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I bought a switch a few weeks back. There are a bunch of things I've missed during the preceeding 5 years which I'm unhappy with and have just come to light.

Being primarily a PlayStation / Xbox gamer and all the stuff we have to play, I haven't much ventured into the Nintendo world. I will preface this by saying our family did have a switch near to release with ARMS, Mario Odyssey, Rabbids turn based strategy game and a few other near to launch games — the last game I bought was BOTW. Anyhow my son sold the switch maybe 2 years ago after realising it was collecting dust in his cupboard. I picked one back up for the actually brilliant 'ring fit adventure' as I've been getting fit and it seemed a nice way to assist in between gym sessions. And it's boss!

Big issues I have with Nintendo and the switch;

1) Locking content behind Amiibo

I don't want toys adourning my living room walls like a man child who hasn't grown up. I'm a geek, obviously, but the toys to life plastic tat is beyond a joke. Nintendo are experts at establishing scarcity when it's unnecessary- driving up prices for said tat. In some games, amiibo have locked full game modes. Disgusting combination of false scarcity amiibo, gamemodes and capitalism.

2) Time limited game releases.

Recently I mentioned to @Ralizah I was adding xenoblade 3 into my must buy list (thanks for the advice legend). Which was sat alongside Grandia remastered and the Super Mario 3d collection as my must buy games. I hadn't done my homework on those games. Grandia is £129 on ebay and Mario is £90. Again, false scarcity. I can't buy them legitimately. I can't buy Mario 3d collection on the Nintendo store for god knows what reason and Grandia (moon old game which is easily emulated) is