per game. Hardly breaking the bank is it?
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Publishers are bound to prefer that you buy download games - more profit as no physical overheads, plus they don't make money on traded games. Additionally games are sold at 'rrp' which is usually £10 more than physical - this has been the case for years, and for Sony/Microshaft too. Nice extra profit there too.

'Science' has proved that 99.87% of people have no idea of the meaning of the word 'clickbait' but they heard some other muppet whining on about it. Having an article title that makes you want to read it has been around for hundreds of years (that means pre-internet for the youngsters).

@electrolite77
Table refers to 5% for Q4 2017/8 which may be a typo.
Nasdaq website refers to 5% Switch forecasts for Q4 2018, their source being ibi's trading statement. Interestingly Same forecasts from ubi states that their revenue from rereleases/rehashes of old games on different platforms is to increase from 45 to 50%

Bearing in mind they only forecast 5% for Q4 this year, I can't imagine they are going to bother releasing anything for the Switch. Aside from Mario Rabbids, what else was going to be a volume seller? Certainly not Rayman which has been released to death on every platform imaginable and people don't love the franchise.

@ValhallaOutcast
Understand the comment about the unit having USB A & C outputs; however most battery packs also have both A & C now and cost much less than this!

@Audiobrainiac
Amazon prices vary every day (or even by the hour), check regularly and you'll find they are more expensive on thursdays/fridays (for people who order for a weekend delivery). Often the cheapest days for items are Tues or Weds.

@the8thark
Whats the problem with NintendoLife getting a tiny amount of commission from Amazon sales?? It does not cost any of us anything, we still pay the same price, plus it helps keep NintendoLife going - a tiny price to pay for news/reviews/etc.

Bearing in mind how all cats love cardboard, esp boxes and corrugated cardboard (better than any rope scratching post), I've ordered two No.1 kits, one for me, the other for my cats to go ballastic with.

wrt language, there are over 160,000 words in the English language which gives everyone plenty of alternatives to swear words (unless you are under 6).
Sadly Miiverse perished, but Nintendo's zero tolerance policy to swearing and abusive made that a delightful, helpful forum.

@PhilKenSebben
Dunno if they were released in the US, but Nintendo launched bright yellow Joy-Cons with the release of ARMS...have them and when I'm playing in public loads of people want to know how to get hold of them .

GAME is selling it for a whopping £49.99 - how are they managing to stay trading? Must be alot of mugs out there willing to be fleeced.

@ekwcll
Sadly reviews of other platform releases highlight that this is nowhere near as good as The Bunker....perhaps wait for NintendoLife's review before buying!!

@sillygostly

Sorry but I don't understand, you are happy swapping cartridges but not happy with swapping an SD card on a rare occasion? Previously we've all been happy swapping discs and cartridges etc.

I really don't understand why SD cards are such an issue for some people, perhaps someone can explain why?

It would be nice if cash-rich Nintendo decided to buy Panic Button and also ZeniMax (owner of Bethesda & iD amongst others)...imagine what Panic Button could do with F-Zero license or future Metroid games???

Sadly this looks like it'll be a stinker like Don't Knock Twice rather than The Bunker (both from the W.I.) .
Perhaps W.I. need to start some quality control over what games they will publish....as no-one needs another game like this or Coffin Dodgers thank you very much!

@Agramonte
I've never thought the UK market cared much about Kirby (unlike the US market) so not surprised its not high up in the charts, besides its not really a great game / system seller like Mario Kart or Odyssey.

I'm assuming that as usual the 'charts' are for physical sales only, which kind of makes them irrelevant. I was really pleased to see both Skyrim and Doom back in the Switch European download charts during their promotional sale.

I still cannot understand why some people are whining about having to use up memory (either inbuilt or SD). The same people aren't moaning about swapping a game cartridge to change games, or switching discs on prior Nintendo machines or on other consoles. I could sympathise if it was a complicated task to swap an SD card, but it's 5 seconds at most, less than swapping a game on my WiiU!

Some games need more storage than a cartridge can currently provide, my 128GB card is nearly full but it won't stop me just getting another card when required. Oh no that means I might have to waste perhaps 5 seconds a week if I wanted to play some older purchases!! Might even be 10 seconds.......the end of the world is coming

However, I can't wait until Wolfenstein is released, extra downloads won't make any difference, I just hope (and expect) the game plays anything like as well as Skyrim and Doom do on the Switch. All hail Bethesda.

I'm amazed that profits are down when they rip off Switch owners by charging £54.99 for MarioKart & c.£50 for Mario Odyssey.
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Sadly they survived at the expense of Gamestation when they merged, a tie up with Sports Direct shows how low their aspirations go, and they'll be lucky to continue surviving

@MadCow74
Glad you mentioned having reviews on the eshop, I kind of miss the WiiU's basic review system even with its limitations.

Perhaps the ratings could be by NintendoLife and also Metacritic (and I know that might start a massive discussion about why not include/exclude every other review site, which one is best or "my site is better than your site" etc etc!)

Maybe it's just a bad photo, but I never argue or criticise someone who looks like a serial killer.

Completely forgot about this one, I remember the trailer in the early days of Switch (by that nice US guy, not the annoying Reggie)....hopefully it will be worth the long delay.

Why do so many whine about the size of the Joy Cons.....surely it is obvious that they have to be small for a portable machine Two full-size controllers either side of the screen does not make for a usable portable console.

If you're not happy, just buy a Pro controller (or continue throwing toys out of your prams).

For it to be a seller, it needs to
a) launch at the same time as other versions
b) be reasonable next to other versions, ideally cross-platform multiplayer.

Launching a poor port several months later than other versions & then blaming 'lack of mature audience' no longer works as an excuse.

@FragRed
I was pleasantly surprised that the WiiU Miiverse was pretty stable/reliable, hopefully Nintendo has brought in external experts for their online system - everything else about the Switch so far has been pretty spot on.
As for games, I also need to see more than Mario Tennis and Kirby (I think thats an American thing, it never seems to have been popular over here).
Most third parties have held back (not surprising after the WiiU disasters), but hoping that Bethesda's early commitment will be followed by more now Switch sales are sky-high. Personally can't wait for Wolfenstein after the delights of Skyrim and Doom.

As a non-American, I did think SJW was that awful woman who did Sex in the City......quick Google proved even more boring, is Trump a SJW?