Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@NintendoByNature Pity about the retail version, but it's nice to have a date. I really just want undocked Switch footage, though.

@Ralizah yea it stinks. Now i have to decide between that and mystery dungeon.

With SS being clearly on the road to the best selling Pokemon games of all time, I genuinely would struggle to believe the next main series games won't have a higher budget. I'm not saying it'll be what they need, but higher at least.

MUA3 clearly well outsold the second game, and Astral Chain breaking that million mark is definitely good news. Glad it looks like no game (except Daemon X Machina presumably) was left behind last year. Do we know where FE:TH fell in all of this?

Also as for Outer Worlds... well no card means it'll be a pick up later title for me if I'm looking for something.

@NintendoByNature @Ralizah @link3710

No retail release for Outer Worlds?

Smells like an opportunity for LRG to profit, just like with Divinity Original Sin II.

@Magician It does seem like everything gets a LRG release these days.

Collecting physical Switch games is going to be a total nightmare in the future. I'm so glad there aren't any of these Limited Run releases for 3DS.

@Magician yea for sure, trying to decide if i should just hold off on it til someone does a physical. I reallly want to play it, I'm ok with waiting for a hefty eshop discount or a physical. Mystery dungeon is it, then.

One could say it's a nightmare right now. The Switch is Nintendo's best third party supported platform in the company's history. The console is less than three years old and it is already closing in on 1,000 physical releases. Nintendo's best selling console, the Wii, only had 1,242 spread across six years.

Is that the budget? Lol GTA 5 was like 150 million. Nintendo are such scroungers.

No wonder the game is less visually impressive than some Wii games.

@Magician it's definitely a nightmare now. At least the Wii had vast amounts of shovelware you could ignore, the Switch's physical catalog has a far higher percentage of actually good games.

Divinity is one I missed and am not even going to worry about tbh.

@Dezzy I was partially joking. I have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was around 20 mil or so. Zelda was 50 IIRC; so it's definitely not more than that. At least, I hope not, because in that case I wonder where the money went.

However, considering Pokemon is the biggest media franchise of all time (in terms of revenue), they can easily afford a 150 GTA budget. 16 million sales; even if only €20 of every copy goes to Nintendo, that's still 320 million in revenue. But every digital copy means €60 goes straight to Ninty's bank account.

@Octane X&Y had a 20 mil budget, we know that. I'd wager this game was maybe 25-30? Or it could still be only 20.

On the other hand, Nintendo definitely doesn't get 60 off a digital sale, they get 20, it's split three ways Hoooowever, on top of that, Nintendo has no direct say in Pokemon's budget, nor does GameFreak. The board at TPC decides that. Which while Nintendo or GameFreak or Monsters leadership could call a vote of no confidence on them to replace them I'm sure, they'd definitely need a majority agreement to pull it off.

Obviously in reality it's more messy than that even, since the TPC board isn't going to want to pick a direct fight with Nintendo's heads but...

@link3710 Oh yeah, sure. But I meant that all of it is revenue for the collective Nintendo/TPC/GameFreak conglomerate, none of it goes to a GameStop or Amazon.

I do get that Nintendo doesn't have as much say in what happens, probably some, but not all, otherwise it would've been treated differently I think.

So EA has stated they are happy with how Switch is doing, but basically has nothing to announce, and is cautious that the top sellers are all first party titles.

So NOW the excuse is "Well we can't top the charts".

As if a Nintendo game selling 10m and yours selling 2m on the platform is bad.

@Knuckles-Fajita Also "funny" is how they state that many people have both a HD console and Switch, as if the latter isn't an HD capable console...

EA: Every Avenue of excuse possible...

I NEED THOSE JOYCONS

@ThanosReXXX At this point I want it to continue because A) Screw EA most of the time and B) The researcher and sadist in me wants to get that sweet sexy buzz right in the heart every few months when they somehow pull another excuse out.

@IceClimbers ugh wish it was a lite but it does look cool. My son would love it!!

@Knuckles-Fajita That feeling when petty excuses from EA actually cause anything even remotely positive in people...

<considers joining the mindless EA hate train>

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<decides to actually think for himself>

Last I checked, the Switch had HD. Did some patch get pushed out that downgraded it to standard def in my absence?