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Games Inbox: When will there be more UK Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders?
Pre-orders are not easy to come across anywhere (Nintendo)
The Friday letters page wants more The Elder Scrolls and Fallout remasters, as a reader is upset by the price hike for amiibo.
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Too popular
Seeing the sales predictions for the Nintendo Switch 2 itâs clear the console is going to be a major success, much bigger than the PlayStation 5. You can complain about the mistakes Nintendo has made in the reveal, and some of the lesser games (I still havenât heard any explanation for why Kirby: Air Riders is a 2025 game) but the thought of a new Switch and a new Mario Kart is all a lot of people need to hear.I donât say theyâre wrong either. I need a bit more myself, especially as Donkey Kong Bananza is an unknown factor, but while I am still somewhat tempted, the problem is that the Switch 2 is clearly going to be almost impossible to get, whether you want it or not.
Nintendo were probably unwise to talk about having so much stock that scalping will be irrelevant. But they are wrong because the console has proven âtoo popularâ. Unless you happen to be in the right place at the right time, for the few seconds stock is available, I donât think thereâs any real chance of getting a Switch 2 before launch. There arenât going to be any major pre-orders at all. At this point I doubt itâll be much easier even by Christmas.Focus
Finding your way
What this excellent Oblivion remaster shows is how Bethesda have lost their way with their recent mainline games. Iâm a big fan of theirs and have put a lot of time into Starfield, but all that procedurally generated nonsense just doesnât work for me. Their best work comes in their dungeons and handcrafted open worlds, the potato head characters have never bothered me one iota.Oblivion was the first game I played by them, back on the Xbox 360, and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I managed to conquer it back then, but I never really mastered it. I closed the main quest and Oblivion gates way too early and never got to see half the dungeons. Playing it now feels like unfinished business, a beautifully enhanced unfinished business, may I add, in Unreal Engine 5.
I donât know if itâs a lot harder than Skyrim, or Iâve just forgotten the map, but Iâm having real difficulty in those Ayelid ruins on this playthrough. I vaguely remember some of the missions, but Iâve spent way too many hours in Skyrim to really remember things about Oblivion. Iâm really enjoying this game again and Iâm glad I bought it after first thinking it might just be another Bethesda cash grab. Letâs have Fallout 3 and New Vegas next and welcome Elder Scrolls 6 in with open arms.Nick The Greek
Guaranteed hit
Seems to me, after reading your news of 2.2 million people wanting a Switch 2 in Japan, Nintendo have got the Switch 2 perfect for another generation. 2.2 million? How mad is that? Everywhere is sold out in the UK. You get the odd one or two available, but itâs sold out within a second or two and if the USA pre-orders go live on Thursday it seems theyâre going to be gone in seconds as well.By Xmas people will still be waiting for one. I really thought it wouldnât sell well and it goes to prove I know nothing about the gaming market or what people are willing to pay for it.David
GC: 2.2 million is indeed an insane number for Japan alone. We never wouldâve thought it possible in a post-mobile world.
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New information
Do you guys know how all my games from my Switch will transfer to my Switch 2 come launch? I pre-ordered mine on April 4th at Smyths toy store in York.I want to sell my Switch whilst I can a better return on it. I have a lot of games I have bought digitally, and I donât want to lose them. Nintendo during the Direct mentioned that come late May they will put up on My Nintendo how it will work. I would rather know sooner rather than later.
On another note, the store I pre-ordered from is relocating to another area of York on 22nd May. They better not lose my pre-order in the move; I have my receipt though. I will be there at 9am on June 5th at the new location to collect my Switch 2.woz_007 (NN ID)
GC: We had exactly this same question earlier in the week. Although that was before Nintendo decided to suddenly change its information about Zelda cloud saves. Hopefully that should make things easier though, so all you have to do is redownload your digital games and then transfer your saves from the cloud â although youâll need to subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online to do that.
Chosen title
While everyone seems to be doing their best to manufacture controversy over the Switch 2, because itâs generating clicks, Iâve been looking back through my Switch library to work out what to play on 5th June, other than Mario Kart, obviously.I think itâs about time I played XCOM: War Of The Chosen again. My laptop loads it almost instantly and runs it at 200+ fps with settings maxed, because it has no selectable frame rate cap. However, despite the low graphics settings, minutes long loads and choppy frame rate, there is something about just playing it slumped on the couch on the Switch.
