They're flying off shelves. They don't need to Black Friday Switches...they'll sell on their own. Nintendo just announced their BF items. A green 2DS with Zelda Ocarina 3D (lol) installed for $80 & a Zelda BOTW edition with a book and map.

I'm almost about to beat the main story. But there are SO many moons to go back and find....freaking soooo good. However I need to get much better at the jump, hat, dive, hat thing long jumps. I am not that talented yet.

Dang.

I'll probably get one anyway, we just have so much money in the Wii U setup, I hate to have to buy a bunch of joy cons and accessories again.

That's where Nintendo really gets into your wallet - accessories.

I feel you. My wiiu is still connected to the main tv and I have new games :/

Yeah, we race mario kart and play mario party quite a lot. Still have Breath of the Wild unopened to give a shot as well.

I'm addicted to Joy-Cons. I don't even need them but I bought Neon Red/blue, the Neon Yellows, and the Splatoon Neon Green/Pinks lol

Compared to pinball it's cheap as fuuuuuck.

Haha you got that right about it being cheaper than pinball.

Can you tell me more about the joy cons? How many do you need to play like a 4 player game of mario kart? Does each person need a right and left?

Nope, that's the beauty of Joy-Con...turn it to the side and snap on the strap piece, and it's a stand alone controller. So, out of the box, you can play 2p Mario Kart. Another pair would let you play 4p. However, if you want a fuller controller, you can snap the left and right onto a grip and it becomes a more traditional style controller. Or - you can use a Pro controller for a regular console style controller.

Then there are games like ARMS which do something even crazier with the "thumbs up grip" for really fun motion control fighting!

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Cool, thanks for the info! We have a lot of the pro controllers for the wii u at the moment, we all like playing with those.

How do you normally configure yours? With the grip in the middle of left and right joycons?

I game a TON with the switch in handheld mode (joy cons attached to switch) It isn't the most comfy but it reminds me of the wiiu gamepad, so my wife can watch tv.
When I have full access to the tv, the PRO controller IS THE BEST!
When I take my switch to work and fight/race my coworkers, we just pop the joycons off and play that way, with 1 person on a pro controller. I still should get a 2nd set of joycons....but haven't done so yet.

I agree this is a home run!!!

Switch titles are really lacking but with zelda and mario they should sell tons of consoles.

If I'm playing at home by myself, I generally just use the Pro controller, but I think the Joy-Cons on the grip are pretty comfy and are just about the same thing.

If I'm playing Snipperclips w/ my girlfriend or a group of friends, we use individual Joy-Cons.

If I'm at work, I've played Mario Kart & Mario Bros. with a friend each w/ a single Joy-Con. I brought my Switch to a family get together, set it up, and 4 kids played Mario Kart split-screen for hours, each with single Joy-Cons.

If I'm playing ARMS, I like using motion control...so 2 for me, and 2 for whoever I'm fighting.

If I'm playing anything in portable mode, I just have the Joy-Cons snapped onto the Switch and play that way.

The Switch is super versatile...you can kinda do whatever you want with the controls!

I wish nintendo would give up on the horrible inaccurate motion controls. For example: Arms, with motion controls is a terrible tech demo about wildly flailing your arms. With a standard controller it's a really good nuanced fighting game -- because you have accuracy.

They just crossed 200 games on the eShop...that's pretty damn impressive for only launching in March!

Here's what I have so far:

Super Mario Odyssey
Splatoon 2
Zelda BOTW
ARMS
Rayman Legends
Mario Kart 8 Dlx
Tiny Barbarian
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap
Cave Story+
Mario Bros. Arcade Archives
Ultra Street Fighter 2
Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero
Sonic Mania
Pan-Pan
Snipperclips
Snake Pass

Thanks for taking the time to share some info, part of the reason I haven't bought a switch is because I haven't sat down and figured out what the deal with the joycons is yet.

Totally disagree. ARMS motion control is INCREDIBLY accurate...and so amazingly satisfying. I can kick ass online in ARMS and the character does exactly what I want...it's not tech demo, it's the real deal...SUPER ACCURATE and TIGHT controls in motion. I fucking hate it with a standard controller...feels completely weird with it...I can't do shit!!!. With motion, it's totally intuitive and crazy fun...the only buttons I have to think about is jump and dash, punching is fun as F by PUNCHING -and you can curve your punches individually -which you can't do with a Pro controller.

Motion aiming on Splatoon is killer as well.

But hey, Nintendo gives you the OPTION to play it however you want. Don't like motion, play regular style....but I do not want them to give up with awesome motion - I wouldn't have bought ARMS if it was regular controls only....with motion it's the freshest fighting game I've played in forever.

someone showed joycon use is fairly spot on to a wiimote...soo there are tons of things that could be done!

Got several hours of Mario in today..,...so epic.

What are some of the better games from the e shop that anyone has purchased?

Steamworld Dig 2 was pretty fun.

Now that's not very Nintendo of you Rarehero, swearing and giving orders, what would Mario say or Link or maybe one of those Splatoon characters, for shame sir, shame on you. Oh I'm not going anywhere by the way.

