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@SillyG it really depends if there are any games that will actually use it for motion. Even the games from Mario Party Jamboree I played at the Nintendo event had camera games that used really really basic movement and sound rather than more precise gestures so I don’t think it makes a huge difference unless they decide to do the old Kinect/eyetoy style games.

@Johnny44 I mean just look at it….

I picked it up for about £25 when amazon inexplicably dropped the price for about a day during preorder and it arrived at launch. Yes, the image quality is terrible but when your face just appears in a tiny little box at the bottom of the screen or in a small bubble it really doesn’t matter as long as you have a cute little piranha plant face looking up at you from your undocked switch.

We’re missing a modern Midway collection. I know the rights are still up in the air but some of those old midway hits would be perfect and they’ve been done well on other consoles. Gauntlet II, Roadblasters, Tapper, Super Sprint, Joust and others would be great on Switch.

@Manxman64 the No Man’s Sky devs are amazing and 100% care about the community. You can bet they’re working on fixes but they do have so many platforms to look after that it won’t be immediate, given that they’re still only a small team.

Looking at the PS5 vs Switch side by side video from IGN, the PS5 isn’t all that different. It’s sharper and has a load more reflections and lighting effects but models look very similar. From what I can tell at the moment, playing go on Switch, it looks a lot like the mobile ports did.

@GrannyWhiskey to do that you need to either change the region of your account, lose any spare credit you have and top up with a US gift card or create a specific US account that would need to connect to the internet each time to check you were eligible to play AND still go find a US credit source. that would leave out about 99% of the potential Switch audience.

@Thaswizz agree. From the Wii having so much (maybe too much) motion support to the switch having too little. Glad they bought motion back but we really need a new Wii sports now or even a port of the first 2.

Bought this as soon as I saw it was on the eshop. Now if they can bring the Rush series back to Nintendo, too….

It’s crying out for motion controls on Switch, that would make it so much better.

Solid frame rate, decent graphics (only a tiny bit blurier than PC), gyro controls work well and multiplayer included. Recommended to anyone who liked 3.

@AJDarkstar Glad it wasn't just me who thought "Giant enemy crab!" when I first saw it

Been playing most of yesterday and today and handheld is fine, the only blur is motion blur so not sure where the ‘can’t see ahead’ is coming from.

Price is high but cheap eshop vouchers and £10 off eBay purchases helped bring this down to just over £30 digitally, which is fine.

This is a solid port both handheld and on TV. I love all the billboards and shortcuts and the races, especially marked man, just as I did back on every other console but now I can play it in the car or when I’m out of the house.

@Sinton yeah, 8 bit versions, but same games, just NES ports.

A little annoyed about the Namco stuff as some of the games on both packs have appeared on the Namco Museum already. Plus I wanted Pac-Man Championship edition in full rather than a demastered one.

Darius collections are coming soon too with all the arcade and console versions included.

Got most of the ones I want in the Namco Collection already on the eShop. Now if Warner Bros, who owns Midway, would bring out a collection, that's a different story. Paperboy, Gauntlet, Toobin, Spy Hunter, Rampage...

@The-Chosen-one Not quite as nice but the car models do still look great. Backgrounds aren't too bad but not anywhere near something like FORZA and the customisation is good. Handling is so-so, it's a bit twitchy for my liking.

It's certainly been improved since release, too, though it still has pretty long load times between races which sort of killed it for me.

ShopTo has it for £39.99 digital so no brainer, should be a game to last quite a while if you've not played it before.

I’d prefer a Saturn mini to a Dreamcast mini.

I've still got my 42 All-Time Classics cart. Loved that and will pick this up at some point.

@Unprdctbl I’d love that, not sure why they didn’t include descriptions in the museum too, it makes more sense.

@NintendoPok The Gamecube game had very little to do compared to this one and still had a huge amount of text and a worse system for storing items.

Wild world started you off with a house rather than a tent but was equally slower paced and New Leaf was almost the same as New Horizons bar the later unlocking of paths and terrain stuff, which is a reward for going through the game to that point.

None of the past games rushed anything and perhaps you're just getting more impatient as you get older or don't realise that adding more features means there is more to do and therefore people who started earlier than you will, of course, have done more.

@NintendoPok it might surprise you but games aren’t for everyone and if you change Animal Crossing to make it faster then it isn’t really animal Crossing any more.

The majority of people who played the DS games (the last 2, ignoring HHD) will find this quite similar.

