Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

More info on the Starlink update from the February Direct, coming April 30th.

Team Sonic Racing and Assassin’s Creed III Remastered are both up for predownload on the Japanese EShop. Team Sonic Racing is 5.5 GB and AC III is 11.8 GB.

Mario Maker 2 launches June 28th

I think its neat that Nintendo uses twitter for date announcements. I know everyone wants a direct but its not always necessary.

And the fact is over the last couple years management at Nintendo has changed.

@WebHead Yeah, it probably has a wider reach, too.
Nice that Starlink dlc and MM2 have dates now.

@AlohaPizzaJack I think for the most part from now on directs will be used to announce big new switch games.

And again the fact that clearly new management thinks differently about how to announce stuff.

Btw, which Nintendo HQ will decide to release a Direct ? 🤔
Nintendo Japan or Nintendo USA ?

@WebHead They had to announce the release date by now anyway because of the investors meeting. June 2019 with June so close would probably sound suspicious to investors.

Oh my God! Ok! It's happening!

@Grumblevolcano bet Switch Mini gets announced tomorrow to release alongside it lol.

@WebHead At this point I wouldn't be surprised, it would automatically answer most potential investor questions about 3DS.

@Grumblevolcano plus New 2DS XL was announced around this time in 2017 as well.

i wonder if DxM will released the same month as Astral Chain.
also happy that Super Mario Maker 2 is coming June 28, 2019. Day 1 for sure!

Played the Boxboy + Boxgirl demo. Never played one of these before, but it was pretty charming. I think I'll get it.

A month and a half until E3, it's pretty exciting. The release schedule from August through December is loaded with games that have no set release dates (Daemon X Machina, Dragon Quest XI, Pokemon Sword/Shield, Luigi's Mansion 3, Animal Crossing, and Link's Awakening). I assume all those will be given dates at E3. Of all those games, I wouldn't be surprised if DQ XI slipped into early 2020.

The Square Enix E3 press event on June 10th should be interesting.

@RR529 I thought so too. $10 seems like a good deal.

if this comes to the west, i'll be sure to buy it instead of the regular physical version.
https://gonintendo.com/stories/333942-super-mario-maker-2-spe...
this Special Package included a NSO Sub and a touch pen as a pre-order bonus for Super Mario Maker 2.

It says the touch pen comes with the regular pre-order version too, so all you're doing is presumably paying more for the NSO sub, when it'll likely still be cheaper to buy a family sub and split it anyway.

So Nintendo have said there will be no new hardware revealed at E3. That doesn't rule out them revealing it before then though. I'm expecting there to be an Animal Crossing Direct next month so I reckon the Switch Mini will be revealed then,along with a special Animal Crossing edition.

34.74 million Switch's sold as of 31st March.It's now surpassed the N64.

The sales numbers for 1st party games are really impressive. Yoshi is already a million seller.It's a shame ARMS never made it to a million. I can't imagine we'll ever get a sequel to it.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 16.69 million units
Super Mario Odyssey – 14.44 million units
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 13.81 million units
Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 12.77 million units
Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee – 10.63 million units
Splatoon 2 – 8.70 million units
Super Mario Party – 6.40 million units
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 3.31 million units
1-2 Switch – 2.97 million units
Mario Tennis Aces – 2.64 million units
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – 2.25 million units
Kirby Star Allies – 2.56 million units
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – 1.18 million units
Octopath Traveler – 1.17 million units (excluding Japan)
Yoshi’s Crafted World – 1.11 million units
Nintendo Labo Variety Kit – 1.09 million units

@OorWullie
???
Arms sold over 2 million by last year's counts.

And wasn't Pokemom Let's Go at 12 million sold like 3 months ago? How did it move backward?

Something fishy going on here