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One of the 1-2-Switch mini games is about cracking a safe, hence the robber outfit.
Another is a Western style quick draw, two players facing each other and being first with their 'gun'.
Then there is milking a cow... let's just say the action needed seems ideally suited to gentlemen with hairy palms.

I'm lucky enough to have a ticket for Sunday, I'm really looking forward to this! (I don't have hairy palms.)

Is Alex's boss on some Witness Protection Scheme? That sounded like a serious voice changer rather than a phone line.

Got the email, but I'm another who can't get the link to work on my phone.

I shall just have to dust my laptop down, like I'm living in the stone age.

^ Kart not cart.

Also, wasn't Project Cars a buggy mess when it first came out? As in invisible walls across the track...

Wasn't Need for Speed Wii U regarded as one of, if not the best version?

I'm another Gran Turismo fan, it got me back into gaming with the PS1. I wish there were more racing games on Ninty - good ones I mean. On the 3DS we've got Ridge Racer and... that's it. (Sorry, not really a huge Mario Cart fan - maybe because I'm rubbish at it - flippin' shells)

An EA port of the phone game Real Racing 3 on the Switch would do nicely. Plus as per another thread, Tekken or Dead or Alive - really enjoyed that on 3DS - would be great.

I have a list of games, reasons to finally buy Wii U if the price drops and raid the second hand stores, but Need for Speed is going for over £80 in some places!

Good gawd some of you are a tough crowd.
My wife (1,000+ hours in) was puzzled when I said I wanted this game, because she never thought it'd be my type of game, as it has a lack of exploding helicopters. But I love it (600+ hours), it's a perfect little chill game.

I always thought it'd be perfect for some DLC - extra islands, an expanded town or even an extra town. While we don't have that, we have a shed load of extra content, for free.

We have amibo cards and figures, but we bought the figures just because, and selling the duplicate cards at CEX means they almost paid for themselves.

You don't have to use amibo, it just adds another element.

I'm really impressed Nintendo has done this, and for free. Top fan service.

Even if there still aren't any exploding helicopters.

Hold on... You can use your smartphone?

So Just Dance being made for the Switch (yay! First mention in the thread!) doesn't necessarily mean Switch has motion controllers...

If the console is docked and you are playing on the tellie, what use is the screen showing?
Are you supposed to have the dock next to you to touch the screen if you are sat on the floor, or to keep getting up from the sofa to use the touch screen? (If it is a touchscreen?)

I genuinely curious to how having the screen showing would actually work.

@WilliamCalley - if you don't think your children can look after it why would you let them take it out of the house?

We didn't let our young 'un have a 3DS because we knew the hinge wouldn't last. If only Nintendo had thought about this sort of thing and invented, oh, I dunno, a 2DS or something.

So the whole streetpass thing isn't for you either as you don't travel with a handheld. Fair enough, but I'm getting a bit bored of people moaning because Switch doesn't meet their needs exactly.

It isn't perfect for me either by any stretch, but I'm still feeling positive about what it will do.

@The_Dude_Abides - other makers of consoles are available; I really don't know why you're on a Nintendo forum.

If a household has several Switches, you wouldn't want to pay for a dock every time you bought one for your kids or when your partner bought one would you?

I can see the dock as a separate buy, much like the 3DS charger.

If they'd shown touchscreen capabilities everyone would be saying "huh. It's just a tablet with controllers blu-tacked to the side".

Few understood the Wii U at launch so I think Nintendo got it right, focusing on it being a games machine.

I am very sad that this is the death of the portability of the 3DS, the dual screen, the streetpasses - but I absolutely think Nintendo have done what they needed to.

It's a reboot for games machines, a new line and it can only grow and improve.

Camera? Switch XL? The potential is astounding. Imagine the hype if Apple had launched this thing.

I don't know much about Skyrim other than it's a biggie - the fact it's being ported gives me hope that the Switch is going to be an attractive device for developers, with no 3D or second screen to worry about and not too alien a 'backroom'.

Real Racing 3 please?

As soon as I read the title I knew it'd be an Alex vid.

As ever, top work. I'm glad someone remembers this whole gamer thing is supposed to be fun!

I noticed a couple of weeks ago I wasn't getting hits at CEX anymore.
It's a shame, Costa Coffee, a couple of pubs near me, WHSmiths, Argos - they have all switched off in the last year or so.

I can remember the "too easy!" outcry when the relays first appeared, but they made the streetpass games a lot more fun.

I still take my 3DS with me though, whenever possible.

Must admit I've only played Mirror of Fate.

I know it didn't get glowing reviews but I really enjoyed it (flat ending aside) and have played through it a few times.

I thought the graphics and 3d were fantastic, the music atmospheric and the game perfect for a blast now and again.

Oh and totally off topic, I can't for the life of me get this site to show my avatar the right way up. Grrr.

The handheld/console idea worries me a bit because of pricing.

My wife and I both have a 3DS, our kids have a 3DS (well, used to, he lost/broke several) and a 2DS.

I can imagine there are many houses with more than one 3DS in them. The console capability will obviously add cost to the unit, but is it needed for every unit if there are several in one household?

If the connectivity/local play is done right, surely you need a 'master' unit and to offer cheaper 'slave' units with less or no console capability.

The 3DS seems to be in rude health still, while the WiiU is gently being put out to pasture, so I not convinced about the hybrid rumours just yet.

I'm 45.

I'm not entirely sure how that happened, but yeah, 45.

I feel lucky to have been there at the start; pac-man, Space Invaders etc.
An Atari system at home then a 48k Spectrum. (48k!)
Software houses like Ultimate Play the Game felt genuinely mysterious and exciting, from the packaging to the games - new things were being invented all the time.

