Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Ralizah That DS game is $60?!

Like seriously, anyone wanna tell me where I mentioned Okami?

Still feels TWEWY might be $40 or 50 since the Japanese price isn't full price, but who knows?

@Octane That's what retailers are listing the HD remaster of TWEWY on Switch at. I really hope it's just a placeholder price...

$29.99 would be the sweet point, I think, but I'd be willing to pay $39.99.

Okami is a long game, and the Switch port has had some decent work put into it, based on the differing control schemes for physical and handheld. $20 feels almost overly generous.

I'm still tripping over skullgirls. If i can get a vs game and some kind of soul calibur game (II HD please) I'm moth balling my ps4 for fighting games (the outliers I have on pc as well).

@Ralizah Personally understand why you don't want it to be $60, but why is $30 the sweet point though?

It has all new graphics, and seems to have extra scenario (Which I still have no idea how long, BUT if it's a whole new week...), controls are various ways with normal touch, and motion at minimum? Then there's musics that they are revamping as well.

It gives a lot, and not merely just a HD upgrade.

@Ralizah You can always wonder how much work that truly is. Probably a few guys adjusting some settings for a couple of days. You'd be surprised what a single programmer can achieve in a single day. A quick port, a game that was running on half a dozen systems already. I can see why it's still very profitable at $20.

I think most of us are sometimes conditioned into thinking that everything related to gaming has to be expensive because some companies charge way more than they need!

@darkfenrir The graphics aren't all new, they appear to be straight from Solo Remix. That said, the rest of your points are definitely true. If it does hit the $60 price point, the new scenario better be at least a full week. Which, everything is pointing to anyways (the teaser did say NEW 7 DAYS at the end of Solo Remix after all), but that's another third to the game. If that's the case, I'd definitely be okay with $50, and grumpily accept $60. It was totally worth $60 in it's original release in my opinion anyways. I think the japanese price is around $43 though, for what that's worth.

Man, the Switch being a JRPG behemoth is all that I really need. RPGs and platformers are my two most favorite genres out there.

@link3710 Yeah, Japanese release is around JPY 5184 on Amazon, but there's another from Amazon as well that has it on JPY 4467

(can see it here: https://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_ja_JP=カタ�... first 2 entries)

Might be $50, but I would think it's likelier to be $40... but we'll see.

@Octane I personally thought gaming is one of the cheapest entertainment! In general you get around at least $2/hour, with some going up to $1/hour or even less.

@darkfenrir A deck of cards is only a few bucks and it gives you countless hours of entertainment. Maybe you should switch hobbies

@Octane Eh, proper deck of cards can go for thousands of dollars, depending on what you aim

@Tsurii Well, that's how I grew up

Got kicked out of the door, wasn't allowed back in for the next few hours and we had to entertain ourselves outside. Good ol' times.

@Octane Wow grandpa! Do you remember hunting wooly mammoths too?

@darkfenrir I think $29.99 would be an extremely competitive price point. It's generally the lowest you see retail Switch games debut at, and it would allow the game to stand out from the glut of JRPGs releasing this year.

With that said, I'd be fully willing to purchase it at $39.99, and don't really expect it to go for less.

@Ralizah Yeah... doubt it'll go to $40 since that's the usual "retail" look (I think the $30 tend to be the indies? correct me if I'm wrong here though).

I'll still happily purchase even if it's $60, but I understand not all is like me for this game xD

Well Mega Man 11 is $30, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (my go-to example for AA games lel) was also $30 when it launched too IIRC.

I miss that. My nieces never go outside. It's weird.

I guess that makes it possible, although isn't Hellblade is like 'AAA' but indie kind of thing?

(Although the talent for it is like... it's not going to be helpful for most indies in general lol)

@Fooligan We strangled them.