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Zatoth said:
Doubt they will be gone in an instant.
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Probably, but I'll never trust nintendo with stock.

anyone who is dead set on buying some nintendo special thingy should do it immediately, on sight.

they are absolutely fucking terrible with supplies.
 
FantasticMrSnake said:
Not exactly a deal, but I just pre-order the mario+rabbis for £35 on the ubistore spending 100 ubipoints (I guess I had them for playing far cry), so if you have 100 points, you can change them for 20% off.

http://store.ubi.com/uk/mario-+-rabbids-kingdom-battle/5927e76dca1a644d498b457c.html

Normal price is £45.

To get the 20% off from the 100 points, go here: https://club.ubisoft.com/en-GB/shop-discount




Yeah, over £20 the shipping is free.. I saw the same £9 wtf..
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Thanks for this, just pre-ordered my copy
 
Is anywhere in Europe doing the pre-order bonus where you get the Cappy hat? Game are doing it here and I want it... But not £60 want it.
 
Do CEX ever get new hardware in, either online or in-store like they sometimes have new sealed games?

I'm still reeling from Xbox One X price announcement but maybe I can make it work if I trade in a bunch of stuff. Think I can get £300 in vouchers quite painlessly (inc One S trade).
 
EmiPrime said:
Do CEX ever get new hardware in, either online or in-store like they sometimes have new sealed games?

I'm still reeling from Xbox One X price announcement but maybe I can make it work if I trade in a bunch of stuff. Think I can get £300 in vouchers quite painlessly (inc One S trade).
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From what I was told when they were testing a Switch in there on launch day, they go out and buy a couple to have them in stock on launch day. However, if there's any inkling of stock issues, they'll be priced higher than RRP. In fact, I bet they do that anyway on day 1 just in case and then lower the price if they don't actually sell out.
 
Hasney said:
From what I was told when they were testing a Switch in there on launch day, they go out and buy a couple to have them in stock on launch day. However, if there's any inkling of stock issues, they'll be priced higher than RRP. In fact, I bet they do that anyway on day 1 just in case and then lower the price if they don't actually sell out.
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Hmmm, that's about what I expected. Might be too much of a faff to be worth bothering with. Thanks.
 
oni-link said:
Where is the best place to get a Pro from, and am I better off waiting for a price drop or a deal this November/December?
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I wouldn't expect a straight price drop, but you could wait for an amazon code like '10 of on 60 or more' type of things.

Edit: read it wrong, was thinking pro controller
 
oni-link said:
Where is the best place to get a Pro from, and am I better off waiting for a price drop or a deal this November/December?
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£340 with Horizon ZD and WipEout from Shopto.

There will almost certainly be similarly good or slightly better deals come the end of the year but at that price with those games I would jump in now if I hadn't already.
 
Arms is gone from the Argos website. Does this usually happen when they run out of preorders or something? I have a gift card so was hoping to walk into a store and grab a copy on Friday but worrying I won't be able to now

EmiPrime said:
Do CEX ever get new hardware in, either online or in-store like they sometimes have new sealed games?

I'm still reeling from Xbox One X price announcement but maybe I can make it work if I trade in a bunch of stuff. Think I can get £300 in vouchers quite painlessly (inc One S trade).
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Do you have a Grainger Games nearby? They'll usually beat Cex on all trade in values but they sell new stock as well as 2nd hand. Been using them recently to swap out unused 3DS games for new Switch titles
 
chunk3rvd said:
Do you have a Grainger Games nearby? They'll usually beat Cex on all trade in values but they sell new stock as well as 2nd hand. Been using them recently to swap out unused 3DS games for new Switch titles
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Likewise with GAME, while they're generally pretty shitty they will pricematch CEX so you can get the same trade in prices CEX would give you with GAME
 
chunk3rvd said:
Do you have a Grainger Games nearby? They'll usually beat Cex on all trade in values but they sell new stock as well as 2nd hand. Been using them recently to swap out unused 3DS games for new Switch titles
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Nah, I'm in London and I have about £100 in CEX vouchers already.
 
EmiPrime said:
£340 with Horizon ZD and WipEout from Shopto.

