Topic: 2019 concerns

@Anti-Matter

Nintendo have messed up by Happy Home Designer and Amiibo Festival.

I can't disagree with that. as i said, Amiibo Festival bombed badly.

Animal Crossing New Leaf was Really Great, but Nintendo should be really aware with Dragon Quest Builders 2.

Sure they can add more customized houses and such. but Nintendo doesn't need to be aware on what Square Enix does. that's like saying Nintendo needs to be aware on Rare's Conker's Bad Fur Day to make a different Mario game. (which you don't like Conker anyways.)

DQB 2 has STOLE the show and everything from ACNL & Happy Home Designer features such as Building houses, shaping the environments, etc.

So, basically what you can do in almost every sandbox games that has this feature right? I bet, I can build a house in PixArk and customize to my liking. (or Trove which you can build a house and plant stuff, and customize to your liking.)

besides this is what YOU want. YOU want Dragon Quest Builders Mechanics in a Animal Crossing game. YOU want MySims Mechanics in a Animal Crossing game. would Nintendo want this? who's to say. it depends on the challenge that can make it unique on it's own. each Animal Crossing main games had their own unique features (City Folk only had a City). if this Animal Crossing Mainline Switch game has something that every Animal Crossing Fan will love. you will probably love it too.

i'm not saying you can't give Nintendo your ideas. but Nintendo isn't gonna add what everyone wants in a Animal Crossing, Mario, or Pokemon mainline games. (i say that, However, we did got almost every requested character for Smash Bros. Ultimate that most people want like Ridley and King K. Rool ) still, I'm standing to what I'm saying.

@EvilLucario
I Don't know, I defiantly can see Daemon x Machina do well enough as ARMS and Xenoblade 2. if Nintendo can give DxM proper advertisement and such before it's release.

@Buizel yeah. I’m personally very happy with the ‘AA’ games that Nintendo puts out. I’d rather have what we get than half a dozen AAA games a year that become increasingly confined by the straightjacket of needing to sell 5 million copies.

I’m just questioning how much capacity Nintendo really has to do games of the scope of BoTW. Is it no more than 2-3 at once for a hit rate of one a year? A ‘Zelda’, 3D Mario or equivalently large single player game every 2 years seems maybe beyond them in the HD era.

@StuTwo Probably drifting outside the topic here, but what I'm interested in is what Nintendo is doing with the engine they put together for Breath of the Wild. That game can't have been far from being finished in 2015, before they 'switched' development for the dual Wii U/Switch release. Which suggests to me that that engine has been usable for at least 4 years. What other games have been based on it or are going to be based on it? Did Odyssey or Xenoblade 2 use it? Will Pokemon use it? Or will it just be Zelda games that use it? I don't have a clue, but it seems they created a great game engine, and Nintendo suggested it could/would be used in the coming years, so what are they doing with it? I appreciate that doesn't mean they can necessarily start churning out top tier games at a faster rate, but I'm sure I remember Nintendo said something around the time BotW released that implied years of work went into the engine, and now the rewards could be reaped...

Getting Prime 4 this year seemed like a stretch anyway. And considering Nintendo scrapped it, even if it did launch in 2019, it probably wasn't gonna be that good.

We're still getting Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Daemon X Machina, Marvel UA3, Luigis Mansion 3 and possibly Bayonetta 3 . Not to mention the 3rd party titles like Mortal Kombat, Doom, Dragons Dogma etc.

@CurryPowderKeg79 I know that feeling (regarding about num. 3). I also can't afford to to buy more than one game a month. I wish there was a law (Edit: that) demands that people should earn $2,000 a month or a bit more.

I'm not concerned at all. With just the titles announced for this year alone (including both 3rd and 1st party) I'm already basically satisfied. If Bayo 3 makes it out this year, or anything else on top of what we know, it'll only make it better.

