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Great ! Can we get one for Tears of the Kingdom ??? This awesome game is getting way too much hate online.

I'm still waiting for my invitation from Nintendo Shop ...

No game key cards ... but YOU WILL repurchase our DLC !!!

@jon128 I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living,
So different now from what it seemed...
Now NINTENDO has killed the dream I dreamed...

@TwinFami Loved Popeye and Smurfs and Ladybug !!!

Is anyone else suddenly having problems staying signed on to the Nintendo store website ?

Ninvitations are turning into Nonvitations.

@TwinFami I hear ya. I started another playthrough of TotK the week before the Direct, not knowing that there would be such a playtime requirement. So even if Nintendo excluded the hundreds of hours I have for all of the Zelda games on Switch, the hours I had put in just that week prior should qualify me. The NES came out when I was in high school, but my earliest Nintendo game was Donkey Kong on the ColecoVision !!!

@StewdaMegaManNerd I work in an office where I literally have wall decals of the entire Peanuts gang on the walls ... along with many of the Looney Tunes characters ... and many of the little ones these days have no idea who any of them are.

@StewdaMegaManNerd Trust me ... a lot of the youngin's nowadays do not have a clue who he or any of the Peanuts gang are. They know how to use their cell phones. They haven't a clue as to who Snoopy and the gang are.

@StewdaMegaManNerd Ohhhhhh. The meme of the sloth from the movie simply popped into my head as I am waiting for an actual invitation. Or like Charlie Brown waiting by the mailbox for a Valentine's Day card for anyone who gets that reference.

@Jonjo So did I. Do you have an uncle who works at Nintendo or something ?

@StewdaMegaManNerd Is that a TOS violation or something ???

Charlie had better luck finding the Golden Ticket than going through this ordeal.

Nintendo apparently sending out invites like the sloth in Zootopia.

@ThisisJosh Be willing to give up your firstborn child ...

This is from the registration page:

Your registration was submitted on 04/02/2025. Eligible Nintendo Account holders will receive an email when it's time to purchase.

Was this the only notification anyone ever received ? I never received any further emails confirming i would receive an invitation.

Priority requirements are as follows: As of 4/2/2025, (i) you must have been the one who purchased any Nintendo Switch Online membership,

CHECK !!!

(ii) you must have had any paid Nintendo Switch Online membership for a minimum of 12 months

DOUBLE CHECK !!!

and (iii) you must have opted in to share gameplay data and have at least 50 hours total gameplay hours.

TRIPLE CHECK !!!

Email inbox ... crickets and cobwebs.

@marktehshark69 Who knows ? Might have to resort to using one of those restock websites for up to date info after the console comes out.

The only emails I am getting are notifications for mentions on here ! LOL !!!

I'm sure scalpers have found some method of circumventing this process as well.

Yo-Nope-Bo is now saying Invite Required ... it had said it was Unavailable earlier today. The dock and the joy con straps do not appear to be available for pre-order yet.

No invite yet here. And it appears that Yu-Nope-Bo will still be unavailable even on the the Nintendo Store. The other amiibo are invite only pre-order.

Has anyone in the US received an invite to pre-order from the Nintendo shop website yet ? They updated the consoles to "invite Required" but it is grayed out as i have not yet received an invitation.

For $70, this game had better have ALL the bells and whistles. Still not gonna buy it though. Never bought the recent DK HD game either.

Amen. Age of Calamity got me through my father's passing from dementia at the end of 2020 ... on top of being in a nursing home during the height of the pandemic.

And themes, besides white and black, please.

Folders, please.

Will iikely only be purchasing Zelda games for my Switch 2. I've already passed on ALL of the overpriced first party games that have come out since Echoes of Wisdom. I will not be buying the new Donkey Kong game or any of the 3rd party titles - especially the game key card games. I may even pass on the upcoming Mario 3D game whenever that may come out. I was actually not a big fan of Odyssey and only played Wonder once. So even my Mario days may be over. So my Switch 2 will likely only be used for Switch 1 titles and future Zelda games going forward.

@Pillowpants PS4 only got the first game. And the Switch 2 is being compared to the PS4.

@hitmanfan47 I sold my platinum GC, my wavebird and my GameBoy adapter on ebay decades ago, sad to say.

WAVEBIRD 2025 !!!

Will probably try to order one since we are not getting Wind Waker HD or Twilight Princess HD for the Switch or Switch 2 in the forseeable future.

I certainly don't want to ... which pains me to say as I am sure Final Fantasy Remake will be on a Game Key Card as Square Enix is already releasing the much smaller Bravely Default as one.

Xbox makes games ?

A new LoZ. Although Age of Imprisonment will have to do for now. I loved Age of Calamity but it ran rather poorly on the OG Switch. So here's hoping that gets a performance boost as well as BotW and TotK. And if a Switch 2 version is released, it had better have all of the freaking DLC on it !!! ... It probably won't, but it had better !!!

