Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@FragRed FIFA wanted more for the license and EA refused. Then they failed to reach a compromise so EA chose to lose the license and FIFA 23 will be the last EA FIFA. It's a big risk that could pay off but I don't think it will especially now that it seems 2K are interested in making FIFA games.

@Grumblevolcano Definitely does feel like 10 years of crazy yearly record breaking profits peaking with what happened during the pandemic is starting to really come crashing down for some of these big players. Chasing new trends only seems to be damaging that further.

It's gonna take some work for FIFA to get a new partner to develop a solid footie game in time for 2024, unless some devs have been working on similar projects in the background or they bring in ex-EA talent. Is anyone else going to pay as much for the license fee that FIFA were asking of EA?

@FragRed I think it's a huge gamble. If it works out for EA then they've basically cut FIFA out of the loop entirely and saved themselves hundreds of millions of dollars and they themselves then own the brand. If it doesn't then they've sunk their own cash cow.

I expect a free to play (and probably bit rubbish) "FIFA" from some second or third tier developer. We know that in the free to play market the licence and the name that people search for is absolutely massive - especially once you get outside the gaming media niche into the mainstream. I also suspect that (in a hugely ironic way) EA has over-rated how much the majority of people actually value a good game vs a cheap one with the right brand.

I know that SI managed to move away from the Championship Manager brand to Football Manager but I think that was a different situation. It was 20 years, "Championship Manager" was always a generic brand and the game was (is and has always been) pitched to a niche, informed, audience compared to FIFA.

We'll see if anyone does end up with the actual FIFA brand.... If most of the clubs have made deals with EA to keep the players, though, that's quite a big part

@gcunit

Oh...I don't know. I imagine Take Two are licking their chops at the chance to introduce their 2K series slot machine mechanics into the world's game.

@Anti-Matter what switch games do you play in VR.

@Ninfan
I don't play VR games.

@Magician That's gross. That needs to change, I'm sick and tired of seeing ""Game Companies"" exploiting the younger generations because they see (insert thing here) in (insert game here) (insert reason here), or they see "people" on the internet play (insert game here) and without knowing half the time they were even paid to do it, or those "people" paid crazy amounts or money themselves to get (insert thing here). So then a kid would see their favourite (person on the internet) play and get crazy pulls, and the kid sees that and uses his money to get (thing) and hoping for a good pull. Then creating a want, and losing his money because it's heavily rigged, maybe once in his life time he might get a crazy pull like the ones he sees, but at the end of the day it's not a healthy thing for a kid (using his parents money) to blindly throw money at lootbox gambling, and heck sadly that kid might have a gambling problem down the road or at the young age of 10.

Sorry if that was a little messy.

to make money

@Kermit1
There were a lot of Pachinko games (Casino slot games) even during PS2 and PS3 era.
And the games was rated CERO A in Japan (Everyone).
How was the culture changed during the time.

Gambling is hard enough to avoid (once it sucks you into its trap) when it's your own money. How much more then when it's your parent's money and you have no concept of hard work or stored value from labor.

You know what? It's 7 days til June. And you know what happens in June? I'll tell you. Lots of things.

Not one, not two, but three big exclusive Switch games in the month of June.

• Mario Strikers Battle League
• Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes
• Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak

And lots of multiplats, too. Demon Slayer, Touken Ranbu Warriors, Capcom Fighting Collection, AI Somnium Files sequel, Klonoa and Sonic Collections (or maybe that's July? I can't keep track, there's too many).

But the big 3. That's what's up. Freaking 3 big exclusives in a single month with half a dozen other games as a cherry on top. Yes sir. June is a month to behold.

@Anti-Matter There everywhere now in "normal" games

Yongyea, I can't believe people still watch that guy. He reads news articles while rambling long enough to get past the ten-minute mark—garbage content.

@JaxonH But Sunbreak is not a Switch exclusive at all?

@Solaine Monster Hunter Rise (+Sunbreak) is a Switch console exclusive, but it is also on PC.

@Solaine
It's a Switch console exclusive. Not releasing on PS4, PS5, Xbox One or Xbox Series S/X.

@JaxonH @LiNeR Ahh, ok alright. I think i made that mistake before. I keep mixing up exclusive definitions

@Solaine no, Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak will release both on PC/Switch.

Next week will have the first ever F-Zero related Switch profile icon, namely a background for MK8's Mute City. They're going from left to right in the cup selection screen and after Special Cup is Egg Cup.

@Yoshi2
Nobody can ever predict with 100% certainty whether you'll like a game. So that risk is always there.

But what I can say, is that Zelda Breath of the Wild is objectively one of the highest rated games of all time, it's one of my personal favorites, and the gameplay cadence is nothing like Skyrim. Barring a few very general parallels they couldn't be more different.

Will you like it? I don't know. All we can do is infer probabilities- what is the likelihood you'll like it? The vast majority of people who have played it say its one of the greatest games ever made. And even of the ones who don't, most of them would at least concede it's still a great game and definitely worth buying. So there's a very, very high probability you will not regret it.