The Nintendo Direct E3 2018 presentation took place just a few short hours ago, and one of the more notable absentees from the show was the upcoming Yoshi title for Nintendo Switch. It now seems that the game has been delayed to next year, potentially explaining why the game wasn't shown.
Despite being announced during E3 last year with an initial release date window of "2018", there was no mention of the game at all this time around. Speaking to Kotaku, Nintendo of America director of product marketing Bill Trinen has confirmed that the game will not be appearing at E3, with more updates instead coming "later this year".
Now, after a quick search on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Nintendo's official UK website, it appears that the game's release date has been changed to "2019".
It's worth noting that other pages on the website still list the game as "2018", and it's currently unclear why these pages haven't also been changed. The signs certainly point towards a delay, though, and we expect that these pages will also update in due course.
Were you hoping to see the new Yoshi game for Switch at E3 this year? Are you disappointed that the game may be delayed? Let us know how you feel about it in the comments below.
[source kotaku.com, via nintendo.co.uk]
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It's Wooly World delays all over again.
I really thought this'd be a lock for August. If it turns out as well as Woolly World, it'll be worth the wait.
I mean I assumed so when it wasn’t in the direct...
Well it's never really had a release date, it'd be a shame but from the videos it looks like it's going to be great so I'm more than happy to wait
This already looked pretty polished in the trailer from a year ago..I don't get it.
If it’s not ready it’s not ready I guess. Rather have a good game than any ol rubbish rushed out. Wish Nintendo had courted a bit more larger third party support for the end of the year to fill in some gaps though. A fallout would have been great
@Mr_Pepperami I feel in 76's case the always online aspect might be the reason we're not seeing it rather than a hardware issue. It seems like all of the multiplayer games from Nintendo right now are using p2p for their online interactions and I'm guessing Bethesda wants to use servers (and preferably not their own).
This and Fire Emblem were bigger games for me than Pokemon and Smash. It really has left a hole in the last 6 months of the year because of it. I’m actually amazed Ninty didn’t space their Wii U ports out across the year more to fill in some of these spaces.
Seemed kind of obvious it wasn't releasing in 2018 after it wasn't in the ND today. I didn't recall it being 2018 at last year's E3 or online, but if it was they should have been able to get it out. It's a 2D platformer and they made Woolly World, this shouldn't take 5 years.
It is a major bummer though, it was the game I was most looking forward to on Switch that I knew of. Pikmin 4 is my #1 but that's never been officially announced.
No Yoshi, no Metroid, no Bayonetta 3, no Animal Crossing, no Star Fox Grand Prix, no Pikmin, no surprises... no, not good enough. Sorry, as good as Smash looks, that’s the weakest E3 of the big three by a long chalk. Sony and yes, even Microsoft walked all over Nintendo this year.
[NOTE]: Constant leaks and data mining robbed us of any 'wow' moments this E3. Indeed, it was nigh on impossible to avoid all the 'Fortnite this' and 'Overcooked 2 that'. Ridiculous.
I'm fine with next year. I already have a backlog on Switch, am picking up 2 games Friday, just discovered I like Fortnite, Octopath demo Thursday, Wolf 2 end of the month, and 7 or 8 more games throughout the year. Plus all the indies i do know about, and the ones i dont. So at least 10 more games. I only have so much time.
I’d be fine with a WWorld port to kill some time.
@Ernest_The_Crab I would have taken fallout 3 even or something else from Bethesda’s back catalog. Pretty sure Amazons Alexa got better support from Bethesda this year
No Yoshi, no Animal Crossing, what's happening Nintendo!?
That's okay. I have plenty of stuff to play until then. Take your time Good-Feel, and make it better.
Oh well. I still have Smash, Mario Party, and Pokémon to look forward to, as well as 3rd party offerings like Mega Man 11 and Crash Bandicoot!
Here’s hoping it’ll be worth the wait!
Not surprisingly, there wasn't much hype or news for it and the late 2018 lineup looks cluttered for Nintendo.
Barnacles! I hoped for an announcement during the TreeHouse or something. Oh well, I'm still stoked for Wolfenstein II, Y's VIII, Crash and Octopath Traveler. There will be plenty to play.
@The_Pixel_King Although I disagree that Nintendo had the worst conference, the leaks and datamines did indeed suck the life out of reveals like Fortnite and Ridley in Smash. I spent a lot of the morning deciding which rumors to believe.
