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Looks like they're hoping to reel in some cash with this one.

This looks hideous in my opinion but to each their own.

Just for clarification, you don't have to place decorations down in your base to get the buffs. The buffs are automatically applied the moment you receive a decoration.

I'd like if it came to the Switch but somehow I just don't think it will. One can dream though.

@nuovian Yeah I suppose you're right. 😆

$60?! That's a little pricey for me. I know it's not the UK price but still. Since this isn't a mainline Pokémon game I was hoping it might be priced a little lower. Ah well, it can't be helped. I'll probably still pre-order it anyways.

Edit: I'm pretty hyped for Pokémon on the Switch. And this should hold me off until the mainline Pokémon game lands. I'm leaning more towards Let's Go Pikachu at the moment.

I love Lego games but sometimes I just can't appreciate them because it feels like they've been rushed and left unpolished. Although they've still made some pretty great games before. I loved the Lego Indiana Jones game for the Wii.

This reminds me of when I got the online "console" and controller and then the service went down forever a few days later. Good times...

I also got a steamlink and then they announced the new apps that make it redundant. It never worked well anyways. Even with it being in the same network asmy computer.

I just don't think we're there yet with cloud gaming or game streaming tech. Ah well. There will always be some company trying to profit off of our hopes.

@Cherkov Ah thanks for the clarification. I thought there had to be more to it than that, lol

Good on Nintendo then. Everyone knows or should know the risks when they hack/modify their consoles.

They banned an unhacked system where the use of said console had strictly remained within the terms of the end user license agreement and then referred him to said agreement when he appealed to have the ban removed? There must be more to the story. I could understand them banning a hacked console but not an unhacked console.

They'll give the tennis game a role-playing, adventure mode while they strip everything away from the Paper Mario games that made them good. Sigh Ah well, it looks fun anyways. Hopefully we see a new Paper Mario game at some stage that takes the series back to its roots. I miss the old N64 game. It had such charm and adventure.

This looks really cool. It reminds me of the Oracle of Seasons and Ages games which are some of my favourite Zelda games of all time. I bet this would have been a blast and probably still would be.

I'll be playing with the Labo Variety Kit. I've been waiting for the weekend so I finally have enough time off work to cocentrate on what I want to make

God of War was really disappointing in my opinion. I just lost interest. On the other hand though I'm still enjoying creating my own labo in the toy-con garage To each their own I guess.

I remember getting that theme back when Majora's Mask 3D got released. It's definitely my favourite theme for the system. If only all of my points hadn't expired. I'd probably get something.

That name is just horrible and I don't like the sound of the creatures names. I'm not saying I could do better but I just don't like them. Still the gameplay looks great. I just wish we could have something like this but for Pokémon.

Could have sworn the star was called Scully..er Stully..Heh, Bulder and Stully..

Ok ok, I'll show myself out 😂

But in all seriousness this game looks great and I can't wait to get it when it releases 😄

I'm not going to get my hopes up. But if miiverse returns...

This is what I've been waiting to see; developers getting onboard with labo. There really is a lot of untapped potential there.

Nintendo sometimes reminds me of Ash from the Pokémon anime. He wins a few battles and starts to think he's king of the world. Until he loses a big battle and suddenly it's like game over. But if you have faith in him you'll see that he always pulls through and he'll win again soon.

I just hope Nintendo isn't getting overconfident like they did back when the Wii U was a thing. They had an amazing fiscal year but they're going to need something really big to achieve those goals this time.

I'm not a big fan of achievements but I did enjoy collecting stamps back on the Wii U and being able to use them in my miiverse posts. The sting of losing miiverse still hurts 😖

This is pretty awesome. I feel like I'm missing the boat waiting for our late labo release here in the UK 😹 It's definitely one of my most anticipated game releases in a long time.

@1UP_MARIO I honestly believe this is just a matter of where you live and the Postal service used. Amazon have consistently failed to meet the launch day window for pre-orders I've placed and I, as a consequence, have lost a lot of my faith in them when it comes to pre-orders. Whereas the official Nintendo store usually gives me prompt and on-time delivery, including pre-orders.

