Nintendo Switch

[DarhkFox]

C&C Remastered for switch? I might be up for some of that depending on the controls.

 

Friend is desperately trying to find a Switch (not lite). I think i heard shops should be getting some stock this week.

[Gloomy Andy]

Mass Effect Trilogy for Switch would be bought.

I look forward to applying my £3.03 gold coin discount to its £99.99 asking price. 

[Fretnoise]

1 hour ago, Darhkwing said:

Friend is desperately trying to find a Switch (not lite). I think i heard shops should be getting some stock this week.

Here's hoping.... it's my son's birthday in a few weeks and he's been saving for ages to get one (and will have enough with birthday money).  I ordered one from Amazon on Friday but it went "missing" over the weekend.

 

If anyone sees them in stock anywhere, could you give me a nudge?  I'm currently checking the following sites a couple of times a day:

• store.nintendo.co.uk
• argos.co.uk
• ao.com
• very.co.uk
• amazon.co.uk
• game.co.uk
• smythstoys.com

 

It's the first console (or indeed decent sized 'thing') that he's buying with his own money after saving up, so it needs to be new, and I'm not going to let him use any of the price-gougy marketplace resellers asking stupid money (which I'm guessing is where our 'missing' one will end up...)

 

[Fretnoise]

@Darhkwing having said that, I just managed to place an order from Smyths, here https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/video-games-and-tablets/nintendo-gaming/nintendo-switch/nintendo-switch-consoles/nintendo-switch-grey-with-improved-battery-life/p/182023

 

Still showing in stock for delivery at the moment, but let's be honest, I'm not holding my breath!

[DarhkFox]

1 minute ago, fretnoise said:

@Darhkwing having said that, I just managed to place an order from Smyths, here https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/video-games-and-tablets/nintendo-gaming/nintendo-switch/nintendo-switch-consoles/nintendo-switch-grey-with-improved-battery-life/p/182023

 

Still showing in stock for delivery at the moment, but let's be honest, I'm not holding my breath!

 

Nice one, I've sent him the link!

[scissorkicks]

1 hour ago, fretnoise said:

Here's hoping.... it's my son's birthday in a few weeks and he's been saving for ages to get one (and will have enough with birthday money).  I ordered one from Amazon on Friday but it went "missing" over the weekend.

 

If anyone sees them in stock anywhere, could you give me a nudge?  I'm currently checking the following sites a couple of times a day:

• store.nintendo.co.uk
• argos.co.uk
• ao.com
• very.co.uk
• amazon.co.uk
• game.co.uk
• smythstoys.com

 

It's the first console (or indeed decent sized 'thing') that he's buying with his own money after saving up, so it needs to be new, and I'm not going to let him use any of the price-gougy marketplace resellers asking stupid money (which I'm guessing is where our 'missing' one will end up...)

 

 

Are you signed up for alerts on Stock Informer?

[Fretnoise]

23 hours ago, scissorkicks said:

Are you signed up for alerts on Stock Informer?

 

I am now!

 

Edit: And now I'm not - Smyths came through and delivered today - pretty speedy considering!  Thanks for the heads up though - this is the first time for aaaages I've wanted to buy something and couldn't immediately get it.

[rgraves]

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[Jeff Grubb of VentureBeat]: Oh, and that HD remaster of an EA game is the Mass Effect Trilogy. Just don’t expect that to also launch on Switch — at least not at first.

 

Oh FFS EA. LOL.

