Yeah Q1 is pretty solid at this point. MUCH better than Q1 2018 and Q1 2019 were, that's for sure.
I believe Animal Crossing is the only new Nintendo game known for this year. The others are a port of Tokyo Mirage Sessions and the remakes of Mystery Dungeon and Xenoblade.
@JaxonH Awesome, I'd already tweeted but good to know. Do we know if Dualshock 5 / XBSX controllers have gyro? I'm hoping it at least becomes standard for single player games, so that way it can bleed into multiplayer as well.
@IceClimbers They're publishing Bravely Default II if that counts?
@link3710
DS5 will certainly have gyro, as DS4 did. No word on XSX controller though. I tweeted Phil, but unless theres more demand on social media I'm not sure Xbox is going to bother.
It's a feature the Xbox and Sony crowd doesnt ask for because they've never properly used it because devs dont implement it. And devs dont implement it because the Xbox and Sony crowd doesnt ask for it. A catch 22 where they never understand what they're missing. And the cycle continues.
Thank God for the Switch fanbase stepping up and voicing their demand for gyro. Its thanks to that demand we have the feature nearly standard today.
And thank God PC can map it for any and every game.
High end graphics gyro.
Portable gyro.
All bases are covered.
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@sneazzy95
Nothing is going to change the 1st party lineup for January - March. Thats set already with Brain Age, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Fire Emblem expansion, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Animal Crossing.
So it doesnt matter if they tell you what's coming after that now, just 16 days into the new year, or next month, or the month after that. It won't change the lineup, whether we know about it now or not.
Last year was a Feb direct, and sometimes it's even as late as March. So unless we get all the way to Animal Crossing without word, they're not taking too long. People are just being impatient wanting to know right this second.
@JaxonH Oh I know DS4 does, I use it as my PC gaming controller for that reason. Wouldn't be the first time someone took away a controller feature though. Still, if it does have both Gyro and paddles, I'll probably be replacing my PC controller for that.
I'm calling it that one of the six (probably the last one) will be either Sigurd, Seliph or Hector to promote the next Fire Emblem remake (Sigurd or Seliph if the remake is Genealogy, Hector if the remake is Binding Blade given we already have Roy).
I won't even begin to guess what fighters they're gonna bring out, but I imagine there are gonna be at least one or two really-out-of-left field ones. Hard to imagine it's gonna be getting new fighters up until December next year, yet here we are
@DannyBoi
That's premature. They're not "being quiet". We're only 16 days into the year and have the next 4 1st party releases with dates on the calendar.
Only if/when we see that whittled down to say, 1, and they still haven't said anything, then you can say they're being quiet. Right now that's not the case. We have plenty of time to communicate what's coming after Animal Crossing.
We're 16 days into the new year. Settle down.
@link3710
Same. Though I still find myself using the Steam Controller 99% of the time anyways. Still good to have a normal controller with Dpad to fall back on.
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@JaxonH I got some questions for you. When do you think they will overhaul the Switch OS/drop the next firmware update and when do you reckon the next direct will be?
@DannyBoi
No idea on the first two, and that's assuming they do at all. Seems more and more likely the OS is basically finished. I wouldn't expect any other significant changes.
As for next Direct, February. They'll probably let Tokyo Mirage Sessions release, have its little window of attention, then around Valentine's Day, give or take, we'll see a Direct announced. Which will basically just reiterate the Fire Emblem expansion, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Animal Crossing, and give us an April/May release (probably Xenoblade) and a June/July release (probably Mario Golf or Pikmin 3). If Super Mario 3D World is coming, that'll likely get announced too, for "summer" which will really be Aug or Sept.
And that'll be it until e3. Then at e3, itll be a decent show with mostly brand new game announcements for the 2nd half of the year, but with a few titles shown that we've been waiting on like Bayonetta 3 and Zelda BotW 2.
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@JaxonH There was that distrubution of update data maintence on jan 6th/7th. Nothing came of that. And there has been lots of maintence at the moment this month.
@JaxonH Honestly, I wanted to like the Steam Controller. I bought one as soon as it released. But I just can't abide the darn thing. The only real killer app it had was how customizable it was, and now any PS4, Xbone, or Switch pad is just as customizable.
@DannyBoi The type of maintenance is important. The first maintenance we found out was due to problems regarding downloading the most recent update and "Online play for some software" just means a game is undergoing maintenance.
The most interesting ones are "Network Services" and "Purchasing and using passes" on January 21st. Maybe we'll get something then, maybe not.
As for general Direct, I was thinking January 30th or February 13th but after the Fire Emblem news I'm somewhat leaning towards April and Brain Training's NA release date along with a mobile game gets announced in the investors meeting.
@Ralizah
I think everyone feels that way at first.
But once you learn how to load the configs on a game by game basis, tweak the sensitivities to be fast enough to turn around like mouse and keyboard but not so fast it's out of control, once you get gyro perfect... and most importantly once you practice with it enough to properly learn it... you realize how amazing it is.
Like, imagine someone who's never used keyboard and mouse, ever, suddenly trying kb/m. First reaction is gonna be "I cant do this, I'm performing way worse than with a controller". But those who learn it properly dominate.
I think same is true for Steam controller. Alot of the settings are trash. Sensitivities way to low where you have to repeatedly swipe to turn, or way too high. It should be where you can turn about 270 degrees with a full left to right swipe edit: or use acceleration so a full swipe only does 90 degrees but it keeps turning for a while until you tap to stop it. Learning to time the "swipe then tap" to land at a perfect 180 degree turn can mean complete 180 turns in a matter of milliseconds And then dial in the gyro, map actions to paddles (often I do left grip for crouch but hold it for prone, so I get 2 actions on one button, then normal accept on right grip, can play without ever lifting thumb from trackpad...
It just takes practice. That and learning the right settings and how to get them. Leveraging community configs and editing
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