Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I Am Setsuna is a required JRPG as far as I'm concerned. I absolutely loved it and it's amazing what they did as the "small" game.

That's really cool, Ori and the Will of Wisps has massively increased eshop charts position. Currently at #4 for UK eshop charts, even beating Animal Crossing.

Miitopia is still #1 so I'm pretty sure Miitopia will outsell all the JRPGs on the Switch. Guess the meme factor really helped it then.

@JaxonH I'm all for Monster Hunter Day, but I think it needs to wait inline in the international calendar queue behind Mario Kart Day.

I’m pretty sure the 7 million Monster Hunters games is shipped not sold, I imagine they will get to 7 million and more at some point though. I remember the rambling of people on here saying it’s not in top ten of Amazon UK chart and Game aren’t charging full price so it must be a flop.

However it still seems small compared to Minecraft and GTA sales to warrant its very own day. Who Is it that keeps buying Minecraft and GTA anyway?

I'm genuinely curious about that. Minecraft I understand more because its an unending part of gaming culture at this point, its popularity knows no bounds and is regularly finding its way to new places to be advertised. It's also for kids, and new kids then also want to play Minecraft. And ALSO, if Minecraft fans want to play it on a new system they'll buy it again. Also its never competing with itself with sequels or anything (there's been a couple of side games that would obviously never replace the main game).

On top of that, I know very well that Minecraft youtubers and streaming made a huge comeback a while ago, so that's probably kept its popularity up as well.

GTA I have no idea about though. GTA is obviously massive, and outside of not being marketed to kids (not that that matters too much) it fits enough similar ideas to why it would remain popular. But I'm mostly clueless on the actual community and marketing of GTA online, so from the outside its unending success feels almost random after a while.

Everyone talking about MH sales and stuff, but here I didn't even know they had there own day LOL, then I remember there is a day for everything, so were the hell is snatcher Day!

@kkslider5552000 yeah, it’s bonkers that those two games in a single year (and years after there release too) will sell the same as the entire lifetime sales of a Zelda or Super Mario entry.

My best guess is with GTA5 is that it’s just become the go time go for I hear that’s good (like how people went to see Marvel, Star Wars, Titanic or Avatar films since so many other people saw it so people wanted to see what the fuss is) and it’s really just displaying how many more gamers you’d think there is.

So publishers ship games to retailers for free do they? 😛

@kkslider5552000 I'll be honest, I literally know no one who's played GTA V after the PS3 version. It's baffling to me what people want with it at this point.

@gcunit well if you want to get technical about it the shops are getting them without paying for them first ;p

Could be wrong but I think the physical version of Minecraft might be different from the digital version. Like the digital version currently on the eshop is the bedrock version meanwhile the physical version is on the more stable version prior to bedrock which is delisted on the eshop.

@Slowdive Publisher EA? Sure.

@Slowdive Lol, it's not E3 without Walmart Canada leaks. Sometimes turns out to be wrong though like Walmart Canada listed Splinter Cell a few years ago and that IP is completely dead.

@jump I remember when I picked up the PS Vita day one at Game who were nearly about to go under. The box for everything PS Vita related had stickers on saying "Property of Sony Computer Entertainment".

@Slowdive I saw that earlier and it’s already been debunked as it’s been listed for over a year on there.

@Slowdive Oh, I do hope Prince of Persia comes to Switch. I loved that game on the 'cube.'

@Slowdive Honestly, I'm shocked. I assumed it just came out and no one mentioned it since it had been generally been decided to be horrible looking. I wonder if it might turn out good yet... Sand of Time is still an all time favorite of mine.

@Slowdive Isn’t Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown exclusive to PS5 in the same way Street Fighter V was to the PS4?

@Slowdive I may as well get it on PS5 as it’s in the June PS+ “free” games to download.

The problem with websites referencing other platforms is that they usually use a template built on a CMS such as WordPress so there is always the possibility that the code for these other platforms is there because it’s in the main CMS template.

@FragRed Probably not. Given that it's just a revision of an existing Virtua Fighter game, it's probably just Sony paying for timed exclusivity, not funding development. Given the hints of other platforms in the future, that seems almost certain.