Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano That game should have been translated a while back, didn't the 3DS titles the switch version is based on do well outside of japan?

This may not turn out to be much, but I follow the games journalist Chris Scullion on Twitter and listen to his podcasts and stuff. He knows some people in the games industry so he sometimes knows about games before they're revealed (eg he knew about Smash before the March Direct), but he doesn't leak them or anything. Anyway, after E3 he said he was surprised because there were some games he knew about that he expected Nintendo to announce at E3, but they didn't. I don't think he knew about Labo Toy-Con 3 so that's not what he was talking about. I dunno, it may be nothing but it sounds like Nintendo does have some more announcements up their sleeve for this year.

@Dogorilla for some reason rumours are swirling about them bringing super Mario U as a switch title... which would work..

but surely super Mario maker, makes more sense as a title release or is that just me? haha

On that note, I just looked at Chris Scullion's Twitter account and he makes a very good point about the Smash Direct: https://twitter.com/scully1888/status/1026480384601726977

@Akuza89 Yeah I'd say Mario Maker has more going for it (although I never actually played NSMBU). Maybe they could combine them and Super Luigi U as some kind of 2D Mario collection on Switch.

@Akuza89 Capcom said they didn't release MHGU earlier because of MH World.

As for NSMBU vs. Mario Maker, if you release both then NSMBU first makes the most sense.

@link3710 companies are always dense. After ww2 there was a recession in part because the golden goose of radios suddenly stopped selling. Go figure one everyone had one they no longer bought them as fast. Then they did the same with pcs. Now again with phones. Supposedly smart MBAs generally seem to possess Forest Gump levels of intellect

@EvilLucario of they know how to leverage third parties just fine. they just don't want to. They're protecting first party sales just as Sega did and Nintendo always did. It gets them in trouble and that's part of their third party problem. "Nintendo for Nintendo games"is the environment they actively cultivate.

As for pc, you missed the threads of my awful gaming pc luck. You thought my bad luck was just for xenoblade? Pssshh... If i walked into a casino, not only would i not win, but I'd trip and knock over someone's drink, it would short out a slot machine, which would catch fire, cause millions in damages, and id be confused with a serial arsonist, arrested, but the prison transport would fall off a bridge into the river on the way. That's my luck

The cost and nuance if pc gaming and the fact that i will never again game at a desk kind if kills pc gaming. It was fun back when i didn't have to spend all day every day at a desk in front of the monitor . Sure it's more powerful, but at some point the convenience of "turn it in, get good enough result" beats spending hours tuning. And i was hardcore pc master race for a decade plus. Someday you'll be me

Also i learned never ever game on a productivity box. Keep them separate. Maybe a holdover from the win 9x days but after enough heartache the lesson stays forever and I'd rather do productivity on a laptop outside the office. Portability is King. That's why i play switch.

I went and fact checked this because a lot of claims of Direct patterns have been false, and people spread them around like they're the gospel (Remember the whole "Nintendo Direct Mini's are always followed by a full Nintendo Direct"? That one was based on misinformation, but was believed by many and even posted in the news section of this site). The examples used here, for the most part, do check out - with one mistake. The second example he used doesn't check out (the "Nintendo Direct" was for Monster Hunter 4, and was exclusive to Japan. The actual next full Nintendo Direct was around a month later).

But even though the dates he used do check out for almost all of the examples, I still think this is being very selective. Instances have been found where a general Nintendo Direct follows a specific one, but if you look through the list of Directs, there are many cases where this didn't happen. And there were Super Smash Bros Directs not immediately followed by full Nintendo Directs.

I wish people like him would stop making up this stuff. These claims of patterns are not founded in reality.

@Harmonie True, I suppose I should have checked that before linking to it here. Regardless, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a general Direct by the end of September, maybe with at least one big unannounced game coming before the end of the year.

I think there will be a Direct on the basis of I have no idea what the point would be of not having one. That's all you need really.

Also, I think basically every 3rd party game announced at the March one is already out. Also, they'd be fools to do nothing to remind people about DBFighterZ.

@kkslider5552000 I don't think Nintendo minds if FighterZ (and many other 3rd party releases) are forgotten, at least that's the impression E3 gave. 3rd party appearances during Treehouse Live:

• Killer Queen Black
• Overcooked 2
• Hollow Knight
• Mario + Rabbids DLC
• Starlink
• Octopath Traveler
• Fortnite

Meanwhile there were 10 segments on Smash in addition to over half the Direct being Smash and there being a Smash tournament.

Nefarious is coming to the Switch later this year

https://nintendoeverything.com/nefarious-coming-to-switch-lat...

@Mrtoad Oooo I definitely am interested in that one.

Valkyria Chronicles 4 demo and preorder going up on the eshop later today.

Also TWEWY is confirmed for 12th October.

Finally! I've got to finish TWEWY before Smash drops, will be getting that day 1.

Logically a NSMBU/NSLU port would make a lot of sense. 2D Mario is a glaring miss at the minute.

So would highlighting the third party support as it’s actually a lot better than Nintendo systems usually get.

It's been long enough that I wouldn't mind a new NSMB game. Hopefully the next time they make one, they do something to freshen up the gameplay at least in a minor way

The fact they're releasing general Direct-esque info via social media like TWEWY release tells me the next general Direct will probably focus on Smash and early 2019 games like Yoshi, Daemon X Machina and Fire Emblem (I'm guessing the first 2 will be early 2019).

@Grumblevolcano

That brief-as-we-can-make-it third party segment (that wasn’t even all third party now I think about it) at E3 was a joke. Especially compared to the time spent on Smash.

@electrolite77 The concept wasn't bad but some of the 3rd party games in that segment should've got their own part of the Direct. At the very least Starlink, DB FighterZ and MHGU.

The best outcome of that E3 Direct using only games present in the Direct would've been something like:

• Smash Ultimate Everyone is Here Trailer
• Daemon X Machina
• Xenoblade 2 Torna DLC
• Pokemon Let's Go
• DB FighterZ
• Super Mario Party
• Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
• Fortnite
• Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion (reveal the release date in the Direct rather than at the end of the tournament)
• Overcooked 2
• Killer Queen Black
• Hollow Knight
• Fire Emblem Three Houses
• Octopath Traveler
• Starlink
• Near future lineup segment
• Smash Ultimate Ridley trailer

Agreed, you'd think they would have at least spent some amount of time on FighterZ, especially since there's no graphical downgrade, right? Read it's still 1080p 60FPS, if I were Nintendo I would be pushing that game particularly hard