There will almost certainly be similarly good or slightly better deals come the end of the year but at that price with those games I would jump in now if I hadn't already.
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I'm tempted but I still have stuff to play on Vita/PS3/Wii U and so could easily delay it till November, and maybe they'll drop the price to combat the launch of the Xbox 1X

Is it viable to go digital only now with a PS4, using an external HD for when/if you run out of space?
 
oni-link said:
I'm tempted but I still have stuff to play on Vita/PS3/Wii U and so could easily delay it till November, and maybe they'll drop the price to combat the launch of the Xbox 1X

Is it viable to go digital only now with a PS4, using an external HD for when/if you run out of space?
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Even if you buy physical copies they have to install to the HDD, they take up exactly the same space as digital.
 
EmiPrime said:
Even if you buy physical copies they have to install to the HDD, they take up exactly the same space as digital.
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Yeah that's why i'm considering going all digital, I just don't like redownloading games whenever I want to play them as my internet is pretty average, so an external drive would prevent that from being an issue
 
I asked elsewhere but this is probably a better thread for it: are there any Atmos capable front/rear left/right speakers like these ones that don't cost a small fortune or are manufacturers and Dolby still fleecing AV nerds for as long as they can get away with it?
 
Anyone know the cheapest way to get UK Switch eShop credit or Switch digital games?

Looking to get the Splatoon Switch bundle from Amazon (kicking myself I didn't use the £20 off over £75 voucher on the preorder) and I've noticed Amazon UK sells the digital versions of MK8, ARMS, Splatoon 2 for £50 each, which while bad isn't as horrendously eye-gouging as Zelda Switch for £60, just wondering if there's a cheaper way to get them currently.
 
RiggyRob said:
Anyone know the cheapest way to get UK Switch eShop credit or Switch digital games?

Looking to get the Splatoon Switch bundle from Amazon (kicking myself I didn't use the £20 off over £75 voucher on the preorder) and I've noticed Amazon UK sells the digital versions of MK8, ARMS, Splatoon 2 for £50 each, which while bad isn't as horrendously eye-gouging as Zelda Switch for £60, just wondering if there's a cheaper way to get them currently.
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For digital games such as ARMS and MK8 you might as well buy on amazon.jp
There is a fairly easy process involving creating an amazon.jp account to buy digital version of games and simply change your country in your Nintendo Account to redeem it.

Arms and MK8 will cost you around £41 each that way
Don't do that for Splatoon 2 though, that one will stay in japanese and you don't want that
 
Shahadan said:
For digital games such as ARMS and MK8 you might as well buy on amazon.jp
There is a fairly easy process involving creating an amazon.jp account to buy digital version of games and simply change your country in your Nintendo Account to redeem it.

Arms and MK8 will cost you around £41 each that way
Don't do that for Splatoon 2 though, that one will stay in japanese and you don't want that
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So all of the text is in English? Is there any easy way to determine which games will have text in English by default?

Problem with doing that is any DLC will be locked to that region I imagine.
 
RiggyRob said:
So all of the text is in English? Is there any easy way to determine which games will have text in English by default?

Problem with doing that is any DLC will be locked to that region I imagine.
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We have a thread for that here somewhere (I'll look for it in a minute EDIT: here) but you can see it by yourself at the bottom of a game's eshop page at languages supported. If there is for example both japanese and english you're good to go.
ARMS and MK8 definitely belong to that category as I've bought them that way.

I'm not sure about DLC, I've read concerns and people claiming it won't be a problem, so no clue lol. The answer is probably in that thread I linked.
Mk8 probably won't have any, and Arms has free updates and not dlc though. Besides japan often has downloadable cards/codes for dlc like the one they're currently selling for the Zelda dlc.
 
Shahadan said:
We have a thread for that here somewhere (I'll look for it in a minute EDIT: here) but you can see it by yourself at the bottom of a game's eshop page at languages supported. If there is for example both japanese and english you're good to go.
ARMS and MK8 definitely belong to that category as I've bought them that way.

I'm not sure about DLC, I've read concerns and people claiming it won't be a problem, so no clue lol.
Mk8 probably won't have any, and Arms has free updates and not dlc though. Besides japan often has downloadable cards/codes for dlc like they're currently selling for the Zelda dlc.
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Cool, thanks - obviously without a Switch I can't check the eShop for the game listings, but it sounds fine.

