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Posted 8 March 2017
Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons (Red&Blue) bundled with Snipperclips £74.99 at Smyths
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Been looking for a good way to get both Snipperclips and a pair of additional Joy-Cons, but haven't seen much talk about it on hukd, there are only cold threads for ShopTo at £85 and Amazon at £80, but no alternatives. Nintendo's UK store is selling it at £80 too.
The cheapest price for Joy-Con pair on its own (either colour) appears to be £70, and meanwhile Snipperclips has settled in with aggregate score 80 on Opencritic and 81 on Metacritic.
Snipperclips' digital price is £18, but it's seen some heat in threads like CDKeys taking it as low as £15.19. I would have bought it at that price too if I couldn't find a good bundle price, but I'd say this is pretty good and have ordered it myself before posting. Ordered at 16:30 and it was dispatched at 17:10.
Hope you guys are enjoying your new consoles as much as I am. Long live Multiplayer!
The cheapest price for Joy-Con pair on its own (either colour) appears to be £70, and meanwhile Snipperclips has settled in with aggregate score 80 on Opencritic and 81 on Metacritic.
Snipperclips' digital price is £18, but it's seen some heat in threads like CDKeys taking it as low as £15.19. I would have bought it at that price too if I couldn't find a good bundle price, but I'd say this is pretty good and have ordered it myself before posting. Ordered at 16:30 and it was dispatched at 17:10.
Hope you guys are enjoying your new consoles as much as I am. Long live Multiplayer!
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sorted byYou should really talk to nintendo, they could use your expertise
"Best Rpg EVER Best Racing game EVER"..... After that i just tuned OUT lol
Better one than none eh? (_;)
And people still saying it will fail?
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But it's not two controllers. It's basically two halves of one controller!!
Standard pricing compared to Wii controllers at launch and the current price of ps move controllers. Minus the price of the game it is £60 for two controllers. I don't think that is too bad for a brand new release. They will drop a bit, but demand will keep the price up, plus that Nintendo tax.
Pokemon Go had revenue over $1b and sun and moon sold fantastically well. Yes, the user base of Go has declined, but that is standard for the market and not specific just to Pokemon Go.
1. 'Critics' cannot be trusted, too many are proven corrupt shills. Gamergate highlighted that. Share prices and week 1 sales are not evidence that the console will not fail.
2. It's a pile of poorly built garbage with countless issues hardware/software issues
3. Unless Nintendo fix these rather huge problems, it could fail, but never underestimate how ideologically blind consumers/fanboys can be.
4. Fanboyism is cringey, just stop.
What's your opinion on this video highlighting problems with the Switch?
youtu.be/Cb-…qNc
Looks pretty bad to me.
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Its a smart move by nintendo releasing zelda on launch to get the hype/sales in. Now they can concentrate on releasing games like "nintendo dogs" or "nintendo cooking" or "michael owen soccer"
The most powerful handheld you can get. The best RPG game ever on it already. The best racer ever made coming next month. Failed? I think not.
However, I will concede it's being milked for all it's worth at the moment. Everything is costing 150% of what it should be. Price you pay for early adoption I guess.
You're a cannier buyer than me! £280 + £48 for Zelda. Which I think for a new game (and what a game!) was probably just about worth it. By no means a bargain though. But development wise, Lego and MK8 are just ports. I've already played them on the WiiU, so £45 and £42 (Amazon) is pretty steep. Would have thought £25-£35 is about what they're worth.
I agree that it's still pricey and that excitement will die down. However the fact that it's a handheld that could be viewed as a 3ds successor is on their side. I'm not sure it will flop, but I don't think it will be particularly successful after the initial fanboys buy them out unless they reduce the price like they did the 3ds. Plus there is a lot of issues to be sorted out.
The console may fail or may not, but definitely guaranteed to get some of the best gaming experience, like the wii u did...the switch is off to belter with Zelda Breath of the Wild as a launch software. Yes people will say not enough good games at launch, but it was the same with the big boy consoles, ps4 and xb1...during that time the wii u churned out absolute belters of games after a slow start...
