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@BuhBuhBuhBanned they won't return to 3D after they lost that lawsuit and had to pay royalties to the original Inventor for every 3DS they sold. Why do you think they came out with the 2DS?

@KoiTenchi totally agree, so many comments on here talking about how they're a waste of money but how else are we gonna get figures of our favourite characters?! Yeah sure let me spend a grand on those Pyra and Mythra figures 🙄

@gcunit yeah I can't deny the vast improvement in recent figures compared to the OG waves, do you think they went to a different supplier?

@RainbowSplatter I've been considering ordering on eBay from a scalper because I feel such a burning hunger for that art book, but 3x the retail price is just 🤮🤮🤮
Is it wrong to claim your order didn't turn up if it's from a scumbag scalper?

@Toads-Friend omg I would love that! And restock the glow in the dark boo, goomba, and koopa while they're at it!

@Bunkerneath ah man I'm so sorry they f***ed up your order again, if you ever need a hand with an order I'd be happy to help!

@gcunit they were £10.99 back when they first came out, then Nintendo saw how much other retailers were selling them for and upped the price to £12.99... I did notice a few of the restocks came out at the original price a while back, but that has long since stopped being the case now. I thought £10.99 was pushing it but I'm in too deep now to stop with only 3 figures away from a full collection, thankfully I've only ever bought one amiibo for more than what Nintendo wanted for it and that was the Zelda Loftwing figure because the UK store effed up my order. Was lucky enough to still find it in stock on GAME so I'm happy to confirm I've never had to fill a scalper's pocket!

@dazzleshell I very much doubt Nintendo will stop making new amiibo once the Smash collection is finished, I'm betting there will be some for the Zelda release in May and it wouldn't surprise me if they made more for Mario's next game release. I do think they'll go up in price again though, since people seem so willing to pay over the odds on other shopping platforms.

Oh god Sephiroth barely lasted 24 hours in stock, this does not bode well for future releases 🤦🏼‍♂️

@gcunit omg I would love that, I desperately want the glow in the dark boo and the yarn poochy but I refuse to pay the extortionate prices on eBay. Keeping my fingers crossed that one day I'll proudly display them on my shelves!

@Angelic_Lapras_King @RupeeClock I'm convinced it's all in an effort to avoid the meltdown over pre-ordering something like what happened with the Xenoblade 3 collectors edition, they seem to be doing better with stock levels lately (with amiibo anyway) so perhaps they feel it's better to avoid the chaos of pre-orders entirely and just shadow drop things like this?

@Bunkerneath I feel your pain, I truly do. I'm sure I've told you this before but when they first launched (after shutting down the perfectly functional but also awful service the Hut Group ran - the official Nintendo store UK) their systems were so bad they couldn't accept my flat number in the address section, so I had two orders sent back to them despite following their advice of putting my flat number in the last name field(!) which of course did not work. Then they were refusing my card for some unfathomable reason, they really are totally incompetent.

@Bunkerneath that's nothing, I saw one on eBay for £75. Very reminiscent of the Xenoblade 3 collectors edition going for £200 shortly after selling out on the UK store for only £30 a pop.

@RupeeClock @Bunkerneath @gaga64 @MoogleMuffins oh I'm so relieved, we all succeeded against the scalpers! Let's hope @Matl gets chance to order before they sell out. Eff sake MNS why do you have to be this way 🤦🏼‍♂️

@gaga64 @MoogleMuffins @Bunkerneath @RupeeClock @Matl I checked the UK store yesterday afternoon and they weren't listed, however checking just now shows them as out of stock, how is this store so effing incompetent?! I have no faith I'll manage to get Pyra & Mythra knowing how popular they are and how ridiculous trying to buy anything from this "shop" is 🤦🏼‍♂️

@MoogleMuffins I'm waiting on the UK store as well because I refuse to let Amazon get away with price gouging, I don't get why they're dragging their heels though?

What a weird way to structure the dates, I thought I'd missed something with Kirby only having the 30th 🤔

Oh nooo how sad there are a few niggles holding the game back! I've already bought it as there was a discount and I had enough gold points to basically get the game for free, but I'll hold back on playing until these issues have been ironed out as I want to love the whole game as much as I love the art and animations.
Please keep us posted on the patch front, nlife!

Dreading the inevitable My Nintendo Store crash when the 5 Pyra & Mythra Nintendo decided to make go on sale

@Miu did you watch the trailer? There's literally a moment where the character runs up to the edge of a cliff exactly like in BotW's opening moments.

Getting a bit tired of seeing games rip off Breath of the Wild's literal opening cinematic and then just not bother coming to Switch, it feels disrespectful for some reason?

