@StuTwo well i expect Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 to be the Holiday title of Switch for 2021 and to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the franchise, Bayonetta 3 have to release in 2021, probably in octobre next to Halloween, Metroid Prime 4 i have give up the possibities of the game be only a Switch game, probably Metroid Prime 4 is gonna release in the penumate or final year of Switch or be a cross-gen game like Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.
@Giancarlothomaz The Switch is a portable console, what Furukawa actually said was that the Switch would have a longer than normal life cycle (possibly just virtue-signalling, but the massive install base the Switch has is rare and won't be replicated easily). Considering that the Switch just came out, there's really no need for a new system any time soon.
From the quote, I figured Switch replacement would come around 2023/2024 but all the significant handheld revisions have had exclusive games (GBC, DSi, New 3DS) so I'd guess the rumoured 2021 Switch revision will also have exclusive games.
@Dezzy severals Insiders hinted that Super Mario 3D World + Bowser Fury was suposed to release in novembre, but Nintendo delayed the game because of Covid-19.
@Giancarlothomaz That would only make sense if Bowser's Fury was comparable to New Super Luigi U in scope. Which... would be really good if true.
A whole new game?
I somehow doubt that's what we're getting. I bet it's just an extra world that's really hard. I don't think they feel the need to add any more than that. This is pretty much still a current gen game, that millions of people haven't played. It'd sell just fine if they'd added nothing!
@Dezzy New Super Luigi U certainly wasn't a whole game. It was about half the length of NSMB U (since well, each level was about half the length), and reused a significant amount of assets, and introduced very few new mechanics.
And while I know you're joking, amazingly enough, there's far less asset reuse between the games than you'd think. NSMB, NSMB Wii, and NSMB U share almost no assets. Only NSMB 2 reused assets from NSMB Wii, since it was admittedly a budget title from the B team experimenting. And just generally the one game in that subseries that truly deserves the lazy moniker.
@Dezzy I think if Mario Odyssey 2 was 2021 they would've teased it in the 35th anniversary Direct as a "here's an actual new Mario game coming to Switch" to offset the "all we have is ports" tone of the Direct we actually got.
If they had announced Odyssey 2 and then they'd hit issues (like MP4) and it was delayed, what do you think the reaction would have been?
Personally if the game is in development i think they should have ended the mini with the announcement, even if it was just a logo, but i suspect they regret announcing MP4 with what has happened since.
@Giancarlothomaz The Switch is a portable console, what Furukawa actually said was that the Switch would have a longer than normal life cycle (possibly just virtue-signalling, but the massive install base the Switch has is rare and won't be replicated easily). Considering that the Switch just came out, there's really no need for a new system any time soon.
I get what you mean (and I broadly agree - though personally I'd be happy with a "New Switch" that loads games faster and has DLSS2 technology in the dock) but "the Switch just came out"...
...it certainly feels like that but the console is already 3 and a half years old. The Gamecube was 5 years old when the Wii was released, the Wii was 6 when the Wii U was released and the Wii U was 5 and a half years when the Switch was released. They were all dead consoles walking in the shadows of their replacements in their final year too. I think the Switch will last longer than any of those systems before Nintendo releases a real successor (especially if they do a minor revision) but we have to recognise the console is no longer new to this world.
Pretty interesting that NSO 2nd anniversary is in a week and so far it seems only Super Mario All Stars (SNES) and Super Mario Bros. 35 are Nintendo's attempt to get people to resubscribe.
I'm seeing a fair amount of duplication/off-topic stuff in this thread and the Switch thread. Can we try and keep this specifically Direct-related and the rest of it in the Switch thread, just to minimise duplication?
I was kind of expecting a teaser for Odyssey 2 in the Mario Direct, it wouldn't have been outside the realm of possibility since they've already teased fairly far off major releases like Prime 4 and BotW2, but I guess they just wanted to focus on the 35th anniversary and not the future. I'm still expecting it for 2021, though. As for next year, here are my predictions:
-BotW2
-Odyssey 2
-Mario Kart 9
-2D Metroid game (Metroid 5?)
-Pokemon Diamond/Pearl remakes
-New Pokemon Snap
-3D World + Bowser's Fury
-Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary game (Adventure remake?)
-Something else Zelda for the 35th Anniversary (remasters/ports of 3D Zelda?)
-Bayonetta 3
-No More Heroes III
-Bravely Default II
-SMTV
-Balan Wonderworld
@Grumblevolcano Ugh don't remind me. I'll have to start paying for NSO this year finally, my free passes are running out. And of course, I probably will, if only because 3D World online is one of my most wanted online experiences, but... it's with great reluctance.
@Bolt_Strike I genuinely think they might take a year off from releasing Pokemon games. A lot of rumblings say the SS release created massive waves at TPC due to all the bad publicity (and I think we can all agree, that game had a larger amount of bad publicity than just about anything released in this decade save Star Wars Battlefront's gambling problem or possibly Last of Us 2, or games that were genuinely broken like Fallout 76, SimCity, or WWE 2k20) Pokemon Snap, Unite + probably a third spinoff game will likely be next years Pokemon games, without a mainline release.
On the other hand, we do know some other major likely releases for next year (SMT Nocturne, Persona 5:Scramble, Lego Star Wars, maybe Doom Eternal, Digimon Survive, Sports Story, Silksong, Axiom Verge 2, the new Wonder Boy, etc), which fills out the calendar pretty well without any more announcements. And we can assume there should still be a number of those, all things considered.
@damien33ad Been excited since the initial announcement, latest details only reinforced that.
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