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I sold Chrono Trigger DS on eBay for £26 back in 2015, I'm scared to know what it's worth today!

@Truegamer79 I'm sure the big N's bank balance appreciates your support!

@StarCollector Really odd, I did what any sensible person would do and grabbed a download code for £20 and upgraded for free.

@RumandCohibas Drop them an e-mail, if you're willing to pay then they may be more than happy to create an upgrade for £10k or so

Look like polarizing opinions, similar to the first game then!

@JJtheTexan Virtual Boy?

@Dee123 I only buy those games every few years, but I know plenty of people who buy them annually. It may only be team updates and minor gameplay improvements, but they get hundreds of hours of use over that year.

(I miss the all night FIFA/Pro Evo sessions of my twenties, all hail the Brompton Cup!)

Played with my son earlier, it was fun. He loves Fortnite, we both love the Simpsons, it was all good!

Modern Pokémon games are effectively 3D versions of Gameboy games, rather than being designed like a modern game. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it would be interesting if Game Freak threw out the rulebook entirely and actually made them like a modern game.

Maybe they would lose their charm?

@Darthmoogle I'm 100% getting this, but once it's out I really want Sakurai to focus on his next project, whatever that may be!

4K for Switch 2?

Also, it's great that there are still PS4 games coming out almost 12 years after its release! I think in a way, it's got the Switch to thank for keeping its hardware 'current'.

@Filthy Revealing glowy bits to hit is my favourite boss mechanic!

I finally jumped when I saw it was down to £39.99.

Very impressive game so far, they've done a great job of porting this to the Switch 2.

@Wewewi Mario Kart 8 is still selling 2,000+ a month on Amazon.co.uk alone, so could be maybe double that with other retailers included?

Should the release date shown for FM Touch not be 2025 rather than 2026?

@kmtrain83 Is the Switch Lite not that small handheld? Or are you thinking smaller?

@The_Nintendo_Pedant Whilst I've personally got no complaints about the first-party line-up so far, I do wonder if they've been somewhat cautious this year as they expected to be supply-constrained on Switch 2 hardware and are lining up more heavy-hitters for 2026 when the expect the hardware supply to be more plentiful? (although I don't think there are any hardware supply issues at the moment!)

I reckon they may have more titles pretty much ready to go that we haven't even seen yet, and they're going to announce and release those when necessary to keep the hardware selling at a steady pace...

@The_Nintendo_Pedant I really don't know where else Nintendo could have gone this time though. They needed to maintain their position in the handheld and home console markets and they were unlikely to bring two different devices to market at the same time.

I would have liked to see more of a gimmick though, gimmicky Nintendo is my favourite Nintendo

@hisownsidekick To maintain interest in the service over time by delivering frequent new content, rather than giving access to everything at once, creating a huge spike in the short term and then interest dying off in the long-term.

I was shocked at the price, then realised that it’s huge and weighs more than 6kg!

@MTMike87 For me, it's all about the experience - I'm not sure about this whole sense of ownership thing. The value is in the hours of entertainment it provides over its lifespan, not in a bit of plastic and some silicon.

Many forms of entertainment have no physical element at all, and I'm all for that from an environmental point of view. I've been buying games on Steam for 20+ years. I would have been fine with an all-digital Switch 2, but I worry what it would mean for software prices with Nintendo having the monopoly on where to buy games...

@EriXz SF6 PS5 vs SF6 Switch 2 is a much smaller difference than SF5 PS4 vs SF5 Switch 1. So, it's a strange comment to compare Switch 2 negatively to its predecessor based on its ability to run Street Fighter games!

@The_Nintendo_Pedant A 'Pro' console (that we've seen so far), is really just a follow up to the previous console, albeit with a performance multiplier of 2-3X over the previous hardware. The main defining feature that separates it from a new generation is that there are no exclusive titles that won't run on the previous hardware.

Switch 2 is reportedly 10X faster (at least in terms of GPU) than the previous generation and would be incredibly hamstrung if all titles had to run on the older generation machine. So in terms of power, I think it's a new generation as much as the PS5 was over the PS4. There's just no longer the same paradigm shifts between generations that there used to be, and there's no unique gimmick this time that has defined a new Nintendo generation as of late...

@ImageOfChaos I don't understand what difference it makes to playing the game, whether its on keycard or gamecard? Yes, you'll need space to install, but you need that on PS5 as well (although Switch 2 storage is at a premium over PS5).

