It was only three days ago that we were treated to the 2018 Indies Highlights presentation, but that isn't stopping Nintendo from shoving even more Nindie goodness down our throats.
Yes, scheduled for 28th August, yet another indie showcase will be shared to show off "multiple unannounced indie games" coming to Switch.
The show is scheduled to start at 9am PT, which means 12pm ET / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST.
What would you like to see this time around? Have you recovered from the last show yet? What on Earth is Nintendo doing releasing so many Direct-style presentations in one go? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Again ?!
Please someone tell me the time for West Indonesia Time ?
Hopefully this Direct explain good 3D Indie games.
Brilliant! Nintendo aren't messing about in the last half of the year!
More indies...
Where's the 3rd party new AAA? (Diablo 3, Dark Souls and all those old ports don't count)
Octopath Traveller is the only non indie (3rd party) new game for Switch this year, no one seems to notice that... and people were wondering why this game sells so well.
I really hope Verdict Guilty gets ported to the Switch. It's a really good game and the price on Steam is pretty low.
23 games released on the Eshop this week and they want to get it up to around 30 per week. They could have a Nindies Showcase every week at this rate! Not that I want them to but they could.
I have to say, I hope that was the last time I hear the host of last week's Direct.
I would love a new update on AWAY for the switch.
Hm, since this is NoA announcing this, and the other presentation was by NoE, I wonder if this is going to be the same thing.
@Anti-Matter It'll be 11pm your time, same for me.
My sons bday that's cool! However I can't imaging it being very different from the one last week. When I saw the tweet I thought it was a full on direct, quite a bit less excited for another nindies though. Either way will be tuning in!
So, there was this crazy rumour that pegged a nindies direct for August, an online focused for September, a 3ds one for October and a huuuuge one for November. And this November one is ridiculously farfetched, with stuff like star fox, animal crossing, Pikmin and a bunch of other stuff...
http://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/427756126/nintendo-direct-leak
Also to note, they put Diablo before the announcement...
The last direct had some interesting games, but nothing left me with my jaw on the ground. We’ll see if this one intros any games more impressive.
Didn't we just have one of these a few days ago? Two Nindie-focused Directs in a row is a bit much.
With the likes of Doom Eternal, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Dragon Ball Fighterz, Tales of Vespiria, Dark Souls, TWEWY, Grandia (I & II), Diablo III, and whatever others we're expecting in the coming months, why not have a Direct aimed at big third party games?
No. Smash or Online Direct please. We already have a bunch of Indies
@Nincompoop I think you meant to say, more indies!
Here's an inside scoop: Independent developers making new games actually does not hinder other AAA studios from publishing games.
@Mando44646 There will almost certainly be an online direct before launch. I don't think this will prevent that.
why isn't Nintendo promoting the big AAA 3rd party games coming to the platform in fall? Such a fail
Seems like now that MArio Party and Smash has been announced Nintendo themselves can't be bothered with anything else, what happened to the new Yoshi?
Are they serious ?
Do they know at Nintendo that doing another NinDirect just after the one we just had, plays against them ?
It feels like, we don't have games to show, so hurry hurry show plenty of indies to make the illusion that the Switch has zillion games to play... :/
Gosh we're gonna enter September now, the 9th months of the year... Is it to much to ask for a standard Direct ? We know that the Switch is overflooded by indies, I swear we know that !
Time for BIG AAA now, espacially after the really dry 9 months in the row that we got... :/
@Bunkerneath Yoshi got pushed to 2019 a couple months ago from what I recall
@Mando44646
AAA 3rd party ?
Who cares !
Lower quality games (AA, A, B, Indies, etc) sometimes can kick AAA 3rd party butts.
Okay stop with the Nindies now and actually show off your big exclusive games / 3rd party ports. Yes having a healthy dose of indie games is great, but is that seriously the only games they have planned out for the rest of the year? Seriously would it kill them to show off quick new trailers of Fire Emblem and Yoshi and make slight teases about unannounced games they have planned for 2019?
I hope we learn about Donut County’s imminent arrival on Nintendo Switch.
