Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Gotta remember guys. The best selling platform right now is PS4 and has built its library in a way to bolster thay and facilitate sales.

How did that library develop? Well announcing games years in advance of course! We all know Spiderman will be at its third E3 and TLOU2 is god knows when.

Gamers want to know something is coming, even if its going to spend 10 years in dev hell and have a name change, or be promised for one system but show up on another exclusively because it took that long.

Gamers these days want the hype and certainty their purchase wasnt wasted.

Which is ironic if anyone got a PS3 for The Last Guardian actually.

@Proust What, are you not completely satisfied with the new more-of-the-same Kirby and Yoshi games? Surely, you jest!

I mean, I've never been less hyped owning a console at this point. People talk big about the Switch, but there isn't much behind that talk.

To be honest, even though the Kirby feels like "more of the same", I feel like Kirby is just- it's already perfect (?) Like the basis is already so good I don't think there's much to add for it.

I have played through triple deluxe and robobot and while I didn't have the desire to 100% or replay it, I remember the experience fondly, and actually quite excited for Star Allies.

@YummyHappyPills I think that was the in part why Nintendo announced Metroid Prime 4, Pokemon and Bayonetta 3 for the Switch. Hype people up encourage people there's a reason to buy a Switch beyond the next 12 months.

@FragRed Yeah, all 3 are likely 2019 games (first 2 I think will be fall/holiday 2019).

@Grumblevolcano Depending on when development started, 2020 is possible as well (Metroid Prime and Bayonetta 3).

@Grumblevolcano @Octane Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 I think are definitely 2020 releases with Pokemon being 2019. I assumed Bayonetta 3 started once Microsoft cancelled Scalebound while Metroid didn't even have a trailer, just the name.

We also said Xenoblade wouldn't be 2017. Look how wrong we have been.

With what GameFreak is saying I expect Pokemon to be 2019 latest.

One thing all of us agree on is Pokemon being a holiday release.

I don't think I ever see mainline pokemon released outside of the october/november time? Then again I wasn't checking so just tell me if this is wrong hueh

@darkfenrir Holiday releases are a recent thing.

At least in the EU anyway. We kept getting games early in the year like around April.

@FragRed Sounds about right. Kamiya reportedly took a long break too. Reggie said about Prime 4 that is was one of those things they just wanted to get out there, to let everyone know they're working on it. 2019 or 2020 I think. Pokemon may release next year, but I'm not sure if that's beneficial for the game's quality. Unless they've been working on it for longer than we know, but that's assuming they have more than one main dev team.

@Tsurii Yeah, but two years is still a short amount of time. I meant developing the Switch game alongside Sun and Moon.

@Octane GameFreak has multiple teams, they have said as much.

And to apply context for how long they work on a game, XY was in Planning in 2010, BEFORE Black and White came out. ORAS was being worked on before BW2 came out. SM before XY came out.

Theyll have been working on this for years.

And no doubt they've had Switch dev kits for quite some time to test things out. Which is probably why the Stars rumour was started.

Let's not forget SMT V.

@FragRed @Octane That's assuming Kamiya's team is the one working on Bayo 3. It could be Hashimoto's team, which did Bayo 2. We don't know what they've been working on since finishing up with Star Fox Zero, which released months before Scalebound's cancellation

Nintendo dominates the top places in Eurogamer's Game the Year.

ARMS - 6th
Mario v Rabbids - 5th
Odyssey - 3rd
Breath of the Wild - 1st

4 of the top 6 games of the year according to one of the largest gaming websites. 2 nominations for game of the year and the winner at the Game Awards. The top 2 places at IGN's game of the year, 1st & 3rd at GameSpot's. A year that also saw incredible games like Splatoon 2,Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Xenoblade 2. The console has only been out for 9 months. I think it's fair to say this is far and away the strongest first year line up of games in history.

Destiny 2 - 7
Mass Effect: Andromeda - 26

...

Horizon Zero Dawn - 31
NieR: Automata - 36
Persona 5 - 47

I think it's fair to say their list was factually wrong.

I want to know how many grown-ups play Splatoon 2

@young_mama I do!

So the poll currently stands at:

Adults - 1
Non-adults - 0