Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@Haruki_NLI Yah, don't buy digital. Returnal €58.99. Demon's Souls €59.95 (was €49.99 in March). These are all €80 games mind you. Even Ratchet & Clank is already €66.99.

But yeah, like Kidfried already mentioned. The PS5 is still a new system, so it's not entirely fair to compare it one-to-one to the Switch. Give it some time, and the sales will be even better. Demon's Souls won't be €60-80 in a year from now. Though still, cheapest copy of BOTW I can find is €56.95.

@Kidfried Availability yes, but with physical stores are competing for the best price, whereas Sony doesn't have competition for digital sales. That's why you can find physical PS5 games for less than full price. On the PS Store they're likely still full price.

The North American special edition is beautiful. Really glad it came over. We never got the special edition for Nocturne HD.

Man SMTV is hype. Not sure it's for me though.

That's the problem with big time investment games in series I'm new to, and being too close to Diamond and Pearl remakes is an issue. Plus I'd have no time off work (assuming I still have the patience to work there) due to company policy of no holiday around the holidays.

Bleh. Too many games man.

@Kidfried If I had more disposable income at the moment If be more sure. Same with Mario Golf since the friendos want to have fun with it.

But work cut our hours down, I'm on 24 a week instead of 40, they refuse to go higher, and the company's automated payslip emailing system (which is how you see how much tax etc you pay per month from what you earned that month) has failed to upload a payslip to me twice in a row now.

So not insignificant financial information is somehow missing so I can't exactly work out where the money is coming from, how much I lose monthly due to the new tax year, how much I get from paid holiday is a damn mystery.

So as of now I'd rather spend money on stuff I know I'll enjoy and eat into my backlog.

Sucks but that's how it is.

@Kidfried Yeah, I pretty much never spring for these expensive editions, but I made an exception this time, given how good it looks, and my love for the series as a whole. Atlus really bungled the roll-out, though. I ended up having to preorder it from some small Canadian chain, since they're the only ones who managed the distribution properly (primarily, advertising on Twitter that they had it, making it where each account could only buy one copy, making it easy for foreign customers to order from them, etc.).

Oh well. I guess it's an opportunity to support a business that's not some gigantic megacorp full of RoboCop-esque corporate suits.

@Haruki_NLI Well, it's not like the game is going anywhere. Atlus games generally drop in price over time anyway, so maybe it'll be cheap if and when you decide to pick it up down the road.

Not planning on picking up Pokemon atm with all of the stuff I'm excited for near the back half of the year, but I'm sure we'll somehow end up with a copy anyway. We usually do.

@Kidfried Yeah ive got a very large backlog, and still £600 of credit card debt after getting my new beast of a PC (It was £1500 of debt but ive been basically paying it off in very large chunks for the past two months!).

So no rush for some games. I'm honestly gonna end up finding another job because right now I spend more time working on video editing and streaming than I do at my actual paid employment.

If I was a more responsible adult, I'd take a generation-long break from the medium and play all of the unplayed games I have in my backlog.

Alas...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097PCQ9F9/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_NSY46A...

SMT V special edition is live on Amazon for the moment.

I grabbed the first Ni No Kuni on Switch for a tenner. Thought I might as well get it while it was on sale but still have Xenoblade to finish first before getting to it.

Gosh, it's apparently now 25 years since the Nintendo 64 released in Japan. What memories do y'all have have of the system, if any?

@Ralizah Wow, that's quite a gorgeous SMT V edition. Is it exclusive to North America? That steelbook would look very nice on my shelf. I'd get the game anyway, but have recently discovered that I'm quite a sucker for Switch steelbooks!

@mookysam The Premium Edition is being sold worldwide. It slightly differs in Japan and Europe seeing as how Europe is getting both the steelbook and standard game case as part of the packaging instead of just the steelbook, and Japan gets a T-shirt with a themed design instead of the sling bag every other region is getting

@mookysam The Cube was my first console so only really played N64 games through Wii VC and later. Ocarina of Time came with my copy of Wind Waker and quickly became my favourite game of all time though! I’ve played a lot of great N64 games over the years but I’ve always meant to get an N64 controller just to feel how they were meant to be played.

@nessisonett A working N64 is pretty cheap nowadays, and a copy of Mario 64 or OOT shouldn't be more than €20 or €30. They're also incredibly user-friendly to open up, clean and maintain.

I only wish Kirby 64 wasn't so expensive, it's probably my favourite Kirby game. I have good memories of it, but I never owned a copy myself, because friends of mine already had it.

@mookysam Now that makes me feel old! Pulling Mario's face on the title screen of Mario 64 made me pull a massive grin!

@mookysam I remember being really excited getting the 64 for Christmas, disappointed that my parents said we'd need to get an adaptor to make it work with the TV it was going to be hooked up to, excited again when I saw something in the box I thought was the right adaptor, only to then come crashing down again when I was told it was the wrong kind of adaptor, lol.

Looking back at it now I never knew how I ever got on with that controller, but I have good memories playing Cruis'n World, Mario Tennis, Smash Bros, Paper Mario, Pokemon Snap, & Kirby 64.

I had/played other games of course, such as the completely age inappropriate Turok games my dad bought for us (lol) which I never got very far in as I think they required a memory card, which we didn't own.

@mookysam Atlus is going in hard with that steelbook. Even normal preorders in the U.S. will ship with the steelbook exclusively. I believe Nintendo is distributing the game in Europe, so hopefully the special edition will be managed more competently over there. It took days for even normal listings of this game to show up on major storefronts like Best Buy and Amazon.

The N64 was actually where I fell out with Nintendo. I hated the controller, and looking back I don't think it had a good selection of games. I think Mario 64 is one of the worst 3D Mario games. Ocarina is good. Goldeneye. But it wasn't the SNES or NES.

The 64 being by far the worst console Nintendo had released up until that point was bad enough, but it launched late against the original PlayStation which for my money was one of the best consoles of all time, with one of the best games line-ups ever. It was a double whammy.

Not a console I look back upon fondly, if I'm honest.

It really sucks that Xseed is distributing the first five Kiseki games in the West. If NIS had these licenses, the first two Cold Steel games would be coming to Switch, and the Trails in the Sky trilogy would be available on consoles that aren't dead Sony handhelds.

@nessisonett Do you feel better knowing the Geofront localization won't go to waste now?

I don't know how they're being compensated, but it must be incredible for fans of the series to see their localization being used in an official English-language release.

@mookysam I only played Pokemon games on the N64 when I actually owned one, since I wasn't much of a Nintendo fan at the time, but looooooved Pokemon. Pokemon Stadium was kinda cool, but Hey You, Pikachu... if you've never played it, it's a game where you interacted with a Pikachu via a microphone. Basically proto-Nintendogs, but with a Pikachu. And like Nintendogs, the ruddy thing never seemed to understand what I was saying.

As a modern Nintendo fan, I've more thoroughly investigated the N64's library, and it's actually a bit shocking how sparse it was. The diversity of software on this vs the PS1 is pretty stark, even compared to later Nintendo consoles that struggled with third party support. Anyway, of the handful of games the system is supposedly beloved for, a fair chunk of them don't really hold up well, and the controller looks like it was designed to be used by aliens.

@Ralizah Yeah, it’s nice to see that it’s the Geofront translation they’re using. They’ve put so much work into it. That being said, I’m just going to play it sooner rather than later as it’s done and out there and I’m not waiting until 2023.