StooBush

My favorite feature on my 2DSXL is the lack of 3D. (Least favorite feature: changing the battery SUCKS!)

Also, as a parent, I never let my kids use the 3D feature on our 3DS or 3DSXL when they were younger. It was easy, since they hated it too. I think 3D was helpful once in solving a Professor Layton puzzle, but that was it.

I don’t think the price is unreasonable for the content, but I’m 100% not paying for it. Too much in the queue to add more. It’s like a Netflix subscription you never use.

I might do it once - at an even higher price - if they included one or both of those controllers.

Price is fine, just not interested. Too many games already. I don’t even play the regular NES/SNES games that come with Switch online. I use it for the save game backups and online play.

Zero chance I'll pay for this. My Switch/PS4/3DS queue is so long that it's not worth another cent. Family membership is good enough (and I'd prefer it if proper game sharing in-household was implemented, instead of the current way).

@RobotReptile I got an email from GS saying it's $240 trade in, but no idea how to get that to work. Maybe if you go in there's a bonus. Still, they're out of OLEDs, so will have to wait a little while.

My kids (13 & 10), seasoned Smash players on 3DS/Wii U/Switch, enjoy it. I just wanted to play Invader Zim. $40 (digital eshop) was an easy preorder. We'll see if it has legs; will probably depend if any of their friends buy it.

Agree with most of the complaining. Was hoping to upgrade at GameStop but that won’t work if I have to have the old switch to transfer data to the new one. Very disappointing.

Tempting to sell our 2 switches back to gamestop for $220 each (pro trade in value) and upgrade them for $350 a pop, especially since both are out of warranty and it it'll cost $100 for factory repair (already did that once). Maybe if GS sweetens the offer a little bit.

Counterpoint: Lego City Undercover is the best Lego video game, period.

(Not even sure Lego Marvel is even in the top five, TBH, but LCU is #1.)

@dcast2 100% agree.

If mine broke, I'd replace it with another in a heartbeat.

A more expensive pro controller without NFC, albeit with a very nice case. Pass.

Damned right I will!

Whither MadWorld? Wario Land Shake It? Mario Party 8?

(I know I'm in the minority on MP8, but I love Koopa's Tycoon Town.)

I always play with my Switch docked. For handheld, I used my 2DSXL. The kids play Switch much more as handhelds, but I'm the one paying for it all

Given what they charge for joycons, even at a ~50% drift rate it's probably profitable to pay for shipping both ways to replace them, especially when they can replace/repair as many as 4 at once, like they did for me.

A little DLC could make Super Mario Party great, as opposed to just serviceable.

Fingers crossed that this comes to the US like it did at the same time last year for 2K19.

Makes this a must-buy for me.

Star Trek Away Team for PC was fantastic. It was basically a reskin of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.

@StooBush And the $9 Cuphead deal at Target this morning (sadly now OOS) met my <$10 criterion!

Ten bucks. That's what I'm waiting for. Might be ridiculous, and some of you will probably flame me for this, but my Switch/3DS/Wii U/PS4 gaming queue is so long with already-purchased titles that I'm just going to wait until a title (digital or otherwise) I want is $10, then it's an instabuy. On my list: Untitled Goose Game, My Friend Pedro, Sumer, The Stretchers, The Touryst, and Cuphead. I haven't even started Mario Rabbids or Crypt of the Necrodancer yet, or Twilight Princess HD, or Wind Waker HD, and I'm only like 7 puzzles into Baba Is You. (I did just finally finish The Adventure of Link. Now I'm on Katrielle and the Millionaire's Conspiracy on 3DS.)

Used to be $12, when I bought Rocket League (x2 for both Switches in the house). Then RL dropped to $10 for some other promotion. Now it's $10.

I'll pay retail for Luigi's Mansion 3 and BOTY2, and if Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time ever gets Switch ported, I'd buy that. Lego Skywalker Saga, sure. Can't think of much else.

I'm gonna die with a queue as long as my arm. The price to join it is $10

@HalBailman Sure, but a digital copy isn't a physical one. We are paying the same $ for a title with no resale value and that needs no physical infrastructure to sell. I believe Nintendo should be more flexible in its user license for households.

@HalBailman sure, and I said I wouldn’t expect simultaneous play (though download play would be nice). I’m just not buying a switch mini as long as their digital game sharing is so restrictive in a single household. You’re welcome to disagree with me. Just my opinion.

@HalBailman What do you mean I can’t share physical games? You take the cartridge out and put it in the other switch. Couldn’t be easier.

Also I said that I DIDN’T expect simultaneous play. Not sure what you’re reading.

@Ventilator I don't love how Playstation does it either, but at least you can do it with 2 consoles. You should be able to designate a certain number of accounts as your "family" (like you can with Switch Online), and every member of the family should be able to freely download digital content and play it with their own profiles (and cloud saves, where appropriate).

I'm totally fine with not being able to play a game on two systems simultaneously (though I would love it), which is why I bought 2 copies of Splatoon 2, but having to pay full price for two digital titles vs. buying an easily-sharable (and sellable) physical copy is just ridiculous.

The Apple AppStore model is what I like the best.

Until you can share digital games without restrictions within a family, there's no way I'd buy this. After Splatoon 2 and Mario Party, I'm done buying 2 copies of digital games for our 2 switches.

With Crypt going down to $4, I bought that to see if it's something would like as a Zelda title. Not really sold on it yet, but I've heard it's got a learning curve.

