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Pretty poor line-up to be honest. But then again, I have been spoilt for choice these last three years. And still have a huge backlog - something I never accrued on any other gaming system.

When I first got a GBA, my first three games were Pokemon Emerald, Advance Wars and Fire Emblem. What a line-up. All three games became my favourite of the series. Not sure the first GBA game had a subtitle like Sacred Stones. Pretty sure it was just called Fire Emblem.

Takes me back. I remember loads of kids had Game&Watch games at school. They seemed so sophisticated! Also at around the same time there was a Casio calculator game. Numbers came at you from the right, and you had to eliminate them by pressing one key to increment your number on the left, then pressing another key to "kill" them. Astonishing how many hours I sunk into that one. Oh, it was also a "synthesizer". You could play tunes although nobody did that. Or did maths. About five of us had it just for the numbers game!

@sanderev "MarioKart is Nintendo's GTA". Love it!

I love how all this new technology assumes all users have rock steady ultra fast broadband. I still occasionally buffer when streaming HD content. Not to mention the times it stops working completely. Anything from a few seconds which happens every day, to days which happens once or twice a year. Cloud gaming? Not for me. Would be too frustrating.

@Clamango @Mathieu_B @Ralizah I'm a huge FE fan, but actually sold FE3H because there was just too much going on in a small space. Don't have a problem with the GBA/DS FE games though. I just put it down to the fact I'm getting older, but reassuring to know it's a common complaint.

@brunojenso Nice Beaver!

(Thanks, I just had it stuffed).

As a former eBay PowerSeller, I absolutely guarantee that the person who bought this will shortly be filing a claim saying "BUT THE BOXES TURNED UP EMPTY THO."

@SuperKMx This is possible. But even more likely is the buyer will refuse to pay, and not respond to any emails or messages. Leaving you the hassle of claiming the 10% eBay fee back.

Yeah, storm in a teacup. I seem to remember Luigi U was another limited run game (the year of Luigi - whatever that was). But they sold millions. Then it popped up again in the budget Select range. Then was ported to the Switch! Somehow, I think Super Mario 3D All-stars will be easy enough to get hold of, even after the limited time is up.

Probably a high percentage have been bought by scalpers. Hope Nintendo print millions and leave the scalpers unable to shift their copies.

I'm in if you can wall jump with them.

@Gus_Campos A bit late to the party, but... thanks.

@LinktotheFuture @Danondorf @RushDawg Yeah, I know. It's just... wrong though!

My favourite memories of FF were playing III, IV, V and VI on the original DS (which took the GBA V and VI carts). All great games. Nothing has really topped that since.

Why is 9 between 4 and 5 ?!

The games that had the biggest impact for me were Jetpac, Atic-Atac, Sabre Wulf, etc on the ZX Spectrum. Fantastic graphics (for the time). After they moved (and rebranded) to Nintendo, the Donkey Kong games were the only ones that still had that wow factor.

@zool ^^ This

You never forget your first one! Emerald for me. I even enjoyed the grinding in the cave with Zubat after Zubat. HeartGold was pretty much perfection as well.

Makes it harder for us Brits as they're driving on the wrong side of the road!

@NotoriousWhiz Lots of reasons. Personally, I sold my Switch because they were going for ridiculous prices on eBay. Got £420 for the old-battery model, which made sense because I don't currently have the time to play it. But in six months time that could change. Also, might pass my digital library on to my son. Seems a shame to waste it. So, for the above reasons, always on the lookout for ultra-cheap game sales. But as mentioned above, can only purchase physical at the moment.

@NotoriousWhiz No you can't. I've tried. You need to have your account linked to a Switch. When I sold my Switch I unlinked the account. With no linked account, you get an error message when you try to buy.

@JimmySpades Disagree. Whatever the law might change to in the future (and it's not guaranteed) at the present it is different. Personally I buy lots of physical games, not because I'm any sort of collector, but because if I don't like the game, or by some miracle finish it, I can resell and plough the money back into a new game. I suspect many people are the same as me. I do buy digital games, but only those evergreen ones (NSMBU, MK8, etc.) that I know I'll want for years.
There is also a more subtle difference which I didn't mention on my initial post - that is, I can buy a physical game for me or a friend whenever I want to take advantage of sale prices, however when I find myself temporarily Switch-less (like now) I cannot buy the digital game. Very small difference, but nevertheless, another difference between physical and digital. They are really only the same if you look at 0 and 1s internally. The whole "product" that surrounds them is very different. Although the manufacturers would have you believe otherwise.

@JimmySpades Not so. Physical games can be sold on, digital ones can't. Not really an identical product!

Very easy to point fingers at Game. And they are an awful company. But honestly does anyone think they are sitting in their bank vaults, chuckling demonically while counting the cash? No, they are slowly going bust. They are just trying to stave that off as long as possible. As others have said, we as customers either pay the prices or not. It's up to you.

@Friendly Well, as I've said, 1080p is no guarantee of great graphics or gameplay, especially as it's not 1080p, it's "targeted" which is no guarantee of anything! Hence my emphasis. Would have been more impressed if it was definitely 1080p/30fps without the "targeted". That was the main point I took from the article.

@Friendly Not sure what you are on about? You've just repeated my exact point. LOL!

