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Nintendo Switch Launch Thread: Now you're playing with power; HYBRID POWER!
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Labombadog
Member
No prob. Have fun!
CollectedDust
Member
At a Best Buy in Indy, totally packed... yet they had a ton of systems for non preorders. Everyone here got one, even people who showed up 5 minutes ago.
They had 4 extra Zelda limited editions (gone immediately), but zero master editions.
They had 4 extra Zelda limited editions (gone immediately), but zero master editions.
Muffin Awesome
Member
Alright I am about to pick up my Switch from GameStop...
Looking at my Nintendo account I have NNID credit, will this be what I use on the eShop, or the new Nintendo Account balance?
Looking at my Nintendo account I have NNID credit, will this be what I use on the eShop, or the new Nintendo Account balance?
FullMetalx117
Member
Any chance we'd be able to exchange for neon color at Best Buy? Are they getting a lot?
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Turn it off and turn it back on
pock3tmonster
Banned
I already tried that, but thanks. That is always my first course of action when technology fails.
Edit:
I docked it, then remove the joy-cons, then reconnected them and removed it from the dock. Works fine in handheld mode now.
That's fucking weird, but glad for you that it's working now.
pock3tmonster
Banned
Extremely. I don't know what happened there, I'm just glad it's working and I don't need to exchange it.
flipswitch
Member
So you can't fully turn off the console when using the joycon controllers?
Holding down the home button only allows you to put it in sleep mode.
Holding down the home button only allows you to put it in sleep mode.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
In! My shit should be arriving at work later today. Then I somehow need to figure out how to concentrate until I'm done for the day and can head home. Somehow.
SomedayTheFire
Member
I was expecting the system to sit tighter into the dock. It's kinda loose in it. Hands cramped up a little bit while playing handheld for a while there too.
PhoenixSFT
Member
The one I'm at doesn't have any Neon
Your wallet transfers over
Labombadog
Member
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I like the colour of the case but I don't see it available here in USA. I think the Nintendo online store in Japan had it.
haha yessss IT IS TIME
Gorilla Shark
Member
I can't make it to the Best Buy all of a couple miles from my house because instead I'm sitting here holding a baby. lol.
I guess my Switch will wait until tomorrow morning.
I guess my Switch will wait until tomorrow morning.
Heh, my exact situation lol (he'll be 3 weeks old tomorrow, ironically his original expected due date was March 3rd).
SRTtoZ
Member
Ugh they usually stay from when they close at 10 until they finish the midnight madness.
CharminUltra
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Launch Day ShenaniGOATs
AcademicSaucer
Member
Ayy lmao , atleast this time the US eshop can take our credit cards.
I found swapping games while it is docked to be a bit of a hassle. I dont have very long fingernails and getting the door to the slot open wasn't straight forward. Meanwhile the console if rocking back and forth in the dock with my effort.
My Amazon Switch got delivered today so I'm sitting at Best Buy to get a copy of Zelda. They just handed out tickets to everyone in line, so I'm in the car waiting for them to open up so I can buy my damn game haha. Tomorrow is gonna suck at work but the hype got me.
xenorevlis
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I know many of you will have one in your hands already (or soon) but I made a little video from my experience at the Nintendo Switch event last weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLPZFKXKi_0
Includes my "Luigi death stare" attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLPZFKXKi_0
Includes my "Luigi death stare" attempt
Wow just got the family together to play some 1 2 switch. We all love kinect and Wii sports and Nintendo Land together so this was a must. Yeah.... such a terrible game. Kids got bored after 10 minutes. And the wife and I were like wtf is this. If you were on the fence dont even think about this game its dreadful.
Going to be returning tomorrow morning. Dreadful.
Going to be returning tomorrow morning. Dreadful.
You can always pretend.
flipswitch
Member
Those who have one, using it as a portable is going to be an issue I think. It's just huge, I wasn't expecting it that big and bulky.
friskykillface
Banned
What store let's you return a game if you hate it? Is that a new policy because I wish I had that when I bought games ages ago
They only let me exchange it for another copy of said game lol
1,2 BOMBA
Was I the only one expecting this?
YOU SHOULD HAVE WARNED ME HAHA
Seriously though, the pose mini game doesn't register anything so you don't copy shit. The acting is so cringe worthy. Like people thought guitar hero was bad. Just wait.
The only decent game in the lot we played was ball count. And that was only because I liked the HD rumble. It really is cool.
Really though why was this not a pack in? I get they needed to bump the launch titles up because there is so few but it is a pack in game nothing more. Even as free you would play 2 minutes and be over it.
I'm in australia. EB games have 7 day return policy. 1,2 Bomba indeed. I dont joke. It is one of the most terrible games i have played in a long long time.
matrix-cat
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Little cartridge size comparison I made:
Initial impressions of the system aren't so hot: charging cable is too short to fit in my setup nicely, left JoyCon sync issues are already showing up, it didn't want to connect to my internet for a while, and the day one update is taking a fair while. Sitting the Switch in the Dock isn't the nice solid clunk of throwing a Wii U Gamepad or 3DS into its charging cradle; it doesn't have charging contacts, so you're faffing about trying to plug a USB C connector in blind. JoyCons feel kind of rubbish, with an unpleasantly 'crunchy' sensation when you roll the sticks around and hollow, not especially great button feel. The idea of actually sitting down to play a game with one held sideways seems laughable; big swing and a miss on these.
But the Pro Controller feels excellent, and the OS is light and snappy. I'll get down to some Zelda later tonight.
Initial impressions of the system aren't so hot: charging cable is too short to fit in my setup nicely, left JoyCon sync issues are already showing up, it didn't want to connect to my internet for a while, and the day one update is taking a fair while. Sitting the Switch in the Dock isn't the nice solid clunk of throwing a Wii U Gamepad or 3DS into its charging cradle; it doesn't have charging contacts, so you're faffing about trying to plug a USB C connector in blind. JoyCons feel kind of rubbish, with an unpleasantly 'crunchy' sensation when you roll the sticks around and hollow, not especially great button feel. The idea of actually sitting down to play a game with one held sideways seems laughable; big swing and a miss on these.
But the Pro Controller feels excellent, and the OS is light and snappy. I'll get down to some Zelda later tonight.
That doesn't sound right. Try asking for a customer service manager.
We did it fam, my old as stayed up til midnight. They even had enough to exchange my Gray preorder to Neon. Win
End of the line basically is when the last Zelda case/protector went and I snagged the last Pro Controller. But that was after about 50 people.
Nobody was buying 1,2 Switch, wtf was Nintendo thinking.
Yikes. Thanks for the impressions. Going to stay away of this game then. I think if this kind of impressions continues, Nintendo will end up cutting the price of the game way more than half, to the point of release some of the games individually on the eShop for free.
It's accurate.
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