Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano @JaxonH Thanks y’all!

Gosh dang.

The 30 day window from Oct 5th to Nov 5th is crackin

• Nier Automata - Oct 6th
• No Man's Sky - Oct 7th
• Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope - Oct 20th
• Persona 5 Royal - Oct 21st
• Harvestella - Nov 4th

I was going to say, rabbids 2 on the 20th and Persona 5 on the 21st stinks. I want both but won't have the time obviously.

@NintendoByNature
Make time, cadet! Are you a gamer or not?!!!

Persona 5 on odd days of the week. Rabbids on even days. Anything less would be... uncivilized.

@JaxonH one can try! If I have to chose between the two(which i will), I'll go with rabbids 2 first then persona the following month. Mainly because I've a big rabbids 1 fan.

Square Enix sure is releasing a lot in the 2nd half of this year:

• Live a Live - July 22nd
• Front Mission 1st remake - Summer 2022
• Nier Automata (Switch version) - October 6th
• Forspoken (not Switch) - October 11th
• Harvestella - November 4th
• Dragon Quest Treasures - December 9th
• Crisis Core - Winter 2022
• Star Ocean The Divine Force (not Switch) - 2022
• The DioField Chronicle - 2022
• Valkyrie Elysium (not Switch) - 2022

It feels like we may be getting a repeat of March 2022.

@JaxonH That late October period is gonna be packed. Mario + Rabbids and Persona 5 Royal in a two day span is nuts, plus Scorn and High on Life on Xbox, and on Game Pass is just icing on the cake.

@Grumblevolcano exactly. If feels like a repeat of March. And isn't that tactics robot game also coming this year? The name is slipping from me. I thought it was also made by square.

Edit: it's front mission: remake.

@NintendoByNature Yeah, that's coming in Summer 2022 (added it to the list). Maybe Square Enix only expects Crisis Core to do well out of everything coming in the 2nd half of this year.

lol October

The Chaos;Head Noah/Chaos;Child double-pack is also releasing in October.

It doesn't get talked about a lot, but a lot of us have been wanting a localization of Chaos;Head Noah for years now, being the 'missing' first entry in the Science Adventure series.

Interestingly, Switch is the only announced release platform to date.

@Ralizah I was talking about the two months ahead of us, compared to the rest of the year, they are not that packed. Not exactly a drought, but yeah.

@alexwolf July and August is usually a quiet month in terms of game releases

@HotGoomba @alexwolf It's telling about how good this year is when Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Live-A-Live are releasing during a "slow period."

Bandai Namco is releasing remakes of Klonoa and Pac-Man World in back to back months so I'm not complaining about July/August.

@Ralizah I said usually, I know we have Xenoblade and Live A Live.

Can we take a moment to appreciate how many of the most critically appraised games of all time they dropped in this Direct?

• Nier Automata YoRHa Edition - 91/100
• Persona 3 Portable - 89/100
• Persona 4 Golden - 93/100
• Persona 5 Royal - 95/100
• Portal - 90/100
• Portal 2 - 95/100

And that's not even accounting for Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak, the expansion to another 88/100 game. Or Mario + Rabbids, a sequel to an 85/100 game.

I don't think I've ever seen a Direct drop that many of the most critically appraised games ever. Like Nintendo said alright, it's time to start chasing the hall of famers.

I'm surprised Klonoa didn't appear in the Partner Showcase, sure it releases in just over a week but there's the situation with Japan getting a demo but no sign of demo elsewhere.

I have to honest, there's a small part of me that's terrified to wait for games like Klonoa, because maybe the company will be like "well people didn't buy it enough in the first month, guess this series is dead!"

Switch gamers are gonna need to get Jenny Craig on speed dial pretty soon with how fat we're eating lately.

Just consider,

• Mario Strikers Battle League
• Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes
• TMNT Shredder's Revenge
• Neon White
• Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak
• Wreckfest
• Live A Live
• Portal
• Portal 2
• Capcom Fighting Collection
• Sonic Origins
• AI Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative
• Demon Slayer
• KOTOR II

All in the span of a month. A month!!! Each and every one of these games worthy of purchase and time spent playing. Many of them extremely high quality games.

And so much more on the way. The party just doesn't stop.

I'm blown away by the support Switch is getting now. It took a few years, that's for sure. And previous years weren't bad by any means. On the contrary, they've been pretty great. But I think we can officially draw a line in the sand and make a clear distinction between support today, and support from years past.

When ppl used to say Switch wasn't getting enough support? I don't think anyone is saying that now. We made it. We actually made it. Close your eyes and think back to 2017 or 2018. Remember all the talk of, "man I hope one day Switch gets its own exclusive MH, there's rumors it's being worked on", or "if only they'd bring Persona to Switch, like that'll ever happen", or the IGN April Fools videos putting all sorts of fake announcements... that's no longer a joke. Virtually all those games are on Switch now, or are reasonably expected to. Imagine being in 2017, and fast forwarding through time to take a peak at the lineup we have in 2022. We'd have been blown away.

That image is making me panic sweat because I will likely buy 80% of it. I need free time.