Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@link3710 @Toy_Link These are the previous Pokemon Directs and the Directs surrounding them:

Nintendo Direct - December 5th 2012
Pokemon Direct - January 8th 2013
Wii U Direct - January 23rd 2013

Nintendo Direct - August 7th 2013
Wonderful 101 Direct - August 9th 2013
Pokemon Direct - September 4th 2013
Wii Fit U Direct - September 18th 2013
Nintendo Direct - October 1st 2013

Pokemon Direct - February 26th 2016
Nintendo Direct - March 3rd 2016

Pokemon Direct - June 6th 2017
Nintendo Spotlight E3 2017 - June 13th 2017

Nintendo Direct - February 13th 2019
Pokemon Direct - February 27th 2019

Pokemon Direct - June 5th 2019
Nintendo Direct E3 2019 - June 11th 2019

So it would suggest 1 of 2 possibilities:

• Normal Direct within the next 2 weeks
• Animal Crossing Direct in January followed by normal Direct in February

@Toy_Link Ah okay, that makes more sense then.

I'm still gut feeling nothing until April, but that's mostly because we've had an unusual run of competence from Nintendo lately in handling things.

@Grumblevolcano Yeah I think that makes sense. I'm thinking that there would be a regular Direct in a couple weeks at most, then a New Horizons Direct in February or March. Mario Kart 8's Direct came out a whole month before the game released on Wii U, so New Horizons might have a similar situation to MK8.

@Heavyarms55
I won't buy old games on modern consoles, generally, even if they're like a few bucks. I just think it's dumb. I bought my new console to play new games, not old games on legacy systems.

@Octane
That hardware is definitely obsolete. I don't know if that would make production ridiculously cheap or ridiculously difficult. I feel like common sense substitutions could be made to make it easier/possible.

I don't know. Seems like a gold mine just waiting to be tapped.

Funny is the complete opposite for me. I don't really like most of the newest games that have released this gen so Switch constantly getting ports from the PS3/Xbox 360 era is a dream come true and i hope they keep coming. Hell, the ports will only increase the moment the PS5 and Xbox X come out because no way in hell studios will be able to port those games to the Switch

@rallydefault
It does save plugin space, controllers, no need for older TVs, cart/disc storage etc. If they only realized the potential gold mine they are just sitting on. Sure beats illegal emulation, if they aren't doing anything about it then they shouldn't really complain when we do.

@rallydefault That's perfectly fine for you, but you are not representative of everyone else.

@Ryu_Niiyama My goodness you are cross! Well whatever then. Good day to you too!

@Heavyarms55 I don’t know if your trolling or you don’t know what it means.
@rallydefault wasn’t representing everyone, he said ‘I’ as in his/her opinion and @ryu_niiyama also gave a lengthy reply to you because you just didn’t understand.

@Heavyarms55
Same to you, my friend. You do understand that duality, right? Your viewpoint is also not the be-all.

Well I gotta finish my sword and shield games now. Ugh 😩

I have to say I'm emotionally invested in the story in AI Somnium Files. It's like reading a good book that you can't put down. I haven't been this invested since The Evil Within 2.

Huh... Well, this changes the field for Q1 2020. TMS#FE, Animal Crossing and PMD:Rescue remake? That's actually an almost decent first quarter.

And if there's a shadow drop of something decent in the next Direct, or announced with a date a month from that Direct, it might be one of the best first quarters the Switch has seen.

So they didn't even improve the graphics for this expansion? The open-world areas STILL look less detailed than Xenoblade Chronicles did, 2 consoles ago.

I don't understand why a franchise that makes an insane amount of money can't afford better graphics.

@Dezzy Because they know that the masses will buy it no matter what.

It was the fastest selling Switch game, so yeah I doubt they have much incentive to put in any more effort than they already do. Especially considering the national Dex thing did absolutely 0 to affect the game succeeding

Mystery Dungeon remake is the best news I could've reasonably asked for from Pokemon right now.

Mystery dungeon has my interest..played the demo for only about 10 min but I'll check it out later tonight a little bit more.

The new years eshop sale is really bad on my wallet considering all the newer stuff coming out too...

@scubydo I had to put myself on a spending freeze. Went too hard for black Friday and chrismtas. Plus rebel collection just showed up a couple days back since i got it for 22 bucks on Amazon. I wont even get to it for a while with my backlog growing.