[rgraves]

Stuff from the Nintendo earnings call - looks like Animal Crossing did OK ():

 

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Random tidbits

• the Switch has sold 55.77 million units worldwide as of March 31st, 2020
• 3.29 million Switch hardware units and 45.62 million software units were sold during the three months ending March 31st, 2020
• Nintendo forecasts it will sell 19 million Switch units between April 2020 and March 2021
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons hits 13.41 million in 6 weeks
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 11.77 million units in 11 days, making it the Switch's fastest-selling game ever
• Pokemon Sword and Shield have outsold all mainline Pokemon installments on 3DS
• the total number of million-seller titles during this fiscal year reached 27 titles
• because of COVID-19, production and shipments of the Switch, accessories, and Ring Fit Adventure faced delays
• Switch sales totaled 21.03 million units (24.0% increase on a year-on-year basis), and software totaled 168.72 million units (42.3% increase on a year-on-year basis)
• 3DS sales totaled 0.69 million units (73.0% decrease on a year-on-year basis), and software totaled 4.99 million units (62.3% decrease on a year-on-year basis)
• overall digital sales totaled 204.1 billion yen (71.8% increase on a year-on-year basis)
• mobile IP related income reached 51.2 billion yen (11.5% increase on a year-on-year basis)
• total net sales reached 1,308.5 billion yen (including overseas sales of 1,007.3 billion yen, or 77.0% of the total sales)
• operating profit came to 352.3 billion yen, ordinary profit was 360.4 billion yen, and net profit attributable to owners of parent totaled 258.6 billion yen for this fiscal year
• "other software publishers also plan to release a wide variety of appealing titles, and the combination of existing popular titles and a continuous stream of appealing new titles will work together to invigorate the platform (Switch)"

 

Top 10 best-selling first-party Switch titles

1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 24.77 million
2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 18.84 million
3. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 17.41 million
4. Super Mario Odyssey – 17.41 million
5. Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 17.37 million
6. Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 11.97 million
7. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 11.77 million
8. Splatoon 2 – 10.13 million
9. Super Mario Party – 10.10 million
10. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 6.60 million

 

Updated million-sellers Switch list

1. Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 6.33 million
2. Super Mario Maker 2 – 5.48 million
3. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening – 4.38 million
4. Fire Emblem: Three Houses – 2.87 million
5. Ring Fit Adventure – 2.73 million
6. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX – 1.26 million
7. Astral Chain – 1.08 million
8. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order – 1.08 million

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | This Quarter | FY Cumulative |FY3/20 Forecast|FY3/21 Forecast|
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Net Sales | ¥285,851M | ¥1,308,519M (~$B)| ¥1,250,000M | ¥1,200,000M |
| Operating Income| ¥89,440M | ¥352,370M (~$B)| ¥300,000M | ¥300,000M |
| Net Profit | ¥62,252M | ¥258,641M (~$B)| ¥210,000M | ¥200,000M |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Switch (units) | This Quarter | FY Cumulative | LTD | FY Forecast |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Switch | 2.27M | 14.83M | 49.57M | |
| Switch Lite | 1.0M | 6.19M | 6.19M | |
| Hardware Total | 3.29M | 21.03M | 55.77M | 19.5M |
| Software Total | 45.59M | 168.72M | 356.24M | 140.0M |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
(Software sales units include both packaged and downloadable versions of softwar

 

[The Mighty Ash]

Still no details on what's coming this year 

 

Was there no investor call? Looks like they just released the earnings report.

 

Edit: Call is going on now.

[Not Thread Owner]

Means lifetime sales of the Switch has overtaken the SNES, and is now nipping at the heels of the NES.

[rgraves]

1 hour ago, The Mighty Ash said:

Still no details on what's coming this year 

 

I would imagine scheduling is a little up in the air right now - must be tough to really know if things are going to ready, produced in required numbers etc - I'd expect a lot of stuff to be held until they are 100% they can actually release it. Release date announcements might be much closer to actual release etc

[Bojangle]

Of course people are still doing the "omg lol what do they have for this year?!" in May when Nintendo do this every single year. Like rgraves says too, things will be even more in the air now, they even said as much during the conference call.

 

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If the effects of COVID-19 are prolonged or worsen further, development schedules may be impacted due to the difference in development environments between working from home and in the office. In particular, the impact to overseas subsidiaries and other affiliated companies involved in development is anticipated to be even more difficult to predict than within Japan.