I've seen the same download code for e.g. The Zelda Switch DLC pass on Amazon UK, I was more thinking about situations such as Hyrule Warriors getting much more expensive DLC vs the European version of the game getting it much reduced.

Is there some shenanigans you'd need to do get prepaid Japanese eShop credit onto the Switch and currency conversion, or is it simply buy the JP version of the game since it converts to £ better?
 
RiggyRob said:
Cool, thanks - obviously without a Switch I can't check the eShop for the game listings, but it sounds fine.

I've seen the same download code for e.g. The Zelda Switch DLC pass on Amazon UK, I was more thinking about situations such as Hyrule Warriors getting much more expensive DLC vs the European version of the game getting it much reduced.

Is there some shenanigans you'd need to do get prepaid Japanese eShop credit onto the Switch and currency conversion, or is it simply buy the JP version of the game since it converts to £ better?
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You simply buy the digital version on amazon.jp (the one with the red band). The only difficult part is to create an amazon.jp account (must be different than your uk one) and use a random japanese billing address. Usually people choose the nintendo HQ.

You could indeed buy japanese eshop cards and put money on a jp eshop account but that seems more complicated and more expensive since amazon sells shit for cheaper than nintendo. I don't think the eshop would directly accept your UK credit card though.
Edit: ha forgot a problem you might encounter if you decide to buy japanese eshop credit. You can't switch region back if you have money in your eshop wallet. So if you reaaaally want to use japanese eshop cards you should have a separate jp nintendo acocunt on your switch and use that there.
Switching region on a single account has the benefit of allowing you to keep the gold star points and redeem those for discounts later on the nintendo website, if there is ever somehting interesting there
 
Shahadan said:
You simply buy the digital version on amazon.jp (the one with the red band). The only difficult part is to create an amazon.jp account (must be different than your uk one) and use a random japanese billing address. Usually people choose the nintendo HQ.

You could indeed buy japanese eshop cards and put money on a jp eshop account but that seems more complicated and more expensive since amazon sells shit for cheaper than nintendo. I don't think the eshop would directly accept your UK credit card though.
Edit: ha forgot a problem you might encounter if you decide to buy japanese eshop credit. You can't switch region back if you have money in your eshop wallet. So if you reaaaally want to use japanese eshop cards you should have a separate jp nintendo acocunt on your switch and use that there.
Switching region on a single account has the benefit of allowing you to keep the gold star points and redeem those for discounts later on the nintendo website, if there is ever somehting interesting there
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Fair enough, being able to tell which listing has the red band (I assume it says 'digital') is a good way to differentiate them, the only problem then would be if the listing doesn't have that.

I assume there's nothing wrong with using a UK debit card on the JP Amazon account either (currency conversion done automatically)?

Also, pfffft at there ever being anything worth the gold points on MyNintendo, I bet the JP version is equally as bad as the UK/EU one.
 
Buying eShop credit from CDKeys and using the 5% Facebook discount will bring £49.99 eShop games down to £45.58, but that's all I've seen in regards to eShop deals.
I'd rather pay the extra £4 to have everything tied to my account personally, rather than buy from other regions.
 
RiggyRob said:
Anyone know the cheapest way to get UK Switch eShop credit or Switch digital games?

Looking to get the Splatoon Switch bundle from Amazon (kicking myself I didn't use the £20 off over £75 voucher on the preorder) and I've noticed Amazon UK sells the digital versions of MK8, ARMS, Splatoon 2 for £50 each, which while bad isn't as horrendously eye-gouging as Zelda Switch for £60, just wondering if there's a cheaper way to get them currently.
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There's a spreadsheet going around that lists the price of reach eShop item in each region so you can get the cheapest price. Might be Japan, mostly South Africa, sometimes elsewhere. I'll try to find it...

Here we go, it's now a handy website: http://eshop.calyh.re
 
Jo Shishido's Cheeks said:
Buying eShop credit from CDKeys and using the 5% Facebook discount will bring £49.99 eShop games down to £45.58, but that's all I've seen in regards to eShop deals.
I'd rather pay the extra £4 to have everything tied to my account personally, rather than buy from other regions.
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Everything's still tied to your account, even if you make purchases on the eShop of other regions.
 
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