Nintendo Switch (Nintendo's next console)

Oh God. The wheel. Here comes the plastic cr*p. Tennis raquets, golf clubs etc. And you have to pay for the coloured strap brackets. Come on. Nintendo. You're killing me. I want to love.......


Oh thank God.

F*kn bear with a man bun

Getting sick sh*t of Arms already.

So........anyone want to sell me their Wii U?

Stream is fixed. Hurray!

String wrote: »

Are gamestop shops taking preorders now?

yea you can preorder online but think you have pay full price or try instore.

"It's a beautiful statue. It's gonna be great, you won't believe the statue I'll get"

LOL when they open the case. "There's great storage capacity in there"

Yep, unlike the console.

Deleted User wrote: »

Being honest I wanted them to get away from all this Wii motion control stuff with the switch.

Me too, I remember when it was still up in the air if the Joy-cons had gyros and motion controls....now it seems that this is all the system is being built for :mad:


Didn't they push back the release from August/September last year for an undisclosed reason? Most speculated it was to have a strong launch lineup which is now shown to be bull. Probably it was that Zelda wouldn't be ready and that's all they are hanging the Switch on.

And Nintendo has released f**k all on WiiU the past year and a half, with the rumour that they were shifting development to Switch titles. So it was only to finish Zelda and make a single Mario game and some shovelware gimmick games to attempt to push the motion controls. Time well spent!

sligeach wrote: »

Ya those large memory cards are crazy expensive. Buying a 32GB memory card is no good.

$130 for the Master Zelda bundle. :eek:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MS6R9FG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

£89 here but it looks like it doesn't come with the carrying case.

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Really think HD Rumble and the IR Camera should have been left out, very gimmicky, doubt they'll be used too much and are definitely an expensive factor in the controllers, which are a massive price of the console.

Going $90 a pair to $300 for the package, the controllers cost 30% of the total price.

I'm sure the tech has added to the price of the Switch. But Nintendo always charge expensive markup on their accessories. The Wii remote all these years later is still €45.

Far too pricey a console for what they're offering out the gate. Cheapest I can find is about €333.50 online, but Zelda is going for nearly €70 so that barely offsets the price.

Arms looks like a terrible tech-demo they're charging money for. Given Nintendo's history, this will either sell incredibly well (and judging by their artificial limitation of stock, they'll use the 'sold out' excuse to fabricate hype, as they're the kings of undersupply) and then fade over time given the total lack of support, like the Wii, or it'll sell poorly out the gate and over time will gain some form of support, only to die out and be a massive waste of time for those who bought the console as nothing will release on it, like the WiiU/3DS.

The online subscription is crap too, NES and SNES games? For a fixed monthly fee? Nonsense. No new Metroid title? Ridiculous.

I honestly think the best thing they could have done is release it as a €200-250 pricepoint, reduce games down to €45 a pop, and have a bunch of games at release to choose from. No online subs, redesign and refine their online storefront, and emphasise on constant reductions to their digital games over time, something they'd failed to do prior to this. I can't see myself, or a lot of people I know, buying it out the gate. Other consoles have larger libraries from first to third parties and the Switch is starting out limping. They needed to come out swinging but they're doing the classic Nintendo thing of half-assing it, assuming their past failures won't effect them now.

super_furry wrote: »

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MS6R9FG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

£89 here but it looks like it doesn't come with the carrying case.

Looking at the magnified version on the side of the box, looks like it's the game, the master sword statue (which looks too plasticy for my liking) and the soundtrack CD.