Nintendo Switch

[Snippysnips]

Totally agree. I played Streets of Rage 2, Streetfighter and Road Rage as a teen and I’m not going around kicking a and punching people off motorbikes

Exactly, like I was a kid an teen with the GTA games, an while they aren't as graphic as today's, kids still play all these games, I also remember street fighter that my cousin's had an we all played, then you had the TV shows like south park we all snuck downstairs to watch at night lol

A little bit of sass talk in a game is really nothing now to what kids are exposed too

 

[MidnightAura]

I agree, but at least with Animal Crossing it won’t happen. It’s one of the reasons I still play the older games as the characters have personality.

 

[Yel]

I think the Zelda tears... gold joycons are the best version they've released. Hopefully get some like that coming out for Christmas.

I know it's hard to do much with design when everything is a slab of glass with a screen, but remember when design was this - and his cheeks even lit up!

 

[Ensay]

Yeah I got the Skyward Sword joy cons. They were good.

 

[anniemouse]

We have a Zelda 3DS XL and when I got together with my OH he had a Goldeneye N64, it was pretty cool.

 

[JustHereForTheAgriculture]

I got a dispatch email
I mean, it probably won’t move for days because of the bank holiday but regardless, I am hyped.

 

[Snippysnips]

I got a dispatch email
I mean, it probably won’t move for days because of the bank holiday but regardless, I am hyped.

I also got my dispatch email today plus money taken so getting excited

Wondering if there might be a chance it comes earlier, they have locked the consoles behind a day one update patch that doesn't realise till release day so even having it early means you can't do a thing with it, its a good idea since I've seen so many with theirs already an its stopping them from getting any gameplay out, but also means there's less stress on deliveries keeping up with demand if they just start delivery in stages from monday, mines is coming with DPD

 

[Yel]

Where I bought it from expressly says it will be dispatched on the 4th

 

[Snippysnips]

Where I bought it from expressly says it will be dispatched on the 4th

Fingers crossed you still get it the 5th

Am wishing I had just done click and collect at Smyth's instead, didn't know they were doing midnight release, they never with the Xbox or PS so didn't expect it for this, I'll probably still go up an see if I can pick up some games though for it an then just pace on the 5th wondering when it's coming if it doesn't arrive before then

If it arrives just right before I have to go to work I will not be impressed lol

 

[Yel]

If it arrives just right before I have to go to work I will not be impressed lol

Stick it in your bag and have lots of loo breaks?

I'm going to see if I can change mine to collect in store.

 

[Snippysnips]

Stick it in your bag and have lots of loo breaks?

I'm going to see if I can change mine to collect in store.

Oh man I wish it just had to be the absolute worst day of the week, if it had been Mon/Tues/wed I'd have taken it to work with me since am on my own an am off Friday an the weekends, Thursday is like my only day with the boss in an it being busy they could not have timed this worse lol

If I had some day one games I'd maybe have seriously thought about taking the day off, but I don't have anything so will just work it an wait impatiently till am home an can get a proper go on it, am tempted to maybe buy the new runes game, but right now it's the only one I've really got on my list, was so hoping for a new FE game on launch but no luck

Are you getting it from Smyth's? I want to change to click and collect but I've not idea how to do that or if I can

 

[Yel]

I'm in NZ so getting it from a store I've never heard of before Hifi something , it's annoying as I had a cheaper order in Amazon but had to cancel it and although It's not too bad $800 NZ seems a fortune!

I'm half expecting it not to arrive until late June.

 

[JustHereForTheAgriculture]

Yeah I was looking into changing to click and collect too but can’t see any way to do it. I had no idea they did midnight releases outside of the US.
Just going to keep my fingers crossed that it’s delivered early.

 

[Snippysnips]

I'm in NZ so getting it from a store I've never heard of before Hifi something , it's annoying as I had a cheaper order in Amazon but had to cancel it and although It's not too bad $800 NZ seems a fortune!

I'm half expecting it not to arrive until late June.

Ooft good luck I've always went with stores I know an have good rep, there's a store here called Game an they have terrible reputation, I avoid them like the plague (super over priced as well) an my god am I glad I did because they have cancelled everyone's preorders due to "problems" they said, an its less than a week to go, I would not like to be trying to scramble to grab a console elsewhere at this stage

Yeah I was looking into changing to click and collect too but can’t see any way to do it. I had no idea they did midnight releases outside of the US.
Just going to keep my fingers crossed that it’s delivered early.