They want to know how gullible we are for buying over-priced Nintendo related tat? The answer is very, count me in!

I know people are going to say 'why didn't Nintendo make the game cards faster', but we genuinely don't know if that was possible whilst retaining physical compatibility with Switch 1 cards (or at a reasonable price point).

Slightly less concerned about this game since Fantasy Life i turned out so well. Take your time Level 5!

@Vyacheslav333 It's a 68GB game, I'm guessing a keycard was preferable to two game cards.

Pre-orders are up on Amazon UK now. A snip at only £79.99!

Ordered for £48.85 from Shopto, it's a price I'm happy enough with. Wouldn't have paid £58.99

@N00BiSH Try to please everyone and you’ll end up pleasing no one… I’m not saying it’s necessarily bad to take criticism on board, but there is certainly a point where it becomes counter-productive…

Won't be playing on Switch 1, so no impact on me directly, but this is a shame for people interested in the game who are looking to make the leap to Switch 2 at a later time.

Haven't played a Dragon Quest game before, but fell in love with the art style in the direct so I just need to decide if I'm going to go physical or digital... (Plus point for Physical is that I can sell it when I'm done, plus point for digital is not having to swap the game card in and out)

@ROMhaiku Depending on price, I'm ready to buy!

@NotASockPuppet Where does it go next then, what would be the next step after Odyssey?

@HugoGED I wouldn't bet against it at this point. The increase in hardware power from the Wii would allow them to really expand on the concept from the original Wii games. It would likely have been developed in tandem with DK Bananza and I'm wondering if it could use some of the same voxel-tech to bring the world to life...

@Bigmanfan You'll have to wait until December 9th for the direct, sorry...

@datamonkey Not imagined, he’s a ‘consultant’ on the game. Kind of sounds like his creative input might be minimal…

@Anti-Matter Not sure about an ARMS movie, but it could work as an animated kids series…

@BaldB3lper78 Is it underwhelming though? It seems like there’s a big secret here that they’ve been keeping under wraps and tomorrow we’ll find out what it is. There’s obviously some reason they chose not to show a single second of gameplay to this point…

@VoidofLight If the upgrade was free with the purchase of the camera, it would make everyone who bought the camera but didn’t have the base game feel like they were paying for it. Also, you don’t have to use the Nintendo camera, most USB web cams can be used…

@infernogott Nothing to stop you making this playable. All of the pieces are out there…

The road to Victory is long.

I paid £54.74 from Amazon France, although it looks like I won’t get it until Tuesday!

@Ironcore You can’t play Mario 64 then? 30FPS with drops down to 20?

@jco83 I think it's covered under Directive 2009/24/EC of the European Parliament: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/24/body

"The making of a back-up copy by a person having a right to use the computer program may not be prevented by contract in so far as it is necessary for that use."

@Drnsnsr The analogue sticks feel really nice on the Switch 2 pro controller. The review of iFixIt’s sponsors, Gulikit’s, hall-effect stick replacements aren’t exactly glowing… Some people even complained about drift! The only hall-effect stick I’ve used is the Dreamcast’s, not the best stick I’ve ever used.

I have 3 PS5 DualSense controllers, a Switch Pro controller and a Switch 2 controller. Is it worth the extra expense of hall-effect sticks when none of those have drifted?

Watched that video earlier, it was really, really odd. He kept on going on about ‘drift-prone’ potentiometers, which what PlayStation and Xbox also use in their controllers….

I’ve not put in too many. Been spending most of my time trying Switch 1 games to see how they run and playing Welcome Tour.

I don't have time to write a big long answer, but what I will say is:

The Switch OS and on-line environment is a effectively a closed eco-system, where Nintendo effectively signs any code running within that eco-system - whether that be software running from game cards or downloaded via the eShop.

Cards such as the MIG effectively allow unsigned code to run within that ecosystem, creating countless points of entry for malicious code - malware, viruses, cheats etc. It's a massive risk to Nintendo to allow a compromised machine to access its on-line infrastructure and potentially wreak havoc.

I won't go into further detail since I'm supposedly working, but I can absolutely understand Nintendo's desire to cut this off at the source. They're understandably protecting themselves against piracy and revenue loss, but there's potentially much larger risks involved here.

@Cakefish I thought it was a 1.5m cable (4.92ft), the same as the original Switch?