True, Amazon do not charge till shipped so "Anyone" could pre-order while still making no commitment.
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True, Amazon do not charge till shipped so "Anyone" could pre-order while still making no commitment.
Posted that many pages back. Happy for those who went for it, they got it IMO at the price it should have been
At least then it would not be so bad with the over priced accessories and stuff.
It is both, pretty obvious really. The one's who try and make it sound like the current price has nothing to do with brexit are just as bad IMO
People are complaining how expensive this is but pre orders are selling out
Nintendo must be doing something right!
It's completely irrelevant how many they sell in the first month of release, it's only how many they're selling 6mths after the launch hype has died down that counts.
This is not the case with Tesco, yet still they sold out. So either it is very popular, or shipping with very small quantity. IMO the truth lies somewhere in-between.
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Yeah, these days people will pre-order asap without even reading a review or watching information because people are desperate to make sure they get on the list incase they want it. Some will undoubtedly be cancelled, and many will be bought where guys are ordering one to every family member and from every site so they can whack them on ebay when the supply dries up.
But as said, launch will almost always sell out because there are enough die hard fans to make up that kind of sales at the start. It's maintaining those sales where Wii U absolutely tanked
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Pre-orders will have always cleared out quickly. They'll be on Gumtree and Ebay for £££ as soon as they've been delivered.
If Mario was a launch title i'd be all over it, as it stands I can't see any compelling games appearing until Christmas time. Also the accessory prices are insane! £75 for 2 joycons with no grip is absolutely mental.
May still pre-order a couple to eBay though.
May still pre-order a couple to eBay though.
This time next year after the holidays will be the first big indicator of how it's gone. Hopefully it will have some games by then and be a more inviting prospect, Or it will do a Wii u. Who knows?
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Nintendo have only forecast 2 million sales for March world wide so quantities aren't massive and I'd be surprised if they hit that goal.
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I thought we were done with forced motion controls.
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Of course not it's Nintendo.
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It's pretty funny, he's not bothering to even 'punch' he's doing the minimal fake movements you would realise you could do 8 seconds into playing the Wii. Rather than a full punch you move your hand two inches, or flick your rest for tennis. He's doing that in the stream. Motion controls for the sake of motion controls and with zero attempt to mimic real actions is entirely pointless, it's just less accurate than direct controls.
The actual controls look awkward to me as well, tilting both wrists forward to move forward is a really odd choice as you don't really comfortably move your wrists that way. The tilt both sideways isn't as bad, but still awkward.
There is also something very odd about rumble to give you feedback, but only in one controller. So you can feel your left hand punching or moving, but you won't feel your right hand do the same?
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Sounds like you can use a normal controller if you wish.
Since we don't have a sensor bar anymore I wonder how this will translate?
Looks like a mini game for a Wii Sports style package.
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Missed that, less bad than I thought, but then it just makes it a unnecessary gimmick. Why waste time with the motion controls, and why make the cost of the controllers so high(which means when they break replacements will cost a bomb) when games don't even need them.
Also $60 for this game. As someone above said, this feels like Wii Boxing, with marginally more to it, but not an awful lot. This feels like a $5-10 game to me.
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Just watched some of the stream highlights, meh. Yet again another Nintendo console that will be scrambling for third party titles once the initial hype of Zelda dies off. Just seems like they're pushing this out far too early and it'll be another case of people sitting with their thumbs up their ass waiting for new games. Apparently they learned absolutely nothing from the wii-u launch.