Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Therad PS4 and Xbox One are getting Monster Hunter World this month, so not so much a slump for them. It's just that Nintendo relies so heavily on first party titles that if nothing comes out, it feels like nothing is happening.

@Therad Can't speak on Xbox, but PS4 has been heavily front loaded in recent years & have relied on third party support during the end of the year. This has again been the case this year. Picked up Digimon, DBFighterZ & MH World in 1 week and then it's Shadow of the Colossus on the 6th Feb.

Feel like Nintendo are resting on their laurels a little bit or maybe they're just focused on Labo.

@FragRed Well, I remember something along the lines of Nintendo going to rely more on third-parties this year, we'll see. Portability will sell most if not all games on Switch, so that shouldn't be the problem.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Could be resting on laurels, considering how incredibly well Switch is doing. That, or they're preparing something. Ubisoft spoke of some kind of Nintendo news in "coming days" and so far I know we don't know about any of that yet http://nintendoeverything.com/ubisoft-staffer-teases-upcoming...

@Ralizah
Wii U owners will have to endure a few months with ports they may have already played. But at least they're some of my all time favorite games. Bayonetta 1 and 2 are great, and I won't mind playing again. I never got far in DQ Builders either so, it'll be my first play through.

But ya, I'm sure you've got other consoles and other games (Maybe even a Switch backlog from the 2017 onslaught) in the meantime. I know I do.

Never heard of Owlboy. My gaming plan is MH World > DQ Builders > Bayonetta 2 > Kirby Star Allies > God of War > DKC Tropical Freeze > Dark Souls > e3 baby! With Tennis thrown somewhere in the mix.

@Fight_Teza_Fight
Don't pass on Xenoblade 2. I got 200 hours out of it and it safely sits among the best JRPG's I've ever played. Screw the first. You don't need to play them in order. They're connected in a small way, but you could easily play XC2, then XC, and see the same connection (Which is only a brief connection at the end of the game anyways).

@MFD Nice, hoping it's a game & not just DLC for Mario+Rabbids or something.
@JaxonH I'm definitely planning to pick it up at some point. I just hate jumping into a series midway through. I literally ran through Persona 1-4 in 3 months prior to Persona 5 on PS4. I just like seeing how a series develops over time.
I think I'll get it after Owlboy if nothing is announced/rumoured.

@Fight_Teza_Fight for all the talk they did about appealing to hardcore gamers, focusing on Labo would be stupid.. they need to pull out the big guns this year and Labo is not it.. that needs to be their secondary concern.. and although i know they have some big games up their sleeve for this year, I'm getting impatient.. they had all kinds of hype built up to December and now they leave us with crickets.

@MFD They'll need to get a move on with getting them on board because you can't rely on indies - they're a side dish to the main meal. The worries I have is that there's really not a lot of third party games coming to the Switch and there's no sign of a proper Direct to signal anything different.

I wouldn't call that 'heavily loaded' - aside from Monster Hunter World (which is reviewing really well) I don't think that that selection of PS4 games represents a particularly strong start to the year either, personally - and unfortunately Monster Hunter doesn't really seem like my kind of thing at all, which makes it feel even more lightweight for me _{(Just about the only thing that I didn't enjoy in Skyrim, for example, was slaying Dragons...so the idea of a whole game dedicated to slaying beautifully-rendered mythical creatures just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest!)}

...it's just been a slow, slow start to the year in general as far as I'm concerned

@Fight_Teza_Fight Playing Xenoblade 2 is hardly jumping into the series midway...

@JaxonH My backlog on other systems runs long and deep, so I'll probably never have to worry about not having anything to play. I guess now is the time to pick up some of those indies and digital games I mostly ignored last year. Enter the Gungeon, RE Revelations, Battle Chef Brigade, Steamworld Dig 2, etc.

I'll probably nab Enter the Gungeon. I loved the shooting/platforming/rougelike thing GoNNER had going on, and ETG looks similar in that regard.

And, of course, there's the never-ending Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

@Fight_Teza_Fight It seems kind of foolish to not have a big release in January to help keep the momentum they built throughout 2018. But there's just nothing for me these next couple of months (unless they announce some Q1 stuff via Nintendo Direct, which is always possible). 2018 in general is going to be great, with Octopath Traveler, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Gal Gun 2, Dark Souls Remastered, Ys VIII, Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition, multiple Mega Man releases, Wargroove, Hollow Knight, etc. to look forward to. But these first couple of months are looking pretty darn dry so far.

I think my big problem is very few of the first-party releases are interesting to me so far. Kirby and Yoshi both look boring, DKC: Tropical Freeze is horrendously overpriced for what it is, and I wasn't even a huge fan of Bayonetta 1/2 the first time I played them.

@FragRed Eh, portability will bring all the games, right? I don't think we'll need to worry. And if that isn't the case, well, what do you do about it?

I'm not sure if this is something else but wasn't the Ubisoft tease proven false? Something like the person who made the tease wasn't actually from Ubisoft.

@Grumblevolcano No clue. Something else to consider, though, is that Monolith Soft promised New Game+ For XC2 this month. Considering the month is drawing to a close, what are they waiting for?

Just downloaded Celeste. Also, how come Japan gets so many visual novels and we've yet to get one? I tend to check Japanese eShop every Thursday as well and they got a game called The Men of Yoshiwara: Kikuya. It reminds me of Hakuoki which I enjoyed on 3DS. At least the game has been released in English on Steam so I'd guess it's coming here sooner or later. Seems like they are also getting a game called Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue at the end of March. Wikipedia lists its genre as eroge so that's not quite what I'm looking for. But I want at least some kind of visual novel to play on my Switch.

