Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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Iron Jaguar said:
EB Games in Australia has a "Ban List" of scalpers who are not allowed to buy pre-ordered consoles.
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That's interesting, browsing through their legal seems to show you need to have ID to collect things you have placed an order for l, but I assume that is only for an in-person purchase and pick up. Do you know someone who works in corporate or instore that got this info? Just curious how they track and enforce this.
Edit: maybe storewide databases that track if multiple consoles are purchased at different shops to then be scalped. That would definitely be workable.
 
Strictly Confidential said:
That's interesting, browsing through their legal seems to show you need to have ID to collect things you have placed an order for l, but I assume that is only for an in-person purchase and pick up. Do you know someone who works in corporate or instore that got this info? Just curious how they track and enforce this.
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I went to pick up my Switch 2 and the guy literally said, "Let me just check that you're not on my Ban List", as he ran his eyes down a printed list of names.
 
I finalized my preorder and picked it up late yesterday. Here ‘s the rundown:
  • I arrived at GameStop just a little after 3 PM and a line had already formed. In addition to being incredibly long (the line wrapped around one side of the building temporarily blocking access to three other businesses and ended on the sidewalk) and somewhat unorganized. Thankfully an employee cleared things up and specified that there were two lines: one for finalizing preorders and one for no preorders.
  • Going through the preorder finalization was mostly painless. All we had to do check in, pay off any outstanding debts, and “preorder” any additional items we may have wanted (I tacked on a Switch 2 Pro Controller and a third-party “deluxe” carrying case that could carry everything I needed).
  • They did ask if we wanted to add on extended warranties to any high-end products that we were picking up. I decided to get a one-year warranty just to be safe against any first-year installment funkiness that arises.
  • After completing the order were given a completed receipt with a numbered sticker, said sticker served as both your place in the pick-up line and as a raffle ticket number.
After that I fucked off to grab a bite to eat elsewhere in the area and returned at around 8 to line up for pick up.
  • The line for the “open” orders was gone by the time I got back. I can only assume that once preorders were finalized they started to process those without a preorder and add ‘em to the pick up line.
  • There was some initial funkiness with lining up, a fair amount of people that had line up early in the hopes that they could be the first to pick up their order had to move further down the line And yes, this was clearly explained by the staff.
  • The raffle ultimately amounted to them giving out $10 eShop cards, some old preorder swag they didn’t give out at release, and a random-ass Funko POP.
  • When pick-up started it was an easy process, it took me about 10 minutes to pick up my shit.
I’ll give a decent-ish review of the system this evening or Friday morning, I need to get some playtime in.
Iron Jaguar said:
EB Games in Australia has a "Ban List" of scalpers who are not allowed to buy pre-ordered consoles.
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Good, now only if GameStop had that for Pokémon cards then maybe it’d be easier to buy something.
Strictly Confidential said:
That's interesting, browsing through their legal seems to show you need to have ID to collect things you have placed an order for l, but I assume that is only for an in-person purchase and pick up. Do you know someone who works in corporate or instore that got this info? Just curious how they track and enforce this.
Edit: maybe storewide databases that track if multiple consoles are purchased at different shops to then be scalped. That would definitely be workable.
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GamStop had a system like that in place for preorders, it’s tied to the GameStop account you file the preorder with and there was a one-per-household rule.
 
The amount of people i've seen doing a the soyboy face on twitter with there new toy is crazy

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Here is something else funny i found. This guy had a amazon preorder but still turned up to the local toy store at midnight to wait in line to buy, nothing.





He even considered getting one despite the fact he has one on the way.

This guy has no job lets be real. He looks like the type you'd see stinking up the local job centre
 

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Hooked on phobics said:
Just a reminder to people steam deck base model is 50$ cheaper, will run basically anything, can connect whatever USB crap you want, and already comes with a library if you have a steam account.

Can't believe some people know of both and are on the fence about the switch 2 vs steam deck. I guess if you are a nintendo fan sure, but for JUST a handheld device?


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I'm currently saving my money and waiting to see what an ASUS ROG ALLY 2 (or any other yet to be announced portable gaming handhelds compatible with Steam OS) can do before committing to any kind of new hardware purchase. Nintendies told me to stop being poor so I'm willing to spend a premium for a new device out of spite if it means I can pirate their precious Switch 2 games for free and still enjoy the flexibility of a mobile device I can dock and play on my tv.
 
I hate Mario Kart 9. Every race has only one lap. You enter the race and 40 seconds later it has already ended. What's even the point of circuits anymore? Even during online multiplayer the races have only one lap, and you can only pick the closest circuits on the map as the next race. I'm dumbfounded at how stupid it all is. It's a racing game without racing.
 
