GuruOfGreatness

I won't lie, I'm actually quite pleased as it means I can catch up on any backlog, and it's one less major game to worry about over Christmas

Been gaming (with Nintendo always being my number one brand) for 29 years, and have barely ever so much as touched a Zelda game as they were just never fully my thing, and I generally lose interest once I get majorly stuck on a bit.

However, I started to get into them somewhat with the Windwaker HD on the Wii U, and then some 3DS Zeldas, and bought Links Awakening HD the other day, and I absolutely love it.

I may be around 25 years late with this one, but it was definitely worth every penny

Absolutely LOVE House Of The Dead but dammit I love Virtua Cop more......bring us Virtua Cop!!!!

@Ooccoo_Jr

This!!! My thoughts exactly!!!!

Interested, but I still have Black Flag for the Wii U sealed/shrinkwrapped sitting on my shelf. Never played it on any platform 🥴

Be a real bloody shame if you bought it on the 16th 😂

Lord yes, PowerStone 3 would be day one for me. Hell, take my money now.

Was my favourite fighting game(s) of all time until Christmas just gone when I got Smash Ultimate and after 21 years, I FINALLLLLLLLLLLLLY "got it", and understood what all the Smash fuss and magic was about.

This subsequently now puts PowerStone in second place, but damn, it held its title for me as best fighting game (that isn't an N64 wrestling game) for 2 decades, and TBH, if Smash Ultimate is a 10/10 for me, then PowerStone 2 is a 9.9/10

A bit of Super Smash Bros for the 3DS so far. Hoping to find time to play another hour later on.

Day one physical purchase for me

@MoonKnight7

Well, fingers crossed then

@MoonKnight7

Hmmmmmmm.......thank you. I thought that might be the situation.

Bit of a predicament now, as I LOVE the Wolfenstein games, and GAME has it for £34.99 with a 3 month Switch Online pass, so it saves me a few quid in September too to renew my membership. Got my pre-order too.

But, much like i never caved in and got Sonic Mania when it was just a box with a code in, as I always assumed that due to it's sales and high praise, that it would get a physical release, and it did, so I bought it; I would guess that maybe one day Wofenstein will get the same treatment.

So, apologies for my ignorance, but does this mean that the code I will get in the box on Friday will be 22GB? The same as if i were to download it from the eShop?

Well I would re-new my subscription in September anyway, so that's £17.99 anyway (I think), so if the game is only around the £25 mark, I don't mind paying a few extra quid to get it physical as well.

I doubt of course it will be that cheap, but if I ever see it for that price I would bite; otherwise I'll just stick to the subscription re-newal

@Razer

So in general, you usually turn up to discussions to complain about something or voice your opinion as fact, but irrespective of that, now you have stooped to an all time low and had a dig at/questioned someone's parenting skills and their methods, as well as stating quite possibly the most moronic thing by alluding that any online harassment from Nintendos service may toughen a child up, and that worse things in life await her.

You clearly are not a parent yourself, as if you were, I would like to think you would realise how stupid you actually made yourself sound, and what a ridiculous thing that would be to say to either a parent or child.

Not bad if you're on the lookout for a Switch, especially if you find a bundle for roughly the same price with some physical extras too

Only got "Team Sonic Racing" on Switch last week so will wait a few months before I get this unless I see it for £20 or less for some reason.

@gamefreak77

But the actual console itself is still selling isn't it? As are the games that are already out and manufactured for it I would assume. If so, I'd continue to sell the console and games already out IF they were still bringing me in a tidy little profit.

At just under 8 and a half years on the market, does anyone else see Nintendo to continue cashing in on the 3DS family until the 10 year anniversary mark, whereby they release some super special edition of the console?

Personally, I hope Nintendo keep doing whatever works for them and makes them money; they're a business at the end of the day.

If I had an older product that still continued to sell even after I had released a new product, therefore having both products make me money, why would I stop selling the old product?

Probably in my top three favourite Wii U games. Would happily buy a sequel day one. A port of the original, I would EASILY cave in and get it, but maybe not day one.

Day one purchase

Did I read it somewhere (on this site) a while ago that Wolfenstein will be a download code in a box only and not on an actual cartridge, or did I just imagine this whole scenario?

@USWITCH64

Not much point in that considering I asked for them

Birthday in a few days and I think my wife has bought me Assassins Creed 3 and Team Sonic Racing (both on the Switch)

Number 3 will always hold a soft spot for me, as it still is the only AC game that I've ever completed (the story that is, not 100% it).

I always liked the idea behind the AC game(s), but was never able to get very far with them, as they are such long games that I simply never had the time for, and couldn't hog the TV to play as well (am currently having the same problem with Odyssey on Xbox One X; bought the console and game as an impulse buy last November and never really find the time to play it, yet I LOVE the game, but there is not a chance in hell I will ever even have the time to ever complete the base story, let alone any DLC and all the side missions, which is why I will also never buy Red Dead Redemption 2 unless it comes to Switch).