X has hands down the best music (barring one or two awful exceptions) in the whole series, I still put Sylvalum's theme on when I need something soft and epic to listen to in the background

@TYRANACLES no judgment, just surprised is all. Guess I was quite lucky to be able to play games on the family home computer since it was certainly no technical marvel, though I can't say these game were particularly demanding either haha

@TYRANACLES that shocks me, the Settlers was huge in the 90s! RTS (and turn based) strategy games were a big deal back then, Populous, Age of Empires, Civ, and the Settlers all made a splash though I must admit being a teenager at the time and into the genre I may be showing some confirmation bias here haha

When I tell you I had a misspent youth playing RTS games like the Settlers III and Populous it is no exaggeration, I am both overjoyed and terrified by this announcement. Ho boy am I ready for the RTS revival!

@prismt the UK is football land, it's the national obsession for a majority of the population. Sadly.

@threeboy edit: apologies, it seems I was misinformed.

@KindofaBigDeal ah ok I didn't realise digital was included in the previous article's sales total. Are digital sales tracked in Japan then? I know Nintendo rarely releases digital sales numbers, preferring to just confirm "total" sales including/excluding digital.

Hang on I thought I read that they'd had the biggest launch this year so far? These numbers don't correlate with that fact 🤔

@Markiemania95 but you said Gamefreak own the IP, which isn't the full story. They could easily be stripped of the right to make Pokémon games if Nintendo decided to buy their share of TPC.

Sales of this level for games with such egregious flaws is never a good thing, I only hope Nintendo will acknowledge the controversy and do something about it. I want to like Pokémon again!

@Markiemania95 that's a bit of an over simplification of the ownership arrangements, the Pokémon Company hold the IP and distribution rights but not the rights to the actual Pokémon designs which are owned by Creatures Inc. I'm not entirely sure what bargaining chips Gamefreak hold but they do own approximately a third of TPC along with Nintendo and Creatures. It's a very complex arrangement

@CrossingCrafts I did enjoy, very much. Though you have my deepest sympathy for all the pain you went through to complete it haha
Would love to see you add the little shops and other details in future!

@CrossingCrafts I love watching videos like this so I'm so happy to be introduced to your channel and I look forward to watching all your videos!

@Cia aren't these awards voted on by the general public? Unfortunately that means they amount to nothing more than a popularity contest and with Xenoblade -masterpiece though it is- being a fairly niche property it was never going to win.

Really enjoyed Alex's video, he articulated my feelings on modern Pokémon games so brilliantly.

@Narrator1 you know, you got me there! 😂
I was a child when I played Blue though and those glitches were nowhere near as intrusive, plus being on the Gameboy you kinda expected some jank... Gamefreak have just consistently proven themselves to be incapable of higher def game development and it's become impossible for me to ignore, they fooled me once with Shield but they won't fool me twice.

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@Dr_Lugae YAAAASS QUEEN give us nothing! My god your standards are low.

@Dr_Lugae I'm glad you can enjoy the low effort, full price dren Gamefreak squeezes out every year but don't deny reality. I've seen too many examples of awful awful performance which should never be allowed to appear in a 1st party Nintendo game.

@Dr_Lugae no thanks, I prefer my full price games to be finished and fully bug tested 🤷🏼‍♂️

Pokémon fans to Gamefreak: YAAAASS QUEEN, give us nothing!

@larryisaman I was gonna say Gamefreak wouldn't bother even making a game if it was only gonna sell 2 million copies but then I remembered that bucket of dren they released a few years ago... Little Town Hero was it? Well anyway that sold nothing and they still poached their top developers from Sword & Shield in order to get that crud out of the gate 🤷🏼‍♂️

@BloodyMurder Sword & Shield sold well over 20 million copies compared to Xenoblade 2's ~2 million, I'm sure I don't need to run the calculations for you to prove it's approximately a buttload more 😅

Edit: over 24 million, actually. Enough that the games ought not to release in an alpha state 🤦🏼‍♂️

@Jeronan I saw someone comment on YouTube about how the engine is full of useless junk code, loads of repeating sections and stuff they obviously didn't have time to remove. It wouldn't surprise me if all the problems/glitches are a result of trying to use the same engine as before to save time but with the increased overworld size it brought all these additional issues, kinda like how the game tries to render everything all at once rather than having optimisation to make far off objects low Res to ease the load...

Gamefreak have never been any good at optimization but on a console like the Switch (and with their obvious ambitions to enter the open-world space) they really need to give their games more time in development, because I doubt Nintendo will continue to let them stink up the building with their half baked efforts for much longer.

@Zequio omg same 😆

@maxisingh05 pokerus didn't exist until gold/silver

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika the amount of people who will care about this is vanishingly small compared to the total userbase, so I bet it was an oversight rather than a deliberate removal.

I warn everyone to watch some videos of this game before purchasing, the jank is STRONG in this one.

@nocdaes there was news recently about how Switch has only just overtaken the Xbox One in the UK, dunno if that helps figure out a total install base?

Edit: yep the article was from the 4th, also it confirmed the Switch hasn't even overtaken the PS3 here yet! If ever proof were needed that the UK is PlayStation territory here be it.

@RupeeClock could you not do that trick where you create a user based in the US so you can access their eshop and download the code?