Finally a place I can post about this because I've been so excited.
For the last 3 months I've been working 3 jobs to save up for a Switch for my 10 year old son for Christmas. He primarily lives with his Mom, but he plays mine when he's over. He sees the Switch as "Dad's toy he lets me play" so I don't even think it's even remotely crossed his mind that he could actually own one for himself. His little head is going to explode when he realizes he has his own.
I finally put enough money away to walk into Best Buy and pick one up. I also got a hard shell case, a screen protector, Zelda + DLC, and Pokémon Let's Go: Eevee edition as digital download cards.
When I got home, I opened his Switch, put on the screen protector, redeemed, downloaded, and updated the games, and most importantly, transferred his Zelda save file from my Switch to his. Now come Christmas, he can open the box and immediately start playing Zelda from exactly where he left off on my system. He is going to freak out. I also set up parental controls, and my family online plan, etc.
A cool thing about this is that if I get him Mario Kart or something, we can totally play together online even though it's not my usual time with him, so you KNOW I added us as friends. That's so exciting.
For Christmas, I plan to wrap the (used) download cards separately, the case, and the switch itself all as separate gifts. The Switch stuff is just going to keep coming.
Sorry - I know I was a little off topic, but I also think I answered OP's question, somewhere in there. I was just so excited because I worked so hard for this. We're not a particularly wealthy family, so I'm just super proud to have been able to do this for him. Wanted to post about it somewhere. Haha.
Merry Christmas, Era!
For the last 3 months I've been working 3 jobs to save up for a Switch for my 10 year old son for Christmas. He primarily lives with his Mom, but he plays mine when he's over. He sees the Switch as "Dad's toy he lets me play" so I don't even think it's even remotely crossed his mind that he could actually own one for himself. His little head is going to explode when he realizes he has his own.
I finally put enough money away to walk into Best Buy and pick one up. I also got a hard shell case, a screen protector, Zelda + DLC, and Pokémon Let's Go: Eevee edition as digital download cards.
When I got home, I opened his Switch, put on the screen protector, redeemed, downloaded, and updated the games, and most importantly, transferred his Zelda save file from my Switch to his. Now come Christmas, he can open the box and immediately start playing Zelda from exactly where he left off on my system. He is going to freak out. I also set up parental controls, and my family online plan, etc.
A cool thing about this is that if I get him Mario Kart or something, we can totally play together online even though it's not my usual time with him, so you KNOW I added us as friends. That's so exciting.
For Christmas, I plan to wrap the (used) download cards separately, the case, and the switch itself all as separate gifts. The Switch stuff is just going to keep coming.
Sorry - I know I was a little off topic, but I also think I answered OP's question, somewhere in there. I was just so excited because I worked so hard for this. We're not a particularly wealthy family, so I'm just super proud to have been able to do this for him. Wanted to post about it somewhere. Haha.
Merry Christmas, Era!
