Topic: Switch Physical Boxed Games List & Release Dates (US & CA)

Star Wars Heritage Pack has been listed on Gamefly.

https://www.gamefly.com/game/star-wars-heritage-pack/5041046

STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
STAR WARS™ Episode I Racer
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™

No KotOR 1 or KotOR 2 included. They would balloon the file size to nearly 40GB.

It's October; are we ready for Halloween-flavored gaming stuffs?

Up next from Super Rare is The Tartarus Key.

@Magician i'm hoping someone does a release of Pumpkin Jack but it's probably too late for Halloween now.

NG-DEV have announced pre-orders for Gunvein in two editions, Regular and Limited.
https://www.ngdevdirect.com/
They are taking orders in two phases:

• October 14th 9PM CEST will accept pre-orders for 1000 Regular Edition (initial print run) and 1000 Limited Edition (limited to 1500), expected to ship January 2024
• Pre-orders cannot accept Paypal, requires credit card
• Pre-orders are limited to one each of Regular and Limited Edition
• January 2024 will accept orders for available remaining stock, with additional prints of Regular Edition and 500 prints of Limited Edition
• January orders will accept Paypal as they won't be pre-orders

Unlike previous orders, UK customers will not have to purchase a minimum amount due to laws restricting export from Germany to the UK. They will be making use of a 3rd party shipping service for UK customers at an additional cost.

Apparently Gamestop has up to 75% off recently released games and that AmazonNA are price-matching some of these games?

And you would be correct! I'm waiting on Psychotic Adventures Origins, Underhero, and Mind Seize. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I don't know what status is farther along than any other. In assembly, in preparation, in production, QA, patch submission. All purportedly "finished." The only one I do know is "in transit" and yet I doubt anything they sell is actually in transit.

Maybe it's the sunk cost fallacy, but I keep holding on. Because I know if they ever release another game, I'm next. And the fact that they keep selling new games means they're funding mine, as cynical as that is...

Strictly Limited Games have delayed BLAST BRIGADE VS. THE EVIL LEGION OF DR. CREAD until summer 2024.

@MarioBrickLayer
I just got eight emails from them about all of the balls they've dropped (their phrasing).
They've dropped the ball on:

• Vesper: Zero Light Edition
• Shinobi non Grata
• Ray'Z Arcade Chronology
• Puzzle Bobble Everywhere!
• Eschatos
• Dariusburst CS Core + Taito / SEGA Pack
• Snow Battle Princess Sayuki
• Blast Brigade Vs. The Evil Legion of Dr. Cread

Most of these have been delayed to Spring or Early 2024, other than Dariusburst which gave a specific date of December 27th, and Puzzle Bobble Everywhere which could arrive in Winter 2023.

@RupeeClock I'm sure there's a joke in here somewhere are dropped balls and clowns...

@MarioBrickLayer
Simply that they're juggling too much at once?

@RupeeClock
I woke up to 6 emails from SLG this morning, too. We can add the following to the list of known dropped balls:

Dezatopia & Mecha-Ritz Spring ‘24
Steel Empire Chronicles Spring ‘24

At least they were kind enough to provide some kind of update, and haven’t up and cancelled everything!
Maybe they didn’t know that juggling gets exponentially harder with each additional ball you add? 😓

@Teksetter
It's possible that they're putting in a request to manufacture a large number of different titles in the same production period, rather than gaps between production runs.

I'm guessing that they might've had trouble getting funding for production runs, because they weren't securing enough demand for their print runs and had to scale back the quantity for future runs starting with Tiny Thor.

Some communication is better than going dark.

@RupeeClock
Very astute guesses! Likely they probably are trying to batch up production runs to save money or better meet lot minimums.

I definitely agree with @Magician that it’s a relief to get some news on the matter! Hopefully whatever they’re doing works, and they’ll be able to follow through and fulfill customer orders.

It is so good to see that the whole Red Dead Redemption and The Undead Nightmare are on the cart

@Zuljaras
Thanks for the notice! I hadn’t heard and it’s always good news when games reside intact on the cartridge.

I may just pick up a copy now, even if the only Rockstar game I really got into was GTA: Vice City. (that soundtrack!)

I was curious about the Borderlands games, too, but @Magician warned us about the huge download required for Borderlands 3. I wonder — were cartridges for the older Borderlands games on Switch similarly incomplete?

@Teksetter The Borderlands collection cartridge only has Borderlands 1 on it. Just the game no DLC, they are separate downloads.

And ofc Borserlands 2 and its DLCs are downloads too.

EAS's next physical release will be Saint Maker.

Very cool.

The previous vn of theirs I played, The Letter, was a solid horror story.

Release # 100 from Super Rare is Lil Gator.

I'd say that's a win. Gives me Alba vibes, which...I thought Alba was pretty great.

Also, Persona 4 Golden from LRG open for preorder next week. Just...take my money.

Lil Gator Game is considered a gem and I see the demand for this one being strong, just like with A Short Hike.
I'm curious to see what their print run will be, demand for A Short Hike was so strong that they had to print additional copies.