Yeah in terms of first-party games, there's nothing that screams "YOU MUST BUY THIS GAME" material like Mario or Zelda to me, but maybe that's not entirely a bad thing. You don't need to sell a console based off one game, sell a console based off multiple games. Multiple games you want to play is just as easily a system seller as that one big blockbuster game.

@MFD New Game+ was promised for 2018, not January 2018 so the only content for this month in XC2 is the DLC quests and items given in the recent update. I think New Game+ will come around the release of the story DLC.

@Grumblevolcano Huh, I heard people say it was this month. In that case, I guess that's it for a while.

@EvilLucario "Yeah in terms of first-party games, there's nothing that screams "YOU MUST BUY THIS GAME" material like Mario or Zelda to me, but maybe that's not entirely a bad thing. You don't need to sell a console based off one game, sell a console based off multiple games. Multiple games you want to play is just as easily a system seller as that one big blockbuster game."

I see that sentiment echoed a lot right now, with the Switch having more games then it did during launch. That said, I hope there's more exclusive or console exclusive stuff. I just can't warrant buying a multiplat that's also on PC.

@NaviAndMii FighterZ is pretty big I think. I'm not into that type of game, but I've seen a lot of people be excited for it. It's not the next GTA, but definitely noteworthy.

@Grumblevolcano @MFD I certainly recall reading something like that. Why would a Ubisoft employee be allowed to hype something up on Twitter? He/she'd be fired by now. And whatever it was, he/she said it would be revealed within the 'coming days', and that was ten days ago. So either they were talking about Labo, or they were making stuff up.

This week's European Nintendo eShop downloads.

Switch Retail

Island Flight Simulator – €19.99
Lost Sphear – €49.99

Switch Download

ACA NeoGeo World Heroes 2 – €6.99
Arcade Archives Kid Niki Radical Ninja – €6.99
Celeste – €19.99
ChromaGun – €19.99
Dustoff Heli Rescue 2 – €14.99
Earth Wars – €4.00
Fantasy Hero: Unsigned Legacy – €9.99
Shu – €8.49
Strikers 1945 II – €6.99
Super One More Jump – €5.59
Tachyon Project – €7.99 until February 1; regularly €9.99
Tennis – €6.99
Zero Gunner 2 – €6.99

Switch Demo

Inversus Deluxe

Switch DLC

Chess Ultra: Easter Island chess set – free
Chess Ultra: Imperial chess set – €9.99
Pic-a-Pix Deluxe – Small Puzzles 1 – €1.99
Pic-a-Pix Deluxe – Mixed Puzzles 1 – €1.99
Pic-a-Pix Deluxe – Large Puzzles 1 – €1.99

Switch Pre-Orders

Aegis Defenders – €19.99
Dandara – €11.99 until February 5; regularly €14.99

3DS Download

Pokemon Crystal – €9.99 (available January 26)

3DS Themes

Hello Kitty is a deejay – €0.99
Hello Kitty and her hobbies – €0.99
Hello Kitty is a pretty psotman – €0.99
Hello Kitty is a planet – €0.99

eShop Sales

Switch

NBA 2K18 – €45.49 until February 1; regularly €69.99
NBA 2K18 Legend Edition – €49.99 until February 1; regularly €99.99
NBA 2K18 Legend Edition Gold – €82.49 until February 1; regularly €149.99
WWE 2K18 – €22.49 until February 1; regularly €44.99
WWE 2K18 Digital Deluxe Edition – €29.24 until February 1; regularly €64.99
Bulb Boy – €5.59 until February 1; regularly €7.99
Chess Ultra – €11.24 until February 1; regularly €12.49
Sparkle 2 Evo – €2.49 until February 8; regularly €4.99
Tennis in the Face – €3.99 until January 31; regularly €4.99
The Bridge – €5.99 until February 22; regularly €9.99
Violett – €4.99 until February 8; regularly €9.99
The Jackbox Party Pack 3 – €19.19 until February 8; regularly €23.99

New 3DS

Double Breakout – €4.90 until February 22; regularly €7.00
Pinball Breakout – €4.90 until February 22; regularly €7.00
RTO – €7.19 until February 22; regularly €8.99
Super Destronaut 3D – €1.49 until February 8; regularly €1.99
Triple Breakout – €3.49 until February 22; regularly €4.99

3DS

Kutar Concert Staff – €0.69 until February 8; regularly €0.99
Kutar Jump Rope – €0.69 until February 8; regularly €0.99
Kutar Magic Ball – €0.69 until February 8; regularly €0.99
Kutar Quiz – €0.69 until February 8; regularly €0.99
Kutar Tube Rider – €0.69 until February 8; regularly €0.99

Wii U

360 Breakout – €4.90 until February 22; regularly €7.00
Double Breakout II – €4.90 until February 22; regularly €7.00
RTO – €7.19 until February 22; regularly €8.99
Super Destronaut 2 – €1.49 until February 8; regularly €1.99
The Bridge – €5.59 until February 22; regularly €9.99
Triple Breakout – €3.49 until February 8; regularly €4.99
Aqua TV – Oceanus – €0.99 until February 15; regularly €2.35
Aqua TV – Thetis – €0.99 until February 15; regularly €2.35
Aqua TV – Poseidon – €0.99 until February 15; regularly €2.35

Permanent Conditional Discounts

Sparkle 2 Evo – €2.49 for owners of Qbik or Violett or Frederic; regularly €4.99
Violett – €4.99 for owners of Qbik or Sparkle 2 Evo or Frederic; regularly €9.99

Source: Nintendo PR

Microsoft does have one massive thing that's not too far off, namely MCC being fixed. Apparently there's news on that front coming this month. If it does work out well, that will give XB1 a large boost unless they decide to port it to PC.