Usually they don't, I've always known them to have early releases like I got my Xbox at 8am when it launched, they will sometimes open at either 7am or 8am as well to preorder, but I can't remember the last console that actually had a midnight release, maybe the PS2? So it's surprising they are doing it for this one especially when I'd say PS an Xbox are bigger names an had more demand

 

[JustHereForTheAgriculture]

Usually they don't, I've always known them to have early releases like I got my Xbox at 8am when it launched, they will sometimes open at either 7am or 8am as well to preorder, but I can't remember the last console that actually had a midnight release, maybe the PS2? So it's surprising they are doing it for this one especially when I'd say PS an Xbox are bigger names an had more demand

It’s strange. Like I’d say a midnight launch to hype it up and drive up demand but the pre orders were selling out in minutes so it’s not like it needed it. Although saying that, it didn’t sell out in Ireland all that fast. I think up until about a week ago or so you could still pre order one. Still I’m really wondering how many people will go. And what’s in the goodie bags. If it’s good stuff I’m gonna be more annoyed. If it’s a load of stickers, I’ll be fine

 

[Ensay]

Getting excited haha.

I'll be getting the Mario Kart World bundle and, apparently in the UK, that means it comes with a code to download the game, rather than it being pre-installed on the console. So hopefully the eShop won't be slow on day one...

Are you guys planning on doing a full system transfer from your original Switch to your Switch 2, or keeping them as separate units? I have a NSO account, hence my save data is backed up in the cloud, so I'm hoping I can start my Switch 2 as a fresh console and then just access save data for each game when I put it in (eg BotW and TotK).

 

[Snippysnips]

Are you guys planning on doing a full system transfer from your original Switch to your Switch 2, or keeping them as separate units? I have a NSO account, hence my save data is backed up in the cloud, so I'm hoping I can start my Switch 2 as a fresh console and then just access save data for each game when I put it in (eg BotW and TotK).

Honestly am not sure, was planning on bringing the games over, but am not sure on if I'll bring their save data over or not, one one hand it might be cool to start fresh with games but then my AC has so much in its catalogue am like ehhhhh lol

Am planning on letting my niece have my old switch when she comes over as she's just starting to enter the gaming world now, so I'll maybe "loan" out the games to her

 

[Ensay]

Honestly am not sure, was planning on bringing the games over, but am not sure on if I'll bring their save data over or not, one one hand it might be cool to start fresh with games but then my AC has so much in its catalogue am like ehhhhh lol

Am planning on letting my niece have my old switch when she comes over as she's just starting to enter the gaming world now, so I'll maybe "loan" out the games to her

Not sure if you're aware, but Animal Crossing has its own transfer tool to move data from one Switch to another. You can't do it any other way, so be careful wiping any AC data from your Switch without using it first.

The tool worked well for me when I upgraded my original Switch to an OLED Switch a year ago. Pretty sure the same tool can be used to move AC save data from a Switch to a Switch 2. I used it because my island took so long and I catalogued pretty much every single item in the game (including all the colour variants) so I couldn't face starting over.

Always nice to pass a console onto a new gamer haha! I think I'm either gonna put my Switch next to my Switch 2 (both docked by my TV), or I'll use my Switch as a purely handheld console, while keeping my Switch 2 mainly docked. If it was just a standard Switch I wouldn't care, but it's the TotK Zelda edition, so I still want to use it rather than letting it gather dust while I move all data to my Switch 2. Decisions, decisions!

 

[anniemouse]

Not sure if you're aware, but Animal Crossing has its own transfer tool to move data from one Switch to another. You can't do it any other way, so be careful wiping any AC data from your Switch without using it first.

The tool worked well for me when I upgraded my original Switch to an OLED Switch a year ago. Pretty sure the same tool can be used to move AC save data from a Switch to a Switch 2. I used it because my island took so long and I catalogued pretty much every single item in the game (including all the colour variants) so I couldn't face starting over.

Always nice to pass a console onto a new gamer haha! I think I'm either gonna put my Switch next to my Switch 2 (both docked by my TV), or I'll use my Switch as a purely handheld console, while keeping my Switch 2 mainly docked. If it was just a standard Switch I wouldn't care, but it's the TotK Zelda edition, so I still want to use it rather than letting it gather dust while I move all data to my Switch 2. Decisions, decisions!

I’ve used the tool twice, it works great.

Little Miss I don’t want a Switch 2 joined the AO preorder list. They called me one lunchtime and I snapped it up. Ours is due on Thursday, the tracking says DPD have it already.

 

[JustHereForTheAgriculture]

I’m gonna move all my save data to the Switch 2 and probably just sell my switch 1. Can’t see me using two especially if it’s true that 1 games load faster on the new console..
That being said I’m probably going to have to check every game myself just to make sure.

I’ve upgraded my NSO membership. GameCube is one of my favourite systems so really looking forward to that. And getting the Zelda upgrades will be nice too. I never actually finished TOTK so maybe this will get me back into it.