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Have a suspicion SMO drop was down to lack of availability, Amazon were selling through another seller at over £50 nearly all week, my 2 local Tesco were sold out, my local Game was sold out and Game online are selling via level99games all week at £55.

That's great 'n' all but this kind of thing should also be available via club nintendo. We used to get a brilliant selection of ost cd's that just weren't available to us in the UK and I get that they don't do physical rewards now but surely that could be replaced with a download code for gold or plat points.

Top game, so glad I got my legacy edition. Just as others have already mentioned my 3rd fave game of the year behind the obvious 2.

This is the kind of poll if asked at another time I could easily flip my answers the other way except for Wii where I would always vote Galaxy. Both sets of these games are fantastic in my eyes, and most are right up there as the best games i've ever played.

@Fabaroo did the same thing . Love this game, though my play time has dropped mostly through Mario time, so a very nicely timed, and very beefy, update.

@Kalmaro thanks, SOR2 is also one of my all time favr games

Having touched nothing else but Odyssey since it released probably more of that, bloody love it, did however pick up Wonderboy with it being on sale so will aim to at least give it a go this weekend.

Well deserved, I'm of the mindset it probably is the best game i've ever played but I normally like to give more time distance for some perspective on such things.

Cool read, even though i love the modern orchestrations, original chiptune is still right up there among my faves to listen to, the 16 bit music god that is Yuzo Koshiro, and Streets of Rage 2 in particular, is one of the very best.

@BensonUii yeah the skells were awesome as was XCX overall. Slightly lucky in that I was going to pre-order from Very for £69.99 but earlier that day got an e-mail saying come back to us and have £20 off anything over £50.

Not watching as i've already pre-ordered the collectors edition for £50. Loved both XC and XCX, in fact XC would easily be in my top games list.

@ALinkttPresent nice one, it's a cracking game, not quite on a Super Metroid level for me but loved every second I've been playing it.

Just finished Samus Returns, so apart from the inevitable Splatoon 2 sessions (can't stop playing, and don't want to) i'm thinking Mario & Rabbids deserves some attention. Need to clear a bit of backlog before I go a spending, though Wulverblade and Golf Story are very tempting.

Funny thing is in the several shops i've been to that sell games since Friday i've seen more mini snes available for sale than i've seen of Fifa on Switch, which was none. I would suggest it's sell through rate is going to be pretty good judging from comments here.

Clearly shipped a lot more here in the UK than they did the mini nes. Such a shame to see auction/seller sites like ebay and gumtree full of them for sale at £120 plus, even up to £250.

No probs for me, pre-ordered one originally at £84, found a cheaper pre-order for £70 which came yesterday so cancelled the 1st. Even seen them out in wild when out shopping today, cheapest at £69.

Wasn't the Bandai tweet that physical had sold out sent out the day after release? Who knows what it would have done not to mention unknown digital sales to add, of which it's sitting at number 3 in the JP download chart.

In terms of access to pretty much most games ever made, abundance of choice, and the rise of the risk taking indie-scene we are in a golden age of gaming. But don't confuse a golden age of gaming with a golden age of new games, that hasn't happened consistently enough to call it a golden era.

Link is on the top of this page. Tempted to give this a go but no idea if I could actually go to EGX.

For the 'friendless' you can qualify solo through ESL for a different team, not sure of the exact details but it's all the nintendo UK site.

Might well have gone now, no longer available to deliver to my postcode, don't know if that will be the same for any.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/7156627
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Argos pre order Just went up

There is a movement that is seeing VGM begin to break through I would say @BorninNorway81. As @HappyMaskedGuy mentioned Jessica Curry, herself a game music composer, hosted a show recently dedicated to VGM on the back of occasional Saturday Night at the Movies specials over the last few years, both on Classic FM. With several games frequenting the yearly Classic FM Hall of Fame charts, the occasional Grammy nomination with category changes having come into effect, and sell out shows all across the world, acceptance is happening albeit slower than I would like. A Video Game music show at the Proms is what I would love to see happen.

Not surprised by this, got both Arms & HZD myself this week. Quite a few of my lads mates who have a Switch picked up HZD, given the price at the moment, having not bothered at the time because of BOTW.

Pretty sure Switch has been sold out for the most part here in the UK since the start of last week, online at least. Relented and picked up MK deluxe myself this week, was perfectly happy with my Wii U version (albeit wanting the new battle mode) but my lad has been bugging me as 4 of his friends are now into Nintendo and have a Switch having not even touched a Wii U.

Comparing sales numbers to other systems as to success or not at this point is beyond pointless at the moment for loads of reasons. Can't speak for this week but Switch has sold out all available stock in Japan so who knows what the actual early figures could have been, clearly does have momentum though.

Spot on @SLIGEACH_EIRE about the opening, SOM is one of my all time faves, was proper gutted SD3 never came to the UK. Sooo hope this gets an official localisation for the Switch.

Difficult to analyse given Zelda has been out of stock for most of that period, and for most retailers completely out, kinda surprised it's as high as it is, and personally haven't seen Bomberman R in stock anywhere for the last week or 2 online or physical.

Proper love this.

So glad I invested (well got my dad to) in a Japanese MD when I was a young'un but I never realised the time lapse was so stark.

How on earth can i choose a top 3, I could easily argue any of those to be in, would struggle with choosing a bottom 3 out of that lot. That list comprises my most beloved games still to this day even if placed against some of the more modern day big hitters.
ps Kudos on the Jackie Chan/SF nod always thought he made a good Chun Li when I first saw that on video