Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

It kinda feels like hell froze over. People are seriously shocked. This Direct was a huge shakeup. And people needed it. Slapped some reality back into play. Can Doom run on Switch? HECK YES IT CAN. AND LOOKS ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE PS4!

If that can happen, if Wolfenstein 2 can happen... anything can happen. I think tonight will be looked back upon as the turning point where devs starting going all in on Switch. Seeing this level of confidence from Bethesda will only inspire further confidence from others. And from gamers. I imagine quite a few people who are undecided will have made up their minds tonight that they are going to buy a Switch.

@IceClimbers
Pretty sure Dragon Ball Fighter Z is on lock. They made it sound like they were gonna bring it but didn't want to say anything til after DB Xenoverse 2. I have a feeling, especially now with Switch hype at a fever pitch and articles dropping left and right about games selling more than all other versions combined and even BN stating DBX2 has been a big hit... it would be pretty amazing if DBFZ didn't come.

I feel like Doom won't go any higher than 720p when docked, but if that footage they showed is what the game will actually look like, it still looks really good. Definitely shows the Switch is more powerful than anyone gave it credit for.

@Ralizah Well to be honest I detest trading in games (I feel it is a waste of money) but, the local retro shop has deemed me one of their best customers so I can offload something and then be given a few discounts to stack which makes it worth it. However I just am at a point that I don't want a collection anymore. If I'm not going to play it I'd rather send it out to the wild where someone else will. I don't need two copies of the Nonary Games or DQ Builders. I've also stopped buying games that are popular for "gamer cred". At this point if I'm not taken at face value to be a gamer I don't care anymore.

I'm impressed with your commitment to no backlog. Honestly I'm going to temporarily exit the market next year just to do that (and to redo my AV setup which is not going to be cheap...plus new taiko and a telescope) but with all this stuff that is packed into this year I know I'm going to be crying bitter tears by march of next year. But hopefully by 2019 I will have cleared out a significant chunk of my backlog. Fingers crossed.

Getting my 256GB sd card next week. Doom, fifa, maybe 2k basketball, WWE 2k, Mario Odyssey, hollow, and la noire this year is going to be crazy.

DOOM kinda looks a little faded the more I watch the 20 second clip of it. Not worth a $60 price since no map editor and it's almost 2 year old game.

@Samus7Killer Mario Bros. is in the coming soon tab of the eShop in the UK. Its listed as £6.29 (Or 7 bucks in Murica moneys)

Oh thx. Might be interested in VS Mario

Highlights for me were
1)Xenoblade2 looking lovely.
2)Doom announcement.
3)Tate mode arcade Punchout. (Seriously...WHAAAAT???)

Well the first half of the Direct was pretty unappealing to me. In fact, I actually turned the sound off with Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It just dragged on and on, could have used that time for other announcements/updates and just released the video trailer in its full separately.

However, when Bethesda was revealed to be bringing both DOOM and the next Wolfenstein game to the Switch, my excitement went through the roof. Despite already buying DOOM on one of the other consoles for £10, the thought of playing it on the go is enough for me.

I do feel that there were announcements in that Direct that didn't need to be there, mainly because they were indies already shown during the Nindies Direct a couple of weeks back.

I suddenly feel a certain weight lifts from my shoulders.

Back in the Wii U days I felt the system really needed all the support it could get, so for the first time in my life I really bought into it, buying games I would normally not have too much interest in because of the slim pickings e.g. XCX.

But with Switch it's beginning to look like I don't have to feel as much pressure. I don't really like Xenoblade Chronicles, so I'm not going to buy XC2, but I don't have to worry about it because I can show my support in so many other games already.

I just buy the games I like, the games I want to play...

But it sometimes feels I'm alone in that

What? What are you, some kind of free thinker? We don't need any non conformists here thankyouverymuch.

You should never feel forced to buy a game you don't want. You are doing yourself a disservice.

I have seen people argue you should buy FIFA just so EA will release other games. This will not in any way guarantee EA will ever release another game on the switch.

