Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH OMG. What on Earth have you done?!

There’s a 20% off voucher on the UK eBay website starting at noon until six o’clock in the evening, and a standalone grey/neon Switch would cost £224 after applying the relevant discount.

I really, really, REALLY don’t need it... or do I?

I sincerely regret popping into this thread this morning.

Not sure if this was posted, but there's some sales of Inti Creates games.

http://inticreates.com/new-years-sale-2018/

Switch games:

Blaster Master Zero ($9.99→$6.99)
Mighty Gunvolt Burst ($9.99→$6.99)
Gunvolt: Striker Pack ($39.99→$31.99)

These also have 3DS versions if you so desire.

I've been waiting for Blaster Master to go on sale now for well since launch!

20 million is quite a hefty number. If Nintendo can pull it off, then that would be absolutely amazing.

Not a huge fan of the dlc comment. Hope they don't focus so much on it that it starts to affect when and how often we get new games.

I think we're already seeing this with BotW and Xenoblade 2. ARMS and Splatoon are pretty standard, but BotW and Xenoblade 2 being single-player games with more DLC paves the way for more to come.

@Spoony_Tech I’d hope we’ll see Mario Kart 8 DLC. The original DLC was very substantial and that type of expansion pack DLC is very welcome by me.

@Peek-a-boo that deal covers anything on eBay. If you ever wanted a cheap Pro controller or had your eyes on a particular game...

@Peek-a-boo Look at it this way: you could always buy it and then resell it for MSRP if you end up not wanting to keep it.

@EvilLucario Gunvolt Striker Pack AND Mighty Gunvolt Burst for less than $40?

Urgh. I might have to start loosening my "no backlog" policy.

@Spoony_Tech I doubt it will. They'll probably have side teams working on DLC content for these games. That's how it usually seems to go, anyway.

I'm not thrilled with DLC, though. Most of the time there's not enough content to justify the extra expense. ESPECIALLY in the case of Xenoblade 2, which has a $30 season pass. Unless it has 20+ hours worth of story content, I'm not paying for it. BotW's expansion content is just barely meaty enough to justify the $20, imo.

I guess Nintendo being run by a person primarily interested in business and profits has its ups and downs.

I'm down for DLC so long as it's fair and not smash levels of crazy.

For Nintendo to expect to shift 20 million units in a single year would mean that they expect sales to improve greatly rather than decrease, as one would expect, and that they have some big sellers in the works like Animal Crossing and perhaps plans for Pokemon to release in 2018 also.

Yeah, I hadn't ever really thought about that until @Octane mentioned it in a conversation we were having about Rockstar Games a while back (Rockstar's game output has declined rapidly since they 'discovered' DLC/MTA's etc) ..it certainly seems to be the pattern: more DLC = fewer actual games released

I hope that they just try to approach DLC on a game-by-game basis - they seem to have struck a reasonable balance in recent times (2 DLC packs for Zelda, then move on - support Splatoon 2 for a year, then move on etc) ..anything that threatens to disrupt that balance though could be a cause for concern

http://nintendoeverything.com/shin-megami-tensei-v-apparently...

Shin Megami Tensei V was first teased at the Switch reveal event back in January and was officially announced in October with a brief trailer. That trailer didn’t feature any gameplay footage – because, as it turns out, there really isn’t any gameplay that’s fit to be shown off yet. In the same group interview with various Japanese developers that also revealed Level-5’s Switch focus next year, Shin Megami Tensei series producer Kazuyuki Yamai touched on the game’s current state of development.

They are currently in the “scrap and build” phase, meaning that they are trying out various gameplay concepts to find out what works and what doesn’t on a trial-and-error basis. Yamai states that since this is the first mainline Shin Megami Tensei title on a home console in a while, he’d like to develop the game properly without any compromises. He would also like to properly reveal the game soon to show off how it plays, but asks fans to be patient for a while longer.

You see, people? SMT V is NOT a 2018 game. It might not even be a 2019 game.

@Ralizah Which is odd because I remember a lot of people saying it was.

Cant remember why.

At the same time why did you walk into this thread announcing you were right like you had something to prove? People were simply saying "It may be 2018, because they didnt confirm it isnt".

Thats the thing. Just like with XC2 that everyone said would be delayed, we had no reason to believe it would be until they said so. In the end it wasnt.

With this, they never said it wasn't 2018, so the chance was there.

My rule of thumb is unless a company specifically confirms or denies it, there is equal chance either way.

@Ralizah I was never one that thought it would release next year. Especially as long as Tokyo Mirage Session took to release. Not to mention games like Persona 5.

@YummyHappyPills Why did I post news about a game? Because this is the Nintendo Switch thread, and SMT V is a game that a lot of people are looking forward to.

Wouldn't think that needs to be explained.

@Ralizah I was asking why you came into this thread with "You see people?"

You know....walking in and shouting "HEY YOU WERE WRONG AND I WAS RIGHT DO YOU SEE?"

Yeah. That.

You see?

@YummyHappyPills I think you're looking for things to get upset about if you're reading that much into my comment. It's hardly something I wanted to be "right" about in the first place.

@Spoony_Tech Yeah, Atlus takes its time developing games. Which is likely why they're basically perfect on release. I remember when Nintendo was like that.

@Ralizah Hey youre the one who came in acting high and mighty because you could prove some people wrong on something that was never confirmed no denied.

I calls em like I sees em.

@YummyHappyPills To be fair I've seen quite a few people assume it was coming next year. I personally think Metroid Prime has a better chance of making it before SMT V.