Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Hellmut is getting a release on Nintendo Switch.
http://nintendoeverything.com/hellmut-the-badass-from-hell-ge...

@NaviAndMii It turns out that Dragon Ball FighterZ is indeed quite popular! The fastest selling Dragon Ball game ever and it sold over 2 million copies in less than a week. I didn't expect that either!

@Octane Yeah, fair play - have to hold my hands up and say that I was wrong about all of those games! There hasn't been anything that's been released that has grabbed me so far - very early days though! (..I've still not even managed to get around to playing Odyssey quite yet, so I'm in no rush either )

Are there any visual novels on Switch.

NINTENDO WANTS TO EXTEND THE SWITCH’S LIFESPAN TO OVER 6 YEARS

https://nintendosoup.com/nintendo-wants-extend-switchs-lifesp...

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO26430020R00C18A2TJ2000/

I know the article looks at the length of the lifespan of Gamecube, Wii and Wii U, but it really should be looking at handhelds. The 3DS is 7 years old.

So how would Switch to Switch data transfers work?

I have weird question, but I am assuming The Longest Five minutes will be downloadable also?

@scubydo
I have yet to see a single game release on Switch that didn't have a downloadable version.

@Grumblevolcano
You just find transfer in the options and follow the prompts, similar to past console transfer processes.

@Eagle9
Couple announced for Japan, nothing in the west I'm aware of. There was 1 actually coming west but cant remember the name. But all that'll probably change in 2018. Danganronpa 3 will likely come via NIS since they're dumping EVERYTHING they can on Switch. And I think a retailer already listed it in Brazil as I recall.

@JaxonH Skylanders didn't have a downloadable version for one, I know there were a couple others... or at least I think so. Not that that disproves your point obviously.

@link3710
Hmmm... well that doesn't surprise me seeing it requires the toys.

@DarthNocturnal featuring 4k and 60FPS patch.

I wonder if DLC for Mario Odyssey will become preorderable when the Luigi update goes live, kind of like what happened with Mario Kart 8. Nintendo announced the free Mercedes cars and then when those were usable you could preorder the paid DLC packs.

@Grumblevolcano We're not getting Odyssey DLC I think...

@Octane We know at the least that the Balloon World update isn't the last content coming to Odyssey because Nintendo said there's more costumes coming afterwards. Maybe it'll be more free updates, maybe it'll be DLC, maybe both.

So people are curious what games are going to headline the Online service in September.

People are going nuts with things like Smash etc.

Completely missing the games that release every September, every year: FIFA and NBA.

@YummyHappyPills Nintendo fans want Nintendo games, that's nothing new. That isn't to say we don't want third party games like FIFA or NBA, it's just that Nintendo's own titles have always faired better and get a lot more hype surrounding them.

@YummyHappyPills Pretty sure anyone that's all about online FIFA/NBA already plays on PS/XB for $60/yr. Switch's appeal to those games was the local play that sucks or is non existent on other consoles.

The mess comes from the front loaded launch lineup of all heavy online multiplayer games all launched together in place of big solo games other than BotW, clearly intended to align with paid online....and now that those games will be old and forgotten by the time paid starts, it's reasonable to expect they'll be pushing something online heavy with it since that was clearly their original strategy. The question is: What? Steep? Believe it or not that's still listed TBA on the eShop. Not Splatoon this time. Not kart. Smash is their only other existing online franchise. Could be an all new franchise....a Nintendo MMO/persistent world or such would be interesting. Could be Pokemon. Charging for Pokebank worked well, why not charge for PvP/PvE Pokemon play? That would be as good a service seller as Halo and beyond.

@NEStalgia I feel really stupid for not realizing that's probably why they are pushing GameFreak so hard to release the new Pokemon games this year. If that's the case, they'll probably offer free Pokebank as part of the online, as a major incentive. Cause then it's only an extra $15 a year for most people.

@NEStalgia They could also in addition to something like Smash add in significant additions to existing games. I keep mentioning it but MK8 Deluxe DLC and maybe say online subscribers get a discount, Splatoon 2 will probably go beyond the original 1 year of free content planned (maybe such that by the end of Splatoon 2 support, every Splatoon Wii U stage is playable in Splatoon 2), etc.

@Grumblevolcano I'm not sure the existing games will endure much additional content by September. ARMS they've already pretty much said theyr'e done with adding to. It'll be well over a year old by then. It would need a freaking sequel by that point. Splatoon would be over 1 year. It'll have life in it, but it would have to be something BIG like the long awaited, never delivered, infinitely hyped vs. Octolings mode. I could see that happening, though I'm not sure it would drive more than the existing audience into online....itll still be over a year old, and for an online shooter, that's kind of aged and the players move onto other things. I was as hardcore as anyone gets in Splatoon 2 short of competitions....and my interest is moving on. And it's far from September. The casual players will be moving on by April. I'm sure they'll keep adding stuff (2 years of fests already were stated) so it won't die, but it won't be a major online mover like it would have been. Kart....that's, what, 4 years old by then with several DLC packs already released and bundled across 2 platform gens? That's like adding DLC to Halo: MC Collection instead of launching Sea of Thieves at this point...

They still need something fresh with online. "Pay up $20 to keep playing your >1year old online games, plus an inferior version of FIFA" isn't a sales pitch There's no lure and hook. MS is using Sea of Theieves launch to move Game Pass. Sony used Battlefield 4 and Killzone to move PS+ at launch. Sony....didn't use anything to move PS Now.....and PS Now is dead and irrelevant. I imagine they'll have at least something....the speculation isn't really "if" but "what". Smash 4 port would be phoning it in. Smash 5 would be predictable but popular. Something totally new would be exciting. They did say they have new IPs in the works..... maybe online wasn't pushed back because of infrastructure problems but because its intended launch game wasn't ready (Pokemon? I mean an online focused Pokemon after the phenomenon that was Pokemon Go would CRUSH the market. We'd need an all new array of "it prints money" and Iwata-as-a-ninja gifs. )

@link3710 That's a good thought about including Pokebank built in. Reggie did talk about a "very Nintendo" way of doing paid...that could qualify. It's just a glorified cloud save after all.