Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH Normally I'd be more worried, but outside of Doom, Bully and Wolfenstein, the majority of Bethesda series will always be PC games to me. Especially stuff like Fallout and Elder Scrolls.

I hope we keep getting Doom / Wolfenstein games on Switch (it does seem possible at least), and I'd like to see Dishonored, but the rest of Bethesda's catalog can stay on PC and I'd be fine with it.

@link3710 I'll miss the days of Bethesda porting Skyrim to everything.

Who says they'll stop doing that .....?

@link3710 I’m pretty sure Bully is a Rockstar game.

@jump Yeah it is, don't mind me. I'm just posting while sick, great plan lol.

If anything the Bethesda acquisition by MS is more about bolstering their Game Pass Ultimate offerings rather than locking up exclusives.

I am kinda concerned that what we have been witnessing the past couple of years, and especially with the Microsoft buy out of anything ZeniMax owned, is the start of a new wave of big corporations buying up publishers and studios left and right in a bid to capture as many exclusives as possible and outdo each other. In effect a bit like the 90s/early 2000s only on a grander scale as it’s more the console manufacturers doing it this time round.

Sooo, when does Nintendo buy up Capcom

Grant Kirkhope is a amazing composer and this music prove this, yes theres a reference of a well know music in this track.

@FragRed but does Nintendo have enough money if one day she decide to buy Capcom or Square Enix?

@FragRed Nintendo are too cheap to buy other companies ;p

@Giancarlothomaz Ninty have billions in dollars (and trillions in yen) and could possibly buy them based on the numbers.

Kept telling people, with all the money hatting Sony has been doing (buy up Final Fantasy 7, buy up Final Fantasy 16, buy up 2 Bethesda exclusives, buy up Godfall, buy up this, buy up that) it's all fun and games until the tables are turned. Of course MS wasn't gonna roll over while Sony pays to lock out game after game after game.

At least with MS we know PC releases are guaranteed, but it's still troubling and only going to get worse.

I mean, after the likes of Mojang, Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Playground Games, etc. I doubt this is reactionary to Sony's deals with FF. MS has been buying studios for years. They just continue what they've always been doing.

Is anyone seriously buying a PS5 just to play FFXVI before it comes to XBox? I'm the biggest FF fan & I'm not going to do that!

@BruceCM Feels like money wasted to me, unless it helped their development somehow. But apparently it works, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.

Yeah, @Octane .... There's probably enough people who are getting a PS5 for other exclusives who will, therefore, buy FFXVI there for it to make sense to Sony

@BruceCM I generally just have a greater affinity for PlayStation franchises compared to Xbox. I also have a good gaming PC so I'll be able to jump into Xbox games no problem. FFXVI, Project Athia and VII Remake being either timed or permanent exclusives is just the icing on the cake and obviously stuff like Miles Morales, Horizon, Demon's Souls and Ratchet and Clank are games I don't want to miss

Literally all they needed to announce during the PS5 Showcase for me to go into cardiac arrest was a new Persona game since they already ticked all my other boxes

Yeah, that's fair enough, @TheFrenchiestFry .... I play on PC primarily too, these days! Sony seems to be bringing more of it's own games there now, so that's good

@BruceCM I see them tapping into the PC market as a pretty solid marketing effort for them to actually entice the massive playerbase on that platform to pick up PlayStation consoles. It's also good that they're actually spacing out the initial and PC releases apart so it doesn't immediately negate the value of owning a PlayStation in general