Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Giancarlothomaz Almost certainly a case of "will" become best selling, as i think the highest selling game is the original metroid on nes with 2.73 million copies. Judging by the hype and abundance of switch sales dread would easily surpass that.

Most anticipated games for the rest of the year?

1) Shin Megami Tensei V
2) The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
3) Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp
4) Metroid Dread
5) Horizon Forbidden West

Q4 is going to be a rollercoaster ride for me.

@chapu2006 Metroid Prime was the best selling Metroid game with 2.80 milions units sold, considering all the hype and the fact Metroid Dread is in top pre-orders charts on Amazon/Game Stop, the game will finaly break the Metroid sales curse and sell 3/5 milions units sold.

1 Metroid Dread
2 Monster Hunter Stories 2
3 Shin Megami Tensei V
4 Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
5 Neo: The World Ends With You
6 Zelda Skyward Sword
7 Cruis’n Blast
8 Ni No Kuni 2
9 Y’s IX: Monstrum Nox
10 WarioWare Get It Together

Just taking from your lists because there's too many to remember.

1 Elden Ring(January is pretty much this year! )
2. Metroid dread
3. The Great Ace Attorney

1. Great Ace Attorney Collection
2. Neo: TWEWY
3. Metroid Dread
4. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania
5. Advance Wars 1 + 2
6. No More Heroes 3 (would be a lot higher if not for TSA)

Honestly I could make a much longer list for games I'm excited for, but its just hard to be excited for "wow I hope I play this within 3 years of its release"

Jeez what a question... I'll limit it to top 10
1. Metroid Dread
2. Neo:TWEWY
3. Great Ace Attorney
4. SMT V
5. Danganronpa Decadence
6. Metroid Prime 4
7. Bayonetta 3
8. Tony Hawk 1+2 (I know it's out but I haven't gotten it yet)
9. Sports Story
10. Mario + Rabbids 2

You know it's a good year when BotW 2 doesn't even make my top 10.

@link3710
I feel like, with rare exception, it's hard to be excited for a game that's not releasing within the next 6 months.

I'm not even thinking about 2022 yet. Much less games that are TBA. Not to say I'm not excited about them, but it's hard allowing that excitement to take root knowing it's so far off. I bury those feelings deep down and don't let them resurface until closer to release, when I can't suppress them any longer and they start bubbling up to the top.

@JaxonH That's fair. Metroid Prime 4 + Bayo 3 are exceptions for me. Mario + Rabbids 2 apparently as well somehow, if only because I'm still shocked at how improved the game looks from the first one. Plus, I'm hoping it's only a bit over 6 months out, like a March release.

@link3710
Metroid Dread has helped alleviate the anxiety for Prime 4. That and knowing it's gonna be a loooooong wait.

I'm sure once Dread comes out, the thirst for Prime will be palpable.

Mario Rabbids does look really good. I never finished the first, so I can always revisit that in the meantime.

Not really sure about them abandoning the grid-based approach in Sparks of Hope, but considering how good the original was, I have to imagine they know what they're doing.

It's looking like it'll be the most visually impressive game on the system when it comes out.

@Ralizah
I just got done playing Mario Rabbids on my Lite about 2 minutes ago (all this talk about it made me want to play). It is such an extraordinary game. The only thing I regret playing on the Lite is lack of HD rumble, which is so incredibly well done when using split joycon. I love the little vibrations when you roll through a pipe.

Anyways, given how good Kingdom Battle is, I fully trust Soliani in whatever creative direction he so chooses to endeavor. And we know non-grid-based action can work very well (see XCOM 2), and given the similarities between this game and XCOM in the first place, I think it will work quite well.

Nintendo platforms really are great at providing an alternative experience for most genres. And in the past that was needed because so many third-party games were MIA. But now on Switch, getting that 1st and 2nd spread across genres on top of 3rd party games really makes for a fulfilling library. It’s a constant feeling of being overwhelmed with too many great games, all of which offer hybrid freedom to play on the tv, handheld, or tabletop as a portable console.

Even if it’s not “on the go”, handheld on the Lite is so “low-barrier to entry” it makes it easy to pick up, wake from sleep and jump right back into a low commitment game, play for 20 minutes and set back down. Owning digital copies of games also contributes to this. It makes it so easy to jump in and out that I don’t really ever feel like playing anything else. I have a lot of games on Steam, for example, But because it doesn’t offer the same freedom and low barrier to entry (even taking 2-3 minutes to wake PC, switch inputs manually, open Steam window, fire up a game, switch audio to headset and turn that on, which is a must because the fans are loud, is enough that, when stacked against the 5 seconds it takes to jump in on the Lite, it loses out almost every time).

Guess I went off on a tangent about the Lite there, but ya.

Went on a Nintendo Switch buying frenzy within the past month or two.

The following list are games I got in June and early July:

• Miitopia
• Toree 3D
• Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1
• Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun
• Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus
• Bit.Trip Runner
• Sky: Children of Light
• _{^{Demos of Game Builder Garage and Monster Hunter Rise}}

I have played all but Taiko no Tatsujin, Sky: Children of Light, and the demos I listed. I've enjoyed every single game and don't regret any of my purchases.

As a bonus, I got Bug Fables through Xbox Game Pass, it's a really fun game.

@Giancarlothomaz Sorry about the misinformation. I got it by comparing a list of the metroid games and must have misread metroid primes sales.

Looks good, would like a few more details first tho.

No mention on the site as yet but switch pro has officially been announced, out on October 8th.

It’s called Nintendo Switch OLED model and features a bigger, 7 inch OLED screen as well as enhanced audio. Dock features wired LAN port too.

Site might catch up, eventually.

So it's a real thing, eh? Pretty cool, now I have an excuse to upgrade from my near-launch Switch.

Awesome seeing the Pro! Not 4K but that’s fine. More storage, a LAN port, basically solving all the original Switch’s drawbacks.

A bigger screen without a pronounced increase in horsepower?

Pass.