Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@StuTwo

Both are wrong! The whole plan is created by Bill Gates that want to make 90% of the people zombies with microchips in their brains! This is to make sure that nobody finds out that the Earth is indeed flat and jump off the edge from the Ice Wall called Antarctica into the Nothingness and find the meaning of Life!

@StuTwo You're so foolish, my New World Order is mightier than your Illuminati! Also your social media is reporting fake news unlike my social media who are brave enough to ask the question of what is "true".

check out the inspiration behind the new monsters of Monster Hunter Rise.

https://www.ign.com/articles/meet-the-beasts-how-monster-hunt...

My predictions for today’s Direct:

10 minutes Smash Bros character reveal and showcase
5 minutes Age of Calamity DLC
10 minutes Bravely Default 2
10 minutes Monster Hunter Rise
5 minutes No More Heroes 3
The remaining time is given to third party announcements, a smallish Nintendo game and a one more thing for the big holiday title.
I’m unsure if Zelda anniversary will be done in the Direct. With Mario still celebrating his, and Pokemon next week I think Nintendo will wait till second half of the year and release a collection and one or two other games - either ports or new titles - and celebrate the same way they did with Mario.

Predictions from me:

• New SMT III HD trailer announcing the English release date + Official confirmation the game is coming to PC on Atlus' social media + Reminder SMT V is coming this year
• New Smash character announcement + date for next Sakurai Presents
• Reminder on imminent Switch releases like Bravely 2, MH Rise and Persona 5 Strikers
• 2D Metroid for Switch
• All the games that were recently rated will get their own segments (Great Ace Attorney, Tales from the Borderlands, etc.)
• No More Heroes 3
• Another budget Nintendo game like Good Job!
• New Square Enix ports (either FFI-VI, FF Tactics or DQIV-VI)
• Star Wars: Republic Commando for Switch/PS4 announcement
• GBA on NSO
• New MK8D DLC
• More cloud-only ports like Control and Hitman

RISKIER PREDICTIONS:

• Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition for Switch (now Switch has practically all the DMC games that it's actually capable of running natively minus DmC)
• A new Atlus port (either Digital Devil Saga or Persona 4 Golden)
• New non-gameplay teaser for BotW2
• Metroid Prime 4 teaser
• Metroid Prime Trilogy during its 35th anniversary
• Switch-exclusive Resident Evil game announcement (from the Capcom leak)

@FragRed I'm the type who is basically always happy with whatever they show us but I'd actually be mad if I woke up early and wasted my time on that.

@BenAV I’m keeping my expectations low. I don’t think Nintendo are doing a 50 minute presentation because they’ve got so much to showcase for the first half. If anything I think it’s because they are pushing both Monster Hunter Rise and Bravely Default 2 as their big first half games. Smash reveal is always a big event and Nintendo have happily done big segments for character reveals before. I’m just thinking we shouldn’t go into this with high hopes but hope for the surprises.

• Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD trailer and release date. Yay!
• Shin Megami Tensei V teaser. Yay!!
• Smash character. Either Monster Hunter or Crash Bandicoot, although my money is on the Hunter.
• Trailers for stuff coming soon, like Persona 5 Strikers and Bravely Default II.
• Gnosia is shadow-dropped during presentation. Yay!
• Great Ace Attorney collection is officially announced for localization. Yay!!
• New trailers for upcoming exclusives like Rune Factory 5, No More Heroes III, etc.
• Something is announced that I never would have expected in my wildest dreams, I think is stupid when I first hear about it, but once it releases I try it and actually kind of like it.
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD/Wind Waker HD double-pack announced
• WILD GUESS HERE - HD remakes of Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons are announced as the one last thing.
• ALTERNATIVE WILD GUESS - Super Mario Galaxy 2 is announced for release on the eshop.

@FragRed I'm fine if the surprises are small but having to watch 30+ minutes of boring fluff just to get to it would be painful. Rather them just stick to the trailer uploads if they're going to go down that route.

So are there any stupid rumors that have people expecting an announcement that won't happen at the Direct? It seems like tradition at this point.

@BenAV I agree with you. We should start complaining about the Direct was boring now rather waiting around for it!

@FragRed I think they're doing a 50 minute presentation because third parties have a lot to showcase for the first half but Partner Showcases don't get as much attention. Look at the viewing numbers on Youtube (main Nintendo channel numbers) for the Directs since September 2019:

• September 2019 Direct - 2.6 million
• Animal Crossing Direct - 2.4 million
• March 2020 Direct Mini - 4.7 million
• July Partner Showcase - 3.2 million
• August Partner Showcase - 1.5 million
• Mario 35th anniversary Direct - 9.3 million
• September Partner Showcase - 1.1 million
• October Partner Showcase - 0.412 million
• Super Nintendo World Direct - 3.6 million

Seems to be pretty much the very bad July Partner Showcase put people off watching future Partner Showcases.

@Grumblevolcano lol The July showcase was probably my favorite presentation from last year.

@jump There's never been a Direct that bad so it should be fine unless Nintendo have completely forgotten how to do them after this long break, haha.

@Grumblevolcano The July SMT Direct wasn't that bad lol

Fine, you asked... here goes:

WILD GUESS: A Gameboy Advance Classic is announced, featuring X amount of GB, GBC and GBA games pre-installed. I feel like there has to be some kind of hardware/peripheral revealed, and I don't think it's going to be a Switch revision, so I'm going for a GBA Classic.

@gcunit Hmm..sounds like a good/plausible idea but the classic GameBoy is the most iconic looking version but it would be crappy to play today and the GameBoy Advance doesn't feel iconic enough for a mini-console release.

@jump I had the same thoughts, so ultimately I just went with the fact that the original GBA design is the most appealing to me, and the fact that it would be a bit weird to have GBA games on a GB.

I imagine an issue with giving handhelds the "classic" treatment is the cost of including a decent screen by modern standards. Nintendo doesn't necessarily have to modernize this too much...but it would make me wonder why we couldn't just play these games on the Switch instead.

A little over three hours till the Direct.

Anticipation...rising....