Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

So what games are Nintendo releasing per month? As in what are the monthly 'big' games.

Wasn't very impressed by it. They'd better have some great first party 2018 games to make up for these ones. A bunch of Wii U ports and games like Yoshi and Kirby don't exactly make a great first part of the year.

Games like the Souls remaster I would be excited for, but I'm not a portable gamer, so I would buy that on PS4 if I wanted it. Games like Mario Tennis don't really interest me much, either.

Lol. More Wii U ports! I didn't play neither of those Wii U games, but still...

The Mario Tennis actually looks a bit more inspired than other recent entries in the series. I'll give them that.

More Wii U ports were basically a certainty in my mind tbh. Cost effective.

This doesn't exactly scream "we are aiming to sell 20 million systems". So unless Nintendo plan to shift 20 million in the second half of the fiscal year, this ain't looking good.

So much hype for that? I'm disappointed.

@-Green- Probably going to be something like this:
January - Nothing
February - Bayonetta 1+2
March - Kirby
April - Hyrule Warriors, Mario Tennis Aces (these 2 are labelled Spring but given the other games release dates I predict both will be April)
May - Tropical Freeze

@-Green-

Feb - Bayonetta, DQ Builders
March - Kirby
April - My brain is blanking
May - DKC

@KirbyTheVampire patience young one.

Octopath and Fire Emblem are 2018 too. And again, remember 2017, how much did we know of the latter part of the year before we got there? They like to announce things close to release.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE NEVER fall for the hype. When was the last time a Nintendo Direct (which E3 and the Switch presentation were not, for clarification) was actually exciting?

This time my expectations were incredibly low. And when I saw it was a Direct Mini, my expectations fell even lower.

Don't feed hype. It has a tendency to bite the hands that feed it.

I’m not a fan of Nintendo games, I bought the switch because of Skyrim on the go and the hope of more ports like that. There’s nothing I’d play from this announcement though. Urgh Dark Souls! I suppose Nintendo might make money from replacing all the switches broken by frustrated players 😂

That Hyrule Warriors surprise was all I could have hoped for. The Mario DLC and Dark Souls re release is just icing on the cake.

@-Green- Ya but Nintendo fed it yesterday until it was literally a bloated explosion waiting to happen and instead it deflated today like a whoopee cushion.

Wew, no one excited for a new scenario for The World Ends With You? :[ Sad.

I do hope it'll have physical release since they said it's Final Remix... but who knows with Squeenix.

Given Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition, I'm more convinced that a Smash 4 port would have all the Wii U and 3DS content.

@darkfenrir It was one of my top wishes for the year after Square Enix said they were bringing their mid-tier IPs! I'm so excited!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Which was expected tbh. Regardless of the actual direct (which based on impressions I've seen, is average for a Mini), you can't please everyone especially when they're hyped.

@darkfenrir I am. I'm glad the trailer showed the girl from the mobile port's (Solo Remix) secret ending. I knew of her even though I haven't played the mobile version. I have the superior DS version after all. I like the name the fanbase gave the mystery character, though. She's known as Hype-Chan.

I wonder if this is Nintendo's new approach for Directs in general. Maybe we'll get shorter videos but more often? I'd take one of those every month.

@Late Oooo I never knew she's from the secret ending! Curioser and curioser. And same, never played mobile version, but now I'll just wait for Switch version... Final Remix, after all!

[And Hype-chan seems to be appropriate! ]

Am I the only one who was a little put off with the way they handled announcing Dark Souls?

I don't know the series, I don't know how big of a deal it is to be released on the Switch. However, that's kind of aside from the point, IMO. They hyped up that announcement big time and introduced the trailer saying "Nintendo fans..." In addition to being the last announcement, I really felt like that should have been a Nintendo title they announced there.