Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Aozz101x This suggests Yoshi was going to be in the Direct which seems realistic. Yoshi will probably be next year's Kirby Star Allies.

@Grumblevolcano Now that's depressing.

If it's anything like Wooly World gameplay and music wise, I'll be very happy.

Ya, Yoshi's Wooly World was fantastic.

Kirby Star Allies was pretty fun, but kinda meh. Solid game, but not great. Didn't like the friend mechanic, just wanted single player.

Yoshi will be a much better spring platformer.

They're saying September 13 now for the Direct, btw. At least, dataminers are.

Well I was meaning about Yoshi being next year's Kirby Star Allies in the sense of being an early Spring platformer.

I see something like this happening for the first half of 2019 regarding Nintendo system exclusives:
January - Travis Strikes Again
February - Wii U port, Daemon X Machina
March - Yoshi, Labo Toy-Con 04
April - Wii U port
May - Fire Emblem Three Houses
June - Unannounced new game (maybe Pikmin 4?), Wii U port

Of course you'll have 3rd party multiplatform games and indie games in addition to these.

@JaxonH How could dataminers find something that Nintendo only decided this morning? I call foul! (But it could be accurate anyway just because it's logical.)

@JaxonH @NEStalgia What are the dataminers mining to find this information? It's not like it's something they can find on the Switch or anything? Can it?

Well, a delay of the Splatoon 2 content that was meant to hit tomorrow means that content has to come after the Direct so it still remains a surprise until announced. As such, date of the Splatoon update equals a near estimate of the Direct date.

Megaman 11 demo now out on Switch.

@Aozz101x That would've likely been a Direct announcement.

Not sure if I care about Ff15 pocket edition heading to switch. Couldnt they have made a new Crystal chronicles or port the 13 trilogy instead?

... I shall be optimistic...I shall be optimistic.

If the FF15 Pocket Edition has the open world instead of the each chapter split going on like the mobile edition...

Then I think I'll want to get it. I actually enjoyed the little I played on phone, and the full game on Steam o.o)

Yeah I already have FFXV on PC (was on sale for like 60% last week), which is probably still going to be better than the Pocket Edition. So I'm going to pass tbh.

I can cross two items off my direct predictions list now, we know Yoshi's in it and FF XV Pocket Edition (or at least that probably was supposed to be part of it.). Only other ones that might pop up before the direct would be the Ubi port or Spyro rumors. Meant to mention the Megaman 11 demo too, but that was obvious considering dataminers. Nothing that would've surprised me seems to have come out of this at least.

EDIT: And a Ubi port (not a good one) just got leaked, so cross that one off too.

Nice, just realized that this thread became sticky.

Anyway, with MM11 demo's out, it's a proof that Capcom's confident about the game.

Also, Nintendo showing its human side by delaying its direct in respect of the victims who died by an earthquake is one of the big reasons why I like to support Nintendo. Me personally, wouldn't have watched it because I was fatigued from my summer trip, so I can consider myself lucky, no any disrespect to the fallen people.

Civilization VI is coming to Nintendo Switch on Nov 16, 2018.
https://civilization.com/news/entries/civilization-vi-nintend...

I’m starting to think there won’t be a need for a Direct before long with the number of announcements that are starting to come out.

From these announcements, I can tell the Direct was going to be strong on the 3rd party front.

@FragRed There's still the 1st party side of things even if all the 3rd party announcements were announced before the new Direct date.

Wow, Civ 6 is a pretty major game. That's the kind of game I was dying for on the Wii U, but now it'll be on the Switch? This is amazing news. I'm so sorry for the earthquake and those affected by it, as well as Nintendo missing the opportunity to surprise us with these pretty major surprises.

@Grumblevolcano True but I feel having a Direct after all these announcements have been made is going to really disappoint people and that will lead to a large backlash. I question whether it would be worth it. They could easily just make the first party announcements via social media now.