General chat thread

[Sr.Gabo]

Guys!

[thomas]

Hope you're all well! Merry christmas and happy new year!

And by the time the next person replies, probably happy easter!

[Sr.Gabo]

[ehead]

I just got back from vacation a week ago and I'm in for some hype for the Switch presentation. Who wants to play bets?

[thomas]

Zelda and Mario and new Retro project and ahhhhhhhh

probably all delayed for EU launch, lawl

[ehead]

Here are mine:
- Zelda confirmed for launch
- $250 - $299 price for two SKUs
- Subscription-based VC planned
- Mario Switch later this year
- MonolithSoft surprise
- Pokemon Stars reveal
- Retro is a no-show. I think most first-party game reveals will be from JP devs.
- Some 3rd party games: MonHun (Capcom), sports games from 2k and EA, probably BG&E2 reveal, a PG game, DQXI from Square

[thomas]

Great guesses!

Man, the thing is popping up on pre-order sites for €350 here... ouch

I'm excited though. That Zelda trailer has got to be one of the best trailers I've ever seen

[ehead]

Yo, Iucked out with those guesses. Even with the subscription based VC (well, not really subscription but paid online + free VC game for a month). I should get this luck with other stuff too.. Hahaha.

Price wise, kinda disappointed with it. Specs-wise, I feel $250 would've been the better price. Anyway, I will probably be getting one in March or April.

I agree with you on Zelda. For a moment I was starting to get disappointed since there were no clear titles for launch but that trailer really made it for me. I'm hoping there's an option for JP voice because it sounded better than the English version.

[thomas]

I skimmed through the presentation and hadn't realised yet you have to pay to play online. That's awful. With Nintendo's track record on how games transfer between consoles (mostly they don't) and their game droughts, I'm very skeptical about paying them monthly.

I wish I was more excited than I am. The joycons are insanely packed with technology (and priced accordingly).

[Patrick]

I was considering grabbing a Switch at launch since the Japanese price is pretty reasonable, but it's already all sold out. Ah well, with it releasing between Nier and Persona 5 I probably wasn't going to get time to play Zelda anyway. Guess I'll wait until the summer holidays when Splatoon is (hopefully) out.

Of course if the console wasn't region free I wouldn't care about it at all

[thomas]

Anyone else getting one on day 1? (that is today)

I've gone from 0 Switches to 2 really quickly. I pre-ordered at my local store but they said they likely wouldn't have any left on launch day, so I pre-ordered one on Amazon France which is now on its way. Store just texted me they have one reserved for me. What to do.