Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@FragRed You mean leaving September/October to third parties lol. Everyone's avoiding Red Dead in November. But I could see them releasing Pokemon around that time. That's one of the few games that could compete or wouldn't be affected by Red Dead Redemption.

I hope at least one of Wargroove and Fire Emblem is before the holiday season, the lack of Tactical RPGs on Switch is rather annoying.

Pokemon X&Y went up against GTA5, Pokemon will do just fine(if it even releases this year).

@Octane Wait...you saying Red Dead 2 is coming to Switch?

@Octane Switch should be mostly unaffected by Red Dead, though.

@GrailUK No, it's not.

@Ralizah It's still competing for people's wallets though. And I think many Switch owners also own a second console or PC. I think there's enough overlap that Red Dead launching in November very late October can make a difference. But Pokemon is big enough to handle it I think, especially if the Switch game is a bit more than just another Pokemon game.

Read Dead is October for one thing...

@Octane So you are predicting a barren November for Switch? Bah. Humbug.

@GrailUK No, I don't. However, I do think that a lot of companies will try to avoid that period. I'm certain there will be companies making use of the void created by RDR2, but with Activision moving COD to October, you know they're all anticipating something big. I think that Pokemon could launch in November no problem for example. But it's hard to predict which games will launch in November, and which won't.

I'm not worried about Red Dead affecting third party ports on Switch. If that was the case, third parties basically wouldn't be able to launch anything in September through November, as September appears to be the dumping grounds for all the other 3rd party games avoiding Red Dead on PS4/XB1.

@Octane I mean, there's some overlap, but Switch's userbase is still distinct enough that I don't expect RDR2 to sink any moderately large release on that platform. Even a third party one.

The strongest suspect, I think, for a release later this year aside from SSB and Pokemon is Animal Crossing just because a new entry is pretty much overdue by this point and we know that there have been plans (Nintendo mentioning Pocket Camp connecting with a console game), and the franchise is a big success. That would be pretty major if all three were released. At least for me!

I will be taken back if a new Animal Crossing isn't at least announced soon.

I saw about that, I hope if they're planning on revealing Animal Crossing Switch before E3 they also announce Fire Emblem Switch before E3.

@Grumblevolcano I think the announcement would be at E3, not before it.

@Tsurii "After a night of unsettling dreams, Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed into a capitalist raccoon"

If we honestly have a new Animal Crossing, new Super Smash Bros, and new Pokemon all coming out by the end of this year, it might just help make up for how lacking the Switch has been since launch for me.

That would be simply incredible.

I just hope Smash doesn't get roster cuts as well as that both Fire Emblem and Pokemon aren't given the BotW treatment. More DLC for existing games would also be nice.

@Harmonie If that happens, we'll have ever major active Nintendo IP on the Switch by the end of the year outside of what, Metroid, Wario and Mario Party? And it seems highly likely we'll be getting at least Mario Party and Metroid by the end of next year...

EDIT: And Pikmin. I totally forgot to mention Pikmin

Define 'major' and 'active' and then we'll talk...