Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I think the changes were probably something like (original release -> delayed release):

• Pikmin 3 Deluxe - April/May 2020 -> October 2020
• 3D World + Bowser's Fury - October/November 2020 -> February 2021
• Skyward Sword HD - March 2021 -> July 2021
• Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl - August 2021 -> November 2021
• Wind Waker HD/Twilight Princess HD (if it exists) - July 2021 -> November 2021
• BotW 2, Pokemon Legends Arceus and new Switch revision - November 2021 -> March 2022
• Splatoon 3 - September/October 2021 (if the rumours are true) -> April/May 2022

That sounds about right, but I bet other factors come into play too, especially for games coming out this year and beyond. It's probably easier for certain games to get delayed if other major games are coming out around the same time, so there's no need to rush them out anyway. In particular I could easily imagine Splatoon 3, with the series' reliance on post-release updates, staying to that release date if Nintendo didn't have much else coming out around that time.

I mean, this year Nintendo I believe is publishing one game per month through August so far (except for 0 in Jan, 2 in Feb), and that's obviously not a coincidence.

More goodies.

Guys, i got this news from siliconera about Re:Legend !

Re:Legend will Finally Launch in 2021
Re:Legend, an RPG and life-sim that was once a Square Enix Collective member and found funding on Kickstarter, finally has a release window. It will show up on consoles and computers in Spring 2021. This means it will appear about two years after its Early Access debut on Steam.

Re:Legend offers an experience people might see as similar to Rune Factory. You live a life on a farm, tending crops. You’ll get to know people around you and form relationships with them. You’re an amnesiac, with part of the plot involving trying to figure out what happened. But, this is also a Pokemon-like. As you play, you’ll see Magnus monsters around and use them to get around the island, fight other enemies, and manage your farm.

Here’s a very quick peek at the Re:Legend Switch version, to help provide a better idea of what to expect from the RPG.

Re:Legend will come to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in Spring 2021. The Early Access Steam release is available now.

@toiletduck
I'm sure you will like to hear this news about Re:Legend.

@JaxonH asian version? Or did Romance release physical in NA?

googles furiously

@Ryu_Niiyama
No age rating on the box = Asia English version.

@Ryu_Niiyama
@Anti-Matter knows the score 😉 Ya, it’s the English Asian physical version. PlayAsia has it. And it actually gave me gold coins for once! A whopping 70 of them. Usually games only offer 60, at the most.

Anti-Matter, that game actually looks really good. Re-Legend. I’ll keep an eye out for that.

Picked up Little Nightmares from my library, loving it so far, but it freaks me out lol

@Blooper987 I got Limbo on heavy discount yesterday. I've beaten it on PC before but it's such a terrifying, difficult platformer that can really keep you guessing. Playing it in a dark room at night, on a large screen, is the worst way to play it. Or the best

@JaxonH Darn, pass then. Romance has two sets of season passes so I don’t want to deal with making an HK account, just to play the all of dlc (which is usually region locked). Sigh, I better cull the backlog...

Thank you!

@Ryu_Niiyama
So, it comes with one season pass on the cart. But ya, there is a 2nd.

Thankfully if you buy it on the NA store you don't have to deal with any other account. When I hit the downloadable content link in the main menu it takes me to the NA eShop where I've purchased the season pass. I can tell it's NA because of my Metroid Icon in top right.

@JaxonH Hmm, something to think about. I’ve mostly bought HK games for JPN games that have more text/small font than I want to deal with as I still translate/read slowly. So I don’t have many of them (just the robot taisen games actually).

With those I have been locked on DLC so far. So good to know games that released in NA don’t have this issue. I may also play around with my JPN DLC as well to see if that applies.

I thought I was the only one that couldn’t sleep tonight. Getting more replies from folks now than during the day.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Lol I woke up early and decided to go to work since I'm up anyways. Got a simulation sudy that needs to get done.

I'll be eating Glass Nickel Pizza, drinking coffee and playing some Bravely Default 2 and Persona 5 Strikers at my desk today, while I keep the study going.

@JaxonH Just googled Glass Nickel Pizza. Putting that on my road trip list for food.

@Ryu_Niiyama
They've won best Pizza award like 5 years running. Their toasted ravioli is so good, dip them in marinara, their cheese breads are amazing, pepperoni pizza is amazing...

But they're know for their crazy pizzas which somehow are always really, really good. Chicken cordon Bleu pizza has small crispy chicken pieces with a honey mustard sauce instead of pizza sauce. Best pizza I've ever had. For real.

I'm not brave enough to try their Thanksgiving pizza which they run every November, which I know at least has mashed potatoes and gravy sauce. Not sure what else. But my brother says it's fire.

I never really understood why physical carts only give like 60 gold points. Is it just Nintendo trying to push me to go digital? Cuz it's not working! bwahaha

@rallydefault
It is meant to encourage digital. But it's not that they're giving less for carts so much as it is they're giving more for digital.

Like the Digital Deluxe program in the Wii U era, Nintendo wants to incentivise digital purchases. One of the ways they do this is via gold coins at a rate of 5% earned for digital games. Frankly, I'm surprised they give anything at all for physical. But I'll take it. 1% is still 1% more than 0%, and when added to the pile of other discounts and cash back rewards via store cards, CC and pre-order reward incentives, it all adds up.

@DarthNocturnal I don't think you can do that with the points. I've purchased second hand games and tried to do it and it never works.

It all adds up if you buy physical and digital indie games.
I bought Mario and rabbids DLC. Octo expansion DLC. Captain toad DLC all with just gold coins

@JaxonH
Yea, it does still add up. I usually only purchase eShop games or expansions from money I earn from my physical games. I just wait for crazy sales and I usually can purchase a few eShop games a year with just gold points.