Nintendo Switch orders delayed: Dun dun dun... dundundun dundundun dadada! Gamers desperate to play on their new Nintendo Switches this weekend may have to wait a bit longer, with many reporting their preorders have been delayed. The device was due to be shipped today (March 3) priced at $299.99, £279.99 and ¥29,980. However, Twitter and internet forums are replete with disappointed thumb-twitchers …
Nintendo told me yesterday that my console had been dispatched via Royal Mail for next day delivery.
Nintendo told me today to expect my console next Wednesday.
(Royal Mail tell me that the tracking number I've been given does not exist)
It's one thing to not have enough consoles to meet demand, it's another to tell people they have been dispatched when they haven't.
First off, yes, they may have lied.
Separately from that, it isn't unusual to be given a tracking number a long time before Royal Mail is even in possession of your parcel - whenever I buy books on hive.co.uk (no shares owned, I don't work for them, etc) I usually get given a tracking number by hive, which only later becomes a valid tracking number on royal mails tracking website.
Something about hive.co.uk having a bulk deal with royal mail I guess, where maybe their tracking numbers are pre-allocated?
Big fan of Nintendo but what are they doing with the Switch?
Not enough games at launch.
No Mario Odyssey
No Mario Kart till end of April and it's 8 Deluxe whatever that means.
Massively overpriced, no cheaper in the bundles. Controllers cost an arm and a leg.
Currently can't find a compelling argument to get one.
If I did though I can click and collect at Argos now so there can't be that much of a shortage.
And already done by just about everyone.
I know people want stuff but throwing money at companies makes you look like a pussy.
Buy one at your leisure after a week or two .. keep those marketing stats guys guessing. Respect your buying power...it's all you have!
*You're....sorry
They limit supply in order to drive up the hype and demand.
The best way to play their game is not to play at all. Wait until they stop the shenanigans and then walk into any shop and just buy one. The time also helps decide if its worth buying with the benefit of other people's opinions on the hardware and choice of games. If its like the Wii U it might fall on its arse and never recover.
We have a winner! Let's read this again, shall we?
They limit supply in order to drive up the hype and demand.
This is classic Nintendo. Also, if there are any competing platforms they will strong-arm the sales channels into giving up prime shelf space and basically do anything up to setting fire to the other consoles, to make their own (lower tech) consoles seem attractive. Meanwhile, we already have better games, and this is just another tablet that can magically play a game from 1985 FFS; Mario Brothers. Fucking *YAWN!!1! * Holy shit, I think I already have 8 copies of this game on older platforms that still plug into my TV and work great. Let me guess, next will be Mario Kart 9, or will they surprise all the kiddie-gamers and call it Mario Kart IX? What a con job on Cornjob! Wait and buy this machine in the used bin next year for $99, by then they will have released a fourth or fifth title for this hyped tablet. Remember Mario on iOS? Neither do I.
I stopped with the Nintendo scams when they failed to make the DSi any better, rather I was expected to go out and get ANOTHER crap handheld; 3DSi-XL Maxi Lite Pretty Metallic Blue you can only preorder from GameStop, or some such bullshit. Here's a clue; make a game, release it, then I'll go and buy it, if it does not smell like shit. Deal? This is Nintendo; the game maker that failed to offer any CD system, and the DVD based ones can't play any DVD movies like every other console can. The console maker that still releases cartridges FFS. The people who brought you; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy ! What garbage. Glad to sit and watch idiots wait for games on the Wii2U Super Console of Fun and What Is This Thing For? The same dopes now standing in line for a marginal piece of hardware that would absolutely fall down and cry if it tried to run GTA V, and a re-released game from 1985! Good work, idiots!
"Mario Brothers. [..] I think I already have 8 copies [..] Let me guess, next will be Mario Kart 9 [by next year] they will have released a fourth or fifth title."
Gamer: "What kind of games do you have available for the Switch?"
Nintendo: "Oh, we got both kinds. We got Mario *and* Zelda!"
Is when are they going to release the next Monster Hunter on it?
I'm sick of playing MH on such a gimped console like the 3DS. Don't get me wrong, its great for games like pokemon and the like, but for something like MH, you really need better controls and a larger, higher res screen.
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My daughter got her Nintendo Switch today. She's excited.
Me ? Maybe I'm an old fart , but until I get a racing car sim that makes me really think I've been let loose in Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes I don't guess I'm that bothered by yet another console.
To get the "I can't believe its not an F1 car" effect, I guess I'd need something even better than HTC Vive, a fire-breathing-gaming-pc (with several very expensive graphics cards) and a strap-in-seat with steering wheel, pedals, etc that could chuck me around violently to hopefully simulate the G force.
So I guess I'll be waiting a while before I get that for many reasons. technical, cost or having enough space for the big seat that can chuck me around.
"For those who have been living under a rock, the Switch is a hybrid console"
For those who have been living under that much of a rock, it may be worth being a little more specific about what that actually means - it's a tablet with a dock. Being even more specific, it's an Nvidia Tegra-powered tablet that's effectively equivalent to an update of the Nvidia Shield, but the controller can detach and it's very slightly more convenient to plug into your TV. The only thing anyone buying it actually cares about is that it has Zelda, and will probably have Mario and Metroid soon.
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