Nintendo Switch - Super Smash Bros Direct 1st Nov

Or at least plug it in so it’s fully charged

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Anyone seen that Rabbids game selling at a decent price?

£43 seems to be the going rate :confused:

Tesco Direct are doing voucher codes at the moment; should be able to get a fiver off whatever their price is with one of those.

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Dude, great call - can get Mark Kart 8 DX for £35.50 with some Clubcard points as well. This is a good shout.

The code is TDX-HMFR btw.

So, my first night with the console and some thoughts;

  • The setup was a bit odd. I couldn’t set it up on the console as I didn’t have a Nintendo Account so had to use my phone. Then, when I had set it up on my phone I couldn’t find a place to add my payment details, so went to the shop… to find it was added on the console. Strange. Felt a bit stumbling.
  • Downloaded and started play Sonic very quickly after that… and that was me for the night mostly.
  • Also got the Puyo Puyo Testris demo, damn that’s fun, and Just Dance which was goofy and a bit insane, but I am sure my wife and I will have a bit of fun with it.
  • It plays so well on the TV it’s just brilliant. The dock is a bit cheap though innit.
  • The controller plugged into the wee holder is pretty comfortable actually.
  • The portable mode is unreal though. Actually went to go to bed and turned the console off… before remembering I could just undock it and bring it up stairs with me. My brain actually imploded, kind of like the feelin when I first used Spotify over my data and realised what it truly meant.
  • The controllers on their own are strange - I’ve had to Google a few things already; why the Home button didn’t do what I expected, but that’s apparently a bug within Sonic Mania. Also, they got stuck in landscape mode after playing Just Dance, so I managed to figure that out.
  • Not sure I like the storage on the console- four demos and one game and it’s already at 22Gb of 32Gb left. Going to need a Memory Card soon I guess. The convenience of the eShop versus the game cards is stark, but with the small memory…
  • Games are expensive man. Jings. I totally forgot.

So far very impressed! Going to see how it does today on the portable and then I’ve got a few hours of train journeys tomorrow, so we will see how it goes…

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Amazon have flash sales on SD Cards all the time, I got a 128gb one from there for about £20 a while ago so hold out for a bargain while you can

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Aye definitely good call

The dock is wang. Expensive to get a second one and limits the portability of the system - you can’t just plug it straight in a mate’s TV to show them what it’s all about. Would maybe feel less like a home console but be more practical if you could just plug it straight into the TV with a cable.

I was surprised when I found out you couldn’t plug it straight into a TV without the dock. There will surely be aftermarket cables soon that allow you to do that.

You’d hope so. This is the best solution I’ve seen so far, though would presumably be easy to knock it over or break the connector

You also need to put a Switch dock circuit board in it. Do you mean it’s better for portability?

I would like to keep one dock at my TV’s and one at mine ideally.

Yeah, better for portability and half the price of the Nintendo one, I believe. Still considerably less convenient than being able to plug it in with a cable though

I think theres some sort of knockoff chinese dock/cable that can do exactly this and is basically portable itself. I’ll see if I can find it for you.

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Couldnt find the one I was thinking of but theres stuff like this:

Brought Minecraft for the switch a week ago. I am still not completely sure what I am meant to be doing but there is something weirdly addictive about just digging. Have lost whole evenings doing it.

Apparently Telltale are bringing these to Switch:
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy:A Telltale games Series
Batman:The Telltale Series
Batman:The Enemy Within
Minecraft Story Mode:Season 2

And Fifa looks pretty good imho:

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Skyrim reports from Eurogamer sound very promising. Somewhere between the remastered edition and the last gen version but stable, smooth and fast loading. Could tempted me into getting it.

Bought Rabbids on Gamecollection today too, for £38 with the code GAMESCOM17

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Some of the Gamescom content sounded great by the way. Loads of free stuff coming to ARMS soon and Splatoon 2 got some imaginative new weapons (bubble blower!), Stages and Salmon Run settings yesterday. Rocket League has a sexy Samus neon car when you buy it too. And FIFA portable is getting highly positive reviews. Will buy that for sure.