@redd214 Yeah, the delay was confirmed during E3.
After Hollow Knight the only indie I'm interested in for Switch that wasn't formally announced is Invisigun Heroes.
Heck even if they don't want to show off any new info on games that aren't coming out in 2018, they could at least have a direct based on Super Mario Party or the 'Let's Go games (though that might be up for GameFreak to decide when they want to show off meaty new content so I won't hold them accountable for keeping the games in the dark). I'm not trying to sound whiny or self-entitled but there's a huge reason why a lot people are saying that 2018 was the year of Smash and only Smash.
They are not the same though... the last wasn’t a Direct because it wasn’t live streamed, but this one is! Excited to say the least, I expect to fill some of the holes from the highlights.
So many complaints in this thread. Switch has a crapton of quality upcoming games in the next 3 months, yet it’s never enough according to you people:
Valkyria Chronicles 4
Mega Man 11
Super Mario Party
Dark Souls Remastered
The Walking Dead Season 1-4
Diablo III
Pokémon Let’s Go
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition
A Hat in Time
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
There’s most likely a lot more that I’m forgetting. If there’s nothing that floats your boat, you’d probably be better off selling your Switch, because gaming might not be the right hobby for you anymore.
It’s nice of them to promote the indies out there. Pushes a good future relationship between them.
The day I go back to work? Dammit Nintendo!
Blergh I just want a direct with some 3DS announcements. Switch lineup is stacked for already.
Plus Mario Maker 2, Prime 4 actual teaser trailer and Prime Trilogy Is all I need from Switch. Well maybe Pikmin 4 as well...
Wooopie a nintendo direct turdware edition!!! How about a proper direct thats not all about smash. Maybe tell us something about these amazing surpises u have for the remainder of 2018 or tell us about the online.
Da heck ? How about a regular direct Jesus Christ !
@Anti-Matter and yet AAA retail releases are what sells consoles. No one buys a system for Dead Cells or Hollow Knight, as great as they are. They need to be pushing stuff like Valkyria, Diablo, Dark Souls, Monster Hunter, etc
News on Hyper Light Drifter, Undertale, and Mark of the Ninja please!
Unless it's a port of Nex Machina, Transistor, Pyre, or FTL (none of which I think we're getting), I don't really care about any more indie announcements. I'm getting pretty much every indie thing I want on the Switch.
VA-11 Hall-A would be cool, but I already played that recently.
I'm sure most of this will be information on already announced games, though. I wouldn't mind knowing when Hyper Light Drifter will release, personally. And A Hat in Time, but that was just announced, so I think we have some time to wait on that front.
@NewAdvent That's fair enough but if they won't to focus on their 2019 games just yet then they should at least give more info on their other 2018 games that aren't Smash. Super Mario Party is going to be out really soon and barring that cool slice of info we got yesterday, we haven't heard a single thing about it since E3. The 'Let's Go' games we've also heard not a whole lot about but I understand that GameFreak plays a huge part in that so I won't entirely blame Nintendo for keeping those games in the dark. I think I'm just getting a bit antsy at this point, barring Smash, Nintendo have been completely silent about what they have in store for the Switch in the future.
@Yasume I think the issue is the optics of not many 1st party games releasing in 2018 that were not ports/remasters or smaller-scale things like Sushi Striker. I myself haven't bought a Nintendo-made game all year, and won't until gimmicky Pokemon and Smash in the last two months of the year. Thats super strange for their output to be so low (even 3DS is just getting endless ports/remasters from them).
Plus, nearly every big release this fall isn't on Switch. I myself only have VC4, in addition to Pokemon and Smash. The library this year has been very disappointing overall
Either it's a retelling of the gamescom uk experiance or it's gonna be 80% new stuff.
Either way. Hopefully they don't make it as cringe and unsatisfying as the last nindies direct..
I'm happy so don't care about the rest of ye haha!
Edit: Also at the end of the last Nindie showcase the lady did say we would hear more very soon, she wasn't messing!
Can we FINALLY get word on Hyper Light Drifter?
One game I'd love to see announced is Observer by Bloober Team, the devs behind Layers of Fear. Loved my time with that and from what I've read, Observer is even better.
