LockerK
1788
The lack of stock is making me disproportionately smug about the PS4 Pro I bought today instead. Someone was going to get my money whether they liked it or not.
LeeAbe
1789
I decided to check out the video games at my local Fred Meyer (Walmart type store in the NW) and they were out of them of course. The employee was talking to someone who turned out to be a Nintendo employee (I think they were discussing the Nintendo section’s layout). I tried to get any info from them, but all I got is that shipments are going out all the time, so keep checking. She seemed to shoot down the idea that GameStop was getting a shipment in today outside of what everyone else gets. The Fred Meyer employee added that they get in about 3-5 when they get some but they are gone by 8 AM.
So I got nothing, just wanted to share.
Don’t understand why you guys are disappointed that they are sold out. Isn’t better to wait until all the hardware kinks have been worked out to get one?
LeeAbe
1791
But Zelda…
It’s completely irrational for me to buy one now, it’s just shiny. And did I mention Zelda is supposedly really good?
Chaplin
1792
I used my dusty Wii LAN adapter and ordered a tempered glass screen protector. I have no kinks to wait out now. I am currently enjoying the hell outta my Switch. I never realized how much I hated being chained to a couch and TV. No handheld has even really got me either as they are so uncomfortable. But heck, I can pro controller to tablet mode in my car at lunch if I like, or while watching a show.
As cool as Zelda is, I’m pretty hyped for Has Been Heores. Splattoon 2 test this weekend too. And Arms looks cool. I may even double dip on Mario Kart and Isaac 'cuz… portable options (that don’t lose TV surround options) are so cool.
That’s how Nintendo rolls. It’s baffling. It was the same with the 3ds and NES Classic. If you want one, camp your local Target at 6am in the cold and be prepared to fight scalpers.
I got my NES Classic by checking brickseek every morning at 5am before the gym. One day my Target had 4 in stock. I got there and some obnoxious woman was already here saying she had 4 “nephews” that wanted one so I should go home because she had claimed all of them. I stayed and she got pissed.
I just missed one this morning at the local gameshop, but managed to order one so I should get that early next week.
Weirdly excited about portable Zelda time, but this gives me the weekend to continue my HZD obsession since I’m probably not even half done with it yet.
Clay
1795
I went in GameStop yesterday to buy a 3DS XL for my brother-in-law (who just shattered his ankle and will be bed ridden for a month). There were a few people milling about and the employee said they get 5 Switch units every day, around noon (or whenever UPS shows up) and that if you show up and wait, you can get one. Speaking of which, those New 3DS XLs aren’t easy to find either. I ended up finding (the last) one at a nearby Target and the employee there was shocked they had any.
JonRowe
1796
Don’t know about the 3DS, but the Wii U refurb I picked up from Nintendo was as good as new.
Sadly one of my Wiimotes mysteriously stopped working last year. One of the ones I originally bought at launch along with the Wii when it launched, via a Nintendo employee from their own internal Nintendo store up there in Seattle. (That’s why I never got Wii Play or Wii Sports Resort, since I already had two Wii motes).
Sadly that meant that this thanksgiving when the young kids all played Wii Sports we had to pass one controller around instead of having two to pass around.
Last night they wanted to check out my VC purchases, including Super Mario 64. Sadly it required the Classic Controller, and we searched Mom & Dad’s house far and wide, and couldn’t find where the heck it’s gotten to. So no Super Mario 64 for us, sadly.
How is that handled on the Wii U, I wonder? If I bought a WiiU, it comes with a cable that transfers my VC titles to the new consoles, but then I still need the Classic Controller to play VC titles, right?
And to bring it back on topic, I guess maybe they’ll require the classic controller again on the Switch when they finally launch the VC? We shall see I guess. I’m hoping maybe if I can transfer things from my Wii to the Switch, and everything can be controlled using Switch controllers, that would be ideal.
The reason you needed it for Mario kart on Wii is because the wiimote had no shoulder buttons, but that shouldn’t be a problem with switch, right?
Chaplin
1800
I would think not. The joycons have shoulder buttons both in pairs and smaller ones along the top if alone. I think the Switch should be pretty future (and historical) proof as far as button configurations. Every setup imaginable has buttons and gyroscope. The only limitation would be dual stick games off of a single joycon.
And FWIW, due to the joycon idea, the Switch is the first out of the box multiplayer capable console I have owned in…sheesh, a darn long time.
I wouldn’t be. The JoyCon issue is minimal at worst (it’s not even a desync issue; it just loses the connect for a couple of seconds), and Zelda is pretty incredible. The worst part is having to send the L Joycon back, but they’re overnighting it there and back, so it should only be a couple of days.
If you do the transfer thing on a Wii-U, it’s actually emulating a Wii, OS and everything, so games require the same controllers the Wii version would, because it is the Wii version.The Switch almost certainly will be using its own VC, not the Wii’s. And it’s not compatible with the Wii controllers anyway, so they’d have to emulate the controllers too if they were going to bring over the Wii VC. Which I would bet a lot of money they won’t be doing. There may be an option to “upgrade” to the Switch version for less than the full price, like there was with the Wii-U VC, but it doesn’t have the same infrastructure in place so I would not count on it.
13GB mandatory download for Lego City Undercover.
Wait, what??? That doesn’t make any sense…
Apparently, they used an 8GB card, so the rest of the game has to be downloaded.
Maybe they’re expecting a massive day 1 patch? Sounds pretty poor … what’s the point of buying the cart if you still need to download 60% of the game?
It’s also strange because the eShop apparently shows the download size for the game as 7.1GB.
Aaand the game is delayed in Australia by 1 week as well. :P
The original Wii U version was 19GB total. You’d expect the Switch version to have slightly more “stuff” in it, so 20+GB total makes sense.
