I do like supporting indie games, and there’s a bunch of projects that honestly catch my eye. Games like prehistoric kingdom for example, even though it’s not coming to switch.
Hollow Knight is an indie game that I’ve had tons of fun with, and same with games like Don’t Starve.
It’s just that with these directs, they’re either hard misses or have a couple of games that hit. Most of the games they general show off just feel samey or low quality to me.
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While I do like a few indies...unlike AAA and AA titles, they're not exactly something I'd get hyped up about before release, so an Indie Direct generally doesn't interest me. They're more likely to be titles that I hear about by word-of-mouth (or even from strong reviews on NintendoLife's front page) at the time of release or shortly thereafter, that supplement my gaming experience.
Also I'm basically assuming at this point that any indie title worth its salt is coming to the Switch anyway. It's not like wondering if we'll get Persona 5, Yakuza or GTA5.
That said, I'd be quite glad to hear something about TemTem or Genshin Impact.
For everyone crapping on indies today just a reminder that games like celeste, hollow Knight, shovel Knight, the Messenger, Hades, golf story, axiom verge and others are top tier games and some of the best on switch library and absolutely not Lazy. .
@Balta666
I totally agree with you. I own and enjoyed all the games you mentioned. Besides first party Nintendo games, Indie games are what I play most on my Switch. They are always so fresh and creative. I'm really looking forward to todays Indie World!
Personally I usually enjoy these Indie World Showcases about as much as I enjoy Nintendo Directs. You don't get the big excitement of the major first party announcements but the pacing is usually good and most of the games shown tend to look at least a bit interesting to me whereas the bigger Directs tend to have a decent chunk of boring third party filler so they're a lot more up and down.
@jump Well it is nintendo. They don't exactly inspire confidence at times. And they do often dissapoint. They usually don't announce too much at once, because they think it will overwhelm us. So they aren't going to announce an nso overhaul simply because there is too much going on this month in Nintendo's eyes.
@DannyBoi You're over thinking it and it doesn't mean anything either way. Nintendo have done 4 directs in the same month before and did 3 in the same month not too long ago. An indie direct is a (nice) but not earth shattering moment they need to fully focus all of their combined efforts on.
Well we have been going through a setup of weekly Nintendo and Nintendo console exclusive news and/or content for awhile:
February 12th - 3D World launch
February 17th - Nintendo Direct
February 26th - Bravely Default II launch
March 4th - Pyra/Mythra for Smash presentation and release
March 9th - Monster Hunter Digital Event
March 18th - Animal Crossing Sanrio and 1st anniversary update
March 26th - Monster Hunter Rise launch
April 1st - 3D All Stars, SMB 35 and FE1 localization are all gone (bad news but still news, Nintendo wouldn't want to announce stuff around this date because the delistings would be a distraction for whatever's announced)
April 7th - Pac-Man 99 launch
April 14th - Indie World
April 19th - 25th - ?
April 30th - New Pokemon Snap launch
May 6th - Nintendo investor meeting
May 14th - Famicom Detective Club launch
May 21st - Miitopia launch
May 24th - 30th - ?
June 4th - DC Super Hero Girls launch
June 12th - 15th - E3 (one of those days will have Nintendo)
June 25th - Mario Golf Super Rush launch
June 28th - July 4th - ?
July 9th - Monster Hunter Stories 2 launch
July 16th - Skyward Sword HD launch
So I think April 19th - 25th could be NSO overhaul, May 24th - 30th could be Mario Golf Direct and perhaps June 28th - July 4th is when either the next Smash fighter is released or the first wave of Age of Calamity DLC.
If they're doing the overhaul now, it doesn't follow that any games that's designed for are coming in the next month or 2 .... So, until/ unless anything is actually coming to NSO, there's not really anything to announce! If the speculation is right, the 'overhaul' happened with OS update 12, so that's done
IF, which is a pretty big if, there are going to be Gamecube & whatever else games coming to NSO, there's probably quite a bit of work to do before they could be added .... Normally, you wouldn't hear about every little bit of maintenance anyone ever did to a site! As I understood the speculation, it was basically "the system update 12 didn't seem to have much in it, so there must be more to it than they're saying ....."
Anyway, IF there are any coming, it still wouldn't be a huge announcement to make all on it's own but it'll get revealed when there's anything to say/ show, & plenty here would make sure it was broadcast around well
I once heard the theory that Nintendo is in a pickle with regards to their legacy content. Since the Switch is now an important platform for Indie developers, selling legacy games cheaply could hurt these Indie developers, who are often creating games that are similar to old Nintendo titles.
Think e.g. of Blue Fire, which released back in February. It's a call back to old 3D Zelda games and was relatively successful, despite some hiccups in performance and gameplay (it's their first game after all). How many people would have bought it for 20 bucks, if they could easily get high quality games like Ocarina of Time or Windwaker for 10 bucks each.
Not sure what solution Nintendo will come up with. But they can't ignore this fact. And it might very well be the reason why we haven't seen more consoles on NSO.
I believe it has more to do with Nintendo viewing NSO as already being a tremendous value for the asking price. There are what...over a 100 NES and SNES game available through NSO? Lets say Nintendo were to add GBA to NSO. They'd probably increase the monthly fee as a result.
And I'm not sure how worried Nintendo is about legacy content interfering with indie sales figures.
We still have the occasion indie release that sells better on Switch than Playstation, Xbox, or PC.
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