Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Willing to bet we see Mario + Rabbids in the showcase tomorrow, given the close release date.

There's so much stuff coming out soon. It's nuts.

@GameOtaku Sony's showcase was almost entirely composed of multiplatform third-party stuff. Both Sony and Microsoft's showcases were primarily for 2023 games, despite having sparse lineups this year.

Nintendo is releasing an exclusive virtually every month of the year and still has announcements for later in 2022.

In terms of support for modern exclusive releases, there's no comparison between Switch and the competition atm.

@Ralizah
It’s more the perception that Nintendo is simply not getting the games consumers want. Yes there’s games but is it the games we expect or want? I’m not talking exclusives (although both the cowabunga collection and persona ports were at first thought to be exclusive during their streams only to be confirmed for others a day or so after the fact,)

@GameOtaku The fact that Switch titles are dominating weekly charts worldwide would attest that Switch is, indeed, getting the games consumers want.

Nobody is buying a Switch to play AAA multiplats, so I'm not really sure what the expectation is there.

@Ralizah
Shouldn’t AAA devs see the value in porting to switch if it’s such a dominant force? I like to see the switch have a healthy future but there’s lots we don’t know about this year’s remaining releases let alone next years.

@GameOtaku Probably not. Most Switch owners would rather play indies, AA releases, and exclusives on the system. Y'know, games that'll actually look good and run reasonably well. Modern AAA releases like Elden Ring or Dead Space would take a tremendous amount of work and sacrifice to squeeze onto the system in a playable state, and even if they did, the potential audience for such releases would likely not justify the expense.

If you want to play games like that on a handheld, order a Steam Deck.

@Ralizah
During the DS and wii era we did get ports of triple a games. Not the experience others got mind you but unique experiences built around the limitations of the Wii and DS. At least then we got things like GTA and Call of Duty that haven’t been seen on a Nintendo platform since.

I was just scrolling through the web when I came across this interesting piece of info: Game Freak will be holding a panel at this year's GDC event!

I think it's more impressive that in this Summer Games Fest era we have Nintendo locking down announcements from third parties independently instead of Keighley taking them.

@JaxonH I feel the situation is similar to 2019, that year in the 2022 structure could've looked like the following:

Partner Showcase

• Cadence of Hyrule release date
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 trailer
• Astral Chain trailer
• Daemon X Machina trailer
• Dragon Quest XI S trailer
• Mario & Sonic 2020 Olympics trailer
• The other 3rd party games in the E3 2019 Direct

Standalone announcements outside the Partner Showcase being an Animal Crossing New Horizons delay video, Fire Emblem Three Houses Direct, Link's Awakening trailer and Luigi's Mansion 3 release date trailer. Smash DLC could've been announced in a number of ways in the absence of E3 (like it was in 2020) and BotW 2 was announced too early so could've been saved for E3 2021.

The existence of E3 was what pushed Nintendo to do a general Direct that year and I feel if E3 2022 wasn't cancelled we would've gotten a general Direct like the one in 2019.

@GameOtaku Did you forget Switch for GTA the trilogy? Sure it's a terrible remaster, but they are the best 3 GTA games still.

CoD will hopefully never come back. I just continually hope for that series to decline in popularity enough that Activision stops killing all their other IPs for it.

Who knows, the Direct might be good.

check out the Partners Showcase of 2022

NieR: Automata and Persona 5 Royal in October.

I'd make a joke about Switch-only owners getting the best Playstation games of 2017, but they really are both fantastic. Anyone who doesn't already own them is in for a massive treat.

The only interesting part for me just Megaman Battle Network games from GBA on Nintendo Switch since I have never played those games before.
Great news so I don't need to buy one Megaman Battle Network from Wii U e-shop.

Not sure with Bomberman R 2 since I have sold the first game and how could Konami make another Bomberman games but not DDR on modern consoles?!

I need to see more from Dragon Quest Treasures.

Persona 5 Royal in October.

We did it. I can finally rest in peace.

And they actually showed some decent-looking Sonic Frontiers gameplay, wow.

It was actually good, WHAT THE ####!?

AHHHHHHHH!!!

Eat crow haters! They said it would never happen. They SWORE it would never come to Switch. And yet THERE IT IS.

• Persona 3 Portable
• Persona 4 Golden
• Persona 5 Royal
• Nier Automata
• Portal 1/2 (available TODAY)
• Harvestella

Muah!!!! Muah!!! Muah!!! Best Direct in YEARS!!!

very decent Direct, finally i can play Persona

Good Direct for people who haven't already played most of these games. I'm happy Atlus isn't screwing over Switch owners, and NieR: Automata is another awesome game that I hope sells well.

I hope they release a demo for M+R 2. I really don't know how I feel about the new movement system.