Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Ralizah

Amazon U.K. have it for that date, though of course it could be guesswork by them

Well, NISA's own Europe Store site & their official site for Disgaea 6 specifically just say 'summer', so any dates elsewhere seem suspect .....

So that Nintendo Direct largely went down like a sack of rocks in a lake, but if it all appealed to any one person, they'd be living in a simulation.

Personally there is at least one game per month this year I'm interested in getting on Switch, with the exception of May, which is probably for the best.

March:

Plants Vs Zombies - While I know it's a very dead game that EA killed future support for, I am at least curious to try it out being a very recent and big GW2 fan. This is a good excuse.

Monster Hunter Rise - Never played a game in the series. May as well start now.

Crash 4 - I liked it, I can now play it at work too.

April

New Pokemon Snap - Never played the original, given I was a PlayStation kid growing up, and I only popped up in 96.

June

So in addition the only still standing PS franchise I care about, Ratchet and Clank for a whopping £80, I'll be nabbing Ninja Gaiden Master Collection because why not, it looks like my kind of fun. Maybe Mario Golf Super Rush if my friends get into it.

July

Skyward Sword HD - So I have never owned Skyward Sword. I've barely seen anything of it, and what I have seen was this trailer, and Hyrule Warriors. I ain't going to go dig out a Wii copy and my Wii U for this when I can play it on my breaks at work. 48 work weeks baby.

Honourable mention to Fall Guys, since I have it on PC with one friend, another two friends have it on PS4, and all my Switch only friends want to play with us. We all own Switch systems, so here we go.

I'm very surprised to see Nintendo has a big game per month up to August now. That's kinda wild.

@Haruki_NLI
I thought the Direct was absolutely fantastic. My wallet hated it, though.

@rallydefault Oh my wallet hates it.

But I can't tell if it hates I'll spend as much money on two Switch games in March combined as one PS5 game in June yet or not..let you know when I get that far.

Had to resign myself to monthly purchases again

I think the release of Skyward Sword HD in July and the messages we're getting from journalists "in the know" about WW HD and TP HD coming later this year are red flags on their own though.

I think BotW2 is looking pretty much set for 2022.

Not that that's a bad thing though. With Splatoon 3, BotW2 and Metroid Prime 4 we know that there are at least 3 big anchoring games set for 2022 or beyond. The Switch has genuinely got legs - I can't think of any other Nintendo console except for maybe the Famicom or the GameBoy that saw that number of major first party releases in its 6th year or later.

guys do think the remaster/remake of Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is the only Legend of Zelda game we are getting this year?(not counting possible Collections).no Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 in 2021?

@electrolite77 oh my Arceus february and march 2021 is septembre 2019 2.0(my wallet is crying and want to murder me),@Stutwo put also Bayonetta 3 on the 2022 and beyond release schedule.

@Haruki_NLI
lol what is the PS5 game?

@Giancarlothomaz
Definitely not. I thought it was pretty telling that they didn't actually utter the words "anniversary" when they showed SS HD. I think a port collection is definitely still coming, but they're not gonna say anything else until the Mario anniversary stuff is over in March. Just my guess, of course.

I'm not ready to do that yet. Even though we've yet to see it I do still think it'll come this year.

Platinum know how to make these games and - unlike Metroid Prime 4 or BoTW 2 - it's not a huge monolith of a game. It's level based and if they really have their sights set on a particular month for launch and it's clear that they're running short on time... well, if the game is in an advanced enough state, it's not too hard to cut a level or two (though this will clearly not be the desire of Platinum or the fans!).

@jump Gotcha.

June does seem realistic for Disgaea.

I feel that 2022 for Switch is going to end up being 2017 part 2. New hardware in March with BotW 2 and an extremely strong lineup overall including multiple 2017 Switch game sequels. Likely too early for Prime 4 but I could see the other 3 "announced way too early" games being 2022 (BotW 2, SMTV, Bayonetta 3).

The absence of Nocturne in the February Direct makes me think localized Nocturne in 2nd half of 2021 and SMTV in 2022.

DC Super Hero Girls is apparently a first party Nintendo game. That's very strange, maybe Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 did well for them so Nintendo are gonna use other western franchises from now on.

@Grumblevolcano

New hardware next year? Not to pick a fight, but I find that doubtful when President Furukawa consistently mentions how the Switch is only "halfway through its lifecycle". I understand that Nintendo iterated on their hardware in the past, but I think Nintendo is content with riding the Switch's current success all the way down to the eventual Switch successor; no mid-gen refresh. We're looking at new hardware in late 2024 to early 2025, imo.

@Magician
It's going to be a new dock with better airflow and its own fan combined with a final driver update that will help them eke out just enough power to keep some AAA support for the next few years, not an entirely new Switch. They could sell it for like 50 bucks and everyone can just move on with their lives. That's my theory.

@Magician The Switch is a family of devices which currently contains the Switch and the Switch Lite. Adding another member to the Switch family of devices doesn't make the comment about the halfway point any less true. He also mentioned that the Switch's successor will need to offer a new experience which likely means experimental Nintendo is still around and the Switch's successor won't be a Switch.

I think he means they're not going to release a mid generation refresh if it doesn't offer any new advantage over the existing Switch.

Supposing DLSS is off the table until next gen when they can integrate tensor cores, it's Mariko for the life cycle. Which means they can't really offer any improvements over the current model aside from tweaking the battery life to power balance.

Once they can figure out a way to actually offer a real advantage (like how Switch Lite was actually smaller, and actually pocketable) then we'll see a refresh.

I think that's what is meant. Not "we're totally ditching the hybrid concept for something new"

@JaxonH

My thought exactly. Furukawa's comment of "new experiences" could come to mean 1080p portable / 4k docked gaming. Something that a DLSS-enabled Switch successor could provide, once the cost of parts and distribution fall within guaranteed profitability. Nvidia is invested in the Switch concept for the long haul.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-expects-20-year-relationshi...

@timleon

This hobby is all about guesstimating the future.

I look forward to the next Nintendo main Direct 529 days from now.

I feel like 2022 is gonna feel a lot like 2017 ver. 2. With Splatoon and the new zelda coming then all we need now is a big mario game, which I think is very likely rn. This year will probably seem pretty good, but not amazing, but next year will be an amazing year for anyone. Just my thought

@rallydefault Pretty sure they didn't mention the Zelda anniversary because they have nothing for it. SS HD is all we'll get within the year. We're not going to get any sort of thing for Zelda, or DK (Kirby is questionable), they'll just put all the anniversary focus on Pokemon.

@Blooper987 2017 v2 sounds likely. We're also due for a new Monolith Soft game in 2022 as well (since XC2 came out 5 years ago and the main team wasn't involved much with XC:DE per the interviews). Toss in some new IP as an ARMS analogue and a Wii U/3DS port or two and you've got basically the same schedule.