If I was going to purchase a game as soon was available during E3 was this one... Anyway, have plenty of games to finish first and I don't even buy SMO yet. NL, if the game never had a release date you can't say it got delayed. Do not try to make us mad out of nothing, we had enough frustrations by not even making a reference to this game during the event (just to name a relevant to this article thing)
Whatevs. The game didn't look too good from the footage and info back in 2017. I mean, I'm not trying to bad mouth on the game or anything, but after how amazed I was with Woolly World, I expected better.
Either way, I have other games to look forward to this year.
Fire Emblem and Yoshi delayed. Mario (sigh) party slotted in. That's not a good replacement.
Makes sense if they want 3DS owners to have a chance to finish Wooly World and save up for both the new game and a Switch.
And I'm getting more and more convinced that their want 3DS owners as their third wave adopters, what with announcing Fire Emblem and all that.
@The_Pixel_King I'm with you. I was massively disappointed. Literally no big reveals that were worth getting excited over, either due to leaks, rumour, or previous confirmation from Nintendo themselves. The only rumour that didn't come to fruition that I would have liked was Retro's Starfox. I kept waiting for the wow moment and it never came. Gutted.
Well, no kidding.
EA's Anthem will come out before this, and they were announced at the same E3. Let that sink in...
Yoshi needs the extra time to do his taxes.
The game I was hoping to see more of in the ND
I guess that there is a silver lining to all of this:
-No Metroid in 2018
-no Bayoneta 3 in 2018
-no Yoshi in 2018
-no Fire Emblem in 2018
-no Pokémon in 2018.
....man, 2019 is going to be friggin’ incredible!
Honestly, 2018 isn’t bad at all. We still have Wolfenstein II, Dark Souls, Mario Tennis Aces, Octopath, World Ends With You, Mega Man 11, Smash Bros., and a slew of indie games to look forward to!
My only complaint/concern is the total lack of third party support. I was really hoping that we would get any/some/all of the following:
-Diablo III
-Dark Souls II
-GTA V
-Fallout 3, New Vegas, or 4.
-South Park: The Stick of Truth
@justin233 Not happening : they won't kill the next Yoshi with the previous one.
No Yoshi or FE in 2018, but at least there's yet another Mario Party and a gimmicky Pokemon to go with Smash! /s
Well let's hope the Yoshi game is much longer than Kirby Star Allies. The wait should be worth it.
Called it. This and Fire Emblem were clearly getting delayed to next year.
@ImagineerNik Anthem is coming on februay 22 2019, you don’t know if that one launches before/after. Besides, Mario Party just got announced for an october release.
Well this made me sad. Because there’s basically no room for surprise releases next year. Anything they showcase next E3 will we either be a loooooong wait, or we’ve been waiting for it already. Because we basically know every release for 2019 now. Unless they shock the sh*t out of us...
Yoshi got delayed because there already has been so many paltformers this year.
@justin233 I'd definitely be down for that. Not sure if there's others like me, but I purposely slept on the Wii U and 3DS release in anticipation for a Switch port.
@ImagineerNik
Sony's Dreams and Days Gone were revealed at E3 2015(!) And still aren't out yet. Let that sink in.
I remember last E3 when people were not that excited for Yoshi. Now it seems as if they’re begging for it. I’d also like to point out that I hardly saw anyone 2 years ago complain about BOTW being the entire E3 presentation so why is this year different?
@Seacliff Exactly my thoughts. Woolly World all over again. But at least that game ended up being awesome, so hopefully the wait will be worth it for this one, too.
I’ve seen a few other sites ponder on whether they might be re-tooling this game to work with labo somehow, since it obviously fits with the game’s art style. That would be kind of cool, but I’d rather just have the game this year.
@Big_Ounce For your Yoshi point, I think it’s just a matter of people firing off knee-jerk reactions when they first see a game, and then over time they think about it some more and come to accept it. You see that happen all the time, not just with this game. It has to do with people not getting everything they want, and then coming to terms with what they do get.
As for your second point, as much as I love Smash, BotW was just way beyond what anyone expected and the fate of Nintendo/their new console was tied to its success, even if only to a small degree. Whereas as Smash is Smash is Smash. It’s good, but it’s a very iterative series, and it’s also a fighting game, so the gameplay isn’t very enticing to the mainstream. Zelda is a legitimate prestige franchise that Nintendo needs to reel in critics and game snobs. Smash is cool, but it’s not that. It’s a known quantity that a lot of people are looking forward to, but I don’t think it can keep the attention of a broad audience for three days. I’m a die-hard Smash fan and even I started checking out during the reveal this morning.
