Thank you for the inputs. It sounds reasonable – it doesn’t excite me personally, but we do a fair amount of hosting and entertaining, and I bring the Switch with me often. It may be a good thing for me to pick up, even if I don’t see myself spending a bunch of time with it.
I’m getting it specifically for the portable multiplayer. I have some friends at work to play with and the kids will play on the go while traveling! It’s totally unique in that way.
How the heck are you guys finding these things. I went to the local GameStop and they said they got some in on Wednesday, but stock only comes in about every 3 weeks. Walmart and a local store similar to Walmart don’t have them or know when they will. I looked at the stock checking sites and everything is close doesn’t do online stock. Do you just have to keep going in to these stores every day and just hope to get lucky?
I saw a news story on Polygon or Kotaku or something yesterday saying they had the Switch in stock on Amazon and ordered. Free 1 day shipping, just got the package at my door.
Basically only been playing Zelda and Shovel Knight so far, but still very pleased with the purchase. Now debating the Tetris and possibly Mario Kart or the Banjo Kazooie looking lizard game.
I had been checking that, always nothing. I clicked your link and it showed Walmart had some. Set up an account and then it told me they were sold out. Tried again and says I can pick up May 4. So, thanks.
I’ve seen Switches several times at my local Walmart. Maybe I should have picked one up and hawked it on eBay. Pretty sure I’d feel too much of an ass for that though.
Why is anyone buying physical copies of Switch games. Do you live in a cave. Do you enjoy carrying a bunch of easily loseable 60 dollar postage stamps everywhere.
You guys are weird. I bet you’d buy phone apps on a chip if you could. Oh hold on, let me put in the browser chip so I can google that. That’s my impression of you guys with a chip phone.
Did Nintendo fix the issue where purchased digital games are tied to the system and not my account? I’d rather not buy Zelda again if a few years from now I want to play and my Switch is absent and I want to buy a Switch XL or something. Until they get that stuff sorted out, I don’t even by VC games. Though they are cheap enough I may change my mind on that one at some point, but so far I haven’t felt the urge.
Nintendo now binds digital purchases to both the hardware and the account. If you buy new hardware, you transfer your digital rights to the new hardware that you will use your account on.
Except for Zelda, I am digital for Switch. It is much nicer for portable game options or changing games in general.