Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@jump ok, I heard it was a four day weekend indeed

@Balta666 It may be different on a state to state basis though but the Federal holiday in on Monday.

I cant be bothered to but does anyone want to check where the Nintendo of America head office is located and then check that states' specific bank holiday to make sure?

@Octane I do recall everyone's friend and favourite Jim Ryan saying that he doesn't believe anyone should take even 1% market share from them in Europe.

These guys are like...legit paranoid. Sure there's saying it for the investors but to Sony it's a view of us or nothing.

@Haruki_NLI Jim Ryan is a bit of a buffoon. I don't think anyone takes him seriously.

I don't understand why Nintendo would announce any new Switch system until 1 or 2 days prior to E3, keep the hype and spotlight more on Nintendo rather than a massive amount of hype then nothing until E3 begins.

@FragRed I can’t understand why Nintendo would drop new trailers to their golf game and garage game days before e3 but here we are. They must have their own reasons even if we don’t understand or don’t agree.

@FragRed Maybe it's for the what to expect/predictions type clickbait articles for E3 which are gonna start up soon.

In any case a week or two compared to a day or two aren't huge differences and it might be announced a couple days before E3 anyway.

@sixrings Garage Game Thingy I can understand dropping as that game launches before Nintendo's E3 Direct but Mario Golf is definitely curious to not have had the trailer, or at least a portion of it, at E3 with the full one uploaded after.

@jump I find it curious that all these so called leakers knew of this happening but don't have any dates for when it will happen, something they have never failed to mention previously especially as they love to be seen as right if said rumour ends up being true

@Slowdive So they got banned for saying Metroid is coming?

This is like talking about drama with Anti on another forum, people don't know the characters so the soap-gossip-drama doesn't make sense.

So...word round the campfire is that Amazon Mexico has created a page for "New Nintendo Switch Pro".

Is it a legit mistake or a photoshop?

@Slowdive I mean not saying who you're getting that info from sounds fair, no one is shouting at Emily Rogers for "verification".

In any case the Kremling guy saying 3D Kong is still likely is good if true. It makes sense too as another 2D Kong would just make me ask why weren't Retro making it 7 years ago and it can let the Ninty guys not be worried about having to do something inline with the past works of Retro and Rare, plus there should be more 3D platformers from Ninty too. Yoshi, New Mario and Kirby have 2D covered already and will probably turn something else into a 2D platformer soon, they tried Pikmin and Chibi Robo already but I wonder how Advance Wars, Fatal Frame and F-Zero would do as 2D platformers... ;p

@Magician @Slowdive Probably is real but also Amazon Mexico are also likely setting up the page based around the rumours/speculation on the internet and probably don’t actually know anything official.

@Slowdive Mmm, things are getting spicy!

Excellent.

Shhhh, don't ruin the moment for me...

I can guarantee you it won't be called a 'Pro', so call that duff listing what you want, but it's wrong.

@Slowdive

Eh, I'm still bitter from the less-than-average Switch port of the first Bloodstained game..

@Slowdive The slide says "second version"...is it right to interpret that as a sequel?

Still, I'd love a sequel to this. It's probably the game that got me into Metroidvanias.

Pity there's no Sonic Mania 2 in sight, this would have gotten me hyped.

@timleon have you tried some others already? Let me know if you need any recommendations (bloodstained is a good game but definitely not a top league in the genre)

@Balta666 I played through the first Ori but it wasn't 100% for me...didn't have quite the same charm for me. Something about the setting and the way Ori controls, as well as those escape scenes.

Recently been playing Hollow Knight which I really enjoy (and would consider it the best of the three games, if not necessarily my favourite), but it's lasting a bit too long (I'm at 20 hours and still no end in sight) and the difficulty is catching up with me. I've put it down for more relaxing games but might pick it up when I'm ready for a challenge again.

I've also previously enjoyed Wonder Boy and the Dragon's Trap and the recent Shantae games, but I consider them a bit more of a casual affair. Great games though.

Soon enough I'm hoping to jump into Metroid and Castlevania proper. Would be good to know which are best to start with considering my (mostly modern) experience with Metroidvanias.

@timleon hollow knight is my favourite but definitely it is long and very hard. Super Metroid is a good entry but maybe I will start with zero mission if you have the chance (also makes sense story wise on the Metroid universe as it is a remake of the NES game). Axiom verge is a masterpiece altough the artstyle is not for everyone. Guacamelee games are easier but very enjoyable too