I drifted away from games later on, (controllers that only had buttons? No no no, a joystick and one fire button please!) until I saw an advert on TV for Gran Turismo on the PS1. It blew me away, the realistic (OK, OK, I know) graphics, the freedom of movement after sprite based racers like Outrun.
I bought a PS1 the next week. Tomb Raider followed, I can remember creeping into the first corridor step by step because I still had games like Manic Miner in my head, where every pixel was important. When the corridors opened up it was a genuine jaw dropper. See also: Metal Gear Solid.

But this isn't a "you young 'uns don't know what you missed" rant, because we've never had it so good, never had so much variety and quality. Resident Evil: Revelations, Castlevania, Ocarina, Ace Attorney, Leyton, VLR, the Bravelys, Dead or Alive, Fantasy Life - the 3DS is brilliant, and of you value game play above graphics it still has legs.
It's immersive like no other system I've known, it's still "keys, wallet, phone, 3DS and maybe I'll swing past a Ninty Hotspot while I'm in town".

If you'll listen to a (cough, relatively) old guy - keep playing, and you'll never have to grow up.

Oh I'm old, so old!

Saturday nights as a young kid used to be my parents meeting up with friends at a pub, me playing with their kids on our bikes, on the swings and in the nearby wood.

As the night drew in we'd go inside, and there would be a tabletop arcade machine. Space Invaders... Then one night it had changed to Asteroids. (Or was it the other way around?)
The disappointment then joy one week when the game had changed and Donkey Kong appeared! Of course I didn't know about Nintendo then, but the game was amazing, the future. Hard too at that age, pixel perfect jumps, the competition with friends and against the high score tables - names you recognised every week but never knew, a stack of coins from the bank of Dad on the table next to a coke and bag of crisps.

Much later as a teenager their would be holidays and seaside arcades, and twice a year the fair would come to town. Teenage kicks on the rides with friends, and yeah, the arcades. The sit-in Star Wars cabinet still gives me a tingle thinking about it!

Of course you grow up and life takes over. Consoles come and go. It was only when I met the girl who would be my wife that I discovered Nintendo again through her - I adore the 3DS. (And her, obviously).

So now there are family holidays with small arcades, and I have a son asking for (a lot more) coins, and would I like to maybe play with him, shoot a few zombies or have a race?

Sigh. Oh go on then, if I really must...

@Dpishere - I've always thought New Leaf is ripe for extra downloadable content, maybe unlocked after xxx hours of play.

Not just new items in the shops, maybe a new neighbouring town, or island with different things happening.

I know all talk recently is about a new NX shiny thing, but really I don't need more powerful whizz bang graphics in AC, but more content would be cool.

@louisabhairam - so who are your favourite villagers? Walt, Tiffany and Sly are my 'keepers', though I still miss Merry and Leonardo.

I'm not sure if really living in a town with big cartoon animals would be a joy or terrifying though!

I can remember the New Leaf previews coming out and my wife getting excited.
I was pretty new to Ninty at the time but it intrigued me.
Of course I had to keep this quiet because as my wife said "it's not your type of game, there are no exploding helicopters", so I went back to Resi: Revelations and Dead or Alive.

Course, now I'm 600 hours into New Leaf and would happily move there. I just love that there are no real objectives, other than what you want to do and make of it.

@Discostew - to be fair that's why I'm not allowed on an East Coast Mainline train for the next ten years.

Though it'd be handy for watching rude things in public.

I've said too much....

The whole VR thing seems a panicky bandwagon that manufacturers feel they have to get on.
Other than "um, it's VR" I haven't seen a real reason to buy, no game (no pun intended) changing software. It seems a concept too early, it hasn't had a reason for being yet.

But that's not the reason I think it won't be a huge success.

The reason for that is because people are going to realise you look an utter, utter lemon wearing it.

I just hope it doesn't go too far down the 'Saw' style gotta shock route.

The real horror for me was the claustrophobic situation and confusion of the predicament. The slow burn made it for me, and Virtue reminded me why I'm still a gamer: because there are still those moments where you go "I wasn't expecting that!"

I fully understand these sorts of thing aren't for all tastes, but for me (and hopefully a lot of other people) this game coming out is an event.

I'm so glad a little gray cartridge (or minutes staring at little colourful squares) can still make me feel like that.

I'm probably on my own here among talk of the NX, but I think as a device the 3DS still has years in it.

To give some context I'm... ahem... an older gamer. Old enough to remember the excitement when the table top arcade Donkey Kong at the pub my parents used to take me to as a small child got replaced with Donkey Kong Jr.

I came back to Nintendo late, when my girlfriend (now wife) had a DS.

I'm not that bothered about graphics or processor power; I dropped out that race long ago. But what does matter to me is games.

Currently playing Bravely Second, 600 hours sunk in Animal Crossing - DOA blew me away after Street Fighter on the Amiga (ask your parents). I shied away from Zelda because I had a prejudice that it was 'childish' until I played Ocarina. I was very wrong. Resident Evil Revelations? 'mazin.

On a handheld. Fitting into a busy life perfectly - my Playstaion(s) gather dust but the 3DS is never far away. Because it's convenient, because the games are brilliantly immersive and different (Zero Escape). Yes, it isn' t powerful graphically or processor wise but it's about the games.

I do get why third party support isn't there, and Ninty seem to shoot themselves in the foot regularly, but the 3DS is a wonderful little box.

I just wish we had more Castlevania, more RE: revelations (a unique 3DS Tomb Raider using that game engine, anyone?) and that Nintendo were more aggressive in pushing their strengths and differences.

No spoilers, but there is a boss who is going to launch a thousand cosplay outfits.

He's a rum old Cove to beat though.

Excuse me - I have some more dungeon grinding to do before facing him again.