Nintendo And Microsoft's Love-In Continues With New Super Lucky's Tale, Coming To Switch This Fall

Finally! More cute animal platformers!

Nintendo gets Cuphead, Banjo in Smash, Love-In, etc. What is Microsoft getting out of this arrangement? Is there any Nintendo content coming to Xbox?

The game has perfect controls and great music, I wonder what the "New" word means here?

@RushDawg Would Nintendo ever be generous with their IPs? :S

@RushDawg
EShop money

Wasn't this one mostly regarded as pretty underwhelming? Always struck me as a game you only need if you DON'T own a Nintendo console...

@RushDawg Not in a lifetime. No rather what Microsoft is getting is the perfect platform to introduce the Japanese audience to their games. Considering that Microsoft doesn't perform too well in Japan, this is the perfect way to introduce their content overseas.

Good choice. Switch is a platforming machine, so with Spyro and Super Lucky's tale, the 3D gallery is basically on par with the 2D side now.

@RushDawg Cold hard cash.

See microsoft this is how you keep me as a customer. You are willing to share some things so I will be getting gears 5 day one. I love it when companies work together. Consumer wins.

Game looks cute, but whenever anybody mentions N64 I get worried, Yooka-Laylee was horrible.

Playing A Hat in Time on PC now after it got canned on Switch, can anyone compare the 2?

Bring it on. Don't be afraid to bring Rare Replay over, too, maybe a direct port of Banjo and Tooie as well. Perhaps an HD Diddy Kong Racing with the complete cast of characters including Banjo and Conker? Don't be worried when people mention the Nintendo 64, poster above me, the Nintendo 64 era is a beautiful thing. Yooka Laylee is a great first game from a burgeoning developer with years ahead of itself to improve on what came before.

Loving the influx of charming 3D platformers, keep them coming. This genre is exactly what the Switch needs.

I love this game. Definitely check it out if you enjoyed Super Mario 3D World. It is definitely closer to 3D World than it is to Mario 64.

Ok, Microsoft is very open and friendly with the competition: with Nintendo providing some of its games and IPs in the Switch; with Sony for an alliance with games in the Cloud and Streaming.
I'm curious about these Microsoft alliances but the good thing is that it's giving us some very interesting things "everywhere".

Now bring us Ori.

Wonder what will be the next game announced through this alliance

Rare Replay when?

This news makes me super happy. I've wanted to play this one for quite some time, looks really cute and my kind of game. The "new" part kind of makes it sound like a sequel to me. The "new" has me curious.

Nice but where's Ori? That's the only one I care about.

Look cute conker good fur day

Thank you Microsoft!! It seems a game with potential, hope a few of the issues get ironed out before release.

Give Switch Rare games and Ori.

@RushDawg Microsoft get to make money off older games. They have sold as much as possible on Xbone/PC and wont a sell any more. The Switch is a plattform that these games could potentially do as well or even better sales wise.

... It's not Rare Replay on Switch yet, but it's actually not too far off, and is a good step in that direction.

@RushDawg Microsoft getting money of course
For each copy being sold of those games they get a certain amount of money, for Nintendo it is the same, they put 0 effort in the games since it is third party, and they let the money role in

@MarioLover92
Yeah that's the one we need. Especially now that Banjo is in Smash. Not to mention that the majority of the games in that collection are from Nintendo consoles (and sorely lacking from my large Virtual Console collection, along with that darn Disney Afternoon Collection that I still can't believe Capcom was dumb enough not to put on Switch or Wii U).

@Rafke Its not exactly optimised on pc so it would play terrible on a switch without some major optimization.

@rjejr I really enjoyed super Lucky's tale. If you wanna try it out, get a month of game pass for free and try it on pc. I think it would work really well on a handheld. It's more of a traditional simple platformer than a hat in time. It's a lot less complicated and it's pretty easy, but I enjoyed it. A hat in time has a lot more substance to it though.

The game is average at best overall. The only thing that won me over was the adorable cat villians

People that I no played this, said it sucked

@RushDawg Microsoft doesn’t care. They just want as big as they can get public to get their hands on xbox or xbox live or trophies. And Nintendo is helping them by opening up their platform for them.

It's a great game, but, I've been spoiled having played it on Occulus Rift, and don't think I'd want to play it on a TV. But, I guess if this your only option, it's a really fun game worth playing. (though, I really hope they add Labo VR support)

@starman292 "get a month of game pass for free and try it on pc."

