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Getting tired of studios announcing games 2 years in advance (which will of course be delayed) so they expect people to create a 3-year hype cycle? Give me a break. Tell me about a game when it's completely done and less than 6 months from release.

@TerribleTerabytes I gave it a shot…that’s what the demo was for. Didn’t enjoy it at all.

Played the demo for 30 minutes. That’s enough for me. Has Smash Bros vibes (which makes sense) and that’s another series I don’t really enjoy.

I’ll continue to get my racing fill from Mario Kart World as I wait for Metroid.

Best Switch 2 case hands down. Been using their Switch case for years now. Very protective and very compact. Highly recommended. Every product of theirs that I’ve used - Switch 1 & 2 cases, laptop cases, iPad cases - have been well designed and manufactured. They just make good products.

@Hordak Look on Amazon for the Tomtoc case for Switch 2. That’s my preferred case brand for my gaming and computing devices. They make a nice slim case for the Switch 2. Multiple colors are in stock for delivery within the next week (in the US, not sure about UK or EU).

@OtterXPT That was my assumption as well.

Tomtoc made a great case for the Switch 1 that I’ve been using for years. I bought the Switch 2 case as soon as it became available last month and it does not disappoint.

@Mario500 April 24, the day the Switch 2 was initially up for preorder in the US.

@AllBLK To be fair, I’m not a big GameStop fan either but the preorder experience for this round of hardware releases went smoothest at GameStop in-person orders/pickup.

I showed up on 4/24 and waited in line for a couple hours until the store opened and then preordered a console. My wife went yesterday and waited in for about 30 minutes and preordered one for herself.

We went to the store at 11p last night and collected them about 90 minutes later. I commented to her that this whole experience has been surprisingly smooth.

The case in this article seems to be one or a few employees trying to make everything run smoother but making a pretty big screw up in the process.

I just LOL at people that are getting angry at something that hasn’t even happened yet (and with Switch 2, may never happen or may be extraordinarily rare…we just don’t know yet).

8 years of Switch ownership and I’ve fortunately never experience drift on any JoyCon or Pro Controller. Nether have either of my sons on their Switches. If it happens I’ll get it fixed (same with Switch 2), but I’m not going to get all bent out of shape about something that hasn’t happened (and may never happen).

So tired of the internet whining about absolutely EVERYTHING. Give it a rest.

@StewdaMegaManNerd I signed up less than an hour after the end of the direct on 4/2. Been a paid NSO member since day 1 (family account…I’m the organizer and pay the bill for the account I share with my two kids). Hundreds of hours on games like BOTW, TOTK and Animal Crossing as well as dozens of hours on many other individual games. Info sharing has been on since day 1. No invite here either. 🤷‍♂️

@AverageGamer Every year they sell through launch day stock within an hour of pre-orders going live, so clearly you are wrong.

What doesn’t happen is a big “sold out” button on the web page. They still sell you one and just push back the delivery date. That’s exactly what they should do here and that would cut off the scalper market at the knees.

Got one via Best Buy. What a nightmare (as expected).

Amazing how Apple can, every year without fail, run an orderly preorder on multiple high-end smartphones and it goes off without any major hiccups - and they’ve been doing this for years. A new iPhone is never listed as SOLD OUT. When the iPhone launch stock is depleted they happily take your order and just give you a later shipping estimate. They never turn customers away with SOLD OUT.

And because there are no iPhone preorder problems and because iPhone preorders are never sold out, there is no massive iPhone scalping problem like there is with consoles. It’s these chaotic preorders that lead to the scalpers taking advantage of the situation.

I wish the CEOs of Nintendo and Sony would call Tim Cook and ask for some advice on how to properly run a preorder.

@ZeldaCupcake Worry about that in 50 years. I’m guessing at that time you’ll be playing whatever is the latest game on your Switch 7 and not trying to figure out how to play a game from 2025.

@Samalik The odds of anyone wanting to play one of these games in 50 years is about zero. If any of these games turns out to be a classic for the ages then it will be re-released a dozen times in countless formats over those same 50 years.

Digital is the way of the future in all types of media, not just games. Either get on board of be left behind.

@Darknyht We are a very long ways from that because a $100 game in the SNES heyday of 1994 would be over $210 in today’s dollars. Or looking backwards, an $80 game today would be less than $40 back in 1994.

The value of money changes over time. $100 in 1994 is valued much differently than $100 in 2025.

@FlashmanHarry Mario Kart 8 is nearly 11 years old and it still retails for its full price.

