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those hanging pink t-shirts are certainly creased 🤣

👏 congratulations everyone 💪🥳

@Princess_Lilly nice looking ribbon keyring from Argos, scroll down their homepage to find £5 off £40 marketing sign-up promo, makes game + keyring £39.99 delivery is free.

Other retailers have pin badge for around same £

@Kimyonaakuma £32.99 delivered from Smyths https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/gaming-and-tech/pre-order-games/nintendo-switch-pre-order-games/endless-ocean-luminous-nintendo-switch/p/236228

@Diogmites I still have the original Transformers Jetfire figure ! and it's boxed ! 😁👍

Argos have free limited edition keyring. If you scroll down the Argos homepage there is a link to get a £5 off code if you sign-up to Argos marketing. Delivery on this product is also free. So game + keyring for £39.99 delivered using code

@KayFiOS I really appreciate it too 👍 It's so much better to have a conversation about something

@KayFiOS I appreciate your comment. Unofficial emulation of current gen is without doubt a big no no. It just so happens that those who created the Switch emulator also created the 3DS emulator, and they agreed to take availability of both down. Everybody has their own opinions, the world is full of lots of different views and that's a good thing. People have their own moral compass, and we all live and learn every day. It strikes me that unofficial emulation has become more and more accepted as the norm. Dumping and ripping games leads to them being shared online. I remember being struck by how prevalent piracy on the DS became back at that time. And now this gen it became the norm to see people advising others that it is preferable to get a Steam Deck and emulate, instead of getting a Switch. I appreciate what you're saying about games that are no longer available. But that is part of marketing. Withholding things. Things the owner has every right to make available or not, that's their prerogative. No individual has any right to demand something which belongs to someone else be made available to them. It is completely up to Nintendo what they do with their games regardless of what critics say. Nintendo will be analysing and strategizing, and planning how to market everything they have created over all that time. Nintendo is a wonder, I really hope and want it to succeed.

@KayFiOS My intention was not to insult, only to convey what I feel is obvious. I'll remind you you called me a sheep. I could say that about all the people regurgitating the same arguments in favour of unofficial emulation.

An unofficial emulator has no right to exist. I am well aware many do exist. Nintendo has every right to offer emulators of its own consoles. They would obviously be the only ones that do have that right.

You mentioned preference when talking about unofficial emulators being better than official ones. It isn't a question of preference. It's simply a case of who has the right to offer it.

It actually seems quite difficult to make points against unofficial emulation, as there is so much parroting of the same arguments over and over again: preservation / I'll play my games on any hardware I choose / if Nintendo offered adequate services people wouldn't do it ... etc

Any reason is just an excuse to justify it, to reinforce resolve to continue doing it, and to further spread word of doing it.

Hey @NintendoLife ! Could be a really good opportunity for a really interesting poll here !!

How about some suggestions for the options !?

Possibilities:

•"Piracy is fare game"

•"Emulation is legal and I have the right to play my games any way I like"

•"I support emulation but do not support piracy"

•"I disagree with emulating current gen systems"

•"I disagree with all unofficial emulation"

•"I support Nintendo"

😃👍

@Anti-Matter it really is ridiculous isn't it

I've now learned from this that an unofficial emulator is pirating the console it emulates.

After all the noise people made proclaiming emulation to be legal...

It makes logical sense that an emulator is pirating the console.

These have reminded me of the toys which used to come inside packs of cereal ! 😃

@dmcc0 Fair comment. It is surprising to me that making a copy of a legit copy is deemed legal. Is that regardless of format ? so it applies to digital too ? It strikes me as very strange that that is allowed. Copying is copying after all. It's not as if when you buy a game physically you are also getting a digital copy. It isn't actually possible to "format shift" is it, only to make an additional copy. Dumping or Ripping a game from a physical medium doesn't remove it from the physical medium. In this day of big digital format sales and streaming I can't see that being left unchallenged going forward.

My original comment was coming from a perspective of logic, and common sense. And as I later said - a matter of Respect. But it's also a matter of principle in my view. The way the world works is via value exchange. Something for something. It isn't a one-way street. Else it just doesn't work.

I appreciate your reply

@dmcc0 For me it is more a matter of respect for the content creator. The fact that this gen has seen the opinion "just play Switch games on PC for free" and Steam Deck viewed as an alternative platform to play Switch games on

@Drcharlenstein what will I eventually get? 🙂

@Drcharlenstein you mean the same Nintendo who created and own everything to do with Super Mario and Game Boy ‽‽‽ SCANDALOUS !! 🤣

To anyone defending piracy - NEWSFLASH: "Dumping" or "Ripping" games is COPYING. And that is the very purpose of copyright - to protect original works.

