The Nintendo Switch

Saw a suggestion that since Amazon is prioritizing stocking perishables, emergency stuff and other much needed supplies that those who ordered physical copies of Animal Crossing may get their deliveries late.

offering a digital delivery option (with potential hard copy later) would be a good option; obviously this is low priority stuff

not really much you can do this late in the distribution process unless you want to just give the game out for free

they can't figure out how to send one-time download codes to physical purchasers?

Their digital purchase system doesn’t work that way so they’d have to implement a whole new thing

a lot of that going around just now

Just downloaded the Dragon Quest XI demo. Have only got through the intro cinematic and already feel like this is the game for me right now. A hug from your dear departed grandmother couldn't be more comforting.

amazon could do it out of their stock of download codes if thats what you mean. nintendo doesn't know who preordered physical copies

but thats not gonna happen so if your copy doesnt ship by tomorrow you can just cancel and buy digitally

close to panic buying disney tsum tsum festival

but i always hear the title in jeff garlin's voice

i'm deep into DQXI and it's the perfect escapism atm

xp and now i will too

I heard that Switch sales are way up, and stores are selling out again. For obvious reasons.

In unrelated news, with the release of AC I think Nintendo now has literally no first party games on its release schedule.

yeh it's crazy, there's a heavily rumored Direct next week but who knows with current events if it happens

here's the direct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRf4zyEvG4

Cool, thanks. I've never played Borderlands or Bioshock though I suspect they're a fraction of the price on PS4. Nothing else there caught my eye. Maybe that underwater Metroidvania?

Oh, and fuck an easter egg (er, Bunny Day) hunt in Animal Crossing. I suspect my daughter will bristle at Conspicuous Christian Content.

BioShock games are great but yeah you can pick up all 3 for less than £20 on PS4

Good Job! looks fun

xpost Just looked, and yeah, the Bioshock Collection on PS4 is currently $15.

I’m stoked for Clubhouse Games

bioshock collection was just free on PS+

omg Clubhouse Games! I played the DS game so much.

clubhouse games is hype

Almost bought one of these to help keep the kids occupied before Shit Got Real. Regretting that I didn't, it seems impossible to find one anywhere now. I haven't owned a console since the original NES. Anybody know if Nintendo is hustling to get more made or are they in hibernation?

presumably Nintendo is aware they have stock issues and would like to sell as many as possible but the supply chain is almost certainly impacted by covid

in February they thought that only the Japanese market would see an impact from that but that was 1000 years ago https://www.pcmag.com/news/coronavirus-delays-nintendo-switch-manufacturing-in-china

covid both disrupted their manufacturers in china and created a huge spike in demand, they haven't stopped making them but it's gonna be bottlenecked for a while

I played the shit out of Burnout 3 on PS2. Was this one any good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6FxvqAjT64

Good Job looks like a fun one

https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/26/21196132/good-job-nintendo-switch-impressions-paladin-studios-office-job-physics-work-chaos

that one was verrrrrrrrry good

or wait, i only played burnout 3 (which was great!), but i've read paradise is supposed to be good as well

my sources tell me that paradise is not as good as 2 or 3 but still fine

burnout paradise was a masterpiece

Paradise needs a bit of an attitude shift if you already love the previous games. I hated it when I first tried it because I wanted more of the same, then came back to it a couple of years later and liked it a bit more, then again a couple more years later and fell fully in love with it.

going to be full price on switch though..... hmmmmm....

I'll still buy it. There's been a dearth of games that I care about for the switch lately.

one step from eden looks potentially good - fusion of megaman battle network and slay the spire?

swore to myself that I'd stop buying limited editions of games a few years ago and have stuck to it, but I couldn't resist the EU Xenoblade LE - it was the vinyl LP that pushed me over the edge dammit.

lol badass

i missed 1 the first time around so i'm looking forward to it

a record accompanying a video game is true post modernism salute

I bought (and immediately sold) that Persona 4 fighting game years ago cos it came with a vinyl record.
which I kinda regretted cos they were remixes of P4 music and not the originals lol.

lol

presumably Nintendo is aware they have stock issues and would like to sell as many as possible but the supply chain is almost certainly impacted by covid

check out "mario"

what kind of games do you like gyac?

but yeah, you'll probably end up with at least marios of some nature

^2^ marios of some nature

lol the version I got has Mario U, and yeah I do love Marios. Not going to bother with Maker though. Will probably get Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley cos the people I usually game with have them and it’d be fun to co op and I love Stardew Valley anyway.

Usually play on PS4 but have a Steam account as well and the mini Nintendo consoles mentioned above. Into: Yakuza series, Age of Empires, Ace Attorney (though not going to get this if it’s a Switch game tbf), Life is Strange? Basically story-based games I guess but I play Tekken a bit and stuff like Overcooked and other casual games too.

send me pears

also you can't get the full 'josh in chicago' experience, without picking up botw