For me it IS gold, for my family it’s the same, for most long term AC players it’s a great game, bar the complaints of the single island single main player issue.

Our household now has a main Switch and 3 lites, aqua, grey and, most recently, yellow.

@BulkSlash Always worth checking with Nintendo if they will replace it. You need to get that replaced somehow pretty much straight away unless you don't plan on using it.

Most of this completely misses the point of Animal Crossing. It’s as if people want to speed through the game. There are a few things here that do make sense, the addition of number of items to choose from and some of the menu sorting issues but the speed up things just miss what the game is about.

Reminds me of the 100 all time favourites game on DS. Still got that.

@giveahoot I understand your pain and I sympathise. From reading several things elsewhere, the issue seems to be that Nintendo have been burned by people selling save files or carts with full saves on. Perhaps this lead them to move the save to the console? I still think the best option would be to allow the first player to turn on the ability for each other player on the island.

But for certain a copy on a separate console is still the best way to play even if Nintendo gave everyone in the game the same resident representative rights. It's just expensive.

Funny enough I just got a copy for my daughter for her birthday tomorrow (along with a Switch Lite)

Would have been better for Nintendo to give the game a single player only per console, most likely. It's a single player game, after all, with multi-player restricted to separate consoles, like it's always been.

@Teamugi Animal Crossing has always been about one area (Island/Town) for a single person and everyone who has a copy of the game gets their own island and can visit others. The whole visiting thing would be nerfed by having several islands on one console so they've done the next best thing and had one island but only one person in charge.

The ONLY thing Nintendo could easily do is have an option to change your island's Resident Representative at any time, but that runs the risk of someone coming and building stuff if they don't know how.

It's not Nintendo misunderstanding Animal Crossing, it's all those who seem to be new to the series. This edition actually gives you MORE freedom than in the past.

If they were 'fans' they'd know that every previous Animal Crossing has even tighter restrictions and you've always needed to buy separate copies to play with different players. Why is it suddenly an issue now, especially when New Horizons actually gives people MORE options for multiple players than previous games. not less.

I can see it now;
Nintendo will get involved and tell him to make it a U/PG then he'll rename it Cannibal Crossing and it will be about the spirits of the animals from the first film coming back for you to make amends by building them huts and gathering resources to make them comfortable....

Oh man, this was great for me. I only thought about Burnout Paradise coming to Switch the other day and now it's happening. Handheld Burnout Paradise? Count me in!

Borderlands and Bioshock games on my Switch as well. Loads of RPGs, Panzer Dragoon and Jedi Academy hitting the store now and more.

Animal Crossing is real and all our lives are fake. I mean, this virus is just a glitch in the program. Back to sell Nook some more shells...

Hopefully they'll release the joycons separately too. Mind you, that dock is lovely. I'm sure someone will do a vinyl for it, though.

I got a copy for me and a copy for my daughter on the Switch Lite I've got her for her birthday next month.

Two weeks has never felt so far away.

@Moistnado They've been out on Playstation far longer than on Switch. As far as Switch is concerned, they're still pretty new games, hence the price difference.

@Savino Just add a new account with an EU address, best of both worlds and you don't lose any spare credit

@Emperor-Palpsy It's £38.85 from Shopto
https://www.shopto.net/en/ndo10004427-animal-crossing-new-horizons-switch-p191565/?affiliate_source=aw&awc=2943_1580297394_e3926b2ae2541d0f187a7e754e6b91c6

Or £38.99 at CDKeys

@Dazzle apart from it still selling loads, still being played by millions around the world on many platforms and still being really popular?

You need to separate what 'you' like with what everyone else does, otherwise you just come off as very egotistical.

Does this mean I can walk into my Minecraft house and shout "Hi Honey, I'm home!" now?

Constantly running out of space on my 400GB card, but then I love my digital games and Switch's library is growing so well at the moment. Could do with a 1TB but not at the current prices.

Not interested unless it plays the Theme from the show, then we're talking!

My Time at Portia well worth getting on the sale. Assassin's Creed III is a lot better after the patches, too, though still not the HD remake quality, obviously.

@CatSoul I've got them all digitally and, yes, I think the sub still works on 2018 at the moment. I'll check for sure later tonight.

Yes, it’s just the unlimited you pay for and it’s a subscription you can use just when you need it as you can pay for anything from a day to a year. There are plenty of songs and all game modes available from the start without the subscription.

@Sandro89 Lots of imagination and unicorns? I'll take that as a compliment!