When you legitimately obtain a copy of a game it DOES NOT entitle you to duplicate it. You have a single copy of said game in the medium which you obtained it in.

Think of all the time and effort that goes into creating an original work. Be it film, music, videogame, anything. Created for the very purpose of selling copies of it. To earn money back, and hopefully make a profit on it. As well of course creating a piece of art which adds to the tapestry of life.

Copyright is the protection against illegitimate duplication. Only the creator / lisence holder of it has the prerogative to make copies of it available.

If you are interested in something then support it. Legitimate consumption is the only metric that counts. Even for older content. How do you think sequels or new versions / revivals of old content will come about ? - Only through measurable consumption of the existing content via legitimate platforms.

Lastly - You are not entitled to demand something be made available to you, that is the prerogative of the owner. They may do with it what they please. Something being unavailable to obtain legitimate access to DOES NOT grant you the right to obtain it by illegitimate means.

@ZealMajin Lots of pro-piracy freeloaders in here. How does the world work ? Consumerism

@dartmonkey There are no issues if you are the Admin of a Family Group which has no Child accounts (that is my circumstance)

As long as you don't have any eShop credit then there is no issue (must have NSO Auto-Renewal turned off, and NNID unlinked) 👍

*Just learned from your article that you also can't have any pre-orders.
Great article 💪 Really good job

@Don maybe in GBA Classic Mini

@Kimyonaakuma $59.99 is Nintendo's standard price-tier for US, so this is a lower price-tier. Therefore will likely be UK RRP £39.99, and likely be available for £34.99

Why has no one mentioned that ANYONE with NSO+ can easily change their Nintendo account country at https://accounts.nintendo.com/profile/edit to Japan, download the Japanese NSO apps, then revert their account country, and remain free to play the Japanese NSO apps ?

I mean HELLO it's SOOOO easy and I thought this was common knowledge ?

@NintendoLife - why don't you mention this !!?

That price is a complete joke for the standard version which has no light-up & sound feature

Let's Go, to Johto! ?
Let's Go, Ho-oh! & Lugia! ?
Let's Go, Pichu! & Togepi! ?
Legends: Suicune ?

@KnightsTemplar you can't miss out on something which no longer exists

Haven't played this since it killed my POCO F3 ! 😡

So wonderful 😍

@MK73DS Slakoth ?

There's so many ways to legit earn money you don't need dupe glitches. What is the point of breaking the game? That's literally THE GAME! That's what you paid for!? 😅

The look of the gameplay reminds me of Rocket Robot On Wheels N64 game

@SykoMuffin "Why do they cost so much in Canada!? $100?!"

Currency value?! 1 USD = 1.35 CAD currently

the Switch development console has black Joy-Con's

Well of course when physical goes to £14.99

@SpaceboyScreams Lol. It's a matter of piracy which is stealing

@AliceInChains It's owning that single copy of the game. Which does not come with a right to duplicate it.

Excuse me @Olliemar28 "Users will be able to play 3DS titles legally by dumping their games" ?

You do realise the terms "dumping" and "ripping" are used to avoid using the word "copy" ? Because that is exactly what happens. It's not possible to remove a rom image from a cartridge, only copy it. And I assume as a human of the world you are familiar with copyright laws ?

Good riddance

Nice. I was thinking the reason for this happening might have been because the "Peaches" song from The Super Mario Bros Movie had been nominated ! 😂

@Uncle_Franklin Sat 23rd Dec 2023

again, a list of 70 is not all that helpful.

you might as well say "see eshop".

When there are over 3000 games on offer, I'd say a list of 70 is very helpful 🧐

the movie is literally a 90 minute advert for all Mario games. It's literally genius marketing strategy. Anyone who likes Nintendo and wants them to do well should see that. Well done Nintendo, well done 👏

@Kilamanjaro you can only have 1 Primary console per account, that's obviously necessary else it be open to abuse. You just need to make your Switch Lite your Primary console

What a great article 👍 Thanks 😁

Oh I wonder whyyyyyy 😂 Could it possibly be anything at all to do with the quite frankly RIDICULOUS price they put on it !???? 🤣 🤑 😝 RRP £54.99 !! 😵

@PINKSTER007 The Game Collection £10 Bonus Reward Points promotion already ended. But their price £37.95 is the reason Amazon have it at that price. FYI standard rate of TGC Reward Points is 2.5%. If you can get any Amazon promo's like £5 off then that's best offer currently available AFAIK

Mario Kart DS "Mission Mode" was great fun

I like how Jet Force Gemini is called Star Twins in Japan

What was the silver coloured Slime themed Nintendo console which had actual physical bumps on it ? 🤔 Was it a 2DS console ? *Yes - it was a New 2DS LL