The companies are responsible to create games you want to play, you are not responsible for any of their actions or inactions.

Gurantee, no, but let's no pretend that how one game performs in the market doesn't impact the developer's/publisher's decisions about future games. Of course it does.

I like to try and widen my palette, and deepen my understanding of the gaming world by taking in as many types of game as possible (MMOs excluded). If XC2 had released on Wii U instead of XCX, I'd still probably have got it because I'd have wanted to see how it compares to/improves on XC, and to support the Wii U, which I loved. If you don't support the things you love then don't be surprised if you lose them.

But as it happened, XCX was evidently sufficiently different from XC to be of interest to me regardless of my issues with XC. Plus it was hyped very well, and in the Wii U dark days, I was a hype ***** (lady of the night).

FIFA doing well will mostly make another FIFA making an appearance, pes or any other sport game.

But it won't make a huge impact on their decision when it comes to other genres such as FPSs. Doom and Wolfenstein will be better indicators for EA than FIFA could ever be. Different genres have different demographics.

And again, it is not your responsibility to enrichen EA, it is their job to create games that is appealing to you.

So @octane is right. Buy the games you want to play and more like it will come.

@JaxonH I'd buy those, but I can't stomach anything other than a mouse for my shooters, so I'll give them a pass on that front. Thankfully, I'm but 1 person and a lot of people WILL go for it due to portability and wanting DOOM on the system, and all power to them.

@Therad I totally agree - although, I do seem to recall EA saying something along the lines of 'we'll be using FIFA as a barometer to judge how(/if?) we support the Switch going forward' ..almost like holding a metaphorical gun to the heads of Switch owners and saying 'buy this...or else!', which didn't really sit right with me - people who don't like football (soccer) shouldn't be expected to buy a FIFA game in the hope that an EA game they do like will follow!

Bethesda, on the other hand, almost seem to be taking the opposite approach - before the game they originally announced has even been released, they've committed to at least 2 more - and that early support and enthusiasm for the console is quite refreshing in an industry that seems to have been 'dipping their toes in' rather than jumping in with both feet - which certainly counts for something in my book...hopefully this level of support will mark a shift in the attitudes of other large publishers who might be suffering a little bit of FOMO (fear of missing out) this morning! **fingers crossed!**

@Octane @Therad I second this. Buy third-parties, but buy them only if you actually like the game and want to play it. I imagine just buying to buy sends the wrong message to thirds as well. They'll think there's a market, when people bought the game with no intention on continuing to play more of that genre.

Loose from the above, in light of this Direct, Capcom must be looking EXTREMELY silly right now. Bethesda, a Western developer of which was thought they'd never go with more than Skyrim, is bringing big guns to the Switch, and there, on the other end, sits Capcom with USF2, XX which is sequestered in Japan, and RE 1 + 2 as only real showing in the West.

It's obviously huge news.

Collectively games like Doom, Wolfenstein, Skyrim, LA Noire, FIFA and NBA 2K allow Nintendo to realistically market the Switch at a more 'mature' audience. Yes they are in most cases 1 or 2 year old games from other formats but that doesn't make them less important. They greatly diversify the library and mean that the Switch will have at least the potential to appeal to an audience that never would have even considered the 3DS or Wii U.

I think that a lot of people will be surprised by the demand for Skyrim on Switch in particular.

It will need a constant stream of similar games going forwards but there are a number of PS3/XBox 360 games that could easily be ported to provide that and that would sell very well due to added portability. I'm thinking of the Fallout games, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Saints Row... GTA IV and V... Fingers crossed we see a couple of those in 2018. My only worry is that an early 2018 line up of Kirby and Yoshi might undo all of the good work!

Of course the big question is... will Doom have amiibo support?

@UmniKnight Not just third party games. Every game. Just buy whatever you like, you won't gain anything from buying games you wouldn't buy otherwise, just to support a company. You're in the minority, it won't make a difference to them (unless everyone bought two or three copies of the game, then yes I would be a significant difference, but you know... that never happens).