When is announced a direct I already know it's indie or smash.
@Nincompoop amen
A'ight, should be some good surprises in there.
When they call it "Nindies", it's typically not the biggest of the independant publishers, but quite often it's something I've never heard of before, who have had a reveal planned with Nintendo.
MY BODY IS READY.
I know lots of people would like more AAA titles, but as someone who has a PS4 and Xbox One as well, I don't mind using my Switch as an indie machine. Buying 3 indie games for the price of 1 AAA title is something I really like.
As great poet of our times, DJ Khaled, would put it: "another one"
LOL!... more Indies.
Where is Wargroove? I need it!!!
i just want them to announce a shakedown hawaii release date and a release date for my time in portia.
@Nincompoop @Mando44646 @CCore28 @Cobalt
When was the last time a Nintendo system was big on 3rd party support ? I'd say the Snes was.
If you bought the Switch expecting plentiful "3rd party AAA exclusives" you got the wrong system.
@Mando44646
Never Ever Underestimate Indie games !
There are some Indie games that EVEN BETTER than AAA 3rd party games you mentioned above.
AAA 3rd party =
@Pineapple_Mohawk If that's real, I don't even know.... that would be the best thing ever
I think people are forgetting the thing we had last week was Europe focused. As in, Nintendo of America didn't mention it. It was Nintendo UK published and presented.
This is a global Nindies Direct. Enjoy.
@masterLEON When I first read this I thought - Reggie finally woke up and got the memo. Living on West coast time he's always a few hours behind but not normally a week.
I do think this will be a true Direct since they are giving us a few days notice. Except for a rumour article on here the last one just went live on Youtube, it wasn't live streamed, you could jump ahead once it went up. So I think this one will be more in depth, the last was little more than a collection of trailers. I think this one will have their new format where they show a list of game hints or clues and then scroll down the list. I don't really like that gormat, find it distracting, but I know most people who comment on here do.
It is really strange though them doing it like this, one in the UK for Gamescon, one in the US for PAX, when they know what we really want to see us more of Yoshi, MP4 and an official Pikmin 4 announcement. Not the best optics the next 6 days even if it does turn out to be a good ND. They never give 6 days notice, that's setting the bar awfully high.
I'm still waiting for the last 10 NES online games to be announced.
Oh my god... more games? Spare mah wallet :3
@Yasume My Heroes Academy, Xenoblade 2 Torna, Pillars of Eternity, etc. I think negative people like to comment though.
Yes please. The more indie games, the better.
Can't wait NOT to hear anything about War Groove yet again!
Wasn't the last thing for UK? Because I didn't see anything...
Risk of Rain ~
@Tibob I'm not saying I expect that. I'm saying thats part of the narrative of no games releasing on it; its how others are viewing the situation, whether fair/expected or not
Gonna need some extra salt in here.
While indies are definitely diamonds in the rough, I do hope we see more AAA Games from Nintendo or other game studios.
We should get the official Undertale release date. I'm also hoping to hear more about Super Meat Boy Forever and Firewatch. As we already know Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has been pushed back to 2019.
Are lots of good games among indie games. And most of it at a low price. So, obviously it's good see this direct announced. More indies always is good.
Why am I always out of town for these!
@CCore28
Nintendo's doing great right now : the console is selling like crazy, and most of their games sold great and are still selling a lot :
This year Kirby, DK tropical freeze and Mario Tennis sold amazingly well (and N-Labo too, mind everybody), and I'm pretty sure Mario Party, Pokemon Let's Go and Smash are going to hit real hard.
I'm pretty sure, the first one was europe only. So maybe this Direct is basically the same, but for the US? 🤔
More games?!? Terrible. Stupid Nintendo.
Townsmen, WarGroove & 8 Bit Armies, I want to see all 3 from this presentation.
Townsmen: City building so excited for that one, WarGroove: essentially Advance Wars and looks great, 8 Bit Armies: essentially Command and Conquer.
Watch out for all 3 if you like Strategy/ Building
@Nincompoop
People on here in denial
@Anti-Matter Here buddy: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
Teach a man to fish...