 

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As a result of these factors, we may not be able to proceed with the release of Nintendo products and the start of services as planned. This is also true for other software publishers, so it may not be possible to provide game content on Nintendo platforms as planned.

 

Sony and Microsoft are facing the same problems, the difference is they tend to announce stuff a lot earlier than Nintendo tend to.

[Alexlotl]

19 hours ago, Bojangle said:

Sony and Microsoft are facing the same problems, the difference is they tend to announce stuff a lot earlier than Nintendo tend to.

I read that as Nintendo-tend-o, like a familiar nickname for anyone not into that whole brevity thing.

[Wools]

For anyone wanting to buy a Switch and looking for stock, Argos are now allowing ordering of the system.

 

Purchased mine and it says I can pick it up from my local next Tuesday.

[deerokus]

Unlike every other Nintendo platform since at least the n64 though, it's not like there's a lack of stuff to play, even if no more Nintendo games were to come out for it. 

[joemul]

I’m sure this has been asked countless times so apologies in advance. 
 

Mrs Mul bought Animal Crossing: NH and has fallen in love with it. 
 

we’re at a point where she is using the switch way more than me. 
 

if we were to buy a switch lite, how easy is it for her to transfer her save to the new console?

 

also, I don’t play ac:nh so is it possible for her to redownload the game on the lite without having to buy it again?

[rgraves]

Very easy to transfer her profile. Maybe easy to redownload, did you purchase on your profile or hers?

[Marlew]

@joemul @rgraves

 

Is it not 'one island per console'? 

 

Anyone else able to answer that? I don't think she'll be able to transfer the island or progress in AC. 

[MikeBeaver]

Currently , it is impossible for her to transfer that save, she would have to start again :-( Yay Nintendo, thank's for being awesome.... :-(

[joemul]

Bloody hell. 
 

might be easier for me to transfer my profile and all games/saves to a new switch instead then. 

[rgraves]

If she transfers her profile I think it will transfer her save. AC doesn’t cloud save, but I think it would transfer with the whole profile wouldn’t it?

 

EDIT Apparently not!

 

"This game does not currently support the ability to transfer your save file from one Nintendo Switch console to another. However, a function specific to Animal Crossing: New Horizons to move users and save data to another console is planned for later this year."

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/Animal-Crossing-New-Horizons-1438623.html#

[Dudley]

Yep, but don't worry, at least it makes it slightly harder for someone you've never heard of to cheat on an island you'll never see!

[CovisGod]

So if my Daughter dropped my Switch down the stairs and I had to get a new one there’s no way to buy a new Switch and transfer the 350 hours I’ve put into AC, I’d have to start again?

 

wowzers 

[McCoy]

Please understand. 

[rgraves]

No way at the moment no. They are apparently releasing something “this year” though...

[Dudley]

And the only way it can work is that the game actually does cloud saves but they won't let you access them.

[probotector]

On 08/05/2020 at 17:05, joemul said:

I’m sure this has been asked countless times so apologies in advance. 
 

Mrs Mul bought Animal Crossing: NH and has fallen in love with it. 
 

we’re at a point where she is using the switch way more than me. 
 

if we were to buy a switch lite, how easy is it for her to transfer her save to the new console?

 

also, I don’t play ac:nh so is it possible for her to redownload the game on the lite without having to buy it again?

I did this when I bought my nephew an AC switch.

 

On the new one, put your profile on it as well but you won’t be able to transfer the save.

 

Best solution would be for her to continue on your switch and you play on hers or she starts fresh. 
 

You wouldn’t be able to play at the same time either.

[Alexlotl]

I seriously think that if she could take the Animal Crossing save with her, my wife would have bought her own Switch Lite, so Nintendo are doing themselves out of a sale here. 

[Dudley]

It's mad.  They're not the first either, just the worst.