Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@IceClimbers

Bayonetta 2 charted at 14, which is an excellent result. Did better than it's Wii U debut! It was also #4 on the individual Switch chart.

That's great news. I think Japanese sales were a pretty big disappointment and it didn't perform great in the UK either (don't know about all of Europe) but at least it got a solid start in North America despite no advertising outside of some videos on Nintendo's official youtube channel. Hopefully it'll find a decent market and Bayo 3 can garner more sales. Didn't play a game in this series until this collection came out and I don't know what I was thinking by avoiding it previously. These kind of games are right up my alley and something that is severely missing these days. With God of War going in a new direction and DMC and Ninja Gaiden m.i.a. there needs to be something to fill the void.

Bayonetta 3 would sell better solely because it's on a more popular system while enough positive word-of-mouth graced Bayonetta for the past few years. Heck, even Bayonetta 2 sold decently well considering it's a more niche game stuck on an undersold system.

All I know is, I got Lumines on Vita but never actually played it. But the reason I got it is because people were raving about it, even back on PSP. It's been one of the highlight Sony handheld games since they started making handhelds. It's only fitting it comes to Switch now that Sony has backed away from the handheld market. Carry the torch.

I can't say it's good because I haven't personally played it but I know that every single person I know that has ever owned a Vita or PSP has raved about the game. So it's going to be an instant buy for me.

I started playing Attack On Titan 2. As someone completely naïve to anime, I went into this game with no expectations. And I gotta say I'm really impressed. This game is way better than you would think given the fact almost nobody is talking about it. It's a really good game.

Lumines is brilliant. It really is one of the best zone-out games that I have ever played, and I can't wait to get it on Switch. Will pour dozens of hours into it.

@OorWullie
I think the Nintendolife article said something like over 50% of sales for many of those big 3rd party games are digital.

So that would mean whatever physical sales numbers we're seeing need to at least be doubled for what they sold digitally.

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana launches June 26th in North America. No word on Europe yet.

@YummyHappyPills A month before Octopath... well, it's better than launching right after, I guess. Nice to have a date nailed down!

Now we just got word ARK: Survival Evolved is coming to Switch.

I mean...ok.

https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/ark-survival-evolved...

As much as I feel like Sony is showing up Nintendo right now (and it is: consider how much buzz SotC and MHW have gotten!), my Switch isn't going to be lacking any exciting games to play this year.

April: Gal Gun 2; South Park: The Fractured But Whole
May: Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition; Dark Souls Remastered; Mega Man Legacy Collections 1 + 2
June: Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
July: Octopath Traveler; Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

I won't be purchasing even half of those games in that timeframe. And that's not to mention Hollow Knight, other upcoming indies that aren't dated yet, any of Nintendo's first-party stuff that'll inevitably dominate the later part of the year, Valkyria Chronicles 4, etc.

Gonna buy Ys VIII and play the heck out of it. I feel like I'm gonna love that so much.

https://nintendoeverything.com/ys-viii-launches-for-switch-on...

Seems June 29 for Europe for Ys8 :]

@Syndrome OH NO, NOO! I've been hearing that game is having a ton of problems right now not just on consoles.

This will be my first Y's game, and my second Falcom game after the PSP version of Trails in the Sky: FC.

@Captain_Toad Really? If that's the case i hope that by the time this releases they've fixed most of them.

@YummyHappyPills Good release date for that game. June is looking solid: BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Sushi Strikers, Mario Tennis Aces, and Ys VIII. Not bad at all.

Right now the games I'm planning on getting is looking like:
March - Kirby Star Allies (already out but getting later)
April - Nothing
May - DKC Tropical Freeze, Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition
June - Mario Tennis Aces
July - Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, Octopath Traveler
TBA 2018 - Smash, Yoshi, Fire Emblem
TBA - Metroid Prime 4, Bayonetta 3, Pokemon

I have such a large backlog from last year that I may skip a lot of 3rd party stuff I want.

@IceClimbers God, I forgot about SNK Heroines!

There's too much stuff to play.

@Spoony_Tech Ark: Survival Evolved is coming? That's right up there with the Doom port for "games I never expected on Switch"