@Nincompoop
How is Octopath Traveler the only "non indie" third party game on Switch this year?
Do you mean to say it is the only system exclusive one, that also happens to have been released physically? That's a couple more qualifiers needed.
And it's still technically wrong, unless you add in that they can't be published by Nintendo, thus excluding Bayonetta and Go Vacation.
And let's add that they can't be re-releases, since you ragged on ports, so that would exclude the previous two, as well as Capcom's Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers, and Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, as well as Namco's Namco Museum Arcade Pac. And most of what Merge and Rising Star are bringing out in boxed form for Switch. Except for Little Dragon's Café, but we will write that off as being some Weeaboo trash.
Now, none of this excludes 2K Games' upcoming sequel to Carnival Games, but we can invent the clause that it can't look like a cheap wagglefest. That'll show them.
Phew, I guess with enough modifiers you really CAN make it sound likWAITAMINNIT, did you say AAA?
How is Octopath Traveler AAA? Because of the sound production quality, or just because Square is publishing it?
Some indies are good, but I didn’t buy my switch for them.
Likely gonna be the exact same games, North America didn't get the presentation, but europe did.
@Dazran303
Yo !
Are you Youtube user who played Go Vacation Wii ?
I had watched your videos.
Indies are great. But I'd rather have updates and release dates for 3rd party games, like Diablo, Warframe, Tales of Vesperia, etc. And they also didn't detail The world ends with you's co-op mode yet.
I'm gonna be that person who suggests we'll see Shantae in Smash announced during this.
Not... that I actually think it'll happen, but it'd be hysterical to see the internet blow up if it happened.
Is that too much ask for “Rogue Legacy”? I know it is an old game but I really love this! Even after play it on PS4 and PS Vita.
Nindies Direct but only Baldi's Basics: Switch Edition will be announced. No doubt! (JOKE, don't take seriously unless it actually happens.)
@Nincompoop So Valkyria Chronicles 4, Fifa 19, Megaman 11, Lego DC Supervillains, Lego the incredibles, Starlink, SNK Heroines, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Shaq Fu (bleh), NBA 2k19, Gal Gun 2, Team Sonic Racing and Scribblenauts Showdown are all indies now then? I mean, I get it, most of the games coming out from 3rd parties this year have been niche or ports, but there's such a HUGE number of games that it's nearly unbelievable you can't find a few games worth playing that you haven't before.
Besides which, indies offer some absolutely amazing experiences. Hollow Knight might be indie, but it's on par with the old AAA efforts on the SNES like Super Metroid. Same goes for stuff like SteamWorld and Golf Story, and so many other games. You can't claim 3rd party games don't come just because it's not released by Square. I mean, even Ubisoft, EA, 2K Capcom and Sega are releasing games this year, and you didn't count them.
Yes. Just what the switch need right now. I’m so happy happy
Hopefully this announces the release date for Shovel Knight: King of Cards
@link3710 @Pod I'm talking about games made for Switch, not those generic multi-platform games. Last year we have Mario Rabbids, this year Octopath.
@NewAdvent Yeah I know, the only reason why I'm admittedly salty was because there was already a little indie showcase not too long ago and getting another one so soon after is a bit much. I just wish Nintendo would at least show off whatever games they actually have in store instead of solely relying on indie developers to keep players attention until Smash Ultimate comes out.
@Anti-Matter yeah Awesome thx for watching
Here’s to hoping we get a new direct soon. I’d like to see more about luigi’s mansion remake on the 3ds and more of the upcoming games in development too.
@Tibob On the 3DS we have so many original 3rd party games: Ace Attorney, Prof Layton, Resident Evil Revelations, Monster Hunter, etc and dozens of JRPG made specifically for 3DS.
Count the number of non indie 3rd party games made specifically for Switch... how many?
Cool!
Excellent news for those of us who like games. The more the merrier.
Here's hoping Starwhal gets a release on Switch anytime soon, perfect couch multiplayer game.
