Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Another 8-bit metroidvania homage coming to Switch (ENOUGH ALREADY!!!) - A Hole New World out next week. 4-star reviews on Steam, or so I'm told...

@Anti-Matter In about a week they'l probably cycle it out. They usually put up a new one every month, and then it'll probably be something like Scribblenauts or something.

@Anti-Matter
It's not that disturbing. You may not support m rated games but a lot of us do. Not every game should be unicorns and butterflies.

M rated games are fine in general, horror games should be a big no for ads on this site though, even if the Retro Studios rumour is true.

@Grumblevolcano
Why should it be a no just because it's horror? That doesn't make sense (no offense).

Oh dear. It looks like Panic Button are getting swamped with requests to port games to the Switch! How dare they be so good at it!

Adam Creighton of Panic Button spoke to Gamasutra for an article about companies busy porting games to the system:

"You know that meme? With the dog? Drinking from a sprinkler? That’s me right now. And we might have some other titles for that platform, and maybe some other games for other platforms, in the works. In terms of volume, I’m in this amazing place where as a studio we get to choose how we want to grow, and with whom, and with what projects. My biggest challenge lately is not which projects do we pick to retarget to other platforms, but managing the other parts of our portfolio, picking the different projects that are exciting to different people in the studio, and being responsible about what I want to work on, versus what is best for the studio.

"The Switch release has been perfect. Actually it’s mentioned in almost all the port requests we receive. To keep up with this pace, we already have 12 kits at the office! Not yet the platform with the most kits, but definitely the fastest growing trend in our office. In the games we have published we’ve seen more sales on Switch than on PS4 and XBox One combined during the same period. Now every developer wants their game to be on the Switch."

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/314795/Drinking_from_a_sp...

If Panic Button are being swamped with requests to port other companies game's, it would be interesting to know which games they've had to turn down. By the sounds of it they are working on more than just Wolfenstein 2 but at the end of the day, they can only take on so much. We need another Panic Button or 2.

@GameOtaku Because there may be younger people browsing the site, and they might be disturbed if there's an ad for a horror game.

This week's Media Create sales for Japan.

Hardware sales (last week's sales in brackets):

PS4 – 41,496 (59,691)
Switch – 39,303 (43,404)
PS4 Pro – 8,006 (11,615)
New 2DS LL – 5,778 (6,031)
Vita – 4,959 (4,133)
New 3DS LL – 3,423 (3,581)
2DS – 959 (904)
Xbox One X – 133 (208)
Xbox One – 57 (52)

Software charts:

1. [PS4] Monster Hunter World – 85,322 / 1,836,291
2. [PS4] Secret of Mana – 36,042 / NEW
3. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 21,815 / 2,042,844
4. [PSV] IDOLiSH7 Twelve Fantasia! – 21,481 / NEW
5. [PS4] Dynasty Warriors 9 – 21,180 / 138,675
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 19,280 / 1,346,387
7. [PSV] Secret of Mana – 17,947 / NEW
8. [PS4] Cyber Troopers Virtual-On x Toaru Majutsu no Index: Toaru Majutsu no Virtual-On – 17,938 / NEW
9. [PS4] Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – 12,981 / 88,604
10. [NSW] Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – 12,776 / 142,591
11. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey – 12,640 / 1,614,506
12. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 11,764 / 871,528
13. [NSW] Bayonetta Non-Stop Climax Edition – 11,694 / NEW
14. [NSW] Bayonetta 2 – 9,532 / NEW
15. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon – 9,358 / 1,558,042
16. [PSV] Cyber Troopers Virtual-On x Toaru Majutsu no Index: Toaru Majutsu no Virtual-On – 9,284 / NEW
17. [PS4] Dragon Ball FighterZ – 5,975 / 88,943
18. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 – 5,842 / 161,624
19. [NSW] ARMS – 4,234 / 369,040
20. [NSW] 1-2 Switch – 4,194 / 399,757

http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20180221071/

Not a good debut for Secret of Mana Remake and if you think that's bad then take a look at the sales for both the SKU's of Bayonetta 2. I suppose you can say it's ~21,000 combined. That's still not great. I must check out the first week sales on Wii U.

