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@TAndvig I mean, you could just buy the games digitally?

@SwitchplayerJohn Maybe it should have been?

@McMongoose If it was a full cart release then it wouldn’t be able to be sold at $40, they would have to price at $60

@WhiteUmbrella No, I was expecting them to drop it like a hot potato and they did. I do remember them announcing continued support of the 3DS. I think Wii U barely got a mention from the point of the first Switch trailer onwards...

That looks hideous, this is some sort of joke, right?

And the photos of the hardware (presumably from the RRA certification), it looks like someone pulled these out the trash…

@-wc- As a lifelong Nintendo fan, were you happy paying $60 for Ocarina of Time back in 1998?

@ParasolStars There’s a possibility that they may already run much better without a patch at all. If resolution is dynamic and frame rate drops below target, then hopefully the extra horsepower will help. We’ll have to wait and see!

@antlion We’ve never been able to do this with Splatoon 2 or 3 (we bought both physically)

@Hawkes142 My cardboard has lasted well. If it was made out of plastic then I probably would have dropped and broken it by now!

@thaimbomb It’s like a Switch but 10 times more powerful and with a bigger screen. I’m pretty sure it’s going to kick-ass, even if I’ll likely mostly be using it to work through my backlog for the first few months…

@BaronLaw They’ll be having fun playing on their Switch 2’s?

@Bigmanfan Is the emulation inferior? I’ve not noticed in what I’ve seen so far…

@Pigeon That would be down to the courts in the US and Europe wouldn’t it?

@Sirko No browser.

@DanElectrode Good point, the space around my TV would appreciate the answer!

@MeloMan They have already left a bad taste in people’s mouths.

@RetroMan71 These guys are the actual developers though which is cool, not some wooden PR figurehead or mouthpiece…

@sixrings Take that Switch out the dock and go explore the world a little!

My Switch has been to:
UK
USA
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Greece
Croatia
Turkey
Finland

And probably some more I’ve forgotten….

Looking forward to where I can travel with my Switch 2.

So I can buy Metroid Prime 4 to play on my Switch 2, and the kids can borrow it to play on their Switch 1's? Nice one, thanks Nintendo!

@Alcea

Plus points:

• Nice specs (as you mentioned) - bigger screen, 120FPS, 4K, HDR, 10x more powerful
• Strong third party support
• Game chat
• Switch Pro controllers and Joy cons will work (wasn't expecting this)
• Gamecube games at launch (including F-Zero GX)
• Virtual game cards (a blessing for us as a family with four Switches)
• Mouse control
• New Mario Kart
• New 3D Donkey Kong
• Strong third party support

Negative points:

• Games expensive (but I expect the prices to come down, at least in the UK, once the retailers start competing with each other)
• Need to pay £6 (or not) for a game/experience that should be included.
• Not too much else for me. Very excited!

@Slain I genuinely hope that works out for you!

I do wonder if you'll be missing out on some big games though....

@Zuljaras Thanks for doing some genuine journalism!

@Slain Going pure digital? Good choice....

@Rykdrew ROG Ally X is like £800! I would hope it could play it at 240fps for that price! Does the full game come on a cartridge though?

@rjejr Damn, knew I'd have been beaten to it by the first post.

This should have been expected really, the clue is right there in the name of the game.

@Member_the_game I pre-ordered the original Switch at Smyth's and collected it at midnight so I was playing shortly afterwards! A nice memory, although I was exhausted for work the next day!

Signed up to the pre-order announcements with Smyth's for the Switch 2, but by the time I saw the e-mail they had sold out. Managed to bag one elsewhere luckily, but will have to wait for the postie this time...

@wiiware Trump’s tariffs make no sense. Allegedly, Vietnam charge a 90% tariff on US goods, so he’s hit them with a reciprocal tariff of 46%

But it’s not true, Trump has used made up math(s). Vietnam charge 8.1% on non-agriculture items, the 90% figure is a lie.

@Xbox_Dashboard The pricing may have been set with some knowledge of likely tariffs, but a 46% one wouldn’t have been expected. The software prices are a shock, but the console pricing is bang on prediction.

@shoeses Inflation in the US has been pretty much in line with EU for the past few years. Blame COVID and Putin, not your last president.

I reckon the price of standard games like Donkey Kong Bananza will end up below £60, once one retailer knocks it down, the others will follow…

I’m holding off pre-ordering any games as I think we’ll see prices come down…

ShopTo has this up for pre-order as well -£66.85, or £63.50 with a coupon code.

I just grabbed a Mario Kart World bundle on Argos!

@NinChocolate Wasn't Face Raiders free?

For £4.65, I'll definitely be getting this.... I bet it ends up more like £6.99

@Oracles_fanboi There's not many bundles that aren't time limited are there? There will likely be a different bundle to replace it...

@liveswired If you dislike Nintendo so much, why are you here?

@ChromaticDracula Same, if I'd known I would probably have waited for the Switch 2 version....

@mjhopkins81 2005 was great though, right?

@Rhaoulos Not this year. Because of the unique planetary alignment of the solar system, it’s been pushed back until April 2nd in 2025 (sort of like a leap year).

@TheBoilerman More hyped than Switch 1? What’s different this time around?

I’m still hyped for the Dreamcast…

As a four-Switch household, this will be a literal ‘game changer’ for us!

Uncharted Waters is one of my all time favourites, highly recommend it if you’ve never played it!

@-wc- I seem to recall that crappy Bomberman game did really well at the launch of the Switch. It got a 62 Metacritic yet broke a million I believe....

Can’t wait to learn more about Kirby’s ginormous back garden.

I’ll be trying out a GameCube I bought the other day…

@HalBailman I already own a load of Virtual Console games forever... on the Wii. That worked out well....

Just bought this in the sale as I thought it looked alright, should have looked at the reviews. Played for 10 minutes, saw about 16 ‘loading’ bars and the jerkiness of the animation made me feel unwell. Convince me that I should give it another go?

@HalBailman But why spend $10 on one retro game, when you can have a year of dozens of games for $20?

@HalBailman But why would I buy games when I've already got them on NSO? I could only understand it if games got removed from NSO after a short period, but I don't think that's the case?

Actually, when NSO was announced, I thought that was the case - that each month several classic games would be available to play and that they'd disappear at the end of each month - we've got a much better deal than that!