@Nincompoop
To be fair, over the last couple of months Doom Eternal, Saints Row 3, Grandia I and Grandia II HD, Diablo III, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Disgaea 1, Digimon Survive, FIFA 19, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Fortnite and Paladins have all been confirmed or released on Switch.
There's also rumours of Dark Souls II, Spyro Remastered and Red Faction.
Not that we don't want more of course, but they are being announced.
who wants to bet it'll be a rehash of the Gamescom trailer?
I’m playing omega ruby 😎
@Nincompoop SNK Heroines was an exclusive, Starlink's best version is on Switch, Travis Strikes Again is an exclusive, Daemon Ex Machina is exclusive (though that's only if you're talking financial year since it's in January). TWEWY: Final Remix is exclusive and has an entire new campaign added on, Yokai-Watch 4 is exclusive (though JP only til next year) Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate is exclusive. Hollow Knight is console exclusive. Still not the only 3rd party exclusive this year.
@Alex18 What about Freedom Planet 2 gameplay?
People complaining about another Nindies direct so soon after the last one forget they've done a nindies for PAX around this time for at least two years now. Europe's indie showcase is a different thing.
@Mando44646
are there any?
i mean, AAA game spits out on pc/xbx/ps on unrealx engine; do they take the time to try and make it run on the switch for the small sales they may get?
it's really becoming more and more apparent that N has been and will always be relegated to 2nd class citizen for gamers. you HAVE to have a second main system if you're really into all the things.
Hopefully release dates for Hyper Light Drifter, Undertale, Decay of Logos, Mark of the Ninja, Wandersong, Nidhogg II and Moonlighter.
@Frendo said "Why do you sill complaining about Switch when you don't even have any Switch after all?"
I love you !
Hollow Knight is probably my favorite game on Switch this year, so Go Indies! Please bring more stuff that’ll give me 20-40hrs of playtime and I’ll be very happy!
Look I really love the indie scene on the switch but how about a normal direct for major title releases or even a switch online direct since we're only a month away..
Hopefully there's some information on Shovel Knight: King of Cards and confirmation that the Amiibo will finally be shipping soon.
I've had those on pre-order since November of last year.
Shakedown: Hawaii. Make it so!
Release dated for
Hyper Light Drifter..
Undertale...
Announcements for...
Guacamelee 1 & 2..
Pleeease 😊
@Cobalt I had no idea the Wii U had that many games.
I don't even have a quarter of that.
@Zeraki Thanks dude !
@CCore28 There are even more games than that because 32 are missing to have the European fullset
And if we talk about the world fullset, meaning the games that were released in the US and Japan but not in Europe, it's over 300 physical games o_O
All these complaints!! I feel like I am suddenly in kindergarden.
@Frendo I don't remember at all, me saying : " I will NEVER support Nintendo or Switch anymore"...
Ow and the liar between you and me, it's you because you claimed that I did not have a Switch...
Fortunately being ridiculous will not kill you
@Cobalt I’ll say it again. Great collection. Ignore the troll account.
Rehashed, indie, non-AAA, non-first party, port, mobile... A game is not a game anymore, seemingly
What is so great about AAA anymore? Seriously?
EA sucks, Ubisoft is ehh but I wouldn't mind seeing Assassin's Creed Black Flag ported, Activision meh... Bethesda? They're actively supporting Switch. Capcom is supporting it. Sega is slowly supporting... Blizzard is bringing Diablo 3 and probably more once that releases. What else are you crybabies looking for? We're getting Warframe soon.. what will it take to appease you lot?
Open your freaking minds to some indies for once. They are the future and continually improve with fresher ideas than anything "AAA". I don't get you people.
Looking forward to more game news, no discrimination.
@Frendo life is short. Let the guy have he’s opinion. If you don’t agree you don’t agree
@onex well put, and you don't have to break the bank for most indies.. but I will say, I am little disappointed there isn't a normal direct or switch online one. With that said, I'm still stoked to see what nindies are up ahead!
@Nincompoop
That's right, I forgot them handled.
I think I'll get the need for "exclusives". To me if you don't have other systems, you're fine with Switch games being elswhere. If you have other consoles... then how many more games do you need ? Aren't Nintendo exclusives enough ?