Can you play a game like Zelda on just one of these halves then? or does it have to be specific games built without the need of a 3d rotating environment? You could comfortably buy 2 PS4 controllers for less than this so i don't see that as a valid argument.
Edit... and you could buy one of the games less than £3 in the sale on the store... Hotline Miami 2 for instance for £2.49 and keep the change :-)
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Best preorder
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Last Resort posters / better than eBay
Now if we assume a lower bound of £30 going by some unverified retailers which didn't get a thread here on hotukdeals, that puts the price roughly £38-50 in today's money by the Bank of England's calculator for one controller and a game which is surely not as good (you are talking about this game remember).
Here is the Bank's calculator to check it yourself
Here is the Office of National Statistics' data in interactive graph format
Here is the same data for those that prefer tables
I would add to that the fact that most people hasten to forget that the pound is down around 40 percent against the dollar compared to what it was in '07 - and of course as usual don't take my word for it, check the source or your own site of choice.
As for the 'two halves' debate.. each Joy-Con has its own circuit board, broadcom chip, and battery. It's not like they make one controller and do a King Solomon on it, they made two controllers with layout similar to SNES and made a system that can swap between configurations - just like Wii and Wii U with remote, wheel, nunchuk. As an aside, when comparing this to the Wii Remote it's easy to forget that the Remote didn't include any rechargeable batteries.
well.at least you will not be tempted to get a failed console
Thank you for giving me hope that I am not the only boring and sensible soul lurking in these halls.
Well give me a failed console any day if it means I get to play games like Zelda BOTW, Love it so much, forgotten what a truly great game was
Have the same plan.
It's either a Switch for the kid's Christmas or a PS4 pro... and you can guess which console I'm pushing for more.
"Look son, big robot dinosaur thingies!"
F*** Nintendo.
But it's actually 2 controllers and a game.
How much is it for 2 xbox one or ps4 controllers and a game? Although to be honest you don't need many controllers for xbox one or ps4 due to lack of local multiplayer with most games
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I was going to link to the very same video. Zelda being the greatest RPG is down to the player. I've never been able to get into any of the Zelda games and believe me i've tried but each to their own i guess. The hardware looks badly put together and if you're rushing to buy at the highest price it'll be (at release) for the one game then that's crazy!! but again, each to their own, i guess!?
I read somewhere that they've pulled the dock from sale on its own from stores as there has now been too many reports of scratched screens in the US. The final straw is Nintendo on their own support website saying that dead pixels on the devices is perfectly normal. I think at that price point its unacceptable.
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Just the 15,000,000 copies of Sun and Moon sold currently, I guess the excitement has faded.
no I don't have a switch. I'm not paying 280 quid for a handheld/slightly better Wii u.
You're absolutely correct. Overhyped I bought the game for the wii u, then ordered TWO switces at two separate retailers worrying I might miss the pre-order "rush". Clearly there was none and I now have two consoles. I need to return one now as I finished zelda on the wii u and realise I have no use for the switch. However which one would you return? the neon ones or the black joycons one?
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And so they should. The reason we have teething issues is because people take it. Also microsoft and sony are not immune to criticism. People took the mick out of the rrod, people argued about sony getting hacked, people have lots of issues against microsoft, people complained that the ps pro was a pointless upgrade. Nintendo are now in the spotlight, so if they're going to have issues, people are going to call them out for it.
So unless you want nintendo to become the new sega where they constantly release flawed consoles, I suggest you accept that people are going to give feedback on how the console could have been better. Obviously people will have different opinions, but right now it's fanboys and zelda die hards getting the switch. Once that's over with, then sales will probably drop unless they do something more. After all there's really no incentive to get a switch over a Wii U which has BotW and the next big upcoming game is mario kart 8 which is already on the Wii U and you won't need to pay for an online sub for that. Nintendo have made a lot of money earned for previous successes, but it does seem like more people turn away from them and they're becoming more niche.
its possible , you see all sorts of computer madness when you work in IT