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gcunit

It is refreshingly weird how some of the best games ever made in their genres e.g. Hollow Knight, Stardew Valley, and now this Portal set, can be had for such attractive prices. I'm assuming the Portal pricing is eshop-based... any word on physical?

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Grumblevolcano

The way this Direct made it even more clear that 2022 is the sequel to 2017 in terms of Switch lineup makes me think Pokken 2 (or Pokken DX DLC) will be announced at the next Pokemon Presents.

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gcunit

@Grumblevolcano Sounds plausible.

It strikes me as interesting how much Nintendo has doubled down with Xenoblade Chronicles on Switch. These games can't be quick to make, and don't reach a huge audience, but Monolith Soft are really churning them out.

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JaxonH

@gcunit
No, but hit up Valve's Twitter and @LimitedRunGames telling them to PM them to hash it out. I did.

And, mention gyro aiming too, just in case 😉

and

@Ryu_Niiyama
Let's not forget Persona 4 Arena Climax. There's your fighter right there!

@IceClimbers
Two of the absolute best.

Straight pillaging at that price for a hybrid handheld release. And it looks good! An Nvidia studio did the port. They know their architecture better than anyone.

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GameOtaku

It was a poor to middling Direct. Nothing on Bayo 3. No mention of Prime 4 or the Trilogy. Ultimax wasn’t even mentioned nor was a port of 4G. A bland as heck sports assortment .

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gcunit

@GameOtaku You're doing that thing... you know, where people judge a Nintendo Direct by how close it was to what was being rumoured just before it

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You guys had me at blood and semen.

What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

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Ryu_Niiyama

NEW TAIKO NO TATSUJIN! I'm done. Nintendo won 2022. I'm broke. I can't, I can't. Send help...I'm contemplating selling plasma...

@JaxonH That's true, you are correct. There are so many games on my list that I forgot about that even though I was celebrating when it was announced. Thank you!

Seriously yall. I feel bad for those that were disappointed by this direct..but Hylia's grace I am going to be so poor this year.

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KryptoniteKrunch

Yeah, Portal collection is awesome, nice to see Valve games finally release on a Nintendo system. I never played Portal 2 myself, so must buy for me.

Regarding Pokken 2, it's more plausible now considering Namco is done with Smash and seemingly done with Tekken 7 and Soul Calibur 6. Some of the newer Sword and Shield mons like Cinderace, Urshifu and Zarude would make some good fighters.

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JaxonH

@gcunit
I think it's the growth. The series went from, "we don't even have confidence to localize" to "2 million sold and counting, maybe even 3m by now" with one generation. Well... that's not entirely true. Xenoblade X was a bust, but that's only because Wii U was a bust.

Like Fire Emblem, it's the growth they're concerned with. Any franchise that doubles its previous sales clearly has room to grow further, and they want to nurture it to its fullest potential. Maybe that 2-3m can turn into 3-4m on the next one, for example. By the time next gen rolls around, they could be targeting 4-5m for a new entry, which is a massive leap from the 1m of the first (and 800k of XCX).

So ya, it's just nurturing growth of a rapidly expanding IP is all. Plus, Monolith Soft likes that series and wants to keep making them so, why not. It fills a gap in the library- Xenoblade is now Nintendo's definitive JRPG, as Fire Emblem is their definitive SRPG.

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@gcunit
Nothing stood out. The most interesting news got out of it was Advance Wars release date. The Live a Live and Front Mission ports sounded interesting until I thought they’d be digital only. I hope Square Enix crashes and burns with the cloud kingdom hearts games.

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MsJubilee

This was a solid direct. MLB The Show didn't look so hot in that footage they showed, though. It looked awful. Everything else looked superb.

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Ninfan

Disney speedstorm looks good and is it really free. And the kirby game looks good. I never played portal so that will be good too.

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Ralizah

At this point, 2022 is pretty much 2017 Part II.

New Xenoblade Chronicles.
New Legend of Zelda.
New Splatoon.
A Mario + Rabbids game.
New Mario Kart 8 content.
No 3D Mario game yet, but the new 3D Kirby seems like a very Mario-esque Kirby game.

Plus other high-quality exclusives like Triangle Strategy, the Advance Wars remakes, Bayonetta 3, etc.

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BruceCM

Yeah, @Ralizah .... Is that supposed to be a bad thing or something, lol? That direct was amazing!

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Ralizah

BruceCM wrote:

Yeah, @Ralizah .... Is that supposed to be a bad thing or something, lol? That direct was amazing!

Why would being like 2017 be a bad thing? It's almost universally considered the system's best year in terms of big releases.

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Pizzamorg

Didn't watch it live, but catching up on the Direct now and it seems like a really cool one. Nice to have the middle of the calendar filled in as after like March I wasn't really sure what was coming out until like Starfield (if that even comes out), but it looks like the Switch will be taking care of me quite well during the middle of the year.

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jump

Ninfan wrote:

Disney speedstorm looks good and is it really free. And the kirby game looks good. I never played portal so that will be good too.

Yeah, Disney Spreedstorm looked alright I will probably give it try when it comes out. It's free to play but like most other free to play games it's gonna have gacha mechanics in it if you want to play as your favourite characters.

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FragRed

Has it been revealed who’s developing that new Mario Strikers game? I’m hoping it’s not Camelot but I didn’t see Next Level’s name appear anywhere so I’m kinda concerned.

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Ryu_Niiyama

@KryptoniteKrunch please don’t give me hope about Pokken 2. My heart can’t take it.

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skywake

GameOtaku wrote:

It was a poor to middling Direct. Nothing on Bayo 3. No mention of Prime 4 or the Trilogy. Ultimax wasn’t even mentioned nor was a port of 4G. A bland as heck sports assortment .

I mean I'm all for Bayonetta and Metroid but you gotta take what you get sometimes. I mean for an early Feb Direct it was pretty solid. Switch Sports you may not care for but it's something I know I have been wondering where it was since the Switch launched. Mario Strikers is a great IP to revive, probably one of my favourite games on the Wii so I'm pretty hyped on that one. Then Mario Kart 8 DLC, doubling the number of tracks in Mario Kart 8 which already had double the number of tracks a Mario Kart usually has. Not insignificant

And that wasn't even the end of it. Klonoa, Portal, No Mans Sky, Chrono Cross. All fairly significant and noteworthy games to be ported to the Switch. Kirby, Splatoon and Advanced wars which we already knew about but all looked pretty solid. And also Xenoblade and Fire Emblem

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