@Yasume couldn't agree with you more... Whenever people complain (and they do, a lot), I just copy pasta my own list of games I have interest in for just the 2nd half of 2018... it was 36 titles before the recent announcements, now its over 40. Ridiculous amount and I'll never get to play even 25% of those during the remainder of this year.
It's not an issue that rests on Nintendo's shoulders... If people can't find anything, the Switch isn't for them, and they can sell it if they don't enjoy playing on it.
There are so incredibly many quality games coming during the 2nd half of 2018, and not wanting to even check out a title because it's not made by Nintendo or developed with an AAA budget is just shallow.
Besides, people can't expect to have new games 24/7 if they also play games on pc and/or ps4/xb1.
Let’s go, Alwa’s Awakening and a new Blaster Master!
Hopefully we get some of Devolver Digital's games(they said they had like a dozen or so games in the pipeline for Switch).
Fingers crossed that among those are Hotline Miami and the Serious Sam HD collection.
Sooooo.... Wargroove will be included this time right? Right!?!?
@DockEllisD Well said sir
@Yasume People just like to complain I think. After the recent Smash Bros. Direct all the comments were "Give us more games" but then Nintendo gives them not one but two Nindies showcases and that is not good enough.
Do Sony and Microsoft have similar presentations apart from E3? If they do, do they get this amount of negativity? If they don't, then people are moaning about a service the 'Competition' doesn't even provide. We should feel lucky we are getting this great showcase of upcoming games.
@masterLEON they said unannounced games, I don't think so. Most of the Gamescom games were also announced for NA.
Wargroove release date please.
Also some word on multiplayer Stardew Valley on Switch would be nice too.
Is everyone nowadays so self-absorbed? Do people realise that Nindies doesn’t mean there will be no AAA showcase at some point? They can do both, you know.
Personally I don’t care for 3rd party AAA - but I’d never complain if Nintendo had a Direct on them.
And I’m loving the Nindies, like many people out there - so can the whiners let us enjoy our fun? And I promise I’ll not piss on your parade when it comes through.
I'm excited for this Direct. Like, Nintendo doesn't even have to do one in the first place.
@Bondi_Surfer
I came to say this. Oh no, I'm not getting the 500th incarnation of a banal, grey, dude-bro shooter! Darn!
Wishlist for this Direct:
Graveyard Keeper announcement
Wargroove (and anything else Chucklefish)
Dragon Marked for Death (and anything else Inti Creates)
Shovel Knight: King of Cards
Stardew Valley multiplayer update
Rivals of Aether
Roof Rage
My Time at Portia
Towerfall Ascension
A Hat in Time
And I'm sure there are some I'm forgetting. Also, some completely unrealistic additions: Braid, The Witness, and Cuphead.
I'd love to see Pit People, Castle Crashers, Stellaris, Metronomicon and Subnautica on Switch.
Announced by NoA, who totally ignored Nintendo UK's recent upload. Probably best to not get TOO excited, as there's likely to be overlap.
@Tibob My point is: Switch has very few 3rd party support (non-indie), it's not any better than the Wii U. Without the indies Switch will look like a desert, that's why Nintendo is doing so many indies promotions... they even said in the last video that indies were responsible for Switch's success.
@Anti-Matter You CAN'T say that when you do not play the games you are comparing the Indies with.
@Nincompoop
I think if there hadn't been any indies in the Switch library, Nintendo would have done 3 things :
As for the lack of 3rd party AAAs, I'll always prefer a great indie over a good AAA.
@Nincompoop Octopath is far from being the 'only non-indie 3rd party game' released in 2018. It isn't even the only 3rd party non-indie exclusive - and that's excluding remasters or remakes of 'old games,' of which there have admittedly been a tonne.
Some of the third party games release this year:
Sonic Mania
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Megaman 11
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Fortnite
Fifa 18
Ys VIII
Warriors Orochi 4
Happy Birthdays
Penny Punching Princess
Atelier Lydie and Suelle
Blade Strangers
Valkyria Chronicles 4
Fifa 19
Taiko No Tatsujin
Titan Quest
Disgaea 4 Complete
Wolfenstein 2
Paladins
One Piece Pirate Warriors 3
Dragon Quest Builders
Off the top of my head. If they're not your thing, that's fine, but you can't pretend they don't exist.