Just my take, though.
@Big_Ounce
The biggest difference is that Zelda was Wii U’s last Big Bang, so it made sense to really give it the spotlight. Switch, on the other hand, is a platform that needs continuous support, internally and externally. Nintendo really needed to send the message that they may not have Last of Us 2, or Ghosts of Tsushima, or Fallout 76, but they have an onslaught of games that can rival them. In that regard, they didn’t do so hot.
They found out cardboard didnt set the world on fire with labo, so they're making the world now be made out of those cardboard/plastic hybrid SEGA Saturn European cases.
Good riddance.
Switch lining up to be the next wii u. Large gaps in releases with ever dwindling 3rd party support. Good thing you can take it on the go with you or else Nintendo may have been looking at another 13 million lifetime sales.
Uggghhh I was seriously hoping for a tree house surprise with a release date... This has not been a good E3 for me, I was thinking this and fire emblem were dropping this year
@BAN I agree. I love Wooly World, but to be honest this didn't click with me. If the extra months pay of, then it's worth it to me.
Plus, it sets up 2019 well if it's early in the year like Fire Emblem.
This is just Nintendo spacing out their releases so they don't have an empty month at the start of next year
When it's delayed it's for the better. Work out the kinks and we have a better game in the end. So many good games coming out this year!
They're obviously trying to come up with a better name than Yoshi's Flipping Island.
@gatorboi352 @BanjoPickles
I was hoping for slightly more than we got from third parties. However the situation is still improving and is a big step up from Wii U. Switch is now 15 months old, at the same point Wii U was done bar Just Dance, LEGO and a smattering of indies.
Switch has just got Fortnite and Paladins with Wolfenstein 2, Crash Bandicoot, Y's 8, Octopath, a Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, Starlink, FIFA, Sonic Racing, Dragonball Z, Ark, Mega Man 11, the two SNK games, NBA, Overcooked 2, Hyper Sports, TWEWY and of course Just Dance, LEGO and a boatload of indies.
It's a good job though because I disagree with @JayJ in that it's Nintendos own schedule that looks thin and a bit Wii U-like. Captain Toad July 13 then Mario Party in October then another few weeks until Pokemon. Thankfully for Nintendos sales projections they've got attractive hardware and two AAA big hitters.
Holy crap negative nancies. Guess what if a game isn't for you it isn't for you. That doesn't mean Nintendo had a terrible E3.
I really don't get why the game is seemingly delayed untill 2019. What's up with the game?! I was thinking the game was already done, and that they where just stalling...
My feeling is that they are reworking things to make it more appealing to the public. Because so far there isn't that much excitement for the title. Maybe they turn it into a Labo thing (don't know if that's the right choice sales-wise. Labo isn't a succes at all)?
I really hoped to see it... Ah well, a delayed game will eventually be good, but a rushed game will always be bad.
This is typical of Nintendo to list games for release for the following year and then delay the game because it does not suit them to keep to their plans. Maybe this is a tactic used by Sony and Microsoft as well, I don't know. We were told about Fire Emblem last year yet Summer 2019 is more likely now. A load of new games advertised sells consoles, but spread over 3 years is not customer friendly.
Would love to see a port of Super Mario 3D World to fill in that Christmas gap
@electrolite77 yeah but if you think about it, go back anfd look at the 3rd party releases for Wii U in it's first year and a half. It's pretty comparable.
@gatorboi352
Only in total, and even then only if you ignore indies. And that was a huge chunk at launch before it fell off a cliff. At the point I bought one in November 2013 it was done. Switch support is increasing slowly but it is increasing.
@gatorboi352 It's not even remotely close to the Wii U, by any factor. Your take, as always, is stupid to the point of hilarity.
I'm super disappointed. I don't typically play games, but when I saw the Yoshi trailer, I genuinely teared up. I haven't played many video games since I was little, and even then, I was limited to the few games my siblings didn't care if I played. Yoshi was the ONLY game I ever cared about, and the amount of joy the idea of having a new Yoshi game to play really stunned me.
I pre-ordered the game around Christmas, expecting them to follow through on their January 2018 date, and I almost want to request a refund at this point. I was so, so beyond thrilled by this game, and now I'm so turned off and disappointed.
My boyfriend said this is a normal part of game development, but I don't care. Lol I think it was kind of a scam to get everyone to pre-order for last Christmas just to find out it's being released after next Christmas now.
@BAN stay mad bro 👌
@gatorboi352 stay troll bro 👍
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