Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Paraka I can see that as well, but nothing further into the year. Nintendo tends to focus on what is close, rather then far away in directs.

@UmniKnight - For good reason, though. They have quite a few Directs throughout the year, this helps them from covering the same thing over many Directs too often. Won't expect MP4 or the new Pokemon news till Jan/Feb window Direct.

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@Paraka Aye. Something new of all those projects going around that we know very little to nothing about though, like Shin Megami Tensei, Project Octopath etc? I don't see that. Octopath will get some coverage at Tokyo Game Show, but it's only a question if it even gets localized. Probably just elaboration, and maaaaybe a surprise, even if I really hope for it, I'm not expecting it.

@UmniKnight - We MIGHT see something from Octopath, since that was shown nationally before. However, those two have a heavy market in Japan, so TGS is probably going to see their coverage if any.

@Paraka You think we'll even see localization for that then? I mean, they've kept Seiken Densetsu in Japan, hence me not assuming anything in regards to localizations.

@UmniKnight - Seiken Densetsu was never shown internationally as Octopath has. So there is some interest for localization for the latter.

Pretty sure it could be a coincidence, and probably is.

@Paraka So if I'm reading this right, we were never "supposed" to know of it, but because news is so international and broad, we do regardless, is that how I'm to look at it?

In any case, I hope it gets localized and is good. I also really hope they've got some co-op games coming around that can keep one busy for a while. I've some time to kill.

Isn't the new Fire Emblem main game next year. They could reveal that to drum up business for Warriors?

@UmniKnight - I'd give a soft yes to that. The game was announced at some press release in Japan. Due to the nature of the world wide web and social media, it just by Nature got worldwide recognition.

@Octane They never gave a definitive number. There may be more kingdoms on top of that

@Paraka Hm, fair enough I suppose. Personally, I don't like how Japan tends to keep a lot of games to itself. But eh, localization and all.

I'd say it's best they keep world-wide in mind, as it's bound to be international regardless. We already know the direct for Japan will be 50 minutes as opposed to our 45 minutes, for example, which strikes me odd, going towards "favouring" Japan with some extra news.

It would be nice if more of their games got English patches (Eh MHXX) it would make importing worth while.

A SNES Remix-type surprise?

The iron for SNES nostalgia will never be hotter than it will for the next 6-8 weeks.

@UmniKnight - it's also based culture marketing. Where we in EU and NA get a variety of games ourselves, so do they. Hell a good sum of out Rock Band and Guitar Hero never reached that region, and in turn we never got Taiko Drum Master.

@Paraka True, but I'm more talking about the kind of games that arguably would've been well received here, like that Seiken Densetsu collection.

The whole time difference might be a similar language phenomenon as seen with speed running. The German Direct is 43.367 minutes long!

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@StuTwo Yeah, I think we'll see a 1st party eShop title for this fall. My guess is a new Pushmo.

Anyways, I do think we'll see a small Nindie section that talks about the bigger, high profile Nindies like Yooka Laylee and Hollow Knight (the devs for this were teasing news for this week).

Anyways, I'm gonna take a guess and say we see Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics announced for Q1 2018 for both Switch and 3DS.

I hope Mario & Sonic just goes away. Use that dev resource for something else. Unless Sega is making the games. Then I guess it's fine.