Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Yaaay....!
There will be another My Universe game again on Nintendo Switch. 😃

@NintendoByNature For Nintendo published games and games featuring Nintendo IP:

• January - Pokemon Legends Arceus
• March - Triangle Strategy, Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• April - Switch Sports
• June - Mario Strikers Battle League, Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes
• July - Live a Live, Xenoblade 3
• Summer 2022 - Splatoon 3
• Late 2022 (very likely November) - Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
• TBC 2022 - Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Bayonetta 3

With MK8 Deluxe DLC and NSO updates sprinkled throughout the year.

Welp, that announcement completely changed my plans for the next few months.

So, either Splatoon 3 need a little more time in the oven, or we're about to get the new release date for Advance Wars. That's my guess, anyway. Clearly something is taking Xenoblade's September slot.

@Primo40295 Xenoblade Chonicles 3 in july?this is way sooner then i expected and @Grumblevolcano i think Mario+ Rabbids Sparks of Hope will release in august/septembre, Bayonetta 3 in octobre.

@Grumblevolcano stinks I'll have to cram strikers, 3 hopes, Live a Live and XC3 all in a short amount of time. I think I would've preferred XC3 to have the original September release date.

Well, that's certainly a nice surprise .... You could wait until September to play XC3 if you like, @NintendoByNature? I think that'll take priority for me over anything else around the time & there'll be enough time for Live A Live before much else comes along, though

Unfortunately, the timing of XC3 means I'll be pushing off Three Hopes, MHR Sunbreak, and AI: The Somnium Files 2 so that I have time to clean up the current crop of games I'm playing before it releases.

As in you'll still play those eventually, @Ralizah ....? I imagine so, at least! I'll probably manage to finish 3 Hopes before XC3, anyway Forgotten about AI Somnium 2 but that'll have to wait a bit

@BruceCM Yeah, I'm not gonna not play major releases like those. Especially considering I'm still hyped for them. But XC3 is going to be a gigantic, months-long affair, so I'd prefer to have distractions reduced to a minimum before then.

It does mean I'll be waiting for sales, though. My rule with games I don't pick up at launch is that they need to enjoy at least a moderate discount first. At least 33% off the base price.

Might make an exception for Sunbreak, though. I don't think the price will go down too much with that, and I'm not waiting too long to play it.

At least assuming XC3 is as long as 2 or more .... Which certainly seems likely!

So I'm guessing that means Splatoon 3 will be a mid August to mid September release if it's still releasing in Summer.

@Ralizah Honestly I think the earlier XC3 release may be a result of the BotW 2 delay. Monolith Soft are working on both so perhaps the delay has allowed for a larger XC3 focus followed by major BotW 2 focus after XC3's launch.

@Grumblevolcano I'm pretty sure different teams have been working on both games, so I doubt one being delayed impacts the other. I think this might be more about optimizing release schedules.

What was originally gonna be put in July only to be delayed, making room for XC3? Advance Wars was meant to come out in December, and is in limbo for the time being. I'd put my bets on Splatoon being the delayed game, and that BotW would have come out in September, if not for the delay.

So slotting XC3 in means it's been finished for enough time they can just slot it in whenever they want, and that other games have no doubt been delayed to compensate.

On a side note I wonder how pissed Square Enix is right now with Xenoblade 3 releasing literally 1 week after Live A Live. The game's sales will undoubtedly be affected by this given that the two games have the same audience.

@IceClimbers Probably not very given Nintendo is once again listed as the publisher.

So they got their money either way.

I don't think SE would've thrown away all their profits for a release in America just so they wouldn't be the ones to publish a game here. Unless it comes out Nintendo actively funded the remake itself or something, which I doubt.

I wonder what we get September and/or Oktober. Something tells me it's something that will surprise us. The next general Direct can't come soon enough!

I'd be shocked if Live-a-Live sells particularly well regardless.

This timing definitely means I'll also be waiting on Soul Hackers 2, though, which comes out in August.

Judging by Octopath, I think I'll buy Live a Live at launch but not play it until after finishing Xenoblade 3. I was interested in Octopath but chose not to buy at launch because of Xenoblade 2 (challenge battle DLC released in June 2018 and there were still plenty of quests I still hadn't completed) and Captain Toad but when I finally got around to buying Octopath, the physical version was discontinued so it was much harder to find new (I managed to find it but the point is it being very difficult to find).

@Ralizah Perhaps, I was just thinking that if BotW 2 is tied to new hardware that the main Xenoblade team may also support BotW 2.

As for the September release, I guessed Zelda Wii U ports for July so maybe that for September (I had predicted Splatoon 3 for August and sticking with it). Or maybe Nintendo's worried about Platinum so they're going to give sizable space for Bayonetta 3 to breathe. Something definitely does seem wrong given the whole new live service focus situation.