The Wii U however changed all that for me; I completed nearly the whole game using just the GampePad (with just a few sessions on the big TV) whilst my wife could watch her crappy TV programmes.

So I feel I may end up caving in and getting it again as I can enjoy it once again on the Switch without ever needing the TV (though I will naturally take those very rare occasions and play big when I get the chance lol). It's not a priority though as I want to complete Saints Row 3 first, and I still want Sonic Racing and Yoshi's Crafted World.

I have always wondered why number 3 gets the hate it does, but then, I'm hardly a hardcore AC pro.

p.s I am actually very guilty of having the always considered wonderful "Black Flag" for the Wii U sitting on my shelf for about 4 years now, still sealed/shrinkwrapped, so I have absolutely no idea if the game is as good as what people say it is, I just know it gets a lot of love. I'll eventually crack it open lol.

Just played the first 5 minutes. Anyone know why my (very little) progress didn't save? It did say something about not being able to save at checkpoints or something along those lines. Anyone know when I can save before I progress further into the game?

@Agent721

But yet here in the UK, the cheapest you find it brand new on ebay roughly is around £40. A lot ask for more, I've just seen one for £69.99, and another for £109. So a PAL version is clearly quite collectable here.

I had it on the Wii U but traded it in. Sadly this was in the early days when trading in a Wii U game was normal to me, as little did I know that rebuying them years later would cost me double or more of what I originally paid due to the consoles and games scarcity

However, I am a sucker for anything World War 2 so will probably cave in and get this again, though I might wait for number 3 to come out first and get that as I've never played it.

Doesn't surprise me at all. Surely if it still brings them in a modest income then it's worth keeping and supporting. They're a business trying to make money, so if the 3DS still makes them money, why stop?

It has fantastic value and a monstrous library of games, no need to kill it yet whatsoever, especially if they have/do stop producing new titles for it and just focus on selling/manufacturing the games they already DO have for it, then surely it'll just continue to bring in revenue for them at very little cost.

I'm still in the minority that thinks it'll hit the 10 year mark in March 2021, and that Nintendo will release an Anniversary Edition 3DS of some sort.

If I don't get it day one, it won't be too long afterwards before I get it. Some point in June no doubt. Oh, and yeah, Switch version all the way for me

I don't like or buy digital at all really, but I ended up with over £20 eShop credit as a gift last year that I have on my 3DS that I still haven't used, so might see how much the New Super Mario Bros 2 comes to and get that.

Kirbys Extra Epic Yarn. Am hooked on the beautiful little charmer. Never got round to playing it on the Wii.

I would ordinarily get this day one, but I go away a week after its launch and I don't usually find the time to play new purchases for a few days after I've bought them, so figured I might as well just wait until I get back. Definitely a purchase for me.

Anyone else think that Nintendo might try and push/milk it to 10 years before abandoning it completely? I think with a few more designs (colours), a final price drop, and the odd game here and there that they could make it to a decade. Would be nice

Love WW2 games too much to pass up on these. Day one for me

Got my copy from GAME this lunch time. Probably be ages until I finally open it and play it, but still happy to have it.

As for killing the 3DS off; if it still generates Nintendo money, why would/should they kill it off?

When it's not worth their time and effort to support it, then I'd say it's worth selling off their stock and calling it a day.

But I think they could just reduce the models they have to a final reduction price to simplify it (and perhaps just officially offer the 2DS, New 2DS XL and New 3DS XL) , and live off the sales of those and the MASSIVE 3DS (and DS) library that already exists, without even creating/releasing any more games for it.

If it gets a physical release in any way, I'll get it day one.

Got mine pre-ordered from GAME. I've also had Planet Robobot for nearly 3 months now sitting on my shelf still sealed, waiting to be played. Not sure which Kirby game to start first now lol

Share my memories of Smash; purchasing every single Smash game since 1999, and wanting so BAD to like them as much as the likes of PowerStone, but just never being able to get "IT" and subsequently being really disappointed, until Ultimate released on the Switch...... now, after 20 years, I get it

Children are asleep, wife is out at a party, so thought I would finally pop Starlink in to give it a try, but it's got an hour and a half update so looks like I might not find out tonight after all

If it gets a physical Western release then I'll get it day one.

Got Warriors Orochi 4 for the Switch on launch day and am 40 hours in and on stage 50 I think; literally just put it down about 15 minutes ago.

