Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Haha! No probs - I do that sort of thing all the time! xD

@Ervex_109 Seeing how low down it's placed on the UK charts in the weeks since its release I'm not sure if that's good or not. It doesn't surprise me that it would do better at retail than digitally, it's the first physical game I've actually bought.EA certainly haven't helped matters with their low supply to retailers. I think Amazon just got new stock last week though so hopefully many have just been holding off. I know of at least one person that has been

Less than a year in the Switch's lifespan, and it's doomed, even sooner than the Wii U

I don't know what's come over me the last few weeks,my glass is usually half full. I blame the crappy Scottish weather, lack of gaming times and my impending 40th birthday. Once I'm back in Thailand next month, wearing shorts and playing all the cracking November games I'll be back to my old self.

Geez I never thought that I would wish for a little game drought right about now. So many releases on top of each other. Many of which are long ventures (mario, skyrim, xenoblade at least) I don't have enough free time to play!

If you had told me a year ago that we'd be getting multiple open world games on a Nintendo console in its first year on the market, I would have thought you were nuts.

@Ralizah I think I'm more shocked that Nintendo is leading the charge. I mean I knew Zelda was big....but wow Zelda is huge. And Mario looks like more of the same. So many wonderful time sinks!

Can't believe it's already almost been a year since the Switch was first revealed to the world

I remember that like it was yesterday. Quite a big shift for me to have gone from not following or caring about Nintendo at all, to finding the Switch reveal trailer on YouTube, and then suddenly following all the Switch news and rumors and counting down the days until it launched, lol.

Not that I stopped liking Nintendo in general, I just really, really didn't care for the Wii U. In my opinion, it had quite an underwhelming library.

So it seems there's a slight chance Crash Bandicoot Insane Trilogy could be coming to Switch. It could just be a mistake but after the whole Xbox one fiasco and seeing the buttons in the screenshots, and given they never really went out of their way to say it was going to be an exclusive forever... I think this could definitely be legit and really fits the bill of the type of game Activision would want to bring to the system.

Makes sense as Crash would do really well on the Switch even though a good deal of Nintendo fans probably never experienced it. I would get it for the kids as I personally never need to play them again. Was never the biggest fan of them.

The Crash games don't look like my thing at all, but it would be cool to have them on the system.

@Ryu_Niiyama Nintendo really is leaping into the deep end with its embrace of open world game design. Mario will definitely be a much more explicitly designed game than BotW was, but the amount of openness within it is still pretty unprecedented.

@JaxonH Crash isn't a PS4 exclusive, so a port to other consoles is expected.

Violett Trailer - Nintendo Switch

"Dragged by her parents, a young and rebellious teenage girl – Violett, moves to an old spooky house in the middle of nowhere. Forced away from her friends and life in the city; she imagines how boring life in countryside will be: spending day after day, bored in her room with absolutely nothing to do. But what she cannot imagine, is that in just few moments, she'll have the adventure of her life."

I think Crash Trilogy would sell better on the Switch than it did on PS4. Honestly.

Sony Music Entertainment of Japan have created a new label to publish indie games.

The new label is called "Unties", and the press release says they aim to "dig up the masterpieces buried" in the current avalanche of indie titles "and support them so that more users notice and pick them up". The name comes from the idea of unrestraining "the excellent talents of unique game creators all over the world, setting creators free from the various shackles of game publishing, named from the intention of realizing publishing that is freedom of production without restraints".

Unties will publish games on multiple platforms. Their first release will be the Advance Wars-esque "Tiny Metal", which will be released worldwide on Switch, PS4 and PC on 21st November.

https://www.sme.co.jp/s/SME/pressrelease/detail/NEWS00770?ima... (in Japanese)

Just when you though game titles couldn't get ridiculous, along comes "Heroes of the Monkey Tavern", a first-person dungeon crawler previously released on PS4 and PC. Now listed on the NA eShop for 7th November. Here's the description...

After countless days and nights celebrating within the infamous Monkey Tavern, our team of adventurers have spent every last penny… Their fates, however are about to change…

Like a gift from the gods, in walks a mysterious stranger who points them towards a high tower full of invaluable treasures.

It doesn’t take much more to rouse their thirst for adventure.

You will enjoy exploring a dungeon full of riddles, dangerous enemies and vicious traps.
And if luck favours…you will discover secret passages sheltering legendary weapons and armours.

Key Features:
– Dungeon exploration in grid-base movement
– 8 classes
– 3 difficulty levels
– 2 hours of intense music
– Static real time fights
– 22 different enemies, including 6 bosses
– Numerous traps and secrets
– More than 100 unique items

And of course, here's a trailer (most likely of the PS4/PC version, but you get an idea of the game from it):

@rallydefault More than a few million? I'm doubtful. Crash is one of the better selling PS4 games this year, it even topped the UK charts for several weeks and it can still be found in the weekly best sellers lists. Crash is big in Europe. Not so much in the US, and Japan doesn't care about Crash at all. Meanwhile Europe is Nintendo's smallest market... so I can't see that happening.

@JaxonH

I'm expecting a port of Assassins Creed Rogue. From what I've heard it deserves a bigger audience.