@Friendly No, I meant "target" as meaning not guaranteed to get there.
@Razer According to pretty much every review, XCDE looks and plays great. Resolution isn't everything. Lots of games have pin-sharp resolution yet not much in the way of graphical effects. Personally I'd rather have smooth animation, graphical effects but with lower resolution. Not saying XCDE has all of this - not actually played it yet, but will withhold judgement until I do.

Key word - "target"!

@Jeronan My point was that people were playing at 200p or 240p without moaning about it. Now twice the resolution is a problem?

Also, pretty sure you're wrong about the original running at a higher resolution. Thought the Wii was 480p. Which means 504p-720p on the Switch is better. No?

Obviously, you can't compare Wii Console output with Switch handheld output. That would be silly!

@Northwind Good points. I also find some 3D (as in polygons, not the stereoscopic effect!) 3DS games unplayable now I've spent time with the Switch. But at the same time some 720p games can look better than 1080p games. Depends on the animations used, the effects applied, etc. I guess we'll only know when we've got the game in front of us. Can't really tell from a YouTube video!

And yet... 95% of these posters were happy playing 3DS games at 240p 3 years ago!

A Galaxy 1 + 2 remaster double pack would be sweet. Wouldn't take much. An HD upgrade and a new lick of paint. Nintendo could knock that out in a couple of months and it would be a guaranteed million seller. Even at £50 a go.
I swear, Nintendo are (usually) a very profitable company, but sometimes they seem to go out of their way NOT to make money!

@Quix Slang - a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.

So, "as you do" is a phrase, it's very informal, it's more common in speech than writing, it's restricted to a group of people - not sure which group, let's say the English for argument's sake. So how exactly is it not slang?!

I suppose it might better be described as an idiom, or maybe irony, if you want to get technical.

@Elvie You're missing the last word, starting with a "B"!

@FantasiaWHT
From Google...
informal•British
used as an ironic comment on a somewhat unexpected statement.
"on the way home I fell asleep in John's car, as you do"
So it's basically British slang.

It's a shame after all that hard perfectionist work, the name's missing an "N"!

Pointless comparing Switch lifecycle with consoles, better to compare with handhelds. And thanks to Nintendo's policy of backwards compatibility (apart from Switch release!) the lifecycle will be at least 10 years. I expect a future Switch 2 or Switch Pro to be fully compatible with all Switch games. So by my reckoning we've still got at least a couple of years until mid cycle!

@gcunit Eaxctly what I thought!

@ItsOKToBeOK "Remember at the beginning of the Switch’s life cycle, people complained there were no games?"

I remember at the beginning, when it was first released, people were saying Switch was dead in the water. A silly gimmick that wouldn't sell. Ha! I knew it would do well if only as Nintendo's next generation of handheld. Even 3 years ago the 3DS was getting a bit long in the tooth and looking primitive.

Mind you, I also thought the WiiU would be successful. So what do I know!

@tekknik Not sure a single extra game is a major inconvenience when you can keep it plugged into the cart slot permanently! LOL. Take your point with 84 games though.

@mesome713 "Digital is the best, it's good for the environment. Save the world Nintendo, we can do it."

Is it really? I'd really like to see some proper figures comparing the carbon footprint (or however you want to measure it) of a one-off physical release of, say, 1 million units, against the on-going costs of hosting the digital game in power hungry data centres. Would be an interesting comparison.

It's a shame that these days physical releases are no more than a "pass" to download the game, what with their constant patches and DLC. Would be nice to get cartridges with the finished game on them. Oh well...

Great to see Pokemon doing well (sales wise). After reading all the comments on the all-knowing internet, I came to the conclusion I was the only one enjoying it.

Would have thought it would be a lot simpler to superglue a GameBoy cartridge to the thermostat dial. Bingo. Heating controlled by a GameBoy game!

@Dethmunk I think you missed my point. Take my own favourite, Super Mario World on the SNES. Leave it as an on-line perk, but offer it for permanent sale at say £/$5. I would buy it. Yes, short term it would be more expensive for me. I would also purchase such things as Pokemon Emerald, Fire Emblem and Advance Wars GBA games if they ever get round to releasing them. More money for Nintendo. So why don't they do it? These extra games could also be available as part of the on-line subscription service. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

Someone else mentioned difficulty in getting the rights. Well, they already have the rights for all the NES and SNES games already on the online subscription. Why don't they also offer them for permanent sale?

I think Nintendo are missing a trick here. There's a lot of demand for the older games, and it surely can't take much effort to get them up and running? I can only presume it's a business decision, but the logic of which I can't fathom.

Not sure why we can't have the Nintendo back catalogue available to buy instead of with the online subscription only. I for one would buy some SNES games, as well as GBA, GC, etc. yet to be released. I understand they are trying to make the online subscription more desirable, but another revenue stream (the old VC) wouldn't hurt surely? Unfortunately the above seven games hold no nostalgic value for me.

I've always thought the best Nintendo games have fantastic attention to detail. Whether this is because they are given more time I don't know.

I'm still waiting for a Mario/Nintendo TECHNIC set.

Imagine a Galaxy 1 and 2 twin pack! (like NSMBU Mario + Luigi). Yes please!

Oh my. Game staff are generally young aren't they? These are the same people that will be moaning when Game goes into liquidation due to lack of sales - which is coming anyway, coronavirus or not.

Of course, for those people with a digital only collection, selling their games is not an option.

I find the best way to limit a backlog is to limit yourself to buying only two games a month. If you strictly adhere to this, it really focuses yourself to think what games it is you really want.