I was already thinking of that but didn't feel like typing it all out.

Thanks for the reminder though. I was going to sign up for Gamepass on PC after the MS event, they were talking about $1 for the first month or something, but I've been busy and haven't gotten around to it yet.

Thanks for the game comparison as well.

Who'd have thought it was Microsoft, not Nintendo, flirting with becoming a third party developer.

All at the cost of the prospect of being bought out regardless.

@graysoncharles I read about it here.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/a_hat_in_time_developer_confirms_the_time_travel_platformer_wont_leap_onto_switch

But apparently it is coming now. In the spring. Which ends in 8 days. So they better get a move on.

Oh well, already bought and played, like many games coming to Switch these days.

YeashhGoing to get this on day 1

@BacklogBlues

STOP COMPLAINING! SHOUT

@RushDawg advertising leverage. For the Japanese market they are shut out on two fronts and this may make a gamer that has a Switch and ps4 in japan consider the Nintendo/ms combo instead be it pc or whatever crazy name Scarlett will have. Plus it allows them to garner goodwill by looking like they care about gamer choice. Goodwill is worth more than money. I know I’m more curious about what MS plans due to this.

Even though this game is considered average by several reviews I still want to play it, looks fun.

So the "New" in the title is because this is more than a port. From Twitter:

"Might look like it but we actually rebuilt the game from the ground up. Levels are all redesigned, new levels, 360 camera, better movement, and a ton more."

See video here: https://twitter.com/PlayfulLucky/status/1138530087043624960

@RupeeClock Thank you, I was thinking about Fox N Forests the other day but couldn't remember what the game was called. Will add it to my wishlist, Furwind looks cool too.

Neato! Always up for a cute 3d platformer.

@graysoncharles Thanks. Already enjoyed A Hat in Time, think I'll play Lucky on PC somehow, still figuring that MS stuff out.

@Rafke First it got canned, so I bought it on Steam, then it got uncanned.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/a_hat_in_time_developer_confirms_the_time_travel_platformer_wont_leap_onto_switch

I've always been a Nintendo fan at heart, and Super Lucky's Tale is without a shadow of a doubt my all time favorite 3D platformer, so I'm beyond elated to see this wondrously charming and fun game making it's way to the Switch!

@RushDawg

They get to sell their games.

I saw this on Xbox Game Pass. I thought about downloading, but the reviews changed my mind.

@RushDawg I know. I thought maybe something like the Nintendo Arcade classic games from Hamster would be released on the Xbox. Or maybe even a second-party Nintendo release like Bayonetta 2 would release on Xbox. Get more people hyped for 3 and they would have too buy a Switch to play it.

@patbacknitro18 not really people just don't wanne play microsofts games that's why they only sell 2 million if they are lucky for there exclusive games.
super luckys tale is a horrible game.
even on the xbox one x it has problems with running stable.
it's as ''good'' as bubsy 3d.

I played this on PC last year and in all honesty, the game is too easy.

The later levels provide a bit of a challenge, but that's about it. I can't speak for the DLC levels as I didn't care about the game after I finished it.

I guess the challenge is getting 100% of the collectibles, but even then it's still relatively easy. Get it on sale. Bonus points if it has the DLC included.

@RushDawg Maybe Nintendo will put Boxboy on the Xbox.

never played it but it interests me think i might pick it up if its a good game

A below mediocre plat-former... Maybe working together will not be as fruitful as I thought. Minimally we will get a lot of mediocre at best titles and only a few Cup Heads. I guess we will have to wait and see because this is meh news at best.

@Reverandjames Other than Forza, are there any XBox games that aren't mixed reviewed? At least it's not Crackdown 3...... Even Halo 5 got panned.

@RushDawg A platform to sell games on that people actually bought?

j/k, I'm an X1 fan as well.

A big thing is probably access to the Japan market and other worldwide markets XBox doesn't really reach. Plus, in reality MS has been pretty straight forward they're not really into "exclusives", they're more into selling platforms and services than traditional console lock. They have their handful of exclusives, they share them with Windows, and now they're extending them to Nintendo. So essentially the only place you can't play Microsoft games is Playstation. If they can feasibly put XCloud clients on Switch they probably will, which is the real payoff for them. They don't care about Lucky's exclusivity...they care about that sweet $14.99/mo. And let's face it, Switch is probably the single most perfect device for XCloud, if it works.

Of course we are waiting for a new Banjo and/or Rare replay, but this is appreciated nonetheless.