The Nintendo Switch

"Can I borrow it?"

Then bank on his current disinterest corresponding directly to the likelihood that he ever asks to have it back.

Trade him a crappy game for it!

In fairness there are games I've owned for 10 years and have played for < 2 hrs and still somehow believe I'll get back to at some point, so maybe I should cut him some slack.

my daughter plays splatoon 2 and she bought the octo expansion with her allowance, but it doesn't work. apparently amazon sold us the european region version of splatoon 2 and the expansion only works with the north american region version. guessing there's no way around this right? it sucks because she was really excited for it.

ime, even though amazon is a terrible company, whenever i have a problem with an order, any sort of problem, even when it's totally my fault, they just refund it or fix it. no questions asked.

but maybe it's different with videogames?

yeah we should try that since they're the ones that fucked up. it's annoying because it was a xmas present so we ordered it like three months ago at this point

is it a digital download code or a physical copy? i'm probably overestimating what amazon can do, but if it's a download i bet they could have it all fixed by this afternoon. i've seriously never been turned down whenever i've contacted them about a fuckup (either on my end or theirs), and whether i do it by the chatbot thing or a phone call. they mess up in many ways, but they have a pretty decent customer service policy

also, i'm guessing that they deal with region-specific issues pretty frequently so there's probably even an actual policy that they have for dealing with it that their customer service already knows about

yeah Amazon will do whatever it takes because they are not actually trying to make a profit lol

well turns out we ordered from wal-mart, not amazon so ... ???
thanks for the advice

Maybe Wal-Mart is also a company that secretly has good customer service?? *prays to the corporate overlords*

at last, Direct tomorrow!
https://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/02-13-2019/

"we regret to inform you that Animal Crossing, and any other game you have been looking forward to, has been delayed until 2021."

nice excited to see where they ended up with fire emblem

direct about to start

mario maker 2 !

oh hell yeah. i missed out on the first one because i didn't have the right system, but i'd be up for a switch sequel for sure.

for those that played the original - was the fun more in making your own silly levels, or playing cool content that others made?

i would want to make a level that involves a very long fall through a nearly bottomless pit, and then share it with my nephew. he spends hours playing these custom minecraft levels that are nothing but very long drops into a hole. kinda weird but runs in the family

yoshi looks charming

Yoshi World looks like the Return of Kirby Best Fwends.

That is, toooooo cute.

Fire Emblem aka Oh, so this is where all those Smash Bros. fighters come from.

Oh boy, Tetris.

fire emblem looks really good imo

So Dead By Daylight is Friday the 13th for Nintendo?

also lol at tetris battle royale but also gonna play that immediately

So, um, why does it feel like Switch just didn't have much of a, er, game plan? These games suck.

(Though at the same time, please no new Zelda!)

will play daemon

Whenever it comes out, right?

platinum !

fffffffffffff

Is that a good ffffffff? Because most of this direct was zzzzzzzz. 2019: the year I finally catch up on games.

great direct

not much in it for me but FE and mario maker 2 are probably must buys. daemon, astral chains and link's awakening all have potential

all in on Mario Maker, Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest. biggest wtf was Hellblade port.

also really glad I held off on buying DQ11 on PS4 hoo boy

astral chain has kamiya + the nier automata designer behind it which is good credentials. thats the big surprise in this one i think

also that new tokyo rpg factory game looks way more appetizing to me than setsuna/lost sphear though im not getting my hopes up

yeah credentials are impeccable. just wish they’d have hit some of the things on my wish list but it’s all good

Josh you're silly

the Fire Emblem seems like kind of a low-key approach to that series compared to the anime maximalism that it could have

the 180(!) cardboard Yoshi outfits make me suddenly on board for getting the Yoshi game

he is so silly

*tickles under josh’s chin*

yeah I could be convinced by yoshi demo

never played a FE before. didn’t think it was so valkyria chroniclesy

No indies other than Deltarune Chapter 1 coming to Switch, hoping for a NoA Nindies video soon

Animal Crossing is going to be one of the biggest releases this year, I think it'll either be the centerpiece of E3 or get its own direct in the next two months

The widely-reported Car Fox is still a no show, I wonder if that will actually get released

xp valkyria chronicles was always just WW2 3D fire emblem

so now that fire emblem is 3D it's even closer

I will dutifully acquire Maker 2 and make exactly three bad levels

animal crossing going to chew up so much time

yeah I imagine they're going to want to reintroduce the whole experience since it's really been a while since the last full-fledged game (New Leaf came out in 2012/2013)

i'm still cackling that nintendo's contribution to the battle royale craze is tetris