Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@PikminMarioKirby
I will be so happy to see either Amiibo Festival Deluxe or ACNL Remaster with ACNH rules (No villagers moving out by themself) on Nintendo Switch or the next Switch.

Considering NWC is releasing tomorrow, I figured it didn't make much sense starting a new game so I went back to Mario Party Superstars over the past few days. I was happy to find out that it was still really easy to find online matches for the board mode. I really hope Super Mario Party Jamboree continues to expand online options.

@link3710 Good to see physical confirmed for the new game.

@Grumblevolcano Yeah I’m really excited for playing Mario Party online as I haven’t really tried it yet. The 20-player online mode looks promising!

I wonder if there will ever be a Switch Mini, a home console only version of the original Switch. It could be tiny, sold for around 150 with a Pro controller and would surely do pretty well. I have had my Switch since 2017 and it's not looking in the best shape. I rarely ever play handheld and haven't used it this way for a few years. Yet it's all warped and will surely pack in one day. I don't want to buy another console, especially with the new one on the way. If all my digital library carries over, then great... If not, a Switch Mini would be ideal.

@OorWullie
Switch Mini will be very painful to play the games with very small text size on handheld mode like Lost Sphear for example.
Then we need magnifying glass everytime playing Switch Mini. 🤭

@Anti-Matter The Switch Mini would be for playing on TV only. Just a little box that can take game cards and connect online.

I mean, potentially, but in the short term the fact that Switch 2 will almost certainly be close to 100% back-compatible takes away the need.

I'm in a similar state as you where my 2017 Switch is showing it's age; I do hope it lasts well until Switch 2 comes out.

@Grumblevolcano
Yea, Superstars is still alive and kicking. My daughter and I still play it, and I hop online for matches from time to time. The problem with online has always been people dropping out during the matches, and then you wind up playing against CPUs, which is dumb.

@rallydefault Although there are some AI things I hope Nintendo never uses, more seamless bot transitions to a bot player who acts similar to the player who dropped out (and generally more similar to a human) would be nice for games like that.

Personally, I would appreciate a Switch variant that could just be plugged into a wall power socket and wasn't partially reliant on a battery. The same sphere yet polar opposite of the Lite.

@FishyS
The Superstars bots are... yea... usually not great lol

I play with them on easy when I'm playing with my daughter, and the results are wildly different. In some minigames, the bots will literally just walk off the edge of the platforms immediately, while in some others they will be extremely lucky in guessing or in getting points for the tracing games and stuff. And that's just on the easy setting lol

I think AI application like you're saying in this sense would be a good thing, yea.

@FishyS Machine Learning would be perfect for better CPUs tbh, that's actually a really good legitimate use case for them.

Not really sure where to put this considering it could be interpreted in different ways but I was rewatching Sonic X Shadow Generations trailers and only just noticed that the 3 days early access for the Digital Deluxe version is for all platforms except Switch. Don't remember past SEGA games which came to Switch and had Digital Deluxe versions doing this.

@Grumblevolcano That seems like a stupid idea to screw over the biggest Sonic player base.

Everyone keeps talking about a New Leaf port, but no one mentions the 3DS games that need a port most- the 3DS Fire Emblem games. They all had tons of dlc, including story content and new playable characters, all of which are unavailable now. Fates especially needs it because the entire third game of the bunch was only available as a digital download for one of the other two games. It's been wiped out of existence unless you already have it downloaded on your 3ds. Those games really need to make it to switch.

@Sigran102 I'd say looking at per franchise works better than per system. With Fire Emblem there's still 4 games exclusive to Japan (Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, Binding Blade) and the Tellius games (Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn) are extremely expensive.

@Grumblevolcano of those, only the tellius games are on systems that Nintendo has been doing ports of, and they can be bought on ebay, even if it's expensive. The older ones need an echoes style remake, not a port. They don't even have an english translatiln. Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation is gone forever unless it gets a port, along with all of the dlc for the 3DS Fire Emblems.

@Sigran102 The special edition of Fates contains all 3 paths (Birthright, Conquest, Revelation) on the cart.

@Grumblevolcano True, I forgot about that, but it goes for $350-$500 or more, and the dlc maps, units, and classes are still gone. Don't get me wrong, a Tellius duology remaster would be the best case scenario for me. Radiant Dawn is one of my top 5 favorite games of all time. But the 3DS FE games need it more.

The timings for Pokemon Presents in August have been:

• 2021 - August 18th
• 2022 - August 3rd
• 2023 - August 8th

So if one is happening in August, it's likely next week.