Super Mario Party add-on content or DLC. (In a perfect world they'd add a Koopa's Tycoon Town level). Also a massive price cut on Wii U titles (Twilight Princess!) would be nice.

Yes, it's not portable, but I prefer BotW on the Wii U. I love what the pad brings to the party.

Soooo, I know no one has commented on this post in awhile, but as a father of 2 kids, each of whom owns a Switch, I can definitively say that this feature is so bad it's worse that having no sharing at all. We'd been all-physical until the voucher program, which is actually a pretty good deal if you're not considering selling the games in the future.

So, I bought two sets of two vouchers (worked out to $90/pair with discounted eShop cards from Costco) and got Splatoon 2 for both systems (both kids need copies of the game for local multiplayer) and Mario Party for one and Mario Maker 2 for the other, then installed Mario Party on the second kids's Switch.

Then I realized the real problem. If anyone is playing ANY digital title on Switch A, then NO digital titles owned by Switch A can be played on Switch B.

I now realize that the Nintendo website does actually describe this correctly, but all of its artwork indicate that if Switch A is playing one game (MK8), then Switch B can't play the same game, but even after a few rereads it was unclear to me that ANY digital titles owned by A can't be played on B.

This is objectively nuts. Imagine trying to explain to your kid that he can't play Mario Party because his brother is playing Splatoon.

That did not go well.

I get that Nintendo has the right to earn a buck, and they are trying to prevent bad actors from sharing games willy nilly, but within a FAMILY — and Nintendo has codified a family unit in the Nintendo architecture — there should be the ability to share games completely and without restriction, online and offline. If they want to enforce that the same digital title can't be used at the same time on both systems, I don't love that, but I can live with it.

But as of right now, my $180 lesson learned is not to purchase any Switch title digitally that can be bought physically. To Nintendo's credit, they did offer to refund me the vouchers, but since they were bought with eShop credit, I wouldn't be able to use them for anything beyond other digital switch titles, so I'm living with the status quo and satisfying myself by ranting here.

The only thing I'm interested in is Story Mode. Looking forward to reviews of that experience.

Turns out the workaround is real, and works perfectly. The WFZwei server here: https://github.com/barronwaffles/dwc_network_server_emulator/wiki/List-of-Servers

My faith in the world is restored, since I don't want to have to mod or hack my 3DS.

@KingdomHeartsFan Yup. Same as when it ended for the Wii https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/vyWpoM6CBIe6FjW8NIY7bvzOrgBURhzw

Though now I see there may be a workaround after several years... https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Sh0AZR-tKwM

@KingdomHeartsFan What I'd really like is a couple days reactivating the DS servers so I can unlock all of the bonus content on my Professor Layton titles

Is it just me or are there just too many titles being released for Switch? It's better than the alternative, of course, but who has time to play all of these games?

Do I get the original CotN or wait for this one?

Not unless it comes out for the Wii U...can't justify rebuying anything when I've got another console that works perfectly well (and I love).

No way this will fly without tying multiple units to a single Nintendo Network ID or having some family sharing architecture. People aren't going to buy 4 copies of a single digital game. (I've only rebought a digital game once (Rusty's Real Deal Baseball) in a house with a 3DS, a 3DSXL, and a 2DSXL.) Apple's done it for years; Sony does it, though it limits total devices; time for Nintendo to get with the times.

I love my Wii U, and have since I got it for my son 4.5 years ago. Nintendo didn't do a good job explaining that it was, in fact, a new console. If they'd called Wii 2, it might've changed everything.

Right now I see no reason to get a Switch, actually. Maybe in a few years if SMO makes it to my must-own queue. Waiting on BotW in case I decide to get a Switch.

A shame there's no legit way to add games. The SNES implementation of Clue is probably the best console version of a board game ever, largely because it eschews a literal version of the game and gives us something both different and excellent.

@Fath Regardless of whether or not 3D causes damage (and I agree that it doesn't appear to), I find it's headache-inducing and would rather my kids not be subject to it or throw up in the car.

And as for screen time limits, I find the entire argument to be specious. There's no hard evidence (other than anecdotal) that higher levels of screen exposure damage a kid's eyes/brain/cognitive function. Of course I don't want my kids to stare at screens all day (and they don't), but if excessive screen time were really dangerous, we'd have an an epidemic of damaged teenagers and twenty-somethings, and plenty of supporting data to work with.

I love it. Was never a fan of 3D, and as a parent I have to make sure the kids don't accidentally engage it. If this is ~$125 on Black Friday, I'll be picking up one. I'd buy two if I could install all of my digital titles on both using a single account like Apple's had in place for years.

Meh. LCU was one of my favorite games on the Wii U. If some load times cause you to miss out on any of the other consoles, it's your loss.

It just means that I'll wait a year for the "GOTY" edition with DLC included. my queue is long enough that it won't matter.

Got 'em all, thanks! Still wish Nintendo would get on the ball and enable multiple devices per account. I'd buy another 3DS tomorrow, but right now I share with my son.

My first few plays of MP10 and Amiibo Party were disappointing, but eventually they won me over. I've especially enjoyed trying to collect all of the Amiibo tokens.

That said, I don't like the group travel in anything but Bowser Party. My favorite installment of the game was MP8, especially the monopoly-inspired level.

I just use it for the points.

@Odnetnin Just a generic SDHD card from Micro Center.

No brainer of a deal. I'd buy any Nintendo Humble Bundle. Great way to fill up that 64GB SD card in my 3DS XL.