It's funny, it's just really funny because the developers are probably thinking "Well players on Nintendo consoles never buy our games so we shouldn't bother putting the effort into giving them a full, proper game like we do for every other console on the market." When it's exactly that reasoning that keeps me from buying their games. If they just put the effort into making a proper game that aligned with every other console version (doesn't have to be as graphically fantastic since I know the switch isn't as powerful) then I'd really consider buying it.

I can't wait to get my labo 😄 It's gonna be fun. I'm most excited about making my own though.

I'm just imagining them constructing some sort of labo kit around the entire Nintendo section that makes it interact with people coming to look at and buy games and accessories. XD

"Thinking outside the box" -heh, there's something funny about that when it's applied to the thinking behind labo. I can't wait to get mine though anyways 😀

@cfgk24 That would be so awesome XD I hope it happens in the near future, lol

I just want a game that does for the Pokémon series what Breath of the Wild did for the Zelda series. I'd like it to be based in the orange islands but that's just me I'm sure.

I honestly had a lot of fun with a number of first and third person shooters on the Wii. I think it was a great platform for them and there was a lot of potential for different control schemes and interesting play styles. Thinking back on it now the Wii really had some killer games.

Yooka-Laylee was a good game. It wasn't great but it was good and I had fun playing it. I never finished it though. There were just a bunch of small things I didn't really enjoy that sort of made me lose interest as I played. But I'm sure they are capable of making great games and I look forward to seeing what they come up with next. Maybe the DLC for Yooka-Laylee will make me want to play through it again and finish the game this time.

We've already had confirmation that it will be a new main series Pokémon game, not a remake or spinoff. The only thing we don't know for certain is what the game will be like, whether it will include new Pokémon and mechanics.

It's a real shame how many people don't understand the significance behind the message Ash sends through his journey, training, wins, losses and the friendships he makes both with people and Pokémon along the way. I suppose it's something that doesn't translate well into words. You just understand it or you don't I guess.

Either way I enjoy the anime 😄

This brings me back to when I was a kid staying at my friend's house and playing the story mode all night to unlock everything and finally complete it. Man that was fun. I'd love to see the story mode return and just more characters really. Banjo-Kazooie being released on the Switch and them making an appearance in Smash would be amazing.

@Damo I personally hope that you continue to cover things like this. I'm interested in what hackers are up to with regards to the Switch and indeed other consoles. I myself dabble in modding and creating custom content for games and while I have no intention of hacking my console, I am intrigued by what others are doing. Here's hoping that these hacks don't lead to any form of piracy. I don't wish to see the game creators harmed by this sort of thing. However, I do enjoy homebrew and used to love some of the little games people would make for the Wii back in those days. The head tracking demo was really something special.

I'll be playing Elder Scrolls Online this weekend. I'm hoping it'll eventually come to the Switch too. That'd be pretty awesome 😆

The tags look cool but I'm not so sure about the headset. I'll probably pass on this.

This game looks pretty cool. I used to love the Harvest Moon games. I might consider getting this because it seems like it could be a lot of fun.

I'd like to see Banjo/Kazooie in Smash. I think it'd be awesome. The more, the merrier in my opinion.

I just don't understand how people find it so difficult to use the buttons on the joy-con. It's the same 4 directions only with singular buttons instead of being attached as a pad. If anything this is actually more accurate than any dpad. Maybe I'm just too tired to think about this properly though. Ah well, lol

The box is very nice. I'd probably just get the box and forget the shoes, lol

I don't think there's anything wrong with being bald. If anything it's kind of refreshing to see a character that DOESN'T have wavy, perfectly styled, anime hair or something similar. But I guess it's funner to just make fun if him for it, lol
I'm just being salty since I started balding as a teen and never really got to appreciate having luxurious, long hair as an adult.

Professor Layton for Smash. That's what I want.

Skyrim: Special Edition, but the PC version where there's mod support unlike the Switch version. (Yes I'm still unhappy about it 😅 but at least it runs well on the Switch and it's good for when I'm out and about)

@Nincompoop
If the developers and artists enjoy their work and are happy with the project when it's finished then I don't think it's a waste of either time or money. Unless you meant purely from a business perspective.

