Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH Valkyria Chronicles 1 & 4. Several Puyo Puyo-related games. Shining Resonance Refrain. Project Diva. Alien Isolation. Two Point Campus. That upcoming Demon Slayer game. Various Atlus releases. A lot of retro content. And then, of course, the Sonic and Monkey Ball stuff.

Yakuza and PC stuff like Total War fully skip Nintendo systems, but, outside of those, Sega is pretty good about supporting Switch.

Huh, that might be how they do it, @DarthNocturnal ..... Fortunately, I'm not really invested in their franchises yet & it looks like they're doing PC releases of things more now, anyway

@Tasuki Maybe you could look at your play history as well, see if it looks like what you've had, just with the addition of Fortnite. If that's the case, I think you're good - that would mean your profile's still intact. But yeah, sorry that happened to you. Hopefully, no one will steal your Switch OLED!

@Ralizah
As I think I mentioned before, they showed token support in the console's early days. Clearly they didn't plan to keep supporting afterward, as that support quickly dried up.

Atlus had largely been making their own decisions up until now so Sega gets no credit for that, but it seems their new multiplatform business model is now being forced onto Atlus games, and that business model doesn't prioritize Switch in the slightest.

Demon Slayer is a surprise, and even then was only announced much later as sales failed to impress, and they hit the emergency Switch port button.

I personally never like / never care with any ATLUS games as their games are mostly cater to adult audiences and I really hate adult games.
I didn't really have interest with kids games by ATLUS such as Dokapon Kingdom or Bomberman Fantasy Race as I didn't really like with the way they made or publish the games.

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@Anti-Matter Do you know how much your life will improve if you talk only about things you like here instead of thing you dislike.

I personally prefer to see the usual post how you found some girlie shovelware than another dislike/hate post from you.

Focus on the positive ... you are like 90% negative towards gaming on these forums. There is a Unpopular gaming opinions thread for a reason!

Welp my summer is tied up in a bow. Capcom fighting collection pretty much means I'll be set until the holidays.

I'd say wait em out a year. If this doesn't get ported later I'll be shocked. I'm sorta glad as it keeps me from having any hype for it and 2022 is already pretty stacked.

@Zuljaras
I have different interest in gaming.
I never like something that look too edgy or too badass from ATLUS games for example. I felt disgusted instead.
I will get excited for girlie looking stuffs from Aikatsu or PreCure or Sailor Moon or Akogare Girls Collection, etc as my brain has been shaped by Sailor Moon and other girlie anime when I was grade 5 / 6.

@Anti-Matter Thats what they meant. Instead of saying what you hate all the time on here (Idk I havet been following) you should say what you like sometimes.

@Anti-Matter Do you really think I do NOT know that your gaming taste is different so you have to repeat it 10000 times.

I only advised you to focus on the positives as stating that you hate something over and over is boring

Anyway, I am not going to derail the thread any further! Happy gaming!

@Zuljaras Just wanted to say that I agree with you 1,000%. It doesn't do any good to almost exclusively talk about things you dislike. Fortnite and CoD, for example, don't interest me, so I don't partake in discussions about those two whatsoever. I talk about stuff like Mario and many other Nintendo games with other fellow fans instead, like here on Nintendo Life. Those are just some of the things that make me happy, after all.

I hope Xenoblade 3 features a Tiger Tiger sequel.

I mean I’m not holding my breath, but Rise was made on the RE Engine so technically they could put it on switch. (If that happens I will promptly lose my composure and be hype posting like a madwoman.) As is I know I will get it because it’s SF and a fighting game but where it ends up decides if I’ll be day one or wait until the championship edition drops. I just need my girl Makoto to be confirmed first.

I believe the data breach leak said Xbox, PC and PC for Street Fighter. Which, go figure (unless a payment was made preventing the game from releasing on Xbox as intended, which... wouldn't surprise me).

They could at least bring Ultra Street Fighter IV. It's a solid, robust entry everyone would enjoy. As far as I'm concerned they're all pretty much the same anyways. But... no. Apparently they decided nah, let's not. Let's not bring anything SF from the HD era onward.

Just finished the Triangle Strategy Prologue Demo at 5 hrs 45 min. And wow... I'm almost depressed it's over. I need more. These next 2 weeks are gonna be brutal.

I just wanna play some Triangle Strategy.

@JaxonH SEGA releases games for Switch every year that aren't Sonic or Monkey Ball related. It's not "token support." Token support would be what Nintendo got from Bethesda. It's more like Bandai-Namco: the demanding games pretty much skip Switch, and there are some baffling exclusions of older stuff that'd clearly run and sell well on the platform, but overall they're still mostly on-board.

I do take your point that Atlus being pressured into multiplatform game development is disappointing from a Nintendo fan perspective, though. Arguably the only reason support from Square-Enix and Capcom don't also feel dire (considering the vast majority of their AAA output also skips Switch) is because both have teams specializing in making exclusives for Nintendo hardware. Atlus would have ideally occupied that role for Sega, but clearly they want Atlus' games on as many platforms as possible. Although I'm not sure that always works against Nintendo owners. Like, that's probably the reason we're getting 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, a game developed by Sony loyalists who have spent the vast majority of their careers ignoring non-Playstation platforms.

Although I'm not sure how much of this can be chalked up to Sega, tbh. I mean, why isn't that P4 Arena Ultimax port hitting Xbox Series consoles, even though the original release came out on the 360? Why is a JRPG that, by the looks of it, seems less technically demanding than SMT V, skipping the Switch? Why is P4G HD only on Steam and not on PS4 as well? Why is Persona 5 still locked to Playstation despite a lack of evidence of any exclusivity agreements surfacing? Why isn't Catherine: Full Body on Xbox or PC? Atlus may be the best JRPG developer in the industry, but they have a long, frustrating history of making bizarre choices about what platforms they're going to support with what games?

re Demon Slayer, I fully believe the plan was probably always to release it on Switch. Late Switch ports of games have become a semi-common occurrence, since it allows these companies to treat the release like a second launch and take advantage of some level of double-dipping at full price.

@MarioLover92 It's all good. I just renamed the profile. It's not like the Xbox or Playstation where there is achievements tied to the profile.

I just wish I could be a fly on the wall when the thief turns on the Switch and finds they longer have access to the account and games. I should check to see how far they were in Fortnite and see what all they lost now that I got my account back.

Is it a real thread though before Anti comes in, tells you how much they hate/are disgusted by the topic of the thread and then list off their favourite Barbie games?

Damn, I forgot how much I enjoyed Nintendo games. I redownloaded New Super Mario Bros U on my Switch and I ended up playing it for 4 hours straight tonight. So glad to have a Switch again.

@Ralizah Persona 4 Arena Ultimax not coming to XB1/Series X|S is probably because Persona 4 Arena is playable via backwards compatibility. Yes I know Ultimax is a sequel but a similar thing happened with Star Wars ports, a load of Star Wars games were brought to backwards compatibility in 2017 and 2018 but not Jedi Outcast. Aspyr then ported a bunch of Star Wars games to Switch and PS4 starting with Jedi Outcast in 2019 but no Xbox release, Episode 1 Racer which never came to the original Xbox did get a XB1 port though.

Eventually Jedi Outcast did come to backwards compatibility in November 2021 but given the future of backwards compatibility was unknown after June 2019, I doubt Aspyr knew it was going to be added when it did.