Got my switch as well delivered after the store tryed to force me to pick it up IN-Store (delivery was paid for).

So far the base version of my console was 19.0.0 which updated to 20.1.1
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Hooked on phobics said:
Just a reminder to people steam deck base model is 50$ cheaper, will run basically anything, can connect whatever USB crap you want, and already comes with a library if you have a steam account.

Can't believe some people know of both and are on the fence about the switch 2 vs steam deck. I guess if you are a nintendo fan sure, but for JUST a handheld device?
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Don't forget that you will eventually be able to emulate it on your PC, hell your Steam Deck if you want. There is no reason to buy this thing unless you absolutely must play the newest bing bing wahoo right now, or if you absolutely must play Pokemon Scarlet Violet in 60FPS for 15 minutes before the game has another game breaking bug or memory leak(none of these can actually be fixed btw, it's a problem that would require completely redoing the game from scratch) and I am pretty sure you could already play that game in 60FPS on an emulator anyways.
 
I heard some gamestop used a fucking stapler to staple receipts to the switch 2 boxes, the staple went through and fucking pierced the console lmao

Edit added image below look at screen you can see the stapler marks

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Dysnomia said:
They just pretended they were boycotting it.
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That's what they always do though.

SJW/Troons pull the pretender syndrome all the time when it comes to video games. They act like they've been there from the beginning and then immediately throw a temper tantrum when their dogshit commie religion is not included into EVERYTHING. As a result, 99.9% of devs fall for it and the game + community around it get completely destroyed while they move on to their next target.

This has been going on for a decade or more. You give these people an inch, they will take a mile and will NEVER EVER be satisfied, and the fact that devs are so fucking buck-broken and braindead that they still cater to these fucks is what's the most depressing part about all of this. Just tell them to fuck off and they will go away... kicking and screaming, but they WILL go away.
 
My Switch 2 soy story. I passed out last night at home around 4:30 in the morning. Woke up today at 8:30 am and went to my local target. I was able to pick up the base model, they had about 8 in a cart from what I saw and they had no Mario Kart bundles. That didn't matter because I wanted just Switch 2 itself. I saw a lot of normies picking up the console. I don't think this will do gangbusters but it will take until the end of the day to sell out. Also ,the box has a funky matted feel to it. It feel like when you first wear powered gloves.
 
Early reviews for Mario Kart World seem to say while the mechanics and races are still as fun as ever, it's not as good as 8 Deluxe and the open world is basically a barren wasteland. lol LMAO
 
Just like Mario Golf Super Rush (one of the worst Mario games ever, ruined Mario Golf one of my favorite spin-offs), Mario Kart World feels like what I like to call a "Stealth 3D Mario" (no relation to the fanboy Stealth). It's disguised as another game, but Nintendo aren't allowed to make as many 3D platform games as they want these days, so they have to sneak it into other genres. A large part of the "open world" I mean "open air" in Mario Kart World will be filled with little timed challenges and collectathons, such as the returning "circle gate challenges" from Mario Kart DS scattered about. The collectible costumes (which will make the character selecting menu a massive pain) don't seem to have any benefit or gameplay effect whatsoever, they're just another collection quest.

One of the costumes is based on "Pro Racers" the realistic go-kart racers Nintendo was going to center the first game around prior to changing it into a Mario Kart game. They were even going to have hovercrafts, an element Mario Kart didn't have until now. A lot of the gimmicks in recent Mario Kart games just feels like catching up to Diddy Kong Racing. Anyway, the Pro Racer costumes look fine on Mario, but ridiculous on characters like Boo or Toadette. I don't know if anyone who isn't already obsessed with the idea of "making the most" of the game will want to detour to the restaurants to get these. They feel like something you'd go find out in the World when not in races.

Does EVERY game need to be an open world? Just because it worked for Zelda, which is supposed to be an immersive adventure, does it now need to infect everything? It reminds me of The Electric Underground talking about "gameplay density" as a reason why shmups are so excellent, when Mario Kart World is an example of a game that has the exact opposite.

Also, new update on Welcome Tour, in addition to not being free, it will have PAID DLC. Not only should that game be free, Mario Kart World should be as well. No reason why Nintendo can't do that after having its most profitable generation with the Switch 1 can't give us just those 2 free games. Charge whatever they want for the other games, but they are well-equipped to afford giving us the first tastes of a tech demo and a killer-app for no additional cost like what they did with previous consoles.
 
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