@Cathalm Physical games cost more to produce, so I’m happy that I no longer have to subsidize those additional costs as a digital-only customer. If you want physical games then you can pay the additional costs of production and shipping. If you don’t want to pay those additional costs, the eShop is available on your system where you can purchase the game at a lower price.

@8bit4Life Not just having a Nintendo Account, but should require a Nintendo account that has been in existence for at least one year and then limit one console per Nintendo Account to purchase directly from Nintendo. They can remove that limitation after the first few weeks of preorders, but at least that would allow real fans to get the first crack at preorders.

Anything sold though traditional retailers is going to be a sh*t-show as it always is.

@CupidStunt A Nintendo Account that’s been active for a minimum specified time period like a year or two in order to prevent people from creating new accounts just to place orders for scalping.

Do what Apple does (successfully every year, I might add). Stop relying solely on retailers. Nintendo should sell consoles themselves on their website. And the console should NEVER be listed as “sold out”. They sell through the launch day stock and then you can still order one, just with a later shipping date. Your order is fulfilled first-come first-serve and when your console becomes available they fulfill your order, whether that’s a week after launch or a month. None of this sold out nonsense.

Also for good measure at launch, make it a requirement that you must have a Nintendo Online Account that has been active for at least one year in order to make the purchase (and limited to one per user).

Once past the launch rush then they can sell through their normal retail channels.

So it hasn’t even been announced yet and we already have articles complaining about it?! 🤦‍♂️

There exist very small M.2 SSD cards in sizes up to at least 2T with transfer speeds of 5000MB/s or more. In 2024 is kind of silly to still be using speed and size constrained SSD cards. Then again this is Nintendo we are talking about. They always seem to keep a media type around for one generation past its sell-by date.

Sure inserting an M.2 SSD is not as simple as inserting an SD card (although it’s still pretty simple…it’s still plug-and-play), but the trade off is well worth the additional effort of gasp having to tighten a screw.

What should the Switch 2 have? More powerful hardware and ergonomic joy cons.

All of the other ideas in this article are just absurd. They’re just failed gimmicks from previous consoles (back touch, microphone, etc) or ideas that have had their time, but their time has passed (street pass).

@Scottdevine53 You and everyone else already has a phone in their pocket. The Switch 2 doesn’t need to be a media player.

@rushiosan Except for the people that weren't alive then and are playing it for the first time. How hard is it to mark spoilers as "SPOILERS"? Just because you and I have played the game decades ago doesn't mean that everyone else has. It's just being considerate of others so they can enjoy the same experience we did.

Is it really so unreasonable to ask people to mark spoilers as spoilers and not spoil the ending for people who are going to play the game at a regular pace and not play straight through for 30 hours? [Narrator: It’s not.]

With as chaotic and disorganized hardware launches are with broken websites from incompetent retailers, predatory retailers locking hardware behind subscription services and unwanted bundles of crap shovelware and useless accessories, stock shortages, and online bots and scalpers scooping up everything available in a matter of seconds, I absolutely dread the next console launch. What used to be a fun time filled with anticipation is now a miserable experience filled with dread.

I still hope beyond hope after all these years that Nintendo, Sony, and the rest would finally learn from Apple how to conduct a hardware launch properly. Apple manages to sell tens of millions of high-end iPhones worldwide every single September without the interference of inept retailers and rapacious scalpers. Just go on the Apple website and place your order and get a delivery estimate based on first come first serve. No “out of stock, come back later” alerts. No item disappearing from your cart as soon as you go to check out. It just works, and usually pretty smoothly. You may have to wait as long as two months for it to arrive depending on when you order, but you can place the order at your leisure and know you’ll get your phone without having to play a bunch of games.

The video game console manufacturers just dump their supply into the market and let the free-for-all ensue. The only ones that benefit from their incompetence are the scalpers. Absolutely terrible and not looking forward to it at all.

If they are going to wait on humans to stop killing each other with war to release a game, they might as well fold up shop as a company because if history is a guide, sadly humans will always be at war with one another.

“Coming soon to Kickstarter” means they want my money for a product that doesn’t actually exist, may never exist, and may be money flushed down the drain.

Please review it when it actually exists and we can go to the store and buy one.

“Coming to Kickstarter”…let us know when it’s an actual product in an actual store, not just some people asking for money for something that doesn’t actually exist yet.

Please at least be honest in the reporting. Nintendo didn't send anyone to jail. The Department of Justice convicted a person of two felonies and a judge sentenced him to jail.

@geox30 Same here. 1.0.4 “You are using the latest version of this software.”