*** Nintendo Switch ***

JunglistE said:
What was wrong with WW? One of, if not, my favouite
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They cut a load out of the game (and incidentally included that content in TP), and added in terrible triforce hunting in place of the cut dungeons.

The slow and tedious sea "exploration" was far more sparse than other Zelda over worlds and ruined a lot of the great parts for me.
 
Broken Hope said:
That explains why it's $300 then? It's expensive everywhere and if you remove VAT we're actually paying less than the US.

This has nothing to do with Brexit.

It's Nintendo being greedy as usual.
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Absolutely, I mean it's $90 for a spare dock... which is a piece of plastic with an ac adaptor, a couple usb 2 ports and an hdmi port. There is nothing in it, the ports are fed by the Switch. It should cost $20 basically, it's some formed plastic and an adaptor. The pro controller at $70 is a joke as well, again it's worth $20 or something. At least the joycom controllers have SOME stuff in them, unnecessary gimmicky crap, but it's there, still not $80 worth but the least overpriced/marked up out of all of them. You look at those prices and then try to say it's expensive because of brexit... lol.
 
Phate said:
Loved pretty much every zelda game...although I didn't play much of Skyward Sword but a friend rates it better than TP. Haven't played the handhelds though.

Have played and completed OOT, MM, WW, TP...loved every second of all of them. WW holds a special place in my heart.
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You need to play Skyward Sword. It bridges the gap between the old style 3D Zelda games (OoT, MM, WW, TP) and into the new (ABotW) with the open world exploration, crafting, persistent world etc.

It would be the perfect stop-gap game between now and the Switch launch.
 
Kreeeee said:
You need to play Skyward Sword. It bridges the gap between the old style 3D Zelda games (OoT, MM, WW, TP) and into the new (ABotW) with the open world exploration, crafting, persistent world etc.

It would be the perfect stop-gap game between now and the Switch launch.
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I don't own a console unfortunately. With the switch this close I am also not going to go out and buy one either.

But I'd love to play SS!

Might convince my friend to bring his Wii over in Feb and leave it with me for a while. :p
 
Phate said:
I don't own a console unfortunately. With the switch this close I am also not going to go out and buy one either.

But I'd love to play SS!

Might convince my friend to bring his Wii over in Feb and leave it with me for a while. :p
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You should, it's the most unique Zelda game since MM.

Alternatively I am sure they will do a HD remake of it on the Switch one day like they did on the Wii U with TP.
 
I've tried to like Skyward Sword twice now, and both times fizzled out before the end. At times it's great and others just plain slow and dull. I preferred it to Twilight Princess, which is good on paper but totally lacks soul, but neither are a patch on Wind Waker. Of all the 3D Zelda games this is the one with the most most heart, the best sense of adventure, the best music - and it's ******* gorgeous! By any standards/generation. Of course, Ocarina of Time is great, and I rate Majora's Mask just as highly, but that goes without saying.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Shock horry getting a 4 year old console with a year old game cost less than a brand new console with a brand new game.

/waits for ghz answer:
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Nintendo like to pretend they are in their own little bubble but in a game shop if someone was looking at which console to buy they are more likely to buy the cheaper one with a game included, especially when the cheaper console also has the latest Battlefield, COD and Fifa.

The hardware isn't cutting edge it has no justification being as expensive as it is.

malachi said:
People are complaining how expensive this is but pre orders are selling out :confused:

Nintendo must be doing something right!
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Without knowing stock levels we have no idea. If they for example only had 100 consoles and they all sold out they still haven't sold many.
 
They have still failed to release a primary console.

This is again a "secondary" console to sit alongside something else but is not priced as one.
 
malachi said:
People are complaining how expensive this is but pre orders are selling out :confused:

Nintendo must be doing something right!
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13mil Wii U's have sold over the past 4 years. That breaks down as roughly 3million in the last 6 weeks of 2012, then 3 mil each in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 1 mil in 2016.

Early sales are big because the diehards will upgrade regardless, some others will as well. We also don't know how big they made their first allocation. It shouldn't have any trouble selling probably 4-5mil initially if they made enough to do that, it's how many they sell after that, how many non Nintendo die hards pick it up that actually matters.

By comparison PS4 sold 4.5mil between launch and end of 2013, a further 15.5mil in 2014(5 times higher than Wii U sales in the first full year post launch), another 17.7mil by end 2015, another 17.4mil by the end of Sept 2016.
 
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