@SamusLv7 While I can sympathize with wanting to buy more hobby items... If someone wants $2k/month, they should strive towards that. If a law made it compulsory, other things would go up because “Hey, folks have to have more money now”.
As it is, I typically buy 4-6 full price retail per year. Everything else I grab for less than $15

@Madder128 As others have pointed out, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Daemon X Machina, Yoshi's Crafty World, and Luigi's Mansion 3 are all already set for release this year. That is just what I remember from the top of my head. And there is no way that is all there will be. There are always announcements coming out. If the last couple years have shown anything, sometimes they will announce and release a game the very same day, during Nintendo Direct.

Some people yeah, but in my experience, usually they are. Most Nintendo fans I know usually hop on the majority of Nintendo franchises.

@CurryPowderKeg79 YES! We’ll start with Change.Org. Then we can all afford our $700 games. This is a good plan. We can have 1-2 Switch parties with caviar and suckling pig, too. 😂

@Heavyarms55 I don't think @StuTwo is talking about Nintendo fans, BotW will have also brought in non-Nintendo fans because of its similarities to western RPGs.

It's worth pointing out that Smash Bros Ultimate was revealed in March last year, Pokemon Lets Go was revealed in late May and Super Mario Party was revealed at E3 in June. There was a similar short gap between the announcement and release for Bayonetta 1 & 2, Mario Tennis Aces and New SMB Deluxe. In general the Switch tends to get games released on it with very little lead time.

@Grumblevolcano You say that like people who don't like Nintendo bought BotW, which strikes me as really unlikely. Why would someone buy a console they don't like, from a company they don't like to play a game that is only similar to games they do like?

we're literally getting new Animal Crossing and Pokemon.
both series move very large numbers.

This is true, but the console is selling to a huge range of consumers. Animal Crossing without a doubt will resonate with a large section of the install base.

Anecdotal evidence time, thinking of people I know personally who have a Switch. People like myself got the Switch as Nintendo's next console, because we're big Nintendo dorks. For me despite all my talk of preferring portable consoles it's the next Wii U. But I know some people clearly got the Switch as kind of a successor to the Vita, others who got it as a 3DS successor, others who clearly see it as the next Wii. And I say that purely because of what platforms they favoured before Switch, what content they gravitate towards on Switch and even how they play the console.

There are definitely people who are interested in the Skyrims, Dark Souls, BotW type games and not anything like Animal Crossing. But there are also plenty of people who see the Switch as the next Wii and are interested in neither. And people who see the Switch as the next 3DS and Animal Crossing is the only game in town once it drops.

@Heavyarms55 That's not what I'm on about, I'm on about stuff like Switch being someone's first Nintendo console.

@skywake The way I understood @StuTwo's post it's about the lack of games with bigger worlds on Switch, nothing about underestimating the potential of games like Animal Crossing and Pokemon. Though that is more a 3rd party support issue rather than a Nintendo issue as 3rd parties like Ubisoft, Bethesda and CDPR are the reason there's so many open world games on PS4/XB1.

Pokemon can be depending on how it's handled. Pokemon does have an adventure element to it so if this year's game does up the exploration more it could appeal to that market. It's just a matter of whether or not Game Freak wants to go in that direction.

@Grumblevolcano Oh, I suppose that is a fair point.

@CurryPowderKeg79 @JackEatsSparrows Lol 😂 Glad that my wishful thinking give birth to two jokes 😆

Metroid loss was huge. I don't care about Animal Crossing and Pokemon.....Nintendo has made huge inroads with the switch for more adult gamers this generation and they are not doing themselves any favors with a drought and only offering the cute and fuzzy kid stuff. Mario fatigue started for me a long time ago as well. What else do we have to look forward to this year?

My interest so far:
Doom Eternal
Daemon X Machina
Bayonetta 3
Metroid Prime 4(oops, heartbroken)....hopefully a Metroid Prime Trilogy HD remake....but I bet that's not even real. Still disappointed with Nintendo, will Metroid Prime 4 even come to the switch now(bait and switch with MP4)

@purpleibby "Kiddy stuff"

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