Former SSX And Skate Devs Are Bringing Snowboarding The Next Phase To The eShop Next Week

Watch out for the drone at 30 seconds in. Everything will be cancelled and you have to stay in the ski lodge

I hope it is good. Hearing it is a smartphone port is not encouraging though.

Kinda looks like a smartphone port

I would love an SSX on the Switch. This looks basic, but it has potential.

@Retr0gamedad @PortablexombieV2 There’s plenty of great smartphone titles that are just written off. Monument Valley, FRAMED and the Go franchise to name just a few. It makes me glad the Switch has a touchscreen.

I really want to like this, but it is a bit hard to accept the fact that the graphics looks worse than 1080 Avalanche from 15 years ago.

As a huge fan of skate and snowboard games, I want this to be good so, so badly...but the gameplay footage doesn’t look great. If only we could get a Steep port...even though I still prefer SSX 3 on GC.

BotW's shield surfing seems more natural. These look like puppets who flipped off physics, which is a shame since a snowboard game should look a bit realistic.
It makes me wonder if this will be the Mighty no9 (AKA Giant #2) of Snowboard games.
Also being a former dev of a well known game means nothing. Kickstarter proved it so many times.

I was genuinely interested until I read the word smartphone

Generally speaking Smartphone ports aren't great (or just bad games to begin with)

@kyleforrester87 My thoughts exactly. Was it the gopher that got coffee for the real people working on the game. This looks like an N64 game at best to me.

@humbucker ssx 3 is one of my fave games of all time.

I’m gonna give this a go... depending on price point

Does anyone know the price? I think my wife might like it

Looks a bit plain and the physics look unnatural. However I’ll willing to at least wait for reviews before opening the trap door on this one

Smart phone port huh? Eh.... ugh... ya lost me.

Looks like butt, but if it plays half as well as SSX it will be the best snowboarding game since SSX...

Sad how far the Snowboarding sub-genre has fallen.

I love a good snowboarding game, but nothing tops SSX... this game looks kind of bland, especially the characters. I had a ball playing SSX with Elise wearing a bikini and angel wings...

@nessisonett I was more so referring to the visuals which don’t look great

SSX is rolling in it's grave.

I was unaware the devs behind SSX was behind this. The bland title doesn't help to bring the point home, either.

I will wait for the inevitable sale, then get it. I loved SSX back in the day (especially 3), and while this one doesn't look great, fingers crossed the game play is good.

Please be good....

Doesn’t look amazing by any means but I may bite. If it gets a 7.

I'll get it if it plays well, but this looks kinda slow and loose at first glance.

Last time it was on sale, I picked up that water racing game Riptide Renegades. Yeah its a smartphone game, and I'd been turning my nose up on it ever since I saw it on the eshop. But you know what, these things can actually be pretty fun when you have a proper controller instead of shonky touchscreen or accelerometer stuff.
The sad (current) truth is, for all of its success the Switch is still a wasteland for genres like racing and sports, which tend to be magnets for "graphics showcase" games so we get passed over in the AAA space. But mobile has its graphics showcases too, and they can legitimately fill a hole in a discerning gamer's switch library. At least until the real things come along...

Looks pretty awful

Well, if this low-poly effort is the closest we can get to 1080 Snowboarding on the Switch, then I'd rather just stick with the GameCube version, which does indeed still look FAR superior, like smart commenter #7 already mentioned...

It's pretty damn sad that we can't even get a decent snowboard game. Forget about Steep, I can understand that one, but there's all the last gen titles on Xbox 360, PS3, and even most snowboard games available on the Wii were pretty good.

Just getting any of those on the Switch would already be a pretty sweet deal, far as I'm concerned.

Oh! It was made by former SSX and Skate devs? Now I’m interested.

I thought this looked pretty good for $10. I remember playing 1080 back in the day and this is giving me those vibes.

@leo13 eshop has it at $10 USD now

@nessisonett You are right. I just feel it is limiting when porting it to a console. Although I was happy we got Sword and sworcery on the switch. I will not right it off but I will wait to hear how user feel about it before I pick it up. Unless it is a cheap title.

@Retr0gamedad
... as countless others that are released on Switch as well...

I find that a bit tiresome, to be honest, as while playing games with proper physical controls is infinitely better, I'm usually not very fond of paying $20 or more for a port of a $1.99 mobile game. Even worse if it still has microtransactions up the wazoo.

Kind of also tired of that graphic style that looks too much like it was made to work on the lowest spec mobile phone from the last 5 years or so.

Although... I'm dying for a new SSX game and this game may fit the bill. Maybe when it'll be on sale eventually, as it is the only way to pay "non-inflated" prices (read: normal) for ports on the Switch.

@Mamabear thanks