Edit: According to 4Gamer, the Wii U exclusive sold 38,828 units in its first week on sale in Japan.

http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20140924088/

@Scrummer This is mostly what I was getting at, whatever way you try to spin a horror game's ad it'll be disturbing to some extent. That's not the case with other genres.

@Scrummer You could argue that about any video gaming website. Looking at the Layers of Fear advert currently on the website, I don't see how it could be seen as disturbing. No more so than a violent game where people get killed in bloody/gruesome ways.

Not sure if this has been posted yet or not.

For some peoples, just looking at Bloodshed words could make them disturbed.
Me, who is really hate any horror things also felt really disturbed.

Little Triangle coming to Japan next week, with a western release to follow:

Would you stop, please? This is nonsense and you're full of it. You have a problem with anything mature. I've seen your reactions to games like first person shooters.

Bayonetta 1 and 2 isnt selling well, below Wii U even, in Japan and UK.

At retail.

Digitally Bayo 1 has been 1st in the UK eShop since launch and Bayo 2 keeps climbing. In the US both are high.

In fact in the US eShop Bayonetta is at #1 and Bayonetta 2 is at #2.

In the UK eShop Bayonetta is STILL at #1 and Bayonetta 2 is #9

In the Japan eShop Bayonetta is #2 and Bayonetta 2 is #5.

Clearly doom and gloom. We need to watch the eShop more.

Nintendo Switch UK eShop Charts - 21/02/2018

Numbers in brackets are previous positions based on: 18/02/2018 (Unless they haven't moved)

1: Bayonetta (NEW)
2: Rocket League
3: Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition
4: FIFA 18 (Up from 5th)
5: Stardew Valley (Down from 4th)
6: Overcooked: Special Edition (Up from 7th)
7: Golf Story (Down from 6th)
8: Enter The Gungeon (Up from 9th)
9: Bayonetta 2 (NEW) (Up from 13th)
10: Arcade Archives: Vs. Super Mario Bros.
11: Worms W.M.D
12: Celeste (Down from 8th)
13: Human Fall Flat (Down from 12th)
14: Dragon Quest Builders
15: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

As we can see, Bayonetta 2 AND FIFA 18 continue their climb. Bayonetta 1 maintains the top stop, Rocket League, Minecraft and Stardew Valley hold steady, as does Overcooked and Golf Story. Celeste is on the way down though.

@YummyHappyPills Maybe Switch's play anywhere approach is convincing more people go for the "all digital" approach for games especially with most 1st party games and indies being on the smaller side of download size.

@YummyHappyPills Bayonetta's eshop sales are including retail sales because it's digital only everywhere, right?

The game is bombing hard in a couple of prominent markets, which isn't a good sign. If Bayonetta 3 does poorly, I think we can kiss this series goodbye permanently.

In fairness, I didn't repurchase the game(s) either. I'm not a huge hack n slash fan. Platinum combat is fun, but I hate Bayo's complex combo system and emphasis on scoring.

@Grumblevolcano I went digital for both of these.

@Ralizah I assume that yes, being eShop download codes, all Bayonetta 1 sales are counted in the digital ranking.

However, the positioning, and upward trend in the UK, of Bayonetta 2 (And Bayonetta if we discount the number of download code entries) is certainly not a bleak picture.

Is it bombing hard at retail? Yes. But as @Fight_Teza_Fight can attest having been out and about, most stores here in the UK won't stock Bayonetta, if at all, as not only a comparatively niche product, but because Nintendo has such limited retail presence here. Hell they didn't even know what Bravely Default was, that is how bad retail in the UK is.

But digitally? Quite the opposite. Top of the charts in the US for both. Bayo 2 keeps climbing after not charting at launch in the UK and the original maintains a top spot. Japan isn't too shabby either at #2 and #5...under Minecraft.

Yeah I'm buying bayo digital (I dont see the point in hauling around one cart and having the other game digitally) so I can see retail being a little misleading in sales.