So I have my original day one Switch ... probably a bit too much sentimental value attached to that - joy-con drift and all. I currently use my day one OLED Switch ... which ironically I primarily use in docked mode - but I'm not getting rid of that. And then I have a day-one gold Switch Lite - still in box ... and ain't no way I am getting rid of that. The GameStop trade in values seem to have actual value for a change. But I pre-ordered my Switch 2 on Walmart. And the nearest GameStop for me is a half hour away since my local GS did not survive the pandemic. So Imma keep what I got and shell out the coin for the shiny, new Switch. ... Now gimme my YuNopeBo amiibo !!!

FWIW the original games best feature was that it was entirely on a 3DS cartridge .. not this game key card crap !

I played the original ... and the sequel. I'm good. Hard pass - especially as a Game-Key Card game. Unfortunately, my suspicion is Square Enix is laying the groundwork for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth to be released on a Game-Key Card as well. Not to mention any planned re-release of the unplayable cloud versions of the KH trilogy on the original Switch.

@Ryu_Niiyama No worries and apologies for being nitpicky. The Champions amiibo tied into the DLC because it was titled the Champions' Ballad DLC after all. And we got the Champions' helms as item drops with those amiibo. We're not getting a Sages' Ballad DLC for TotK nor as far as I know any of the Sages' helms although that remains to be seen - but the Champions' helms are in TotK if you know where to find them.
And I would think Sage amiibo would have been better served to drive interest in TotK two years ago or interest in AoI closer to that game's release - along with the Mineru amiibo. I am no marketing expert. This just does not make any sense either way. And the tariffs are not going to help sales except for the die-hard collectors who will now only die a little harder. Just not great timing made even worse with the extra cost. But this is just my opinion.

@Ryu_Niiyama Oh I am sure they will ... as all of the Zelda amiibo could be scanned for items and weapons in Age of Calamity. But AoC did not get its own amiibo - how cool would it have been to have a Master Kohga or Sooga or a Terrako amiibo ??!! ... Nintendo did not wait a full 2 years to release a Guardian amiibo for BotW and yet they have chosen to wait two years for this new batch. I'm sure the new amiibo will drop items and weapons in Age of Imprisonment, but again ... why wait two years ? I know I'm being nit picky ... but the TotK Link and Zelda amiibo were 14.99 bucks and Ganondorf was 19.99 The latter two were released 4 or 5 months after TotK although I believe they had already been announced or at least data miners had already found their paraglider fabrics before they were released. So Nintendo is now waiting two years to drop this new batch to charge 19.99 for each of them even before they applied the Trump Tax ? And I'm sure the Mineru amiibo will start at $ 24.99 pre-tariff, just as it was for the Zelda Loftwing amiibo and possibly be as much as $ 29.99 pre-tariff. And the new Sage amiibo are being dropped possibly months before AoI is released. It just does not make any sense to me if they are indeed for AoI and yet still have the same functionality for TotK - which will require a patch so I can kiss my pre-patch duplication glitch for TotK goodbye. LOL

@larryisaman Daruk is still cooler. LOL

@Misima Your comments are so overblown. Apparently so much so that NL removed them ... as they also removed my initial reply telling you to get over it. Which I fully stand by.

@Pipulitoch The annoying thing is the new amiibo are being released two years after the game. The original BotW amiibo released with the console as well as the game ... and the follow up Champions' amiibo released just before the DLC. These new amiibo have no DLC that we know of ... so why now, Nintendo ???

BTW Nintendo Life ... you have a link to Amazon to pre-order the Switch 2 version of TotK ... last I checked there is nothing Switch 2 available for pre-order on Amazon.

@fabiotc Apparently the Dutch are CLUTCH !!!

@MADLUDWIG11 At least Yunobo's sage abilities allows you to blow stuff up without using resources. And as much as I love TotK, the sage abilities are awful compared to the BotW Champions' abilities. ... Not to mention, ''Secret Stone / Demon King".

@BrokenCiv I feel your pain. And the Trump Tax certainly does not help. And if you think $ 30 is a bit much .. wait until the Mineru amiibo comes out and the tariffs are still in place.

@ParsnipHero Now why on earth would Nintendo do something as consumer friendly as that ? Granted they created amiibo cards for Animal Crossing, but I doubt they would even consider this for Zelda or any other franchise. It would certainly be a great idea for amiibo that are long out of print - but nowadays they insist on re-releases of some of the figures instead. I was fortunate enough to start collecting Zelda amiibo even before BotW was released, so I had the full set when the game came out and didn't have to scramble for any of the previous figures. I have continued to collect the Zelda amiibo that have been released since then, but honestly I am very surprised they are releasing these new amiibo two full years after TotK was released.