Personally I think this game looks very surreal and beautiful and I look forward to buying it and playing through it for a while.

Their eyes..or lack of..is a little weird but I can forgive it because the story and the music both look and sound great. I might have to get this when it eventually releases.

I can dream...😅 Maybe some day I'll be able to go to an awesome place like this.

I've played violent video games even since I was a kid. I'm desensitised to a lot of things and sometimes I make violent or dark humour jokes. I might talk aggressively sometimes too. But I would never act on those words or thoughts of aggression. They're just an expression of anger. I'm a caring and honest person, and I enjoy puzzles, adventure, love and stories just as much as ripping and tearing apart demons in doom for example. I can see the beauty in all types of video games usually, even the ones that people don't really like. It is people that make the decisions to act on violent impulses, thoughts and words. The content in video games, movies and other forms of art might move people, but they never force you to make a decision. Blaming the content detracts from these people's responsibility for their own actions and it's a disgrace.

I love the look and sound of this game. Definitely getting it when it releases.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
I've had no problems with the D-pad personally but if there is a large portion of people that have one and are suffering from this problem then I'd agree it definitely should be sorted out.

I personally don't need the headphone port but I can understand it being a requested feature. However with the state of the consoles voice chat system I don't think that's really going to happen any time soon.

As for the analogue triggers, I don't think they're necessary at all. Especially since analogue triggers aren't even present on the joycons. Though possibly in a future iteration of the console and a pro controller v2? 🤗

I think the console has had a great year and I've enjoyed a lot of games that have come out for it. Port or not, I prefer having some of those games on my Switch for performance reasons too if not for the true portability. There's a noticeable difference between the performance of Breath of the Wild on the Wii U and on the Switch for example.

Disgaea 5 seems to be a niche game/series but I actually had such a blast with it. That's the first time I've played a Disgaea game and it's made me into a fan for sure.

I played Snipperclips at home in local co-op with various family members and friends and I don't think I've had that much fun since Wii Party or Wii Sports came out. And Mario Odyssey was an adventure I'll never forget. In my opinion it far surpassed Mario 64 and in fact I'd say it even tied with Super Mario Sunshine.

Skyrim is one of the best examples of where the portable nature of the console really shines for me because I've wanted a portable version of Skyrim since it came out. I tried it on streaming services (to my phone/tablet with a Bluetooth controller), tried in-house streaming, nothing worked. But then the Switch came along and just blew me away. It might not be perfect. I miss mod support, and I've had one or two framerate drops but it's still awesome and I've put several hours into it so far while I've commuted to and from work on the bus.

And then the promise of Labo has really got me excited. I know it might not look like much fun to some people, and thusly it might not appeal to all. But to me it looks like something really magical. I can't wait to get my hands on it and see if it lives up to my expectations and I truly hope it does but I don't have any doubts that it will at the moment.

I was disappointed that it didn't have proper voice chat implemented, that it lacked virtual console support and that the online system is still in the works after having been promised several times. But then I realised that I don't even own any of the games that use voice chat 😅 And I've had free access to all of the currently implemented online features this whole time. Features that I could possibly have been made to pay for over all these months. I still miss virtual console but I've got quite a catalogue across my 3DS and Wii U at the moment to keep me going.

My only regret with the system is that I couldn't afford to buy more games with it honestly. There are so many I still want to get my hands on and at the moment Mario & Rabbids as well as Splatoon 2 are at the top of that list. 😄

Also on another note, I've noticed a number of spelling mistakes in this article and strange word choices. Might be worth another proof read. (Unless they're sorted by the time I make this comment anyways) Also I dislike that the article never once makes reference to the console as a hybrid console instead of a handheld console. It's a hybrid, a home system and a handheld and I still don't understand what people don't get about that concept. But that's just me being picky 😅

Lastly Happy Birthday Nintendo Switch! You've gave some hams a severe thrashing in your first year and I have no doubt that with some top contentders in your future you're going to be keeping things awesome for years. (Talking about the metroid and Pokemon games that are in development which this article also doesn't mention. Though I think they might really have helped influence people's decision to purchase the console)