The low stocks are Nintendo’s fault in the first place.

Where I’m from there is NO such thing as waiting in line to ORDER a product, because you order it online, and it’s yours. 

There is no games console, or even consumer product in general, that I ever wanted so badly that I would be willing to wait outside in a line for hours just for the possibility of being able to buy one. Sheer madness.

If what you’re saying was true then Nintendo wouldn’t have bothered to do this.

The line up for this Christmas is looking increasingly weaker each day. I only hope they at least get the stock levels right with this one. The first Ni No Kuni was in extremely short supply at launch and was ripe for Ebay scalping.

The switch has such a ridiculous identity crisis with regards to the different target audiences it caters to.

Actually in Japan at least that’s exactly what they’re doing. These days for a lot of kids it’s a choice between either a Switch or an iPad. It’s insane I know but there you have it.

“girlusocrazy”

Who called you crazy? I’ve always thought that’s exactly what the Switch was designed to do particularly since the 3DS has been cracked wide open by hackers now and piracy is rampant on the platform.

I have done in the past but on a couple of occasions I just bought imported British games magazines from Indigo. You’re right though, they’re not cheap and the fact that tax is then added on at the register just rubs salt into the wound.

I think very few westerners do these days and most of those who do likely use digital subscriptions which tend to cost half the price and are arguably a lot more convenient (although I’m not a fan of digital magazines personally).

unless you can eat the phone

Wow, that was one hell of a wall of text. :D

They’re also stupidly expensive. Fair enough they tend to be monthly whereas Famitsu is weekly but even so with Famitsu you get a similar volume of content.

Only through re-sold digital versions. PS4 has no back-compat.

There’s an Nvidia Shield port of HL2. I would have thought porting that to Switch would be fairly trivial tbh.

It was due to a market that was already biased against it and its PC ties being that it from Microsoft, and Japan, especially them wasn’t too keen on PC gaming.

The PSP didn’t have the iPhone to contend with throughout most of its life though. The Vita has done extraordinarily well in Japan given the circumstances tbh.

It’s not beating it. The lifetime sales are larger for the Vita but the Vita is 2 years older than the PS4.

They shot themselves in the foot from day one with the original Xbox. In a country where living space is a premium and the pre-owned market is king they released a console that was noisy and massive and scratched discs. Then what with the poor design and build quality issues on the 360, things just went steadily…