Thanks for posting. This convinced me to get Mario soon. I loved 64 but felt like each title after that didn't really meet the bar. They were fun, but by the time I got to Galaxy I lost interest before I finished the game. I REALLY like Zelda. I'm playing it into the ground.

breath of the wild is a place you can LIVE for literally months and have a good time. I wouldn’t rush to Mario (no matter how good it is) until you’ve had your full serving of BoTW. Mario will still be around. Don’t rush. Savor.

Sounds like we're on the same page. I play Zelda games super thorough. I had found all but a few shrines and beat all but few missions before beating Ganon. Then I went back and found more shrines, maxed out my armor, etc. Then I downloaded the extra content. I just beat the master trials. I have one or two shrines I still haven't found and I'll pick up the rest of the armor but I'm probably about ready to pick up Mario. Zelda has been really really good. Like a lot of the recent Mario games, I had started to feel like they were just rehashing Zelda over and over and it had gotten corny with too much dialogue. This on was like a breath of fresh air.

Breath of fresh wind.

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Just got a Switch and Mario. Long shot, but looking for Zelda BOTW for Switch if anyone is done with theirs. I can trade:

1) Ultra Street Fighter 2 for Switch
2) RBI Baseball 2017 for Switch
3) Generic pinball parts, pingulps, etc.
4) Blu rays, 4Ks, digital movies/TV, etc.
5) Resident Evil 5 digital code for Xbox

Anyone in southern wisconsin I'll sell my unopened snes classic, pm me.

Go buy BOTW well worth the price have not played a Zelda this good in a long time........ How was SF2 for switch? Worth buying?

It's overpriced, but we're pinball maniacs so what's $40? I like the redrawn HD graphics and new music, but you can play it classic style if you want. Controls with Joycons are surprisingly good, even tho purists will balk. Violent Ken & Evil Ryu are overpowered so online play is annoying if opponents pick them. It's not perfect, but it's fun to have a portable SF2 of this quality.

Buy mine for $30 shipped!

Bought Mario last night..

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I will most likely wait on a big price drop for sf2 or pick one up used down the road. I need to log some hours in BOTW and Splatoon 2 first!

Toys r us is having Buy 1, Get one 40% off right now. But yeah dude just play BOTW and Splatoon. On my Switch stats, I've got 180 hrs on Zelda, 140 on splatoon, and 5 on Street Fighter lol. I need to get back on Splatoon.

Axiom Verge is a pretty great Metroid clone.

I have the Switch and playing BOTW on a 27" ACER Predator Monitor in 2K however the switch is a 720p resoultion and the monitor is upscaling but it still looks great.

How does that compare with a normal 1080p HDTV? That's what I'm using with Mario (both Kart and Odyssey) and think it looks great. Not noticing any fog issues, though I haven't tried Zelda yet.

The progress is 720p, 1080p, 1440p 2k, 2160p 4k. Its the number of pixels the screen can display from top to bottom. In the old TV's it is the number of scan lines. More pixels = greater detail/resolution. Upscaling will take a lower resolution and upscale it the higher by filling in the difference. As far as the fogging issue, mine looks great but I think that it is the aesthetic that they wanted to use.

I agree amazing game, I love my switch travel a lot for work and its great that I can play the "real" games on the go. Mario is just incredibly well done.

The Switch is 1080p docked, 720p portable.

Just picked up a switch and SMO this weekend. Such an amazing little device with excellent build quality and aesthetics. During a cut seen, Mario's airship moved left to right across the screen. I could actually feel the rumble go left to right in the controller. Was an out loud " Oh Wow..." moment. Such attention to detail.

I have a 65" OLED for 4K and 3D purposes, so I am somewhat familiar with how pixels work.

Planning to hook the Switch up to my cheaper Vizio 1080p with soundbar though.

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/features/tech-specs/

HD Rumble is a lot of fun! In Mario you can go into the settings and crank it up to "Strong", too - It's even better that way, IMO!

I love the HD Rumble in ARMS - if you play with motion, you feel different rumble FX in each hand...you feel the arms "stretching" individually, and the punches individually. It's great!

Hoping to snag ARMS as a BF deal somewhere. I'd buy it for the novelty, but I'm not much of a fighting game guy.

My buddy asked me what I thought about the switch, he's had it day 1.

First thing I said was the rumble is nuts. I remember the talk about HD Rumble but I can honestly say I'm impressed.

been loving the switch. I love how I can pull it out of the dock and its ready to play. Was nice to collect a few moons while waiting for the wife to get ready.

Think I have to break down and buy Mario kart. Not many games id double dip on but I freaking love mariokart8 on wii u

Yeah, I had MK8 on Wii U & the DLC....F it, I double dipped. It's the definitive version of the game, the resolution is better, the new characters and battle modes are legit new content....and you can play it on the go. DO it!

TRU had switch games on sale this past weekend with a "buy one, get one 40% off" deal. my guess is that another retailer will offer something similar this month