I only do physical full stop, so it's an obvious one for me regardless of the extra incentive. Going to pick my copy up from GAME at some point on Friday (having £80 store credit and being a GAME Elite Member is more of an incentive to me). Will be good to play this through again

Pre-ordered NSMBU Deluxe. Look forward to playing that again

I would get Dynasty Warriors 8 immediately if it were physical as I don't do digital. Hope it does get a physical release.

Favourite retail purchases in general this year for Switch as I don't do digital whatsoever. ...... Super Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors, Kirby Star Allies and Warriors Orochi 4. 3DS goes to Luigis Mansion.

Physical all the way.

I love the box art too much, the feeling of ownership with the case on my shelf, and I love feeling that I've actually purchased something from a shop when I leave.

I will never convert to digital until the games are at least 50% of the price of physical, and until there is some weird way that gives you the ability to trade them back in.

Even then though, digital also throws away any chance of a particular game becoming a collectors item, so meh, I still don't know lol.

Along with Odyssey and LA Noire, my three favourite games on the Switch so far. Congratulations

@Medic_alert

Sorry about that, I don't think you pushed reply so I had no idea that you had responded to my query lol.

Thank you very much though

Hopefully put my mind at ease that my X isn't a dud (although the controller does feel a bit used for a console that's barely been touched since I got it last month, though this could just be my OCD wreaking havoc with me lol; I just wouldn't expect the analogue sticks or the triggers to move so freely when it's brand new out of the box; and the home button really needs to be pushed down far/deep on this model to get back to the home menu, I don't remember needing to do that on my original Xbox One).

p.s I got Odyssey last night from GAME for £34.99 when their sale started. Just need Red Dead Redemption 2 and Battlefield V for around the £30 mark now lol.

@Medic_alert

I will definitely get Oddyssey, but I am a strictly physical games only guy lol.

I like the X too, although I won't lie, I do not have a 4K TV, so I don't really know what I'm missing out on visually.

I'm impressed with what I've seen and played so far, but don't know how different it would look in 4K.

The only reason I got an X over the S was because a) I managed to get it thrown in with a new TV I was getting for mine and my wife's bedroom for an amazing price (the new TV Is not a 55 inch 4K one though), and b) the repayments were only a couple of quid extra per month, so I thought meh, might as well go for the best of the best as it where.

Considering I'm a guy that really doesn't care about graphics, the latest mod cons and technology etc, and I am in fact pretty much a 32 year old technophobe, I surprised a lot of people, myself included when I got the X lol.

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but I do have a question about the console if you don't mind? Is the X supposed to run faster when booting up the console and installing games etc? I have all the energy saving modes etc set on, as with a wife, children and two businesses, I very rarely find time to fame full stop (I will NEVER see the ending of Odyssey and Red Dead Redemption 2 when I've got them lol, unless it's on YouTube), but I just thought it would run really quickly considering it's meant to be so powerful. Could just be me though, or knowing my luck I've got a dud. Just doesn't seem any quicker than when I used to have the original Xbox One.

@Medic_alert

Completely agree about price drop race, as lovely as it is to see a top game for £10 instead of £40, IMO it just goes to also show how saturated the games market it as most games are extremely similar; usually FPS or some form of apocalyptic open world game.

I guess this is why I love Nintendo games and am happy to pay full price for them, because we don't get yearly installments of all their franchises. If we did, they too would become more worthless IMO.

This is why I HATE yearly installments of games, because as good as they are on release day, within two or three months they are yesterdays news and everyone has moved on and is awaiting the next installment.

One of the reasons I picked up an Xbox One X last month was because of Assassins Creed Oddyssey and Red Dead Redemption 2, amongst a small handful of other games I missed.

There was no chance in hell I was paying £50 for Assassins Creed Oddyssey when if I wait until tonight or tomorrow, I will undoubtedly be able to pick it up for £25

Red Dead Redemption 2 on the other hand, is only the second installment of a franchise in 8/9 years, which, again, IMO gives it that extra special, non watered down, worth every penny on launch day feel to it.

I don't own the game yet as the first game I got for the X was last years WW2 COD, as I LOVE WW1 and WW2 games, which is why I was bitterly disappointed when I saw Battlefield V's incredibly short campaign. I was expecting them to put the effort in like they did with Battlefield 1

Does anyone else not care if Nintendo IP games never have any/much discount on Black Friday (or at any other time of the year really)?

I guess my reasoning is that I simply have no issue paying £40-£50 for a Nintendo game at any time of year, as not only do I know I will probably enjoy it more than other developers games, but the replay value for Nintendo games is kind of everlasting IMO, and I will very, very, very rarely ever feel I want to trade a Nintendo IP game in.

I could not however bring myself any more to pay £50 for a PS4 or Xbox One game full stop, let alone at this time of year when they will all be reduced to half price or less, and subsequently traded in within a year after completion.

This of course could just be me, but I'm just curious.