Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Finally built up enough gold coins to grab Shadowgate remake for "free". A mighty fine point'n'click, trial'n'error adventure. I hope developer Abstraction Games is working on a Switch port of the 8-bit Adventure Anthology that PS4 got last year. And that LRG will get us a physical release as well.

So total reveals at the Game Awards for Nintendo is 3:

• MUA3 X-Men DLC (December 23rd)
• No More Heroes III - another trailer, debut was at E3 (2020)
• Bravely Default II (2020)

Kind of light on the Nintendo announcements compared to previous years but I enjoyed the show. I'm sure we'll get some good stuff in a direct in a couple months

Ya, pretty weak. Bravely Default II is hype, but it’s not exactly a blockbuster announcement. More mid tier Octopath level.

It’s fine though. I’ve got so many games to play, and with all the RPGs coming to Switch next year (Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, Trials of Mana Remake, Xenoblade Chronicles HD, Trails of Cold Steel III, Bravely Default II, The Snack World, Yokai Watch 4 (hopefully), Fairy Tale, Langrisser I/II, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, The Outer Worlds, Digimon Survive, Pillars of Eternity 2, Persona 5 Scramble, etc) I’m set for quite some time. And that’s not even accounting for all the other games that are coming of other genres (DOOM Eternal, Animal Crossing, Gods and Monsters, Darksiders Genesis, etc) and basically a full year’s lineup still unannounced.

Plus I’m gonna have to check out a few games on other systems. Final Fantasy can wait though. It’s been shown exclusivity ends in March 2021 by Xbox which, yet again, confirms it’s releasing on other platforms, and since new consoles will be out then, that means it’s coming to new consoles, Xbox Series X included, which of course I’ll be grabbing day one, along with PS5, because no matter how much I say I may hold off I know I’m going to. I can swing it, and new consoles are always exciting.

The ones I will be playing though are Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and Cyberpunk. Man I hope Ori comes to Switch. I hope Metroid Prime Trilogy comes to Switch. I hope a new Monster Hunter comes to Switch! And with Zell yet again dropping that Halo leak for Switch, reaffirming it’s happening after taking a hiatus, I hope Halo comes to Switch. May not be the Master Chief Collection, but I’ll take what I can get. As long as it has gyro. Give me those four things and I’ll be the happiest gamer in this forum.

Yeah I guess Nintendo is waiting for their Jan/Feb Direct.

Still Bravely Default 2 is great news. Thoroughly enjoyed the first one except for the timeloop nonsense at the end.

I really hope they've given it a bigger budget though. Given they've got a great install base for this kinda thing on Switch, they should spend a bit more than they did on the first game. That felt very low-budget with the lack of exploration it had in the various towns.

I'm still drowning in Switch backlog so while the quantity of Switch announcements were disappointing, there's still a lot to play in the meantime.

Yeah it was a bit weak on the Nintendo side. No More Heroes 3 is gonna be good though.

Favorite new game announcement was Senua's Saga: Hellblade II by far. That trailer was insane!

They also showed Maneater for Switch, so I guess that's another new game.

After The Game Awards showed no Smash last night, I'm predicting a January 14th Nintendo Direct. You heard it here first.

January 9th is my prediction. We'll see how that goes though. Regardless, we literally know nothing releasing past March at this point, so it's gotta come sooner rather than later. Nintendo's not going to let it get to the point where Animal Crossing is literally their only upcoming game with a release date or release window... I don't think. So that would suggest it'll come out before 1/17 at least.

Very excited for bravely default II... I'm kiiiiiinda hoping that they will use the engine to remake Default and Second at some point but no worries. Maneater will be great for those days that people get on my nerves. I do hope that square is working on dumping FF 1-6 next year. Haven't seen the NMH3 trailer yet but I'm buying it day one so I kinda don't care. More interested in ports of the wii games.

You all are killing me with these early january direct dates.

I'll wait for Bravely Second Second 2

@link3710
Ya but... they did exactly that earlier this year with their February Direct, leaving only Yoshi's Crafted World with a release date in March.

@Ryu_Niiyama If they do port the older FF games, they'll probably be the ugly mobile ports, unfortunately.

S-E has no respect for the gorgeous pixel art in their older games.

I'd be fine with the psp versions of the first four games.

Particularly the Complete Collection of IV, @Eel... Which is strangely not easily available otherwise

@JaxonH Well, if the rumors that the Direct was delayed this year are founded, then that wasn't what had been planned.

@Ralizah Honestly at this point in my life i just want stuff in one place. I'll take the mobile versions if that is what they can port easily. So long as they work. My personal opinion is anybody that wants the originals will have them in some form. I have the ps1 anthology disk for instance. I mean if they want to port the originals, great, but if that is what stands between a getting a port and not...I'll take the port.

Nintendo doesn't have Indie World/Highlights to fall back on this time. We had Indie World this week and the next Indie World would likely be between around February 18th (PAX East starts February 27th next year and the gap between the indie presentation and PAX East is usually a bit over a week). Having a February Direct so close would move attention away from the indies.

There were 4 key info drops before this year's February Direct:

• January 8th (social media) - Release dates for Yoshi, FFX/X-2 HD, FFXII, new announcements of January NES games and Dragon's Dogma
• January 23rd - Indie Highlights
• January 25th - Metroid Prime 4 development restart
• January 31st - Piranha Plant Smash DLC shadow drop

As for my prediction for the next Direct, next week or January 8th/9th.