Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@theJGG I'm pretty sure Bowser's Fury was originally Odyssey DLC that got moved to being included with 3D World. Maybe because Odyssey support ended too long ago (the last 8 bit Luigi hint art was in November 2018) to get good DLC sales?

@Grumblevolcano

Yeah I was thinking that. Maybe they planned it as a 3D World themed world in Odyssey, as a way of helping promote the upcoming 3D World port.

Then realized half way through that it would probably just make more sense economically to add it to the 3D World release itself. If that's what happened, I think they made the right decision. This is gonna sell a lot more copies than it would have otherwise.

@theJGG

Call me old fashioned but I'd slightly prefer an Odyssey sequel over 'being right on the internet', as good as that is!

I reckon it was more to do with not having a new main Mario game ready to go for the anniversary so they spruced up one of the re-releases to make it more wow but with Coivd it buggered their plans.

@Giancarlothomaz
Okay, thanks for letting me know.
Now you mention, I do remember there being an interview about that, but I guess I missed it somehow.
Wait, was that the interview in which Nogami said that New Horizons was the "third-generation" of the Animal Crossing series, and hopes that New Horizons is played for "many years to come", IIRC. 🤔😳

Ooof, that "fans should forget Bayonetta 3" comment from Hideki Kamiya is brutal. I'm not sure what perspective I should take on this? Is Kamiya trying to bring fans down, only to surprise us with a late 2021 release? Or is Bayo 3 really a long, looooooong ways off even still? Or, worst case scenario, Bayo 3 is unofficially now vaporware like Scalebound?

It's a tough comment to swallow, no matter how you slice it. Although it gives the theory of Bayonetta 3 being a launch game for the Switch successor more credence. But would Bayo 3 really still be pre-alpha, only at the planning stage? All Kamiya as said the past several months regarding Bayo 3 was "everything's fine" or "development's going well".

Don't look that deep into it. We got enough Grumble conspiracies as is 😉

Just means stop asking about it- they'll talk when they're ready. Which, he clearly implied some news will be made this year.

@Magician I have a bad feeling about Bayonetta 3 between that comment, the SEGA news and rumours of Microsoft doing another Bethesda scale acquisition. 2nd and 3rd points also apply to a bad feeling about SMTV.

Perhaps that is also why Platinum gave Nintendo the Astral Chain IP, to make up for Bayonetta becoming an Xbox exclusive franchise.

@Grumblevolcano

SMT V has an official release window, a dedicated website, and was on Sega's financial report.

I'm not worried about it.

@JaxonH

Yeah, it's fair to say Kamiya is just flat out tired of the Bayo 3 questions.

Lol Even if MS buys SEGA, SMTV and Bayo3 will still be Switch exclusives. Just like how Deathloop(Bethesda published game) is still gonna be a PlayStation timed exclusive for a year.

Also, didn't Nintendo already own the Astral Chain IP(at least the majority)? When the game came out, HK was already saying it was up to Nintendo regarding it getting ported to other systems.

@Magician i fear that Bayonetta 3 is cancelled(vaporware as you said, or Platinum Games is planning to release Bayonetta 3 on Switch sucessor), Nintendo should never anounced this game early like Metroid Prime 4, next time, anounce a game like Bayonetta 3 when is close to release(i would avoid all this stress).

@Giancarlothomaz They generally try to announce games pretty late these days but at that point in time they were still trying to sell people on the Switch. It was probably a good call even though the game is taking forever. Even in the worst case scenario where the game gets cancelled (which I doubt will happen), at least most of the upset Bayonetta fans will have already bought a Switch by now anyway.

Bayonetta 3 will be ready when it's ready. Like with a number of other games, they announced it early, and they don't seem to be in the habit of showing it off in various stages throughout development.

It's also not going to be an Xbox game, lol. I imagine, like the second game, Nintendo probably helped to fund its development, so I expect it'll be a permanent ecosystem exclusive.

Even if Microsoft acquired Sega (which isn't going to happen, IMO), they'd still honor exclusivity agreements.

@Grumblevolcano Even if Microsoft purchased Sega, there is nothing they can do with Bayonetta 2 or 3. I imagine the agreement to Nintendo funding the 2 games is that they also get to keep 100% copyright on them too, even if they don't own the IP outright. It has been said many times that it is up to Nintendo whether these games would ever appear anywhere else.

To be fair, while waiting for Bayonetta 3, you could play Wonderful 101. That game most of you DIDN'T BUY. AGAIN. : (

Wonderful 101 hasn't done particularly well on any platform it has released on, afaik.

I imagine the repellant character designs and chaotic, confusing gameplay haven't helped it in this regard.

I definitely wasn't hooked on TW101 as I was with Bayonetta or even Astral chain. I found myself getting too frustrated drawing the move sets incorrectly far too many times and dying because of it. I finished it, but it wasn't nearly as good as the other two series I mentioned.

@Nintendolife dead cells is having a trial for europe if you can make a article for this would be great @Liam_Doolan

@Snatcher They did, https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/01/nintendo_switch_onl...

@Snatcher This has already been covered:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/01/nintendo_switch_onl...

could Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 release in 2021?(problaby yes)