The Switch 2 should do wonders for the experience, and now Iâve had the idea Iâm already getting itchy fingers waiting.Antony White
GC: Which controversy do you feel has been manufactured?
Between two stools
Meant to write in a few weeks ago, with the news of Star Wars XCOM, which Iâm very excited about. However, I always feel a bit sad that they created XCOM 2, one of the greatest games of all time, then brought out War Of The Chosen, which somehow made it even better and added some really interesting mechanics, and then instead of making 3, they made Midnight Suns instead.Donât get me wrong, itâs not a terrible game, itâs actually quite good, but a card-based Marvel game was pretty doomed as it would alienate Marvel fans and XCOM fans from the start.
More recently I loved your review of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33; 9/10 from Metro means it must be a seriously good game and it made me buck the trend and pre-order it (I swore I never to do that after agents of mayhem broke me), but so far it is living up to the hype and some!
Keep up the good work GC.Michael, Crawley
GC: Thank you. Weâd rate Midnight Suns much higher than you, though. If it wasnât for the overstuffed narrative elements back at the Abbey, we believe it wouldâve been approaching XCOM 2 status â we thought the combat was excellent.
Next gen price hike
The new Street Fighter and Legend Of Zelda amiibo are currently in stock on Nintendo Store UK, available for pre-order on June 5th 2025. There is also a Street Fighter 6 amiibo Cards Starter Set which has three character cards for Kimberley, Luke, and Jamie for ÂŁ24.99 available for pre-order too.They are very expensive compared to previous amiibo prices. Iâve pre-ordered the Street Fighter amiibo myself. I would like to get the Zelda ones too but will have to get that at another time, as they are expensive compared to Switch 1 amiibo. The Zelda amiibo are cheaper than the Street Fighter 6 amiibo.Andrew J.
GC: Yeesh, that is very expensive. We guess amiibo are no longer impulse purchases.
Multiformat option
Thanks for the recommendations from GC reader Andy F. After reading some reviews of Mario Golf: Super Rush Iâve decided to pass on that game and pick up Everybodyâs Golf, when it finally gets released onto the Switch, as this series has always been supremely enjoyable when Iâve played them on various PlayStation platforms in the past.I still have a quandary with the Mario games I mentioned though. Thatâs basically because Iâm not very good at 2D Mario games and I tend to fare better in a 3D world. However, with Super Mario Odyssey Iâve read so many times that the moons feel too easily earned and superfluous. I adored the Galaxy games because each star was a challenge and meant something to me. I know this is a very divisive issue, however.
Iâm currently looking up reviews of all three of the Mario games I mentioned, including Bowserâs Fury.
I still do have a gripe with the Switch 2 though and feel that Nintendo have valued innovation over economics regarding the console being mostly flat in handheld mode. Iâm going to have to purchase some aftermarket kit to make the Switch 2 usable for longer sessions in handheld as I have carpal tunnel in both hands. Iâd also like a proper D-Pad from the company who invented it.
Seems crazy to say that my Xbox Series X/S controllers allow me superior control on 1 vs 1 fighters, like Street Fighter 6 (I have no issues pulling off special moves for example) over a Nintendo device. Anyway, thatâs my little rant out the way.Charlie H.
GC: Ignoring the New Super Mario sub-series, youâd be hard pressed to find any Mario platformer that wasnât an exceptional game. But Super Mario 3D World is right in the middle between 2D and 3D, so it seems perfect for you. As for the Switch 2, the Pro Controller has always been a very good joypad.
Inbox also-rans
Itâs interesting that Mario Kart World doesnât have any non-Mario characters in it, even though Mario Kart 8 Deluxe does. Is that a sign of DLC to come or that Nintendo is trying to pull things back in and avoid a Nintendo Kart situation â itâs not like World doesnât have tons of characters as it is.LossyJust finished Indiana Jones And The Great Circle and it was overall a really good game, but that final boss battle was absolutely terrible. A 30 hour game and literally the final 10 minutes were the worst bit.Zeiss
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