Got four sets all ones I wanted.

42179 Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit

10330 McLaren MP4/4 & Ayrton Senna

71436 King Boole Haunted Mansion

75682 Elphaba & Glinda Figures.

Great sets just have the McLaren left to build.

I’ve always read hardware to mean the console itself and software to mean the games when it comes to consoles. So I would expect the games to be playable whether they are digital or physical games. I’ve seen nothing to suggest Nintendo want to go the digital only route anytime soon.

It’s on my wish list but I have so many other large (read £200+) sets I need to get before they retire. So this may wait.

I do appreciate that they have designed it so you can build two different versions.

All I want is analog triggers back so that we can get racing games with proper acceleration and braking.

Very lovely visual representation made there.

However none of that helps when you get hit by three red shells, lightning and a Spiny shell on the last lap to go from 1st to 6th lol

I’ve owned every machine so each one means a little something to me. The N64 was the first I bought with my own money and that had some amazing games. I still own my whole collection.

However I think I’m going with the Switch. So many great games, many more ported from the WiiU and me and friends are still playing Mario Kart and Smash Brothers weekly online.

Not sure if these would be unexpectedly high values as most people know they fetch a little bit, but I have all my old N64 games still boxed with most of the original inserts too. The one I know most would be Conkers Bad Fur Day, that always seems to fetch a nice price.

A couple of my Funko Pop figures are possibly worth a few hundred but nothing more.

And I have the full set of Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Lego sets which I know go for a bit over the original price.

Yep this is what I meant. There’s always going to be more software sales that hardware. So to see that WiiU didn’t even sell more software than Switch sold hardware, that’s pretty bad.

It shows how bad the WiiU failed when its software numbers are lower than the hardware numbers for the Switch.

The information found in the patents has led to the presumption that a Nintendo Switch Mini, Switch Pocket, or Switch Micro handheld console is in the works. One focuses on button redistribution, with the home button and capture button being moved to the bottom of the device. Another patent goes further with button movement, placing the L, ZL, R, and ZR buttons in a line. Apparently, doing either of those things would produce a more compact Switch console (regular-sized model is currently US$290 on Amazon).

In yet another filing, magnets are used to attach a cover to the rear during gaming or onto the display for protection, which would be ideal for a Switch model that may be transported loosely in the pocket (more so than the current Lite variant). There is also a patent for a new cooling system, which the leaker believes is headed to the Nintendo Switch 2 but could also be viable for a Switch Mini. Last but not least, there is a filing that pertains to housing screw placement that specifically states “there is room for improvement in the design of portable electronic devices from the viewpoint of miniaturization of portable electronic devices”.

This is the main part to read. This is all based on a few patents that may not lead anywhere.

Freetube is a desktop program. I use it and it’s so much better than going to the YouTube page.

When the leaked prices came out I guessed that we were getting either Nooks or Resident Services as the larger set, possibly a house, and some smaller sets that could be linked. If those characters are any indication we may get a set with Kapp’n and his boat or the dock.