Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Yeah a lot of older titles that had an actual physical release for the initial print run are being reprinted as a code in a box release. Assassins Creed Rebel Collection for example.

Im playing Ni No Kuni II today for the weekend. just got back into playing in the beginning for the first time.

Roland is neat with using guns and blades at the same time.

But... its the damn camera movement controls theyre a bit loose and wild where i guess Ill have to get use to trying to move the camera angles to see where the hell im going on the open world areas

Splatoon 3 got 3.45 million sales for its first 3 days in Japan (the worldwide number is unknown):

@Grumblevolcano That insane! Only a weekend on the market and it's owned by almost 3% of the population.

Didn't realise Splatoon was so big over there!

That was the reason I became less impressed with Nintendo Switch recently when the games released with code in box with no cartridge / disc inside.
A direct insult toward physical games collector.

Huh, it must have sold millions around the rest of the world, then ... I'm sure figures won't be too long in coming

Still haven't had a chance to pick it up. I'm at the point where I'm trying to power through XC3 now.

@Buizel Splatoon franchise is quite popular in japan, is a phenomenal like Pokémon

A direct is happening tomorrow!
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/09/nintendo-direct-sho...

Impressive after all the other type directs that they still have 40 minutes of content. I’m not gonna be coherent though.

I'm going to post my predictions here the "direct thread" is getting a little wild.

• Anything Zelda
• 2D Donkey Kong (if it's real)
• Pikmin 4

It says it's mostly focusing on games releasing this winter. So that doesn't leave too much room for big 1st party announcements.

Maybe one more for this holiday (Metroid Prime Remastered? Please?), and maybe one for Jan-Mar which is still "winter" to set up 2023.

And then there's the "mostly" which means we may get BotW 2 news.

So that's what I expect for big 1st party announcements. One more for this year, and one for early next year.

Still a lot of time though so maybe we'll get some solid 3rd party like Batman Arkham, finally.

@JaxonH My guess would be something like this for exclusives in October - March:

• October - Sparks of Hope, Bayonetta 3
• November - Harvestella, Prime, Scarlet/Violet
• December - Advance Wars
• January - Wind Waker HD/Twilight Princess HD
• February - Fire Emblem
• March - Some 3rd party exclusive by Square Enix or Capcom

Nintendo's sites have re-added Advance Wars (was completely removed in February) so I think we're definitely getting a release date tomorrow.

@JaxonH
Nintendo always announces that it's only for a certain time period, and reveal stuff for way past that time anyway. Like Splatoon 3 that I can remember right now.

I just want BotW2 news and confirmation that Advance Wars is releasing any time ever.

Anything beyond that is icing on the cake for me.

I'm not holding my breath.... but I'd love a 'surprise drop' similar to the Metroid Dread reveal (which I believe nobody knew was even being developed at the time?)

A new Starfox/Starwing game would be a dream come true, something between SF64 and Starlink: BfA (the Ubisoft game w/Starfox as a character)

I'll happily settle for BOTW2 news though

Monkeys paw prediction: Zelda Wind Waker and Twilight Princess combo pack is revealed. The catch? It's the GameCube versions of the games rather than the Wii U remasters.

@IceClimbers I could see that if we didn't already have HD versions.

I would like to see a January game of some sort but honestly with currently announced games I am already broke for the rest of the year.

@NintendoByNature Right but this is Nintendo we're talking about. Them releasing a compilation pack of the GameCube versions instead of the existing HD remasters is absolutely something they'd do.