@EvrgrnCmln I am talking about games made specifically for Switch by 3rd party.
3DS has Monster Hunter, RE: Revelations, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Zero Escape, Bravely Default, Shin Megami Tensei, Persona Q, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, Etrian Odyssey, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Fantasy Life, etc... These are all made specifically for 3DS. None of the games you listed above were made specifically for Switch.
@Nincompoop
I really don't understand why or how it matters if a game is designed specifically for the system or not. Most AAA games released on the PS4 and the Xbox1 aren't 'designed' for them - they're designed with multi platform releases in mind. This is the reality of gaming in 2018. Unless you have a vested interest in the success of a platform, or are paid by its developer to deliberately withhold your product from competitors, it almost always makes more sense to release your game on everything that can possibly run it.
Aside from that, the Switch is little over a year old. You're seriously expecting a host of third parties to be able to produce quality offerings built from the ground up specifically for the system inside that time frame?
@EvrgrnCmln 3DS got a host of developers supporting them right from launch: with Capcom, Namco, Konami, Square Enix, Level 5, etc all having launch titles. They are not ports, but new games tailored made for 3DS.
In Japan, making exclusive games is still a thing. Euro and US companies like EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Blizzard, etc all came from a PC background, they are used to doing multi-platform.
Exclusive games are always better, more optimised and make good use of the hardware gimmick.
@onex What's so great about AAAs?
Games like Spider-Man, Tomb Raider, Dragon Quest 11, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey are my easy ones to point out - the 4 games I am most excited for this year. These are all experiences that have never been created by an Indie dev, as far as I've ever found. And games like these are why I want to see more AAA support on Switch
@Anti-Matter you're indonesian eh?, Well just plus 14 hour of Pacific time (PT one), so 9 am + 14 is 23 meaning it will be on 11 pm wib
@Nincompoop
I DON'T CARE Nintendo Exclusives or Multiplatform 3rd party games, as long they are interesting, i will play them.
You can always play other games while waiting for better Nintendo Exclusives.
@Mando44646
But those AAA games you mentioned are Typical Boring games.
Just Same Copy Paste Action games.
Not Unique.
Not Quirky.
Not Whimsical.
Not funny.
Just Cookie Cutter from year to year.
And that's why AAA 3rd party games are Mostly BLAH.
@Raka
Eh... you are also !
@Mando44646 Spider-man is licensed to Sony.
DQ11 was announced a while ago, and I'm sure they're working on it.
Tomb Raider is possible, but certainly not the newer games.
You're insane if you think the Switch can handle AC Odyssey.
"AAA" publishers best bet is to bring over collections of older games. Millions of gamers out there who would love to play their favorite games however they want. Those newer shiny things with ridiculous benchmarks are impractical to run on the Switch. There is a reason Panic Button goes after the 60 fps games to port to Switch. They can sacrifice some performance to maintain the overall experience. Games like TR or AC(Origins OR Odyssey) are already running at 30 fps on PS4/XB, so what exactly are you expecting, a miracle?
I want a Nintendo (Japan) focused Direct like everyone else, but a Nindies Direct (the Nintendo UK showcase wasn’t one) is still great.
To be honest, I find indies to be incredibly more appealing than most AAA games as of late. The AAA “space” is riddled with yearly releases that make little sense because they’re all basically the same game with a slightly new coat of paint. There are exceptions, of course, but they’re few and far in between.
There are also plenty of indies that are too similar to each other and there are a lot that are just plain horrible games, but in the indies are the only ones that still think about gameplay and originality instead of graphics and ways of monetize that multimillion budget bloated things that people call AAA (yet again there are obviously exceptions)
Before the Switch I used to despise indie games as not worth my time or money... How wrong I was! Indies are giving me the best experiences playing games for years! Without going too far I can honestly say that Hollow Knight is one of the best games EVER indie or not.
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