Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

For the first E3 in a while I'm not really feeling the hype. I think it's knowing the focus is going to be on Smash, a game I'm not that big into. That and already knowing a few of the other titles due to that leak,which I'm also not into. It could work out in my favour going with mild expectations,3 or 4 nice surprises and I'll be a happy man. If it turns out that Starfox Grand Prix doesn't exist I'll be gutted.

Glass half full prediction
Yoshi - July
Starfox Grand Prix - August
Smash - September
Fire Emblem - October
Pokémon Let's Go - November
Bayonetta 3 - November
Skyward Sword HD - December
Doom Eternal
Wolfenstein Young Blood
Sneak peek at Metroid Prime 4

@OorWullie they already have Captain Toad and Octopath next month so I doubt they would try to throw Yoshi in there too, I'm thinking August for that. I am with you on all the others though

@OorWullie
Add with June : Yokai Watch for Switch due to 27 June 2018.

@redd214 Yep you're right July is already accounted for. Yoshi was the one I was left with, not knowing where to put him I slung him in to July without a thought. Without July, that list is looking rather squeezed. Perhaps remove Skyward Sword HD and fit him into December. It's not really a December kind of game though if you know what I mean.August is a Yoshi kind of month. I refuse to rule out Star Fox GP while there's still hope.

@OorWullie
Unfortunately, Bayonetta 3 is a ways away, and their focus is 2018. There's no indication the game is coming this year or even next year for that matter. If it was they would've said as much. Same for Metroid Prime 4.

And believe me- I don't want to rain on your optimism but, just being realistic here.

DOOM Eternal has a decent chance of coming but, I wouldn't expect an announcement now. That would likely come much later.

I do think we could still get a trailer for one of the above future games, but honestly I wouldn't count on it and at the end of the day it doesn't change anything either way. The games are coming and whether they give us a trailer for them or not, it's not going to make them come any sooner.

I'd say forget Bayo3 and Metroid Prime 4 until next year's e3. For now, let's just hope Fire Emblem and Smash look good, and that we get a nice surprise or two like Star Fox Grand Prix and Pikmin 4.

@DarthNocturnal
I'm fully aware it's on mobile.

That's why I specifically stated mobile is no substitute. And it's not. Being on mobile does not diminish the appeal of a console quality version with real buttons that can be played on the go. Even if you can connect controllers with Bluetooth and all that the fact is most people just won't. It's too much of a hassle and that's why the world hasn't switched over from consoles to playing iPads connected to their televisions yet, despite the fact you've been able to do it for 10 years.

And I don't see why it wouldn't have local wireless. Both modes are indeed online... on consoles that only offer online. But like so many other switch games when you put it on a system where local wireless is a big draw, they tend to add a local wireless mode.

But even if they don't, it doesn't change the fact that you can play locally, wirelessly. My brother can come over and we can play in person, side by side... there's no need for local wireless to do that. It's the fact you can play locally, wirelessly.

@Oorwullie I feel you buddy, often feel like the vast majority of what gets announced (and people go wild for) isn't really what stokes my own fire but if Nintendo can show us an interesting looking FIRE EMBLEM and give us a September-December release date for the game. Announce PIKMIN 4 for Switch, reveal a complete surprise 1st Party game that I would like (don't know what but I dunno, Switch Sports Resort or something. Maybe a new WARIOLAND game with Wario and Warluigi?), I'll walk away happy.

Curious to see if this rumoured STAR FOR GRAND PRIX really does play like a modern-day DIDDY KONG RACING. I'll be well up for that one if it does.

Of course I'd like more and would genuinely get excited for the supposedly 'niche' market arcade stuff. E.g. I'd be more excited seeing footage of SNK Arcade Classics than the new SMASH but of course I am well aware I am in the minority and there's no chance that'll happen.

If someone from Capcom or Konami featured in Nintendo's E3 Direct and said they were releasing a collection of their peerless side-scrolling beat-em-ups it would be the best E3 ever! Ha! Ha! Again, never gonna happen.

So will just wait and see if anything gets me excited in the Direct. Looking forward to it like I always do but deep down, I often know not to expect to see many surprises for things that would actually genuinely appeal to me.

I'm cautiously optimistic about Nintendo. I know their main thing will be Smash, so I'm setting my expectations low, I want at least one new announcement, 2018 or not. Something that hasn't been leaked, at least.

BTW Tennis World Tour (The 20% finished tennis game) was released today at least in the US despite the promised delay.

@DarthNocturnal
Are you... not listening to me or...?

It doesn't matter if it has local wireless. I'm not here to argue over whether it will have local wireless. If it does it does, if it doesn't it doesn't. It doesn't really matter. Even if it does you're probably not gonna have enough people to play anyways (not that that's an excuse to not include it)

It's the fact you can play locally, wirelessly.. That's the bottom line. Like Splatoon 2, my bro bought it because he could come over and play with me in the same room. Did we use the local wireless? No. Because it would've just been us two. But we did play locally, wirelessly. And that was a huge selling point to the both of us, neither of which are big into online games.

Why are we arguing about wireless when Nintendo will reveal Pikmin 4 in about two hours?

If Pikmin 4 isn't announced this e3, I might have to give up on it.

It was 9 years between Pikmin 2 and 3. It's been 5 years since Pikmin 3. That's long enough.

At the very very very -least- I hope they acknowledge its existence without some interviewer having to specifically ask Miyamoto.

All I hope for this E3 is that they’ll show off at least two new fighters in Smash (counting Inklings) and that they’ll announce the release dates for things we already know about but don’t have release dates (Octo Expansion, Dark Souls, Smash ect.). Anything after that will just be icing on the cake.

Hyper Sports R from Konami just got announced.

Uh... I don't think this is the action-adventure game.

@Octane I can see it now. A Pikmin rendition of C+C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Pikmin Now)" as Miyamoto and Reggie dance with a crowd of Pikmin for the entirety of the presentation

@DarthNocturnal
Yes, and right after I said it doesn't matter. Aka "I don't care if you're right or wrong, I don't care to hear explanations, I don't want to argue over this, because it doesn't matter"

And I still think it should have local wireless. I've heard nothing to convince me otherwise. Again I don't want to argue about it because it just. doesn't. matter. The point I was getting at is that you can play with anyone anywhere and you can do it in person.

So forget local wireless, we're not talking about local wireless, local wireless was never the issue. I don't know how this got de-railed into half a dozen posts back-and-forth when the point I'm getting at is completely irrelevant to whether it has local wireless.

@DarthNocturnal
No worries, I know you meant no offense. Sorry if I sounded snappy. Just get a bit frustrated when one small detail is cherry picked that is completely inconsequential to the larger point of discussion. You very well may be right- you probably know the game better than me. Ultimately though, it's just the fact people can play together in the same room or place I was getting at.

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is looking good. Here's a new trailer. Along with Shining Resonance (the demo for which is excellent, btw) and Team Sonic Racing, they're bringing at least 3 top tier games to Switch this summer/fall.

Oh man, VC4 looks like a perfect follow-up to the first one. Really hope we get actual gameplay footage of the game running undocked soon.

@JaxonH Pikmin 4 will happen. That franchise is in no danger. I mean they even pushed forward that 3DS spinoff, meaning they are not letting the series go anywhere.

Now Golden Sun, that's a franchise with an eight year gap that I am deeply concerned about...